UH-HUH: California wants to help fight climate change by charging diners more.

Dining out isn’t the most eco-friendly activity, thanks to the carbon footprint of food brought in and the waste inherent in running a restaurant. Now, an effort by California restaurants wants diners to help fight climate change – by paying more.

Concerned eateries can join the Restore California Renewable Restaurant Program and add an optional 1% surcharge to diners’ checks. The money will go towards a public fund to help farmers reduce carbon in their food production practices.

How much of that would actually go towards reducing carbon is anyone’s guess, but my guess is “very little.”

PRIVATE CHOKEPOINT: Leftist activists have forced a vote at the Mastercard AGM next month to establish an Orwellian “Human Rights Committee” aimed at cutting off the rights of anyone they disagree with. The initial aim is to choke off the income stream to right-wing activists. If this sounds familiar, it should.

ETA: Wrong first link, now fixed. My bad.

CBO ‘SCORED’ MEDICARE FOR ALL? NOT REALLY: Sen. Bernie Sanders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score his single-payer, Medicare-for-All proposal. Except he didn’t ask CBO to estimate how much it would cost taxpayers.

“Might that be because the senator does not want to know—or, more specifically, does not want the public to know—the dirty secrets behind his proposed health-care takeover,” asks Christopher Jacobs in The Federalist today. And Jacobs is just getting started with that query.

FASTER? PLEASE! Two Different DARPA Hypersonic Vehicles ‘On Track’ to Fly in 2019.

WHY ARE LEFTISTS SO FULL OF VIOLENCE AND HATE? Four arrested after student’s MAGA hat is allegedly stolen.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Obama Admin Put Some Spies on Trump Campaign Aide. “She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election.”

GREAT AGAIN: Stocks Surge on New Jobs Report, Lowest Unemployment in a Generation: “The U.S. adding a robust 263,000 new hires in April while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, according to a Labor Department report Friday. Nonfarm payroll growth beat Wall Street expectations of 190,000 and a 3.8% jobless rate, according to Dow Jones estimates.”

Paul Krugman on Election Night: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

UPDATE:

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “Democrats better get moving — they only have a little more than a year to tank the economy.”

YES: Facebook is trying to make the word “private” meaningless.

Zuckerberg described a number of new initiatives in this “future is private” push, including encrypted, and even ephemeral, Facebook messaging features, as well as an ephemeral “status” feature (similar to Instagram or Facebook Stories) for WhatsApp. WhatsApp messages have always been end-to-end encrypted, and Zuckerberg noted they would stay that way. He emphasized several times that Facebook will not be able to see the content of this material, saying it was private “even from us” several times about several features, and emphasizing the words “safety” and “secure.”

But what his presentation elided was the fact that Facebook does not need to see the content of what people are saying in order to advertise to them. The metadata — who, or what (as in a business), you’re talking to, and even where you are or what time the conversation is taking place as it comes together with other pieces of information — provides more than enough information to make a very educated guess about what you’re interested in, to the point that knowing specifically what you are saying adds almost nothing.

Facebook doesn’t give anything away.

GREAT AGAIN: Financial optimism best in 18 years, good sign for Trump reelection.

AN UPDATE: The Poynter Institute has (for now anyway) taken down the webpage that listed conservative-leaning websites like The Daily Signal as “fake” because they were, well, “conservative.” Backstory here.

There’s a helluva difference in writing news of interest to conservatives and writing news with a “conservative slant.” (Bumped, by Glenn).
**Update: Here’s Poynter’s statement.

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: Skeptical scientist hijacks AOC Congressional climate hearing. “We are trying to save the people of the planet from the people ‘saving the planet’.”

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The dangers of anti-populism: It isn’t populists who threaten life, liberty and democracy in Europe – it’s anti-populists.

It isn’t populists who have been beating, shooting and maiming protesters in France for the past six months, causing scores of them to lose eyes and limbs. It’s anti-populists who are doing that.

It is the anti-populists’ hero, in fact – Emmanuel Macron – who is overseeing this extreme state violence and brutal clampdown on French liberty.

It isn’t populists who are seeking to overthrow the largest democratic vote in UK history – the vote for Brexit – and in the process threatening to undermine the very idea of the right to vote. It is anti-populists who are doing that.

