MAKING DO: Hey, that looks familiar!

DEMOCRATS SURE GOT IT GOOD:

● Despite Buttigieg-mania, 35 Percent of Democrats Have Never Heard of Him.

—NRO, today.

● Beto O’Rourke Is Everywhere. Why Don’t More Texas Voters Know Him?

—Texas Monthly, August 23, 2018.

● The Legend of Barack Obama: “From out of nowhere, he’s become DC’s brightest star. Will his charisma and sense of destiny propel him to the White House in 2008?”

—The Washingtonian, November 1st, 2006.

Of course, sometimes the hype machine gets over its skis, as in the case of “Buttigieg-mania,” but it’s fascinating watching the DNC-MSM make the (vegan tofu) sausage.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: ”Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the New York Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War?

CLAIRE MCCASKILL AND A #METOO DOUBLE STANDARD?

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

SAD BUT PREDICTABLE: Macron attacked for snubbing Juno Beach D-Day anniversary ceremony.

TO BE FAIR, SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS VERGES ON CHILD ABUSE ITSELF: How School Districts Weaponize Child Protection Services Against Uncooperative Parents.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Alabama May Return $21.5 Million, Strip Donor’s Name From Law School After His Call For Boycott Due To State’s New Abortion Law.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Historian Celebrates Grant Of Tenure With Tweetstorm Decrying ‘History Of Racism And Anti-Semitism At University Of Minnesota.’

She thinks she’s being bold, but she’s actually demonstrating that the filter worked as designed.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC caught flashing notorious white power symbol during Instagram livestream.

Meanwhile, the 4Chan folks, who made the “OK” hand gesture into a “white power symbol” to troll the DNC-MSM (with astonishingly effective results) now have a new symbol to weaponize: the hashtag itself, which they’re pretending is also a “white power symbol.” No word yet if that will gain traction, or if it is simply a troll too far.

LAW & LIBERTY: Lysistrata Among The Hippies. “Finally, to understand the full delusion of liberals who think they could use the power of withholding sex against men—look up studies on young Americans up to their early 30s. They are the most free and least burdened by responsibility; they are the most passionate, least experienced; the most rash, least prudent part of America. Yet, studies show they aren’t having much sex anymore. Up to a third of young Americans report not having had sex in about a year. Many don’t report anger or even being ashamed about this. It’s just how we live now, loneliness as far as the eye can see.”

CHOOSE THE FORM OF YOUR DESTRUCTOR: How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right.

Related thoughts here.

Plus, the Tina Fey angle.

HEH: Vox Media has shifted its hiring toward part-timers and contract workers since its staff unionized. Unexpectedly!

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: White Women Can Now Go To Dinners So That They Can Be Shamed For Racism.

Race To Dinner is co-founded by Colorado resident Regina Jackson. Jackson is a self-employed real estate broker, according to her Facebook page. Her bio on the website talks about her life growing up in Chicago during the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., the Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner murders, and other violence “perpetrated on innocent people” by white people. This is why she is driven “to push for real change in America,” and why she agreed to be a co-founder, the website says.

[Saira] Rao ran for Congress in 2018 and the website says that she is a racial justice activist. After she lost the primary, she tweeted that she should “give up on white people” with a link to an opinion piece that she wrote for the New York Times. She also said that she was taking her children and moving out of Colorado because of all of the racism that she was subjected to.

What’s for dinner? On the menu is “sounding off about what it’s like being a Black and Brown woman in this country” and “how white women cause harm every single day,” the group’s Facebook page states.

Just reverse the races, and it’s a reminder that the mainstream left are increasingly a mirror image of the alt-right. Also, a few months ago, Peggy Noonan warned, “Get ready for the [Mao-inspired] Struggle Session” — and this fits that description perfectly. (No word yet if Mao-era dunce caps are on the invitation’s dress code.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cracks in the Ivory Tower: A Dispiriting Assessment of Higher Education.

If only there had been some kind of warning.

LOTS OF INTERESTING THINGS HAPPENING WITH VARIOUS PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS: PDE9 Inhibitor Gets Fast Tracked for Sickle Cell Disease Treatment. The best-known are PDE5 inhibitors for erectile dysfunction, but all sorts of other inhibitors are out there.

WELL: Federal subpoena demands records on Andrew Gillum and his campaign for governor.

WHO CARES WHAT A BORING, RETIRED OLD WHITE LADY HAS TO SAY? VIDEO: Hillary blisters Trump during commencement address as grads zone out, yawn.

SKY PENIS II: US Air Force F-35s drew an accidental sky penis with their contrails in a stealth fighter dogfight.

21ST CENTURY: On-demand, photonic entanglement synthesizer.

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WHAT IS IT WITH DEMOCRATS AND PHONY BIOGRAPHIES? Buttigieg brother-in-law accuses 2020 candidate of lying about his family for political gain.

OOF: Georgia Should Tell Disney’s CEO to Go Home if His Actresses Can’t Get Through a Month Without an Abortion.

EGADS! AOC caught flashing notorious white power symbol during Instagram livestream.

That’s not OK.