I’M NOT SURE I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ALL THE SPECIFICS: What Did Bill Clinton Really Do on Those ‘Lolita Express’ Trips? Records Release May Reveal the Truth.

TO BE HONEST, THIS SOUNDS KINDA FUN: “This is the future of security holes in our internet-connected appliances: metaphorically, cameras that you can fool by slapping a sticker labelled ‘THIS IS NOT THE DROID YOU ARE LOOKING FOR’ on the front of the droid the camera is in fact looking for. And in five years’ time they’re going to be everywhere.”

I SUSPECT THAT CHINA IS QUIETLY PROMOTING THE WEST’S SELF-HATRED AND SELF-FLAGELLATION: Xi Jinping has projected himself as the ‘Strong Horse’ and painted China as an attractive future in contrast to Joe Biden and the self-hating West which cannot even find something good to say about itself.

As I’ve said, the kind of history being promoted by the 1619 Project and the “antiracism” movement generally is the kind of history that a conqueror would impose upon a conquered population in order to break its will.

LEAKED LEAK-PREVENTION: Apple Is Making Employees Wear Body Cams To Avoid Leaks.

BLUE CITY BLUES: Judge Orders Thug-Loving Minneapolis City Council, Mayor to Hire More Cops. Good Luck With That.

FIRST LOOK: Ruger LCP Max. “In other words, the new LCP Max gives you the same size pistol with twice the capacity as the original LCP.”

I quite like my LCP. It fits nicely in a pocket with a sticky holster, it’s surprisingly accurate for a gun that size, and did I mention it fits in a pocket? It’s not that much fun to shoot, as its small size and light weight make it a bit snappish, but it’s not a gun you buy for recreational shooting. Doubling the capacity would only improve things.

JUDGE ENJOINS FLORIDA SOCIAL MEDIA LAW FROM GOING INTO EFFECT. This was the law that would have fined companies like Twitter or Facebook $250,000 per day for deplatforming candidates for statewide office ($25,000 per day for any other office). I don’t doubt that there are extremely thorny First Amendment concerns here. But this should be the handwriting on the wall, in the most Biblical sense of the term.

Consider this: If Donald Trump is still banned from these platforms in 2024, runs for office, and loses, his supporters will say that it was not a free and fair election, and you know what? They will be right. I cannot stress enough how potentially apocalyptic this possibility is, and I don’t think anyone in DC or Silicon Valley has the first clue how close they are to driving us all right over a cliff.

A TRILLION HERE AND A TRILLION THERE AND PRETTY SOON YOU’RE TALKING REAL TROUBLE: Joe Biden’s Reckless Deficit Spending Could Mean Economic Disaster. “This week’s latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reminds us that the Biden Administration seems to have drunk the MMT Kool-Aid. According to the CBO, the US budget deficit for the current fiscal year will amount to a staggering $3 trillion or around 13 ½ percent of GDP. That in turn will drive the US public debt to GDP ratio to over 100 percent or to a level similar to that prevailing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.”

The difference between now and then is that in 1945 World War II had ended but today’s Democrats are just getting warmed up.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY:

VIDEO: Deranged OH Dems Jeer, Bang Desks Over Trans Athletes Ban. But the Rep Who Kept Her Cool Got the Last Laugh.

HOW ‘EXPERTS’ ABUSED SCIENCE TO SADDLE AMERICA WITH ‘MICROAGGRESSIONS’: Don’t have the time or inclination to read a whole law review article? George Leef at the Martin Center breaks it down for you. Here’s a teaser for you: “When Sue’s [the “father” of microaggressions] research was finally critically analyzed for its weak-to-nonexistent evidence, he responded that what constitutes evidence ‘is bathed in the values of the dominant society.'” Yikes.

RALPH NORTHAM LAUGHS: NY Judge Steps Down Over 33-Year-Old Halloween Costume Of Celebrity ‘Of Color.’

BARI WEISS ON AMAZON’S WOKE SMOKESCREEN:

The playbook explains that “the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion requires all of us to disrupt those biases, and the longstanding customs and practices in the industry, in order to achieve real, lasting change. This work is not easy to do, but don’t worry, we’re in this together.”

