NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Hickenlooper Hell: AG ‘Team’ Unleashed to Enforce Ethics Panel Subpoena.

This is my former governor and current Democratic Senate hopeful.

UGH: Alex Berenson Book Exposing Coronavirus Myths Censored by Amazon.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Government Jealous Of Rioters’ Speed, Efficiency In Destroying Local Businesses.

JOANNE JACOBS: Reopening schools is safe for kids, adults. “Closing schools hurts children by depriving them of education, as well as social connections and physical activity, writes Halperin. ‘Socioeconomic disparities are exacerbated, as some families have resources to enhance online learning, while less privileged children fall further behind.’ He also worries about child abuse, anxiety, depression and isolation.”

HE’S TOAST: De Blasio Blasted by #BlackLivesMatter Over Horrifying Response to Riots.

De Blasio has torn apart his own coalition.

LIDBLOG REMEMBERS: The Lid Took Down Helen Thomas A Decade Ago-And The MSM Still Protects Her.

OH: Los Angeles is cutting $100M–$150M from LAPD budget to be ‘reinvested in black communities and communities of color.’

CHAOS BY DESIGN: What Soros’ DA Spending Spree Bought: Freedom From Prosecution.

MOB RULE: How Convenient: Ralph Northam Presents His Agenda as the Rioters’ Demands.

AMBUSH: NYPD Officers Stabbed, Shot in Overnight Attack. Union President Asks, ‘Are We Surprised?’

BRAD SLAGER: During This Spate of Racial Outrage, Here Are Some Deeply Uncomfortable Facts for the Press, the Activists, and Even Ben & Jerry’s.

Yesterday, social media was in full excitement when a private company issued a lengthy mission statement to address the racial strife in the country. Now, normally this type of corporate posturing on social issues is easily dismissed, such as when Playboy Magazine came out this week and announced its efforts to stamp out racism. But the activist manifesto delivered by Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is notable in that the company expresses many of the talking points we have been lectured with over the past week, and it manages to push forward many of the myths and inaccuracies concerning the uproar.

In a screed entitled ‘’We Must Dismantle White Supremacy – Silence is not an option’’ the reliably social signaling company received all sorts of applause, delivering a mission statement that strummed the tuning fork of those who are currently outraged at our society. It is a remarkable piece of agitprop in that the company both manages to say all the right things, but manages to get so much wildly incorrect. So, while not intending to vilify the company itself, there is a need to expose many of the falsehoods in its mission statement, as those are many of the same we are hearing from activist circles.

Read the whole thing.

THE GREAT REOPENING: CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year. “The CTA is promising new health policies for the show. The group intends to ‘regularly clean and sanitize spaces’ and offer ‘sanitization stations.’ It also plans to widen aisles and seats to increase distancing, limit ‘touch points’ by using tech like mobile payments, and provide on-site health services. The CTA says it’ll look into doing temperature scans and that it plans to issue ‘best practices,’ like wearing a mask — though it doesn’t say if they’ll be required.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Buy All the Guns Now, America. “What we have seen unfold in the past few months — and especially the last week — is beyond disturbing. Law-abiding citizens have been sandwiched between egomaniac government tyrants and lawless mobs. Lawless mobs that are being cheered on by the aforementioned government tyrants, by the way.”

THE RETURN TO PRE-GIULIANI NEW YORK: Guardian Angels Battle Looters In NYC. Founder And Mayoral Candidate Sliwa Rips De Blasio, Cuomo.

COLORADO: Loveland Senator tells Polis ‘time’s up,’ files joint resolution to revoke Governor’s disaster declaration. “Because you refuse to relinquish power on your own, this is the only path to bring an end to your overreach.”

Our state assembly is pretty much a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC, so I doubt this will go very far. Colorado Democrats would rather tank the state than risk a recovery that might help Trump or the GOP.

REMEMBER: Mike Pompeo meets with 1989 Tiananmen Square activists at US State Department. “Thirty-one years later, the total number of missing or dead Tiananmen protesters is still unknown.”

NIMBY: Residents Of A New York Town Tell Peaceful Black Lives Matters Protesters To ‘Go West’ Towards More Diverse Neighborhood.

AND THE REST OF HIS NETWORK, TOO: Someone Should Send CNN’s Chris Cuomo a Copy of the Constitution, Stat.

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THE NARRATIVE THAT WILL NOT DISPERSE: No, Peaceful Protesters Were Not Tear-Gassed So Trump Could Do a Photo-Op.

WE’LL TURN THEM ‘ROUND AND ‘ROUND: Arrested Looters in NYC Are Immediately Released Because of Bail-Reform Law.

I know Glenn is done with the Steely Dan references, but I just haven’t been able to resist today.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Stars Bail Out Protesters, Silent on Helping Victims. “Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and more mum on helping minority-owned businesses.”

NO, I’M NEVER GONNA DO IT WITHOUT THE FEZ ON: Masks During Sex? One Crazy COVID-19 Study Says Yes.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Boris Johnson on the Hong Kong crisis: We will meet our obligations, not walk away.

Britain would then have no choice but to uphold our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong.

Today, about 350,000 of the territory’s people hold British National (Overseas) passports and another 2.5 million would be eligible to apply for them. At present, these passports allow visa-free access to the United Kingdom for up to six months.

If China imposes its national security law, the British government will change our immigration rules and allow any holder of these passports from Hong Kong to come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship.

This would amount to one of the biggest changes in our visa system in history. If it proves necessary, the British government will take this step and take it willingly.

Many people in Hong Kong fear that their way of life — which China pledged to uphold — is under threat. If China proceeds to justify their fears, then Britain could not in good conscience shrug our shoulders and walk away; instead we will honour our obligations and provide an alternative.

Read the whole thing.

BUT ORANGE MAN BAD OR SOMETHING: Doubt looms over hydroxychloroquine study that halted global trials.

In the Lancet study—which was published May 22 and reported by Ars—researchers aimed to provide some clarity of the drugs’ effects in COVID-19 patients. The researchers claimed to do so using the largest set of data to date, involving more than 96,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from six continents. According to the authors, a thorough hashing of the data indicated that those taking either hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine had significantly higher risks of death and heart complications compared with COVID-19 patients who did not take either of the drugs.

The safety issues were concerning enough that on May 26, the World Health Organization announced that it was suspending the use of hydroxychloroquine in its global Solidarity Trial, which is evaluating several potential COVID-19 therapies. Regulators in the UK and France also changed their recommendations surrounding the drugs.

Amid the global influence, outside researchers began closely examining the data behind the study—or at least tried to do so—and have been left concerned.

Maybe next time don’t halt the ongoing studies until after assessing the value of the new study?