THAT’S WHO OBAMA IS, THAT’S WHAT OBAMA DOES: Tucker Carlson: Obama Pouring Gasoline While Country Falling Apart From Racial Strife. “The country falling apart riven by racial strife and tribalism and one of the most respected people in the whole country decides to pour gasoline on that and compare the police to Bull Connor? As if America or Minneapolis is like Birmingham, Alabama in 1963? It’s insane. It’s reckless.”

Mean, sanctimonious, and divisive is no way to go through life, but it’s the way Obama has chosen. If he’d been the Obama of the 2004 DNC speech the country would be much better off. But he never was that Obama; the speech was simply a lie.

And for the record, Bull Connor was a member of the Democratic National Committee.

HIGHER EDUCATION IMPLOSION UPDATE: UCSB teaching assistant says he would ‘assassinate Jesus’ if he had a time machine.

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CHANGE: Movement Builds For Diploma Privilege In California, Connecticut, D.C., Pennsylvania.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Which Law Schools Will Thrive (46), Survive (65), Struggle (23), Or Perish (18) In The Age Of COVID-19?

MOVING THE GOALPOSTS AGAIN: Dr. Fauci Now Wants Us to Wear Goggles as Extra Protection from COVID-19.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘F**k It. If One Of Them Cops Got Killed, Good.’

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Exactly when did planet Earth slip from a sane timeline into the most insane of possible timelines — and how?

We’ll have the answer for you below.

But first, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

You’ll see:

• Bill Clinton on Epstein’s Orgy Island (ew, ew, ew).

• BLM co-opt the regulatory state (seriously).

• A perfect and perfectly simple Bloody Mary recipe (you’ll need it).

Shall we begin?

So much more at the link you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

GODSPEED: SpaceX: Crew Dragon is returning to Earth – here’s when to hold your breath. “The Crew Dragon spacecraft, produced by private company SpaceX, is scheduled to return from the International Space Station (ISS) and splash down in the Atlantic ocean on August 2. Contingent on a favourable weather forecast and a successful final week at the ISS, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will begin the undocking procedure on August 1, and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere the next day – a total of 64 days since lift off.”

FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Conservative students attacked at Binghamton last fall sue university over melee. Make them pay.

Also: Complain to grantmaking agencies under Executive Order 13864.

COLLUSION: University of Arkansas professor linked to China indicted for wire and passport fraud.

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Will Obama Obey 14-Day Quarantine Rule Once Back in DC?

CANCELED: Loyola University has removed the name of Flannery O’Connor, the disabled Catholic woman writer of Southern Gothic stories, from a hall named after her because of a petition complaining about “recent letters and postcards” written by her that employed racist language.

Flannery O’Connor died in 1964.

UM… ISN’T THAT THE ENTIRE POINT? Please Don’t Objectify Sex Robots.

My wife, who is apparently a glutton for punishment, listened to an entire Arlington County school board meeting last night. School is online only indefinitely. She reports there was great concern expressed about, and discussion of how to help: (1) the teachers, especially those who will have kids at home (the proposal was to give teachers with kids ten and younger child care, and no one else); (2) the staff, who should not be subject to any layoffs or hours reductions, even if, like extended-day staff, they have nothing to do; (3) poor kids who rely on school lunches; and (4) poor kids who have trouble accessing the internet.

Other than (4), there was essentially no discussion of educating students, which was a disaster online in the Spring, nor concern expressed for parents who can’t afford childcare, can’t afford tutors to help their kids, and who are otherwise experiencing a looming disaster with indefinite school closure.

The way at least my county school system has reacted to this crisis would have been considered outrageous ideological propaganda if a libertarian-oriented public choice scholar had predicted it. I’ve heard the same about other districts.

FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Some students are daring to stand up to cancel culture.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dirtbag Liberals Waste No Time Disparaging the Memory of Herman Cain. “When I awoke yesterday to the news of Cain’s passing I did the dumbest thing I could have done under the circumstances: I hit social media. I merely wanted to express my condolences. The coffee hadn’t kicked in enough yet to remember that leftists are classless animals whenever a conservative dies. Maybe I just block it out in between the deaths of prominent conservatives.”

EYES WIDE SHUT: Clinton Was With Epstein On Private Island At Same Time As ‘2 Young Girls,’ Witness Claims In Unsealed Court Docs.

FED UP: Chinese and Russian hackers were just sanctioned by Europe for the first time.

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Susan Rice’s Testimony on Being Out of Russiagate Loop Doesn’t Add Up.

To be fair, that’s because she lies a lot.

GIVEN THEIR PERFORMANCE LATELY, IT’S HARD TO BE SAD ABOUT THAT: Newspapers are dead, just 3% get political news from them.

WE ARE LIVING IN BIZARRO WORLD, WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE: CEO of Boston’s Tatte bakery chain steps down amid discrimination accusations.

A petition signed by nearly 300 current and former employees details comments and actions that they found offensive or discriminatory, including “crude, sexual remarks made about customers, performative alignment with LGBTQ+ organizations, promoting ‘inclusive’ optics on social media, queerphobic and ableist comments by management, and firing employees who do not fit the ‘Tatte aesthetic.'”

So one of the accusations is that she supported LGBT etc. organizations, and another is that she made sure that the company’s ads were “inclusive,” i.e., included a ethnically and otherwise diverse group of models. This is seen as evidence as racism and homophobia (as it would be if she had done the opposite.)

YEP: Barack Obama’s Partisan Eulogy for John Lewis Reminded Many of the Paul Wellstone Funeral.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: UCSB Teaching Assistant Said He Would ‘Assassinate Jesus of Nazareth’ if He Had a Time Machine.