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LIES ARE THEIR CHIEF RESOURCE: LGBT-Leading Dem. Admits Lying About Pulling ’77 Bullets’ From Pulse Shooting Victims. I mean, it’s not like they’re going to win with the truth.

SO I SPENT MOST OF YESTERDAY AT THE LAKE. Here’s a picture of my 6-year-old nephew Harrison and my 20-year-old nephew Christopher kayaking into the sunset.

SALENA ZITO: “One month before before she is set to give birth to her second child, Lara Trump came here to kick off the 2020 Women for Trump coalition.” “Lara Trump says her biggest challenge isn’t retaining the women who voted for her father-in-law…

MICHAEL YON IS REPORTING FROM HONG KONG, and reports that he expects violence.

WHY POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IS NOT HELPING HONG KONG: Over recent weeks, political turmoil raged in the form of mass demonstrations that saw 1 in 7 Hong Kong residents take to the streets to protest an extradition bill that would have allowed alleged suspects to…

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DECOUPLING: Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On. I don’t know about the rest, but it’s not clear to me that less money pouring into Silicon Valley and Manhattan real estate is a bad thing.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Woman plans to marry 91-year-old chandelier. A British woman says she has several love interests, but none of them can hold a candle to Lumiere — a 91-year-old chandelier she plans to marry, according to a report. Amanda Liberty,…

WHO’S HAVING MORE FUN? Trump crashes MAGA-themed wedding, prompting ‘USA’ chants.

REMEMBER, TRUMP IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ANGRY, IRRATIONAL ONE: Video Goes Viral of Rep. Tlaib Losing It at 2016 Trump Event: ‘You Guys Are Crazy!’ “Overnight, this video has gone viral on Twitter. The reason, of course, is that it proves once and for all…

JOEL KOTKIN: The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them: Once, the big tech firms embodied American exceptionalism and aspiration. Today, they are strangling these ideals. Government: do something. “Whom do the oligarchs’…

WEIRD, THEY JUST SIGNED A BIG DEAL WITH BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA: Netflix Stock Implodes, Subscriber Exodus Ignites 12% Plunge.

DAMAGE DONE: John McWhorter: The Origins of the ‘Acting White’ Charge: School integration yielded a disturbing by-product: a psychological association between scholastic achievement and whiteness. “Certainly, the underfunded one-room schoolhouses in the…

IT’S DEJA ‘BAM ALL OVER AGAIN! Biden won’t promise Americans they’ll keep their doctor under his healthcare plan. Curiously, Joe has forgotten what even Democrat house organ Politifact dubbed “the lie of the year” in 2013, after Obama uttered these…

#FIGHTFOR15: Bernie Sanders Is Finally Guaranteeing His Workers $15/Hr Minimum Wage…By Cutting Hours. Buried lede: socialist discovers how economics works. Or as Karol Markowicz tweets, “Bernie raising his staff’s pay but cutting their hours sums up life…

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DAVID BROOKS THEN: You know, this Trump fellow isn’t really quite the thing, what with his flashy patriotism and crass insults. David Brooks Now: “Donald Trump Hates America.” Related: How David Brooks Created Donald Trump.

ONCE HE WAS THE MESSIAH. NOW HE’S JUST A VERY NAUGHTY BOY. 2020 Democrats Are Starting to Turn Obama’s Legacy Against Biden.

IN THE WASHINGTON BLADE, A GAY MAGAZINE: Trump supporters are gay, trans, urban — and tired of being insulted. “Many LGBT Republicans had serious misgivings about Trump in 2016, and some still do. What I can tell you for sure is that many more gays in the…

HOW A VEHICLE BECOMES A “THING.”

GUESS WHO’S NOT AT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN AFER ALL: Scientists Capture Spectacularly Rare Footage of a Deep-Sea Fish Eating a Whole Shark.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: “What is masculinity? How can we challenge it?”

HURRAY FOR DEFIBRILLATORS: Two Larrys, two cardiac arrests, two survivors thanks to AEDs. We have cabinets with AEDs, and bleed control kits, in my law school now.

COLLUSION? NBC Promotes ‘Fun’ FaceApp, Then Realizes It’s Russian.

I’M GLAD TO HAVE MY GENERATOR: Severe storms cut power to 365,000 amid sweltering heat.

SOMEBODY CALL 911: Iowahawk offers Bernie Sanders a suggestion in his quest to abolish the Electoral College. Flashback: “What’s the word on Jane Sanders? ‘Bernie’s wife?’ he says. ‘She really put the screws to this place.’”

BECAUSE HE COULD: Buzz Aldrin: Why I Walked on the Moon.