A REAL SHAKEUP FOR THE DEMS IF TRUE: Puerto Ricans may have elected Rick Scott and other midterm surprises.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: How Queer Theory Became University Policy — The establishment of an official doctrine on gender identity is an unprecedented threat to academic freedom. Sex and gender should be subjects for debate.

GEORGE KORDA: The political far-right and far-left: Like looking in a mirror.

JACOB SULLUM: The critics’ case against criminal justice reform is pathetic.

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE . . . . Riot in Paris as Protests Against Taxes Gain Steam. Weird that leftists never use that catchphrase when people are opposing taxes.

MARTA HERNANDEZ: Stop The Bleed.

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WHEN UNDERCOVER POLICE OPERATIONS GO WRONG:

Sources say it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a “push off” on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, and then arrest potential buyers and seize their vehicles.

But this time, instead of customers, special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground.

FOX 2 is told the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up, and officers began raiding a house in the 19300 block of Andover. But instead of fighting crime, officers from both precincts began fighting with each other.

Sources say guns were drawn and punches were thrown while the homeowner stood and watched.

The department’s top cops were notified along with Internal Affairs. Each officer involved is now under investigation as the department tried to determine what went wrong.

Embarrassing.

THINKPROGRESS GETS DRAGGED OVER DUMB ROMAINE PREMISE: ‘No Constitutional Right to Bear Salad.’

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IT’S NEVER TOO LATE FOR A NEW CHAPTER: 96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Is Now the Epic Frontwoman for a Death Metal Band.

SPENGLER: The lowdown on the miscreant who got us into this mess: Woodrow Wilson.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON LEFTY BATTLEFIELD PREP FOR 2020. New Dem Tactic: We Were Thinking What Trump’s Been Saying All Along.

This is how Trump will fade. Democrats will simply say they were thinking the same thing all along. “In an interview with the Guardian, [Hillary Clinton] the former Democratic presidential candidate… suggested immigration was inflaming voters and contributed to the election of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote to leave the EU.”

“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas.

It is true that Democrats have been saying what Trump has been saying all along. You just have to set the Wayback Machine a quarter of a century or so backwards to hear them — 1993 for Harry Reid and 1995 for Bill Clinton. And then something changed…

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): With Latinos in general looking more Trump-friendly, and with analysts saying that Puerto Ricans in Florida may have elected Rick Scott, the Dems might start sounding like 1993 Harry Reid again.

SMART DIPLOMACY: Wow: U.S. reaches deal with Mexico to have asylum applicants wait across the border.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: How gun-free zones invite mass shootings. Spoiler: It’s pretty much how you’d figure. But you may not know this:

Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings.

While Americans are rightly concerned by the increased frequency and severity of mass public shootings, the rest of the world is experiencing much larger increases in per capita rates of attack. The frequency of foreign mass public shootings since 1998 has grown 291 percent faster than in the U.S.

I didn’t, and I pay attention.

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‘WOMEN’: THE WORD THAT CANNOT BE UTTERED WHEN DISCUSSING BRAS. As Tim Blair notes, “Poor Buzzfeed. Being part of the woke media, certain clear descriptive terms are no longer available to them.”

Funny how each edition of the Newspeak dictionary shrinks “progressively” ever-smaller.

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF LEGAL EDUCATION: Federal District Court Allows Former Male John Marshall Law School Employee’s Gender Discrimination Claim To Proceed. “John Bergholz, 59, was the law school’s executive director of development and alumni relations from 2015 to 2017. His complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in December 2017, claimed individuals attempted to orchestrate a Title IX complaint against him after he met for lunch with a donor at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The complaint says Bergholz was fired by Angela ‘Darby’ Dickerson, the school’s dean, in April 2017. Bergholz claims Dickerson, who started the job in January 2017, has a pattern and practice of eliminating older men employed by the university, according to the complaint.”

DENNIS PRAGER: Even Astronauts Fear The Left.

But the worst part of the Scott Kelly story is the astronaut’s immediate reaction to the negative tweets: “Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. …”

In Kelly’s view, Winston Churchill went from “one of the greatest leaders of modern times