NEWS I WON’T EVER USE: 7 Things That Happened When I Got Up At 4 a.m. Every Day For a Week. But this article was written by someone who normally arises at 6, and thinks of getting up at 7 as sleeping in.

JEMELE HILL IS OUT AT ESPN.

ESPN had no use for Hill on any of its programs after her ill-fated 6 p.m. “SportsCenter” with her former partner, Michael Smith, failed to deliver ratings. She first left Smith behind by quitting the show before the executive in charge of the program, Norby Williamson, had a chance to replace her. She would have been removed.

Nearly one year ago, on Sept. 11, 2017, Hill called Trump “a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself [with] other white supremacists.” Though it broke ESPN’s social media rules about commenting on politics unrelated to sports, then-network president John Skipper failed to suspend Hill. The White House called for Hill to be fired.

A little more than a month later, Skipper decided to suspend Hill after she criticized Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ anthem stance by tweeting, “Change happens when advertisers are impacted. If you feel strongly about JJ’s statement, boycott his advertisers.” She was off television for two weeks. ESPN called it a second offense. Hill said she regretted that she had “painted ESPN in an unfair light.”

Pitaro recently said he thinks the biggest misperception of ESPN is that it is political, and now he is putting action behind his words. Though the network’s on-air programming is mostly apolitical, it is hard to ask viewers to disassociate stances they read on social media when ESPN personalities are on TV, radio or writing for its website.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Survive a 10,000-Foot Fall.

SENATORIAL SYNCHRONICITY: McCain Dies of Same Cancer as Ted Kennedy 9 Years Later on Same Day.

HMM: Researchers link high blood pressure to cool indoor temps. “The effect of indoor temperature on blood pressure was stronger among people who don’t exercise regularly.”

THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW: Appeals Court Affirms Denial Of Richard Sander’s Request To Access California Bar Data To Study Racial Implications Of Bar Passage Rates.

I suspect that the data would show that minorities fail the California bar at a wildly disproportionate rate, and that law schools admit people with LSAT scores that make such failure extremely likely, in order to get tuition revenues and diversity points. Exposing what’s really going on would pressure the California bar to make its passage rates closer to the national average, and interfere with law schools’ revenues and preening.

POPE TO US CHURCH: YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN. “Only the Pope can remove failed bishops. Francis doesn’t intend to do that. He intends for his words to suffice. Please make a note of it.”

SCHUMER TO INTRODUCE RESOLUTION RENAMING RUSSELL SENATE BUILDING AFTER McCAIN.

The building is currently named for former Sen. Richard Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), who was president pro tempore of the Senate when he died in 1971. There have been calls to rename the office building for years as Russell was a segregationist who led a Southern boycott of the Democratic National Convention after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Why has the Democratic party been such a cesspit of racism?

FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BERNIE SANDERS: Ocasio-Cortez Campaign Spends $4,000 On Ubers After She Bashed Them On Twitter.

SHOCKER: New NBC/WSJ poll: Trump’s approval “remarkably stable” after a stormy week of bad news.

THIS WILL END WELL: They Did It. DNC Clips The Wings Of The Superdelegates.

Flashback: Superdelegates were created as a safeguard against nominees like George McGovern, whom Democratic Party officials saw as ‘too far to the left.’

RIP: NEIL SIMON, BROADWAY’S LONG-REIGNING KING OF COMEDY, DIES AT 91. “Simon, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning author of plays such as ‘The Odd Couple,’ ‘Barefoot in the Park’ and ‘Lost in Yonkers,’ who died Aug. 26 at 91, was often called the world’s most popular playwright after Shakespeare.”

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Sesame Workshop Sues Over ‘Happytime Murders’ Trailer Featuring ‘Ejaculating Puppets.’

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE: A Title IX complaint has been filed with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against Northeastern University after one of its professors wrote an op-ed arguing that it “seems logical” for women to hate men.

I’M SORRY, BUT SENATE SEATS SHOULDN’T BE HANDED DOWN WITHIN A FAMILY: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey May Appoint Cindy McCain to Fill Senate Vacancy.

SHE’S THE PERFECT FIGURE FOR TODAY’S SOCIALIST LEFT: The belligerent ignorance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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EXPLOSIVE CHARGES: Ex-nuncio says Pope Francis knew of McCarrick’s abuse reports, failed to act.

More: “The Pope Must Resign.”

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HYPOCRISY MAY BE THE TRIBUTE THAT VICE PAYS TO VIRTUE, but it’s still hypocrisy.

GOOD: ACLU Sticks Up for the NRA? The civil rights group and the gun rights group don’t always get along. But today the ACLU stuck up for the NRA against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “In a brief filed in federal court today, the ACLU argues that New York’s strong-arm efforts to compel banks and insurance companies to ditch the NRA as a customer represent a glaring violation of the First Amendment.”