THE NEWS ISN’T THAT IT’S TRUE, BUT THAT IT’S BEING ADMITTED: Human rights activist admits: Muslim refugees have no intention of adopting our values.

SHOT: Once-tolerant Indonesia moves to outlaw gay — and extramarital — sex.

CHASER: Saudi Cleric Says Women Need Not Wear Abaya Robe In Public.

It wasn’t many years ago that those headlines would have been unimaginable — unless the countries were reversed.

BLUE LIGHT DISTRICT: This UV Lamp Could Prevent the Flu Virus From Spreading in Public Places.

“We’ve known for a century that UV light is extremely efficient at killing microbes, bacteria, and viruses,” says study leader David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. For that reason, UV devices are often used for sterilization — for medical equipment in hospitals, for example, or drinking water for backcountry campers.

But conventional germicidal lamps aren’t safe for humans to be around. With prolonged exposure, they can cause skin cancer and cataracts in the eyes. “So up until now, they’re only really practical when people aren’t around,” say Brenner. “You can sterilize a hospital room, but not when anyone’s inside.”

About five years ago, Brenner says, the Columbia team came up with a potential solution. Light on the far end of the UV-C spectrum, known as far-UVC, has very short wavelengths. The researchers suspected that it can penetrate and destroy microscopic bacteria and viruses, but can’t travel through the protective outer layers of human skin or eyes.

Now, Brenner and his colleagues have show that UVC light can effectively kill airborne influenza.

And the best part:

“We think that this type of overhead light could be efficacious for basically any public setting,” says Brenner. “Think about doctor’s waiting rooms, schools, airports and airplanes—any place where there’s a likelihood for airborne viruses.” And unlike the flu vaccine, he says, far-UVC light is likely to be effective against all airborne microbes, including newly emerging virus strains.

If this pans out, it could be the easiest-to-implement and most effective public health measure since the polio vaccine.

FINE. BUT LET THEM PAY FOR IT. Trump Wants Offshore Drilling, but States Are Choosing Wind Energy.

DAILY BEAST: What Happens If A North Korean Athlete Defects? Disaster. “A defection, good for Pence and Trump, would be a diplomatic disaster for South Korea’s president. He could not give one back, but to accept one would thwart peace talks.”

Interesting to frame a possible defection as “good for Pence and Trump” with no mention of any benefit to the defector.

THE ART OF THE DEAL? White House Proposing Immigration Compromise that Includes No Cut to Legal Immigration.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Jeff Sessions to Pain Sufferers: Take Two Aspirin and Stop Whining.

NIMBY: California Plans To Block Oil From New Leases Allowed by Trump’s Order.

KYLE SMITH: The Idolatry of Journalism.

Gaze upon the colossal edifice at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue in the national capital and you might get the impression that something really important is happening, or at least being recreated, inside. Pass through the Newseum’s doors, however, and your excitement may quickly be doused: It’s essentially a building full of stories you could easily find on the Internet, dull games, and large corporate displays of self-celebration. There’s a Bancroft Family Ethics Center (“kiosks allow you to tackle real-life reporting dilemmas and see how journalists and other visitors responded”), an NBC News Interactive Newsroom (“gives visitors a chance to play the role of a reporter or photographer”), and a New York Times Great Hall (“a continuous flow of news and free speech. Instant, breaking, historic news that is uncensored, diverse and free”). The privilege of strolling amid such gimmickry will cost you dearly — $25, in a city heaving with museums that cost nothing. The ticket price is higher than the Baseball Hall of Fame ($23) and the same as the (suggested) entry fee of America’s foremost repository of great painting and sculpture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Attractions such as these, and the slippers once worn by Wonkette (I couldn’t remember her name either; upon investigation, it’s Ana Marie Cox) haven’t exactly delivered the throngs. The Newseum is mainly an event space, colorful background for canape-chewers and champagne-sippers whose custom earned the place twice as much ($18 million) last year as did admissions ($7.8 million). Overall, it lost more than $8 million last year and won’t last much longer. Its proprietors are looking for a way to sell off the building and move its contents to environs more suited to their importance — say, a fruit stand out in Gaithersburg.

Ouch.

NO IT ISN’T. Forget craft beer. The next craze is non-alcoholic brews.

TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS FOR TAKIN’ IT OFF: Bourbon Street Strippers Are Fighting Intrusive Regulations.

MICHAEL WALSH: Who Loves a Parade? “We don’t want to be the Soviet Union. But neither do we want to be France.”

ION MIHAI PACEPA: I Should Know: Dems’ Intel Abuse Is Reminiscent of My Work for Ceausescu.

Wow. Read the whole thing.

BUT THEY ARE THE ARBITERS OF BLUE CHECKMARKS AND SHADOW-BANS: Twitter executive on fake news: ‘We are not the arbiters of truth.’

OH: Princeton University to Host ‘Fat Positive’ Dinner.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela’s lawless roads.

In one video apparently showing a looting and uploaded to social media, people are seen gleefully dragging live chickens from a stranded truck.

The looters use tree trunks and rocks to stop vehicles, and are particularly fond of “miguelitos” – pieces of metal with long spikes – to burst tires and halt vehicles.

A ring-road round the central town of Barquisimeto, with shanty-towns next to it, is notorious among truckers, who nickname it “The Guillotine” due to the regular attacks.

In some cases, crowds simply swarm at trucks when they stop for a break or repairs. Soldiers or policemen seldom help, according to interviews with two dozen drivers.

Yone Escalante, 43, who also takes vegetables from the Andes on a 2,800-km (1,700-mile) round-trip to eastern Venezuela, shudders when he recalls how a vehicle of his was ransacked in the remote plains of Guarico state last year.

“Social media” is as close as this Reuters report gets to the words “socialism” or “socialist.”

Related: Colombia and Brazil clamp down on borders as Venezuela crisis spurs exodus.

Isn’t border control racist?

“COULD?” Turkey’s New Constitutional Crisis Could End the Rule of Law.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Paul Holds Up Budget Vote and Bette Midler ‘Jokes’ About Finding His Neighbor. “It’s OK to assault wrong-thinkers.”

OLYMPIC SPIRIT: African-American Olympian boycotts opening ceremonies because he wasn’t chosen to carry flag.

It came down to a coin toss.

SECDEF MATTIS: ‘DREAMers’ In The Military Won’t Be Deported.

JUST RELEASE EVERYTHING BUT THE LAUNCH CODES AND THE NOC LIST: A second memo is on the horizon as Nunes gears up to launch the next strike in his investigation into the FBI.

NICHOLAS BALLASY: L.A. Mayor ‘Not Scared At All’ of Being Arrested for Sanctuary City Status.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? John Podesta’s Cure for Climate Change: A Government in Charge of Your ‘Family Planning.’

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Rand Paul on Spending: “When Republicans Are In Power, There Is No Conservative Party.”

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Another conservative voice silenced for Tweeting While Conservative.

I’m not on Twitter much anymore, which is a shame because it used to be a lot of fun.