NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO CODE-SWITCH DIVIDENDS: AOC Code-Switches Between Reality and Fantasy.

OH: Columbia Prof Compares Israel to ISIS.

In a now-deleted Facebook post Saturday, a Columbia University professor likened Israel to ISIS, but with more mainstream media support.

Hamid Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia, shared the post in reaction to the United States recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

According to Fox News, Dabashi went on a bizarrely capitalized rant before removing the post. “What’s the difference between ISIS and ISRAEL?” he asked. Neither, he said, has a claim to the Golan Heights. “All of Syria belong to all Syrian people, not an inch it either to ISIS or to ISRAEL.” Proof of the post remains available on his Twitter account.

Dabashi claimed Israel enjoys American support only because of its embeds in the media. “ISIS does not have a platoon of clean shaven and well coiffured columnists at the New York Times propagating the cause of the terrorist outfit as the Zionists columnists do on a regular basis.”

Charming.

JOURNALISM DEAN TEACHING HOW TO BUILD A STORY OFF A LIE: Michelle Ferrier, Dean of the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University pens an Op/Ed that starts out with a whopper:

“Violence against journalists has become routine, and attacks on social media and in real life have intensified because of the violent rhetoric coming from the White House, calling journalists “enemies of the people.””

Op/Ed or not, you’d think a “Dean of Journalism” would know better than to build her whole argument on a canard. Note the word “BECAUSE.” She has no more basis than to say that Steve Scalise was shot BECAUSE of Maxine Water’s rhetoric. Trump’s rhetoric might be heated, off-the-rails, rude or even nutty. But this is TDS at work in the journalism education industry.

IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO?

● Forbes: Blame “Toxic Masculinity” for Climate Change.

● Gillette Razors are the Latest Woke Brand to Tackle “Toxic Masculinity.”

● BBC’s hit drama Peaky Blinders ‘glorifies violence and promotes toxic masculinity’, US academic claims.

● If Joker is just another celebration of a toxic egotistical male justifying his bad behaviour, I’m not here for it.

Even if it speaks of the pompatus of love?

EVEN AT THE WASHINGTON POST, CALLS FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER. “The question isn’t what went wrong at the SPLC; it is why it took so long for the rest of the country to learn what local reporters already knew. It will probably take a federal investigation to fully unravel this deep-South mystery and provide a credible, long-term fix. . . . Cohen, before he announced his own departure, said the center would bring in well-regarded lawyer Tina Tchen to conduct an investigation. It’s too late for that. The Internal Revenue Service, which grants the SPLC tax-exempt status, and the civil rights division of the Justice Department would be the best bets to really figure out what’s up at the center. Any investigation should take a close look at the SPLC’s finances. It should look at what the center has told donors in its mail solicitations over the years. And it should take a close look at how that donor money has been spent. Investigators should also look at how SPLC staffers have been treated over the years. Where was the center’s board when this mistreatment was going on? And why did no one step up sooner?”

FLASHBACK: Trump And The Crisis Of The Meritocracy.

AUGMENTED REALITY GOES TO WAR: How the Army plans to use Microsoft’s high-tech HoloLens goggles on the battlefield.

Tech marvels aside, here’s the important bit:

The headset is impressive — better than any augmented reality experience I’ve ever seen, including Magic Leap, which also tried to win the Army contract. The project is also a showcase for the Army’s plans to work more closely with America’s tech companies to speed innovation in military.

For decades, anyone who wanted to win a military contract had to jump through hoops in a process that could take five to seven years just for the military to decide what it wanted. It would sometimes take 20 years for a product to hit the field, according to the Army. And the process rarely involved the troops who actually ended up using that technology.

A lot has changed.

There’s a new Futures Command based in Austin, Texas. It allows tech companies, from small start-ups all the way up to America’s biggest firms, to work directly with the military’s leadership and soldiers to bring new technology to the battlefield.

FLASHBACK: The US Navy’s newest submarine comes with an Xbox controller.

