GREAT MOMENTS IN MAGICAL THINKING: Illinois lawmaker seeks ban of Grand Theft Auto game following rise in carjackings.

“SCIENTIFIC” AMERICAN:

“Uncomfortably reminiscent” to people who don’t know the meaning of words, perhaps. Or who are simply utterly irrational.

PREDATORY PROSECUTORS:

What jumps out regarding all these promises to investigate is that no crime has been identified—only a target of prosecution, of whom it is simply assumed that he has committed crimes. But this manner of criminal jurisprudence is totally contrary to the spirit of American law, a bedrock principle of which is the assumption of innocence, both for the accused, but even more importantly, for people who have not been accused. Prosecutors running around pledging to investigate people they consider political enemies embody the apothegm of Stalin’s top secret policeman Lavrenty Beria, who famously said, “Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.” . . .

That is to say, prosecutors are going back to look at Trump’s historical finances, which were not worthy of attention before he became their political enemy. If he had never run for office, nobody would have ever bothered investigating his loans or the accounting procedures of his family business with the stated intention of putting him in jail.

This is the sort of practice that is associated with dictatorships, Third-world countries, and failed states, all of which the United States is increasingly resembling. Free societies do not allow prosecutors to operate as predators.

So punish them, as an example to others.

PROGRESS: New treatment pairs blue light with food-safe plant oil to safely wipe out surface bacteria.

MICHAEL ANTON: Why Do the Election’s Defenders Require My Agreement? The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime—not to give the people a say in the direction of their government.

THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS STATE-SANCTIONED AMORPHOUS BLOBS: California Bill Would Fine Stores $1,000 for Having Separate Boys and Girls Sections.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY:

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Researchers identify four causes of “Zoom fatigue” and their simple fixes.

PUSHBACK: Rubio, Colleagues to Amazon: Censorship of Conservative Books an Assault on Free Speech.

MATT MARGOLIS: ‘Fire Fauci’ Trends on Twitter as His Mixed Messages and Inconsistencies Finally Get Called Out.

SPACE RACE II: China officially plans to move ahead with super-heavy Long March 9 rocket. “ The target date of 2030 for CZ-9 might seem distant for rocket development, but it would be relatively speedy compared to NASA’s design and construction of the Space Launch System rocket, which began a decade ago.”

FASTER, PLEASE: COVID Is on the Verge of a Humiliating Defeat. V-C Day is coming. Get ready to light this candle.

STANDARDS: Tesla Model Y Standard Range Discontinued; CEO Musk Explains.

IS THIS PART OF SKYNET OR PART OF THE THING WE’LL NEED TO FIGHT SKYNET? Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week. “In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps’ fire support coordinator says he wouldn’t go to war without it.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: AOC’s Language About Biden ‘Migrant Facility’ Far Different From Her Language Under Trump.

ALEXEI NAVALNY IS CANCELED: Amnesty International has undermined the Russian rebel’s fight for freedom.

Now, in the eyes of Amnesty, Navalny has been downgraded.

Putin, no doubt, will be delighted. The Kremlin has struggled to find ways to deal with a popular politician who has been brave enough to call out Russia’s leader for what he is: a man who will resort to any means to retain his grip on power.

Instead, the Russian authorities have resorted to a tried-and-tested tactic: besmirching Navalny’s name. One of the charges Navalny is facing relates to a trumped-up accusation of slandering a World War Two veteran. In reality, the case is a way of damaging Putin’s most effective adversary.

Amnesty says its bizarre decision to remove the ‘prisoner of conscience’ label from Navalny is based on an ‘internal decision’. Yet the news will only help Putin in his attempt to throw mud at his enemy. It’s no surprise that RT, a Kremlin-funded news channel, is covering this story.

Cancelling Navalny has caused this story to resurface: “Amnesty International’s 1964 disqualification of South African Nelson Mandela as prisoner of conscience.”

Earlier: Amnesty Pulls Aleksei Navalny’s ‘Prisoner Of Conscience’ Status Over ‘Hate Speech.’

INCLUDING THE BRANDINGS? NXIVM Sex Cult Slaves Speak Out: ‘It Was New, It Was Edgy, and It Was Good.’

AMMONIA AS FUEL: Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia.

LATE AND SLOWLY: How Boris Johnson Will Ease And End Coronavirus Rules.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: With Nurses Episode, NBC Again Shows it Detests Jews.

Al Sharpton’s TV network is really letting it all hang out this week: Thank You, [SNL’s] Michael Che! “Friends, we’ve got to stop this. Che’s joke wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t something someone accidentally let air on a decades-long television show with a cast and crew in the hundreds. It wasn’t even new for him. Was the line anti-Semitic? Yep. Was it also absolutely intended? You betcha…Me? I prefer my wolves in wolves’ clothing. If anti-Semitism is essential to the ideology of today’s left—and it is—then it is essential that we see it clearly. Keeping ourselves under illusions is… Well, let’s just say, that has never been a winning strategy for Jews.”

As Jim Treacher asks: What’s Up with All the Anti-Semitism at NBC?

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WELL, LET’S GO: The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans and continents like here on Earth.

SKIING IS RACIST NOW: Why don’t Black people ski? One prof blames systemic racism.

AT THIS POINT, LETTING THE DEMS SPEED UP OUR IMPENDING FINANCIAL COLLAPSE MIGHT BE THE LEAST-BAD OPTION: Democrats Ready Another Multi-Trillion-Dollar ‘Stimulus Bill’ on Infrastructure.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researcher develops, tests nano-carrier as potential treatment for glioblastomas.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Will Woody Allen Movies Be Canceled Next? “A new documentary on the filmmaker’s alleged assault could make his films vanish.”