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Morning Joe has abandoned any pretense of being anything other than an abject mouthpiece for the DNC in general, and the Biden campaign in particular.

Babylon Bee.

BILLUND, DENMARK—The world is hurting right now, and everyone knows that the only thing that can heal the wound is big corporations announcing their positions on things.

Well, we’ve taken a big step toward unity today as LEGO announced all building sets in the future would remove the police and replace them with rioters from groups such as Antifa. The new “LEGO Riot City” line of building bricks brings a real, police-less LEGO utopia right to your tabletop.

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The Minneapolis Police Department will be withdrawing from union contract negotiations amid concerns that police unions hinder accountability and reform measures, numerous sources reported.

Gee, Republicans have been saying that for decades.

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Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged with the state Democratic Party in April 1944. Thus was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party born.

Working from inside the Democratic Party, Hubert Humphrey helped engineer the merger. The Farmer-Labor Party was riddled with Communists. Humphrey knew it, but he had no trouble working with them. At the time he was a Popular Front kind of guy with no enemies to the left.

Packing the 1946 party caucuses, Communists promptly took over the DFL. In Hennepin County (including all of Minneapolis), then Minneapolis Mayor Humphrey could not even get elected a delegate to the state convention. Communists picked up no fewer than 120 of the 160 Hennepin County delegates. In Minneapolis’s Second Ward, both Humphrey and his ally Arthur Naftalin (future Minneapolis mayor and father of Paul Butterfield Blues Band keyboardist Mark Naftalin) went down to defeat.

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Police arrested two men in New York City after allegedly impersonating NYPD officers and using the disguise to rob a Manhattan jewelry store.

Ismael Igartua and Jose Rodriguez were charged with robbery, conspiracy, brandishing a firearm and felony possession of a firearm, according to a statement issued by an attorney for the Southern District of New York on Monday.

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Judging from the picture, I’ll wager that he ‘identifies’ as black.

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During MSNBC’s Tuesday coverage of George Floyd’s funeral in Houston, Joy Reid took the opportunity to revise history and push the idea that all the racists became Republicans after the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Reid explained, “It was Lyndon Johnson completing the work that Kennedy began. That act would have been a 1963 act had it been able to go through. But the resistance of white segregationists, at the time white Democrats in the south, people who ultimately moved into the Republican Party in outrage over the betrayal by Lyndon Johnson, who betrayed his region and his race by pushing through the martyred Kennedy’s bill after the martyrdom of so many black men and women.”

Joy Reid doesn’t know much of anything, actually.

Victor Davis Hanson.

The ancient Greeks created new words like “paradox” and “irony” to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer.

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Harvard University professor Charles Lieber has been indicted on two charges of lying to government officials by a federal grand jury, Politico reports.

The chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University was arrested in January and charged with making a false statement.

The allegations involved the Harvard chemist lying to government officials about his work for a Chinese university.

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New York City, the metropolitan area hardest hit by the domestic coronavirus outbreak, is losing residents at an unprecedented clip, according to local moving companies.

Roadway Moving President Ross Sapir, for example, told FOX Business that people are moving out of Manhattan in numbers he has “never seen before,” as his company deals with its busiest season since its 2008 inception.

“It’s insane … I’ve never seen such growth,” Sapir said. “[Business is] double or triple compared to any other season as far as moving out of the city.”

On some days, Roadway experiences a 200 percent increase in leaving inquiries. Its clientele consists largely of higher net-worth individuals, typically 25-year-old to 45-year-old professionals in well-to-do parts of Manhattan.

Most of them taking their stupid proglodyte ideas with them.

Sarah Hoyt lays it out.

I’ve said before that the left in the twenty first century seems to have a curious form of autism, in which groups are essential, and people who belong to groups are interchangeable widgets.

Not only that, but they have the duty of being interchangeable widgets. How else do you explain the left calling someone a race or gender “traitor” for not thinking exactly the thoughts the left assigned them?

This is a great part of their mind reading schtick. If you oppose them, they know that you wish for the exact opposite of what they claim to want, and therefore you must for sure want the opposite.

So, say you say something like “Sure, we should encourage girls, but we can encourage boys too.” Because — being binary — by “encourage girls” they mean “promote female supremacy” they KNOW that you want to promote male supremacy.

But it goes way beyond that, to the point that one thinks they must be robots thinking in 0s and 1s and nothing else exists in the world.

Steve Sailer.

