GREAT MOMENTS IN DISPASSIONATE OBJECTIVITY:  The Texas Tribune, which describes itself as “Nonpartisan,” describes Republican Chip Roy, currently being challenged by gun control, abortion advocate, and failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, as employing “a kind of procedural terrorism to frustrate Democrats — and some Republicans — in Congress.”

The article was later changed to read that Davis “employed a kind of procedural troublemaking,” but not before PJM contributor Bryan Preston grabbed a screen shot. As Bryan writes:

What did he do, use Robert’s Rules of Order to kill a guy? No, he just used the rules to make it harder to pass stupid legislation.

Roy’s Dem opponent will be former state Sen. Wendy Davis. Davis is most famous for filibustering the state senate a few years back, in her pink shoes, to keep it easy for Planned Parenthood to kill babies. But the same piece that calls Roy a “terrorist” calls Davis a “superstar.”

You can’t make this stuff up. It looks like someone got to the editors, because inside the story, the subhead now says “procedural troublemaking,” not “terrorism.” Nevertheless, the bias in the whole piece is pretty obvious.

The phrase can also be seen on the Tribune’s twitter account, and by aggregating blogs who snagged the story’s initial version.

THE BABYLON BEE: Snopes Rolls Out New Opinion Check Feature. “Opinion Check: We’ll tell you which opinions are OK and which ones make you a Nazi.”

It’s satire — or is it?

I THINK HE’LL DO JUST FINE: Navy SEAL will start at Yale this fall as a 52-year-old undergrad.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Tulsi Gabbard Files $50M Lawsuit Against Google for Post-Debate Ad Ban.

Time to break them up, to coin an Insta-phrase.

DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Oberlin College ordered to post $36 million bond to delay Gibson’s Bakery collection of Judgment. “The need for such bond is made clear by the College’s own statements about its dire fmancial [sic] straits. If the College is to be believed, there is serious concern about its ability to pay this sizeable judgment three years from now.”

HMM: 5G’s Waveform Is a Battery Vampire.

HMM: Once A Democratic Bastion, Minnesota Trends Red Heading Into 2020. “When it comes to elections, swing states are always crucial, but in 2020, this blue state could be turning red for Trump.”

Its 10 electoral votes alone could offset a possible Rust Belt loss. The mainstream media has barely covered Trump’s remarkable gains in Minnesota, a state that historically is the bluest of the blue.

How blue? Even during the Reagan landslide victories of 1980 and 1984, the Gopher State remained a bastion of New Deal liberalism and economic populism. In fact, the last time the GOP captured Minnesota was during Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign in 1972, nearly a half-century ago.

Yet Trump, with his own brand of populism, nearly captured the state in 2016. He carried 78 of the state’s 87 counties, double the number carried by President Barack Obama in 2012. Overall, the margin between Trump and Hillary Clinton was a mere 1.5 percent — just 44,000 votes — the weakest Democratic tilt in decades.

In fact, Trump might well have won Minnesota in 2016 had he made the state more of a priority. On the advice of the GOP mainstream, which had watched Mitt Romney make a foolhardy play for Minnesota in 2012, Trump didn’t visit the state until the waning days of the campaign, a decision he came to regret. “One more big rally, and we would have won,” he lamented later.

Trump’s taking no chances this time.

He isn’t getting cocky.

TYLER O’NEIL: Snopes Plays Satire Police, Slams Babylon Bee for Joke About Erica Thomas and Chick-fil-A.

The stuff is stacking up so high we’re going to need a Satire Space Force.

Related (From Ed): Adam Ford, Babylon Bee founder: “So [Snopes] fact-checked [The Babylon Bee] again. But this time it’s particularly egregious and, well, kind of disturbing. And I’d like to talk about it.”

Read the whole thing.

WELL, THAT’S AN EXCITING HEADLINE: 2020 Lexus RX Crossover Is a Slightly Improved Luxury SUV.

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KRUISER: Hypocrisy Update: Sanders Campaign Hit With Federal Labor Complaint.

PETER KIRSANOW:  “Racial Disparities and School Discipline.”  The Commission on Civil Rights has come to the wrong conclusions. Again.

CHINESE STUDENTS INTERRUPT PRO-HONG KONG RALLY AT AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY, CHAOS ENSUES.

THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: California faces rising danger of mosquito-borne diseases.

WELL, GOOD: Someday, an Arm Implant May Prevent H.I.V. Infection for a Year. “In preliminary tests, a matchstick-size rod containing a new drug offered promise as a shield against the virus. But a large clinical trial must still be done.”

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Ilhan Omar, New York Times, partners in latest anti-Trump hit.

DOUG BANDOW: 1984: China Edition.

Many Americans, myself included, hoped that the PRC’s immersion in the international economic system would encourage further expansion of the freedom of Chinese to debate ideas and ultimately control their political future. Although the CCP showed no willingness to relax its control, intellectual space appeared to grow a bit and liberty expanded in some important areas, such as religion. Even if progress was slow, measured against the Maoist era China had liberalized significantly.

Then President Xi Jinping took over in March 2013. His overriding objectives have been to assert China’s power internationally and the CCP’s authority internally. As such, he challenged the West and liberal ideas.

To many American policymakers, the PRC’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy poses the greatest threat. China’s neighbors and even more distant countries around the world, including in Europe, also are nervous about Beijing’s intentions. However, the PRC threatens not fundamental American security, but long-standing influence in East Asia, a very different issue. Moreover, far from being a grandmaster of geopolitics, Xi blundered badly: China’s aggressive overreach and malign meddling encouraged its neighbors and others to cooperate against it. They should bear the greatest responsibility in constraining its behavior.

Of anyone in history, Xi reminds me most of Kaiser Wilhelm II: Aggressive, not as sharp as he thinks he is, and surrounded by too many Yes Men.

SEQUENCE AND DESTROY: What happens when a deadly disease is eradicated? Researchers squeeze genomic information from the world’s last lab stocks of the devastating livestock virus rinderpest.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, RIGHT? Indiana woman steals dentures and wears them to meet probation officer, police say.

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JOE BIDEN: No More Mr. Nice Guy.

At an exclusive fundraiser at the just-as-exclusive Detroit Golf Club, Biden said, “I’m not going to be as polite this time.” Referring to the spanking he got on race from California Senator Kamala Harris in the previous debate, Biden explained that he’ll get meaner at next week’s debate “because this is the same person who asked me to come to California and nominate her in her convention.”

What, one nice speech and Harris is supposed to roll over for him on the way to the Democratic nomination? Biden knows better than that, but bitterness and the sense of entitlement he revealed isn’t pretty.

Corn, popped.

And there’s much more at the link.

UNSURPRISING: Genetic factors are primary cause of autism, study finds.

HMM: NYT Hints: Mueller Aide Aaron Zebley Was Actually Running The Russiagate Probe.

There were lots of questions about this very thing yesterday, but for the NYT to even hint at it is kind of a big deal.

CLOAKING DEVICE: Here’s How the X-37B Spaceplane “Disappears.”