CHANGE: Trump Will Act on Big Tech Censorship, White House Says.

SHOCKER: Gallup Poll Shows That No One Thinks the Media Is Doing a Good Job During the Pandemic.

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Twitter faces conservative backlash for fact-checking Trump’s tweets for the first time. “Twitter slapped a label on the president’s tweets about mail-in ballots.”

Reminder: Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots.

THE GREAT REOPENING: Water parks, food court dining areas added to Texas’ latest wave of reopenings.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Can Joe Biden Survive a Battle With…Joe Biden? “That Biden is the Democrats’ presumptive nominee is truly remarkable when you think about it. He’s all but abandoned his native tongue. He had one mediocre debate performance while the rest ranged from awful to disastrous. He’s off-script more than Robin Williams during his peak cocaine years on Mork and Mindy, yet everyone over on that side keeps giving him a pass.”

WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS LANDED AT PEARL HARBOR? Biden Confuses D-Day With Pearl Harbor.

OF COURSE HE DOES: Mitt Romney Defends ‘Friend’ Scarborough From Trump Attacks.

PROCUREMENT BLUES: Bath Shipyard Scrambles As Thousands Retire; Months Behind On Destroyer Work, Says President.

PROJECTION MUCH? Roger Waters: Evangelical Christians ‘Hate the Jews.’

AMERICA’S LONGEST WAR: Pentagon Will Present Timelines for Afghanistan Withdrawal to Trump.

GOOD LORD: Cuomo’s Deadly Nursing Home Policy Likely Cost 10,000 Lives So Far.

LIVE: SpaceX Attempts First Manned Mission by a Private Company.

RELATED: Elon Musk, Gordon Gekko, and the Power of Character.

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COLLUSION: Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots.

POSSIBLY HUGE: U.S. Officially Declares That Hong Kong Is No Longer Autonomous.

The State Department has officially determined that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday that holds implications for the future of economic ties and could lead to sanctions against China.

The State Department is required by the Hong Kong Policy Act to assess the autonomy of the territory from China. It certified to Congress on Thursday that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous.

“This decision gives me no pleasure. But sound policy-making requires a recognition of reality,” Mr. Pompeo said in the statement. “It is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself.”

More to come, none of it pleasing to Beijing.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION AND/OR DEATH: Gov. Cuomo Gave Nursing Homes Immunity After Big Donation to His 2018 Campaign.

THERE’S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS: Vaccine Development Threatened as COVID-19 Infections Decline.

I’LL BELIEVE MASKS ARE NECESSARY WHEN THE PEOPLE TELLING ME MASKS ARE NECESSARY START ACTING LIKE MASKS ARE NECESSARY: MSNBC cameraman called out on live TV for not wearing face mask during segment on people not wearing face masks.

OH: China’s Xi urges preparedness for military combat amid coronavirus epidemic.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump’s Twitter Trolling Is the Greatest Entertainment in America. “The thoroughly leftist Twitter has a love/hate relationship the president, of course. He brings them the kind of publicity that they couldn’t possibly buy. If he weren’t the president and just a regular conservative, he’d be shadow-banned or suspended immediately. They have to keep the President of the United States around, much to their chagrin, no doubt.”

The real question is how much longer Trump keeps Twitter around.

DAMN RIGHT: ‘Americans Don’t Get Ruled’ – Illinois Judge Unloads on Pritzker’s Stay-at-Home Order.

HISTORY: Lessons From Operation ‘Denver,’ the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign. “Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on a conspiracy theory that reverberates to this day.”

In September 1985, the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) informed other Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence agencies that it had launched a new, major disinformation campaign. “We are carrying out a complex of [active] measures in connection with the appearance in recent years of a new dangerous disease in the USA known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).” The KGB explained that “the goal of the measures is to create a favorable opinion for us abroad — namely, that this disease is the result of secret experiments by the USA’s secret services and the Pentagon with new types of biological weapons that have spun out of control.” Most likely, the KGB had initiated the disinformation campaign as early as 1983, but the September 1985 document — obtained by Christopher Nehring from the former Bulgarian State Security archive — is the earliest conclusive evidence that has turned up so far.

This is a fascinating read, and Communist China’s similar propaganda effort on the Wuhan Virus just goes to show that commies never change.

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS THAT CANNOT WAIT: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon has a new space toilet for astronauts. But how does it work?

WHAT THE LEFT LIKES TO CALL ‘A TEACHABLE MOMENT,’ BUT WILL THEY LEARN? Gingrich on red-state reopenings vs blue-state lockdowns: Will be ‘one of the most vivid gaps’ in economic history.