SHUTTING DOWN CHOP: Seattle's leftist mayor now up to her keister in alligators.

ADDED: Seattle Mayor Durkan very upset that CHOP's 'Summer of Love' has landed at her house.

I can't imagine why.

AMERICA'S PROBLEM is systemic liberalism.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 30, 2020:

[Note the scale changes from Friday's update] Well. The data is back to normal after Thursday's sudden increase in deaths. The cumulative death curve is still struggling to flatten (it will only when the daily deaths go to zero), and the daily trend in deaths -- post spike -- is continuing down.

We're well on our way to building herd immunity; the estimated number of uninfected Americans is now 54.391%, continuing to drop by about a half percent (or 1.6M people) per day. The death rate is also continuing its drop, today at 0.0859%.

After the Deep State HealthScare apparachiks (Dr.'s Birx, Fauci, Redfield) reappeared today to warn possible doubling -- almost tripling -- of infections in the near future if we continue reopening, I'm more and more convinced that some Deep Stater spiked the data (pun intended) last week. Today's reappearance of the Fearsome Threesome doesn't strike me as coincidental.

Georgia is still open (so far). The sharp spike in new cases appears to be leveling out. and daily deaths are still declining, albeit more slowly.

DIE EARLY: Move to a blue city.

IF DEMOCRATS WIN, "Enjoy your new overlords. They may not grant your every wish, but they will stop those Bible-clinging 'deplorables' from triggering your delicate sensibilities."

WHY? SHE'S THE PERFECT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST: Past praise for the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has some Miami-area Democrats worried about a lawmaker (Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]) said to be in the running to join the Biden ticket.

She also has the name for the job....

WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE REPUBLICAN AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY: A Voice of Sanity and Truth.

IT'S ONLY HATE SPEECH when we say it is.

THE DIPLOMAD: The West is breeding ravens.

We have before us quite possibly the most pampered, ill-mannered, ignorant, and arrogant generation in Western history. Notice how many seem to have no problem festooning themselves with expensive tattoos and gym clothing, and nesting in highly expensive and tony metropolises such as New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and London. Many, if not most, seem to engage in no-known labor, but have the time and resources to flap around, preening and playing at revolution, while, as noted, recording themselves on their pricey "smart phones." Not the grubby sans-culotte of 1780s France -- not even close -- these mobsters are well-fed, nicely clothed, healthy and wealthy cretins -- highly privileged and violence-prone cretins, bird brains, ravens.

It's time to quit breeding them and start shooting them.

REP. JERROLD NADLER [D-NY]: Only certain lives matter.

THE BEST RESPONSE to a pandemic is to let society function as normal.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Trump will win if he responds to righteous voter rage.

ONE DEAD, ONE CRITICALLY INJURED: Just another day in Antifastan.

THANKS TO LIBERALS, we're now living in Bizarro World.

OK, YOU GO FIRST: 'Obnoxious, Trump-voting, heterosexual, balding Iranian-American' law professor calls on his White colleagues to resign to make way for Black law professors.

Heh.

OF COURSE HE IS: Trump is right.

DAMNED IF I KNOW: Surrounded by government failure, why do people still believe?

Hope springs eternal, I guess....

ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY: An Underappreciated American Scholar.

May he live forever.

AFTER ALL, Brennan was a Communist.

WELL, YES. ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA? The police force has backed off. Black lives are being lost as a result.

On a related note, my soon-to-be next door neighbors have long had a second/vacation/retirement cabin here in the north Georgia mountains. They're selling their home in Atlanta and moving up here soon.

NANCY PELOSI: Nationwide mask requirement is ‘long overdue.’

What is 'long overdue' is Nancy Pelosi's retirement from government.

GREAT MINDS think alike.

CAN IT GET ANY SILLIER? Protesters request police presence for ‘defund the police’ rally, citing their safety.

What -- if anything -- were they thinking?

A SECOND AMENDMENT HYPOCRITE? Senator Kelly Loeffler [R-GA] calls three black men peacefully carrying long guns 'mob rule'.

Reason, I think, wrongly got its knickers is a twist here. It's not about the men carrying weapons; it's because Loeffler supported the President's desire to cut federal funding from cities and states that attempt to defund police.

I will probably vote for Loeffler's opponent in the coming special election, but not because of this 'infringement' of federalism.

ABANDON MERITOCRACY: The Left's election race strategy.

WHY JERROLD NADLER [D-NY] sold his soul to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

With Ocasio ascendant — for now — Nadler assessed which side his bread is buttered.... So he “quidded” and he “pro’d” and he “quo’d” throughout impeachment, and he will do whatever else Ocasio wants, and he will remain secure.

Read it all.

INFURIATED WASHINGTON GOV. JAY INSLEE blames President Trump for sabotage -- for not demanding people across America wear masks anytime we go outside.

Victory Girl Lisa Carr is not impressed....

WHY FACTS DON'T MATTER: When the only truth is the leaders’ truth.

Read it all.

TAKING A BREAK FROM SOCIAL MEDIA: "Facebook and Twitter shares declined today after Unilever, the consumer-goods giant, announced it would halt advertising on those platforms until at least after the end of the year. The polarized political atmosphere in the United States, the company said, makes advertising on those services unattractive."

Sounds good, except .... the ad boycott is about silencing conservatives, not stopping hate.

RELATED: Facebook announces new restrictive policies about election and voting content.

ENJOY YOUR VISIT: Welcome to the police-free People’s Republic of Powderhorn Park.

