GOOD LORD: 80-year-old badly beaten inside grocery store bathroom, suspect at large.

GASLIGHTING LEVEL: SPLC. As NFL Star Quotes Fake Hitler, SPLC and ADL Accuse Jack Posobiec of Anti-Semitism.

WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Forget the Gators, It’s Zombie Attack Time.

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones ‘due to security risks.’

Related: TikTok Banned in U.S.? State Sec. Pompeo Says We’re ‘Looking at’ It.

TRANSLATION: ‘DON’T ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE’: Manage your expectations about the benefits of emissions cuts, study says. “Climate is variable, so how long does it take for our efforts to be obvious?”

COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: TIM excludes Huawei from 5G core equipment tender in Italy, Brazil.

SUMMER OF LOVE: Seattle Mayor Only Cleared Out CHOP Antifastan Because Trump Was Going in, President Confirms.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Google parent company Alphabet just launched balloons that beam high-speed internet in Kenya.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Doubly true when the liberal’s faculties are in decline.

WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? ‘Unknown pneumonia’ deadlier than coronavirus sweeping Kazakhstan, Chinese embassy warns.

FRIDAY’S INSANITY WRAP: AOC Will Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’ Cancelers.

Plus, the Netherlands narrows the definition of rape-rape so it doesn’t include people who are passed out or too afraid to fight back.

Fortunately, I was able to finish off today’s edition with some much-needed video levity.

GASLIGHTING LEVEL: NYT. New York Times Falsely Blames Churches for Huge Spike in Coronavirus Cases.

DECOUPLING: Digging in on rare earth, the next front in the US supply chain war with China.

OH: Televangelists Jim Bakker, Peter Popoff, Jimmy Swaggart, Joyce Meyer receive millions in PPP loans.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘Please Scream Inside Your Heart’—2020 Gives Us the Greatest Emotional Request Ever. “Thinking about it, screaming inside one’s heart may be a healthy occasional substitute for day-drinking, especially now that it looks like we might be shut down for the rest of the year. That scream you hear inside your heart might just be saving your liver.”

I thought the scream inside me was my liver.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Vote-by-mail would create chaos and distrust in November.

Stealing elections isn’t the point to mail-in voting, although that is for its proponents a desirable side effect.

The point is to discredit the system.

GASLIGHTING LEVEL: CNN. One Day After Mocking ‘Right-Wing’ Media For Reporting On Crime, CNN’s Cuomo Admits Homicides Are Rising – But Blames It On States Reopening.

ONE-MAN RULE: Newsom Claims More Power from Legislature’s ‘Hiatus.’ “Sure enough, it took Gov. Newsom less than a day to use the Legislature’s abdication to his advantage. In a new filing with the Appeals Court, he argues the Court should immediately remove any restraints on his authority.”

That doesn’t sound very much like a republican form of government to me.

HMM: China’s Quantum Radar Could Reveal All Submarines.

Some naval analysts are decidedly bearish on the prospects of submarine stealth in the twenty-first century, looking ahead to highly sensitive low-frequency sonars, advanced satellite-based optical sensors that may bypass acoustic-stealth entirely, and powerful computer processors that can churn through vast quantities of data to discriminate faint contacts from background noise. China is even developing a satellite-based laser surveillance system aimed at detecting vessels submerged as deep as five hundred meters.

Recently, the field of quantum mechanics has increasingly shown its potential to disrupt established paradigms in multiple domains of warfare—particularly due to the concept of quantum entanglement, the uncanny phenomenon by which bonded particles continue to uncannily reflect each other’s behavior even across long distances.

Though still facing by range coherence limitations, quantum sensors and communicators could potentially bypass many of the limitations and vulnerabilities of traditional radio-frequency sensors, remaining effective despite jamming or stealthy-aircraft profiles. As detailed in this article, China appears to have taken an early lead in ‘quantum radar’, though how soon the technology can be developed into an operationally viable system remains to be seen.

As threats go, this one is still a ways off, and there’s no doubt we’re working on something similar.

JACOBINS: Vandals Target Monument for Those Evil Racist — Checks Notes — 9/11 Firefighters.

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama Abruptly Halted H1N1 Testing, Undermining Biden’s Attacks on Trump.

WELL, DON LEMON: Don Lemon Resorts to Blasphemy to… Weaken His Argument Against Statues?!

WOEING: Don’t expect to fly on a Boeing 737 Max anytime soon. “With that history of missed deadlines, neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor Boeing will say when the plane will be approved to fly passengers again. The airlines have indicated they aren’t planning on flying the plane until late this year, at the earliest.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Related: What Boeing is doing instead of building spaceships and aircraft that work.

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Japanese baseball team debuts dancing robots in stands.

DON’T GET COCKY: Professor doubles down on prediction model of Trump’s chances in 2020.