WATCHING? I HOPE HE’S SWEATING: Intelligence Analyst Is Going to Prison for Leaking Classified Intel to NBC. Is Comey Watching?

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Wait. The Florida Gaters’ ‘Gator Bait’ Chant is Racist Now?!

As the destruction of the George Floyd riots has largely subsided, leftists have launched a new coordinated Cancel Culture. A soccer player got fired for his wife’s tweet, a church lost its lease over a pastor “liking” supposedly insensitive tweets, and New York Times op-ed editor James Bennet stepped down amid outrage that he published an op-ed by a U.S. senator, among many other examples. Some have even targeted black celebrities for refusing to toe the line when it comes to the institutional racism narrative.

Yet the “Gator Bait” cancelation may be among the worst and most petty. [University of Florida President Kent Fuchs] did not explain the “horrific racist imagery” supposedly associated with the chant. It seems he merely sought out an excuse to make an absurd gesture. In doing so, he is robbing UF’s culture to appease an angry mob. It seems far more likely this decision will incite an angry mob … of Gators.

Fuchs is praying that he’ll be eaten by the, err, gators last.

OPEN THREAD: Take a sad song, and make it better.

JIM TREACHER: The Good Place Producer Megan Amram Grovels for Forgiveness Over Bad Tweets. “Uh-oh. Looks like somebody’s got some bad tweets in her closet, and some complete rando dug ’em out to humiliate her and get her canceled. So you know what that means: Time to grovel!”

WE MUST STOP THE GREAT UNRAVELING:

There is one way to stop the unraveling: Refuse the mob. We have seen again and again that the mob comes only for those who hope to please it. And when it does, no amount of apology will save you. We stand against the mob and all its aims. We stand against the chaos and violence, the silencing of debate, the purging of heretics, the rewriting of history, and the destruction of the greatest country in the world. We will defend the most majestic achievement of humankind, the United States of America, against the most ignoble impulse in human history, to tear down that which is good.

Read the whole thing.

RECOVERING FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Romania Passes Law Banning Gender Studies, Following Hungary and Poland.

FLORIDA MACHETE MAN: Man with machete tattoo on face accused of machete attack.

WELL, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF A REUSABLE SPACECRAFT: NASA says SpaceX can reuse Crew Dragon capsules and rockets on astronaut missions.

RIP: Dame Vera Lynn, Singer Of Timeless Classics In WWII-Era Britain, Dies At 103.

At the suggestion of Peter Sellers, Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” was used “with savage irony,” the Grauniad notes, for the closing orgy of mushroom clouds at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove:

FIRE THEM, AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE OTHERS: Publishing Staff Threatens To Strike If Company Keeps J.K. Rowling’s Book.

BABYLON BERLIN: Report: German Officials Placed Children with Known Paedophiles For 30 Years.

The director of adult education at Pedagogical Centre was Helmut Kentler (1928-2008), a social scientist, who argued that sex between adults and children was a crucial part to healthy sexual development, saying that “in some cases almost something like a gentler form of social work”.

A popular figure in Germany’s sexual revolution in the 1960s, Kentler often authored ‘expert’ reports for the Berlin Senate and his books on ‘sexual liberation’ were bestsellers at the time. Indeed, Deutsche Welle notes how the change in attitudes towards child sexuality in Germany at this time was part of the 1968 revolution that swept Europe and worked to throw aside all tradition and conventional wisdom, including the idea that children should not have sex with adults.

Deutsche Welle notes the era, which spawned these ideas, was a “dark legacy of all that 1968 stood for.”

1968, eh? Flashback: France’s Gabriel Matzneff Flap is a Cautionary Tale for Cultural Aristocrats.

MESSAGES CALL FOR NYPD JULY FOURTH STRIKE TO PROTEST ANTI-POLICE CLIMATE.

Related: Atlanta Mayor: Morale Among Atlanta Police Officers Is Down ‘Tenfold.’

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Neanderthals, Denisovans, humans genetically closer than polar bears, brown bears.

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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: AOC Takes Vow Of Silence To End Racism, Immediately Gains Bipartisan Support.

IF THE RIOTS AND OTHER CRAZINESS ARE GETTING YOU DOWN, read Kurt Schlichter’s column. I think he’s basically right here.

CRASHING THE ECONOMY DIDN’T WORK, WHICH IS WHY THEY’RE TRYING RIOTS: 53% of Americans now describe their personal finances as excellent or good: Gallup poll. Only 14% say there personal finances are poor.

WE SHOULD REALLY SEPARATE RACE AND STATE, BUT MEANWHILE HERE’S THE STORY OF How People from India Almost Became White.

DANIEL GREENFIELD: The Jonestowning of America: When the Democrats claim to care about black lives, they take them in horrifying numbers.

I THINK WE NEED SOME NEW TORT LAW TO DEAL WITH OUR CULTURE OF MOBBING AND SNITCHING: When Your Private Dinner Conversation Becomes Your Waiter’s Facebook Post. Though I wonder if existing doctrines couldn’t reach some of this stuff. Even a few lawsuits would probably discourage the worst misbehavior.

WE NEED MORE OPOSSUMS: Tick control across U.S. lagging amid rising Lyme disease threat.

Related: Did You Know That Opossums Eat Virtually All the Ticks in Your Yard?

ROGER SIMON: Segregation: It’s Bad and It’s Back.

The second not-so-hidden intention in all this on the part of both parties—the black separatists and their white social justice acolytes—is, for purposes of their own power, to create racism where it doesn’t exist.

Trying to convince people who aren’t racist that they are is one of the best and most efficient ways imaginable to make them one.

Racism is being manufactured before our eyes across America, indeed across the world.

Segregation is the handmaiden of racism. It makes it go. Keep the races apart and keep them hating each other.

Some of us who were involved in the original civil rights movement remember “Black and white together, we shall not be moved…”. That is no more.

Now it should be written “Black power advocates and SJWs together, we shall overcome some day.” Make that: “We have overcome!”

George Wallace has gotten his wish.

Related: What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it.

THE PARTY OF COMPASSION, TOLERANCE, AND CARING ABOUT THE CHILDREN: Liberals React to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s Announcement About Adopted Son Nestor With Disgusting Homophobic Tweets.