YES: Mandatory social distancing: The greatest theft of all time. “Despite the supposed benevolence of social distancing for the purpose of public health, we argue that mandatory social distancing constitutes the single greatest political act of theft in history.”

AWFUL: Independent autopsy finds George Floyd died of asphyxia.

REUTERS: Former U.S. President Obama praises protests, condemns violence.

I read Obama’s essay, and while he did say, “let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it,” at no point did he actually condemn it.

RUSSIA: Putin Sets New Date on Public Vote Clearing His Way to Become President for Life.

BACKGROUND: Russian Parliament Declares National Do-Over, Allows Putin to Rule Until 2036. “What that means is, Putin will be eligible for re-re-reelection as the incumbent for an office he never held.”

GARBAGE FORMER PRESIDENT SAYS GARBAGE STUFF: Barack Obama Urges Activists to Capitalize on George Floyd Outrage.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Clever Churchgoers Avoid Arrest By Disguising Themselves As Rioters.

SEN. TOM COTTON: Riots must end tonight or ‘let’s see how tough Antifa terrorists are when facing off with the 101st Airborne Division.’

A CONSERVATIVE IS A LIBERAL WHO GOT MUGGED BY THE REALITY THEY HELPED CREATE:

The Silent Majority elected Richard Nixon in 1968 after similar madness. The Left ought to have learned, but they just can’t help themselves.

@ANTIFA_US: ‘Tonight We Say “F*** the City” and We Move in to the Residential Areas…’

UPDATE (From Ed): False flag operation? NBC is reporting: White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on twitter.

YES: A Plea From An Inner-City African American To Stop The Madness, Looting, And Rioting.

TODAY’S NON-SHOCKER STORY: Santa Monica Looter Admits He’s Doing It ‘for the Money,’ Not George Floyd.

PAULA BOLYARD: Let This Sink In: Churches Are Shuttered Over COVID-19 Fears, But Violent Anarchists Are Allowed to Congregate with Impunity.

AND MY LATEST IS JUST FOR OUR VIP MEMBERS: End the Shutdown, All the Way, Right Now.

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YOUR HIGHLY-CREDENTIALED INFOTAINMENT INDUSTRY AT WORK: MSNBC Host Yamiche Alcindor Attacks Trump, Hits Self in Spectacular Self-Own.

FAMILY: George Floyd’s brother condemns violent protests: ‘My brother was about peace.’

A TYLER O’NEIL TWOFER: Rioters So Angry About George Floyd … They Wrote ‘Free Palestine’ on a Synagogue.

AND: George Floyd Would Have Condemned the Riots. Here’s How We Know.

UM…: Watch MSNBC’s Ali Veshi Say Minneapolis ‘Protesters’ Not ‘Unruly, While Standing In Front of a Burning Building.

RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! Susan Rice Suggests Russia Could Be Funding Violent Riots.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: American Burning Redux: Why? “The playbook has been the same one they ran in Ferguson: use the cover of black protestors to bring far-left agitators out to sow disorder and chaos through rioting, looting and arson, while the response to the disorder in (mostly) Democratic Party run locales is ineffectual. That playbook appeared to be aimed at radicalizing black voters so they continued to show up at polls for Democrats without Obama at the top of the ticket.”

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: UAB Professor Sarah Parcak Tempts Rioters to Destroy Birmingham Monument. “You’ve come a long way from peacefully protesting the police killing of George Floyd, baby.”

IT’S A MIXED-UP, MUDDLED-UP, SHOOK-UP WORLD: Biden Staffers Donate Money to Pay Bail of Rioters That Minnesota Officials Claim Are White Supremacists.

RELATED: Colorado Senate Democrats ‘stand in solidarity’ with protestors; stop short of condemning violence in downtown Denver.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: A $350 ‘anti-5G’ device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds. “The 5GBioShield makes it possible, thanks to a uniquely applied process of quantum nano-layer technology, to balance the imbalanced electric oscillations arising from all electric fog induced by all devices such as: laptops, cordless phones, wlan, tablets, etc.”

A HARD DECOUPLING WOULD BE BETTER THAN NO DECOUPLING: Revoking Hong Kong’s special status is Trump’s ‘nuclear option’ that could trigger irrevocable U.S.-China split, analysts warn.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Who Had ‘Race Riots’ On Their Pandemic Bingo Cards? “I may be on voluntary lockdown for the rest of the year just because I’m really not interested in finding out what the hell else 2020 can throw at us.”

Same.

FLASHBACK: NASA does not deny the “over $2 billion” cost of a single SLS launch.

The White House number appears to include both the “marginal” cost of building a single SLS rocket as well as the “fixed” costs of maintaining a standing army of thousands of employees and hundreds of suppliers across the country. Building a second SLS rocket each year would make the per-unit cost “significantly less,” Hambleton said.

What the White House cost estimate did not include, however, was development costs. Since 2011, Congress has appropriated approximately $2 billion per year for the “development” of the SLS rocket (this does not include hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually on ground systems “development” for the rocket at Kennedy Space Center). If these costs are amortized over 10 launches of the SLS vehicle during the 2020, the per-flight cost would be approximately $4 billion per flight.

And that still doesn’t include the payload.

AMAZINGLY PREDICTABLE:

An Army of Karens went overnight from scolding people for not wearing masks or social distancing to expressing solidarity with rioters.