PERSEVERANCE: NASA’s next Mars rover is just one month away from launch.

THE EXODUS IS HERE: Parts Of NYC Rife With Empty Apartments; Real Estate Experts Say Pandemic Causing Buyers And Renters To Reevaluate Priorities.

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DEMOCRATS: TRUMP IS DIVIDING AMERICA. ALSO DEMOCRATS: Susan Rice Says Trump Supporters Belong In ‘Trash Heap Of History.’

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Mob Mentality of the Left Week in Higher Education.

GIVE HIM THE RAISE: “Students at Loyola University New Orleans are seeking to oust Walter Block, a libertarian business school professor, through a Change.org petition. In response, a rival petition is asking Loyola’s administration to offer Block a raise.”

GRETCHEN ANTOINETTE: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Responds To Laid-Off Health Care Worker: ‘Can I Buy You A Hot Dog?’

GOTTA HEAR BOTH SIDES: Alcoholic killer monkey leaves one man dead and 250 injured after going on rampage when his booze supply dried up.

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VERA LYNN, R.I.P. “There are moments when a connection between the past and the present, fraying for decades, finally snaps. As a child in Britain in the late 1960s, I remember the old men from the Western Front marching past the Cenotaph, the survivors of Ypres, Passchendaele, and all the other killing fields. As the years passed, their ranks thinned, then dwindled to a handful in their wheelchairs. Then there was no one. Sadly, another fading of the guard is well underway, as the veterans of the Second World War march into their nineties and beyond. On Thursday, Vera Lynn, Britain’s ‘forces’ sweetheart,’ died at the age of 103. For Brits, she was the last great living symbol of ‘the war,’ as so often it is still referred to, a conflict that needs no other identifier, a reflection of the grip it still has on the British psyche — for good, or some say, ill.”

NYPD MIGHT CALL IN SICK ON JULY FOURTH TO GIVE NYC ‘INDEPENDENCE’ FROM POLICE.

WELCOME TO THE SUMMER OF OUR GASLIGHTING DISCONTENT:

Because remember, November 3 is the target. All this relentless gaslighting has but one true purpose: to get Donald J. Trump out of the White House. It’ll be coming from all directions, celebrities, actors, musicians, authors, athletes, politicians, in one never-ending wave.

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CHANGE: Whisky Distilleries Face a Rocky Road to Reopening After COVID-19.

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SMASH ALL THE STATUES! San Francisco protesters go on anti-statue rampage, tear down U.S. Grant, Cervantes, Catholic saint. A statue to Christopher Columbus was previously taken down by municipal authorities.

Cervantes? When did ‎Don Quixote become problematic?

More here: San Francisco Allows Protesters to Topple U.S. Grant, Francis Scott Key Statues.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Activists Fight Racism By Driving All People Of Color Out Of Pop Culture.

THIS IS A CONSEQUENCE OF MEXICO’S FAILED-STATE STATUS: Piracy Surges in Gulf of Mexico, Prompting U.S. Warning.

A FISKING OCCURS: How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting Than Black Lives.