#METOO COMES FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING:

Assuming this is true in more or less the way you have described it, my hope is that something good might come from it. It will be incredibly – and rightly – hard for the US to back away from the celebration of Dr. King, to cancel or rename the Martin Luther King holiday, to rename the Martin Luther King avenues, to demolish the Martin Luther King monument in the Mall, and so on. And perhaps – just perhaps – this might lead to some on the Left rethinking their opposition to other iconic figures of the past. Perhaps people will feel more able to say:

Yes, Martin Luther King was (it now appears) a sexual predator. But he was ALSO a transformational leader whose work led the country to a more just place.

and likewise:

Yes, George Washington was a slave owner. But he was ALSO the leader who brought together the country in its infancy in a way that no one else at the time could.

and likewise…

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OPEN THREAD: Ring out the holiday weekend.

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BYRON YORK: AS BARR MULLS DECLASSIFICATION, A FAMILIAR TUNE FROM CRITICS.

In February 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released the so-called Nunes memo. In four pages, the document, from the committee’s then-chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, revealed much of what the public knows today about the FBI’s reliance on the Steele dossier in pursuing since-discredited allegations that the Trump campaign and Russia conspired to fix the 2016 election. Specifically, it revealed that the FBI included unverified material from the dossier in applications to a secret spy court to win a warrant to wiretap Trump foreign policy volunteer adviser Carter Page.

All that was classified. To release it, the committee appealed to President Trump, who made a declassification order. That is the only way Americans know about the Page warrant. From that knowledge came later revelations about the FBI’s use of confidential informants and undercover agents to get information on Trump campaign figures.

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Now, there is another fight about declassification. Nunes himself has heard this all before. “Every time we have tried to get information on the Russia hoax, the Left as well as the media and their leakers claimed it would devastate national security,” Nunes said in a text exchange. “Now we hear the same argument from the same reporters, leakers, and leftists, even though all their previous doomsday warnings proved false. These people simply use national security as a false justification to hide information that would reveal their abuses.”

Nunes summed up with one more line: “Democracy dies in darkness.”

Related: Tears of the Times.

I was deeply touched by the concern implicit in the Julian Barnes and David Sanger in New York Times story reporting President Trump’s authorization of Attorney General Barr to declassify the documents underlying the greatest political scandal in American political history — i.e., the Russian collusion hoax. Their concern for national security permeates the story. There it is right at the top, for example, in the lead paragraph:

President Trump’s order allowing Attorney General William P. Barr to declassify any intelligence that led to the Russia investigation sets up a potential confrontation with the C.I.A. It effectively strips the agency of its most critical power: choosing which secrets it shares and which ones remain hidden.

Talk about pivots — didn’t Hollywood release, a year and a half ago, a movie — screened for and approved by the children of the scion who owned the Washington Post for decades, no less — whose theme was the importance of shining a light on the machinations of a liberal presidency and the deep state?

TAMARA KEEL: SCCY CPX-3 Pistol. In my Constitutional Law class this year I mentioned that one of my friends described her typical style of dress as “tactical hobo,” and afterward a couple of awestruck students came up and said, “You know Tamara Keel?” Yes, yes I do.

ANNALS OF DEEP STATE AUTOPHAGY: Bernie Sanders and Bill Kristol Slap Fight on Twitter as Cracks in the #Resistance Form.

Related: Bernie Sanders Advisor Tweets Gif of Jeremy Corbyn Dancing on Margaret Thatcher’s Grave.

MSNBC PANEL: PELOSI ‘KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE TO…PLUNGE THE KNIFE.’

Heidi Przybyla, NBC News National Political Reporter, praised Pelosi’s use of “toddler language” along the lines of “when you eat your peas and squash, I’ll be happy to talk with you about dessert.” Jonathan Lemire of The Associated Press shared the excitement of his female co-panelists, romanticizing how Pelosi “trolls him and she knows his soft spots. She knows exactly where to…plunge the knife time and time again.”

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

YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: JPMorgan Chase accused of purging accounts of conservative activists.

RIP: Baseball great Bill Buckner dead at 69.

