FULL DETAILS FROM RICK MORAN: SCOTUS Rules that Federal Courts Cannot Intervene in Redrawing Voting Districts.

IT WAS DIFFERENT THEN BECAUSE SHUT UP: 20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared.

BLUE ON BLUE: Google Employees Tell San Francisco Their Company Isn’t Woke Enough for Pride Parade.

UPDATE: San Francisco Pride Refuses to Ban Google From Its Parade, But Says They ‘Must Do More.’

TANGENTIALLY RELATED: Inside Google’s Microaggressions Newsletter: Pronoun Problems, Soy Police, And A Deaf Person Told To Watch Her ‘Tone.’

Stories like these make me wonder if longterm, Google will remain a manageable company.

BREAKING: Supreme Court tosses citizenship question from 2020 census forms, a victory for Democratic states. “The court found that while the Commerce Department has a right to reinstate the question, it did not provide an adequate justification for doing so.”

TIM RYAN: The Democratic Party Has a ‘Perception Problem’ as ‘Coastal, Elitist.’

Last night might have gone some ways towards curing viewers of any perception that there’s much elite about the candidates.

TAMMY BRUCE: Democrats reinforce the politics of resentment and victimhood.

When gay marriage became the law of the land, that was success from a nation that is constantly working to become more fair and free. Now, we’re being told that’s not enough. There is now a new grievance in the perpetual racist, sexist, homophobic America. We are now to use that as an economic weapon or as another cudgel with which to extort political power and reinforce divisions among us instead of moving forward with our victories.

For the Democratic Party machine, however, there can never be success, there always has to be a new appended wrong or violation, some new campaign to convince you that victimhood will never end, and you must always resent, well, everyone. Including those who may think differently or simply disagree politically. That is the racist, sexist and homophobic position, as they work for their own constituencies believing the lie that they will always be victims and can never become equal willing partners in society. It’s insulting, damaging and limiting.

Americans seeing each other as neighbors, friends and colleagues as opposed to the malicious “other” is to Democrats as water is to the Wicked Witch. The melting of the left is already occurring, and all they have is to appeal to the worst in people.

Indeed.

YES: The winner of the first Democratic debate: Donald Trump. “The Republican commander in chief emerged from the scrap largely unscathed, while several of his would-be rivals took aim at each other instead.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court declines to impose limits on partisan redistricting.

More to come.

THE WORSE, THE BETTER? Barack’s ICE chief: Cages were Obama’s idea.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Who Won Medals at the Woke Olympics Debate? “I am ashamed to say I watched the entire debate. Who was the winner? I would say it was a tie between Donald Trump and those who did something else. Perhaps the second round of debates will be different. Just kidding.”

UNITED STATES OF FACEBOOK: Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Betrays the Company’s True Ambitions.

So let’s imagine that Libra does get off the ground. What’s its biggest competition? Hint: it’s not Bitcoin. Let’s start with the dollar—arguably the most powerful currency in the world. About 350 million people use the dollar around the world. That’s a little under 13 percent of Facebook’s claimed 2.7 billion users (across all three platforms), so even accounting for duplicates, fake accounts, and rounding errors, Libra could be used by more people—if not actual amount spent—than the dollar, and without a whole lot of sweat from Facebook.

Not buying it? Here’s an example of anemic adoption on Facebook. The company introduced Stories on Facebook in January 2017, and the feature was derided as a direct Snapchat ripoff that was so poorly implemented and confusing as to be laughable. By fall of 2018, over 300 million people were using Stories. Boom. Dollar.

The likelihood of Libra’s adoption is even higher because the company’s fastest growth is international, and Libra is likely to be the most useful in countries where the local currency is hyperinflated or banking is unreliable. Think of the 170 million Facebook users in Africa, many of whom already bank and transact on mobile phones. It’s an easy sell.

And if Libra starts big, the network effects of the Facebook platform will ensure that it just keeps getting bigger.

Then what?

The mind reels.

WELL, GOOD: Turkey will lose F-35 warplane if Russia arms deal goes ahead, US says.

WHY WAIT? Delete your Google account when you die.

More seriously:

Think about all the photos you have stored that your family and friends would like to have — or personal account information that your beneficiary will need to know about in the event of your death. There may be important files that you have stored on your Google Drive that someone will need access to. For those reasons, it’s a good idea to take five minutes and let Google know what to do with your data.

