SEIZING THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION IS AS COMMUNIST AS, WELL, COMMUNIST CHINA: China seizes control of PPE factories, sparking fear of new coronavirus wave.

VIRUSES DO THAT: Is the coronavirus mutating? China’s new COVID-19 outbreak is raising concerns.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Treatment of Ron DeSantis vs Andrew Cuomo Is Why People Should Hate the Media. “Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, on the other hand, has been vilified by the mainstream media for a variety of reasons. His greatest sin thus far has been NOT turning into a petty tyrant and proving that giving citizens some freedom isn’t the death sentence that we’ve been told it is.”

HMM: “Mass casualty incident”: 600 doctors sign letter to Trump calling for end to lockdowns over health concerns.

GOOD LORD: Minnesota nursing homes, already the site of 81% of COVID-19 deaths, continue taking in infected patients.

JUNE 4, A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: Tiananmen vigil organiser calls for candles to be lit across Hong Kong.

HACKS: Media largely ignored Biden staffer’s attack on CBS News’ Catherine Herridge.

I’M GUESSING IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT TO BE NERVOUS ABOUT: Why Does This Ted Cruz Tweet Make Obama Officials So Nervous?

TODAY AT 3:30: EASTERN: Exclusive VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Managing Editor Paula Bolyard.

There will be cocktails.

YOU WENT FULL KAREN. NEVER GO FULL KAREN: Mika Brzezinski Demands Twitter Cancel President Trump in Embarrassing Rant.

UGH: More than 100,000 cruise crew members stranded at sea since mid-March.

WE TOLD YOU TWITTER WAS A CESSPIT: A new parasite that attaches to the genitals of its host has been discovered on Twitter.

TO BE FAIR, THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE MANY WAYS CALIFORNIA IS IN TROUBLE: Why California Is In Trouble – 340,000 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $45 Billion.

Heinlein noted years ago, “In a mature society, ‘civil servant’ is semantically equal to ‘civil master’.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump Just Provided the Flailing Economy a Much-Needed Boost.

THE GREAT REOPENING: The Florida Keys Are Reopening to Tourists Starting June 1.

SO FAR ONE OF TRUMP’S BETTER HIRES: Kayleigh McEnany Swats Smug ‘Fake Doctor’ Joe Scarborough After Unhinged Rant on Trump and Hydroxychloroquine.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: CNN’s Cuomo Mocks Trump Over Hydroxychloroquine — A Version Of It Was Included In His Own COVID-19 Treatment.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Finally Some Good News—Trump Is About to Flood the Economy With Deregulation. “This president has a been a breath of fresh air when it comes to regulations, gleefully chucking away hundreds of pages of them at a time. It’s really nice to see Republicans learning how to play the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ game for once, but focusing the effort on something that’s actually good for the country, like a sweeping effort to wipe out business-crushing regulations.”

We can’t afford luxury regulations in a Wuhan Virus economy.

AOC SHRUGGED: Biden Pledge to Dump Keystone Pipeline Would Kill Thousands of Jobs, Analysis Says.

WAIT UNTIL AFTER THEY’VE ACTUALLY CHANGED: Trump Says Funding Cuts Will Be Permanent If WHO Doesn’t Commit To ‘Major’ Changes.

COVID-19 RELATED DEATHS THEY WON’T COUNT: Suicide Experts Seeing Worrying Signs During Pandemic.

WELL, CNN. The COVID ‘Spike’ in Reopened Texas: CNN Gets It Wrong.

On Sunday CNN ran a segment on the spread of COVID-19 in Texas. The news channel promoted it with the jarring tweet “Texas is seeing the highest number of new coronavirus cases and deaths just two weeks after it officially reopened.” The segment spotlighted 1,448 new cases and 58 new deaths, and noted the increased movement of people in the state according to cellphone data, illustrating that the public was increasingly out and about.

While technically true, this information is horribly misleading, and to the extent CNN is trying to establish a causal connection between Texas’ reopening and the increase in coronavirus diagnoses and deaths in the Lone Star State, it is simply wrong. It is so wrong that it is difficult to give the benefit of the doubt here.

Read the whole thing. Really shameful fearmongering on CNN’s part, assuming anyone there is capable of it.

Exit Question: How long has it been since a serious person gave the benefit of any doubt to CNN?

OH: Leaked Audio of Joe Biden’s Ukraine ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Call Destroys MSM Narrative About Shokin’s Ouster.

TO BE FAIR, THEY AREN’T VERY BRIGHT: Trump Campaign Mocks Biden. Journalists Don’t Get the Joke.

DECOUPLING: Apple to Make New Headphones in Vietnam in Shift From China. “Apple has tapped factories in Vietnam to make its own forthcoming over-ear headphones, a new phase in its effort to diversify manufacturing away from China amid political and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, The Information has learned. The move would be the first time Apple has used factories in Vietnam to produce an entirely new product, instead of relying on them to supplement manufacturing of an older model already produced in China.”