READER FAVORITE: The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book: 100+ Fun Early Learning Activities for Outside Play. #CommissionEarend

DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE: Inside Kamala Harris’s Plan To End Cash Bail and ‘Transform The Criminal Justice System.’

The elimination of cash bail and court-ordered fines are just two ways Vice President Kamala Harris wants to “transform the criminal justice system” and “end mass incarceration,” according to a memo from her failed 2020 presidential campaign.

The memo, which is no longer available on her campaign website, describes what would be the most dramatic overhaul of how the nation confronts criminality. The “guiding principles” listed by Harris include an “end [to] mandatory minimums.”

Harris’s proposals put a spotlight on her history as one of the most left-wing lawmakers in the Senate. They also offer a preview into how she could govern as president. On the campaign trail, Harris enthusiastically supported a number of left-wing criminal justice initiatives not outlined in her plan, such as slashing the budgets of police departments and allowing convicted murderers and rapists the right to vote in federal elections.

“It is long past time to re-envision public safety by strengthening and supporting our communities and drastically limiting the number of people we expose to our criminal justice system,” the memo reads. “As president, Kamala will fundamentally transform how we approach public safety.”

Harris’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

The memory-holing will continue until goodthink is restored.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: What Project 2025 Says About Due Process at Universities: Students accused of sexual misconduct deserve a fair trial before suspension or worse. “Here’s some good news: If you have a son in college, this Project 2025 helps to bolster due process as a legitimate topic of contention related to Title IX. . . . Now that women are 75% of Ivy League presidents, 66% of college adminsistrators, and 60% of the overall student body, men find themselves outnumbered, with women administrators generally making and enforcing rules.”

She’s right. Consider subscribing to her Substack, as I expect she’ll have more pieces on this and related subjects.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Most university chief diversity officers are black.

LINCOLN BROWN: AWFLS Assemble! “The usual suspects have also felt a heady rush of optimism at the prospect of President Harris. One has even climbed up on a cliff, lifted a buffalo horn to her lips, and sounded the AWFL call to arms.”

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE SIDING WITH TERRORISTS: Israeli Prime Minister blasts Harvard, Penn, and MIT administrations over anti-Semitism in address to Congress.

FBI DIRECTOR WRAY: MAYBE IT WAS SHRAPNEL THAT HIT TRUMP, WHO KNOWS? YOU are supposed to know. YOU are the head of the FBI. It has been nearly two weeks. If the FBI doesn’t actually know whether a bullet hit the former President, it should be shut down. If the FBI does know and its director is lying, the FBI should be shut down.

As usual, I hasten to note that am not suicidal, I do not have any blackmail-worthy compulsions, and I do not have any information that would lead to the arrest and/or conviction of Hillary Clinton.

THE TRUTH STINGS:

IRONY: Struck by how the Biden administration just 3 months ago openly called for Netanyahu to resign and now it is Joe Biden who is resigning and BIBI is at the White House one of Biden’s last meetings with a world leader before becoming a full on lame-duck President. pic.twitter.com/d7As2oQWQV

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) July 25, 2024

Related: Netanyahu’s Meeting With Lame Duck Biden Was As Inconsequential As Anyone Expected.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kamala? “We’ve heard an agonizing amount about Kamala’s ‘honeymoon’ period. Harris and her fellow Democrats have been like giddy newlyweds, but that excitement might come to a screeching halt when they see polling numbers.”

CHANGE? Rupert Murdoch is going to court to push his 3 more liberal kids out of his Fox and News Corp. media empires. “Murdoch’s three other children, who are said to have been blindsided by the move, have reportedly hired their own legal team to contest their father’s plans.”

PRETTY PRESCIENT STUFF FROM 2020:

Russia's first time traveller has returned.

Guess what he said:

In September Biden is medically diagnosed as unfit for office and quits.

They discover that the DNC has legal power to choose a replacement without a National vote!

Weird huh?

You'll never guess who they chose.

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) July 18, 2020

WELL, GOOD: Trump leads 50%-43%, no Harris bump.

A NEW LOW SO FAR: Hamas Lovers Hit New Low in D.C. Protest.