Instructions at the link.

OH: Photo Reveal AOC Was Crying Over an Empty Parking Lot.

UGH: German Firms Suspected of Having Exported Chemical-Weapon Materials to Assad.

IT’S ON: Drunkblogging the First Democratic Debate.

KRUISER: Slate: Deodorant Is a Tool of the Patriarchy or Something.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Media Ignores 2020 Democrat Joe Sestak’s Connection to Big Obama Scandal.

SHOCKER: Decriminalizing NYC Bus Fare Skipping Leads To Fewer People Paying Fares.

CHANGE? NATO says it will act unless Russia destroys nuclear-ready missile.

The U.S. has previously said it will quit a decades-old missile treaty with Russia if the latter fails to destroy the missile, labeled the SSC-8 by NATO.

The 1987 INF Treaty between the U.S. and Russia sought to eliminate nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as their launchers, with short ranges (310–620 miles) and intermediate ranges (620–3,420 miles).

NATO has said the SSC-8 violates those terms and that Russia has been deploying the system at locations which could threaten countries across Europe.

Speaking at a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia had just five weeks to scrap the system and save the treaty.

“We call on Russia to take the responsible path. Unfortunately, we have seen no indication that Russia intends to do so,” he said.

The US might act, but I can’t imagine the rest of NATO doing much, if anything.

LAWRENCE PERSON: The Twitter Primary Revisited for June 2019. “As I did in previous months, here’s an update on the number of Twitter followers among Democratic presidential candidates. Joe Sestak has jumped into the race since the last update, raising the number of accounts tracked to 25.”

The debates kick off tonight, and yes, there will be live drunkblog coverage at PJMedia.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Trump Doctrine.

The problem is that in contrast to the straightforward brutalities of old-school war this approach may result in stalemate. Indeed the real weakness of the new Trump Strategy is not that it lacks an Exit but that it lacks an Entry. As Tanya Goudsouzian pointed out in Le Monde it has proved extremely difficult to effect regime change using “war by other means” alone. “Over the years, the preferred US weapon has been economic and financial sanctions. When used against North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and others, they succeeded only in punishing economies and people.”

So far hybrid warfare has proved capable of devastating their countries but not toppling its leaders. Despite ration lines in Cuba, a Venezuelan economy so bad even Russian arms dealers are wary of selling to them, a North Korea heading for another starvation winter the brutal regimes in these countries rule in perfect safety, willing if necessary to stay in power to the death of their last wretched citizen. Reuters paints the haunting picture of towns in a socialist Venezuela reduced to a “primitive isolation” that may well be eventual fate of Iran.

Perhaps the problem with the Trump Doctrine — that it leaves the future of other countries in their own peoples’ hands — is also one of its strengths.

In the short-to-medium term, that’s certainly less satisfying. In the longterm though it lowers our cost of engagement, while also reducing other assorted (and often unanticipated) risks.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. If you’re in insurmountable student loan debt, it’s probably your own fault.

ERIC POSNER: The Trouble Starts If Facebook’s New Currency Succeeds. “Libra will almost exactly replicate all the problems generated by the company’s social network.”

Libra will be big. Facebook has 2.4 billion users, and if, as Facebook promises, they can costlessly, seamlessly jump from their Facebook accounts to their Calibra wallets to spend money, many of them will do so. Visa has issued more than 2 billion credit cards and is used by more than 40 million merchants. Vodafone has 444 million customers. Uber has 91 million riders. With such a huge user base—many of whom are already the helpless playthings of Facebook’s algorithms—the Libra reserve will grow rapidly.

As Libra becomes a juggernaut, expect other huge companies to sign up for membership and then integrate Libra into their operations, delivering millions or billions more users. Currency, like communication, exhibits strong network effects—meaning that it becomes more valuable as more people use it. So the strategy Facebook used so effectively to build its social network—lure in customers with zero-pricing and then make money off them without their realizing it—will work just as well for Libra. Here, though, customers will enrich Facebook and its partners through interest payments on the reserve rather than exploitation of their data—though that might happen, too.

Lots to chew on here; read the whole thing.

I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA. IN REAL LIFE, PEOPLE DON’T SEEM MUCH DIFFERENT. Poll: Americans Say We’re Angrier Than A Generation Ago.

Say, didn’t someone just write a book about that?