“ARE WE THE BADDIES?” Facebook Morale Takes A Tumble Along With Stock Price.

Related: Did Facebook fire an executive for supporting Trump?

DAYS OF HYSTERIA OVER THIS AND IT WAS ALL FAKE NEWS: Wisconsin boys’ Nazi salute was actually a wave to their parents, photographer says.

THE ECONOMY IS BOOMING but the Sex Recession is here. Sad!

NO. NEXT QUESTION? CNN v. Trump: Is There a Constitutional Right to a Press Pass?

Acosta has the Constitutional right to be a self-centered jerk, but that doesn’t entitle him a White House press pass.

YOU DON’T SAY: Union of Concerned Scientists For Nukes! Activist group finally recognizes that it can’t achieve its energy and climate goals without nuclear power.

In its new report, The Nuclear Power Dilemma, the UCS now recognizes that nuclear power plays an important role in addressing the problem of man-made global warming by helping to keep U.S. carbon dioxide emissions considerably lower than they would otherwise be. The UCS notes that there has been a 28 percent reduction in U.S. power-sector emissions of carbon dioxide below 2005 levels. This is largely due to the switch from coal to cheap fracked natural gas, to increased energy efficiency, and to the deployment of some solar and wind generation capacity.

The UCS fears that this trend toward lower carbon dioxide emissions will be derailed because many of the currently operating nuclear power plants will close because they are being outcompeted by generation facilities fueled by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable power generation. “More than one-third of existing plants, representing 22 percent of total U.S. nuclear capacity, are unprofitable or scheduled to close,” notes the report. “The possibility that the nation will replace existing nuclear plants with natural gas and coal rather than low-carbon sources raises serious concerns about our ability to achieve the deep cuts in carbon emissions needed to limit the worst impacts of climate change.” The UCS has evidently come to realize that closing down nuclear power plants will perversely “lock-in” fossil fuels and thus make it harder and more expensive to “save the climate.”

How about a crash program to develop safe and standardized thorium reactors?

HEH: 6 Pairs of Freshmen House Democrats Whose Combined Age Is Younger Than Nancy Pelosi’s.

ASHE SCHOW: 462 Financial Journalists Were Asked Their Political Leanings. Guess How Many Said They Were Conservative.

Less than five percent. But there’s also this:

“First, financial journalists have stronger incentives to produce original information and analysis than to disseminate information already in the public domain, and they rely heavily on private communication with company management for information. Second, sell-side analysts play an important role in informing financial journalists, many of whom lack financial sophistication. Third, the incentives for sensationalism in the business press assumed in prior research are dominated by incentives for accurate, timely, in-depth, and informative reporting, while the quid pro quo incentives assumed in prior literature (e.g., putting a positive spin on company news to maintain access to inside sources) are substantial.”

Get that? Journalists covering the financial industry don’t know the industry and give favorable coverage to keep access. Sounds like pretty much every other type of journalist.

Journalists often present themselves as vital gatekeepers of news and information, but not in the direction you’d hope.

UGH: Drug Resistance Could Soon Kill More People Each Year Than Cancer, UN Warns. “CDC last month reported that an outbreak of salmonella in raw chicken products was a strain resistant to multiple antibiotics.”

SHOCKER: ‘It’s almost like this was thrown together for publicity’: CNN’s Acosta lawsuit is a hot mess, includes several mistakes.

AND NOW, FOR AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  CNN Unveils New Slogan: ‘Orange Man Bad’.

THE LEFT DOES HAVE A TODDLER’S FASCINATION WITH POO! Again With The Feces: The Establishment Art World Soils  its Credibility.

But, but… but… they’re edgy, daring, and those little old ladies now dead for over fifty years will totes be shocked at their amazing creativity.  Oh, my sore feet. The west is dying of a generation’s puerile refusal to grow up.  And it ain’t the millenials.

OF COURSE, THE WAY IT CHANGES MIGHT NOT BE WHAT ANYONE WANTS:  Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist.

I have a vague memory of reading a sample of his book a way back, and that I gave up after a few pages (no longer remember why, but it could just be I don’t like alarmism.) If it is what I remember it opens with “What if one day the snow just doesn’t stop?” Which is a grabbing opening, you must admit.

YOU KNOW, THE WEIRD THING IS TRUMP IS RIGHT:  President Trump says our climate is “fabulous” and that “the climate, the hottest in modern human history, can change back on its own.”

ON THE INTERNET EVERYONE KNOWS IF YOU’RE A DOG:  Google Dorks Kill Spies.

WAIT, WAIT, DOES THIS MEAN CNN IS GOLLUM? DOES IT ALL END WITH ACOSTA THROWN INTO A VOLCANO?  POPCORN. I NEED POPCORN:  CNN Decides Jim Acosta Is Their Precious, Files Lawsuit.

OH, PLEASE.  OF COURSE IT IS. IF CALIFORNIA HAD BEEN SUBMERGED OR UNDER ICE (NOTE I HAVE NO IDEA IF EITHER EVER HAPPENED IN GEOLOGIC HISTORY, SO EITHER THE CLIMATE CHANGED OR FAILED TO CHANGE.  SAME DIF) IT WOULDN’T BE ON FIRE:  Climate Change Is Not To Blame For California Fires.

All in favor of submerging California, after sending out rescue missions for our friends (and my host mother, from when I was an exchange student) embedded behind enemy lines, say aye.

THE DEMS CLAIM THE METHLAB OF DEMOCRACY. HOW NICE:  Flake Flipped: Arizona Senate Race Called for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.

NOW WITH MORE BLOOD AND FEWER ETHICS:  Gun Grabber Blood Dance.

INDEED:  Trump’s Greatest Political Sin.

And yet, it moves.

YOU WENT FULL INFO-WARS, DONNY. NEVER GO FULL INFO-WARS: Donny Deutsch Implies Trump Will Order Military Coup if Loses in 2020.

Perhaps Donny was simply attempting a tacit plug for Glenn’s paper on military coups.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Occasional-Cortex claims she can’t afford DC apartment, but records show she has at least $15,000 in savings.

OPEN THREAD: Turn it up to 11.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Jim Clyburn says some Democrats using racial ‘dog whistle’ in whip race.

To be fair, Jim Clyburn hears a lot of dog whistles.

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