COME SEE THE RACISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: NYT ‘1619 Project’ Founder Demonized the ‘White Race’ as ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers’ in 1995.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATION, AND MAYBE A PRIVACY VIOLATION, TOO: Conservative students harassed after administrators give out their contact info.

WHY DOES CHUCK SHUMER FEAR A STRONG BLACK MAN? McConnell: Notice How Chuck Schumer Acts As If Tim Scott Doesn’t Even Exist.

STEP ONE: DEMOCRATS NOMINATE A GUY WHO CAN’T COMPLETE A SENTENCE.

Step Two: WaPo: It’s Time to Rethink the Presidential Debates.

They’re so predictable.

TOLDJA: Barr: DOJ has 500 investigations into rioters and destruction of statues. “Barr said his agency was using 35 joint terrorist task forces across the country to investigate criminal activity, which has taken place since the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man. “

MICROSOFT TO CLOSE PHYSICAL STORES, TAKE $450 MILLION HIT.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Justice Is Coming: Businesses Sue Seattle for Enabling CHOP Antifa-stan’s Reign of Terror.

Longer-term, the smart move would be to stop relying on the courts and start electing Republicans.

ROGER SIMON: No Holds Barred: Barr & Durham Must Investigate Obama & Biden Too.

PRECISELY: Attacks on Abolitionist Statues Are Attacks on American Values.

GOOD, MAKE THEM PAY. ALSO THE DISCOVERY SHOULD BE FUN. Professor plans to sue Catholic University for firing him over tweets criticizing powerful Democrats.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE FANS IN ATTENDANCE THIS SEASON. Instead, the Giants Will Display Cutout Images of Season Ticket Holders in Stands:

Calling it the Giants Fan Cutout Program, the team said the cutouts will be an opportunity for fans to “be at Oracle Park even when you’re home watching the game.”

The cutouts will be made of weatherproof material and will be placed as close to the season-ticket holders’ seats as possible, according to the Giants. For a $99 fee, the team is also giving the option for non-season-ticket holders to have their cutout images displayed in the stands.

Flashback: “Two Giants pitchers are among the only major league players who know what it’s like to play in an empty stadium. Jeff Samardzija and Kevin Gausman joined four others as the only pitchers to appear in the lone crowd-less game in major league history…Due to civil unrest in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed African-American man who was critically injured while in police custody, Gausman’s Orioles hosted Samardzija’s Chicago White Sox on April 29, 2015 in what is believed to be the only major pro sports game played without fans in attendance.”

WEIRD, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS NEVER HAPPENS: Voting fraud charges filed against Paterson councilman and councilman-elect.

LAST WEEK EVERYONE WAS TELLING ME HE’D ALREADY LOST: New Polling Shows Trump’s Electoral College Advantage Is Slipping.

IT’S COME TO THIS: An online petition demands that the University of Wisconsin-Madison “remove and replace” a statue of Abraham Lincoln. The petition’s author cites Lincoln’s “questionable” history on race relations.

DID YOU CATCH THE STENCH AT USAGM? RealClearPolitics’ Susan Crabtree, one of the most honest and credible journalists in Washington, D.C. digs deep into the long nomination battle to confirm Michael Pack and the brewing scandal surrounding the Open Technology Fund.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Nightmare Time—What If Joe Biden Wins? “Most of us do believe that the current polling is, put mildly, completely full of crap. Still, we have to prepare for the outside chance that the polls may be right. A very outside chance, I know, but preparation is always a good thing.”

MARK THIESSEN: If Democrats Cared About Police Reform They Would Have Advanced Tim Scott’s Bill.

We saw how seriously congressional Democrats were taking police reform when Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the second-ranking Democratic leader, dismissed legislation introduced by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) as a “token, half-hearted approach.” For Durbin to question the seriousness and sincerity of Scott — a black man who has personally experienced police discrimination — was disgraceful. Scott said of Durbin’s comment, “to call this a token process hurts my soul.” (Durbin later apologized to Scott.)

Not to be outdone, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described Scott’s bill as “trying to get away with murder, actually. The murder of George Floyd.” When asked if she would apologize, Pelosi said, “Absolutely, positively not” — though she claimed she had been referring not to Scott but to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Sure, she was.

What Democrats should be apologizing for was their shameful vote on the Senate floor Wednesday to kill Scott’s legislation — and with it any chance of passing police reform this year. Democrats knew exactly what they were doing. . . .

