I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE SIMCITY 2000 CAME OUT IN THE MID ’90S: Beaming solar power from space to Earth is becoming practical.

IS SHE SAYING BLACK PEOPLE ARE OKAY IN THEIR PLACE? Professor: American Dream a ‘damaging’ ideology to black people.

FAIRFAX COUNTY: WE WON’T EDUCATE YOUR KIDS AND WE DON’T WANT YOU TO EITHER. “While FCPS doesn’t and can’t control these private tutoring groups, we do have concerns that they may widen the gap in educational access and equity for all students.”

Defund public schools and give the money to parents.

IT’S CHINESE SPYWARE DIGUISED AS A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM: French privacy watchdog opens investigation into TikTok.

TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is already under investigation over privacy concerns by U.S., European Union and Dutch authorities.

“The CNIL began investigations into the tiktok.com website and the TikTok application in May 2020. The CNIL had indeed received a complaint at that date,” a spokesman for the authority said in written comments sent to Reuters on the case.

“To date, the CNIL continues its investigations and participates in ongoing European work.”

Asked about the CNIL probe, TikTok said: “Protecting TikTok users’ privacy and safety is our top priority. We are aware of the investigation by the CNIL and are fully cooperating with them.”

Related: TikTok Tracked User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Harvard Law Prof Bruce Hay Sues New York Magazine Over Its Article: ‘The Most Gullible Man In Cambridge’.’

Hey, he’s got a point. I mean here’s Larry Tribe talking about imprisoning Kanye West for voter fraud.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Prof: ‘The Constitution is racist.’

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Plays a Preemptive Misogyny Victim Card for Kamala Harris. “The interference the MSM runs for AOC is going to look calm and measured compared to how much they’re going to have to cut out of whole cloth to make Kamala Harris seem less awful to, well, almost everyone.”

POLAND TELLS THE KREMLIN –AND NATO– IT’S PREPARED TO FIGHT:

In late July, the Trump administration announced that the U.S. Army’s V Corps headquarters would be reactivated and permanently stationed in Poland. The Kremlin, its Twitter bots and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda twits objected. Chinese Communist Party flacks likely hissed (if so, I missed it).

Reactions throughout still-free Europe were either quiet nods of agreement or reserved acceptance. These reactions reflect strategic reality. (1): Putin’s nuclear-armed Russia is an expansionist threat that requires military deterrence. (2): Russia has demonstrated its military and political threat overtly and covertly from the Scandinavian arctic south through the Baltic States to the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.

Check the map — Poland is the lynchpin of NATO’s current eastern flank.

It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column.

FROM 2015, A VERY RELATED COLUMN: Confessions of a NATO Trip Wire: Why Poles and Balts Want U.S. Trip Wire Forces.

OVER THE ALASKAN WILDERNESS: A USAF F-22 Raptor prepares to be air refueled by a KC-135 tanker during exercise Red Flag Alaska 20-3. Photo taken Aug. 5, 2020 — and a fine one it is, the Raptor approaching the tanker with broken clouds and snow-capped mountain peaks below. Here’s a photo from 2017 of four Raptors participating in an exercise in Australia. This photo from April 2019 got several kudos — an F-22, an F-35A Lightning II, and an A-10C Thunderbolt II in formation with a Korean War-era F-86 Sabre jet fighter.

NOBODY’S PERFECT.

JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:

All I’m saying is this: imagine if the riots and looting had been stopped, at once, and all the public leaders and opinion makers repudiated every stitch of the intellectual quilt behind the defenders of disorder.

Imagine a world in which the major newspaper didn’t respond with fashion layouts of the clothes preferred by people who light public buildings on fire.

Sorry, bad-lyric-Lennon-song reference here, but imagine that? It’s not easy. I can’t.

Not when the Washington Post has supplied these images:

Read the whole thing.

FLASHBACK: While Democrats get crazier, Tulsi Gabbard hits Kamala Harris criticism right on the nose.

As Gabbard pointed out, then California attorney general, Harris was responsible for putting “over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”

Harris’ office also blocked DNA evidence that could have freed a man who may be innocent. And what’s more, as Gabbard said, “She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep (the) cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

Related: Kamala Harris: Introducing a faked confession isn’t outrageous prosecutorial misconduct.

HERD IMMUNITY: Population immunity is slowing down the pandemic in parts of the US. “The US has been recording more than 1,000 covid-19 deaths and 45,000 confirmed cases a day. The flip side of the rapid spread, however, is there are progressively fewer vulnerable people to catch and spread the virus again. Researchers say they hope to determine how great a role the rise of this population immunity can play in managing the pandemic.”

BYRON YORK: With cities racked by violence, can Trump win with promise to restore safety and order?

IS THIS POUNCING OR SEIZING? GOP leaders go into attack mode against Harris.