AS HE SHOULD BE: Joe Biden now in hot seat over ‘unmasking’ revelations.

CORN, POPPED: Trump Calls for Barack Obama to Testify Over Flynn Unmasking Scandal.

FIRST THEY TELL US TO LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS, THEN THEY SHOW US THEIR IDEA OF EXPERTISE:

HISTORY: Underwater Drones Discover Battleship That Survived Atomic Blasts and Both World Wars.

NO, AS THE CDC DIRECTOR KNOWS FROM EXPERIENCE: Is There a Penalty for Those Who Fan Flames of Pandemic Hysteria? Before you take doomsday warnings from the CDC’s Robert Redfield too seriously, remember that he was a leading promoter of the myth of a heterosexual AIDS epidemic in America during the 1980s.

DON’T GET COCKY: Predicted Blue Wave Crashes In Wisconsin, California Special Elections.

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: ‘Calls to violence’: Michigan Gov. Whitmer says armed protests could lengthen stay-at-home order.

RICHARD BURR STEPS DOWN AS SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AMID INSIDER TRADING INVESTIGATION.

IF SOME WHACKO ON YOUTUBE IS MORE PERSUASIVE THAN YOU, YOU’RE FAILING AS A PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT: Vaccine misinformation more persuasive than experts, study finds.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Unmasking the Unmaskers (Including Slow Joe). “Hey remember how Joe Biden swore up and down he wasn’t behind the Michael Flynn unmasking scandal? Well, guess what?”

THE PRESS DOESN’T DO APOLOGIES, IT JUST MOVES ON TO THE NEXT POLITICALLY-DETERMINED NARRATIVE: Where Does Brian Kemp Go For an Apology? The IHME model has revised down significantly the expected cases in Georgia and Democrats and the press are moving goal posts.

Between April 20 and May 1, a recurring trending “hashtag” on Twitter was “KempHasBloodOnHisHands.” Democrat politicians and others assailed Kemp, claiming people were going to die because of him. . . .

Ron Fournier, formerly of the Associated Press, was not alone in that sentiment. Stacey Abrams took to MSNBC to blast Brian Kemp. President Trump criticized him for reopening saying he “strongly disagreed” with Kemp. The Atlantic ran a hysterically themed article that Georgia was experimenting in human sacrifice. The subtitle of the piece was, “The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.”

We are now not just into the fourth week since Brian Kemp said the state could reopen and fourteen days past the shelter-in-place order expired, we are now past the last major revision of the IHME model, which happened yesterday.

The IHME model is the most widely cited and relied upon model for COVID-19. The White House and Georgia’s Governor rely on it. On May 12, the IHME model predicted Georgia would still have hundreds of daily new cases into August and would have 1,783 daily new cases on June 12, 2020.

Yesterday, the model updated and the update was significant. Georgia is now expected to have no cases of the virus by August and only 367 new daily cases on June 12.

Where does Brian Kemp go to get his apology?

The media failed to note at the time that Kemp was not alone in reopening. Jared Polis of Colorado also put in place a process to reopen his state. Georgia actually is administering more tests per capita than Colorado and the number goes up daily. The media chose to ignore all of this, just as the media has willfully chosen to ignore problems with Andrew Cuomo’s leadership in New York.

The Ron Fournier tweet is pathetic. I remember when he was a respected journalist, generally considered pretty fair. And it’s all about a predetermined politically narrative, which the press slavishly follows because that’s what it sees as its job.

ROGER SIMON: Electing Biden Would Cede the World to China.

NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Coronavirus in Tennessee: 67 active Knox County cases, 305 total. “Knox County reported 67 active cases on Thursday, down from 69 on Wednesday. Thursday data marked the first decrease in the total number of cases since Monday, May 4. The total number of recovered cases remained at 233 for the second straight day. . . . There is one patient currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. Of the 305 cases, 37 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness and five deaths. There are three probable cases of COVID-19, according to the county information page, down from five on Wednesday.”

Tomorrow will be two weeks since we started reopening, so we should probably be seeing any resulting increase in cases by now if that’s happening.

GEORGE KORDA: Politics and money swirl around Tennessee educational savings accounts. “A sentence in an Associated Press story on the judge’s no sign-up directive may explain the need for the pilot program, and the reasons for Davidson’s and Shelby’s vocal opposition; both are revealed in the last 13 words of this sentence: ‘According to the law, the voucher program would only apply to Nashville and Shelby County, which includes Memphis, the areas with the lowest performing schools and regions with Democratic political strongholds.'”

REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN BIG TECH AND BIG GOVERNMENT: Apple Policy Exec Cynthia Hogan Departs Company.

Apple’s vice president for public policy and government affairs, Cynthia Hogan, has resigned from the company, reports Axios. Hogan will be leaving Apple next month after recently being selected as one of the members of Joe Biden’s vice presidential selection committee.

Hogan joined Apple back in April 2016 to head its Washington D.C. office under Apple’s environmental, policy, and social initiatives chief Lisa Jackson.

Prior to joining Apple, Hogan was a top lobbyist for the National Football League, and before that, she served as Joe Biden’s counsel when he was Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama.

Hogan’s now-former boss at Apple, Lisa Jackson, was Obama’s EPA chief.

JAMES LILEKS DISCOVERS THE ANTI-PELOTON WOMAN: “I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this ad was shot with an eye towards avoiding the Peloton fiasco. You know, the business about getting beat up on Twitter by people who would never buy your product, but casually poison the brand so anyone who does buy the product is revealed as someone who should DO. BETTER. Being immensely self-satisfied is unattractive to everyone except people who are already immensely self-satisfied.”

NOW IF TRUMP SAID THIS THE MOCKERY WOULD BE ENDLESS: Commercial mouthwash could protect against COVID-19 by destroying the outer layer of fat the virus uses to bind to human cells, scientists suggest.

CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Did China Stop the WHO From Declaring a Health Emergency Just So It Could Drain the World of PPE?

PUTTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO SHAME AGAIN: Getting Distance Learning Right. While public schools eliminate grades and let most students languish during the pandemic, the Success Academy charter schools in New York have transformed themselves into fully functional digital schools serving the poorest neighborhoods in the city. They’ve provided every student with a Chromebook and maintained full days of instruction and the usual rigorous monitoring of students’ progress.

PRIORITIES: A Pittsburgh radio station is again under scrutiny after one of its reporters called Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, “sir” at least three times during a Tuesday press call.

Related: While sending Covid-19 infected patients into nursing homes, Levine’s mother was moved into a hotel.

UPDATE: Sort-of-related: Seen on Facebook: “Does anyone else find it strange that as the coronavirus indicators get better, Democratic governors and mayors get more draconian in their executive orders?”

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: The scale to which Obama’s team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking.’

Flashback, InstaPundit March 2017: “Hypothesis: The spying-on-Trump thing is worse than we even imagine, and once it was clear Hillary had lost and it would inevitably come out, the Trump/Russia collusion talking point was created as a distraction.”

THAT’S NOT CREEPY AT ALL: Mannequins Will Fill Empty Seats at This Michelin-Starred Restaurant.

DECOUPLING: Journalism Org Cuts Ties With Huawei. “National Association of Black Journalists abruptly cancels event sponsored by Chinese tech giant.”