WE KNOW WHAT SIDE THEY’RE ON: Biden-Harris Admin Denied Resources to Police During Pro-Hamas Protest Where Agitators Burned American Flag, Committee Chairman Says.

Like the Secret Service and Trump.

SOUNDS A BIT FISHY:  “Mayor Thao Recall Committee Under Investigation for Campaign Law Violations.” The president of the recall committee says she’s very confident that everything has been done properly.  She says the Oakland Public Ethics Commission is asking for things it isn’t entitled to–like the names of donors who gave less than $100.  If that’s so, the Ethics Commission itself needs to be investigated.

INFORMATION INSURRECTIONISTS:

Information Insurrectionists are rewriting Harris' history:
-Scrubbing her role as border czar
-Making Gavin clean up encampments
-Deleting her 2019 report card
…Betcha Prop 47 is magically repealed (but not because the voters say so) https://t.co/B7ifpDeREt

— The Extreme Truth & Liberty Barsh Consulting Co. (@EmilyTVproducer) July 25, 2024

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Under Armour Men’s Tech 2.0 Short-Sleeve T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned

SO LONG, CHRYSLER? Stellantis ready to kill brands and fix U.S. problems, CEO Tavares says.

Stellantis is taking steps to fix weak margins and high inventory at its U.S. operations and will not hesitate to axe underperforming brands in its sprawling portfolio, its chief executive Carlos Tavares said on Thursday.

The warning for lossmaking brands is a turnaround for Tavares, who has maintained since Stellantis was created in 2021 from the merger of Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA that all of its 14 brands including Maserati, Fiat, Peugeot and Jeep have a future.

“If they don’t make money, we’ll shut them down,” Carlos Tavares told reporters after the world’s No. 4 automaker delivered worse-than-expected first-half results, sending its shares down as much as 10%.

“We cannot afford to have brands that do not make money.”

Tavares didn’t mention Chrysler by name but the brand’s entire lineup consists of Pacifica minivans and existing inventory of the 300 sedan, which ceased production late last year.

THE JUSTICE SYSTEM COVERS ITSELF IN GLORY: “Boneless Wings” Can Have Bones, Rules Ohio Supreme Court.

REMEMBERING OLYMPIAN ERIC LIDDELL: The 2024 Olympics launch today in Paris, a century after Scot sprinter Eric Liddell won the gold in the same city for an event – the 400 meters – that was a good bit longer than his specialty.

Liddell’s inspiring story was the basis for much of the great “Chariots of Fire” movie. But the flick barely mentioned the years after his Olympic win, years in which Liddell served as a missionary in war-torn China, including interminable days in a Japanese prison camp where he was especially devoted to protecting the children, many of whom were orphans. HillFaith remembers.

WHEN YOU’RE A LEFTIST YOU KINDA DO: I Do Not Need to Defend Myself for Believing That Political Candidates Should Be Chosen Democratically. “As was to be expected, there was a loud response from a certain vocal faction of Democrats who have relentlessly policed any perceived slight against Kamala Harris, for years, saying that of course I immediately complained about the first Black woman presidential candidate of a major party!, but Kamala is a secondary part of the problem. The major problem is that I think the Democrats have essentially abandoned any pretense that the voters get to choose their candidates, which is part of a larger bad dynamic where the party is increasingly ruled by an utterly unaccountable aristocracy of cutthroat neoliberals. This is intertwined with the deepening gerontocracy problem in American politics, in which the only way senescent political leaders leave the stage is in a coffin. This trouble with elite overriding of popular sentiment is far bigger than Kamala Harris.”

HAHA:

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— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) July 25, 2024

WOEING: *NOW* Is It Cool If We Call Our Starliner Astronauts Stranded? “Whatever the difference is between ‘an abundance of caution’ and ‘we can’t admit failure yet,’ I have the feeling we’re not more than a few weeks from NASA showing us exactly what it is. If NASA’s Thursday press conference is anything to go by, that is.”

USA TODAY AND CNN FACT-CHECKING A DEMOCRAT???  Harris Campaign Makes Quite the Admission About Project 2025.

WHY WOULD SECRET SERVICE WANT DRONES?   Whistleblowers Detail Why Drones Weren’t Used at Trump’s Butler Rally.