HMM: Researchers find link between viruses, inflammatory bowel diseases. “Viruses may be killing off beneficial bacteria in the intestine and allowing ‘bad actor’ bacteria to cause inflammation and bowel disease, the researchers said.”

TORONTO SHOOTING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS FAISAL HUSSAIN, FAMILY SAYS HE HAD ‘SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES.’

DUBIOUS REASSURANCE FROM THE TREACH: The Roaming Outrage Mob Took Down Roseanne Barr and James Gunn, But You’re Probably Safe.

Related (From Ed): Jim buries the lede in his new column: “That’s why I’m actually a bit relieved that my own Twitter account, @jtLOL, was just suspended.”

Read the whole thing.™

UPDATE (From Glenn): The Treach is back. Stone-cold sober, as a matter of fact. Well, possibly. He can Treach, he can Treach, ’cause he’s better than you, it’s the way that he tweets, the tweets that he do.

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THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS LAYOFFS: HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Plus, my response to special pleading:

In fact, what Bezos is doing with space, along with Elon Musk et al., is vastly more important to humanity than the fortunes of a capital-city newspaper.

HEY GUYS! SHE’S AVAILABLE NOW! (Let the jokes begin…)

SPOILER: IT’S NOT. Communism sent millions to their deaths – so why is it cool to wear it on your T shirt?

FRONTIERS OF FEMINISM: It’s Not Just the Tampon Tax: Why Periods Are Political. Plus: “Lately, women — and transgender and nonbinary people who menstruate — are talking about it in public more than ever before.”

FINALLY: Study Holds Hope Old People Can Look Like Young Mice.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 4 useful things you can do with stale beer.

I’m sure somebody can use this news, but around here beer never seems to last long enough to go stale.

REVIEW: 2018 Mercedes-AMG S63 Cabriolet.

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THEY MOSTLY COME AT NIGHT. MOSTLY. The Roaming Outrage Mob Took Down Roseanne Barr and James Gunn, But You’re Probably Safe.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Israel Declares Itself To Be A Jewish State: Liberals Go Nuts.

DUPED: Fox & Friends invited Arizona Democratic candidate Ann Kirkpatrick to the show to discuss being booed for supporting ICE. But the person who appeared via satellite was NOT Kirkpatrick. It was a woman ranting about how awful ICE is.

INDIANAPOLIS POLITICS: “Current Democrat mayor Joe Hogwarts is having a rocky first term, with collapsing streets, thousands of massive, un-filled potholes, and what looks to be a third consecutive year of record homicides. If the GOP can scare up a candidate with more charisma than a dead tuna, next year’s elections are likely theirs to lose.”

BRIDGET JOHNSON: Most Liberal House Dem Barbara Lee Wants to Replace Crowley as Caucus Leader.

BITTER PILL: China vaccine scandal sparks fury, roils markets.

ANN ALTHOUSE: I’m trying to understand “Why [Maggie Haberman] Needed to Pull Back From Twitter.” Spoiler: Trump broke her.

OH: North Korean coal smuggling reveals lax sanctions enforcement. “Shipments reportedly reach South Korea via Russia.”

Reports that North Korea illegally exported coal to South Korea via Russia — and Seoul’s initial lack of action — are raising new doubts about how effectively the international sanctions on the Kim Jong Un regime are being enforced.

The suspected smuggling formed part of the backdrop to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s call for vigilant sanctions enforcement at the United Nations Security Council on Friday.

North Korea laundered the coal shipments, which began last summer, through the island of Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East, according to reports by a Security Council sanctions committee and other sources.

Ships carrying the coal left the port of Wonsan in the North and were unloaded at Kholmsk on Sakhalin. Non-North Korean ships then carried the coal to South Korean ports including Incheon, according to the reports. Coal has traditionally been one of North Korea’s most important income-producing exports.

If the South can’t get serious about it, the sanctions regime will never work.

STUDY: Multivitamins don’t protect against cardiovascular disease.

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: Killing your career is easy; comedy is hard.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS. John Kerry: “We have got to get away from this constant effort to destroy a presidency.”

So, any regrets on making your bones by slandering American troops in 1971?

IN MANCE V. HOLDER, my first cite from Judge Willett, and it’s a banner moment not only for me, but for the Third Amendment, since this is probably the most significant citation of that particular part of the Bill of Rights this year, too:

On the Second Amendment question, I have to say that I agree with Willett, which may not surprise many readers.