While it may seem as if America’s Establishment has suddenly gone insane, elites are just following out the inevitable logic of dogmas mandated decades ago.

As I’ve been pointing out for approaching thirty years now, the rationale of mainstream left-of-centrism eventually leads to some extraordinarily radical and impractical conclusions. The current craziness is rooted in ideas that seemed rather moderate when they first became mandatory. But, as Lenin liked to point out, “He who says ‘A’ must say ‘B.’” The bill for starting from dishonest premises is now coming due.

Steve Sailer.

I bet you didn’t know that Google and Facebook were controlled by fascists.

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On May 31, 19 Chicago residents were killed. This was the single deadliest day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.

From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city An additional 85 were wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

According to Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot, on May 31 Chicago’s 911 emergency center received 65,000 calls for all types of service — 50,000 more than on a usual day. The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a radical activist and pal of the infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s one-time pastor, complained that it was “open season” last weekend in his neighborhood and others on the South and West sides.

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It’s all about the Narrative.

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Paramount has cancelled Cops. Because Hi, you’re now in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Apparently George Floyd was a royal. Got his coffin pulled by white horses and everything.

We all have to pretend that this career criminal and general scumbag is some kind of hero, because, again, you’re living in the Chinese Cultural Revolution now.

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And then along comes the riots….

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Modern science has presented us with some experimental compounds that offer exciting possibilities when it comes to tackling obesity. Some trick the body into thinking that it has already had enough to eat, others manipulate the metabolic process so that the body burns off more fat than is actually necessary. Researchers have come across a new molecule that falls in with the latter category, reducing body fat in mice without changes to their diet.

Mice get all the good stuff.

GoFundMe Removes Candace Owens’ Campaign After Controversial Text Messages Emerge

Police: Colorado Lawyer Shot Disabled Veteran Who Drove Through Protest

Third Precinct arsonist charged

What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride  Pretty frightening.

The Disturbing Appeal of Boogaloo Violence to Military Men  Yet another Leftist fantasy.

An Elizabeth Warren supporter wants Palo Alto to have a wealth tax

The Left’s Coming War on Cops

Officers slashed tires on vehicles parked amid Minneapolis protests, unrest  Can’t inconvenience protesters, after all.

GoFundMe Censors Candace Owens: Suspends Account, Removes Parkside Cafe Campaign

ABC News Parent Company Disney Pledging $5,000,000 to Social Justice Groups  How cheaply can we buy off the mob?

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Frets: Will Defund Police Effort Help Reelect Trump?  Ya think?

Minnesota State Patrol Defends ‘Strategically’ Slashing Tires During Protests

NY Times: Boycott Your Own Relatives Until they Get Woke, Donate Money

National Guard Members Who Knelt During George Floyd Protests Will Not Be Punished

Top De Blasio Aid Quits In Protest, Accuses NYC Mayor Of Being Too Kind To Police

PC Tech Term Police to Cancel ‘Blacklist,’ ‘Whitelist’ to Stop Racism?

As US Cities Crumble, Demand For Rural And Suburban Properties Is Soaring

Cecil Rhodes protest: Oxford university students demand Oriel College removes statue

10 Minutes In Brooklyn: 7 Shot In 3 Different Neighborhoods

Twitter Provides No Explanation After Censoring GOP Candidate Rich McCormick Twice In One Week

Jeff Bezos: I’m Glad to Lose Every Single Conservative Customer Amazon Has

Report: California Defense Attorney Being Investigated After Allegedly Calling For Police To Be Murdered

Civil War: Anarchists Declare “Autonomous Zone” In Seattle and Coerce Local Residents to Agree to Dissolve Bonds With Seattle; Police Abandon Precinct, Antifa and BLM Occupy It

Axios Gave Its “Journalists” Permission to Join Protests as Open Partisans, Further Promised to Bail Them Out of Jail If Arrested for Committing Crimes

Arsonists Target California Homes Displaying American Flags

As BLM Protests Raged, Chicago Saw Highest Black-On-Black Murder Rate In 60 Years

We often accuse the right of distorting science. But the left changed the coronavirus narrative overnight  The Guardian.

Kamala Harris: ‘Insulting’ Rand Paul held up anti-lynching bill on day of George Floyd funeral | TheHill

Fort Worth Police Chief Dropping Charges Against Rioters  As predicted.