The Navy said in September that the new submarines would come equipped with a pair of photonics masts, which replace the previously-used periscope. The masts feature high-resolution cameras that can rotate 360 degrees and feeds their imagery to monitors in the ship’s control room. Initially, the masts were controlled with a “helicopter-style stick,” but those were described as heavy and clunky, and were swapped out with an Xbox 360 controller.

According to the Colorado’s commanding officer, Commander Reed Koepp, using off-the-shelf technology saves the Navy money, while the controller is already intuitive for the submarine’s sailors.

More stories like these, please.

WAIT, WHAT? “Can’t do it”: If we open the borders we’ll have poor people all over the world coming here, says … Bernie Sanders.

COLLUSION: Recently released transcripts of congressional testimony now raise the specter that the FBI also used Nellie Ohr’s opposition research in the FISA applications.

TWO CANDIDATES IN ONE! Democrat Stacey Abrams Complains GA Governor’s Race Was Stolen Through Voter Suppression, Boasts of Huge Turnout Increases in Same Interview.

I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA: Number of children going to ER with suicidal thoughts, attempts doubles, study finds.

WE’LL LEAVE THE HIDDEN CAM ON FOR YA: Motel 6 will pay $12 million to settle lawsuit after sharing guest info with ICE.

“BAD LUCK:” California’s Self-Created Future Energy Crisis.

DEEP STATE: Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?

HANS BADER: Collective Punishment at the University of Tennessee.

DON’T FEAR THE BLEATER: James Lileks meets Blue Öyster Cult.

DE BLASIO: What We Need Is A System Of “Actual Redistribution Of Wealth.”

DAVID SOLWAY: How Professional Merit and Scientific Objectivity Became Casualties of Social Justice Insanity. “No culture or nation can long survive collectively enforced mediocrity.”

Pretty sure that’s a feature, not a bug.

COLD WAR II: Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis.

RAPTOR ELEPHANT WALK: F-22 Raptors from the 3rd Wing and 477th Fighter Group participate in a close formation taxi, known as an Elephant walk, with an E-3 Sentry and a C-17 Globemaster III March 26, 2019, during a Polar Force exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Fabulous photo of very valuable combat aircraft. Here’s another photo of four Raptors (March 2017) deployed for an exercise in Australia. The F-22 is the world’s premier air superiority fighter. Only 187 F-22s were manufactured. At the moment maybe 150 F-22s are operational — anyone with better figures is encouraged to provide them. You’ll see 24 in the photo– roughly 15 to 16 percent of America’s operational F-22 fleet? Per this Air Force Magazine article, several F-22s that were based at Tyndall AFB, Florida were damaged by Hurricane Michael. This article discusses the constant demand for the aircraft in combat zones (beginning in 2014) and the wear and tear on the plane. It also mentions the parts shortage. As the article says, the USAF wants an availability rate of 80 percent for the F-22 and at the moment that’s a stretch.

RELATED: Beautiful photo of Raptors over the Rocky Mountains. Also a look back at one of the F-22’s more troublesome developmental issues: The Raptor Curse (aka The Cough).

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student files bias complaint against dorm roommate for watching Ben Shapiro video.

SHOT: After 2016 loss, Democrats know they need white male voters.

CHASER: Bernie Sanders says he WOULD sign a bill to study reparations after claiming previously there were ‘better ways to help black communities than just writing out a check.’

HANGOVER: Ocasio-Cortez Pushes ‘Agenda of Reparations’ at Sharpton Conference.

HAIR OF THE DOG: Democratic 2020 candidates, speaking to black voters in NYC, pledge unanimous support for slavery reparations study bill.

TWELVE O’CLOCKTAILS: Reparations bill wins new momentum in Congress.

IT’S FIVE O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE: Kamala Harris says she will sign legislation studying reparations ‘when’ she becomes president.

KEG STANDS: O’Rourke, Castro talk reparations with Al Sharpton.

Looks a lot more like a full-blown reparations bender than an attempt to win back white male voters.

WORST. COLLUDER. EVER. Watch For More Russia Sanctions If Putin Helps Maduro Stay In Control Of Venezuela.

OF COURSE HE DOES: De Blasio Stubbornly Moves Toward Presidential Race That Could Humiliate New York.