LET THE SUN SHINE IN: Trump Orders Carter Page FISA Documents Declassified And Media Freaks.

#METOO IS NEITHER A MAGIC SHIELD NOR A MAGIC SWORD: No Senator Hirono, Men Should NOT Shut Up About Christine Blasey Ford.

AS IT IS:  Indy-Writing Scene; 2018.

DEM SENATOR MAZIE HIRONO’S MESSAGE TO MEN: “Just shut up.”

No.

UPDATE: Ouch.

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BLUE WAVE: “Voters elected political newcomer Pete Flores to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, flipping a Democratic district red for the first time in 139 years and further bolstering Republicans’ supermajority in the chamber ahead of the November elections.”

I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HOW THIS WILL BE SPUN AGAINST HER HUSBAND: Brett Kavanaugh’s Wife Hands Out Cupcakes to Reporters Besieging Her House.

WELL, THIS IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Doubts over Kavanaugh hearing as his accuser may not appear.

UPDATE: Heh.

IT’S COME TO THIS:

I’m not seeing much sensitivity toward even the possibility of a man’s pain at being falsely accused.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t let it go to waste.

FORD WANTS FBI TO INVESTIGATE BEFORE SHE TESTIFIES:  Put differently:  Stall, stall, stall.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system.

TRUMP TAKES ON THE ICC:  I’m so old that when I see that I think of the Interstate Commerce Commission.  My bad.

AN OPEN LETTER to Dianne Feinstein, from a rape survivor.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER (with an assist from Project Veritas): ‘Impossible to Fire’ State Dept. Bureaucrat Admits Working for Socialist Group on Gov’t Time.

HMM: Spelling Bees Are Trendier Than Science Fairs.

DIANNE FEINSTEIN ON KAVANAUGH ACCUSATION: ‘I CAN’T SAY EVERYTHING IS TRUTHFUL.’

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California conceded Tuesday that she can’t attest to the veracity of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.

“[Ford] is a woman that has been, I think, profoundly impacted. On this . . . I can’t say that everything is truthful. I don’t know,” Feinstein told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked if she believed the allegation.

As one Twitter user noted, “And there we go. Why Feinstein sat on it for months. She didn’t buy it either. But she needed a last-minute Hail Mary so this is what she went for.”

Related: Andrew McCarthy on Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization.’

“’VOTE OR DIE.’ UNLESS, IT’S TOO HARD TO FIND A STAMP:” Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp.

A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.

“One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.

“That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across.”

To be fair, it’s now much easier — and safer — to opt out of the US Postal Service than it was 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqt1uAxibw

21ST CENTURY HOUSING: Self-driving homes could be the future of affordable housing.

Glenn linked to this story earlier today, and added “Hey, in Progressive meccas, lots of people are already living in their cars, so we’re halfway there already!”

Smash and grab car robbers in San Francisco would love the idea of vehicles that hold more personal belongings:

As John Sexton of Hot Air writes, linking to the above video, “thanks to the GPS, the pair of thieves are confronted on camera. But stick around for the surprise ending. Things don’t quite work out as planned for the reporters.”

JUVENILE LOGIC: Unforgiven. Liberals used to be in favor of leniency for juvenile offenders. But of course they didn’t mean Republicans, as Kay Hymowitz writes in City Journal:

That Kavanaugh’s fiercest opponents are now using a (tenuously recalled) adolescent crime as proof of his unfitness is an irony worth considering. The Left has always been at the forefront of the fight for leniency for minors. Progressives founded the juvenile court in 1899. Liberals fought “law and order” conservative attempts to try juveniles as adults initiated during the crime wave of the 1970s through 1990s. They pointed out, accurately, that those policies affected black kids far more than white. They were rightfully indignant that prepubescent children could be labelled sex offenders. “Children are regularly put on sex offender registries, sometimes for their entire lives, for conduct less serious than what Kavanaugh is accused of,” writes [New York Times columnist Michelle] Goldberg. Well, yes. That’s exactly the tough-on-juvenile-crime approach that has five times as many black as white juveniles in prison and that Goldberg herself would justify against Kavanaugh.

If it weren’t for double standards . . . .

HMM: Study: Nanoparticle therapy restores prostate cancer’s tumor suppressor.

Using nanotechnology, researchers have developed a way to treat prostate cancer by restoring tumor suppressors, based on preclinical models in the lab.

The loss of tumor suppressors, including genes such as PTEN and p53, helps cancer cells grow uninhibited.

Researchers from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in Boston, as well as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, published their findings Monday in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

While other researchers have focused on developing cancer therapies to target proteins and pathways highly active in cancer cells, the Boston-led team is studying ones that have been lost. . . .

In mouse studies, there was significant suppression of tumor growth and progression of prostate cancer. This includes prostate cancer in bones, which is the most common site to which prostate cancer can spread. The mice showed no significant side effects, including changes in body weight and organ toxicity.

Faster, please.

TAMARA KEEL: Review: SIG Sauer P365 Micro Compact.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: ‘She must withdraw’! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caught in a highly problematic situation:

“OMG WHITE NATIONALIST! Clearly, it is time to ask her to pull out of the race. We can’t possibly take the chance of electing someone showing off alt-right symbols.”

I’M GOING TO LIVE FOREVER: Beer, Wine, and Chocolate Are Key to Living a Long Life, Study Says.