BLUE ON BLUE: Liberal groups warn Biden: Do more on policing reform or risk losing black support.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: While Social Unrest Rages On, COVID Still Killing American Small Businesses. “After such a lengthy shutdown, one would assume that the easing of restrictions and reopening of businesses would be a big step in helping the small business people get back on their feet. For many, the shutdown was simply too long to survive. Now, the slow, phased in reopening, combined with strict social distance protocols could be the final nail in the coffin of the businesses that survived the shutdowns.”

YOU DON’T SAY: Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools.

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates. It found three particularly egregious apps that collected satellite location data from users, instead of relying simply on Bluetooth signals, and matched accounts with real identities.

In one extreme case, some citizens who downloaded the BeAware Bahrain contact tracing app became contestants on a televised game show called Are You At Home? The show involved a host randomly video calling phone numbers of Bahraini individuals using government-collected data to check if they were adhering to social distancing guidelines and offering monetary rewards to those that were. By signing up for BeAware Bahrain, users were automatically enrolled into Are You At Home?, which is produced by state-controlled television channel Bahrain TV.

Truman Burbank, call your office.

YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE: Boy Scouts of America says it supports BLM, will require new “diversity and inclusion merit badge” to become Eagle Scout.

CRYBULLIES: Oxford will ‘decolonise’ degrees. “Oxford University has revealed plans to “decolonise” its maths and science degrees and will allow students of any subject who have been affected by the Black Lives Matter furore to seek lenient marking.”

More to come, once I find another version of this story outside The Times‘ paywall.

DONT TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. GOP Report: China’s Coronavirus Cover-up Turned ‘a Local Pandemic Into a Global Pandemic.’

The headline of course refers to the Communist People’s Republic on the mainland, and not the well-run Republic of China on Taiwan.

A BILL WHITTLE ‘FIREWALL’: America’s Failed Social Experiment: Are You On Team Red or Team Blue?

This one is quite good and well worth 13 or so minutes of your time.

WELL, YEAH: ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means ‘Kneecapping the Police’ in Atlanta and New York City.

BLUE ON BLUE: Black Lives Matter Calls Joe Biden Insane for Considering Val Demings for Vice President.

EBAY: ‘Ordered Signed Book. Received Live Spiders. Would Not Buy From Again.’ “How crazy and/or stupid do you have to be to break federal law to harass a blogger for something they wrote about your giant corporate employer? Especially over a story that was already public news? Especially if you’re a well-compensated executive.”

VIDEO: Young man pushes over 92-year-old woman in NYC attack.

DOMINIC GREEN: Prince Andrew fires back at Department of Justice.

Hard as it may be to believe, the DoJ made no effort to contact Prince Andrew during Jeffrey Epstein’s lifetime. Only after Epstein’s death in August 2019 and the BBC’s broadcast of Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s accusations in November 2019, did the DoJ approach the Prince — not as a suspect, but as a witness.

‘The lawyers responded immediately,’ I’m told. In early January, the Prince’s new legal team suggested that they draft a proposal for how Andrew would deliver his witness statement. The DoJ, my source reports, accepted this approach. So why did Berman publicly attack Andrew only a week later?

‘Since Epstein’s death, commercial law firms and the Department of Justice have targeted the Prince, even though the facts about Epstein haven’t changed,’ my source explains. ‘The DoJ is a water carrier for the commercial law firms who are representing the undoubtedly legitimate claims of Epstein’s victims. The Duke is being used as a lightning conductor for the DoJ and a battering ram for the law firms who want to secure settlements from Epstein’s estate.’

It just keeps getting weirder.

REPORT: Putin Stopped Obama From Screwing Israel At The UN Security Council One Last Time.

#RESIST: Orthodox Jews ‘Liberate’ NYC Playground from de Blasio in Provocative Move.

#RESIST: NY State Lawmaker Pledges To ‘Cut Off The Chains’ And Open Playgrounds If Mayor De Blasio Doesn’t Drop Ban.

