TO BE FAIR, IT ISN’T A VERY GOOD NEWS NETWORK: MSNBC Guests Keep Repeating False Claim That Fox News Isn’t Covering the Mueller Hearings.

Kudos to Mediaite for reporting this, though.

NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER becomes Food App deliveryman.. By the way, the NYT actually calls him a “deliveryman.” I’m surprised such gendered language got past the style editors.

“PROGRESSIVES ARE CONVINCED THAT TRUMP IS TOAST”:  That could hurt them.

POLITIFACT TAKES ONE FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL:” Important Correction: AOC Was Weeping Over an Empty Road, Not an Empty Parking Lot.

UPDATE: ‘PolitiFact’ editor responds to Treacher, doubles down on those AOC photos. As Jim tweets back, “Are you familiar with the expression ‘Missing the forest for the trees’? Did you know that the person who came up with it wasn’t anywhere near a forest?”

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Presidential Candidate Julian Castro’s Mother Helped Found a Racist Hate Group.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘I’m Drowning’: Those Hit Hardest By Student Loan Debt Never Finished College.

THE WAGES OF SIN TAXES: Bootleg Alcohol Kills 23 as Heavy Taxes Prompt Turkish Home-Brew.

ONCE THEY’VE CALLED YOU HITLER, “OBNOXIOUS” IS COST-FREE:

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Facebook’s Kid-Safe Version of Messenger Let Kids Join Group Video Chats with Unauthorized Adults.

While Facebook has yet to make any public announcement regarding this security flaw, when contacted by The Verge the company did admit that “the alert had been sent to thousands of users in recent days,” and pinned the blame on a “technical error” which affected, so they say, “a small number of group chats.”

“Thousands” of group chats doesn’t sound like a small number to me, especially given that you have to multiply that vague figure by the number of kids involved in each one. Worse, Facebook has a bad history of slow-rolling the truth when it comes to its many security issues.

Much more at the link.

NOPE. I’VE BEEN SHOWN NO REASON TO TRUST THE FEDS ON THIS, AND PLENTY OF REASONS NOT TO. AG Barr Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors.

THE BBC: “Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.”

Meanwhile at Reuters: Boris Johnson promises to get Brexit done on October 31.

USA TODAY: Kyoto Anime arson killings didn’t get much attention because we couldn’t demonize guns.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-AWARENESS: Disgraced Dan Rather Insists That Liars Be Called Out as Liars.

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: A Budget Disaster of Epic Proportions. It’s been one of those after another since the stimulus was basically made permanent through continuing resolutions. If you look at the spending charts, the Tea Party had an impact for a few years until it was killed by a bipartisan coalition of parasites. I’m sad to admit that I’ve been kind of desensitized to this, because it doesn’t seem like anything can or will be done until there’s a crisis.

DAVID HARSANYI: Unlike His Critics, Former New York Yankees Closer Mariano Rivera Is A Mensch. “The Hall of Fame pitcher supports a pluralistic nation with democratic institutions and free association.”

In a transcendently ridiculous column at The Daily Beast, readers are warned that MLB Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera has “served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of a far-right government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons.”

Mo Rivera? The greatest closer—perhaps the greatest pitcher—in Major League baseball history? Mo Rivera, the first player unanimously selected as a first-ballot Hall of Famer? As a longtime Yankees fan, and someone fortunate enough to see Rivera up close for a number of years, I can think of few greater pleasures in sports than watching him work. So I never thought I’d be able to admire him more. But here we are.

It’s not surprising that The Daily Beast, whose editor-in-chief blames Israeli Jews for white nationalism, would find Rivera’s support of Israel problematic (the original illustration for the piece, incidentally, had Rivera standing on a pitcher’s mound shaped like a yarmulke atop a Jewish star).

Come see the antisemitism inherent in the leftism.

IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE YOU’RE A BIGOT BECAUSE CRAZY PEOPLE SAY SO: Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?

THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE PRESIDENT, MINORITY WOMEN WOULD SUFFER FROM IRRATIONAL PREJUDICE. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Trump-supporting Miss Michigan stripped of title over ‘racist’ tweets: ‘Yet another example of #Magaphobia.’

THE MOST VIP QUESTION REPUBLICANS MUST ASK MUELLER: When former Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears before the House judiciary and intelligence committees Wednesday, Democrats have made sure to make it as difficult as possible for Republicans to ask probing questions.

Even so, there is one question at the heart of Mueller’s two-year investigation that GOP congressmen must ask, according to Margot Cleveland, writing today on The Federalist. It has to do with whether Michael Flynn’s original lawyers and Mueller were given all of the evidence possessed by the U.S. intelligence community. It’s complicated but well worth following.

MUCH MORE FUN THAN WAITING FOR GODOT: Waiting for Boris Johnson.

EVEN THE DAILY BEAST HAS TAKEN NOTICE: Top Dem Think Tank Warns Party: You’re Losing Immigration Messaging War to Trump.

THEY ALWAYS HIDE THEIR TRUE NATURE: Young Democratic Socialists trained to recruit without using word ‘socialism.’

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Justice Dept. Tells Mueller to Stay in His Box. “Consistent with standard practice, Department witnesses should decline to address potentially privileged matters, thus affording the Department the full opportunity at a later date to consider particular questions and possible accommodations that may fulfill the committees’ legitimate need for information while protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests.”

I’ll liveblog the hearing, and have already stockpiled plenty of Bloody Mary fixins.