OUTRUNNING THEIR BASE: Poll: AOC disliked, distrusted, unwanted in her own NY district.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED JURISDICTIONS AND INDUSTRIES SUCH CITADELS OF WHITE PRIVILEGE? “White students in New York City are 10 times as likely as Asian students to have a 504 designation that allows extra time on the specialized high school entrance exams.”

VIDEO: Biden Says ‘First Thing I’ll Do as President is Eliminate the President’s Tax Cut.’

President Walter Mondale could not be reached for comment.

CHANGE: ‘Sing Hallelujah to the Lord’ has become the unofficial anthem of the anti-extradition protest movement: The presence of Christian groups have made protests look a lot less like the “organized riots” the government said it had to crack down on to bring back law and order.

A friend on Facebook suggests that the Chinese government may have backed off for fear of empowering the churches. It occurs to me that while there are many more communists than Christians in China, there are probably more believing Christians than believing communists.

It’s also the case that — as with the Tea Party — the powers that be are more frightened by bourgeois revolutionary movements than by those of the extreme left or right. And, like the Tea Party, the Hong Kong protesters leave things cleaner than they found them. You can see why the authorities are worried. What if they did that to government? Same worries that united the GOP and Dem establishments — and the press — against the Tea Party here.

YES, I’M BACK. MORE ON MY TRAVELS, LATER.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why is UNC funding ‘Hub for Social Justice?’

Campus protests started in the 1960s, but protests on today’s college campuses have a different vibe. While protests in the past pitted students against university leadership, protests in the present are supported and accommodated by presidents and administrators.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, college officials waste resources on political activism and social justice projects housed within the Campus Y, Chapel Hill’s “hub for social justice.”

Although a substantial portion of its revenues come from gifts and the University Foundation, the Campus Y benefits from its status as an official part of the university as well as generous university funding. Its primary purpose is to push progressive politics to all students on campus, from freshman orientation through graduation. If UNC-Chapel Hill bankrolled a right-wing campus organization that encouraged students to hold pro-life protests, take gap years to work for conservative politicians, and otherwise shaped students to teach them about “conservative philosophy and activism,” the outrage would be constant. Yet, when all the above is done for “social justice” and left-wing causes, nothing seems amiss….

As a school known for its liberal bias, UNC-Chapel Hill further inserts social-justice rhetoric into the lives of its students with the Campus Y. By funding and supporting it, UNC-Chapel Hill sends the message to its students that leftist politics are the only acceptable views on campus.

The existence of the Campus Y, as a publicly funded and official university institution, is a clear violation of UNC-Chapel Hill’s legal responsibility to uphold institutional neutrality. It’s a misuse of public funds and an insult to students who pay tuition to pursue truth, not politics.

So who’s going to do something about it?

THE INSTAWIFE IS PRETTY BROADMINDED, but I don’t think wearing this would get me any patriotic sex.

So I’m going to put this down as an example of bad targeting.

OH, DEAR LORD, REALLY?  “Big Ideas,” Little Candidates.

YES. SOME OF US CAN READ PRINT WHEN IT’S TEN FEET HIGH AND WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF FIRE ON THE NIGHT SKY:  “Obama Had to Know”.

I HEAR IT COMES WITH HAPPY FUN DEATHCAMPS ADULT FUN CAMPS:  “Democratic Socialism”.

IN THE FOREST. AND VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO HEAR:  Jim Acosta Publishes His Cry For Love.

PERHAPS THEY SHOULD STOP SULLYING AN OLD AND RESPECTED NAME AND CHANGE THEIR NAME TO PROGRESSIVE U?  Harvard Boots Parkland’s Kyle Kashuv.

AH, THE LEFT AND PROJECTION:  Psychology Today And The Trump As Messiah Fallacy.

PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE YEAR: Hong Kong Protest Continues On.

FARMING THE HOMELESS AND ADDICTED FOR MORE THAN VOTES:  Power outage at Greensboro apartments has unintended consequence, reveals alleged Medicaid scheme.

ONCE MORE THE LEFT REFUSES TO ADMIT ANYONE WHO CAN TAN HAS AGENCY. DESPITE IRAN BEING AT WAR WITH US FOR DECADES, IT’S SOMEHOW TRUMP’S FAULT WHEN THEY JUMP ON THIS.  ALSO, DO THESE PEOPLE NEVER GET TIRED OF APPEASING BELLIGERENT BULLIES WHO DECLARE THEIR INTENT TO DESTROY AMERICA? DID THEY LEARN NOTHING FROM THE FALL OF THE USSR?  Trump’s consistent criticism of Iran pushes U.S. to point of potential conflict.

IT WILL DO NOTHING TO FIGURE OUT ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE, THE SAME WAY IT WON’T HELP ANYONE FIGURE OUT SANTA CLAUS, BUT INTERESTING NONETHELESS:  New ‘window into the planet’ installed in Mount Everest’s ‘death zone’.

May I say I’m getting really tired of the obligatory “climate change” pieties inserted into anything of this sort?

WEIRDLY NO DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES MENTIONED:  These are America’s favorite vegetables — and most hated.

IS THIS HOW TO BEAT BIG TECH? Rich Logis at The American Thinker sees a way the Conservative Media Industrial Complex (CMIC) can defeat Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the lefty Silicon Valley giants.  What do you think?

DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Oberlin College administrators were in even deeper than reported in case against family bakery.

The lawsuit goes on to allege that when David Gibson sat down with administrators to tell them about the devastating effect that defamation, boycotts, demonstrations, and refusal to do business with Gibson’s were having on his family’s store, Oberlin administrators sought to negotiate special treatment for shoplifting students in exchange for resuming relations with the bakery.

In short, Oberlin administrators said they’d consider resuming business with the bakery if the bakery would agree to not push criminal charges on first-time shoplifters; that would solve the “profiling” problem.

Even worse, the lawsuit alleged that “credit was given to students who attended the protest in lieu of classes, and administrators bought them food to support them.”

Earlier: Student journalist: Shoplifting at Gibson’s Bakery was part of Oberlin College’s “Culture of Theft.”

OPEN THREAD: She put the lime in the coconut.

THAT’S NOT CREEPY AT ALL: Denver Councilwoman Promises To Force Socialism ‘By Any Means Necessary.’

Earlier: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT? Teen Vogue Encourages Children To Explore Prostitution As A Career. “What drew outrage, beyond the obvious, was that the article was published in Teen Vogue, a magazine targeted toward 13-year-old girls.”

BATTLEFIELD PREP: Democrats Launching Major Ad Campaign Against Trump Before Their Nominee is Even Selected.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY IS HEADED ‘INTO THE WASTE BIN OF HISTORY.’

I eagerly await Paul Krugman’s stern condemnation of such dehumanizing eliminationist rhetoric.