FARAH STOCKMAN: The Truth About Today’s Anarchists. “‘Insurrectionary anarchists’ have been protesting for racial justice all summer. Some Black leaders wish they would go home.”

HA, HA VERY FUNNY… WAIT, THEY’RE SERIOUS? Hollywood Wants Us to Bail Out Movie Theaters.

JOEL KOTKIN: “One is often at a loss to explain California to people from other planets—like, say, earth. This is a state that issues mandates for electrification of everything while reducing its generating capacity. It blames devastating fires on climate change, without taking the blame for forestry practices that helped make the seasonal fires much worse. In California, pot is legal, but owning a car with a gas engine, however clean, may soon not be, and climate skeptics of any stripe face opprobrium, consignment to obscurity, and—if they have assets—court dates.”

It’s not actually funny, but tragic.

WHEN “SOCIAL JUSTICE” IS PRIVILEGED WHITE PEOPLE DESTROYING BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS: The Truth About Today’s Anarchists: “Insurrectionary anarchists” have been protesting for racial justice all summer. Some Black leaders wish they would go home.

On the last Sunday in May, Jeremy Lee Quinn, a furloughed photographer in Santa Monica, Calif., was snapping photos of suburban moms kneeling at a Black Lives Matter protest when a friend alerted him to a more dramatic subject: looting at a shoe store about a mile away.

He arrived to find young people pouring out of the store, shoeboxes under their arms. But there was something odd about the scene. A group of men, dressed entirely in black, milled around nearby, like supervisors. One wore a creepy rubber Halloween mask.

The next day, Mr. Quinn took pictures of another store being looted. Again, he noticed something strange. A white man, clad in black, had broken the window with a crowbar, but walked away without taking a thing.

Mr. Quinn began studying footage of looting from around the country and saw the same black outfits and, in some cases, the same masks. He decided to go to a protest dressed like that himself, to figure out what was really going on. He expected to find white supremacists who wanted to help re-elect President Trump by stoking fear of Black people. What he discovered instead were true believers in “insurrectionary anarchism.” . . .

Mr. Quinn discovered a thorny truth about the mayhem that unfolded in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in Minneapolis. It wasn’t mayhem at all.

While talking heads on television routinely described it as a spontaneous eruption of anger at racial injustice, it was strategically planned, facilitated and advertised on social media by anarchists who believed that their actions advanced the cause of racial justice. In some cities, they were a fringe element, quickly expelled by peaceful organizers. But in Washington, Portland and Seattle they have attracted a “cultlike energy,” Mr. Quinn told me.

Don’t take just Mr. Quinn’s word for it. Take the word of the anarchists themselves, who lay out the strategy in Crimethinc, an anarchist publication: Black-clad figures break windows, set fires, vandalize police cars, then melt back into the crowd of peaceful protesters. When the police respond by brutalizing innocent demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets and rough arrests, the public’s disdain for law enforcement grows. It’s Asymmetric Warfare 101.

In other words, their goal is to get black people shot by police. For the greater good, of course. Or at least to imbue their own, generally sorry, lives with a spurious sense of importance.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY: Sleeping Duty: Waking Late.

Gilead Tan and Andrea Fielding survived their stint in the military, got married, signed up to emigrate to a terraformed colony world, and went into cold sleep for the journey from Earth. While they slept, the starship went through the wrong fold in space and settled for a different world, a wild world.

Three centuries after the founding of a colony on the uncharted planet, Gilead awakens to find humanity slipped back to medieval tech and a feudal structure.

Worse, the king who wants Gilead awake won’t let Gilead awaken his wife.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  CNN Pre-Debate Poll Shows Biden Clearly Won Debate.

AND SHE’S RIGHT:  Kayleigh McEnany Upbraids Media for Obsessing About ‘White Supremacy’ While Ignoring Antifa.

THE LEFT INTENDS TO FRAUD THEIR WAY TO POWER AND THEN HAVE THE TECH GIANTS PUT THE LID ON US. PREPARE ACCORDINGLY:  Big Tech’s Backing of the ‘Transition Integrity Project’ Lacks Integrity.

YOU WANT TO KNOW THE JOKE WITH THIS? Media Plays Game With White Supremacy.

No, seriously. It’s very funny.  They’ve convinced themselves that people only voted for Trump because they are White Supremacists. (This is crazy cakes, considering who Trump is, and what he does. But we know they have no clue who we are or why we do what we do.) So by denouncing Trump as a white supremacist, they’re hoping to discredit him before undecideds, while by making him repeat he isn’t over and over again, they hope to separate him from his base.

Now they’re running around demanding that random conservatives on social media “denounce white supremacy.” because they think this will sow dissension on the right….
Seriously. If these people even had a clue of the general direction in which sanity and reality reside, they’d be really dangerous.

EXACTLY LIKE OBAMA’S:  Biden’s Toxic Identity Politics.

