RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME: Many Big-City Democrat Mayors Defunded Police While Spending Heavily on Their Security Details, Watchdog Finds.

(Classical reference in headline.)

BOMBSHELL: Joe Biden Used A Hillary-esque Private Email Account When He Was Vice President.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Cruz Rips Biden a New One (Or Two) for ‘Spooning’ with Putin.

Plus:

• The truth about teaching CRT is that there is no truth
• Portland’s #DefundThePolice is working out even worse than you expected
• The FBI goes from catching kidnappers to instigating them

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

TEXAS FLEEBAGGER DECLARES HERSELF “BRAVE,” ANNOUNCES HOUSE RUN FROM D.C. HIDEOUT:

Via the Post, I’ve been wondering how these people might generate more bad press for themselves after ditching their jobs, abandoning relatives who were grieving the death of loved ones, flying maskless to Washington, failing to convince Joe Manchin to end the filibuster, and then igniting a new COVID outbreak in Congress.

Now we have our answer.

It’s harder to convince people that you’re acting selflessly to protect democracy when you’re cutting literal campaign commercials and tweeting out fundraising links from your hotel room.

Michelle Beckley is a brave woman for hopping on a private jet, subsisting on room service, and grandstanding for an adoring media in a hopeless attempt to block Texas’s new voting law.

Stunning and brave:

CAM EDWARDS: Will NY Dems Say Anything About Rochester Mayor’s Bust On Gun Charges? “Not only are we talking about a gun control champion getting busted for illegally possessing a firearm, but Warren’s arrest highlights the fact that under New York law, mere possession of an unlicensed handgun is supposed to result in prison time upon conviction. While establishment New York Democrats like Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James, and NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams are all now talking about the need to get tough on criminals, far-Left activists in the state are still demanding a ‘reimagining’ of the criminal justice system itself. Warren’s charges highlight the split on among Democrats, and thanks to her relatively high profile in state politics, it makes it tough for New York pols to ignore her arrest.”

Tough, but clearly not impossible.

KAEPERNICK SYNDROME: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Takes Stunning Loss After Kneeling For BLM At Olympic Opener.

UPDATE: From America’s Newspaper of Record: Inspiring: US Women’s Soccer Team To Boycott Scoring Goals Until Racism Is Defeated.

VIDEO: Biden’s Communications Director Just Swapped Out the ‘Disinformation Dozen’ for ‘Conservative News Outlets.’

Related: One Day Soon, You’ll Wake Up to Find Your Favorite Website Has Vanished.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN US, AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AGES AGO: China adding finishing touches to world-first thorium nuclear reactor.

FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Professors sue college district after jobs threatened for criticizing social justice expenditures.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: What AOC’s Latest Viral Argument Gets Wrong About Capitalism and Profit.

OBAMA’S THIRD TERM?:  Comments are due tomorrow at the Department of Education on the Biden’s Administration’s proposal to return to (or maybe even go beyond) the Obama Administration’s ghastly school discipline policy.  A few years ago, Alison Somin and I wrote, “The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline:  Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law.”  It’s still worth reading.

Brace yourself.  The Biden Administration is about to make K-12 schools even worse than they are now.

TO PUT IT MILDLY: The FBI Has Some Serious Corruption Problems. “Here is the fun part. According to the same report, the DOJ does not have the authority to compel or subpoena testimony from former department employees, including those who retire or resign during the course of the investigation.”

#RESIST: Christian university rejects woke accreditation policies to preserve mission.

SUMMER READING: Making Sense of Race.

HMM: To Free Cuba, Make Guantanamo the New Ellis Island.

The drowning risk for incoming Cuban refugees could be entirely eliminated by inviting the Cubans seeking freedom and democracy to make their way by land to Guantanamo. At the navy base, their applications could be processed, they could be vaccinated against Covid-19, and they could eventually be transported safely to America by airplane or in seaworthy vessels.

The images of this exodus would help advance what Mr. Biden professes to be a core foreign policy objective. In his July 15 “Washington Declaration” with Chancellor Merkel, Mr. Biden said, “We must act now to demonstrate that democracy delivers for our people at home and that democratic leadership delivers for the world.”

Forget Biden’s words and watch his actions instead — and his actions show he’s no friend of liberty in Cuba or here.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Black Rifle Coffee CEO Was a Moron for Trusting the New York Times. “How long do the mainstream media hacks have to keep exposing themselves as frothing-at-the-mouth haters of conservatives before conservatives get it?”

ACCUSED MURDERER SET FREE AFTER ST. LOUIS COUNTY PROSECUTORS FAIL TO SHOW UP, BUT FOUND TIME FOR MCCLOSKEYS.

LISTEN, PEDRO, DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE, MAN — EVEN IF IT’S ME: Top Health Officer Orders Australians: “Don’t Have A Conversation” With Each Other.

FROM SETH BARRETT TILLMAN AND JOSH BLACKMAN: Offices and Officers of the Constitution. Their work on this subject over the past several years has caused me to rethink things I thought I understood.

HACK BACK TWICE AS HARD: IDF intel chief says Israel under nonstop cyber-threats, is retaliating.

MORE BACKLASH, PLEASE: Backlash in states starts over Biden court-packing scheme.

GOOD FOR THE NAS:  The National Association of Scholars Opposes the ABA’s Woke Standards for Law Schools.

MORE ON THE CATHERINE LHAMON NOMINATION:  Teresa Manning doubts Lhamon can be fair.

IT’S WORSE THAN YOU KNOW: One Day Soon, You’ll Wake Up to Find Your Favorite Website Has Vanished. “It’s not just Facebook that conservatives need to worry about. Wrongthinkers, including Trump, have been booted off Twitter and YouTube as well—and that’s just a part of the multi-pronged effort to remove conservative media from the Internet. In addition, left-wing globalists are kicking conservatives off email services like Mailchimp, refusing to allow our side to use cybersecurity services to protect against hackers, denying sites hosting services, and reducing our ability to monetize our sites.”

HE SEEMS CONSISTENTLY COZY WITH THE ENEMIES OF OUR NATION: Swalwell Had Meetings With Qatari Charity Tied to Terrorist Groups.