AXIOS: The #MeToo election isn’t happening.

IT’S PART OF HIS PITCH TO SPEND FOUR YEARS FLYING ON THE WORLD’S MOST EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE JET: Bernie Sanders Unveils His Own $16 Trillion ‘Green New Deal’ Plan.

COLUMBIA LAWPROF PHIL HAMBURGER: Education Is Speech: Why New York’s Attempts To Control Private Schools Are Unconstitutional.

EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Vegan parents whose strict diet left baby ‘severely malnourished’ avoid jail. “Authorities discovered the couple’s child so malnourished that at 19-months she weighed just 4.9 kilograms (10.8 pounds). Further medical tests revealed that her bones had not developed since birth. Her development was so stunted she didn’t even have any teeth, Seven News reported. Her parents said they had kept the girl on a strict vegan diet.”

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A SECOND LOOK AT OUR OVERLAWYERED STYLE OF WARFARE? SECNAV orders comprehensive review of Navy, Marine Corps JAGs.

HEH.

YOU GO, GIRL: Meet Catalina Lauf, the young Republican congressional hopeful billing herself as the anti-AOC.

BUT THE WOKE WHITE PEOPLE AREN’T THE ONES WHO PAY IT: Don Surber: The 5.2% illegal alien tax.

BIGOTRY AT THE NEW YORK TIMES:Who knew about Tom Wright-Piersanti, and when did they know it?As Glenn pointed out here, Breitbart News discovered that Senior Editor Wright-Piersanti has been polluting social media with racist filth since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007.

He apologized. And locked down his Twitter account. And as of this writing he inexplicably still works at the ̶T̶e̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶R̶i̶g̶h̶t̶e̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶c̶t̶i̶m̶o̶n̶y̶  The New York Times. He has been posting racist garbage for at least nine years. And it is only logical to assume that some, if not many of his workmates and even superior-ranking editors follow him on Twitter. Is it even remotely plausible that nobody at The Times followed Wright on Twitter and never saw his screeds? I don’t think so.

Which leaves us with the question that must be asked of each and every “Timesman” that worked there between 2007 and now: Did you know? Why didn’t you say anything?  Margaret Sullivan was their Public Editor from 2012 to 2016. How could she have not known? Bill Keller was the paper’s Executive Editor from 2003 to 2011. Did he follow Wright-Piersanti? Did anyone complain to Keller about him? Did Jill Abramson, now under fire for alleged plagiarism by the paper at which she served as Executive Editor from 2011 to 2014 follow Wright-Piersanti?

Look, this isn’t a partisan issue, it’s an honesty issue. This episode is so parallel to the #MeToo movement it’s scary. Being Harvey Weinstein wasn’t bad enough. People were (rightfully, IMHO) being held accountable for looking the other way, for enabling, and even encouraging behavior that can’t be described as anything other than despicable.

So too, bigotry is despicable, and The New York Times has embarked on a campaign to remind us of this self-evident truth. Not only The New York Times, but its cadre, its core leaders and rank-and-file past and present have to be asked these questions. Heaven knows the “media watchers” from the same club won’t ask.

So I’m encouraging you and your friends to ask. Be polite, be direct, don’t use foul language or rabid hyperbole. The emails addresses for some of these people are (); () and (). This is not a call for harassment or doxxing. These people have made a living communicating with the public and have assumed the very genuine mantle of the public trust in so doing. Thus, asking them politely “what did you know and when did you know it?” is not just fair, but important, and like the #MeToo movement it  starts with ordinary people speaking truth to power.

THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN THEMES ARE ALL HERE:

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

OPEN THREAD: Go.

LIBEL: Mississippi prof, who went to Georgetown Prep with Brett Kavanaugh, sues HuffPost. The lawsuit was filed in Gulfport, Mississippi.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Nuclear Propulsion Could Be ‘Game-Changer’ for Space Exploration, NASA Chief Says: And the tech could power asteroid-deflecting lasers as well. Well, this is the 21st Century, you know.

SHE’S GETTING THE BERNIE TREATMENT: Payback: Democrats rig Tulsi Gabbard right out of their next debate.

Funny how Democrats can never just let their own process play out. It has to be “nudged” to be sure that the right people win.

WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Minorities Don’t Believe Trump Is a Racist. “Trump is winning urban voters and has record support with African Americans.”

THE BABYLON BEE IS RELENTLESS: Reality Criticized For Not More Clearly Distinguishing Itself From Satire.

“The problem with all these real news sites is they’re reporting things that would have been satirical just six months ago,” said a representative for one popular joke-checking website. “It makes it really hard for satire sites to do their job effectively when all this reality is out there muddying the details of satire.”

Heh.

TO BE FAIR, HE SAID “YOU CAN HAVE,” NOT “I CAN HAVE.” Obamas Make Offer for Multimillion-Dollar Martha’s Vineyard Estate. Said last year ‘there’s only so big a house you can have.’

FORESHOCKS ARE A THING: Scientists finally know how big earthquakes start: With many smaller ones.

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SUZANNE VENKER: American men need to take back their manhood. “Men who are overly accommodating get burned, particularly if they’ve married a woman who prides herself on being ’empowered’ or who has absorbed feminist messages about American women’s so-called oppression.”

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: CBS’s Gayle King Blames Slavery for No Universal Health Care.

I blame the Growing Slavery Crisis.

(Classical reference in headline.)

NICE, CLEAN, RELIABLE NUKES: Britain’s blackout points to need for more reserves.

IN SOVIET GERMANY, BONDS CHARGE YOU FOR LENDING! “On Wednesday, for the first time ever, the German government sold 30-year bonds at a negative interest rate. The bonds pay no coupon interest at all. Yet bidders at the auction were willing to pay more than the face value they would receive back when the bonds mature.”

Despite its strong credit rating and demand for its bonds, Germany is a big part of the growth problem for the eurozone. The German economy shrank 0.1 percent in the second quarter and could tip into recession with another quarter of falling output.

Negative rates aren’t just an indicator of economic distress. They can cause problems in the financial system, too. They make it harder for banks to turn a profit or for insurance companies to fund their future payouts.

“Why would you want to lend money when you can’t make money?” Sohn said.

Indeed, bank stocks have tumbled — 24% in Europe and 23% in Japan — over the past year.

Most of the negative-yielding debt is in government bonds, in part because they are seen as ultra-safe. But there are also about $60 billion U.S. corporate bonds that are in negative territory.

Something similar is going on with U.S. government debt: The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has sagged to 1.57% — a rate that would amount to a negative one after accounting for inflation. Japan has been stuck in years of low inflation and sluggish growth. And growth rates in Europe have slowed in recent quarters. 

This news seems like good leverage for Boris Johnson and Brexit, and in related news, “Sterling soars as Brexit deal hopes rise,” the London Telegraph reports today.