WE WENT FROM #FOLLOWTHESCIENCE TO #SILENCETHESCIENCE SO QUICKLY EVERYBODY NOTICED: Twitter Suspends Journalist for Repeating CDC Vaccine Data They Don’t Like.

NO, EVANGELICALS NOT MOST LIKELY TO BE UNVACCINATED: Religion Unplugged’s Ryan Burge crunched the data and found the group that actually is the least likely to be vaccinated. It’s not evangelicals, it’s not minorities, it’s ….

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Mayor of Boston equates proof of vaccination mandates to slavery as NYC mayor makes it policy.

It’s not, but it is hilarious to see de Blasio, who views everything through a racial prism (“No, de Blasio told him. I’m the black candidate.”) being declared a racist late in his second term.

THAT PEOPLE ARE EVEN ASKING THESE QUESTIONS TELLS YOU THAT THE DEM ESTABLISHMENT HAS WRITTEN HIM OFF: Could Cuomo Face Jail Time Following Attorney General’s Harassment Report?

IT REALLY IS: The Babylon Bee made a parody of John Lennon’s “Imagine” about communism and it’s quite simply the greatest thing you’ll see on the internet today.

CHANGE: Democrats Panic as Latinos and Asian Voters Leave The Party.

IF THIS DOESN’T MAKE YOU SCREAM, YOU MIGHT BE UNCONSCIOUS: New report out from Open the Books finds the U.S. government “spent at least $282.6 billion on foreign aid between 2013-2018—almost $47 billion on foreign aid in FY2018, alone.” And that’s just the first most general finding. Brace yourself for when you get to the details.

BTW, Open the Books has filed more than 40,000 public information requests with governments at all levels for comprehensive spending data. The result is an independent web site that is a veritable treasure chest of data on what governments do with your tax dollars.  Somewhere, little Jimmie Madison is saying “Good show, Open the Books, Good show, that’s what the First Amendment guarantee of a free press is all about.”

CHANGE (IT BACK): Austin Police Refunding Proposition Makes November Ballot. “The petition is to restore a statutory level of 2 officers per 1,000 citizens, add an elected head of police oversight (not appointed by the council) and double officer training per year, among other things.”

FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: On HillFaith today, it’s the fourth of seven great “I AM” claims by Jesus. The Good Shepherd.

WELL, WE’VE ALREADY LEARNED THAT UNIVERSITIES ARE CESSPITS OF SEXUAL ABUSE, SO THIS MAKES SENSE: REPORT: NYU Law professor attempted to discredit Cuomo accuser.

Well, not all universities. There’s always Reynolds Online University. “The one where nobody gets raped.”

SYSTEMIC RACISM: University’s anti-racism workshop teaches deans to ‘accept white inferiority.’

CHARLES LIPSON:  “When Confidence in Our Institutions Collapses.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: An Epidemic of Mandatory. “The epidemic of ‘mandatory’ suggests that rather than becoming more flexible and adaptive before an endemic disease, the experts are hanging on to the mantle of certitude. Slate sadly concludes: ‘Noble lies are a trap. We cannot predict the public’s behavior, and loss of trust is devastating. The general population is far too skeptical to blindly follow the advice of experts, and far too intelligent to be easily duped.’ True. And that loss of trust is how we arrived at mandatory.”

Read the whole thing.

JOHN FUND:  “Is New York City’s Vaccine Passport Scheme Racist?“

GOOD NEWS ABOUT A BAD NEWS NOMINATION:  “Lhamon Fails to Advance Out of Committee; Full Senate Should Not Allow Her Nomination to Proceed Further.”

THEY’RE ALREADY TOO EXPENSIVE: Birmingham Southern College imposes $500 fee on unvaccinated students. “Though the college has over $100,000 remaining in available HEER money, the school states its policy is due to a ‘lack of federal funds.'”

Overpriced and lying is no way to go through life, son.

SCOTT YENOR AT THE MARTIN CENTER:  “Academic Freedom Doesn’t Shield Universities from Oversight.”

PRIVACY: Facebook is reportedly trying to analyze encrypted data without decrypting it. “Regardless of intent, the whole thing feels disgustingly immoral and could potentially open up a whole new can of worms. If Facebook or others (Amazon, Google and Microsoft were named specifically by The Information) can glean actionable information from encrypted data, can you still technically label it encrypted?”

LESLIE EASTMAN: The Coronavirus Timeline: What We Know Now and What May Happen Next.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: A Mysterious New Insect Is Feasting on DC-Area People and Making Them Think They Have Bed Bugs: The bug is invisible, but the bites are visibly disgusting—and crazy itchy. “Wasn’t 2021 supposed to be better?”

That was just Democratic propaganda. . .

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will the Sleazebag House of Cuomo Finally Fall Down? “While I can’t pretend to know what was in the minds of the Founding Fathers of this great nation, I’m pretty sure that they were hoping that one of the upsides to winning the Revolution would be that we wouldn’t have to suffer under the rule of one family and its descendants.”

#METOO STOPPED MATTERING THE DAY GROPEY JOE BIDEN WAS NOMINATED: Cuomo case provides a major #MeToo litmus test: Will a sitting governor face justice?

UPDATE: Via a friend:

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: 1619 Project, Touted as Racial Reckoning, Ignores Democratic Party Racism.

Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice president, John C. Calhoun, to North Carolina Gov. Charles B. Aycock, an architect of the white-supremacist campaign of 1898 that ushered in the era of Jim Crow.

At a time when governments, sports teams, schools and other bastions of American society are rushing to expunge legacies of slavery or racism, this was another instance of the Democratic Party’s failure to acknowledge that it did more than any other institution in American life to preserve the “peculiar institution” — and later enforce Jim Crow-style apartheid in the Old South.

“I think it’s absolutely fair to criticize the history of the Democrat Party when we’re literally changing the names of birds because they’re named after racists,” said Jarrett Stepman, author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past,” referring to a new racism-cleansing push in, yes, ornithology.

Democrats’ circumspection in the face of this trend is especially noteworthy because it comes at a time when they are criticizing Republican legislation to block the teaching of critical race theory on the ground that the GOP wants to whitewash American history. But one of the most noteworthy efforts to reframe American history in terms of race, the New York Times’ 1619 Project, virtually ignores the Democrat Party’s role in advancing and sustaining racism in the United States.

Ignores it? It’s meant to obscure it.

SCRUBBED: Boeing announces decision on Wednesday launch of Starliner. “NASA and Boeing have announced they will not be attempting to launch the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 4.”

RACISM CHARGES ARE ONLY FOR USE AGAINST REPUBLICANS! Durbin won’t hear racism charges against ATF nominee. “Going on defense for another embattled Biden nominee, a key Senate Democratic leader has rejected a GOP request to hold an emergency hearing to probe allegations that the president’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives nominee used racist language and will demoralize the agency.”

Why is Dick Durbin covering up racism? Well, we all know why.