“BLM is a joke”

Oliver: ‘The History of Policing in This Country Is Entangled With White Supremacy’

Only Black Lives Matter: Kentucky Democrat Governor Bashear Promises Medical Coverage For All… Well, All Black Residents

Princeton Professor: Talking About The War On Drugs Or Getting Tough On Crime ‘Racial Dog Whistles’  If you hear the ‘dog-whistle’, then you’re the dog.

Man Charged With Killing David Dorn Previously Convicted Of A Felony. He Didn’t Serve A Single Day, Court Docs Show

Sunny Hostin Says Colin Kaepernick Deserves An Apology, Back Pay And A Nobel Peace Prize

“You’re 100% Full Of $hit, F**k You” – Chicago Alderman & Mayor Rage Over Looting On Leaked Audio  I still say that the mayor of Chicago is a zombie.

Al Sharpton Uses George Floyd Service To Demand Colin Kaepernick Get A Job In The NFL

Trump Campaign Hosts Black Female Business Owners Whose Deli Was Looted During Riots

NYT: Trump’s Worst Flaws Include Being “Partial to Slavs”, by Steve Sailer

PAC founded by Colin Kaepernick’s attorney releases scathing video against Ivanka Trump using her dropped commencement speech  Scathing!

Piers Morgan Says Trump Should Take A Knee In The Oval Office To Unify America  Trump is more likely to take a knee to Piers Morgan’s tender parts.

Spike Lee Mocks Trump, Says If He Gets Reelected The ‘World Is In Peril’  Fortunately, nobody cares what Spike Lee thinks.

TAX $ AT WORK: NPR Trashes GOP as Enabling Trump’s ‘Proto-Authoritarian Cult’

Revolutionary ‘Green’ Bricks Made From Recycled Plastic and Organic Waste

Climate Extremism is Dividing Democrats

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Man’s best friend indeed.

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It is one of those stories mainstream media cannot resist. Someone who previously claimed to be a Republican, has not voted Republican since 2004 and/or worked for losing campaigns years ago voices their support for Joe Biden and the media pounces. Welcome to the D.C. swamp! For these so-called conservatives, policy no longer matters as they abandon every belief they previously claimed to hold dear just so they can either get paid as a consultant, get booked by liberal media outlets or keep their standing in the DC social scene.

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Seems about right.

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Only in America.

David Cole is not afraid to ask the hard question.

Can we say no? There, nailed it. Is the destruction of the West predetermined? Are we just going through the motions of letting “the people” decide, just pretending that the citizens, the voters, the taxpayers can say no to what the powers that be have already decided must occur? Either we can say no or we can’t. And if we can’t, just admit it; drop the illusion that anything we say, or anything we do, can stop the civilizational decline.

Can we say no to the Third Worlding of the West? Generally, in Western Europe, you can’t. If you say no a little too stridently, you get arrested as a hate criminal, banned from speaking publicly, and banished from political organizing and activity.

But what about here in the U.S.? Can we say no to our demographic decline? Well, we certainly tried in 2016. Candidate Trump ran on the most unambiguous platform (with the most specific pledges) in recent American history. No Michael Dukakis “uncertainty of purpose” there! Trump voters knew what they were voting for. So, we said no to open borders and lawless aliens, only to be told by the Democrats, most Republicans, the media, and Trump’s own inner circle that “yes” was the only allowable answer.

Steve shares.

It irks me that I know nothing about long range rifle shooting. I bought a .308 over a decade ago for the purpose of learning to shoot at long distances, and nothing came of it. I bought something like 1700 rounds of military ammunition made for machine guns, figuring it was good enough to start with and good enough in case I ever needed the gun for zombie hordes. I shot maybe 200 rounds. Then I quit. I have a million interests, and I flit from pursuit to pursuit like a fly meandering through a pasture full of unusually alluring cow pies. I’m fickle. Also, I lived in a city where shooting over 100 yards is impossible, except when firing into the air on holidays, if you’re Cuban.

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Single-MOA shooting at 100 yards is no joke. It means you can usually hit a large grape a football field away. Most rifles can’t do it regardless of the ammunition or the skill of the person shooting. The rifles that can have to have the right ammunition, and you have to be able to shoot very well. You can’t just grab a random deer rifle at Dick’s, fill it with random ammunition, shoot leaning against a tree, and shoot 1 MOA. They do it in the movies, but movies are for idiots. I saw a movie where Will Smith threw a sperm whale.

Steve once had a blog called Hog On Ice and wrote a book called Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man, with his favorite artery-clogging recipes. I have a copy.

