BUNCH OF WHITE WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE NOT APPLAUDING DURING TALK OF RECORD MINORITY EMPLOYMENT — not a good look.

UPDATE: Seen on Facebook: “Why are all the Dem women dressed like Ralph Northam?”

Stephen Kruiser calls it “the Bleached Estrogen Borg section.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments:

MORE: Well, they didn’t stand for the minority employment, but the women stood for record employment of women. Seems kinda . . . selfish.

Trump: “Don’t sit yet, you’re gonna like this. . . ” And he gets them on their feet again, they can’t resist. This is his pivot to unity, making it hard for Dems to marginalize him with suburban women.

He’s even got the Women In White cheering “USA” now. Is there nothing he can’t do?

MORE STILL: Harsh, but fair:

STILL MORE: Here come the photoshops! (Via Facebook).

Did it just not occur to them that this would happen?

I HAVEN’T SEEN HIM IN TEN YEARS, but Buzz Aldrin looks awfully good. And I love the “back to space on American rockets” line.

LIZ’S LIES: Senator Warren claimed that she listed herself in the minority section of the law school professor directory because she wanted to meet other professors with Native American heritage. That was a lie, because the directory didn’t specify that she is Native American, just a member of an unspecified “minority” group.

She also claimed that she never tried to use Native American heritage for career advantage. Another lie; Harvard boasted when it hired her that it hired a “woman of color,” and who else could have been the source of that information?  Plus, she mysteriously stopped listing herself as a “minority” law professor just after Harvard hired her.

Finally, she asserted that she had never claimed to be an American Indian. Strike three, as we know thanks to the the Washington Post today.

UPDATE: In fairness to Warren, I’ve seen many secondary sources stating that she never claimed to be an American Indian/Native American, but I nevertheless am not 100% sure she ever said that she’s never claimed to be an American Indian, as opposed to never claimed to be citizen of a tribe, or never claimed to be an Indian to help herself get a job. But you, like me, are probably having a hard time believing that she would put herself in the law school directory as a minority, and list herself as an American Indian on her bar registration card, but not let it be known to potential law school suitors that she was “woman of color” eligible for affirmative action.

FURTHER UPDATE: Warren claimed she never used her Native American heritage “for anything.” 

WEIRD HOW INSTITUTIONS GAIN OR LOSE “LEGITIMACY” BASED SOLELY ON WHETHER THEY RELIABLY DO WHAT DEMOCRATS WANT: Has the Supreme Court lost its legitimacy?

IT’S SOTU LIVE AND/OR DRUNKBLOGGING at the PJMedia Live Blog.

UPDATE: From the comments.

Hat(e) speech.

DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO UNMASK THEMSELVES. Why so nasty, Kamala?

Why so ignorant, Cory?

Why so bigoted and cowardly, Ilhan?

Why so hypocritical, Pat?

UPDATE: Democrats Embarrass Themselves.

THE BUILDUP:

WAPO HELPS ELIZABETH WARREN WITH A PRE-SOTU DOCUMENT DUMP:

Using an open records request during a general inquiry, for example, The Post obtained Warren’s registration card for the State Bar of Texas, providing a previously undisclosed example of Warren identifying as an “American Indian.”

Warren filled out the card by hand in neat blue ink and signed it. Dated April 1986, it is the first document to surface showing Warren making the claim in her own handwriting. Her office didn’t dispute its authenticity.

This tidbit (click over for the photo of her Texas bar card) was buried eight paragraphs into a Washington Post story innocuously titled “Elizabeth Warren apologizes for calling herself Native American.” Just think of the media as Democratic operatives with bylines, and the Post burying the lede makes perfect sense.

UPDATE: Heh — “Governor Northam should call on Senator Warren to resign,” Charles C.W. Cooke jokes on Twitter.

I DON’T THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY A NEW PHENOMENON: Taxes Are Getting Weaponized for Partisan Purposes.

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IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Cheese Protects You From All Causes Of Death, Says Science. “Thus spake the scientists: ‘cheese and yogurt were found to protect against both total mortality — death from any cause — and mortality from cerebrovascular causes.’”

VIDEO: Cory Booker Launches Inquisition Against Trump Nominee: ‘Are Gay Relationships … Sinful?’

I BLAME INSTITUTIONALIZED MISOGYNY: Study: Women’s brains have more Alzheimer’s-causing proteins than men.

