DON’T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN’T DO THE TIME: Oklahoma detention officers charged with cruelty for torturing prisoners by cranking ‘Baby Shark’ on repeat.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Austin Hires Thief For Library, Shocked He Keeps Stealing.

ARIZONA SENATE RACE: ‘Everytown’ Gun-Grabber: ‘Stop Pretending We Aren’t Connected’ to Mark Kelly.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: So Much Crazy We Don’t Even Know How to Headline It.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What happens to men who lock their stuff in a “chastity cage” with an internet-accessible lock?

Answer: Pretty much exactly what they deserved in this age of the Internet of Thingies.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Joe Biden: Ready to Cave to Foreign Despots from Day One!
• Introducing the Great Barrington Declaration.
• Did Donald Trump just self-own, or seal in his second term?

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

WALTER DURANTY SMILES: Pulitzer Board Must Revoke Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Prize.

NBC NEWS IS FAKE NEWS: NBC News’ ‘Undecided’ Voters Previously Featured as Biden Supporters on MSNBC.

BREAKING: Christopher Wray and FBI Under Fire for Excessive Redactions and Slow-Walking Release of Declassified Docs.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: CAGE MATCH—The 2020 Life Or Death Veep Debate Is Upon Us. “The stakes got much, much higher once President Trump tested positive for the plague and headed to the hospital. Prior to that, the American public was only considering the fragility of Joe Biden, the candidate who’s been going to bed right after breakfast for several weeks now. Everybody has been in a dead panic about considering Kamala Harris’s worthiness to take over for Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep because we all know it’s going to happen soon if he wins.”

CHARLES LIPSON: Who Wants to Blow Up Our Constitution? (It’s Not Trump). “The vitriolic conflicts surrounding Donald Trump have obscured two crucial issues, which voters ought to weigh carefully as they choose the next president. One is the difference between Trump’s impulsive, divisive personality and the policies he has actually pursued. The other is the Democrats’ threat to significantly change the structure of American government. The two issues are intertwined since Trump’s policies are, at bottom, an effort to restore America’s traditional federal structure and limit the power of unelected officials in Washington. His efforts to roll back the regulatory state also curtail the power of lobbyists and their powerful employers, since they hold the greatest influence over detailed rules and regulations, not general laws like tax rates.”

As I wrote the other day, a Biden win is a loss for deregulation.

UNHINGED: Rep Bennie Thompson (D-MS) To Investigate President’s Thank You Lap At Walter Reed Sunday.

TAR, FEATHERS: The IRS is under investigation for buying Americans’ smartphone location data from private surveillance companies.

THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK: Mark Cuban, Sen. Ted Cruz engage in Twitter spat over drop in NBA ratings.

“A US Senator with 3 @NBA teams in his state, employing thousands of people and he is rooting for their businesses to do poorly,” he wrote. “This is who you are @tedcruz . Every minute of your life, this is exactly who you are.”

Cruz fired back saying that he has been a life-long Houston Rockets fan and has always supported his state’s teams but decided against it after claiming that the NBA “is engaged in a concerted effort to (1) insult their fans & (2) turn every game into a left-wing political lecture. That’s dumb.”

“You are so full of s–t. You haven’t watched a game of the finals, how would you know what is being said or done? Since when is a desire to end racism an insult to anyone or political? And you don’t think using #GetWokeGoBroke is a partisan insult? Again, this is who you are.”

Cruz replied: “I wish @mcuban loved his fans as much as he loves Chinese money.”

He doesn’t.

ACADEMIA: Oregon State Professor Blames Devastating Western Wildfires on White Christians.

TARA READE: Biden Is a ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ and ‘Doesn’t Deserve the Presidency.’

MATT MARGOLIS: Do Masks Really Work? Here’s What the Charts Tell Us.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DOJ Blasts D.C. Mayor for ‘Silencing’ Churches: ‘There Is No Pandemic Exception to the Constitution.’

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Observations from the San Antonio Gun Show. “The San Antonio Gun Show was a whole hell of a lot more diverse than the average antifa riot, with Hispanic, black and Asian attendees. It also seems to skew younger and with more woman (maybe 25%) than in previous years.”

HEH: Amy Coney Barrett’s Family More Diverse Than Top Liberal Institutions.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Mainstream Media Covering Trump Needs to Swap Diapers for Big Boy Pants. “What’s been going on since Sunday is more pathetic than media malpractice. It’s a gaggle of emotional midgets in the midst of a snot-bubbling, diaper-filling tantrum that is utterly contemptible. I might be just a little sympathetic to it if they hadn’t been doing it for four years already. We’re beyond ‘Boy Who Cried Wolf’ at this point, we’re in ‘let these miserable little brats cry themselves dry’ territory now.”

IMPRESSIVE: Tesla posts a quarterly record for electric car deliveries.

I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: 2020 Is Tumbling Toward 1917.

In June, the great Russian literature professor Gary Saul Morson told The Wall Street Journal that America was starting to feel eerily familiar. “It’s astonishingly like late 19th-, early 20th-century Russia, when basically the entire educated class felt you simply had to be against the regime or some sort of revolutionary,” he said. Even the moderate Kadet Party could not bring itself to condemn terrorism against the czar, any more than a modern Democrat could condemn Black Lives Matter: “A famous line from one of the liberal leaders put it this way: ‘Condemn terrorism? That would be the moral death of the party.’”

Today, the Resistance is already signaling that they won’t accept a Trump victory in November any more than they accepted one in 2016. After the last election, they attempted a soft coup by means of the Russiagate scandal and impeachment. What kind of coup will come next? By looking at the Russian precedent, we can evaluate the risk that this country might enact our own distinctively American version of 1917—and how close we have come to it already.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I don’t think it’s 1917. But in 1917, it’s obvious in retrospect that the only moral and practical thing to do was to kill Bolsheviks, starting at the top. An unparalleled human traged could have been prevented, had the Czarists, or the Mensheviks, been willing to act appropriately.

HATE HOAX? Police find no evidence after woman claims she was set on fire by ‘racists.’

CHANGE (IT BACK): ‘Cops’ back in production after cancellation in wake of George Floyd’s death.

STACEY LENNOX: About All Those Positive COVID ‘Cases’ Fauci Keeps Freaking Out Over… “The FDA, which approves COVID-19 tests, and the CDC, which provides clinical guidance, need to address test sensitivity immediately. The FDA needs to set appropriate cycle thresholds for U.S. testing labs, and the labs should note the number of cycles taken to detect the virus on all test results. The CDC needs to provide clinical guidance for providers that sets a reasonable cycle threshold for a positive test that required contact tracing.”

TO BE FAIR, THERE’S A NON-ZERO CHANCE HE HAS ZERO IDEA WHAT HE’S SAYING: With Trump Still at Walter Reed, Biden Calls for Election Day Coup de Grâce (Death Blow) Against Trump.