WAY TOO EARLY PRESEASON PREDICTIONS (PART DEUX): Welcome to the Donkey Dow — The winners and losers in the most crowded Democratic primary yet.

(Awesome alliteration in the headline, however.)

ZUCKERBERG IS SO LAME: Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup.

INSTAPUNDIT,PJMEDIA ALSO RED-TAGGED AT FACEBOOK:

Okay, it’s not Facebook per se, but NewsGuard. Which still shows Media Matters as trustworthy.

WAY TOO EARLY PRESEASON PREDICTIONS: The Dems Will Lose the House in 2020 — Anti-Semitism, socialism, and giving the vote to illegal immigrants is a losing agenda.

As we saw in 2016 and 2018, nobody should be getting cocky about their election chances.

OK, THERE THEY GO AGAIN! FACEBOOK BANS ZERO HEDGE: Tyler Durden lays it out. Who’s next? Town Hall? Powerline? Hot Air?  The Last Refuge? Or, God forbid, Instapundit? They better keep their petty tyrant hands off HillFaith, too!

CHANGE: “Newness or difference from the norm is a very urban, almost postmodern, quest. It is recent. It is class-based.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Nuclear rockets could open up solar system and help settle space. And NASA is interested.

TRANS ATHLETES: The Death Of Women’s Sports. “Most people don’t care how anyone else identifies. If you’re trans, most people want you to live your life however you see fit, just as long as it doesn’t hurt them. But that’s the crux of the situation. If a biological woman invests a lot of time preparing for a competition, and then the playing field becomes significantly un-leveled, it does hurt her.” Your feelings don’t matter, though, unless you’re a member of the current Special Group. That used to include women, but not anymore.

MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: “Six in 10 say their sexual skills improved over the past year, and 55 percent agree that 2018 was their best year of sex ever.”

WORKING-CLASS HERO: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes we should be excited about automated jobs.

HOW ABOUT A LAW MAKING IT A CRIME TO PROPOSE CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION? Florida Bill Would Make It a Crime for Minors to Post Pictures of Guns on Social Media.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.

AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME (AGAIN): Make Congress Congress again.

The Constitution’s separation of powers is premised in part on each branch being “jealous” of its own powers. What the Founders failed to plan for was a Congress eager to ditch its load onto the Executive.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Nuclear rockets could open up solar system and help settle space. And NASA is interested.

GOOGLE MANAGER: ‘Fake News and Hate Speech’ Are ‘How Trump won the Election.’

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Air Force Tests New “Loyal Wingman” Sidekick Drone for Combat.

WELL, THAT’S A TAKE: Elderly Americans are dying without getting to read Mueller’s report—and they’re not happy about it.

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SO A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK SHARED WILLIAM ANDREW LOOMIS’S PAINTING, “GOING TO CHURCH,” AND I WAS STRUCK: What would have looked ultra-conventional when it was painted seems downright subversive now.

BUT OF COURSE: YouTube Changes Search Algorithm to Suppress Criticism Of Brie Larson And Captain Marvel.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. There’s no manifestation of Real Socialism™ more genuine than eating your neighbor.

CHANGE: Turkey Enters First Recession Since The Financial Crisis.

For much of the past decade, capital poured into Turkey during an era of record monetary stimulus around the world driven by Erdogan’s push for growth at all costs and his pressure on the central bank to keep interest rates low. However this uninterrupted expansion that boosted the economy by an average of nearly 7% each quarter since late 2009 ended abruptly following a currency crash, policy missteps and an unprecedented diplomatic rift with the U.S, Bloomberg reported.

“This is an indictment of Erdonomics and a direct consequence of a monetary policy in 2018 conducted in the interests of short-term political expediency rather than economic pragmatism,” said Julian Rimmer, a trader at Investec Bank Plc in London.

The recession lays out the dilemma facing both Erdogan and his central bank: while the country desperately needs lower rates to preserve its impressive economic growth rate, inflation remains solidly in the double digits, and any interest rate cuts threaten to unanchor the lira, sending it tumbling once again and unleashing runaway inflation. Meanwhile, investors are worried that that Turkey will face a long slog to recovery as the torrent of foreign capital dries up while households and companies begin paying down debts. Indeed, private consumption tumbled at a whopping 8.9% last quarter, with Turkey’s GDP per capita falling to $9,632 from a little over $10,000 in 2017.

“At least we aren’t Venezuela” isn’t much of a campaign slogan.