DRUDGE RIGHT NOW:

IT’S BEEN GOOD FOR FUNDRAISING AND SOCIAL-MEDIA CLICKS, THOUGH: Dem lawmaker admits evidence is lacking to impeach Trump and the Resistance totally loses its SH*T.

NICE SHOOTING: Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan reportedly killed in strike by joint military operation.

JACK DORSEY IS A HYPOCRITE: Someone threatens to murder Dana Loesch’s children. Twitter yawns.

HMM: Could a 60 year old case torpedo Mueller’s report? “As Politico details nicely, there used to be a law allowing disclosure of grand jury reports to Congress in the case of special counsel investigations, but that law expired in 1999. The existing rules for appointing a special counsel contain no such provision allowing for a report or the breaking of the secrecy of the grand jury.”

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Thousands of Turks escaping Erdogan’s crackdown find an unlikely haven in Greece.

After spending 10 years in maximum security prisons in Turkey — including stints of isolation and torture — Turgut Kaya, a prominent local journalist and dissident, decided it was time to flee.

Like thousands of his fellow Turks in recent years, his destination was nearby Greece, which has traditionally had a complicated and wary relationship with its neighbor across the Aegean.

“It’s not just me,” the 45-year-old Mr. Kaya, recently given asylum after a 55-day hunger strike, said at an Athens cafe. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “is attacking students, academics, teachers and many other people that have no relations with any of the organizations he considers his enemies.”

“They don’t have any proof to go after me or these people — even judges are now in prison or exile,” he said.

Sultans gotta sultanate.

IT’S AS IF THEY THINK THE ONLY GOOD REPUBLICAN IS A DEAD REPUBLICAN: The Fair-Weather Admiration of John McCain.

Is it petty to remember all the times those who praise McCain today derided him as “Crazy Grandpa Warmonger”?

A lot of us remember 2008; it wasn’t that long ago. Would it kill those political figures and those who covered McCain over the decades to contemplate if they were fair to the man, particularly in the 2008 presidential cycle? Because maybe no national figure in the modern era flipped so quickly from the hero to the villain column in his media coverage and back, depending upon whether the majority of the mainstream media agreed with his stances or not.

Chuck Schumer offers a particularly vivid example.

Back during the 2008 campaign, Chuck Schumer was telling the press, “It’s John McCain who wears $500 shoes, has six houses, and comes from one of the richest families in his state . . . he doesn’t particularly empathize with the plight of the average person.” During the Wall Street meltdown, Schumer said that McCain’s presence in Washington would only make things worse: “He has not been involved except for an occasional, unhelpful statement, sort of thrown from far away, and the last thing we need in these delicate negotiations is an injection of presidential politics.”

Now Schumer tells us, “He always, always had an incredible moral compass, and he spoke truth to power,” and he wants to rename the Russell Senate Office building after him. What happened to the complaints about the expensive shoes?

You could measure the coverage of McCain by who he was being contrasted with at that moment — against Bush in 2000 he was a hero, against Barack Obama in 2008 he was a villain, and against Trump in 2016 he was a hero again.

Weird that so many people discount the press’s opinions nowadays.

And let me add that while McCain the war hero was a great war hero, McCain the politician was actually a lot like Trump: Often petty and personal, obsessed with media coverage, and prone to treat agreement or disagreement with his own positions as a moral issue rather than a political one.

But hey, in 10 or 20 years, they’ll be making unfavorable comparisons between Trump and whoever the new GOP figure is. It’s been that way at least since Reagan.

WHAT IF THE LEFT TREATED IMMIGRANTS LIKE THEY DO GUNS? Now that’s an interesting question and LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby doesn’t hold back on the answers.

TRUMP’S TRADE POLICY STRIKES AGAIN: US and Mexico have reached a trade deal, paving the way toward replacing NAFTA

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT? Liberty University Film Students Blast ‘Trump Prophecy’ Movie: ‘Will Discredit Our Film Program.’

BJORN LOMBORG: How the war on climate change slams the world’s poor.

Activist organizations like Worldwatch argue that higher temperatures will make more people hungry, so drastic carbon cuts are needed. But a comprehensive new study published in Nature Climate Change led by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has found that strong global climate action would cause far more hunger and food insecurity than climate change itself.

The scientists used eight global-agricultural models to analyze various scenarios between now and 2050. These models suggest, on average, that climate change could put an extra 24 million people at risk of hunger. But a global carbon tax would increase food prices and push 78 million more people into risk of hunger. The areas expected to be most vulnerable are sub-Saharan Africa and India.

Trying to help 24 million people by imperiling 78 million people’s lives is a very poor policy.

It’s great statism though.

MAYBE THERE’S MORE, BUT THIS SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHIT: Thirty-year prof ousted from Naval Academy for touching students, sharing shirtless photos.

“I do NOT apologize,” Fleming wrote in an email Friday. “Nothing I did was inappropriate.”

Fleming alleges he was denied due process rights and plans to appeal his termination.

Well, stay tuned. But this sounds like the real problem: “One thing which Fleming has criticized over his years is Academy admissions policy. In a Federalist piece from last October, Fleming wrote that the US service academies were ‘now the vanity projects of the military brass’ and that Annapolis students “are not as strong as the ‘best and brightest’ image that’s portrayed.”

REFUELING THE BLUE ANGELS: Good day for a photo.

IRAN CLAIMS IT HAS CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND THE U.S. NAVY SHOULD STAY AWAY: The Iranians are conducting a military exercise that amounts to a strait-closing operation. Stay tuned.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I HOPE TO COME TO DEPEND ON: A coffee delivery drone could predict when you need a caffeine boost.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: ‘The Onion’ Dunks on Grieving McCain Family.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Jacksonville Shooting and Much, Much More. “The anti-gun posse were out in force immediately before waiting for any facts to be released.”

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Idiotic Claims About Global Warming.

IT SEEMS TO ME THEY COULD JUST PUBLISH WHAT PEOPLE POST WHEN THEY POST IT, AND STOP MUCKING EVERYTHING UP: Twitter CEO, other tech execs to address social-media ‘bias’ against conservatives at Capitol Hill hearing.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: When #MeToo advocates face their own fall from grace.

Related: Boy, that Keith Ellison girlfriend-beating story sure disappeared fast.

A QUIET WEEKEND IN RAHM EMANUEL’S CHICAGO: 23 shot in Chicago since Friday evening.

GOOD LORD: New Mexico compound suspects allegedly planned to attack Atlanta’s Grady Hospital.

New court documents revealed these and other details in the case against five adults who lived in squalor with 11 starving children in a ramshackle New Mexico compound.

In a case infused with allegations of abuse and terrorism, prosecutors this week asked a judge to reconsider an order granting bond to all five adults arrested at the compound.

As part of the request, prosecutors on Friday cited not only the death of three-year-old Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj at the remote site but also plans by the defendants to attack law enforcement and “specific targets such as teachers, schools, banks and other ‘corrupt’ institutions.”

The dead boy’s father, Siraj Wahhaj, 40, and his partner, Jany Leveille, 35, have been charged with abuse of a child resulting in death, a first-degree felony with a penalty of up to life in prison, according to court documents. They were also charged with conspiracy to commit child abuse, also a first-degree felony.

The couple and three other adults — Wahhaj’s sisters, Hujrah Wahhaj and Subhannah Wahhaj; and Lucas Morten — were previously charged with 11 felony counts of child abuse.

The 13-page motion filed Friday said items found at the compound included the “Phases of a Terrorist Attack” document.

A secret compound, child abuse, a dead body, conspiracy, terrorism — this has all the makings of a much bigger story, and yet I have to go hunting for updates.