BUT THEY LIKE ENABLING THESE LIES:  They Misspelled “Lies”.

FORGET ANTI-COP BIAS, OKAY? IT SHOWS DRASTIC ILLITERACY “ROB’S SOCKS IS WET”? REALLY? PERHAPS INSTEAD OF SJW INSANITY PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN GRAMMAR? JUST A THOUGHT:  Elementary School Worksheet Shows Anti-Cop Bias.

BEFORE CANDLES, IT IS RUMORED, SOCIALIST CALIFORNIA HAD ELECTRICITY:  PR Disaster: PG&E Cuts Power To Millions To Save California From Wildfires.

GAMERS AND HONGKONG:  Protestors are trying to get Overwatch banned in China, using memes of popular hero Mei.

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Plus, save in Arts, Crafts, and Sewing.

AFTER ENDORSING PROTEST, THEY LOOK ESPECIALLY SLEAZY AND HYPOCRITICAL: The NBA’s China Problem Gets Worse After 2 American Arenas Eject Hong Kong Supporters.

OPEN THREAD: Have fun.

THIS IS THE PART IN WHICH I GLOAT: Joe Biden worked with whistleblower when he was vice president, officials reveal

You may recall — and if not, I’m sure as hell gonna remind you — that just yesterday I wrote, in Who Does the Whistleblower Know?:

I think the most plausible inference is that the whistleblowers are connected to Biden’s campaign, or to the DNC, and were shaken by the possibility of Biden and Crowdstrike being investigated because they know there is something there to be found.

I wonder what we’ll learn as the “modified limited hangout” continues.

SPACE: SpaceX May Launch Crucial Crew Dragon Abort Test Next Month, Elon Musk Says.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Prof: SpongeBob perpetuates ‘violent, racist’ acts against indigenous people.

SCIENCE UNSETTLED: Back from the dead: Some corals regrow after ‘fatal’ warming.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Yale Is Now America’s Rape Capital?

THE BETRAYAL OF THE KURDS, A PLAY IN 73 ACTS:

Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds May Be the Dumbest Move of His Presidency.

Obama Betrays The Kurds.

Bush Betrays The Kurds.

[Bill Clinton’s] US abandoned us, say Kurds.

A People Betrayed: Twice Before, Washington Let Kurds Die to Promote Foreign Policy Designs. Now It’s The [George H.W.] Bush Administration Doing The Deed.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Ocasio-Cortez Pays Nearly $300 for Haircut While Preaching Socialism.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: ‘Why Don’t You Practice What You Preach?’: Piers Morgan Grills Climate Activist’s Hypocritical Lifestyle.

“Do you see the problem with all this? You go on about ‘My kids can’t get out of bed because they’re all so terrified,’ I’m not surprised they’re terrified because your mum’s telling them every day the planet’s about to end, and yet, I bet your own carbon footprint, for all the stuff I’ve just mentioned is terrible,” Morgan said.

“So why don’t you give your computer, give up your television, give up your air conditioning, walk your kids to school, get a bike to the studio. Why don’t you practice what you preach?” he added.

She could get plenty of exercise picking up the new stone tablet edition of the Economist.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Drones as Detectives: Surveying Crime Scenes for Evidence.

HONG KONG PROTESTERS COMBAT THE SURVEILLANCE STATE. New video from Reason TV:

ELIZABETH WARREN CALLS FOR IMPRISONING TRANS INMATES WITH BIOLOGICALLY FEMALE INMATES IN NEW LGBTQ RIGHTS PLAN. “Warren changed her stance on government-funded transition surgeries after it emerged that she had dismissed the notion that taxpayers should fund the cosmetic procedure in a 2012 interview. ‘I have to say, I don’t think it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars,’ she said at the time.”

AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Extinction Rebellion: Saving the Planet by Making You Late for Work.

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? Kansas Schoolgirl Arrested, Charged with Felony for Brandishing Finger Gun.

IT’S LIKE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF MOST OF OUR MAJOR INSTITUTIONS ARE TRASH: Apple Sells Out Pro-Democracy Protesters in Hong Kong to Appease Chinese Government.

One of the blessings(?) of the Trump Era is how clear that’s become.

IGNORANCE AND BRUTALITY SAYS IT ALL: Reactions to My Tweet Reveal the Ignorant Brutality of Young Socialists and Communists.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is America Entering a Dark Age?

In terms of learning, does anyone believe that a college graduate in 2020 will know half the information of a 1950 graduate?

In the 1940s, young people read William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pearl Buck and John Steinbeck. Are our current novelists turning out anything comparable? Could today’s high-school graduate even finish “The Good Earth” or “The Grapes of Wrath”?

True, social media is impressive. The internet gives us instant access to global knowledge. We are a more tolerant society, at least in theory. But Facebook is not the Hoover Dam, and Twitter is not the Panama Canal.

Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearless. We are regulators, auditors, bureaucrats, adjudicators, censors, critics, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies and thin-skinned scolds. A distant generation created; we mostly delay, idle and gripe.

As we walk amid the refuse, needles and excrement of the sidewalks of our fetid cities; as we sit motionless on our jammed ancient freeways; and as we pout on Twitter and electronically whine in the porticos of our Ivy League campuses, will we ask: “Who were these people who left these strange monuments that we use but can neither emulate nor understand?”

In comparison to us, they now seem like gods.

As Glenn noted on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing man on the moon, “The ‘Golden Quarter Century’ of stunning progress ended in 1971. Weirdly, that’s when the regulatory explosion took off. And it’s when economic inequality started to get worse, so it’s a two-fer for the left.”

It’s also around the same time that identity politics fever began to slowly capture the left, giving them plenty of excuses for not even reading Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, let alone producing something of comparable worth.

Oh, and speaking of the new Dark Ages:

Presumably the Economist will now cease publishing online and revert to cuneiform on stone tablets going forward.

WHITE FRAGILITY IN OUR TIME: “Clip of the Day: [the exceedingly white] Oak Park, Ill. town trustee Susan Buchanan lambastes her colleagues for discussing updating the town’s diversity statement while being white…Oak Park is 68 percent white, and has no minority people on its board of trustees. But it’s got a diversity statement! A super-woke one!”

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, as Steve noted yesterday: Chicago is losing its black middle class. Can it get it back? “The prevailing attitude among black people in Chicago is that, to move up, you’ve got to move away.”