JOHN LUCAS: DC Court Of Appeals Blasts Judge Sullivan For Michael Flynn Power Grabs. “Although couched in judicious language, the majority opinion leaves no doubt that Sullivan’s actions were not just wrong but a fundamental abuse of our system of government.”

DON SURBER: BLM PROTESTS, RIOTS SPREAD COVID-19.

Related: Chart: Did Austin’s protests produce coronavirus spike? (Yes.)

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: MY USA TODAY COLUMN: When Black Lives Matter to Democrats — And When They Don’t.

IN OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD, ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM SEEMS TO BE TOPICAL AGAIN: Or maybe it’s never gone out of fashion.

When the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights tackled this topic, among the witnesses whose “expertise” we drew upon on was a “dancer, storyteller and facilitator” with a “focus on performance and also health and social change communication.” Really.

The only independent empirical research we conducted was a study of the proximity of coal ash deposits to minority neighborhoods. Alas for my progressive colleagues, our staff found that, if anything, coal ash landfills and ponds were more likely to be found near whites. That research was, of course, given no prominence in our report.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: TikTok: Beneath Its Fun Exterior Lies A Sinister Purpose. “TikTok is a very irresponsible company, dangerous by design. And not simply by carelessness, mistake or default: this is a deep and patent irresponsibility, a philosophy focused on the constant capture of all kinds of user data… the type of app you would expect from a Chinese company operating in China that makes a few cosmetic changes to adapt it to the West — if that — applying the same criteria and philosophy it does in China. In short, not recommendable for children or adults, particularly thanks to its sinister content recommendation system. And now under the benevolent guise of a Western CEO formerly at Disney.”

THE COUNTERPROTESTS BEGIN. I AWAIT TUT-TUTTING BY PUBLIC HEALTH PEOPLE WHO APPROVED OF THE ORIGINAL ONES. Hundreds ‘Back Blue’ At Rally In Support Of Police In Manassas: A rally attendee from Manassas said police supporters can no longer let their voices get drowned out by people protesting police actions.

IT REALLY IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE A BUREAUCRATIC COUP: Fresh evidence Obama ordered up the phony Russiagate scandal.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Stop Firing the Innocent: America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause. It’s gone past firing people for their beliefs — bad enough — to firing people for some nut’s imaginary version of their beliefs. And note this bit:

When Cafferty was wrongly accused of being a white supremacist, he fought hard to keep his job. He said he explained to the people carrying out the investigation—all of them were white—that he had no earthly idea some racists had tried to appropriate the “okay” sign for their sinister purposes. He told them he simply wasn’t interested in politics; as far as he remembered, he had not voted in a single election. Eventually, he told me, “I got so desperate, I was showing them the color of my skin. I was saying, ‘Look at me. Look at the color of my skin.’”

It was all to no avail. SDG&E, Cafferty told me, never presented him with any evidence that he held racist beliefs or knew about the meaning of his gesture. Yet he was terminated.

Emphasis added, because woke white people are a cancer on society. As are those who fearfully appease them.

MOSTLY PEACEFUL: Black Lives Matter mob storms Target, threatens to ‘shut down’ business if they cooperate with police.

“All black people, living around this neighborhood, living around in this neighborhood, because you prioritize money over people, so until you stop calling the police, we continue to shut your business down,” the crowd chanted.

“Black Lives Matter literally threatened @Target today in DC. Apparently if that @Target in DC ever calls the cops on a black person ever again BLM will shut them down,” Hernandez explained. “Radicals.”

Hernandez said the group’s rhetoric mirrored that of Hawk Newsome, who co-founded the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter.

Give in to the mob, get more mobs.

Previously: Black Lives Matter Co-founder Proudly Confirms: “We are trained Marxists.”

PUNCTURING THE BUBBLE OF WHITE GUILT, WHITE POSTURING, AND WOKE WHITE HYPOCRISY: ‘Obnoxious, Trump-Voting, Heterosexual, Balding Iranian-American’ Law Prof Calls On His White Colleagues To Resign To Make Way For Black Law Profs. “I say the tired liberals should be pushed, even forced, to resign their positions — now. Let’s not wait for them all to retire or die. Clear them out for African-Americans to be hired in their spots. End the privilege of hypocrisy. . . . My colleagues, trying to hoist me on my own petard, might save the personal for last. Why don’t I resign first? Well, you see, I’m more endangered than the white liberal. How many do you suppose voted for Trump in 2016? I did, in large part to annoy them by being able to say I did. My identity group — obnoxious, heterosexual, balding Iranian-Americans — is certainly underrepresented. Even so, as soon as I learn that nine great white saviors have resigned their positions, I will give mine up, no more questions asked.”

Heh. Pretty sure you’re safe. Woke politics is about making other people pay for America’s supposed sins.

YOUR #JOURNALISM NARRATIVE HAS BEEN UPDATED AGAIN:

FAR LEFTY REVEALED TO BE FAR-FAR LEFTY: Biden VP Hopeful Rep. Karen Bass in Hot Water for Praise of Castro.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Oklahoma Authorities Charge Alleged Rioters With Terrorism: ‘This Is Not Seattle.’

ALL ROADS LEAD BACK TO JOHN BRENNAN: Before ‘takedown’ of General Flynn, he was planning to audit John Brennan for running billions ‘off the books.’