MAKE THEM CRY:  Court: Nicholas Sandmann lawsuits against NY Times, ABC, CBS, and Rolling Stone can go forward.

REMEMBER WHAT I SAID ABOUT BELIEVING THEIR OWN LIES?  Fox News’ John Roberts falsely claims Trump has not denounced ‘white supremacists’ – melts down when called out.

OF COURSE HE’S DISAPPOINTED! THEY HAD ALL THE ADDS READY TO GO SHOWING THAT TRUMP HAD NEVER DISAVOWED WHITE SUPREMACY, AND ARE TRYING TO RUN WITH THE LIE, AND THE TRANSCRIPT PROVES THEM WRONG. OF COURSE HE’S DISAPPOINTED:  “Disappointed With the Results”, Chris Waaaaallace.

Poor Chris “Candy Crawley” Wallace.  Go cry into your red diaper.

AS ALWAYS WITH THE LEFT ONE WONDERS IF IT’S MALICE, STUPIDITY OR UNEARNED SENSE OF COMPETENCE… OR PERHAPS I SHOULD EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF “YES”:  Cuomo Brothers Spread COVID Chaos.

WE’RE DEALING WITH A CULT. DEPROGRAMMING CULT MEMBERS IS…. DIFFICULT:  How do you argue for the truth when at this point only moral “truth” seems to matter?

OH, AND SPEAKING OF TYRANTS IN BLACK THESE ARE OLD, BUT WILL GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON JUDGE SULLIVAN AND WHAT HE IS DOING IN THE FLYNN CASE: EXCLUSIVE: Judge Emmett Sullivan, from General Flynn Trial, Arranged Speaking Gig for James Comey at Howard University for $100,000.
And: Whitestown judge Sullivan censured for actions after son’s arrest.*

You see, that’s why the left is fighting so hard to keep/get power at all costs. Because if they don’t have power, their corruption will all come out.
And unlike the Augean Stables, their corruption is such even a river would fail to wash it off.

*UPDATE: I didn’t do the research on that second one, but trusted someone else’s. Different Judge Sullivan.

HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS: IN THE FRAUD:   Breaking: Trump Campaign Sues Philadelphia Over City Officials Blocking Trump Election Observers from Entering Polling Stations.

IN THE FUTURE WE’LL ALL BE WHITE SUPREMACISTS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES. IN THE DERANGED RHETORIC OF THE LEFT:  Proud Boys Founder Announces He’s Suing Biden, CNN and ‘Reporters Who Call Multiracial Patriotic Group White Supremacists and Nazis’.

I don’t know anything else about the group than what’s in that post, but considering the left’s record which has decided: we’re all following Qanon (I actually had to ask a friend what that was the first time someone accused me of this) and we all get everything from Fox News (these days? really?) and we’re all racist, sexist and homophobic (there’s at least a wikipedia page claiming that for me and my friends) … well.  I’m not disposed to believe their demonization of any group without proof.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Court: Nicholas Sandmann lawsuits against NY Times, ABC, CBS, and Rolling Stone can go forward.

AT AMAZON, Leupold Rifle Scopes.

OPEN THREAD: Talk about stuff.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Corona Destroyer outfit is ‘the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen.’

Exit question: “Did you learn nothing from the census cowboy disaster?”

#RESISTANCE: Inside A California Covid Revolt.

“You cannot get closer to total disobedience of any kind of law,” he said, referring to the local response to Covid-19 strictures. “What’s happening up here is full-on anarchy.” Then he listed for me a few of the things that had happened recently: The county sheriff had announced that he wouldn’t enforce the state’s pandemic restrictions on social gatherings and businesses. People who had never before attended county board meetings were accusing local officials of treason. The county’s health officer, who had the unhappy job of imposing the state’s Covid rules on the citizens of Shasta County, was now receiving so many threats that Pontes had brought in a new threat-assessment team; he’d also ordered the bushes cut back away from her house, installed a security system and floodlights, and ordered police patrols of her neighborhood. “She still doesn’t feel safe out there,” he said. “At all.”

In just the past few months, a bunch of county health officers across California have been run from office. But what was happening in Shasta County felt to Pontes like a new stage of the crisis in governance. He thought it was “80-20” in favor that, at any moment, a citizen army would form, invade the public buildings, and perform citizens’ arrests of the five members of the county’s Board of Supervisors and any other government officials they could get their hands on. “Before Covid I felt I could talk my way out of just about anything,” he said. “But I had to ask the sheriff, ‘What are you going to do if they arrest us?’ He reassured me that he’s not going to take me anywhere.”

There are more kinds of anarchy and revolt than are embodied in Antifa.

THERE’S A NEW SPACE RACE QUIETLY GETTING UNDERWAY: China is building a new rocket to fly its astronauts on the moon.

CAR SEATS AS CONTRACEPTION: “Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points. Consistent with a causal channel, this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied). We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.”

I was writing about this in 2006.