HYSTERICAL MEDIA AND POLITICIANS ARE MAJOR VECTORS: Mass shootings are a social contagion.

See The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow’s Headlines.

DON SURBER: SJWs Are On The Run.

MARK JUDGE: In the military, going woke can be deadly.

LAW BETRAYED: Identity’s Triumph Over Argument In Legal Education Undermines Democracy.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Outlawing Grandpa’s Pistol Brace Didn’t Stop the 19 Mass Shootings Last Weekend, but That Was Never Really the Goal.

CDR SALAMANDER: Build The Naval Yards Now.

Yes, we are enjoying the harvest of our long discussed wages of happy talk when it comes to our maritime industrial base. It is, in a fashion, rather sad to watch our own deliberate and chosen decline.

Enough “problem admiration” and waiting for something to be extruded by the janissaries in the Potomac Flotilla. They have lost their right to demand deference. The last couple of decades have measured them and found them wanting. We should put them in some kind of bureaucratic quarantine until the right Congress and Chief Executive can put them in hospice.

Our problem did not happen overnight and won’t be fixed overnight. It does not have one cause and it won’t have one solution. This was all plain to see well over a decade ago. Hell, two decades ago.

The old phrase, “there’s a lot of ruin in a nation” – well, there is a lot of ruin in a navy. One generation can feast on the hard won capital of the previous generation for quite awhile until there is but a skeleton left of what was once a mighty host.

Enough. . . . We cannot build a larger fleet until we rebuild the infrastructure to properly maintain the one we have.

Yards. Build more; expand the ones we have; reactivate retired yards if able.

I’m afraid we’ll need them.

NOBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER, SO HUMILITY, AND EMPATHY, MAKE SENSE: “I would like to see more empathy between people on different sides of the various debates around AI right now.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Armed IRS agents raid Montana gun shop, seize gun purchase records.

Armed IRS agents seized dozens of boxes of ATF form 4473s from Highwood Creek Outfitters in Great Falls, Montana, last Wednesday, prompting concern and criticism from both Montana officials and gun owners.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Breitbart News that the IRS seizure of gun owner documents is “extremely concerning” because it appears to “exceed” the search warrant that was issued, which “limited the scope of the search to financial records.”

“These aren’t financial records, they’re records of lawful firearm purchases,” he said. “What the hell does the IRS need with 4473s? We know the ATF in Washington, DC is trying to scoop up as many of these purchase records as possible, and that’s what it looks like they’re trying to do here.”

With records like those, the IRS won’t have any trouble keeping all those new agents busy.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: My chat with machine-learning scientist (and AI optimist) Bojan Tunguz of Nvidia: “My sense is that most of the prominent vocal AI doomers have very little to no technical background.”

I dunno, I consider Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak to have technical backgrounds.

BLUE ON BLUE: Leftists Feeling Betrayed After Muslim-Governed Michigan City Bans Pride Flag.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The ACLU is broken beyond repair. “The ACLU of old used to fight for principles like free speech, gay rights, civil rights and the right to a fair trial. The ACLU of today, however, is fighting for the right of a sexual sadist and murderer to obtain taxpayer-funded breast implants. And it insists on calling that murderer a woman, to boot. What a time to be alive.”

WELL, HE MADE THEM PAY THROUGH THE NOSE FOR IT: Biden’s policy on China is now outright appeasement.

GOVERNMENT: A DC Frankenstein Finally Realizes His Monster – Is a Monster.

What we need here are some peasants with torches.

YES, THEY REALLY ARE THAT STUPID:  ABC host shocked by post-Trump indictment poll showing ‘statistical tie’: ‘What does that say about Biden?’

I have bad news for them: It’s not even. Those polls all are designed to favor Biden. Trump is way ahead. As to why? Well, sure, Biden is a zombie. But every time you openly and clearly go after Trump for things that Biden and Hilary did worse and more obviously while exonerating your darlings? The more we go mule, stick our toes in the mud and go “We will vote for dead Trump over living Biden, if you kill him.” Also no. Also effe you. Also, these are our middle fingers.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT ND CONSPIRACY THEORY IS NOW DOWN TO DAYS:  Isn’t it disturbing?

THERE IS A FIX FOR THIS, BUT IT INVOLVES NOT BEING RULED BY COMMUNISTS: Better ties with the U.S. may be about one thing: China’s struggling economy.

IN 2024, STAY OFF THE MACHINES!  Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.

ISN’T IT THOUGH? How Did Biden Really Make His Millions? It’s Time For A Special Counsel To Find Out.

THE OTHER BLM IS ALSO A PAIN: BLM Gives Americans 15 More Days To Comment On New Land Grab Rule, But Won’t Show Up To Hear Their Concerns.

IT’S MORE MOBFARE THAN LAWFARE:  Dershowitz on that anti-Trump-lawyer group The 65 Project.

BARRACK OBAMA HAS NO COMMONALITY WITH THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA:  Obama versus Tim Scott on the black experience in America.

His parents were both descended from slave owners.

TEACHERS, LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE:  Teachers trading tips on transitioning trans tots and teens.

THE LEFT HATES THAT WE DON’T LET THEM DISCRIMINATE:  Pushback: Judge blocks race-based program of Biden administration.

THEY’RE NOT THE SAME: Intelligence and Moral Sense.

AS THEY SHOULD:  Legal Group Files Complaint Against University Of California Berkeley Over Segregated Graduation.