NO. NEXT QUESTION? Did ICE Hurl a Pregnant Woman Over a Border Wall?

JOE PAPPALARDO: How Boeing’s Hypersonic Passenger Plane Concept Works.

AMELIA HAMILTON: Millennials Get Classes On Basic Adult Skills, Still Act Like Children.

ON REFLECTION I MIGHT NOT BE ENTIRELY OPPOSED TO A TWITTER TAX: Porn Detectors, Facebook Tax: Uganda Tightens Grip on Internet.

CHANGE: Civilians Around the World Become Better Armed: Will widespread private arms rebalance power between individuals and the state? It looks like we’re going to find out.

AS OUR LAST PRESIDENT LOVED TO SAY, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: A quiet Tuesday afternoon here transformed into a raucous demonstration when people gathered outside the Red Hen to protest the restaurant’s treatment of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

But here’s one difference: “Mary Harvey-Halseth, 64, carried a sign that read ‘Red Hen Needs Diversity Training’ that she’d made after buying craft materials at CVS.” The lefties tend to have preprinted signs.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Politico Examines Leftist Incivility and Finds…the Tea Party.

But of course.

WELL, THE LEFT IS TAKING THINGS WELL:

FASTER, PLEASE: Boeing hypersonic plane faster than Concorde unveiled for New York-London in two hours.

The unnamed aircraft is theoretically capable of flying at speeds of Mach 5 – which is nearly 4,000mph.

And this is almost three times faster than the legendary supersonic Concorde, which is decommissioned in 2003.

Well, this is the 21^st century, you know.™

CHANGE: Queen Elizabeth approves Brexit law that will end British membership in EU. Yeah, I know, yesterday, but I had missed it with all the other news.

QUIET PRIDE: I’m A Gay Man. Here’s Why I Don’t Celebrate Pride Month.

I can get away with flirting, joking, and certain mannerisms straight men are not allowed, and many women view me as an equal confidant and girlfriend. None of this is negative, and I happily encourage the social interaction because it is part of how I learned to engage with my world. But outside of this, my sexuality is remarkably minimal in my day-to-day activities. Despite my awareness of my social designation, its really only useful in playful social interaction or politics.

This was the stated goal of the gay movement for more than a decade. However, today’s LGBT movement is far more focused on the smallest variation of identity as an absolute characterization of who a person is. More importantly, the movement tends to treat people based solely on who they are not. The growing intolerance of intellectual diversity and the move towards mandatory class and identity association in all areas of life has restricted what was once a uniquely colorful example of freedom of expression.

What Chad Felix Greene is experiencing is just the modern version of Karl Marx’s “false consciousness,” which is just identity politics weaponized for taking raw political power.

WELL:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS. Or, question asked and answered:

● Shot:

A writer for TBS’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” went off on a Twitter rant Monday, saying that “civility is a tool of white supremacy.”

“Civility is a tool of white supremacy. Ok, cool. Byeeeeee!” Ashley Nicole Black wrote in a tweet, lashing out against nationwide calls for civility after influential Democrats like Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California called for liberals to remove Trump cabinet members from restaurants and public places.

“If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them,” Waters said on Sunday. “Tell them they’re not welcome any more, anywhere!”

— “Samantha Bee Writer: ‘Civility Is A Tool Of White Supremacy,’” the Daily Caller, yesterday.

● Chaser:

If we are to embrace the notion of civility and humility in our discourse, that means not falling into our old habits. I was impressed that Roger Ailes, head of Fox News Channel, relayed to Russell Simmons’ GlobalGrind.com what he told his staff after the Tucson shootings: “I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually. You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.”

Who knows if this edict will be photocopied and posted in the office of every Fox talk show host, and throughout its newsroom, to serve as a reminder to everyone when the nation moves further and further away from the shooting?

And he’s correct; those who vehemently oppose the views of Fox News and conservative radio hosts must also adhere to the president’s call for civility.

—“After Tucson, will media tone it down?”, Roland Martin, then-CNN political contributor, January 17, 2011.

I think Martin finally has his answer, from a fellow Time-Warner-CNN-HBO employee.

GOOD: Supreme Court Deals Massive Blow To Government Unions. This is basically Scott Walker on a national level. Of course, if the unions provided value, they wouldn’t have to force people to pay dues.

At any rate, I agree with FDR that public employee unions are a conspiracy against the public. More on FDR’s view here.

THE NEW RULES: Actor Ron Perlman: Hopefully Someone Will Pee In Trump’s KFC. “Is this evidence that liberals have reached a crass new depth in incivility towards the right or is it evidence that Ron Perlman has some sort of undiagnosed head injury?”

How many people go their entire lives without having the impulse to piss on themselves, in any context? When was the last time you ran into someone whom you deeply dislike and thought, “I want my urine on him, even if it means having my urine on me first”?

Also, his visceral disgust at Weinstein suggests that he had some idea, if only through the grapevine, of what Weinstein was up to with the women around him. Given the option to call the police, Perlman chose to … piss on himself instead.

As Glenn has noted here previously, Trump’s greatest talent is for goading the progressive left into revealing their true selves.

PAUL RAHE: Do the Democrats Want a Civil War? We Need to Know.

Related: The Passionate Intensity of the Worst.

WHY ARE LIBERALS ALWAYS SO VIOLENT? Great question that Craig Shirley and Scott Mauer pose today on LifeZette. “Such is the modern liberal Democratic Party, where violence trumps dialogue, where calls for the heads of politicians are more than just words, they’re actual threats,” write the Shirley/Mauer duo. Shirley is the award-winning author of the best chronicles of Ronald Reagan’s rise from Hollywood to the White House.

GAMING THE SYSTEM: More People Cramming Healthcare, Then Dropping Coverage as Prices Hike. “‘Dropout rates appear to rising over time across each enrollment period of the ACA,’ the report says, indicating that more people are expected to do so in the future.”

OFF THE RECORD: Just had a brief text chat with someone who says their sources claim that 20% of public employee union members will leave in the wake of Janus v. AFSCME. That would be a significant hit to the unions’ pocketbooks, but the bigger hit will come later, as new employees simply refuse to join up in the first place.

PROCUREMENT: Air Force Expands Mission for Reaper Attack Drones, Adds New Weapons.

“The MQ-1 Predator paved the way through 24 years of service and adaptation leading to expanded capabilities of the MQ-9 Reaper. The mission set doesn’t change. The capabilities to fulfill those multi-role missions are expanded by the MQ-9 Reaper,” Maj. Ken Scholz, Air Force Spokesman, told Warrior Maven.

The Air Force is adding new weapons to the Reaper, in part by leveraging an emerging “universal weapons interface.” This would allow the Reaper to more quickly integrate new weapons technology as it emerges and efficiently swap or replace bombs on the drone without much difficulty, Air Force weapons developers explain.

This is something brought to fruition by common standards and IP protocol engineered with adjustable software and hardware configurations. This enables faster integration or a more seamless addition of new weapons on the Reaper platform.

Compared to (admittedly more-capable) manned jets, the Reaper is a relative steal at about $20 million per.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, SEXISM-IS-REAL EDITION: Want a raise at this university? You can’t identify as a man.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules No Gov. Employee Can Be Fired For Refusing to Pay a Union.

ISN’T THAT CALLED “A WALK ACROSS THE STANFORD CAMPUS?” Stanford prof proposes course on ‘privilege’ in Silicon Valley.