YOUR DAILY TREACHER: No, There’s No Racist Conspiracy Against Marvel’s Black Panther Movie.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Some Photo Angles Are More Flattering Than Others.

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CHANGE — THE DNC COULD USE SOME: The DNC is reportedly ‘dead broke.’ The RNC has nearly $40 million.

IT’S ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: Activist Chelsea Handler just slammed the Democrats’ Obamacare vote HARD.

WHEN TECHNOLOGICAL PREDICTIONS COME TRUE: Inserting People Into Porn Movies.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: The NFL Is Losing Its Core Audience, a WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds “Just 51% of men aged 18 to 49 say they follow the NFL closely, down from 75% four years ago.”

The poll shows that fans are following the sport less closely, even in key demographics, such as young men, that historically propelled the league’s growth. At the same time, parents increasingly want their children to turn away from football amid growing worry about player safety and the league’s efforts to address it.

The drop in interest spans age groups and the political spectrum—painting the picture of a sport that isn’t just experiencing a momentary dip, but a battle against fundamental questions about football’s future that have been building for years.

At a time like this, the NFL should be doing everything it can think of to strengthen its appeal to core demographics. But that isn’t quite the tack Roger Goodell has taken.

TRUE CRIME: Saudi Arabia orders ‘urgent investigation’ and calls for prosecutions after two people are seen dancing in the street.

The authorities in Saudi Arabia have ordered the arrest of a couple filmed dancing in the street.

In the footage, a man and woman can be seen performing on the street pavement, while by-standers who are gathered around them film them on their phones.

The conservative desert kingdom has strict rules about gender segregation though moves have begun to liberalise laws, including allowing women to drive.

But the videos prompted the governor of Asir province, Prince Faisal bin Khaled, to order a investigation into the video that captured a couple dancing in a street in the city of Abha, in the south-west of the country,Okaz newspaper reported.

Two steps forward, one step back.

THEY GO HI-TECH, WE GO LOW: Could This Be the U.S. Military’s Secret Weapon to Stop a ‘Swarm’ Strike?

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER ACRONYM: You Might Be Part of LGBTQQIAAACPPF2K Without Even Knowing It.

HARMONY OF THE SEAS: 9 Things I Never Knew About Cruises Until I Ran the World’s Largest Ship. “Almost everyone I met in upper management met their spouse onboard.”

JAMES BOVARD: FBI objections lacked credibility given bureau’s shady past.

The FISA court complained that, in the final years of Obama’s presidency, the NSA was guilty of “an institutional lack of candor” connected to “a very serious Fourth Amendment issue;” naturally, the gory specifics were kept under wraps. Regardless, one of Obama’s last actions as president authorized NSA to share its vast trove of data on Americans with other federal agencies. If political abuse of data seized via FISA has not yet occurred, Obama’s “shovel-far-and-wide” bureaucratic bonanza makes it far more likely in the future.

The FISA court has always done a dismal job of overseeing the vast surveillance regime it helped spawn. FISA provided a stamp of legitimacy for perpetual deceit and perhaps the worst trampling of constitutional rights in American history.

Not to mention what looks increasingly like an attempt, first to rig an election, and then to effectively overturn the results of it.

TET 1968 MILITARY PHOTO SERIES: Combat in Hue. Marines in action.

HMM: The Comey-Isikoff-Twitter connection.

Link was missing before. Fixed now — sorry!

CORRECTION: Deb Heine conflated Isikoff with Ignatius, so just ignore this one.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Everyday Things That Unknowingly Cause Arousal. I do like a woman with nice arms, but is that really news?

FRIDAY’S HOT MIC, MEMOGATE EDITION.

DENIAL, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Alan Grayson Gets Into Scuffle with Politico Reporter Asking Questions About Domestic Abuse.

RELATED? PolitiFact thought Alan Grayson could help its ‘trust’ and ‘credibility’ until Twitter chimed in.

PolitiFact announced it hired former politician Alan Grayson to critique its work in an effort to improve trust and credibility on Thursday… but that decision lasted about three seconds.

“It has become clear our choice of Alan Grayson did not meet that threshold to many,” PolitiFact executive director Aaron Sharockman tweeted on Thursday after the initial tweet that he was hired received an onslaught of criticism from respected media members.

Sharockman said Grayson was called “a short while ago and informed” that PolitiFact would cancel the agreement for him to write for the site. PolitiFact bills itself as “a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics.”

Grayson represented Florida’s Democratic-leaning 9th Congressional District from 2012 until he announced he would not seek re-election in 2016 because he eyed a Senate seat.

“A fact-checking outfit hiring Alan Grayson is like a church hiring Charlie Sheen to run their youth group,” National Review columnist Dan McLaughlin tweeted.

Politico’s Jake Sherman asked, “Is this a joke?”

No, but PolitiFact has become one.

THE FISA MEMO: Read the whole thing.

STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE: Subprime Auto Debt Is Booming Even as Defaults Soar.

BOOM TOWN: New jobs numbers and projected GDP boom point to the old truth – supply-side measures work. My take over at CEI’s blog is here. Note there’s a lot of work still to do to recover from the Obama slump.

ANDREW FERGUSON: The Final Hagiography of the Obama Team.

When I think back over the Obama administration, I have the enduring impression of articulate, well-credentialed people talking, talking, talking. The stars of The Final Year are among the most skilled Obama talkers. When Kerry releases little bubbles of gas like “We have to be realistic about the challenges we face” he is taking a cue from the master, the president, who can say “It’s ultimately where politics, government, diplomacy has [sic] to be rooted—in that belief in a common humanity” and say it slowly, thoughtfully enough to almost persuade you he’s saying something substantial. “Bearing witness is both an instinct and a responsibility,” says Samantha Power, without clarification. Obama’s foreign policy, says Rhodes, is “engagement-focused.”

The manipulation of high-toned, empty tropes was both a cause and a consequence of Obama’s foreign policy. The most touching sequence in The Final Year concerns the “ceasefire” that Kerry negotiated with the Russians and Syrians in September 2016. The movie portrays Kerry as a clueless and oddly endearing popinjay who lurches from photo-op to photo-op, shaking hands with one international grifter after another, getting his pocket picked all the while. He spends dozens of hours “brokering” the ceasefire with those friendly Russians. Then he is astonished and crestfallen when it falls apart, after Russian and Syrian aircraft bomb a U.N. humanitarian convoy headed for Aleppo, killing more than 20 aid workers and destroying food supplies meant for 75,000 starving people.

“It’s so frustrating,” Kerry tells the camera. “Because we had an agreement that could have worked! But some people didn’t want to cooperate.”

It’s almost as though the Russians were our number one geopolitical foe all along.

DEBRA HEINE: Key findings in the FISA Abuse memo.

ROGER SIMON: Naming Names Is Mandatory in the House Intelligence Memo.

Read the whole thing.