DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ORPHANED OIL WELLS IN THE U.S.? Me neither until I read this thoughtful analysis from the Institute for Energy Research. Turns out there is some creative, free-market thinking and doing on the problem.

I ALSO CALLED BIDEN AND WITHDREW MY NAME LAST NIGHT: Amy Klobuchar drops out of Biden VP contention. After all, I had about as much chance as she did at that point.

JUDGE QUESTIONS $30 MILLION TRIAL LAWYER FEE: Trial lawyers who won the huge ($117.5 million)Yahoo Breach MDL settlement claim they should get $30 million. The judge in the case says she has a few questions about how they arrived at that preposterous figure.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD AGAINST RACISM: Support grows for UCLA prof suspended for not giving preferential treatment to black students.

NOTHING SAYS COMMITMENT LIKE ADDING ANOTHER ADMINISTRATIVE LINE: FSU professors demand VP of ‘Anti-Racism.’

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SEN. TOM COTTON: “If the Chief Justice believes his political judgment is so exquisite, I invite him to resign, travel to Iowa, and get elected. I suspect voters will find his strange views no more compelling than do the principled justices on the Court.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Polls Are Getting Worse for Trump, Which Probably Means He Wins in a Landslide. “In a Briefing last month, I wondered whether anyone believed the polls even though I knew the question was largely rhetorical for devoted readers here. Well, maybe not for our regular trolls, but they believed the polls in 2016 too and that’s a big part of what made election night so delicious. That’s why we keep the trolls around, for moments like that. And for the clicks.”

AS THIS DRAGS ON, IT WILL QUICKLY BECOME MORE DAMAGING AND PAINFUL TO CORNELL LAW SCHOOL THAN TO ITS VICTIM: Prof. Jacobson: “How long it goes on, I don’t know. I’m certainly not going to quit.”

THANKS, BLM! Anthony Fauci: Widespread lockdowns no longer needed in U.S.

RASMUSSEN: Majority Of Likely Voters’ Distrust Political News.

A LOOK AT HOW ANTIFA OPERATES. They’re well organized.

DANIEL HOROWITZ: Atlanta shooting exposes the lie of BLM.

BLM: Blood libels matter.

They matter because when a dangerous lie criminalizing all police and victimizing every black criminal is allowed to metastasize, it turns America into a violent, lawless nation, harming the very people that movement purports to champion. The new rioting over what appears to be an act of self-defense on the part of an Atlanta cop demonstrates that this movement was never about justice for George Floyd.

The reason why the video showing the killing of George Floyd sparked so much outrage is precisely because it was so anomalous in police encounters. The video appears to show Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin kneeling, presumably with a lot of pressure, on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, in a contained situation long after Floyd had been subdued.

Well, now we know that the outrage was not over that anomalous act. What the latest blood libel in Atlanta demonstrates is that those pushing the lie seek to criminalize basic police work and lionize career criminals who needlessly escalate arrests into violent altercations, often killing others.

If the goal is to increase lawlessness until people willingly give up their liberties in exchange for (illusory) safety, then it all makes sense.

DON’T TRUST CHINA, CHINA IS ASSHOLE: China develops weapons to fry US electric grid, eyes high-tech ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack.

STEPMOTHER OF EX-ATLANTA OFFICER WHO SHOT RAYSHARD BROOKS FIRED FROM JOB:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported the stepmother of the former Atlanta police officer charged with fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks last week has been fired from her job.

Carlson said a “source familiar with the matter” told his show that Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe, was let go from an Atlanta-based company called Equity Prime Mortgage, where she had been human resources director.

“Rolfe was promised that her job was safe, but today she was told, and we’re quoting, ‘We have to terminate our relationship with you.’ No other explanation was offered,” he said.

Carlson said, “apparently,” her “only crime was being officer Rolfe’s stepmother.” He noted that Rolfe has been scrubbed from the company’s website.

The Washington Examiner checked, and she does not appear on the website’s leadership page. But, using the Wayback Machine, the Washington Examiner did find her listed as recently as May.

Related: “Among the most shocking of North Korea’s human rights abuses is the ‘three generations of punishment’ rule. If one person is found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison camp, so too will their entire family, and the subsequent two generations born at the camp must remain there for life.”

WELL, YES: ‘Naive’ Europe must snub China if it refuses market access, says ex-Nato chief.

But he called on Europe to prepare to take a stronger stance and move parts of its supply chains from China to “stable and reliable” alternatives if China failed to offer reciprocity for the European Union.

“Europeans have been too naive for too long,” said Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark who led Nato, the transatlantic security alliance, from 2009 to 2014.

“We had all hoped that we could live harmoniously and that over time engaging with China would lead to it being more like Hong Kong. Unfortunately, under [Chinese President] Xi Jinping it is Hong Kong that has become more like China.”

The EU tends to act mercantilist when negotiating with the US, but too often bends the knee for China.

COLLUSION: Congress Targets Social Media Companies for Circulating Chinese Propaganda.

YES:

Unchecked executive authority was just one of the many abuses the Founders tried to guard against, but I guess certain justices missed that day in conlaw.

STREISAND EFFECT: Revealed: The British NBC journalist and anti-cyber bullying charity ‘behind’ Google’s decision to demonetize Zero Hedge and threaten The Federalist. “Adele-Momoko Fraser is a British journalist with two years of experience.”

Journalist? You spelled Democratic Party activist with a byline incorrectly.

WHICH HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE, RELIGION OR ATHEISM: The answer may not be what you think, regardless which side you go with. And please play nice in the comments!

OH: Google’s Go-To ‘Conservative’ Influencer List Who Claim ‘Big Tech Bias Is a Good Thing.’ “The list (at the bottom of this article) includes key conservative influencers from major think tanks and publications – some of whom are believed to be beneficiaries of large Google donations.”

BAN ALL THE BREAKFASTS! Cream of Wheat launches ‘immediate review’ of brand’s packaging.

Related: Aunt Jemima’s Great-Grandson Enraged Her Legacy Will Be Erased.

FORMER NFL STAR HERSCHEL WALKER BLASTS BIDEN FOR COMPARING GEORGE FLOYD TO MLK JR.