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FLASHBACK: Obama Repeatedly Ignored Intelligence Briefings on the Rise of ISIS.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Vermont Law School Goes 100% Online In Fall 2020.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Gender “X” option now available on driver’s licenses in Rhode Island, Hawaii.

SKYNET SMILES: A scheme to enhance how swarm robots search for multiple targets.

KAREN SHRUGGED: We won’t go to school. “Teachers say they won’t return to classrooms in Fairfax County, Virginia, reports Hannah Natanson in the Washington Post.”

Most teachers aren’t in a COVID-19 risk group, and children barely transmit the disease, but it’s been a long time since our schools became a part of Zero Risk America.

WHY TAKE CHANCES? Can Drinking Alcohol Kill Germs?

SPACE: SpaceX launches next-generation GPS satellite from Florida.

I HAVE GOT TO TRY THIS: Firing A Minigun.

Videos at the link.

“SH**TY MEDIA MEN” LIST CREATOR UNABLE TO ESCAPE LIBEL SUIT: The judge concludes that Stephen Elliott, an author who was accused of rape, is not a public figure who needs to show actual malice to prevail.

Another torpedo fired to take out Trump circles back around.

AN EXAMPLE OF ACADEMIC BRAVERY, AND NO, I’M NOT JOKING.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Chinese-Style Social Credit Is Here: Gab Founder Says He’s Blocked From Using Visa Over Vague ‘Hate Speech’ Charge.

WE ALWAYS KNEW THIS: COVID-19 outbreak will ‘get worse before it gets better,’ experts say. “Flattening the curve” was about buying time, not killing off the virus.

PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS: THE PROTESTS DIDN’T SPREAD CORONAVIRUS.

Also public health experts: NYC’s coronavirus contact tracers told not to ask if individual attended protests.

HE’S RIGHT ABOUT A LOT: Rand Paul Is Right About Experts.

The Internet is having a bit of fun with Rand Paul’s claim during a Tuesday Senate committee hearing that “We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best” (here’s Tommy Beer with more). After all, they’re the experts. Shouldn’t we get out of the way and do as the experts tell us?

No. Rand Paul is right.

Friedrich Hayek was famously skeptical of experts because they have a tendency to stretch beyond their expertise and make claims, recommendations, or policies that are beyond the narrow confines of their expertise. They also tend to collapse social problems into frameworks and models that seem easy to manipulate but that leave out a lot of important on-the-ground knowledge that, Hayek argued, is of a kind that is inaccessible to an outside observer. In short, it is easy to mistake a model for the actual underlying reality. It is just as easy to identify important considerations and act as if they are the only.

The experts should be judged by their record, which at present is highly unimpressive

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

THIS IS CNN: Cuomo to McCloskey: Let’s face it, you’re the image of white supremacy now. “As you’ll see from the Daily Caller clip, Cuomo gets his Trump retweets mixed up in the middle of this interview, which is a rather big error. The tweet that Trump deleted actually did have someone yell ‘white power’ at one point, which generated all sorts of media interest and why Trump ended up deleting it. (The White House says he didn’t hear it and deleted it when it was pointed out to him.)  The video of the McCloskeys defending themselves had no such messaging however, and let’s not forget that the McCloskeys never took the video nor were responsible for putting it out on social media.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood Erases Blackface, Whites Voicing Black Roles, But It’s Not Enough. “Woke Left is never, ever satisfied, and it’s happening all over again.”

Give in to the mob, get more mobs.

THIS DOES NOT SHOCK ME: Risk for depression doubled in kids born to mothers with the condition.

TONY KATZ: Is Ice Cube Seriously Defending Louis Farrakhan?

LEFTIST MAYOR CANCELS SUMMER OF LOVE: After Social Workers Fail, Seattle Mayor Orders Cops to Clear CHOP Zone (Video). 

Earlier: Seattle Mayor Durkan Very Upset that CHOP’s ‘Summer of Love’ Has Landed at Her House.

Exit quote:

The score from Mayor Durkin’s folly? 1 teen killed, 1 injured after 4th shooting near Seattle’s CHOP.

ANY PORT IN A STORM: Minecraft is now home to a virtual library of censored journalism. “Free press advocates have created a virtual library in Minecraft that bypasses censorship in oppressive countries to house censored journals and articles. The virtual space was created as a collaboration between the freedom-of-the-press organization, Reporters Without Borders, and a Minecraft design company, BlockWorks. Because Minecraft isn’t blocked in many places — at least, not yet — it’s an ingenious way to ensure access even for those living under repressive regimes.”

Previously: Banned by YouTube, gun lovers are taking their videos to Pornhub.

BIAS BY OMISSION: Big Three Censor Stocks after ‘Best Quarter’ in 20-Plus Years, Despite Virus Spike.

GOOD: UK offers British citizenship to nearly 3m people living in Hong Kong after China’s security crackdown.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What do veganism, fashion, and architecture all have in common? According to Gen Z, they’re all racist.

Okay, I’ll give them architecture; wait until Gen-Z discovers what Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Philip Johnson were up to in the 1930s and/or ‘40s.