State Sen. Simcha Felder slammed the Democratic mayor on Monday, accusing him of “catering” to donors and supporters by allowing playgrounds to remain open in some city districts, while chaining and welding gates shut in others.

“It’s a tale of two cities,” Felder, also a Democrat, told The Daily Wire. “Wealthier neighborhoods like Central Park and the east side of Manhattan, there’s certain playgrounds in certain neighborhoods, somehow the playgrounds and parks are open.”

“In other neighborhoods they’re closed,” Felder continued. “[De Blasio] is doing whatever he likes. He is catering to the people that support him most.”

Given de Blasio’s record, you have to wonder if there’s a Jewish component to which playgrounds are still ordered closed.

Update: Of course there is.

PLANTING THE SEEDS FOR A RICH HARVEST OF ILLEGITIMATE BALLOTS: Former Top Michigan Elections Official Slams Mass Mail-In Vote.

Former Republican secretary of state Ruth Johnson said her successor, Democrat Jocelyn Benson, may have made an “illegal” decision that “threatens the integrity of elections” by ordering state officials to distribute millions of mail-in ballot applications. Benson’s decision contradicted legal precedent and the secretary of state’s own election manual, which mandates that “clerks may not mail absentee voter applications without having received a verbal or written request,” according to Johnson.

“For decades, getting applications to voters has been the job of local clerks. What Benson is doing is possibly illegal—I think it is,” Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon. “It oversteps and threatens the integrity of our elections.”

Just because the cheating is brazen doesn’t mean it won’t work.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s Upcoming Post-COVID Rally Is Just What the Reelection Doctor Ordered. “The overwrought reaction from the media is proof positive that getting back on the campaign trail is the right thing to do. At bare minimum, it’s exposing their hypocrisy. After weeks of seeing thousands of people flood the streets for riots and protests that have been championed by the media, the prospect of a Trump rally has suddenly made the brave journalist class oh-so-concerned about COVID-19 again.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Top Voice of America officials resign after confirmation of Trump appointee.

OH: North Korea Destroys Liaison Office It Shared With South Korea.

I guess they were feeling a little neglected with everything else going on in the world.

MATT MARGOLIS: Rolling Stone Editor Unloads On Media, Says ‘The American Left Has Lost Its Mind.’ “Taibbi’s acknowledgment of the collective insanity of the left is refreshing but misses a major point. This kind of outrage politics is not new or limited to the Black Lives Matter movement. The right has been repeatedly targeted by the outrage mob for years, decades, actually. Taibbi’s concern seems to be rooted in by his fear of a liberal circular firing squad, and the casualties among the left because of the outrage mob. Where has Taibbi been all these years when conservatives were branded racist for opposing racial quotas, taxpayer-funded abortion.”

MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Deface, Defund, Destroy: The Left’s Nihilism on Full Display.

I told my older son when he was studying slavery and the Civil War last year that there are two things he must understand about the awful institution.

The first is that slavery is one of mankind’s great evils. The second is just how depressingly common it is. People will put “lesser” people into bondage pretty much any time they think they can get away with it.

BLM, antifa, whatever banner flown by the various riot groups, their motive remains the same — and it is not merely the destruction or defacement of monuments.

Their goal is to tear down society and civil governance.

Look no further than the two most recent examples: CHAZ and #DefundThePolice.

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JUSTICE ALITO: Court’s ‘Preposterous’ Trans Ruling Threatens Religion, Speech, Privacy, and Safety.

ELECTION 2020: Hickenlooper Fined for Breaking Ethics Rules: Senate Bid in Jeopardy?

THAT ZUCKS: Facebook censors, threatens Disrn for sharing W.H.O. official’s exact words.

Apparently Facebook’s new commitment to open debate didn’t last as long as was hoped.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Can a Biden ­beholden to an ever-more-bonkers left deliver normalcy?