TROLL LEVEL: DONALD TRUMP. President Trump continues to disappoint the left by defying their accusations: now he supports Colin Kaepernick???

Lefty heads are already exploding, of course.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: 7 Huge Questions Remain Following ‘The Hunt’s’ Demise.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Diversity runs amok in academia. “In other words, the program isn’t about excellence any more. It’s about hitting your quotas – or perhaps suffer a reduction in funding. It’s about elevation of the group above the individual, for reasons (gender, skin colour) that have nothing to do with excellence. It is also about blatant discrimination against white men, who, as it is, scarcely stand a chance.”

DISPATCHES FROM TRUDEAUPIA: Canada Allows Jihadi Who Stabbed Three Soldiers to Roam Free Despite ‘Significant Threat’ to the Public.

FOUR KEY QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED AFTER EPSTEIN DEATH, SAYS BEN SASSE.

SOME GOOD NEWS: How Humanity Won the War on Famine: Famines have all but disappeared outside of war zones. The “all but” is Venezuela, I guess.

OF COURSE: Dayton shooter Connor Betts’ slain sister was a transgender man: report.

OH, I DUNNO, I THINK I CAN FATHOM IT:

For anyone familiar with Bureau of Prisons standard operating procedures, Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide is more than mysterious; it is unfathomable.

The 66-year-old accused sex trafficker was found dead in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC) Saturday morning, apparently after having hanged himself.

The Bureau of Prisons, the federal agency that runs the MCC, has said the FBI will investigate.

It had better.

Epstein’s death almost certainly means that astounding blunders occurred, perhaps by multiple personnel at the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

If any prisoner in the federal system should have been a candidate for suspicion of suicide, it was the high-profile and disgraced Epstein. All administrative and structural measures should have been in place to ensure it could not happen. And yet it apparently did.

If there’s any lesson of the past several years, it’s that institutional integrity is overrated, and pretty much always yields to the needs of the powerful. It was possible to pretend otherwise for a long time, but no more. This is likely another example, though of course it’s early yet.

UPDATE: I am willing to entertain your most insane conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.

Normally I scoff at Birthers, sneer at QAnoners, and laugh in the face of Pizzagaters. Although, between the Epstein saga and the Catholic Church’s endless scandals, the laughter about that last one has gradually turned from uproarious to more like uncomfortable throat-clearing.

Today, though? Today this mind is open for business on conspiracy theories. That’s how dubious Epstein’s death is. Gimme your best shot: Clinton-backed assassination? Trump-backed assassination? Coordinated hit by a cabal of international jetset pedos? The Saudis? Mossad?

Yeah, we’re gonna find out the X-Files was a documentary. Plus: “It’s a good thing public faith in institutions was already in the toilet or this episode really might have shaken it.”

WHY, INDEED? Why Wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein on Suicide Watch When He Died? “It would have been extremely difficult for Mr. Epstein to harm himself had he still been on suicide watch, a second official said, also speaking on the condition of anonymity.”

I mean, some people will have their suspicions as to why. And by some people, I mean most people, and by most people I mean pretty much everybody.

UPDATE: And as numerous people are noting in the comments, it’s hard to have much respect for the Feds after this.

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LET THEM IN, BUT THROUGH THE HAMAS TERROR TUNNELS IN GAZA INSTEAD OF THE TEL AVIV AIRPORT: Trump tells advisers Israel should bar entry to Reps. Omar and Tlaib.

Given that they oppose Israel’s existence and are apologists for terrorism, this would be fitting.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Review: The mosquito isn’t just annoying — Timothy C. Winegard says we’re at war.

HMM: Major surgeries may have lasting effects on cognitive ability.

I WAS EXPECTING A JUPITER-SHATTERING KABOOM: Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here’s the Photo to Prove It. “A photograph captured by amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel appears to show an asteroid slamming into the gas giant Jupiter on Wednesday.”

These cosmic impacts seem a lot more common than was once thought. How’s that space program coming along?

DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF SCIENCE: Joe Biden Says There Are “At Least Three” Genders, Confuses Everyone.

A LOT OF THEIR ALLEGED MILITARY POWER IS VAPORWARE: China’s First Homemade Aircraft Carrier Is Having Some Problems. But they’ll probably learn.

SMART DIPLOMACY: Spend more on defence or we move troops to Poland, U.S. envoy tells Germany.

AT LEAST FOR NOW. SKYNET MAY EVENTUALLY PUSH BACK PRETTY HARD: You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality.

AS NASTY AS HE WANTS TO BE: Joe Biden Says There Are Three Genders; Grabs Student’s Arm When She Asks ‘What Are They?’

Earlier: Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.

THE ABA IS JUST ANOTHER LEFTY SUPER-PAC: Several judges accuse American Bar Association of hiding controversy on campus sex rules.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, CESSPITS-OF-HATE EDITION: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Prof says he received threats after calling out campus bias.