LAYERS OF EDITORS AND ASS-COVERERS: Washington Post issues two corrections after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report.

The Post later followed with an even lengthier correction, this time at the top of Lorenz’s article that read, “The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram. After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time. During that process, The Post removed the incorrect statement from the story but did not note its removal, a violation of our corrections policy. The story has been updated to note that Mazeika declined to comment for this story and ThatUmbrellaGuy could not be reached for comment. A previous version of this story also inaccurately attributed a quote to Adam Waldman, a lawyer for Johnny Depp. The quote described how he contacted some Internet influencers and has been removed.”

Late on Friday, the Post quietly changed “correction” to “editor’s note” while maintaining the text of the errors.

Neither correction, however, addressed who was behind the stealth edit.

When asked specifically whether Lorenz herself or an editor made the stealth edit, a spokesperson for the Post replied, “That’s not something we’d discuss on the record.”

For obvious reasons.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Jonathan Turley: New York Attorneys Accused of Firebombing Police Car Given Generous Plea Deal. “Notably, Rahman and Mattis pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Now, however, they will be allowed to withdraw the earlier plea and instead plead guilty to conspiring to assemble the Molotov cocktail and damage the New York Police Department patrol car. That is a nosebleed of a drop in the severity and punishment for this violent attack. It is a sharp contrast to the harsh position taken by the Biden Justice Department on many of those accused of rioting on January 6th. Attorney General Merrick Garland cited the threat to police officers in pledging an unprecedented effort to charge and convict those involved ‘on any level’ in the riot.”

Oh and speaking of January 6th: “Jan 6 committee has split behind the scenes over what actions to take after public hearings: Some members want big changes on voting rights — [including] to abolish the Electoral College — while others are resisting proposals to overhaul the election system.”

SLEEP MATTERS: Doctors and nurses need 20-minute power naps during night shifts to keep patients safe.

JIM TREACHER: WaPo Is a Kindergarten — With all apologies to actual kindergarteners. “The journos are out of control. They’ve always behaved like spoiled children, but now they’ve run out of outside targets and are turning on each other. As more and more Americans tune them out, they’re destroying their own industry from within. Tee-hee!”

YOU ONLY GET ONE GUESS: There Was Huge ‘Mistake’ in the 2020 Census… Guess Which Party It Favored?

IF THAT DIDN’T WORK, HE HAD AN ACCORDION IN RESERVE: Music teacher plays trombone to scare bear away from school.

NOT THE FIRST REPORT LIKE THIS I’VE SEEN, BUT STILL WAITING FOR MORE DETAILS TO EMERGE: Successful Ukrainian Counterattack in Severodonetsk? “The fog of war and the paucity of competent in-theater reporting makes things hard to analyze, but at this point in time, it appears that Ukraine is winning the Battle of Severodonetsk.”

TAIL GUNNER JOE: THE NEXT GENERATION. Awww: Joe Biden Is Angry That He’s Now More Unpopular Than Donald Trump.

Related: “I see the contrast coming into view. Joe Biden is making Jimmy Carter look like a good president.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

I THOUGHT THEY WERE GONERS BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: Monarch butterflies make huge comeback.

JEFF DUNETZ: June 6, 1944 D-Day: The Day That Saved The World.

ATHENA THORNE: Yes, Real Men Still Exist: Watch Them Stand Up for Children Being Dragged Into Dallas Grooming Event.

AS TIME PASSES, THESE NUMBERS KEEP GOING UP: Antibodies from COVID-19 can circulate in blood for 500 days.

IT’S NOT HAPPENING BY ACCIDENT: Victor Davis Hanson: The Sovietization of American Life. “Behind all our disasters there looms an ideology, a creed that ignores cause and effect in the real world—without a shred of concern for the damage done to those outside the nomenklatura.”

BREAKING: Musk threatens to dump deal in letter to Twitter, SEC. “Capping off a four-week fight over the true percentage of bot content on the platform, Musk’s attorneys warned the current Twitter board that Musk would terminate the deal if Twitter continued to stonewall him on that data.”

AT AMAZON: Long shelf-life food from Augason Farms. #CommissionEarned

BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE: ‘Even Cardi Misses Trumponomics:’ Cardi B Wants To Know When ‘They’ Will Announce The Recession.

