YES: Read Mitch Daniels’ Charge To Graduates: ‘The Biggest Risk Of All Is That We Stop Taking Risks.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: BLM Sides with Terrorists Again, But At Least This Time They’re Foreign?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is there a terrorist group that, on a long enough timeline, the Left won’t embrace?

Answer: No. And the timeline doesn’t have to be that long, either.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Celebrate Diversity Criminality!
• The most de-electrifying video you’ll see all day
• Trust the experts (even when they aren’t)

Bonus Sanity: Portlanders come out hard against defunding the police.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

XI JINPING SMILES: Purge at the Pentagon: Outrage as Defense Secretary’s woke race adviser plans trawl of military personnel’s social media for ‘extremist and concerning behavior’ — using private company to circumvent the First Amendment.

VICTORIA TAFT: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Orders a Mandate Against Mask Mandates – And It Gets Better From There. “Just to make sure liberal Travis County mask scolds don’t try any funny stuff, Abbott’s new rule says any governmental outfit requiring masks can be fined $1,000.”

FLASHBACK: “These women are the men their mothers divorced.”

TONY KATZ: INDIANAPOLIS DESERVES BETTER THAN REP. ANDRE CARSON’S ISRAEL BIGOTRY.

FROM THE UNCOVERED MOUTHS OF BABES: This 10-year-old completely demolished his school board’s mask mandate and called all the grown ups hypocrites.

HEY, AFTER FIVE YEARS WE FINALLY FOUND THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION: Biden Says Russia Can Have a New Pipeline, but America Can’t.

DIGITAL DANEGELD: Hackers behind Colonial Pipeline attack reportedly received $90 million in bitcoin before shutting down.

WHY ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Tweets from student government leaders show racial animus toward whites.

Spoiler: By design.

STACEY LENNOX: Georgia Republican Party Is Rising to the Challenge Following 2020. “Despite the drama, or maybe because of it, the Georgia Republican grassroots appear highly motivated.”

RHODE ISLAND LAWMAKERS push law banning teaching of Critical Race Theory.

IT’S A LONGSHOT (FOR NOW): Republicans have a new tool to fight deplatforming: common carriage laws.

The idea was laid out in detail in April, when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a concurring opinion as the court declined to hear a case on former President Trump blocking people on Twitter. The case itself was moot for procedural reasons, but Thomas took it as an opportunity to write in support of classifying social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter as “common carriers,” the same classification that net neutrality rules use for telecom providers.

“There is a fair argument that some digital platforms are sufficiently akin to common carriers or places of accommodation to be regulated in this manner,” Thomas wrote in his opinion last month. In theory, common carriage would ban platforms from unfairly discriminating against speech, .

Thomas’s opinion has no legal force, but it was enough to get Republicans in Congress to pay attention. In the wake of the opinion, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced the 21st Century FREE Speech Act, which combined the usual Section 230 repeal with a new effort classifying social media platforms as common carriers.

“This is more than just a messaging bill or an empty gesture,” Mike Davis from the Internet Accountability Project said in a statement soon after the bill was released last month — although any time someone has to say it’s not an empty gesture, you should probably be skeptical.

I am skeptical, but mostly because the people benefiting from deplatforming are the same people holding the reins of power in Washington.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Video of International Law Scholar Defending Israel Vanishes From YouTube.

NOT THE BEE: This family was kicked off a Southwest flight because their 3-year-old MIGHT remove his mask.

INTERESTING NEW BOOK: The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History. There is a good blurb from Glenn Greenwald. You can get it at Barnes & Noble here.

THINK ABOUT BACKUP POWER: Colonial Pipeline hack signals electric grid’s next ‘electronic apocalypse.’

I’m not confident in the FBI or DHS’s ability to prevent this.

ASSAULT SHIP PHOTO-OP: The USS Makin Island viewed through the clouds.

STRATEGYTALK: Israel and Iran face-off. The latest StrategyTalk podcast from StrategyPage. If you like it, please subscribe.

VERY RELATED: The column I wrote eight days ago: Don’t Reward Iranian Violence By Ending Economic Sanctions.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Kyrsten Sinema Goes Full Pro-Israel, Democrats Weep. “The real fringe of the Democratic party is my senior senator, Kyrsten Sinema. She’s not clinically insane, so she’s not in the mainstream of the party.”

COLLUSION: Biden ICE Nominee Took Trip to China Funded by Cash-for-Visas Advocacy Group.

HOW DYSFUNCTIONAL IS THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS?: The Commission has a tradition of passing resolutions honoring civil rights figures who have recently died. I have always dutifully voted in favor of these resolutions regardless of whether I agreed with everything (or indeed anything) the particular person had said or done while living. It was enough that one of my colleagues thought the person was worthy of such a tribute.

Then, in December, Walter Williams, a civil rights hero of mine and probably of many Instapundit readers, died. I asked my special assistant at the Commission, Alex Heideman, to write up a tribute to Dr. Williams. I thought this would be routine.

It wasn’t. After much delay, the tribute finally came up for a vote at the end of April. It passed, but just barely. The vote was 5-3. (Thank you, Commissioner Yaki, for breaking ranks with the progressive members of the Commission and voting with the conservatives.)

IT WAS A HOAX: Accused Russiagate ‘Spy’ Kilimnik Speaks — and Evidence Backs His ‘No Collusion’ Account.

BOB MCMANUS: “Is anyone too old, too young or too frail to be immune to Bill de Blasio’s signature contribution to contemporary New York life — the stray bullet? . . . When de Blasio and his police commissioner, Dermot Shea, dismantled the city’s hugely successful anti-gun street crime units, when the City Council embraced the defund rhetoric, and when Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature bought into the anti-cop zeitgeist and obnoxiously did away with most bail, the message to law-abiding New Yorkers became clear: You’re on your own, chumps.”

Gun control isn’t about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. It’s about keeping guns out of the hands of people like you.