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.

COULD ANYTHING BE WORSE THAN DISAGREEMENT? When it comes to learning, lots of things are worse, as the longstanding partnership of Princeton’s Robbie George and Cornel West demonstrates. One of the many overlooked crimes of the campus language and feelings police is that they have conned students into thinking that intelligent disagreement is not only not fun – a lie – but that it’s painful, even harmful. George and West are showing us a way out, if anyone cares to take it.

THE FASTEST RELOAD IS A SECOND GUN: Two-Gun Carry: Considerations & Carry Options. On the other hand civilian carriers — and, for that matter, police — almost never need to reload.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: KOMO News’ special: Seattle is Dying.

“People didn’t use to use the word embarrassing about Seattle, but they use it a lot now,” the narrator to a new KOMO News special titled “Seattle is Dying” says. The focus of the special is homelessness and the ways in which it has changed the city.

There’s a section featuring angry residents of one area of the city who are screaming at their representatives for action. They want the tent cities managed and they’re tired of calling the police only to find out the police can arrest people but those same people will be back on the street, sometimes within hours.

As I noted last month, just 100 homeless people in Seattle were responsible for 3,500 criminal cases. This special references that story. It also asked Seattle police officers to comment anonymously on what was happening and those responses are enlightening. One officer told KOMO, “People come here because it’s called Free-attle and they believe if they come here they will get free food, free medical treatment, free mental health treatment, a free tent, free clothes and will be free of prosecution for just about everything; and they’re right.”

But it’s provided plenty of opportunities for graft and virtue-signalling, which is what our political class runs on.

BUDGETING: Pentagon finds $12.8 billion for Trump’s border wall.

The Defense Department has identified $12.8 billion in possible funding that it could use to fulfill President Trump’s call for a border wall.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., released the 20-page spreadsheet on Twitter Monday night.

Trump last month declared a national emergency at the border, and said he wants to use $3.6 billion for border wall projects. The Pentagon’s list said it has found possible funding sources that are “in excess of the amount needed.”

But it’s not clear which projects the Defense Department will draw from. Some states that have been allocated big chunks of money that haven’t been spent could see a hit.

California, for example, was identified as having more than $700 million in unused Army and Navy military construction that could be used. Hawaii has more than $400 million that could be used.

Blue states gotta pay their fair share.