BECAUSE OF COURSE: Making a ‘Gunlike Hand Gesture’ Is a Crime, Pennsylvania Court Rules.

BLUE ON BLUE: AOC rips Barbara Boxer for helping Lyft fight California bill.

GOVERNMENT MEDICINE: Officials are investigating 11 suspicious deaths at a VA hospital. Two have been ruled homicides.

TWITTER MAKES PEOPLE AWFUL, EXHIBIT 1,000,006: Former Canadian Prime Minister: I’m Rooting For A Direct Hurricane Hit On Mar-A-Lago.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: Man Jumps the Shark, Gets Bitten.

I’m hoping somehow that next Friday, we’re joking about how Hurricane Dorian turned into a drizzle, but right now it isn’t looking good.

SHE SAYS A LOT OF STUFF: AOC Says She’s Awakened at 3:30 AM Scared Because of Climate Change.

OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Court Rules Girl broke child porn law by texting explicit video of herself. “Teen girl, 16, is prosecuted under law intended to protect people like her.”

FLASHBACK: Comey ‘Friend’ Who Leaked FBI Memos Now Claims To Be His Attorney. “Daniel Richman, the law professor who leaked classified FBI records to the media at Comey’s request, refused to disclose when exactly he became Comey’s attorney.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Comey Loses FBI ‘Employee of the Month’ Titles. “Comey’s smugness is only exceeded by his false sense of moral superiority. He’s been yammering on about ethics and doing the right thing ever since President Trump rightly — and belatedly, as far as some are concerned — fired him.”

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela’s forests suffer as wood replaces scarce gas.

If you thought “What did socialists use before candles? Electricity!” was just a joke, it isn’t.

LOOKS LIKE MY NEXT DRUNKBLOGGING APPOINTMENT IS SCHEDULED: Truly Bizarre: CNN Plan For Dems Climate Change Town Hall.

The thing will run for seven hours, but I know how to pace myself.

BLUE ON BLUE OVER BLUE ON BLUE: Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy: Bernie Sanders Supporters Say Murder, Elizabeth Warren Fans Say Suicide in New Poll.

Newsweek, so click at your own risk — but who feels the need to poll on this stuff?

HMM: Trump can change history by declassifying three Obama-era documents.

A second body of documents crying out for declassification is Obama’s private correspondence with Iranian leaders — in particular, the Oct. 7, 2014, cable he penned to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, setting the terms for the controversial Washington-Tehran nuclear deal reached in early 2016.

My sources tell me that letter conflicts with what the Obama administration was telling the American public as it tried to sell the deal politically, and it shows a level of courtship, concession and trust with Tehran that exceeded the U.S. intelligence assessments at the time.

For example, my sources tell me that Obama promised Iran it could have a “domestic enrichment capacity” and that Tehran could be restored to a nation “in good standing” under the world’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty, even though U.S. intelligence had corroborated an extensive weapons program that violated that treaty for years.

The 2014 letter was preceded by at least three other private communications between Obama and officials in Tehran, including two in 2009 and one in 2012. All need to be declassified and released for Americans to better understand the merits of Obama’s approach with Iran.

Trump since has canceled the 2016 deal with Iran and imposed crippling new sanctions. But the true circumstances, promises and communications that led to the deal remain secret. The American public has much to gain from more transparency on this critical issue affecting world peace.

Two more items at the link, and… Well, Mr. President?

BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, WHY NOT? Northam Says He Didn’t Ask Appointee to Resign Over Anti-Catholic Tweets, Signals She Could Have Stayed in Job.

DAVID HARSANYI: James Comey is proof the ‘deep state’ is something to fear.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Also proof that the deep state has something to fear, I suspect.

I SWEAR I HAVEN’T GONE OFF THE DEEP END: Who Gave Jeffrey Epstein the Frankie Five Angels Treatment?

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Boris Blindsides Bolshy Remainers.

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Beto O’Rourke Campaign Claims Breitbart Reporter Ejected to Protect Black Students. “A Breitbart spokesperson hit back shortly after the O’Rourke campaign’s statement: ‘The false accusation that Breitbart is racist, or that its award-winning reporter — an Orthodox Jew, married to a black woman who serves in the military — is either racist or would make anyone at a black university uncomfortable is absurd. The irony of Mr. O’Rourke — who has stated himself that he is the beneficiary of ‘white privilege’ — purporting to decide for black students who should be banned from events that are open to the press, or what they should feel, is not lost on us’.”

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Leftists Lie About (spins dial) the Tea Party Being Racist.

Love the headline.

PRIVACY: I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me.

Like a colonoscopy, the project involved some special prep. I had to install a version of the Firefox web browser that was created by privacy researchers to monitor how websites track users’ data. For several days this spring, I lived my life through this Invasive Firefox, which logged every site I visited, all the advertising tracking servers that were watching my surfing and all the data they obtained. Then I uploaded the data to my colleagues at The Times, who reconstructed my web sessions into the gloriously invasive picture of my digital life you see here. (The project brought us all very close; among other things, they could see my physical location and my passwords, which I’ve since changed.)

What did we find? The big story is as you’d expect: that everything you do online is logged in obscene detail, that you have no privacy. And yet, even expecting this, I was bowled over by the scale and detail of the tracking; even for short stints on the web, when I logged into Invasive Firefox just to check facts and catch up on the news, the amount of information collected about my endeavors was staggering.

Read the whole thing.

ROBERT SPENCER: Lindsey Graham Is Wrong: It’s Long Past Time to Get Out of Afghanistan.

OH: Monmouth Disavows Their Own Poll Showing Biden Dropping To Third Place.

WOW: A US Air Force pilot describes how he landed his F-35 safely after a mid-air power failure.

NON-SHOCKING ITEM OF THE DAY: Execs claim Biden’s brother offered Biden’s help promoting business venture.

The allegations are consistent with others made over the years that relatives of Biden have sought to enrich themselves off of his public service. But they go further, representing the first explicit claims that James Biden offered to have the former vice president use his clout to further private business interests.

The allegations come in sworn declarations made by executives at firms suing Biden’s brother that were filed in federal court on Friday. They do not allege any wrongdoing by Joe Biden or indicate that the former vice president had knowledge of his brother’s alleged promises.

Neither George Mesires, a lawyer for James Biden, nor Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, immediately responded to a request for comment on the new allegations.

Developing…

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: NBC Fake News Blues Edition. “Rough Hump Day for the once-proud Peacock Network’s news division, which ended up having two of its ‘journalists’ issue public retractions after being so eager to make President Trump look bad that neither bothered to do any basic fact-checking.”