EVEN IN THE IDYLLIC CAYMAN ISLANDS, CONCERNS ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION: For Whom Are We Developing? “National salvation it seems, regrettably emanates from superhighways, five-star hotels in which Caymanians are neither guests nor employees, an increasing number of motorcars and the development of exclusive and exotic enclaves, none of which bring any lasting economic advantage to the common man or any hope for our youth, especially black youth whom it seems are increasingly hooked on drugs, guns and violence.”

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: A Professor Who Argues Against Multicultural Ideology and for Western Exceptionalism Now Fears for His Job.

You may not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you.

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SAY, DID I MENTION I HAVE A BOOK ON SOCIAL MEDIA COMING OUT TOMORROW?

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CHANGE: The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper: University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.

When Yale recently decided to relocate three-quarters of the books in its undergraduate library to create more study space, the students loudly protested. In a passionate op-ed in the Yale Daily News, one student accused the university librarian—who oversees 15 million books in Yale’s extensive library system—of failing to “understand the crucial relationship of books to education.” A sit-in, or rather a “browse-in,” was held in Bass Library to show the administration how college students still value the presence of books. Eventually the number of volumes that would remain was expanded, at the cost of reducing the number of proposed additional seats in a busy central location.

Little-noticed in this minor skirmish over the future of the library was a much bigger story about the changing relationship between college students and books. Buried in a slide deck about circulation statistics from Yale’s library was an unsettling fact: There has been a 64 percent decline in the number of books checked out by undergraduates from Bass Library over the past decade.

Yale’s experience is not at all unique—indeed, it is commonplace. University libraries across the country, and around the world, are seeing steady, and in many cases precipitous, declines in the use of the books on their shelves. The University of Virginia, one of our great public universities and an institution that openly shares detailed library circulation stats from the prior 20 years, is a good case study. College students at UVA checked out 238,000 books during the school year a decade ago; last year, that number had shrunk to just 60,000.

I blame social media.

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GOOD NEWS FOR SHEEP: Eli Lilly’s erectile dysfunction drug Cialis shows signs of reversing heart failure in sheep. “The findings may not be a total surprise. This class of drugs, PDE5 inhibitors, which also includes Pfizers Viagra and Bayers Levitra, was originally developed for cardiac disease. Then the scientists developing Viagra discovered the drug relieved ED. We do have limited evidence from human trials and epidemiological studies that show Tadalafil can be effective in treating heart failure, said the studys lead author, Andrew Trafford, in a statement. This study provides further confirmation, adds mechanistic details and demonstrates that Tadalafil could now be a possible therapy for heart failure. Its possible that patients taking Cialis for ED have already unknowingly benefited from the drugs protective effect on the heart, he added.”

UPDATE: A reader sends this: “A large body of experimental evidences have shown that the combination of T replacement therapy (TRT) and phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) is, usually, effective in restoring erectile function in patients with LOH and ED who have not responded to monotherapy for sexual disturbances. In fact, PDE5is potentiate the action of nitric oxide (NO) produced by endothelial cells, resulting in a vasodilator effect, while T facilitates PDE5i effects by increasing the expression of PDE5 in corpora cavernosa. Meta-analytic data have recognized to PDE5i a protective role on the cardiovascular health in patients with decreased left ventricular ejection fraction. In addition, several studies have shown pleiotropic beneficial effects of these drugs throughout the body (i.e., on bones, urogenital tract and cerebral, metabolic, and cardiovascular levels). TRT itself is able to decrease endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress and inflammation, thus lowering the cardiovascular risk. Furthermore, untreated hypogonadism could be the cause of PDE5i ineffectiveness especially in the elderly. For these reasons, aging men complaining ED who have LOH should undergo TRT before or at the moment when PDE5i treatment is started.”

My sense is that we’re making a lot of progress in a lot of interconnected areas. Faster, please!

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THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Rep. Omar Spent Much Of Memorial Day Weekend With Hamas-Affiliated CAIR.

POWERLINE:  “Asians as Beneficiaries of White Privilege.”