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IF YOU WON’T PROTECT PEOPLE, THEY WILL PROTECT THEMSELVES: “Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a…

BLACK LIVELIHOODS MATTER: Shop owners reveal financial and emotional struggles of being looted. “They tell me ‘Black Lives Matter.’ They’re lying . . . I’m black, look what you did to my store.”

OPEN THREAD: We are here to save the Erf. E – R – F.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Upper East Side moms Facebook group implodes after intense diversity fight.

LEFTIST LOSES STRUGGLE SESSION: Watch as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is booed out of a protest for refusing calls to defund the police. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey would have been roasted if he hadn’t appeared at his city’s protest Saturday for George…

SPACE: China launches 2 rockets in 2 days, lofting 4 satellites to orbit.

BLUE ON BLUE: VIDEO: Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Kicked Out of Protest and Taunted When Refuses to Defund Police.

SOUNDS LIKE THE VOTERS OF BALTIMORE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT, AND DESERVE TO GET IT GOOD AND HARD: Ex-Baltimore mayor, once convicted of embezzlement, now favorite to fill seat of mayor convicted of fraud.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: L.A. Pride Organizers Apologize After Involving Police In Upcoming Solidarity Protest.

SHOT: CHASER: VIDEO: U.S. Senator Whitehouse Won’t Quit All-White Exclusive Private Club.

QUESTION ASKED: What if D-Day Had Failed? Related: “On June 6, 1944, James M. Doohan, a Canadian, led D Company of Royal Winnipeg Rifles ashore at Juno. He took out a sniper’s nest, lost middle finger of his right hand to a bullet. He said he ‘gave…

DESPITE THEIR BEING LOOTED ON HER WATCH: Mayor pleads with Walmart, other retailers to not abandon Chicago.

CRYBULLY MOB COLLECTS SCALP: Stan Wischnowski to resign as The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor. Wischnowski, 58, led the paper over two turbulent periods in recent years, driving it, its sister paper, the Daily News and its website, Inquirer.com, to…

BLUE ON BLUE: LA Mayor Garcetti Calls His Cops ‘Killers.’ The ‘Killers’ Just Sent a Reply to the ‘Unstable’ Mayor.

ALSO, ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY NOT ONLY FOR POLICE, BUT FOR ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: Make cops carry liability insurance: The private sector knows how to spread risks, and costs.

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THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: WHO reverses position on face masks as coronavirus cases climb.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: I did not kill George Floyd. The attempt to hold all whites responsible for the death of Floyd shows what a dead-end woke politics is. As with pretty much all racial politics, it’s never about solving a problem or making things better or…

WELL, YES: Public Health Experts Have Undermined Their Own Case for the COVID-19 Lockdowns: Police violence is a metaphorical disease. Coronavirus is a literal disease. Many people all over the country were prevented from properly mourning lost loved ones…

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Collapse of Social Distancing and Establishment Authority.

AMERICAN CITIES TAKE DOUBLE-BARRELED HIT; HOW WILL THEY LOOK IN THE FUTURE? Over at Ed Driscoll.com, I take a deep-dive, quoting numerous articles, on the future of the American city — or the lack thereof, post-CCP virus and the week and a half (so far) of…

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE. I Must Object: Glenn Loury’s Rebuttal to Brown Univ.’s Letter Decrying Pervasive Racism in U.S. Related: Almost Half Of Universities May Be Gone In 5 To 10 Years, Professor Admits.

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THE WOKE BEAST CANNOT BE APPEASED: Woke Employees at Woke Ohio Taco Joint Walk Off Job After Refusing to Fill Order for Cops.

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CHANGE: University of Minnesota president to recommend in-person classes resume this fall.

A LONELY VOICE OF SANITY IN ACADEMIA: I Must Object. A rebuttal from Glenn Loury, the Brown University economist, to his university’s letter on racism in the United States: “The roster of Brown’s ‘leaders’ who signed this manifesto in lockstep remind…

JUNE 6, 1944, D-DAY: The Invasion That Saved The World.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A PRO-VAXXER, BUT AT THIS POINT I CAN’T BLAME PEOPLE FOR BEING SKEPTICAL OF EXPERTS: ‘Operation Warp Speed’ is fueling vaccine fears, two top vaccine experts worry.