WELL, IT’S FACEBOOK: Facebook’s Dating Service is Full of Red Flags. “If you open Facebook’s mobile app today, it will likely suggest that you try the company’s new Dating service, which just launched in the U.S. after a rollout in 19 other countries last year. But with the company’s track record of mishandling user data, and its business model of monetizing our sensitive information to power third-party targeted advertising, potential users should view Facebook’s desire to peek into our bedrooms as a huge red flag.”

Plus: “Bad at data privacy, but good at dating privacy? Doubtful.”

THE LOST MINDS OF THE WEST: Sounds like a title for an H. Ridder Haggard novel, eh? If only, alas, it were just a novel of fanciful adventure. It’s not. It’s a description of a great chunk of the West’s political “leadership” and “elite.”

WELL, OF COURSE: Media Ignore Mattis’s Hit On Obama.

Remember:

OPEN THREAD: Go for it.

THIS ISN’T A GOOD LOOK: Exclusive: Feds Demand Apple And Google Hand Over Names Of 10,000+ Users Of A Gun Scope App. So someobody’s illegally exporting these scopes (not the manufacturer) and the feds want to find out where the app is in use to find out where they’re going. But they’re trying to dragnet all the app owners, including those in the United States, who aren’t likely to be recipients of illegal exports. A non-gun-owner friend says he’s going to download the app just to fuzz things up a bit. That’s fun, but this sort of data-trawling shouldn’t be allowed.

SO I’M HEARING THAT SPACEX DIDN’T REFUSE TO MOVE ITS SATELLITE when the ESA warned it of a potential collision — SpaceX never knew because ESA sent them an email that got stuck in the spam filter. Maybe pick up a phone next time?

HE PUNCHES BACK: Trump name-calls — “Bad ‘actress’ Debra The Mess Messing” — and challenges people to think again about the exile of Roseannne. And he supports his supporters.

TURNOVER: Top Navy SEAL admiral fires entire leadership team of SEAL Team 7. “The relief comes amid these and other high-profile scandals in the SEAL community that has ignited a discussion amongst the senior ranks about ethics and discipline in the small force, which numbers less than 2,500 personnel in a Navy of more than 437,000 active-duty and reserve sailors.”

THE CHINESE BASE THERE SHOT IT DOWN: Indian lander goes silent as it approaches lunar south pole.

IT’S AS IF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE NEWS MEDIA HAVE BEEN FEEDING US A LINE OF CRAP DESIGNED TO MAKE US FEEL HELPLESS AND DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT: Forget what you may have been told. New study says strangers step in to help 90 percent of the time.

Related: At the scene of a fatal car crash, I saw Americans reveal their fundamental decency.

A BLOW TO THE WORLD OF FAKE NEWS: ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down.

Plus:

GOING VEGETARIAN MAY UP STROKE RISK.

Related: Red Meat Halves Risk Of Depression. I’m having a prime rib tonight, just to be safe.

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Howard Schultz Drops Out to Help a Mythical ‘Moderate Democrat’ Beat Trump.

SAD: 2019 Range Rover Sport’s New High-Tech Inline-Six Struggles to Impress. “Compared to the last Range Rover Sport V-6 we tested, the new HST’s 6.0-second zero-to-60-mph time is a tenth slower and the same as a proletarian Honda Pilot’s. The Range Rover’s meager 0.81 g of cornering grip is on par with the Honda’s as well. Forget sporty SUVs such as the Mercedes-AMG GLC43 coupe, BMW X5 xDrive40i, and Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio, as their performance humbles the HST for tens of thousands less.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Progressive Website ThinkProgress Is Shutting Down Because Nobody Wants To Buy It.

Flashback: ThinkProgress Staffers Unionize With Writers Guild.

Update: “There was certainly a time, more than a decade ago now, when the name ‘Think Progress’ may have been seen as a home for a certain brand of wonky, young progressives who were considered hot stuff at the time. But let’s face it, thinking isn’t nearly as hip as it once was on the far left. Now it’s more about emoting and resistance and canceling enemies. Sites like Now This and Upworthy seem designed to cater to these newer progressives who need emotional content more than they need that ‘one chart’ that explains everything.”

Why, it’s like social media is a virus of the mind, or something.

THANKS A LOT, NIKE: Major League Soccer Declares Betsy Ross Flag a ‘Symbol of Hate.’

Nike turned into 4Chan so slowly, I hardly even noticed.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Biden’s Bloody Eye on CNN Somehow Spiked by Everyone But Fox.

Shades of how the media treated Hillary’s collapse on September 11th, 2016.

AND GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO IS STILL DEAD: Zimbabwean Dictator Robert Mugabe Dead at 95.

SELF-HELP: British traveler flies plane to Spain after airline pilot doesn’t show up.

AT AMAZON, save on Car Care.

Plus, end of summer deals in Patio Lawn and Garden.

BUSINESSES ACTUALLY JUST TAKE THE EXTRA MONEY, CHOP IT INTO TINY PIECES, AND WHIP IT INTO ICE CREAM: Ben and Jerry’s Co-Founders Say Tax Cuts Don’t Help Businesses Expand: ‘It’s a Lie.’

SHARPIE PRESIDENT? Alabama National Guard Mobilized For Hurricane Dorian.

A LONELY NATION ROLLS ITS EYES AT YOU: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz abandons 2020 presidential ambitions.