But then, it’s everywhere.

ONE CHINA, BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY: PLA bombers, jet fighters star in Beijing’s ‘Happy Lunar New Year’ video message to Taiwan. “Propaganda film leaves little to the imagination as images of military aircraft are set against shots of Taiwanese landmarks. Soundtrack calls for ‘Brothers and sisters’ to ‘return [and] reunite’.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: ‘Learn to Code:’ Good Advice, or Hate Speech?

I know I speak for all of us when I say that our thoughts and prayers are with our very important journalists in this difficult time. They could’ve chosen easy careers, like coal mining or law enforcement or firefighting. But instead they chose to become literal firefighters, fighting fires in the form of mean tweets that hurt their feelings.

Stay strong, journo friends. And please, please, do not learn to code. You simply can’t meet that industry’s higher standards of accuracy.

Just ask former Maximum Timeswoman Jill Abramson.

HMM: Dem Reps Signal Support for U.S. Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights.

Two Democratic lawmakers from New York signaled on Monday that they might support the United States officially recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

“The only thing the Golan has ever been used for by the Syrians is to bombard Israel,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) told Jewish Insider. “They can’t have that again. It’s unsafe.”

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) said she would support U.S. recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the region if Democratic leadership is on board.

“If our leadership supports it, I don’t see what the problem is,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) said. “So I will be supporting it, but only if it goes through the [House Foreign Affairs Committee] and is supported by the committee.”

Call me a cynic, but this looks like an attempt at deflection from the growing antisemitism in the Democratic Party — most especially Ilhan Omar, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

● Shot:

I do not record. I’ve never recorded. I’m a very fast note-taker. When someone kind of says the “it” thing that I have really wanted, I don’t start scribbling right away. I have an almost photographic memory and so I wait a beat or two while they’re onto something else, and then I write down the previous thing they said. Because you don’t want your subject to get nervous about what they just said.

—“How I Get It Done: Merchants of Truth author Jill Abramson,” New York magazine’s “The Cut,” today.

● Chaser:

So, when you sit down for an interview (unless it’s live), you’re putting yourself, like Homer, at the mercy of the editors. Usually they’re honest, but not always. But there’s a remedy now, with technology being what it is. If I were a candidate, I think I’d bring my own camera to interviews, shoot the whole thing and post the unedited raw video on the Web.

—“Bring Your Own Camera,” Glenn Reynolds, the New York Post, after Charlie Gibson’s deceptively edited interview with Sarah Palin, September 13, 2008. (At the very least, bring an audio recorder to a print interview.)

● Hangover:

The web is abuzz after a quote from the New York Times’s future executive [now of course former — Ed] editor, Jill Abramson, in a Times news story on her appointment was missing in an updated version of the piece.

Abramson was quoted by Jeremy Peters on Thursday as saying “In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion. If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.” In later versions published online, the quote had been removed.

* * * * * * * *

Of the quote’s removal, National Review’s Jay Nordlinger wrote late Thursday: “That’s a tiny bit strange, isn’t it? I mean, Abramson’s words were not exactly scrubbable, or scrub-worthy.” In a follow-up, Taranto wrote that the editing process was the likely culprit for the quote’s removal, but added: “It’s obvious that an editorial decision was made to ‘rectify’ a quote that made the Times look foolish.”

—“NYT quote removal sparks web buzz,” the Politico, June 03, 2011.

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PROFILES IN COURAGE: “Learn to code” was tweeted at me by a sketchy account. I reported it as abusive behavior as part of targeted harassment. Twitter suspended the account within 20 minutes.

TO BE HONEST, I’D RATHER WATCH BABY JANE HOLZER BRUSH HER TEETH: Watch Andy Warhol Eat an Entire Burger King Whopper–While Wishing the Burger Came from McDonald’s (1981). But the Whopper’s a solid burger. He shouldn’t complain.

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Infanticide Endorsing Va. Gov. Northam Got $2 Million From Planned Parenthood.

MORE FROM THE CHILD-SERVICES CLOWN SHOW: Lemon poppy seed bread snack triggered child services investigation, mother says.

TACKLING THE IMPORTANT ISSUES: NYC Lawmaker Wants To Throw Chefs In Jail For Serving Foie Gras.

Not only is foie delicious, but the geese raised for it are not mistreated.