Flashback: Joe Biden, President Of Cardi B(abylon). Biden gave Cardi B (whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) an interview (of sorts) that was published by Elle magazine on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in August of 2020.

SERIOUSLY, WHO COULD BLAME HIM? Ilya Shapiro resigns from Georgetown Law shortly after reinstatement. His resignation letter is well worth reading.

PRICKLY POTUS EGO UPDATE: Biden Disses Musk, Wishing Him ‘Lots of Luck on His Trip to the Moon’ (Spoiler: It’s AMERICA’S Trip).

GOV. KRISTI NOEM: Food security is national security and a crisis is coming.

Related: Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

Plus: Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world.

IT’S COME TO THIS: New York magazine defends Chesa Boudin, son of jailed Weather Underground radicals: The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism. If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature.

Modern San Francisco, unlike New York, does not rest on the legacy of a social-democratic state forged with New Deal largesse. There are no Fiorello La Guardias or Robert Wagners lurking in the city’s history. From 1912 to 1963, only Republicans governed San Francisco, and they were largely backers of big business who could occasionally draw support from organized labor. The first nonwhite person to win an election in 20th-century San Francisco, Willie Brown, did not enter office until 1965. Despite San Francisco’s reputation as a liberal nirvana, proud progressive governance came and went quickly. George Moscone was assassinated along with Harvey Milk in 1978. Art Agnos, another liberal Democrat, lost his reelection bid to Frank Jordan, a Democratic former police chief, in 1991.

A right-leaning, if conventional, business Establishment held great sway over San Francisco politics until tech, with its billions, subsumed much of it in the 21st century. Tech money is more formidable than anything a local developer or bank could deploy. Silicon Valley employees, drawn from across America and now fully settled into San Francisco, are an influential slice of the electorate, directly replacing working-class votes. To them, homelessness is more an aesthetic annoyance than a humanitarian catastrophe. Among wealthy San Franciscans, the indignity is tangible — if an extraordinary price is going to be paid to live in Presidio Heights or the Marina District, how can visible poverty be imposed on such a supposedly idyllic lifestyle?

As Jim Treacher likes to say:

For New York magazine, that’s true even in a city that hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1963.

In 1970, when Tom Wolfe was a contributor at the then-embryonic New York magazine, he wrote “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,” his classic article excoriating Leonard Bernstein and other wealthy New Yorkers’ dalliance with corrosive far left politics. Today’s New York magazine has now become what Wolfe once satirized:

THE “SLIGHT TO ISLAM” THAT EVERYONE CONDEMNS BUT NO ONE REPEATS OR EXPLAINS: “I have now read several reports on the subject of this ‘slight to Islam’ and not one of the articles have told me what was said or what the insulting words actually were.” “Why? Are we so afraid of offending Muslims that the words cannot be repeated even in a news article? This is not the way of modern western countries. If this were about a perceived insult to the Catholic Church or a Pentecostal Church, I have no doubt we would have been given the bald facts – including what was actually said that caused offence. We should stop tip-toeing around Islam.”

When you combine a modest but credible threat of violence with a near certainty of being called a bigot, you can control pretty much everything the press does.

RESPONDING TO THE NEED: F.I.R.E. Expands Beyond Campus to General Free Speech Defense. Well, the ACLU isn’t really doing that anymore, so . . .

More here.

Bravo for F.I.R.E., which together with NCLA is doing really great work.

“HE IS RIGHT, WHO IS DEFENDING HIS HOME.”

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL GOVERNANCE IS A SCAM TO AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY TO SHAREHOLDERS: Jeffrey Carter: ESG Has A Comeuppance: Does It Surprise Any Objective Investor? “ESG is just crony capitalism with a different name. . . . When the crap hits the fan, people want return. If there is one good thing about the inflation we are experiencing is the cold slap in the face it’s giving to a lot of ideas that are simply stupid and misplaced, like ESG. Mr. Market does things differently. My hope is Mr. Market disciplines the ESG crowd mercilessly.”

UPDATE: From the comments: Kentucky AG Legal Opinion: ESG Investing is a Breach of an Asset Manager’s Fiduciary Duty. I agree.

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Biden Administration Considers A Windfall Tax On Oil And Gas Profits.