NO, HE CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF HOW AWESOME HE THINKS HE IS TODAY. Sarah Hoyt: Mr. Acosta, Can You Hear Me Now?

Sarah is angry at Jim Acosta. You’ll like her when she’s angry.

SOLAR POWER DOWNSIDE: Will America’s Epic Eclipse Impact Our Electric Grid?

TRUMP’S REALLY BEEN A DISASTER FOR THE GOP . . . WAIT, WHAT? West Virginia’s governor is switching parties. And Democrats just hit a new low. “In November, Republicans solidified and/or expanded their majorities at all levels of governance, and it looked as if things couldn’t get worse for Democrats. Except, it just did. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he is leaving the Democratic Party, just six months after taking office, and becoming a Republican. An extra twist of the knife for Democrats: He did it alongside President Trump, at a rally in West Virginia. . . . With one politician’s decision to switch parties, Democrats now hold a record-low number of governorships — and Republicans hold a record high.”

This is why they’ve got so much invested in leaks and shady prosecutors.

DOXXING — IT’S ALL THE RAGE FOR MEDIA FIGURES THESE DAYS: John Popper of the Rock Group Blues Traveler Is Obsessively Doxxing a Random Guy Who Made Fun of Him on Twitter.

Know your place, peasants!

I EXPECT A MEDAL FOR IGNORING THE CHRIS CHRISTIE JOKE HERE: Jupiter Is So Big It Doesn’t Actually Orbit The Sun.

ANTI-TRUMP FORCES WILL RUIN IF THEY CAN’T RULE: Leaking Trump’s Phone Calls Is ‘Shocking and Dangerous.’

But the WaPo, which ran the leaks while it poses as the voice of responsible Washington, deserves blame too. Now it should identify the leakers. “Democracy Dies In Darkness,” remember?

WOW, THE WHEELS ARE REALLY COMING OFF THE TRUMP TRAIN . . . WAIT, WHAT? West Virginia’s Democratic governor to announce party change at Trump rally.

THEY’D NEVER DO THIS IF THE RACES WERE REVERSED: Trinity College Reinstates Professor Who Said White People Should ‘F***ing Die.’

Four days after James T. Hodgkinson opened fire on a group of Republican congressmen at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, Trinity Professor Johnny Eric Williams sided with anonymous blogger “Son of Baldwin,” who proposed that black emergency personnel should let wounded white people die rather than lend assistance. Baldwin posted his opinions under the hashtag, #LetThemFuckingDie.

Professor Williams linked Son of Baldwin’s statement, adopted the hashtag as his own, and posted some additional denunciations of white Americans for “their destructive mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system.” Referring to all “self-identified ‘whites,’” he wrote, “The time is now to confront these inhuman assholes and end this now.”

Prof. Williams, I know you think you want a race war. But you really don’t. And I think it’s fine for Trinity not to punish faculty for “extramural utterences,” except that I don’t really believe they’d apply that policy to a white professor who thought white EMTs should let black people die. Instead, I feel fairly confident they’d weasel around it somehow.

Cost of attending Trinity College: $68,940 per year. A lot to pay for a “platform from which people can shout their disordered fury.”

MUELLER: Grand jury issues subpoenas related to June 2016 Trump Tower meeting: Report. Funny how everything Mueller does is in the press the same day.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Lunar nanobots could bring AR gaming to the moon. They’re not actually nanobots, though, just small robots.

JACK DUNPHY: The Real Reason Why America’s Cops Cheered President Trump’s Brentwood Speech.

IMMIGRANT SARAH HOYT: Mr. Acosta, Can You Hear Me Now?

WOW: In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos.

THEY TALK BIG ABOUT TRUMP, BUT CAVE INSTANTLY TO REAL DICTATORS: In defending China demands, Apple loses privacy high ground.

YUGE IF TRUE: The sun might affect climate.

THE POLITICAL CLIMATE IS MISERABLE THAT TIME OF YEAR ANYWAY: U.S. passport holders will not be able to travel to North Korea beginning September 1.

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: The Slow-Motion Coup d’Etat picks up steam: Leak of full transcripts of presidential conversations with foreign leaders a milestone in effort to paralyze the Trump administration.

The anti-Trump folks are making clear that they hate Trump more than they love America. But if the rules don’t apply, then the rules don’t apply. They won’t like it when the rules don’t apply.

One of the things that Trump has done is to make clear that the sane, responsible, nonpartisan establishment is a fiction. They appear to be neither sane, responsible, nor nonpartisan. Instead, they’re acting like thin-skinned, entitled hacks. Probably because they are thin-skinned, entitled hacks.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: This site lets you check your password against 306 million leaked passwords.

SHE MUST BE REALER THAN I AM: British Home Secretary Claims ‘Real People’ Do Not Want Secure Communications.

HAVE SMARTPHONES DESTROYED A GENERATION? More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”

Plus: “The shift is stunning: 12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders did as recently as 2009.”

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DOCTOR: ‘Throwing Money at Addiction Treatment Centers’ Won’t Solve Opioid Crisis.

No, but it looks good on TV and provides rents to rent-seekers.

‘TOP CHEF’ PRODUCER: Padma Lakshmi was threatened, called racist names by Teamsters.

Four Teamsters members acted like real bottom-feeders toward “Top Chef” star Padma Lakshmi, her producer testified in court.

Show runner Ellie Carbajal said in Boston federal court on Wednesday that Teamsters Union members physically threatened the reality show’s crew and hurled racist insults at Lakshmi while they were picketing a 2014 shoot, leaving her “paralyzed with fear.”

Carbajal recalled the members of Teamsters Union Local 25 — John Fidler, Daniel Redmond, Robert Cafarelli and Michael Ross — swarming Lakshmi’s car and growling at her in 2014, Deadline reported.

Why are Democrat-run institutions such cesspits of violent, racist rhetoric?

NOT SURE STEPHEN GREEN QUALIFIES HERE: Moderate drinking correlates with cognitive health, longevity.