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Stanley Kurtz has written a great piece about Joe Biden. I think most of us understand that a President Biden would be a wholly owned subsidiary of the woke left. But Stanley explains better than anyone I’ve read why that almost certainly would be the case and how we got to this sad point.

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Creating synthetic replacements that truly match the properties and behaviors of biological tissues hasn’t been easy. But University of Colorado Denver scientists, led by mechanical engineer professor Chris Yakacki, PhD, are the first to 3D print a complex, porous lattice structure using liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) creating devices that can finally mimic cartilage and other biological tissues.

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And who could blame them?

NY Times Fake News: ‘President Says Job Report Makes ‘A Great Day’ For Floyd’

John Oliver Repeats Lie about Trump’s George Floyd Remark  As he does.

MSNBC’s Deutsch: Trump ‘Drunk,’ Biden the ‘Designated Driver’  Yeah, into a tree.

‘I Only Kneel For One Person’: Black Georgia State Trooper Refuses To Kneel At Black Lives Matter Protest

Terry Crews faces criticism over ‘black supremacy’ tweet

Will Black Anti-Semitism Once Again Short-Circuit the Latest Peak Black Moment?, by Steve Sailer

Cocoon of Privilege: CNN Promotes Book Saying Whites Are Racist from Birth

Media Declares Everyone Is Racist  Except black people, of course, who by definition cannot be racist.

Celebrities Rally Support For Black-Owned Businesses Destroyed By Riots

Michael Jordan Says It’s Time For Black People ‘To Make A Stand,’ Adds America Has ‘To Be Better As A Society Regarding Race’

Rapper Ice Cube Tweets ‘Anti-Semitic’ Smear In Support of BLM

New App Automatically Updates Your Profiles With The Latest Virtue Signals  Babylon Bee.

Kamala Harris Gives Meghan McCain The Runaround On Defunding Police

‘Protester’ Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer

CNN Closes Racism Special with Editorial Touting ‘Fire’ and ‘Thunder’ for Change

Media Squee: Oh Em Gee You Guys, Lifetime Republican and Top Conservative Colin Powell is Supporting a Democrat for President!!!!!

24-Year-Old Convicted Felon Charged With Murder Of Retired St. Louis Police Captain During Riots

Poor Beyoncé Tells Class of 2020 ‘Entertainment Business Still Very Sexist’

Factory Burned In Floyd Riots Will Leave Minneapolis, Owner Says  Gee, who saw that coming?

‘Read The Transcript, Congresswoman’: McEnany Strikes Back After Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Her Of Making A Comment ‘Mired In Racist History’

“Don’t Treat Africans Like Kids” – Black Twitter Erupts At Democrats’ Anti-Police Bill Stunt  They might try not acting like kids, then.

You Will Be Made to Kneel

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #411

The Green New Deal dress rehearsal

“Magnetic sponge” MOF captures carbon with record energy efficiency

Climate change has degraded productivity of shelf sea food webs

20 Years On, Jurassic Park Author Michael Crichton is Still Right about Global Warming

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During Monday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany dished out another liberal media smackdown with CNN being at the forefront for their actions over the past week and a half not only defending, but condoning looting, rioting, and violence done in the name of the late George Floyd.

Jonathan Turley.

We have often discussed how advocating for free speech often places us in troubling company. Those who are targeted for arrest are often the loudest and most obnoxious among us. Ace Burns is one of those people. Burns, 34, whose real name is Israel Burns,, is the self-proclaimed leader of the “FTP movement (which he defined in various ways including “Fire To Property”).

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No surprises here.

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Genetic testing firm 23andMe have discovered that Type-O blood is particularly resistant to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

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Perhaps most interesting is that Type-O blood is also associated with a 66% reduction in the odds of developing severe malaria compared to the non-O blood types, according to a 2007 study.

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Coincidence? I think NOT.

New York City released over 2,650 criminals from prison to protect them from the pandemic. But they didn’t stay home or wash their hands. They went back to their old jobs and 100 of them accounted for 190 arrests for crimes like burglary and robbery. A rapist was released and he went back to raping.

One of the freed criminals was responsible for 18 burglaries at closed eateries. And when he was arrested, the end of bail meant that he was set loose. This looting was going on long before the riots.

Now as the rioters and looters rule the streets of Manhattan, when the police manage to arrest them, they have to quickly let them go.

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Bias? What bias?

