ANY WEAPON TO HAND: New York Times Targets Brett Kavanaugh’s Wife. “When Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Sonia Sotamayor and Elena Kagan were appointed to the Court, did the Times, or the Associated Press, try to investigate documents sent or received by their family members?” Of course not, because shut up.

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OPEN THREAD: Play nice.

SPIES IN THE SKY: A counter surveillance drone system.

IS THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR FINALLY OVER?

CENSUS BUREAU: COUPLES LIE ABOUT THEIR INCOME WHEN THE WOMAN MAKES MORE THAN THE MAN.

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CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Joe Biden’s glamorous niece wins sweetheart plea deal and avoids jail after she faced felony charges for a $100,000 credit card scam.

QUESTION ASKED: Catastrophic Thinking and the Left: Is There an End in Sight?

Based on their half century of catastrophic thinking when it comes to the environment, likely not very soon.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Tight blood pressure control can cut memory loss, study finds: It’s the first intervention that has been clearly demonstrated to lower the risk of developing memory loss that leads to dementia, researchers say.

FACEBOOK’S $100 BILLION-PLUS ROUT IS THE BIGGEST LOSS IN STOCK MARKET HISTORY.

Related: Facebook Stands to Lose Tens of Billions in Dozens of Lawsuits.

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STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS: Student suspended over “Border Wall” t-shirt gets $25,000, written apology from principal.

WHEN “ALTRUISTIC PUNISHMENT” IS TAKEN TO EXTREMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

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TEST DRIVE: 2019 Mercedes-AMG C63.

THIS ISN’T THE REGTECH I WAS PROMISED: Anti-smoking activists *hate* vaping, despite the demonstrable reduction in harm thanks to the technology (my wife gave up smoking cigarettes thanks to vaping). There has been an aggressive astroturf campaign aimed at the FDA in favor of anti-vaping regulations – and by astroturf I mean “submitting 255,000 fake comments from a single Internet bot.”

My colleague Michelle Minton has written a bunch on vaping and its role in harm reduction.

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE, BRITAIN? Authorities force Uyghur butchers to use chained-knives. “Having already instituted an Orwellian policy of marking new knives with QR tracking codes in an effort to thwart knife attacks by Uyghur separatists, Chinese authorities are taking a low-tech approach as well. They are chaining knives to workstations in the butcher-shops in at least one market in the Xinjiang Province.”

Weird that this is happening in both Britain and China. What could the common factor be?

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UH OH: Erectile Dysfunction Drug Trial Involving Pregnant Women Stopped After 11 Newborns Die. “The Dutch study was examining the possible benefits of the medication, which increases blood flow, on improving the growth of fetuses in mothers with poorly developed placentas, Reuters reports. But the drug may have resulted in lethal damage to the babies’ lungs. . . . Among the treatment group, 17 babies developed lung conditions that reportedly caused high blood pressure in the lungs and may have been the result of reduced oxygen levels. Eleven of these newborns died. In the control group, three newborns developed lung conditions, and none died.”

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Watch Rivals SpaceX and Arianespace Both Launch Rockets Within 15 Minutes on Wednesday Morning.

AND THERE SHOULD BE LIFE ON THE MOON AGAIN: Life May Have Once Existed on the Moon.