Are we, though? I wonder how the Amazon drivers afraid to take a bathroom break in order to keep up with their delivery quotas would feel about that. Or the workers in JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse, who labor under the all-seeing eye of Jeff Bezos. More than 60 percent of the people who work in that warehouse, which is the size of 15 football fields, are black or Hispanic. And, according to a recent New York Times investigation, black workers at JFK8 were almost “50 percent more likely to be fired.”

I would really love for an Amazon executive to explain to me how understanding the difference between Disabled and disabled — Amazon’s Inclusion Playbook told me that Disabled with a capital “D” refers to those who are culturally Disabled, whatever that means — makes an actual difference in the lives of anyone at all.

As Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon has noted: wokeness is, almost always, a smokescreen. By focusing the attention and energy of the rich and powerful on say, whether using the word Latinx is preferable to Hispanic, we let them off the hook for actually doing something about the fact that Latinos remain more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line as whites and Asians.

Batya put it to me this way: “‘Doing the work’ means hiring diversity specialists to call their children white supremacists in a prep school class they can put on their transcript to help their chances of getting into Harvard. It has absolutely nothing to do with asking those who could actually make a difference with regard to true inequality to sacrifice anything of themselves.”

It is an amazing thing to behold Amazon executives LARP as gender studies majors.

Speaking of woke smokescreens, as I mentioned earlier this week: Star Wars prompts fan backlash for removing ‘Slave-1’ ship name.

“Star Wars” fans are outraged — again — over a decision to remove the “Slave-1” name from one of their iconic space cruisers.

Disney has quietly dropped the moniker — which some fans consider canon to the franchise — from the ship that belongs to intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett

The change came to light with LEGO’s latest “Star Wars” build, a 478- piece set to create Boba Fett’s “Starship,” as it’s now dubbed.

“We’re not calling it Slave I anymore,” said LEGO “Star Wars” lead designer Michael Lee Stockwell, Jedi News reported. “Everybody is [dropping the name],” he added, apparently referring to Disney studios.

That’s nice. Also Disney: Disney Defends Mulan Filming Near [Uighur] Internment Camps In China.

NOT LIVING UP TO THE HYPE: Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier: The variants are spreading faster, but they don’t necessarily have incentive to kill more often.

THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN:

● Shot: AOC: No, Seriously, We Only Have 12 Years Left.

—Jim Treacher, PJ Media, May 29, 2019.

● Chaser: PANIC! NYT Columnist Farhad Manjoo Cries Dems ‘Have a Year to Save the Planet.’

—Joseph Vazquez, NewsBusters, yesterday.

Couldn’t you guys settle on one, easy to remember, number?

CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’: Gavin Newsom Just Pulled Every Corrupt Trick in the Book to Rig the Recall Election in His Favor.

THIS IS BASICALLY RIGHT: Elon Musk says Starlink’s satellite internet is probably not for you. I’m enjoying my beta test and the service is great — better than my ground-based Comcast in terms of both speed and reliability — but it’s really aimed at people who can’t get normal Internet service. If you can get fiber, that’s going to be better.

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT? ‘Forever Purge’ Follows Far-Left’s Fear of White Supremacy, Ignores Antifa. “You’ll swear MSNBC’s Joy Reid spit-polished the screenplay after Brian Stelter took a whack at it.”

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story adaptation is going to get him canceled.

CROSS-IMMUNITY IS REAL: Study ties milder COVID-19 symptoms to prior run-ins with other coronaviruses.

SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON BANNED FROM OLYMPICS FOR NOT DOING ANYTHING RESEMBLING CHEATING: “What seems particularly unfair to Richardson in all this is the fact that women athletes like cannot smoke marijuana — something that is not a performance-enhancing drug and even legal in some states — and run in the Olympics. But men can identify as women, take estrogen and beat them in a race.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: President Gaslight Assures You That Your Rising Food Prices Are Down.

Plus:

• Vaccine hoochies are a thing, apparently
• Biden is losing it (but this time it’s just his temper) (again)
• The ghost of Spiro Agnew has a message for Kamala Harris

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

FALSE ‘INSURGENCY’ NARRATIVES DON’T MAINTAIN THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: Why Is Pelosi Still Not Allowing Visitors in the U.S. Capitol?

82 IS THE NEW 72: 82-year-old woman is going into space.

LIKE MOST EVERYTHING RUN BY OUR GLOBAL RULING CLASS, THE OLYMPICS ARE A JOKE: