ANDY NGO ON TODAY’S LEFT: ‘Political violence has been normalised.’

WELL, THE PRESS AND MANY POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY DIVIDING AMERICA FOR HALF A CENTURY: No Matter Who Wins In 2020, There Will Be Blood. I actually doubt this. When you get off of Twitter and out of a few deep-blue fever swamps, people seem pretty mellow.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn Law student government holds a “town hall” featuring Dean Ted Ruger to discuss “the Amy Wax situation.” (The “Amy Wax situation” is that law professor Amy Wax has expressed unpopular-at-Penn beliefs on race and immigration.) Yet somehow, local expert on Amy Wax-ian beliefs Amy Wax was not invited or even told about the event. Classy.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Farewell to Bill de Blasio, 2020’s least consequential candidate.

STAND BY YOUR SHAM: Omertà for Omar.

Related: Ilhan Omar’s Husband No Longer Works for Minneapolis Councilwoman. Sources Say Omar Asked for Him to Be Fired.

More: Fact-Checkers Decline to Revisit Ilhan Omar Marriage Question.

VIA ONE OF MY COUSINS WHO’S GOING THROUGH THIS VERY THING: A Letter To My Younger Self: A Navy Wife’s Reflection.

QUESTION ASKED: What Do “Progressives” Have against Vaporous Substances? “It’s weird how science and harm reduction are important lodestars for progressives, except when they aren’t.”

Related: Walmart, Sam’s Club will halt e-cigarette sales amid string of vaping deaths.

PATRIOTS RELEASE WR ANTONIO BROWN AMID ALLEGATIONS.

HEADLINES FROM 1969: Democrats and Republicans Aren’t Just Divided. They Live in Different Worlds.

At the end of 1969, Time magazine named “The American Middle Class” its collective “Man of the Year,” and with Henry Luce having left the building a few years prior, the magazine wondered just who are these strange conservative people in flyover country — the people our magazine was originally created to serve.

HMM: Did Mark Judge’s Memoir Cause Christine Blasey Ford to Revise Her Assault Story?

Good stuff from Matt Margolis.

COOL: 2019 Tesla Model 3 Named IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus.

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RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Trump’s Approval Rating Better Than Obama’s Eight Years Ago.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN IMMANENTIZING THE ESCHATON: “Yes, God cancels people, and we can, too,” threatens a young writer at the Washington Post.  

(Classical reference in headline.)

SKYNET SMILES: Engineers build robot fish that keeps pace with yellowfin tuna.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: DUI Couple Gets It On in Backseat of Police Cruiser.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Homework for the climate strikers.

(Classical reference in headline.)

JONATHAN KAY: Conservatives shouldn’t unleash cancel-culture insanity on the wounded Trudeau.

Oh, hell no. The right needs to collect scalps the way the left has done for years, until they decide to start playing by the old rules again.

DEMOCRATS: VOTE FOR US AND WE’LL TAKE AWAY YOUR CARS, YOUR GUNS, AND YOUR MEAT. Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership.

DISGRACEFUL ACTION BY THE KNOXVILLE CITY COUNCIL: Gun show owner calls potential Knoxville ban ‘discrimination.’ “Barring gun shows on city-owned property is ultimately enacted by the mayor. Mayor Madeline Rogero and both of the mayoral candidates to replace her in November expressed support for the resolution.”

I hope they get some pushback on this.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Mueller inquiry was an attempted coup — We should call things by their real names.

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AND YET NOTHING WILL CHANGE: Zuckerberg Admits ‘Bias’ in Decision to Penalize Live Action’s Pro-Life Facebook Posts, Sen. Hawley Says.

THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN AND AROUND NASA WHO ARE BETTER AT KILLING OTHER PEOPLE’S PROJECTS THAN AT ADVANCING THEIR OWN: Some NASA contractors appear to be trying to kill the Lunar Gateway.