BATTLESWARM BLOG: Scenes From The Antifa/BlackLivesMatters Riots. “Even Democrats are wising up to the fact that the violence was organized.”

TYLER O’NEIL: Trump’s Latest Religious Freedom Move Is a Warning to China. “Trump’s order also directs Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to employ ‘economic tools’ against countries the violate religious freedom, including ‘imposing sanctions’.”

THEY CHOOSE… POORLY: Looters Break Into Philly Gun Store. It Doesn’t Go Well for Them.

HMM: U.S. Park Police Say They Did NOT Fire Tear Gas At White House Protesters, Claim Demonstrators Were Attacking Cops.

INSANE: Grant Napear, Sacramento Kings announcer since 1988, fired for tweeting “All lives matter, every single one!”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Really Earning ‘Enemy of the People’ Status During Riots. “There’s an ever-growing victim count for these riots that is being almost completely ignored in the MSM. Cops and civilians are being gunned down, beaten up, and plowed into by motor vehicles and the MSM hacks are practically spraining their necks looking the other way.”

AWFUL: Louisville “BBQ Man” used to feed police for free. He was shot and killed during the protests while cooking for people in his neighborhood.

SOOTH:

(Bumped by Glenn, because it’s true.)

SEN. TOM COTTON: Huawei 5G is like Soviets building west’s submarines.

Deploying Huawei, the politician continued, “would be as if we had relied on adversarial nations in the cold war to build our submarines, or to build our tanks. It’s just not something that we would have ever considered.”

The senator was speaking before a defence subcommittee inquiring into UK proposals to allow Huawei to deploy up to 35% of 5G equipment, which has come under heavy criticism from the White House and the Conservative right.

Ten days ago, an increasingly nervous Downing Street said it was reviewing a plan put forward by Boris Johnson as recently as January and indicated that it could be prepared to eliminate Huawei involvement entirely by 2023.

Cotton said that he would welcome the UK removing Huawei “even earlier” and argued that the Chinese company’s kit could be targeted by People’s Liberation Army hackers to track the movement of key parts of US F35 fighter aircraft if it were compromised.

The senator has recently submitted an amendment to the US 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would block the deployment of US air force F35s in countries where Huawei equipment is used, and told the committee “we believe our airmen could be at risk”.

Huawei is a communist front corporation built atop the bones of Nortel, after picking them clean.

CHANGE? Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts that used ‘#dcblackout’ to spread false reports of a communications blackout.

Twitter is a platform ripe for abuse by its users — and by management.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO: SPLC Slams Trump’s Terror Designation of Antifa as ‘Dangerous and Unjust’ as America Burns.

MOST 21ST CENTURY HEADLINE EVER: Operation Warp Speed selects billionaire scientist’s COVID-19 vaccine for monkey tests.

TOM KNIGHTON: Savage Beating During Dallas Riot Illustrates Why We Defend Second Amendment.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COMMITTED SOCIALISTS TAKE CONTROL OF AN ENERGY-RICH NATION: Iran Says It Is Ready to Continue Fuel Shipments to Venezuela.

Iran is in bad shape, too: Iran hunts for grains as coronavirus compounds economic woes.

INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION: Sky News Australia: “Of Course Antifa Is Behind The Violence!”

VICTORIA TAFT: Leftist Rioters Try to Divide Us, but a Poll About George Floyd’s Killer Says It’s Not Working.

YOU DON’T SAY: Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence.

HMM: China unveils plan for Hainan free trade hub as US decoupling risk grows. “The tropical island will benefit from a low income tax rate, freedoms in trade, investment, capital flows and an easier investment environment.”

Well, until Beijing notices the locals getting uppity and takes all that away.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Treasury IG: 879K High-Income Earners Didn’t File Tax Returns.

INDEED: Florida Sheriff Grady Judd Speaks for America.

CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Coronavirus ‘Key Information’ Withheld by China, Leak Shows. “Confirming what many had suspected, recordings leaked to the Associated Press show that Communist Chinese strongman Xi Jinping’s government ‘sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome,’ of the novel coronavirus ‘for over a week after multiple government labs had fully decoded it.’ As a result, health officials at WHO, in the U.S., and around the world were missing ‘details key to designing tests, drugs and vaccines’.”

FIVETHIRTYEIGHT: De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway.

Missing context:

It’s difficult or impossible to deescalate when you have anarcho-fascists stirring up violence.

VIDEO TWOFER: SUV driver runs over line of police officers in New York.

AND: NYPD officer mowed down by driver in the Bronx.

UGH: At Least Five Police Officers Reportedly Shot, One On Life Support As Rioters And Law Enforcement Battle Across The Country.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Holds Bible in Front of Church, Libs Everywhere Are Triggered. “President Trump provided the nation a perfect social media snapshot of why so many of us are way beyond being able to seem the American Left as anything but a bunch for raving lunatics. Yeah, I may be a little over the top now but I think I’ve been drowned in so much hyperbole and anti-Trump hysteria AMID THE PANDEMIC that I now feel like responding in kind.”

Good stuff.