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BRYAN PRESTON: OK, Cancel Culture, Now Do the Wildly Racist Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was a white, straight man who was an exuberant, freewheeling, flaming racist.

Cancel him and his ideology. Fruit of the poison tree, as Cancel Culture argues.

There’s a statue of Lenin — who was also a Marxist — in riot-torn Seattle. Do your thing, Cancel Vultures.

The fact that his current followers will not cancel Marx for his virulent racism is a major tell, isn’t it?

Racism just may not be what they actually care about. Perhaps it’s just a means to an end.

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FROM GERMANY TO CALIFORNIA, “GREEN POWER” HAS LED TO EXPENSIVE, UNRELIABLE ELECTRICITY: California Blackouts a Warning for States Ramping Up Green Power. If you care about the environment, you support nuclear power. If you don’t support nuclear power, you’re just a garbage person who hates civilization.

FASTER, PLEASE: More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested in major metropolitan cities in Operation Legend, AG Barr announces. “It was named in honor of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept in the early morning of June 29 in Kansas City, Mo. Last week, a Jackson County prosecutor announced second-degree murder charges against his suspected killer, 22-year-old Ryson Ellis, who was being held in Tulsa County Jail.”

Related: Austin Defunded Its Police. Texas Steps Up to Defend Them. “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appeared with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and other leaders including Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price Tuesday to address Austin’s defunding its police. Gov. Abbott proposed legislation that would forbid any city from being able to increase property taxes until it restores funding to satisfy the proposed law.”

BREAKING: Ex-FBI Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Durham Probe of Russia Investigation. “Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, admitting that he altered an email that he used to apply for a FISA warrant against former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page.”

DISQUIET ABOUT PHILADELPHIA AIRPORT’S “QUIET ROOM:” “In favoring Islam over other religions, the Quiet Room fits a pattern of U.S. airports. Those in Kansas City and Indianapolis have footbaths. The one in Minneapolis-St. Paul devised an elaborate (but aborted) scheme of different colored lights atop taxis to accommodate Muslim drivers unwilling to transport passengers carrying alcohol…PHL’s Quiet Room is a small issue but, as this anti-racist moment reminds us, social justice is achieved one small step at a time.”