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OPEN THREAD: This is serious business, serious business, serious business!

THE LIST IS LONG: Moments In Obama’s Presidency That Fueled Racial Tensions.

LIVE: Day 1: Liveblogging the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

Update: “This is Star Wars Prequels of conventions: Badly-directed big-name actors shoved in front of green screens to recite horrible lines they aren’t invested in at all.”

SPACE: Rocket Lab aims to launch private Venus mission in 2023.

TO QUOTE A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK, “LITERALLY ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE WASHED-UP HAS-BEENS WHO NOBODY CARES ABOUT.” Kasich and other Republicans to speak in favor of Biden at Democratic convention. At least they’ll get the ego boost of being called “prominent Republicans” by the press.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Arizona Child Welfare Workers Caught Wearing ‘Professional Kidnapper’ T-Shirts.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “My friend Jay asks a pertinent question. Since we have to have total mail in voting because of the ‘Rona, what other civil rights should be permitted via mail? Can we get guns via mail order again? Why should our citizens be forced to brave illness and death in order to purchase their 2nd Amendment guaranteed arms?”

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Go all-out to enjoy the rest of the summer — fall’s horrors are coming all too fast.

NO PROBLEM. CALL IT A BLM PROTEST, AND EVERYONE WILL BE SAFE: Now They’re Throwing Huge Concerts in a Packed Water Park in Wuhan, China. “Note: No reported cases. That’s because the Chinese Communist Party isn’t reporting them. And the American press doesn’t point that out because they need that Chinese money. So if I go to my neighborhood Kroger without a mask, I’m a war criminal. But these folks can stand shoulder to shoulder in huge crowds and breathe all over each other, in the very city where this $#!+ started, and it’s just fine.”

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE OVER THE TARGET? Welp. Now The Babylon Bee’s Been Suspended From Twitter.

If you don’t follow the @TheBabylonBee, now would be a great time to start.

THIS IS PROBABLY WHAT GOT THE BEE SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER: Trump Drives Around Playing Mailbox Baseball In Latest Voter Suppression Scheme.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: Conformity to a Lie: Academia’s monolithic belief in systemic racism will further erode American institutions and the principles of our civilization.

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MAYBE A BUNCH OF BEE FANS SHOULD SHOW UP AT JACK DORSEY’S HOUSE AND PROTEST. THAT’S HOW WE DO THINGS NOW, RIGHT? Twitter suspends the Babylon Bee.

UPDATE (From Ed): The Bee’s account has been restored, but as Iowahawk notes in a Twitter thread:

‘SURPRISE!’ Gavin Newsom’s epiphany about what California’s ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ has caused provides preview of nation’s possible Green New Deal future.

And note this:

Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 having to deal with the earlier meddling of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is very reminiscent of then-Gov. Jerry Brown, during the state’s water crises in the previous decade, having to deal with the mid-1970s efforts of then-Gov. Jerry Brown to deliberately hamstring future generations of Californians. Or as Victor Davis Hanson wrote in 2015, “Brown and other Democratic leaders will never concede that their own opposition in the 1970s (when California had about half its present population) to the completion of state and federal water projects, along with their more recent allowance of massive water diversions for fish and river enhancement, left no margin for error in a state now home to 40 million people.”

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: “The more I dig into the radical terrorists of the late 70s early 80s, the more they just keep showing up in our modern discourse. it’s a literal Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.”

Flashback: Deutschland Deja Vu: The Baader Meinhof Complex.

COMING UP AT 8:45PM EASTERN: Liveblogging the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

Your usual PJ Media blogging gang, including Yours Truly after a couple of cocktails or half a bottle of wine or, more likely, both.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teachers’ Unions Falling Out of Favor With Americans. Is It Any Wonder?

I WOULD, BUT I’M STILL SOCIALLY DISTANCING: Meet the Trans Activists Fighting for Sex Worker Freedom. New video from Reason TV.

THROWING IT ALL AWAY IS WHAT LEFTIST POLITICS IS ALL ABOUT: How NYC championed broken windows policing and threw it away. “That wasn’t the aim, of course, but the mayhem unleashed by the marauders and quisling politicians ends the argument about whether James Q. Wilson and George Kelling got it right. The national disaster unfolding before our eyes validates their conclusions about human nature and common sense.”

IT’S SAINT JACINDA, SO NO WORRIES ABOUT DICTATORSHIP HERE: New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern delays election over coronavirus fears. They have 58 cases.

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MOSTLY PEACEFUL RIOTS: Seventeen Cops Hurt At Chicago ‘Peaceful Protest,’ The Mayor Is Finally Doing What She Should Have Done All Along—Praising The Cops.