OPEN THREAD: Did anything happen today?

WAY TOO EARLY PRESEASON PREDICTIONS: The Fundraising Sweepstakes.

PEOPLE HAVE A VISCERAL DISLIKE OF SPACE-BASED ADVERTISING: Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard.

YES:

DEVELOPING: Six injured after driver ‘intentionally’ plows into people on Philadelphia street after altercation, police say.

WELL, HE DOESN’T HAVE HILLARY AND THE DNC RIGGING THE PRIMARY AGAINST HIM THIS TIME: ‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum.

LEFTIES ALWAYS WANT TO SILENCE THEIR OPPONENTS: Principal apologizes for making girl cover up MAGA shirt.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Big Fail: Why Bar Pass Rates Have Sunk To Record Lows. It’s mostly due to the decline in credentials of incoming law students, but there’s also the absence of Prof. Kingsfield: “The way we used to teach wasn’t as good for caring for the student, but it made sure you could take a closed-book exam.”

NEARER MY GOD TO MIES: Modern Churches Are Hideous. After Notre Dame, Let’s Start Building Beautiful Churches Again.

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Nation of Islam Defends Ilhan Omar With 9/11 Truther Video Featuring Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

HARD LEFT CELEBRATES NOTRE DAME’S DESTRUCTION: ‘I’M DYING AT ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE TRIGGERED.’

It’s the return of what Evan Sayet dubbed “the 9/12 Democrats.” (Not that they ever went away.)

NICK SHORT: Controlling The Narrative. “In a New York Times piece published back in May of 2016 by David Samuels regarding former President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, Americans were given a rare glimpse into the inner workings of how the past administration operated in controlling the media by creating fictitious narratives in order to propagate their agenda.”

BUT DON’T QUESTION HER PATRIOTISM: Ilhan Omar Tweeted In 2017: U.S. Was ‘Founded By Genocide.’

To be fair, I don’t think there’s much question about her patriotism.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Vasectomy Cakes” are now a thing.

TYLER O’NEIL: How Much of Notre Dame Survived the Devastating 12-Hour Inferno?

NOTRE DAME IS A WARNING TO EUROPE: DON’T TAKE WHAT YOU VALUE FOR GRANTED.

That’s excellent advice, but it’s awfully rich coming from the Grauniad.

Related: Notre Dame Fire: A Sign For Our Time.

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: “Scrotox:” Man gets $1000 of Botox injected into his scrotum to impress chicks.

TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO DO THAT: Substitute Teacher in Kentucky Accused of Downing 4 Shots of Vodka in Class, Endangering Kids.

32-year-old Brook Ellen West was arrested Monday on charges of public intoxication and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Scott County Sheriff’s deputies say she told authorities she had four shots of vodka while teaching a class at Royal Springs Middle School in Georgetown. They say she smelled of alcohol, was unsteady on her feet, yelled and cursed at the children, and had a blood alcohol content level of .317.

That’s four times the legal limit for driving.

EXCHANGE OF THE DAY: MARY KATHARINE HAM EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPYING AND SURVEILLANCE TO CNN PANEL: “I fail to see how that makes me a dissembler. You think ‘spying’ has negative connotations? Good, govt surveilling American citizens w/o their knowledge, esp through FISA Ct, should have negative connotations. It could just be that I…disagree with you. [Elipses in original — Ed.] And, if that puts me on the opposite site of the issue from someone like Clapper, who lied under oath to Congress about *spying* on American citizens by dragnetting our data, I’m okay with that.”

Related: Andrew McCarthy explores “the Obama administration’s shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Facebook staff followed CNN camera crews to the bathroom over fears they would spy after the worst scandal in its history.

DERP STATE: ‘A Complete Lack Of Competence’: Obama Holdovers Turn On Each Other As Agency Falls Into Disarray.

CYBERSECURITY: Microsoft’s Web-Based Email Services Breached.

Some users of Microsoft’s web-based email services including @msn.com, @hotmail.com, and @outlook.com have had their accounts breached, with the accounts remaining in a compromised state for more than two months.

As TechCrunch and Motherboard report, an email sent out by Microsoft late last week explains that access to its system was gained through compromised Microsoft support agent credentials. Email accounts were then accessed and information including each account’s email address, folder names, subject lines, and the other email addresses communicated with could be viewed.

That was the extent of the breach for most compromised accounts, but around six percent of affected users didn’t get so lucky. The information accessed in their accounts extended to the body of emails, their date of birth, calendar activity, admin center, and their logon history.

What a mess.

OHIO DEMOCRAT ADVOCATES RACE-BASED EXTERMINATION? PUSHES TO EXEMPT BLACK BABIES FROM THE STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAW.

Margaret Sanger smiles.

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