It is anti-populists who, exactly as we have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of women and working-class men getting the vote, have tried to block the enactment of something that eight million women and millions of working-class men voted for: Brexit.

It isn’t populists who are marching through the streets in their thousands waving placards mocking the stupidity of ordinary people and demanding that the state unilaterally override these people’s democratic wishes. It’s anti-populists.

Throughout the West our university-credentialed-but-not-educated ruling class has been guilty of an entitled arrogance that is matched almost perfectly by its incompetence and ignorance.

BYRON YORK: “So now we know the FBI wiretapped Carter Page and used undercover informant Stefan Halper and investigator ‘Azra Turk,’ posing as a research assistant, to gather information on George Papadopoulos. Remember the anger when AG Barr mentioned ‘spying’ on Trump campaign?”

They were angry that he said it happened, because they knew it happened.

WEIRD, LAST YEAR THE PRESS WAS TREATING HIM LIKE THE MESSIAH: Margaret Carlson:

According to my unscientific poll asking every woman I see, Beto reminds them of the worst boyfriend they ever had: self-involved, convinced of his own charm, chronically late if he shows up at all, worth a meal or two but definitely not marriage material. When he should be home with the kids or taking out the trash, he’s jamming with his garage band or skateboarding at Whataburger. He’s “in and out of a funk” which requires long and meaningful runs to clear his head. Every thought he has is transcendent, worthy of being narrated, videotaped, and blogged. He is always out finding himself. At age 46, the man asking to run the country is currently lost.

To be honest, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between him and the rest of the Democratic field.

DIVERSITY: This Photo Collage of All the White Male Democrats Running for President Will Blow Your Mind.

CHANGE: Border Patrol Is About To Be Given The Authority It Needs To Handle The Border Crisis.

CHANGE: CNN Poll: Trump’s approval rating on economy “is the highest number we’ve ever seen.”

NEARLY 200 UNIVERSITIES ENCOURAGE, FACILITATE THE RACIAL SEGREGATION OF THEIR STUDENTS:   Progressives are really regressive.

GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY: How Media Narratives Became More Important Than Facts.

Sharyl Attkisson:

A case in point: the smear that was promulgated when I left CBS. It was often incorrectly reported that I told CBS management I was quitting due to liberal media bias. That false story turned out to be convenient for both political sides, and largely survives today. It simply wasn’t rooted in fact. And I don’t recall reporters even asking me whether it was true. Once a few articles reported that it was, others simply copied the claim and adopted it as if established fact, eventually without attribution. Now there would be no point in trying to clarify it. After all, Wikipedia says it’s true. No going back from that.

Powerful smear groups and certain interests—including some within CBS at the time—started the narrative that I was “conservative,” not because they necessarily believed it, but as a tool to “controversialize” the reporting I was doing that was contrary to powerful interests. The idea is that if I can be portrayed as a partisan, then my reporting can be more easily dismissed.

Read the whole thing.

MICHAEL GOODWIN: William Barr exposed the rampant desperation of Trump’s foes.

Related: Democrats’ questions to Barr made them look like fools.

WHEN DEMOCRATS SPOUT OBVIOUS UNTRUTHS: It doesn’t fit the narrative, so it isn’t newsworthy.

GOOD: After Oil, Washington Weighs Sanctions on Iran’s Other Sources of U.S. Dollars.

The prospect of added pressure on Iran comes as Washington kicked off a fresh round of sanctions on Iranian oil exports on Thursday. The U.S. ban is aimed at coercing Iran into signing a new nuclear and security pact. In targeting the country’s crude—its main income source—the U.S. hopes to sever the financial and trade ties that are keeping Iran’s economy afloat.

Since the U.S. sanctions began in November, the Iranian government has missed out on more than $10 billion in oil revenue, Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran at the State Department, said last week.

The U.S. Treasury Department is now weighing targeted sanctions that would curb the flow of less-visible sources of the U.S.-denominated currency that Iran needs to pay for imports of basic goods—and to shore up its own flagging currency, U.S. officials said.

The sanctions under consideration include the targeting of financial networks that transfer U.S. dollars to Iranian companies as payment for petrochemical exports—the country’s second-largest source of revenue after oil, a U.S. official said.

Hit ’em where it hurts.