OH: Sen. Feinstein failed to disclose husband’s Facebook stock before Zuckerberg testified.

BLUE ON BLUE: New Democrat Superstar Has Already Given Her Party Reason To Beware.

Democrats finally received an infusion of fresh blood when the young and telegenic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the nation with her monumental upset win on June 26, in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th congressional district.

But there was a catch: she won by defeating ten-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley, the number four Democrat in the House.

Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has already backed another leftist insurgent targeting a member of the party establishment.

She has endorsed congressional candidate Cori Bush, running against nine-term Democrat Rep. Lacy Clay in Missouri’s August 7 primary. Both Ocasio-Cortez and Bush are backed by the progressive PAC Justice Democrats.

Now, Democrats may be showing a whiff of panic.

Eventually, the Left eats its own. Always. And while the schadenfreude remains as tasty as ever, the Democrats’ grassroots embrace of socialism — “democratic” or otherwise — is not a healthy sign.

THE PJM LIVE BLOG is live-blogging Peter Stzok’s House testimony.

HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER, PLEASE: Acting EPA Chief Promises to Continue Regulation-Slashing Mission.

WAIT, I THOUGHT GERRYMANDERING WAS UNDEMOCRATIC OR RACIST OR SOMETHING: Obama Uses Gerrymandering To Push Voters To Unseat Republicans In 2018.

CHANGE? Antifa Activists Are Freaking Out About a Proposed ‘Unmasking’ Law.

“H.R. 6054 takes a pro-fascist stance in its very name, and doubtlessly in its enforcement,” Carmichael Monaco, a member of the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, a New York City-based activist group, told me Tuesday. “In the current political climate, antifascists who speak out against fascism, racism, xenophobia, etc. are routinely harassed, threatened, and attacked by the far right, often supported by the police, who are notably exempted here. Families and friends of antifascists also become targets of far right violence. The wearing of a mask is an act of self-defense often necessary to ensure one’s right to free speech.”
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The new and worrying trend here for people like Monaco is the strategy of repurposing a tactic meant to fight racists for the arrest of people on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum. This isn’t just speculation: In August 2017, an Arizona lawmaker said he wanted to use unmasking laws to go after Antifa protestors by explicitly comparing them to the KKK.

What was good enough for the Democrats’ old shock troops in the KKK must be good enough for their new shock troops in Antifa.

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Strzok Grilled on the Hill Today and Much, Much More. “Peter Strzok, partisan activist and coup participant, will be testifying today in an open hearing before the House Judiciary and the House Oversight committees. Lisa Page, the other half of the treasonous former couple, ignored her subpoena to appear before the Committees yesterday. She has 48 hours to comply or else…something bad will happen?”

FALSE PREMISE. NEXT QUESTION? MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Is It ‘Appropriate’ to Take Originalist View of Constitution Since Americans Are More Progressive Now?

CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Andrew Breitbart Inspired ‘Gosnell’ Movie Project.

The picture was directed by Nick Searcy, cowritten by Andrew Klavan, Phelim McAleer, and Ann McElhinney, and stars Dean Cain and Earl Billings. It’s due out in October.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Thieves plunder headstones as Venezuela’s crisis turns grave.

Grief flooded back for Ivonne de Gutierrez when she brought flowers to her son’s grave at a cemetery in Venezuela’s capital, only to find that the grave markers of several relatives were gone.

The pieces cast with bronze letters and religious symbols that identified the graves of a nephew and two aunts had disappeared since her visit a week earlier.

“Almost all of them have been taken,” Gutierrez said, standing among the vandalized graves at Cemetery of the East, one of Caracas’ most cherished final resting places.

While thieves have been targeting the capital’s necropolises for years, robbing unsuspecting mourners or ransacking tombs for metal objects and even human bones used in occult ceremonies, the crime wave has worsened as the country has been consumed by economic and political crisis.

Eventually, even socialist regimes run out of corpses to pick at.

QUESTION ASKED: Did FBI get bamboozled by multiple versions of Trump dossier?

John Solomon:

We know from public testimony that dossier author and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shared his findings with the FBI in summer and fall 2016 before he was terminated as a confidential source for inappropriate media contacts.

And we learned that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) provided a copy to the FBI after the November 2016 election — out of a sense of duty, his office says.

Now, memos the FBI is turning over to Congress show the bureau possessed at least three versions of the dossier and its mostly unverified allegations of collusion.

Each arrived from a different messenger: McCain, Mother Jones reporter David Corn, Fusion GPS founder (and Steele boss) Glenn Simpson.

That revelation is in an email that disgraced FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok wrote to FBI executives around the time BuzzFeed published a version of the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017.

“Our internal system is blocking the site,” Strzok wrote of the document posted on BuzzFeed. “I have the PDF via iPhone but it’s 25.6MB. Comparing now. The set is only identical to what McCain had. (it has differences from what was given to us by Corn and Simpson.)”

The significance of Strzok’s email is obvious to investigators who reviewed it in recent days. The FBI is supposed to be immune to manipulation by circular information flows, especially with sensitive investigations such as evaluating whether a foreign power tampered with an American election.

Yet, in this case, the generally same information kept walking through the FBI’s door for months — recycled each time by a new character with ties to Hillary Clinton or hatred for Trump — until someone decided they had to act.

Read the whole thing.

