HOW ABOUT MEDICARE FOR NONE? HOW ABOUT ALLOWING PRIVATE CHARITIES TO PAY FOR THE CARE OF THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT. HOW ABOUT GETTING THE GOVERNMENT’S MITTENS OFF OUR HEALTH CARE COMPLETELY? TO QUOTE OCCASIONAL CORTEX: HOW’S ABOUT THAT?  Medicare for All – Déjà vu the Worst of ObamaCare.

FORBIDDING WORDS, FORBIDDING THOUGHTS, TRYING TO CONTROL HOW OTHER PEOPLE THINK, LET ALONE WHAT THEY THINK… THE LEFT THINKS THAT 1984 WAS AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL. I SPIT IN THE FACE OF BIG BROTHER LEFTY:  Changing Vocabulary, Fascist Thought.

THE UN IS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS PASSED.  IT IT WAS INDEED EVER A GOOD IDEA:  But Israel is Evil! Didn’t You Get the Memo?

Allowing kleptocracies, apocalyptic theocracies and totalitarian regimes to sit in judgement and have any power over world affairs might always have been as crazy as it sounds.

POLITICAL TENSION AT GOOGLE IS ONLY GETTING WORSE: Another former engineer has alleged that the company fired him over his political beliefs. Which is illegal under California law.

TRUMP KNOWS THIS: China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy Stands in the Way. Even the threat to stop buying Boeing planes is hollow now that everyone else has . . .

IT HASN’T SHRUNK, THE MEDIA MAGNIFYING GLASS HAS JUST BEEN REMOVED: Debates Show How Much Obama’s Presidency Has Shrunk.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Do not trust content from Dana Milbank.

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COLLUSION: Former Google Engineer Says Google Will Try to Prevent Trump’s Reelection. “After the 2016 election, Google’s then-head of multicultural marketing bragged about attempting to boost Latino turnout, hoping it would help Hillary Clinton. Robert Epstein, a Ph.D. psychologist who studies search engine manipulation effects, found that Google’s bias can explain Clinton’s popular vote margin of victory. A Project Veritas video showed that Google’s ‘fairness’ project is intended to prevent another 2016. Last month, a Google engineer said the company’s search results are intentionally biased against Trump.”

OPEN THREAD: We are here to save the Erf. E.R.F.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More student loan borrowers carry six-figure balances.

If only someone had warned them.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, PRC EDITION: The growing ranks of unemployed graduates worry China’s government.

STILL NOT MUCH: El Paso Shooting: What We Know.

Apparently, the mall in which the WalMart was located is a gun-free zone.

THE DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE REAL, AND THEY’RE SPECTACULAR: A photo of Lena Dunham appearing to awkwardly kiss Brad Pitt has people talking about the double standards of consent.

OUTWAITING TRUMP WON’T WORK, BECAUSE TRUMP IS THE SYMPTOM, NOT THE DISEASE: Richard Fernandez: The End Of Normal. “Where Applebaum is correct is predicting that things will never go back to normal. They can’t because it was unsustainable.”

Plus: “What no one wants to remember is that Russian collusion, if it happened at all, happened under Obama. . . . In reality the good old days when ISIS ruled the Middle East, Russia could invade the Ukraine, China steal the OPM data and the South China Sea and kill the entire CIA network in the Middle Kingdom were never that good. Neither Trump nor Brexit nor the Democratic party left wing sprang out of thin air. They sprouted from a crisis.”

Flashback: The Suicide of Expertise.

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NOT LETTING A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Marianne Williamson will ban not only assault weapons but the manufacture and sale of bullets.

GUESS WHO DOESNT MATTER TO THE LEGACY MEDIA: What We Aren’t Hearing About West Baltimore.

CHANGE: Meet the people working to kick Chicago out of Illinois.

Over the past two years, the movement to divide the state of Illinois into two states — Cook County in one, the other 101 counties in the other — has been gaining support. In February, as Gov. J.B. Pritzker was pursuing an agenda for Illinois that included new tax and abortion policies, Halbrook refiled a resolution in the state legislature, HR 101, in which he and six co-sponsors asked the U.S. Congress to recognize Chicago as the 51st state. “I hear it a lot from my constituents, that we need to be separate from Chicago,” Halbrook says. “I thought yep, this is what we need to do.”

The resolution, which could be dismissed as simple political maneuvering — plays big at home, but has scant chance of seeing daylight in the legislature — is also backed by several grassroots groups agitating for separation. One of them, Illinois Separation, founded by Collin Cliburn, of Athens, Ill., has 24,000 followers on Facebook, and growing. Cliburn is also holding events at venues from wineries and gun shops to community centers around the state through August and September to capitalize on the cause’s momentum.

If it happens, it will be as part of a deal for a federal bailout after Illinois goes broke.

Plus: “The New Illinoisans have company in the state separation business: both New York and California are currently facing their own state split movements.” Also Oregon and Washington.

Related: Splitsylvania: State Secession And What To Do About It.

AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT SAID HUMAN-ANIME HYBRIDS, WHICH HONESTLY WOULD HAVE BEEN