ANOTHER TRUMP PUBLIC HEALTH TRIUMPH: Trump’s Executive Order Will Drop the Price of Insulin Down to Pennies a Day.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? If You Thought ‘Defund the Police’ Was Insane You’ll Love ‘Abolish Prisons’ in Seattle.

SEE YOU LATER — OH, WAIT. American crocodiles likely left Africa more than 5 million years ago.

HOW OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND BUCKED DALTON TRUMBO AND HELPED SAVE HOLLYWOOD FROM ITSELF.

I STICK WITH NICE, SAFE, BURGERS AND FRIES — BEST THING FOR YOU! Parasitic infection linked to bagged salad spreads to 641.

BRYAN PRESTON: Why Seattle Is Likely to See More Riots and Violent Crime.

Chief Best is telling Mayor Durkan and the city council that they’re about to get people killed. But police officers won’t be among the casualties if Chief Best can help it.

Mayor Jenny Durkan and the city council have voted to take non-lethal tools out of the hands of police, which is in effect a vote for violence, property destruction, and anarchy. So that’s what they’re more likely to get now. We’ve seen the consequences of this before, recently.

Good luck, Seattle. Elections truly do have consequences.

Or as Roger Kimball writes: It Doesn’t End Well.

YOU’LL MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE: Italy laments the loss of the US tourist.

LARRY ELDER: Who’s Next on the Cancel Culture Docket — Martin Luther King Jr.?!

It’s turtles cancels all the way down.

WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST THE NUMBERS: Florida mistake on child COVID-19 rate raises question: Can Florida’s numbers be trusted? “An error by the Florida Department of Health produced a COVID-19 positivity rate for children of nearly one-third, a stunning figure that played into the debate over whether schools should reopen. A week after issuing that statistic, the department took it back without explanation. The next weekly report on children and COVID-19 showed the rate had plunged to 13.4%. The department blamed a “computer programming error” for the mistake, in response to questions from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Experts said the change and the failure to explain it to the public calls into question the state’s data at a time when accurate and trustworthy information is crucial to a society grappling with an unprecedented health crisis.”

Plus: ‘It’s unacceptable to publish information that changes so dramatically that it warrants explanation, and then to not provide any explanation,’ said Jason Salemi, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida College of Public Health in Tampa. ‘I’m trying to get an understanding of why the number changed so much, what underlies it — and can we trust this new number.'”

PRETTY MUCH SETTING THINGS UP FOR TRUMP TO INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT IF HE WANTS TO: Police Tell Business Owners in Seattle ‘You’re On Your Own.’

RIP: Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind, dead at 104.

JOHN MACARTHUR’S CALIFORNIA CHURCH WILL DEFY NEWSOM’S CHURCH BAN: ‘Christ, not Caesar, Is Head of the Church.’

U.S. NAVY MINE NEUTRALIZATION VEHICLE: Sailors aboard the mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer lower a mine neutralization vehicle into the water during a mine warfare exercise off the Japanese coast. The remote-controlled MNV wears shark’s teeth war paint. Here’s a photo from 2011 of a multinational mine warfare exercise in the Arabian Gulf. The ships in the photo are mine countermeasures ships (yes, minesweepers). This StrategyPage Surface Forces update from March 2020 discusses current trends in naval mine and counter-mine warfare. Note it says western navies prefer to use unmanned underwater vessels (UUVs) to destroy bottom mines. The article also includes a detailed historical discussion of 20th century mine warfare.

STACY MCCAIN: “Antifa is not a political movement, it’s a mental-health crisis.”

SHOCKER: VIDEO: Surveillance footage appears to back Texas A&M cops’ claim of student race hoax.

The demand for racial hatred in America exceeds the supply.

WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND WHEN THEY DON’T: Black Trump supporter stabbed by Antifa militant in Portland riot speaks out. “Trump supporter and conservative videographer Drew Duncomb, who goes by the name Black Rebel on social media, was allegedly stabbed amid the Portland protests by Antifa militant and convicted pedophile Blake David Hampe. Hampe was arrested on Saturday with a bail set to $250,000 for felony assault.”

RIP: John Saxon, Enter the Dragon, Nightmare on Elm Street Actor, Dies at 83.

WAIT, FOR MONTHS THE PRESS WAS TELLING ME THAT BORIS JOHNSON’S INCOMPETENCE MEANT EVERYONE WAS GOING TO DIE: The U.K.’s Response to Covid-19 Has Been World-Class: One country has done more than any other to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

In sum, the best life-saving medicine and the best candidate vaccine both come from the U.K. For sure, there might be some elements of coincidence here, but the same can be said for the more effective public-health responses as well.

By the way, if you are looking for the second leading candidate in the race to fight Covid-19, the most plausible answer is the U.S., which has produced the useful antiviral remdesivir and is working on a broad array of vaccine candidates, with generally promising results, even if none of them is as far along as the work at Oxford. The U.S. may yet pass the U.K. for overall contributions, but as of mid-July in per capita terms the British are the winners by a landslide.

Well, that kind of harshes the narrative, doesn’t it?

JUST TAKE A GAP YEAR: Double Standard: Tulane threatens students with ‘expulsion’ for large gatherings; protests OK because they ‘wore masks.’

Someone needs to point out to Tulane President Mike Fitts that this is a bad look for his institution.

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AN UNTRUE CLAIM IN THE NEW YORKER SPEAKS VOLUMES:

Reading the latest copy of the New Yorker magazine, published exactly a week ago, I came across this sentence in a piece by Jill Lepore:

One study suggests that two-thirds of Americans between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four who were treated in emergency rooms suffered from injuries inflicted by police and security guards, about as many people as the number of pedestrians injured by motor vehicles.

—Jill Lepore, New Yorker

This in a 5,000 word feature on the history of policing in the United States, which draws a link between the early role of police in suppressing slave rebellions, and police killings of Black Americans in the twenty first century.

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Why does this one sentence matter? Well, firstly, it misinforms readers, several of whom (based on my Twitter search for the article’s URL) also alighted on this claim, but unlike me took it on trust. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it tells us something about the political climate in a publication like the New Yorker, which was once famous for its rigorous fact checking.

Read the whole thing.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT, UH, WORK: DC returns to work — and online porn, up 1,600%. “Online porn viewing in Washington, dormant since most offices closed in March, has started to spike as more workers have returned to their cubicles in the federal city. According to one popular website, Stripchat, weekly users have gone from about 3,000 in Washington during the coronavirus shutdown to about 55,000.”