Although perhaps the more pertinent question is: Did the FBI want to get bamboozled by multiple versions of Trump dossier?

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: The Next B-52 Bomb Upgrade May Be a Tough Message for China.

While specific munitions haven’t been advertised, the goal is to quadruple the bomb size. Officials want pylons “capable of carrying multiple weapons in the 5,000-lb to 20,000-pound weight class,” according to the RFI. The current common pylon maximum is for 5,000-pound munitions.

The external pylon “was designed in 1959 and has been in service since the 1960s. When it was introduced, there wasn’t a requirement nor did anyone foresee a need to carry weapons heavier than 5000 lbs,” the RFI states.

Now that’s changed, the official said.

I find it difficult to believe that nobody in the Air Force or at Boeing at the time never imagined a need for bigger bombs for our biggest bomber.

SPENGLER: Germany lines up with China in trade war.

Houston, we’ve got a problem. Forget about Harley-Davidson. Some of the world’s most powerful industrial firms have just given China a gigantic vote of confidence.

BMW will expand its joint venture with Brilliance Auto to produce 519,000 vehicles a year. It also set up a joint venture with produce an electric version of the Mini together with Great Wall Auto. And it agreed to buy $4.7 billion worth of batteries from Chinese producer CATL, which just announced a new plant in southern Germany. Volkswagen earlier this year announced that it would invest $18 billion in China by 2022 and construct six plants to build electric vehicles. Oh, and BMW will move some of its SUV production out of its South Carolina plant in response to auto tariffs.

Daimler will start to test self-driving cars in Beijing. China’s new cities are designed to accommodate self-driving cars, unlike older American cities. Chemical giant BASF will spend $10 billion on a second giant facility in China. And Siemens will develop gas turbines together with China’s State Power Investment Co.

None of this is good news for the United States.

Read the whole thing.

GRASSROOTS: No, the #WalkAway Movement Isn’t Run by Russian Bots. But It Is a Major Threat to the Democratic Party.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Portland brewery introduces CBD-infused beer. “Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive molecule in cannabis. CBD doesn’t make you high like THC, which is also found in cannabis.”

“That beer has 4 milligrams of active CBD,” said Phil Boyle, the general manager of Coalition Brewing. “It doesn’t get you high. It won’t show up on a drug test or make you feel weird.”

Brewers say CBD-infused beer doesn’t taste much different from a regular beer because the compounds in cannabis plants and hops have a similar taste and smell.

Dr. Nephi Stella, a professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine, has been studying cannabis for 25 years.

Stella says researchers are “very sure” CBD can reduce seizures and help fight glioblastomas, and researchers believe it is “very likely” that CBD fights pain, anxiety, PTSD and some cancers. He said you can’t overdose on CBD.

“There is no aspect of cannabidiol that we understand that it would actually harm [someone],” he said. “It has a very good safety profile.”

In June, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a CBD drug to treat severe epilepsy.

Any reason to drink beer will do.

THE DEATH OF THE BIRTH DEARTH: Is Hungary Experiencing a Policy-Induced Baby Boom?

In 2015, the government of Hungary announced a major new policy: families would be given generous subsidies to buy or build new homes, and the subsidies would scale up based on their marital status and the number of children they had. This “Family Housing Allowance Program,” or CSOK (the abbreviation of the program’s Hungarian name), gives a maximum benefit to married couples with three or more children, equivalent to a $36,000 grant to buy a new home, alongside a major value-added tax deduction for each home, and a capped-interest loan for part of the home value. These interest and tax benefits are probably worth around another $15,000 to $50,000 per family, depending on the house they buy and their likely loan terms. In other words, for a married couple buying a new house with at least three kids, the value of their total payout could run anywhere from $50,000 to $80,000. Meanwhile, for a couple with just two kids, the payout could be from around $18,000 to $35,000. In other words, that extra kid earns the family somewhere between $15,000 and $62,000 extra dollars. Given that the average salary in Hungary is only around $11,000 to $15,000 per year, an equivalently-impactful subsidy for Americans, based on our higher incomes, would need to amount to somewhere between $40,000 and $250,000.

I’m curious to see if Hungary can avoid going bust on babies without breaking the bank.

A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION: Open bars, office romances, and more: What the latest Obama administration tell-all reveals about life in the West Wing. “Writing this book was basically an exercise in embarrassment.”

AND THEY GOT ONE: Our NATO Allies Need a Good Talking To.

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT? New Sacha Baron Cohen series a Hollywood hit job on GOP, source says.

HEH: Democrats Don’t Know Anything About Judge Kavanaugh, They Just Know They Don’t Like Him.

HMM: Was Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Telling the Truth When He Denied Threatening GOP Staffers? “Somebody at the DOJ isn’t telling the truth about Rosenstein’s threats.”

SEA TRIAL: Former USS Fitzgerald CO Pleads Not Guilty to Negligence Charges. “While serious, the charges Benson faces do not include negligent homicide charges that were initially announced by the Navy in January.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Soccer Is a Fundamentally Flawed Game.

ALLIES: Senate Precedes Trump Meetings with NATO-Backing Vote, Crimea Sanctions Bill. “America’s allies must never forget that across the Atlantic, there remains overwhelming bipartisan support in the Congress for the transatlantic alliance.”

GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM: This Honda lawn mower will go 150 mph.

Unfortunately, it can’t mow at top speed.