VITAMIN D/MICROBIOME NEWS: When volunteers who were deficient in vitamin D received three sessions of UVB exposure, their gut microbiomes changed and bore the same hallmarks as those of study participants who were not vitamin D deficient.

HMMM: America’s Delusional Elite Is Done.

The anti-male and anti-White rhetoric of the new left is extreme. The racial attacks on whites in particular approaches exterminationist propaganda seen only in, e.g., the Hutu against the Tutsi in 1990’s Rwanda.

For anyone who doubts this, consider the following few examples, which are far from complete:

A columnist for the Huffington Post, a major leftist publication, wrote an article titled “Towards a Concept of White Wounding,” apparently calling for racial violence.

The New York Times hired a columnist who had repeated vulgar racial attacks on whites, calling “whiteness” “awful,” whites “only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” expressed great joy at “being cruel to old white men,” and declared that whites will be “extinct soon.” The Paper of Record stood by her when these attacks were exposed, and only quietly let her go recently when she supported a boycott against her own employer.

Symone Sanders, currently a senior adviser to Joe Biden and previously the national press secretary for Bernie Sanders, mocked a disabled white teenager who was tortured on camera in 2017 by a black mob screaming “Fuck Trump! Fuck white people!” and otherwise called cases of antiwhite political violence “a protest.”

The New York Times—again, hardly an unknown blog—published an opinion column by Michelle Goldberg with the eliminationist title “We Can Replace Them,” ostensibly against “white nationalism,” but in fact directed against a demographic white majority as such, which the author seeks to replace with nonwhites for what she imagines to be political advantage.

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones, a major organ of the Left that pushes the security establishment’s Russia Hoax conspiracy theories, called this summer for “a literal or figurative war” on whites and a “race war” that the DNC must be willing to get “Lincolnesque” about.

Major leftist and establishment media such as Newsweek publish cover stories titled “Is Your Baby Racist”; major publishers promote books titled White Fragility, or The Dying of Whiteness, and CNN—not white nationalist outlets—runs graphics on “The Vanishing White American.”

Again, all this is par for the course these days; as everyone knows, state-funded universities routinely hold “white privilege” seminars and orientation sessions, promoting a concept the plain meaning of which is to dispossess people of property and civil rights based on their biology.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier, from Richard Fernandez:

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● Belated Realization: The Old World Order Is in Shambles.

And as Glenn has written, “The problem is that today’s elites aren’t really the better sorts of people. As Richard Fernandez notes, today we have a principal-agent problem. Those happen when the agent (a lawyer, say, or a public official, or a journalist) cuts deals for himself instead of for the benefit of the people he’s representing. Our elites seem to be doing that now — looking after themselves, rather than after the country, with traditional limits on self-dealing having vanished.”

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Odd Conservative Love Affair With Tulsi Gabbard. “Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should be – an opponent, not an enemy. Let’s face it – the mainstream Democrat Party hates our guts, and given its malignant druthers it would strip us of our First, Second, and probably Third Amendment rights in order to make sure that we never, ever have a say in our own governance again. . . . Make no mistake – Tulsi is not one of us conservatives, though the kind of leftism she embraces (which owes a lot to the socialism of Bernie Sanders) shares some superficial similarities to the populism that has swept the GOP base. In many ways, we share her critique of an inept, corrupt ruling caste eager to send non-elite citizens off to fight their endless, mismanaged wars. We also share a critique of Big Business as a crony capitalist simulacrum of free enterprise, basically a bunch of rich jerks sidling up to the leaders of both parties to repeatedly shaft us regular folks to pump up a few digits on their balance sheets.”

But beware: “Sometimes we forget that Tulsi is a leftist, and that she would screw up health care, open the borders and impose all sorts of climate hoax nonsense. A key difference from us, when you get past the surface similarities, is that she and her ilk have faith in the idea that government can take on more and more responsibilities, despite the fact that it has demonstrated that it cannot handle those responsibilities it already has, which themselves are mostly far beyond what government should be doing in the first place.”

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Male Runner Wins NCAA Conference’s ‘Female Athlete of the Week.’

CHINA SYNDROME: Chinese athletes caught cheating at China’s Military World Games.

DON SURBER: Today is the third anniversary of the greatest tweet in history.

Related: People are wishing Hillary Clinton a happy birthday (but she might not appreciate how they’re doing it).

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo With Her Older Brother.

Trump’s right: we definitely need to build a wall around Colorado.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Andrew Yang’s New York Knicks Institutions Metaphor — The Darkest Metaphor Imaginable.

You have a leadership that can’t get out of its own way and then, when a legend like Charles Oakley comes back, or when a fan criticizes Dolan, he literally kicks them out of (Madison Square Garden) or bans them for life or does something that to me is the opposite of what you’d want a manager or leader to do. And so if you look at this and you’re a fan of the team, you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m giving this team my energy and emotional investment and the owner clearly doesn’t care about me or my opinion.’

This, to me, is an emblem of what Americans feel about various institutions in different walks of life. If you look at our trust in the press, or Congress, or unfortunately even schools and hospitals, they’re all at multi-decade lows.

As Glenn has noted, “We have too many people who are credentialed rather than educated, and too many people who think their education creates an automatic entitlement. The problem isn’t with ‘merit’ rising to the top, the problem is that we have a false and destructive idea of what constitutes merit.”

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Minneapolis Police Finally Make Assault Arrest in the Wake of Violent Protests Outside Trump Rally.

CHANGE: New Generation of Kids Embrace Firearms and Shooting Sports.

KANYE WEST EXPLAINS TRUMP SUPPORT AND SAYS HE IS BRINGING HIS SHOE FACTORIES TO AMERICA.

HEH: Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record.

EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED: In Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley, “Some 522 tons of rocks and boulders have put a stop — for now at least — to a longstanding problem: Squatters camping under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany where Jackson Street and Seventh Avenue meet.”

Someone pictured the rocks on Facebook, and a bike ride this afternoon took me past the place to see for myself.

This used to be a frequent hangout for apparently homeless people who couldn’t or wouldn’t go to the nearby shelters, Helping Hands just around the corner and Signs of Victory a couple blocks down Jackson Street.

The headline though, in the Hasso Hering, is a great moment in gaslighting: “Rocks in a hard place: No more camping.” As one of the commenters notes:

It is NOT “camping”. It is criminal trespass, littering and other criminal violations. Camping is when you pitch a tent or RV for recreational-vacation purposes. Some want to say this is a housing problem…while repeated studies show it is a mental health and addiction problem. In the meantime, our cities should not be places where people can pitch a tent and destroy the city scape.

Earlier: San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless.

WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ABUSE? Multiple Sources Accuse Donald Duck Of Walking Onto Movie Sets Without Any Pants.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Who Is the Craziest Progressive-Fringe Democrat Running?

Definite contender here: Comrade Sanders: I pledge to pass a Green New Deal and appoint an Attorney General who will prosecute fossil fuel executives.

Or as the Babylon Bee quipped in July: Marianne Williamson Not Sure What She’s Doing Up Here With All These Crazy People.

OLD AND BUSTED: FLORIDA MAN.

The New Hotness? Florida Mom! Police: Florida mother arrested for dislocating son’s jaw because he wouldn’t stop playing ‘Fortnite.’

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Relying on Petty Fines To Fund City Government Can Have Serious Consequences.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN: Blame unaffordable insurance on Obamacare.

Related: Joe Biden on his health-care plan: “If you like” your policy, “you can keep it.”

Charlie Rose is probably still laughing about that with the Obama’s staffers.

THE IMPORTANCE OF REST: One-third of U.S. kids too sleepy to succeed in school.