AMERICA’S NEW PAPER OF RECORD ALSO REPORTS TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY:  Cities Protecting Statues By Disguising Them As Karl Marx.

BLUE CITY BLUES: 14 killed, 59 shot during another horrific weekend of violence in Chicago.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Were COVID-19 Lockdowns Worth the Cost? The evidence suggests Americans are right to wonder.

MAGICAL THINKING, IN OTHER WORDS: Woke censorship is basically a superstitious cult.

The woke shamans are defining and enforcing a new symbology. They insist that their spiritual sense is better attuned than anyone else’s and will try to excommunicate anyone who says otherwise. Their work may seem shockingly new, but it is really a throwback to ages past — ones that no advanced society should want to revisit.

Read the whole thing.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Voting Isn’t Enough to Combat the Woke Left: Donald Trump can’t stop the Left’s assaults on American institutions. Only the citizens who have had “enough” can do it. Voting isn’t enough.

They need consequences. But read the article.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. New York City Proves You Don’t Have to Defund the Police, You Can Just Demoralize Them.

TOM FRIEDMAN WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization.

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK:

CAN THE LEFT FIND ANOTHER COUNTRY TO MAKE UP SH*T ABOUT?  Another Deep State hoax blown out of the water: Trump never briefed about Russian bounties —Herridge.

LET’S SEND THEM OFF TO THE COUNTRY OF THEIR CHOICE, ON CONDITION THEY RENOUNCE CITIZENSHIP AND NEVER DARKEN OUR SHORES AGAIN.  YOU DON’T LIKE AMERICA AND AMERICANS BECAUSE YOUR DISEASED MIND SEES FUNCTIONING CULTURE AS “WHITE SUPREMACY.” VERY WELL. LEAVE. VAMOOSE. GET OUT OF HERE. AND LET’S PRETEND WE NEVER KNEW YOU:  Rubicon Crossed – DNC Official 2020 Position: Celebrating July 4th Equals White Supremacy….

YOU MUST HAVE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH LIKE AN HYENA:  Shutting down CHOP: Seattle’s leftist mayor now up to her keister in alligators.

THEY’VE BEEN DESTROYING MY BELOVED DENVER FOR A WHILE NOW:  The broken window theory and modern Democrat governance.

TOO FRIGHTENINGLY FAR:  How Far Gone Is Big Business? Part I.

HOW DO YOU PICK? WE’RE SPOILED FOR CHOICE:  Orwellian Phrase of the Day.

UNFORTUNATELY ACCURATE HEADLINE:  Biden and the Quest for the Perfect Vagina.

Whatever happened to the content of their characters, again?

YEAH. SOME PIGS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS:  Pomona Student Posts Anti-Semitic Rant, Gets Pass.

In the depths of hell, Hitler smiles.

OF COURSE, ONCE THEY LEGALIZE THIS THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT OF THE MARKET:  Wild confessions of a $300-an-hour NYC call girl.

SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY THEN CHARGE THEN 18% INTEREST RATES ON LATE PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?  Property tax ‘loansharking’ will make middle class flee NYC: pols.

“SUPER-EARTHS” ORBITING A RED DWARF? KAL-EL, WE HEAR YOU KNOCKING!  Scientists spot promising super-Earth planets just 11 light-years away.

FORGET IT JACK, IT’S BRAZIL, WHERE BILL CLINTON WOULD BE CONSIDERED PRUDISH:  Politician in Brazil sniffs pair of women’s panties during online council meeting.

OKAY…  NASA crowdsources new ideas for astronaut space toilets, offers $20G.

PREFERENCE CASCADE:

SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THAT STRATEGY — PROTECTING THE OLD AND OTHERWISE VULNERABLE — SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR FOCUS ALL ALONG. I’m beginning to think they were right.

Also the mass protests, and all the gatherings, shared vehicles, etc., leading up to them and afterward — though I’m assured by the “public health experts” that Magic Diversity Science makes those things harmless.

AMONG HUMAN BEINGS, OUTRAGE IS USUALLY SELECTIVE, AND OFTEN TRIBAL: Why no outrage? Atlanta shootings surge, but it’s not the cops. It doesn’t just matter who’s shot, but who’s shooting.