HEH: ‘Believe All Women’ Movement Publishes Extensive List Of Exceptions.

UNABOMBER ARRESTED: On this day in 1996, Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated, former Berkeley math professor responsible for over a dozen bombs and three deaths, was arrested at his cabin in Montana.

TOM COTTON AND JOHN HINDERAKER ASK:  Why should the Southern Poverty Law Center be tax exempt?

IN ILLINOIS, more talk of splitting the state from Chicago.

Related: My paper on state secession.

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CORRUPTION CONFIDENTIAL: Naw, not Hillary and AOC, but their financial (Hillary) and ideological (AOC) friends, the Russian government and Russian oligarchs.

Opinion polls show that most Russians accept corruption as a basic element in Russian culture and unlikely to be eliminated any time soon. Most Russians also complain that the prevalence of corruption hurts the economy and is another unpleasant aspect of life in Russia. While the government makes a big deal (lots of publicity) about anti-corruption efforts it is widely understood that when some major government official (usually a former official) is arrested and charged with corruption there is more to the story than that. First, the official is probably guilty as charged and the details make interesting reading. The other part of the story is generally not published and involves the details of which other senior official the “corrupt” official offended.

Read the whole thing. Snicker, shake your head.

TRUE: Rex Murphy: Anti-Trump press has less credibility than Jussie Smollett right now.

ANTITRUST: The Justice Department has warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that its potential rule changes limiting the eligibility of Netflix and other streaming services for the Oscars could raise antitrust concerns and violate competition law.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MASTURBATE IN PUBLIC: Sarah Hinkson’s hand was allegedly still down her trousers when she was arrested.

SPYING: Yujing Zhang: Woman with Chinese passports, malware inside Mar-a-Lago facing federal charges.

Related: During all the Russia hacking hype, China is rising in influence: While Russia’s role in the 2016 election dominates the news, China’s spying and alarming influence within our borders is too little noticed.

THE MARCH OF PROGRESS: Chicago elects Lori Lightfoot as first gay and first black female mayor in city’s history. She’s one of Rahm Emanuel’s people.

HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY! 15th Anniversary of My First Post for No Pasarán.

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OPEN THREAD: Don’t disappoint me.

SPACE: Israeli Moon Lander Tweaks Orbit to Prep for Thursday Lunar Arrival.

THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: The World Might Actually Run Out of People.

WELL, THERE YOU GO: Former FBI official feared Peter Strzok-Lisa Page affair could compromise them. “A former top FBI official told lawmakers last summer that he confronted Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about their extramarital affair, fearing it would make them vulnerable to a foreign agent. The disclosure came Tuesday as the transcript of Bill Priestap, the former assistant director of the bureau’s counterintelligence division was entered into the public record by Rep. Doug Collins, Georgia Republican.”

UM: Researchers trick Tesla Autopilot into steering into oncoming traffic. “Researchers have devised a simple attack that might cause a Tesla to automatically steer into oncoming traffic under certain conditions. The proof-of-concept exploit works not by hacking into the car’s onboard computing system. Instead, it works by using small, inconspicuous stickers that trick the Enhanced Autopilot of a Model S 75 into detecting and then following a change in the current lane.”

REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH: Granted, Variety Magazine is hardly the stuff of insightful or particular detailed reporting, but using Christine Amanpour as a springboard to repeat a canard is pretty low. Being a Hollywood-based publication, it’s not surprising how a sly but false anti-Trump innuendo would show up:

“To Amanpour, it’s no surprise that violence against journalists has grown. This is a world where the man with the biggest bully pulpit of them all, President Trump, actually uses it to bully, denouncing the news media as the “enemy of the people.” Last year, a gunman killed five people in the newsroom of Maryland’s Capital Gazette, propelling the U.S. into a tie with Mexico as the fourth-deadliest country for journalists.”

That’s all fine and dandy…except it’s a strawman: The shooter had in fact targeted the staff members over a long-running feud with the newspaper that stemmed over a 2012 defamation lawsuit. Even Reuters was forced to discipline an editor who repeated the talking point.

SHOT: Democrats Still Need Rural Voters To Defeat Trump.

Chaser: Keith Olbermann calls open season on the rural South.

Making fun of people who hunt or are from the South seems to be something perfectly normal for someone like Olbermann, a millionaire who makes his living peddling contempt.

“It’s rare and beautiful so me should kill it,” Olbermann wrote mockingly. Olbermann clearly believes people who are both hunters and from Mississippi are so dumb they speak like a Hollywood cave man.

So Olbermann begins the tweet reinforcing the pop-culture brand of the elite that hunters and people from the South are slow and or stupid. He then goes on to show his ignorance of both hunting and journalism, wanting the reporter fired for doing his job.

Broom’s job as an outdoor reporter, which he has done for nearly 30 years, has given him the equivalent of a biology degree, “In the reporting you deal with diseases. You deal with ecology, which is a very complicated area. You deal with a lot of things that require a lot of working knowledge about not just game animals, but how the entire ecosystem works,” he said.

And so do hunters.

So why does Olbermann get away with making bigoted stereotypes of hunters and reporters from Mississippi and threaten them on social media? Why are ESPN and Twitter fine with that? Probably because the people who sit in the boardrooms of ESPN and Twitter think Olbermann’s assessment of Mississippians is basically true.

This contempt of our larger institutions towards the people in the middle of our country is a dangerous illness, and Olbermann is a living symptom of it.

We need to cleanse our institutions of this oikophobic bigotry.

THE MORAL PANIC CONTINUES:  Students demand that George Mason Law School fire Justice Kavanaugh as a visiting professor of law.

A SOLUTION TO NOISY RESTAURANTS: An app that conferences the phones of everyone at the table, letting you talk via the headsets. “The phones sync up and do a local ad-hoc wifi (or bluetooth) mesh network. You all start the app and swipe an agreed code so people at the next table can’t join or decrypt. Then they share audio for the dinner. Get those earbuds that plug up your ears to block out the rest of the room. Talk in an ordinary voice.”

It’s a cool idea, though a few hundred bucks worth of sound-absorbent material would be better. If the restaurants would do it.

WAY TOO EARLY PRESEASON PREDICTIONS: Has Lucy Flores Just Handed Trump His Second Term?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Handling Tips for a Home-Defense Shotgun.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Villanova Mentholates The Cultural Revolution — College’s administrators unintentionally vindicate concern that school is politicizing classrooms.