If Democrats cared about getting something done, they would have allowed the Senate to move forward and sought to amend Scott’s bill on the floor. There was plenty of basis for compromise. Scott’s legislation had already incorporated a number of Democratic proposals, including: making lynching a federal hate crime, creating a national policing commission to conduct a review of the U.S. criminal justice system; collecting data on use of force by police; barring the use of chokeholds by federal officers and withholding federal funds to state and local law enforcement agencies that do not similarly bar them; and withholding federal money to police departments that fail to report to the Justice Department when no-knock warrants are used. . . .

Indeed, Republicans offered to allow votes on as many amendments as Democrats wanted — something Pelosi has refused to allow House Republicans to do to the House police reform bill. Scott promised Democrats he would filibuster his own bill if they did not get votes they sought. As Scott explained in an impassioned floor speech, he even told Democrats he would vote to support some of their amendments, such as expanding the definition of chokeholds and collecting data not just on serious bodily injury and death but on all uses of force by police. “We’ll stay on this floor for as long as it takes and as many amendments as it takes,” he said. With Scott’s backing, some of those amendments would have gotten enough Republican support to pass — giving Democrats the real prospect of making significant changes to the bill.

Even if Democrats didn’t fully embrace the compromise bill the Senate eventually passed, they would have another chance to improve it in negotiations with the House. As anyone who grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock knows, the way a bill becomes a law is for the House and Senate to both pass their own versions of a bill and then negotiate a compromise they can put on the president’s desk. If, after all that effort, they still did not like the results of the House-Senate conference, then Democrats (who control the House) could still have refused to bring a final bill to the floor. But at least they could have claimed they made a real effort to reach bipartisan consensus.

But Democrats’ failure to even try this shows they were not interested in compromise. Scott says his Democratic colleagues told him “we’re not here to talk about that” and “walked out.” They voted not to even allow debate on his bill, which they knew meant police reform would not happen this year. That, Scott said, was a tragedy. “We lost — I lost — a vote on a piece of legislation that would have led to systemic change in the relationship between the communities of color and the law enforcement community.”

At a time when much of our country seems to be descending into chaos — with violence in the streets, autonomous zones being declared and mobs pulling down statues — Americans want their elected leaders to behave like adults, work together and get something done. Republicans put forward a good-faith effort to do just that. But Democrats apparently care more about using the issue to energize their base on Election Day than working with Republicans to enact police reform.

Related: Tim Scott on Senate Dems blocking police reform bill: ‘Pure race politics at its worst.’

“So, when you go piece by piece, with the only thing that you can conclude is [that] it wasn’t what we were talking about. It was who was talking,” he remarked. “And, not just me, Tim Scott, but who was talking was the Republican Party saying to minority communities, to underserved communities, to liberal-controlled communities like Atlanta and Minneapolis, Cleveland…We hear you. We see you. Here are reforms.’”

“We’re coming [in] after to fix their problems and that’s what the party, the Republican Party, has been doing for decades: fixing the challenges brought to people in liberal cities by liberal politicians,” Scott argued.

I mean, even Talcum X has figured out that “systemic racism” is a Democratic Party problem.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Linda Sarsour’s Group Says ‘No Zionists’ at Civil Rights Rally.

WHAT A RIDE: Inside a training mission with a B-52 bomber, the aircraft that will not die. ““When you look at the life remaining in the air frame, the B-52 is the youngest” in our existing bomber fleet.

The most recently-made Stratofortress rolled off the assembly line in 1962, and it could still be in service in 2052.

GOOD: COVID-19 outbreaks in South ‘significant,’ may be less deadly, CDC says. “‘We have clearly seen increases in cases in the southern states,’ CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a conference call with reporters Thursday. However, ‘fewer of these infections are requiring hospitalization’ or resulting in death, he said.”

THIS IS NOT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; IT IS THE ACTING OUT OF SPOILED, IGNORANT AND UNGRATEFUL THUGS:

We are not seeing a repeat of the French Revolution; not at all, no matter how righteous this band of rioters think they are. We are seeing something similar to what characterized the 1960s, even as the Republicans passed the Civil Rights laws against Democrat opposition. Domestic terrorists were the order of the day then; rich white people like Tom Hayden and Bill Ayers and their pals riled up the college students of yore in 1968 and Nixon was elected in a landslide.

While it’s true that Ayers’ Weather Underground was no French Revolution, it wreaked considerable destruction at its peak:

Many of us forget that the Weather Underground bombing campaign was not a matter of a few isolated incidents. From September 1969 to May 1970, [Mark] Rudd and his co-revolutionaries on the white radical left committed about 250 attacks, or almost one terrorist bombing a day (government estimates put that number much higher). During the summer of 1970, there were twenty bombings a week in California.

And that was decades before what Glenn would call “the social media virus” ran rampant on the left, allowing leftist groups much easier coordination, planning, and amplification of their anger.