HARSH, BUT FAIR: Chance the Rapper Says Blacks Might Be ‘Racist’ if They Prefer Biden Over Kanye West.

AMELIA HAMILTON WANTS TO KNOW: Are we doomed? Brain-eating amoebas, shark-eating birds & more. “The weekly column in which I take a look at recent news and try to determine if it’s all downhill from here.”

DESPERATION: AOC Tries to Explain New York Crime Spike While Ignoring the Deadly George Floyd Riots.

BUT THE NARRATIVE! HCQ Helps Contain COVID-19 Cases: New Evidence and a Major Retraction.

Details at the link, but HCQ is so terribly dangerous that doctors are urging the FDA to consider making it available over the counter.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Actors, writers and producers warn of ‘reverse racism’ in the film industry which has created a ‘toxic’ climate for anyone who is a white, middle-age man.

OH: NBC Contributor Reveals He Never Had Coronavirus After Network Documented His Recovery.

After believing he had the coronavirus in spite of getting negative tests, virologist and NBC News science contributor Dr. Joseph Fair tweeted Tuesday that he had tested negative for the antibodies and that the illness that hospitalized him in May “remains an undiagnosed mystery.” Steve Krakauer reported on the developments for his Fourth Watch newsletter.

Fair appeared on Today from a New Orleans hospital bed in May 14, where he speculated he got the virus through his eyes while on a packed flight two weeks earlier. This happened, he said, despite taking precautions like wearing a mask and gloves.

Today host Hoda Kotb noted during the interview that Fair had received four negative tests for the virus but said, “clearly you have it.” Fellow host Craig Melvin called Fair’s “false negative” tests “scary,” and cohost Savannah Guthrie called it a “cautionary tale.”

Fair took precautions, wasn’t in a risk group for hospitalization, and tested negative a number of times. Nevertheless, he insisted he had it and his credulous coworkers at NBC News took his claim without so much as a grain of salt.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID: Reddit Bans Forum Dedicated To Exposing Hate Crime Hoaxes.

MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Insanity Wrap #4: ‘NeverTrump’ Means ‘AlwaysDemocrats,’ Plus Shutdown Forever!

Yes, Insanity Wrap is now a daily feature.

Because 2020.

JOANNE JACOBS: ‘A vogue for public shaming.’ “Forty-odd years ago, I edited letters to the editor for the San Jose Mercury News. Our letter writers often exasperated me, but there was one thing I could count on: They understood and respected freedom of speech. They knew people with whom they disagreed had a right to express their views, even if they were very, very wrong. That was before ‘cancel culture’.”

AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR: A Special Forces Soldier’s Case For Leaving Afghanistan.

Former White House war czar and three-star general Douglas Lute is quoted as saying, “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan — we didn’t know what we were doing,” and, “We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” This was not the message conveyed by either the Bush or Obama administrations.

Even more alarming are revelations that false metrics were purposely cited to support the narrative that the war was proceeding effectively. Army Col. Bob Crowley relays, “Every data point was altered to present the best picture possible … surveys, for instance, were totally unreliable but reinforced that everything we were doing was right and we became a self-licking ice cream cone.” High-ranking members of two administrations and senior military commanders were aware of a clear lack of purpose in Afghanistan, yet lied to the American people to justify the continuing conflict.

It’s long past time to come home.

WHO? BidenWatch for July 13, 2020. “Biden drifts left, embraces the Green New Deal, and lifts his platform from Bernie Sanders.”

YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY IT: Washington Denies Taxpayer Funds to Rebuild Minneapolis After Riots.

OOPS: Writer Catches the New York Times Accidentally Reporting Who Sabotaged the DACA Decision at SCOTUS.

THAT WOULD BE A GAME-CHANGER: Tesla set to unveil new million-mile battery at in-person event in September. “Tesla is expected to unveil a low-cost battery that will last up to a million miles, which may make its electric vehicles cost the same or even less than a gasoline-powered car.”

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: Amazon Is Making a Simple Change that Will Change the Relationship Between. “Sellers and Customers ForeverStarting September 1, sellers will have to prove who they are and where they’re located–and share that information publicly.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Idiots at USA Today Apparently Ignorant of the American Eagle. “Before we delve into this lunacy about the eagle in question, it should be noted that USA Today is the CNN of newspapers. Just as CNN would have no audience whatsoever if it weren’t being broadcast to people stuck in airport terminals, USA Today wouldn’t have any readership if it weren’t being given away for free in hotels all over the country. Honestly, I rarely read it when I’m on the road and it’s delivered to my hotel room door every weekday.”

PUNISHING THE VICTIMS: St. Louis Police Confiscate Guns From Couple Defending Home From Mob.

UNLIKE AMAZON’S QUICK ABOUT FACE, THIS ORDER SEEMS TO BE STICKING: Wells Fargo employees ordered to uninstall TikTok from work phones.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Miami man arrested for damaging police cars says group recruits others to incite protest violence.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: How to Skew a Poll: Texas 2020 Edition. “This is the poll that purports to show Joe Biden beating Donald Trump by five points and Senator John Cornyn under 50% against either M.J. Hegar or Royce West.”

Yeah, I’m not buying those numbers.

THE WORSE, THE BETTER: Problems With Absentee Ballots in Wisconsin Hint at Election Nightmare.

(Classical reference in the headline.)

MATT MARGOLIS: Obama Granted Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Democrats Are Angry About Roger Stone.

CASHLESS ONLY: COVID-19 Frenzy Jumpstarts the Cashless Society.

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THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Barack Obama Threatened to Defund Schools, and Democrats Were All For It.

HMM: Amazon told employees to delete TikTok from their phones — then walked back the policy and said it was an ‘error.’