On the subject of running with Biden, the co-host managed the most basic of inquiries: “I can’t let you go without asking have you spoken to former Vice President Joe Biden lately? And what has he said?” After Demings declined to talk about “personal conversations,” Dokoupil hailed the evasion by the Democrat: “All right. Neither confirming nor denying conversations under way. Very well done. Thank you very much.”

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I’ll volunteer.

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As they do.

Former President George W. Bush’s spokesman vehemently denied an article from the New York Times that alleged he would not be voting for President Donald Trump in 2020.

I guess being ‘woke’ protects you from the coronavirus. Who knew?

ZMan attempts to riddle it out.

One of the difficult things for people living in an ideological society is that they are suspended in a solution of propaganda. All of the information they receive is warped by the currents of the prevailing ideology. Everyone has some interest in shaping opinion, so all effort is put into promoting one thing or another. Since all parties are advancing a cause at odds with reality, truth becomes an enemy. The normal person trying to figure out what is happening is left to swim in a sea of lies.

That’s what makes the current events hard to decipher. Why has the death of a drug-addled black felon at the hands of the cops set the world on fire? Why is the institutional Left so exhilarated by the rioting? Why have the corporate oligarchs rolled out an information campaign in support of the revolts? For sure, the oligarchs are all members in good standing of the new religion, but there is an uncanny valley vibe to it. The whole thing is like a well-choreographed performance.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist at GMU.

That one surprised me, as indeed it did most other economists. What should I learn from this episode? After all, labor market adjustment was relatively slow coming out of the 2008 crisis.

My tentative hypothesis is that “matching” is more important than I had thought (and I already thought it was quite important, relative to other macro commentators). One feature of the current layoffs and rehirings is that the ties between workers and firms apparently were not so severed in the first place. For most sectors (cruise ships aside, etc.), no “rematches” were required, and so rehirings were accomplished very quickly. As demand (partially) returned, employers wanted at least some of the old workers back, and workers wanted their old employers back, and then it happened. “Figuring out where I belong” did not slow down the process very much.

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A while back New York magazine columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote “We All Live on Campus Now,” noting that progressive campus craziness has burst out and now heavily infects big business and the media.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome”: Is It Real?

Trump’s soulless nature has done the nation incalculable harm  Washington Post.

Trump just showed us what he’ll be like after the election — no matter what happens  CNN, so you know they got it wrong.

To Trumpers, the Shared Space of the Street Is an Unprivatized Threat  The psychics at New York magazine bring their mind-reading powers to bear.

Zuckerberg-Funded Scientists Want Facebook to Censor Trump  Biting the hand that pays them.

ABC Claims Trump Wanted ‘Combat Troops’ in D.C., Ignored Ambush of Cops  Well, if Trump doesn’t, I certainly do. With machine guns. And grenades.

George W. Bush Not Voting For Trump In 2020: Report  That doesn’t surprise me a bit.

A Smug And Haughty Anti-Trumper Who Is Actually Doing The Right Thing! (Yes, That Pig Is Flying)

White House Denies Widely-Repeated Story That Trump Wanted 10,000 ‘Active-Duty’ Troops To End DC Protests  Actually, some Warthogs would have done it.

‘Get Over It’: Mike Huckabee Erupts On Romney, Bush, And Other Republicans Who Aren’t Supporting Trump

CBS Contributor Says White People Need To ‘Stop Denying Their Racism’

Medical Open Letter: Covid-19 is less of a Threat to Public Health than Racism

PolitiFact Tags Black Conservative Larry Elder as ‘Mostly False,’ But He’s Not  Apparently he’s not the right kind of black.

When Kneeling Just Isn’t Enough: Whites Wash Feet of Black Activists in Cary, North Carolina, by Steve Sailer

Colin Powell Endorses Joe Biden for President  i guess he’s finally quite pretending to be a Republicans. Now if we can only get Mitt Romney to go straight….

Not The Onion: BLM Protesters Vandalize Abraham Lincoln Statue In London  Hey, he was a Republican and so must have been an Evil Racist, right?

Dialog on Racial Questions

Frank Rizzo, Jr. to Newsmax: ‘My Dad Was a Friend to People of All Races’

Hackers Jammed Chicago Police Scanners with Internet Classic ‘Chocolate Rain’

Illinois Football Player Luke Ford Says He’s ‘Not Opposed’ To Passing A Law That Allows Racists To Be Killed, Clarifies That He’s ‘Obviously Not Being Serious’  Now is not a good time to be unserious.