SPACE: DARPA aims to ‘disrupt’ national security space business.

STARSHIP TROOPERS: New study finds Lockheed’s exoskeleton increases mobility for troops.

SOUNDS HYSTERICAL: Jeff Ross’ Comedy Central “Roast” Demands Open Borders.

FASTER, PLEASE: A Helium-Resistant Material Could Finally Usher in The Age of Nuclear Fusion.

AL FRANKEN AND LESLEY STAHL: “When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.”

WORST POLITICAL CLASS EVER, AS GLENN LIKES TO SAY: Ohio State Rep Wes Goodman Resigns Over ‘Inappropriate Behavior’ with a Man in His Office.

AT AMAZON, Shop Amazon Devices – Smart Home Month.

YUGE, IF TRUE: Fisker has filed patents for solid-state batteries.

Though Fisker is a very small car company that is currently taking deposits for its upcoming EMotion electric sedan, there are reasons to believe that the company could fulfill this promise. One of the members of the battery-development team was a co-founder of Sakti3, a company that formed to develop new batteries and announced its research into solid-state technology back in 2011. That company was purchased by Dyson, the vacuum cleaner company, which also intends on producing electric cars that AutoExpress reports will feature solid-state batteries in 2020. Toyota is also expected to have solid-state batteries just ahead of Fisker around 2022.

The reason all these companies are working on developing solid-state batteries is because they present a whole host of advantages over what you’ll find in today’s phones, computers and cars. The two big ones are greater energy density and rapid charging times. Fisker claims the batteries it’s developing have an energy density 2.5 times that of current batteries, and they should be capable of providing a 500-mile driving range. The company also says the batteries could be recharged in as little as a minute.

If they can be produced affordably at scale…

I THINK WE NEED TO SHUT DOWN TWITTER, FACEBOOK, ETC. IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE. Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media.

VOGUE EDITOR ANNA WINTOUR ENCOURAGES MERYL STREEP TO RUN FOR OFFICE.

She’s already cut her first campaign commercial!

Just slap an “I’m Meryl Streep and I approve this Hillary-esque message” voice-over after the above clip from the climactic scene of her dystopian 2015 Weinstein-produced movie The Giver, and it’s ready to go.

BYRON YORK: 6 scenarios for GOP disaster in Roy Moore Senate race.

JUDGE DECLARES A MISTRIAL IN THE MENENDEZ CORRUPTION CASE.

SPACE: Dream Chaser flight test update: The video is pretty awesome.

UNLIKE BILL CLINTON, THEY STILL NEED AL: PUNT! Sen. Amy Klobuchar refuses to comment on Al Franken groping accusations.

DON SURBER: No, Democrats, You Don’t Get Your Virginity Back.

TURNABOUT: Fusion GPS Co-Founder Leaked Dossier to Reporters in Retaliation for Comey Reopening Clinton Email Case.

FLASHBACK: Obama speechwriter photographed groping Hillary Clinton likeness.

Plus: Obama’s White House Boys’ Club: New Obama White House Memoir Reveals Staff Drinking, ‘D*ck Jokes,’ and Womanizing.

I mean, who could’ve seen that coming when it started out with things like this scene, involving Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau:

Imagine the difference in treatment if these had been Trump staffers. “Fraternities have been closed for less.”

Related: In Early Obama White House Female Staffers Felt Frozen Out.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING. The NFL vs Jerry Jones: Could the Cowboys Owner Just Move His Team to Canada?

I think Spartacus will finally get his Piper Cub before that happens.

BEIJING GAMES: Don’t Count on China’s Support on North Korea, U.S. Panel Says.

Despite concerns over North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile programs, China remains the country’s largest trading partner and differs with the U.S. over the best way to handle Kim Jong Un’s reclusive regime, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in the report published Wednesday.

“The United States and the international community should keep their expectations low,” according to the report, “given China’s lackluster record of previous sanctions enforcement and continued sanctions violations by Chinese companies exporting dual-use items to North Korea.”

China faces a dilemma enforcing sanctions “in wanting to see some reform in the North Korean economy and not wanting to see a collapse,” panel commissioner Larry Wortzel told reporters before the report’s release. “We think their cooperation and exercise of sanctions will be fairly limited” by “what they see as their own national interest.”

Since Chinese support for North Korea has killed nuclear nonproliferation in northeast Asia, perhaps it’s time we considering helping our friends in the region — Japan, South Korea, and especially Taiwan — become just as well-armed.

WHY ARE LEFTY MEDIA OUTLETS SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXUAL ABUSE? Arianna Huffington Ignored Sexual Misconduct at the Huffington Post.

DEFINE “BARGAIN”: The New U.S. Nuclear Triad Will Be A Bargain.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS: How Will Media Cover Al Franken’s ‘Disgusting’ Assault?

JOURNALISM: NYT reporter calls for Twitter to censor images of Biden inappropriately touching women, children.

BRITISH PREPPERS: Man jailed over 160 guns found in Gillingham house fire.

The weapons and ammunition, including machine guns and assault rifles, were discovered at Paul Bushell’s home in Nelson Road, Gillingham on 7 May.

Sentencing at Maidstone Crown Court, Judge Philip Statman said the haul posed a “significant risk to the community”.

How, exactly?

KOCH BROTHERS BACK BID TO BUY TIME MAGAZINE: Well, I’ve been encouraging the GOP donor class to do this sort of thing for quite a while.