ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook murdered local news. Now it wants to ‘save’ journalism. Break them up instead.

HEH: Resurrected Che Guevara Announces 2020 Run, Democrats Quickly Criticize As ‘Too Moderate.’

VIDEO: Three Ways 2020 Dems Want to Remake the Supreme Court. “All the options are on the table.”

FLASHBACK: James Bovard: Eric Holder’s Lawless Legacy.

I’M NOW READING ANDREW WAREHAM’S Chinese Whispers, the third in his series of British Navy stories. It’s a twist from the Hornblower/Maturin world because it takes place at the turn of the 20th Century, in a world building up to World War One even as the Royal Navy is still obsessed with Nelson. The first book in the series is The China Station.

PJ MEDIA EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi Navy SEAL Interpreter ‘Code Name Johnny Walker’ Says It’s an Honor to Gain U.S. Citizenship, Will Reveal His Real Name. He Also Supports Trump’s Wall.

CNN WINS CRONKITE AWARD FOR THAT GARBAGE GUN-CONTROL TOWN HALL IT HELD AFTER PARKLAND:

Dana Loesch was suckered into attending in the belief that this would be some sort of civil moderated discussion about the pros and cons of gun control. As it was, she was jeered for noting that some rape victims wished they had a gun during their attack, had people shout “murderer” at her, and allegedly needed a security detail to exit the event safely. Loesch reminisced about the magical evening she had earlier today on Twitter:

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It was embarrassing all the way through, less town hall than mob catharsis, and of course they’re being rewarded for it by industry watchdogs rather than reprimanded. If you wonder why big media is frequently so terrible, this is a small part of the answer: They’re incentivized to be that way by their own gatekeepers.

As long as it’s remembered that Cronkite himself, far from being the Mr. “And that’s the way it is,” was one of the original Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and would have loved CNN’s hard left coverage, then it’s an absolutely appropriately named award for CNN’s train wreck.

Related: ‘Go be a company man’! Dana Loesch calls out Jake Tapper for pulling this after she told truth about CNN’s Parkland ‘town hall.’ As Glenn posted earlier, Tapper unfollowed Dana — and also her husband Chris, “for pointing out what a sham this award is. Dana presented the facts and truth on that stage which were subsequently proven correct,” as Chris tweets.

DANA LOESCH LAYS DOWN THE SMACK ON CNN AND JAKE TAPPER IN THIS THREAD:

That whole “Town Hall” was an exercise in false-narrative propaganda worthy of Goebbels. In other words: This is CNN.

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Struggle harder, Jake.

TUESDAY’S GROOVY: Open Thread.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO HAVE SEX WHILE THEIR KIDS ARE DYING IN A HOT CAR: Ex-cop admits she was having sex while 3-year-old daughter was dying in hot car. “Cheyenne Hyer died Sept. 30, 2016, after her mother left her strapped in a car seat for four hours while Barker was with her then-supervisor at his home. The car was running with the air conditioner turned on, but wasn’t blowing cold air.”

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Doctors reverse their recommendation on taking aspirin a day to prevent heart attacks, strokes.

DIRECTIONALITY: Study finds some people can sense Earth’s magnetic field. “Researchers with the University of Tokyo and Caltech have found evidence that humans may have the ability to sense magnetic fields. Many animals are known to possess magnetoreception, including birds and bees, but questions have remained over whether humans have the same ability. A newly published study potentially has the answer, detailing brain wave changes observed in isolated participants.”

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KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD, BUT KEEP AUSTIN SURROUNDED: Giant Rock Sculpture of Beto’s Face Appears in Austin.

(Classical reference in headline.)

WHEN DID OLIVER STONE START EDITING THE NEW YORK TIMES? NYT Writer Links Trump to Mosque Shooter Via ‘George Soros White Supremacist Conspiracy Theory.’

TUCKER CARLSON: Congress must address the student loan debt problem and stop colleges from scamming our kids.

He’s right.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is Circumcision Healthy, Outdated, or Dangerous?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Naomi Schaefer Riley: College admissions need to have some kind of transparency.

ETAILING: Most Amazon private labels aren’t flying off the shelves yet, but the company is taking huge steps to change that.

Of the 406 brands analyzed by Marketplace Pulse, AmazonBasics — Amazon’s home and electronics brand — is the most successful, scooping up 57.8% of Amazon’s private-label sales, even though it accounts for only 5% of the new products the company has launched, the firm said.

Following that is the Amazon Collection jewelry brand, with 7.8%, and Amazon Essentials, which sells basic clothing for both men and women, at 4.8%. None of the others make up more than 2% of Amazon’s private-label sales.

Measured by sales, the products don’t fare any better. All told, sales from Amazon’s private-label brands are under $1 billion, according to Marketplace Pulse. That’s a lot taken in isolation, but it’s also just a fraction of the $122.9 billion Amazon raked in last year from direct online retail sales.

I needed a new linen shirt or two for our last beach vacation, and picked up a couple from Amazon’s “Isle Bay” house brand. For about $25 each, they weren’t bad. In fact, I’ve spent quite a bit more for similar quality.