SMACKDOWN: Richard Grenell puts Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA} in his place over new Russia hoax canard.

'EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM' that almost makes some sense.

HOW TO REBOOT THE GOVERNMENT: Hold agencies and regulators accountable for outcomes, not compliance.

If only common sense were actually common....

THE END OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: garage door pulls and food label mascots.

AMERICAN THINKER: The march of the credentialed morons.

With apologies to the Kingston Trio, "I see by your credential that you are a moron. Get yourself a credential and be a moron too."

MILLENNIAL FAIL -- again.

SO ELECTION FRAUD IS A MYTH? Two Paterson NJ politicians charged with massive mail-in ballot voter fraud.

SURPRISED? The riots and protests will make gun ownership more popular.

RELATED: St. Louis couple aim weapons at protesters headed to mayor’s home.

America is getting very tired of the terror twits.

TRAVEL BANS FOREVER? Now is not the time to end travel bans; now is the time to enforce them.

HEH: Who was that masked man?

POSSIBLE LINK? Data shows possible link between protests and COVID-19 spikes in multiple cities.

Possible? I think they misspelled 'probable'.

#CANCEL YALE: "As Glenn Reynolds [Instapundit] likes to say, it is fun making the Left live up to its own rules."

UM, just where are the racists?

PREDICTED NEWS FROM THE BABYLON BEE: MasterCard changes name to EqualityCard.

RUSSELL BLAYLOCK, MD: Face masks pose serious risks to the healthy. Nor will they offer significant protection against infection.

Original link here.

MEDIA FAIL: Trump says the most violent cities are all run by Democrats; Washington Post retorts, “Only 19 of 20, and the 20th is run by an independent, so there.”

You have to laugh....

THE BATTLE OF MADISON, predicted by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant:

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence,” he said, “I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason’s and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.”

Nowhere have the forces of ignorance been more engaged than in what might be termed The Battle of Madison on Tuesday night. A group of historically ignorant morons who fashion themselves tolerant progressives and anti-racism crusaders first pulled down a statue symbolizing Wisconsin progressivism, then tore down a statue of a radical abolitionist who died fighting against the Confederacy, and then viciously beat an openly gay State Senator for good measure.

I'll be curious to find our when (not if, when) that openly gay Democrat state senator reregisters as a Republican....

YEARS ENDING IN AN ELECTION? When Black lives matter to Democrats.

THE CORONAVIRUS HAS RETURNED. So where are the associated deaths?

2020: THE YEAR that 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 arrived.

THE HIGH COST of flirting with socialized medicine.

BOOK REVIEW: proof that there is no science in political science....

PROTECTION FOR WE, SOCIAL WORKERS FOR THEE: Minneapolis city council votes to disband police — but pays $4500 a day for private security for themselves.

Typical socialists....

UPDATE FROM ANIMAL FARM: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

MSNBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH: I think there’s a chance Trump drops out in August.

Irrational thought from an irrational network. I think it only shows how tenuously their bubble is tethered to reality.

CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES never require you to submit to tyranny.

And they do allow you to fight back....

SPACE-X ARRIVES ...

... just in the nick of time.

MADE OF DUCT TAPE: Johns Hopkins doctor suggests politicians should put aside personal opinions and wear masks.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The 2020 electiion will be a contest of the angry.

So get angry, reaL America.

AMMO GRRRLL: sizes up the leftwing 'War on Joy'. Her message? Resist!

'GRIEVANCE STUDIES' MAJORS SEVERELY IMPACTED: President Trump signed an Executive Order today to change how the Federal Government looks at resumes in hiring. The focus will shift to skills over degrees.

Glenn Reynolds [Instapundit] comments: "If this really happens it’ll be brutal for my industry."

THE POLICE SHOULD LET NYC BURN: NYPD sees 49% spike in officers filing for retirement amid Floyd unrest.

They won't, of course, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't give New Yorkers a good, long, hard look at the reality they voted for.

AS THE WORLD BURNS, don't forget about intersectional feminism.

[Note: for those not in on the joke, Titania McGrath is a satirical pseudonym.]

WOKE MEDIA claim Black Lives Matter “protests” didn’t cause coronavirus spike, reopening did.

Um, the data begs to differ.

DANA LOESCH stomps all over CNN's Brian Stelter. Others followed.

SOME OBSERVATIONS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN:

So let me get this straight, there's no cure for a virus that can be KILLED by sanitizer and hand soap?

Is it too early to put of the Christmas tree yet? I have run out of things to do.

When this virus thing is over with ... I still want some of you to stay away from me.

If these last few weeks have taught us anything -- it's that stupidity travels faster than any virus on the planet.

Just wait a second -- so what you're telling me is that my chance of surviving all this is directly linked to the common sense of others?

People are scared of getting fined for congregating in crowds. As if catching a deadly disease and dying a horrible death wasn't enough of a deterrent.

If you believe all this will end and we will get back to normal once we reopen everything ... raise your hand. Now slap yourself with it.

Another Saturday night in the house and I just realized even the trash goes out more than me.

Whoever decided a liquor store is more essential than a hair salon is obviously a bald-headed alcoholic.

Remember when you were little and all your underwear had the days of the week on them? Those would be helpful right now.

The spread of COVID-19 is based on two factors:
    1. How dense the population is.
    2. How dense the population is.

People start coughing and worry they have the coronavirus; I cough and just pray I don't pee on myself...

Remember all those times when you wished the weekend would last forever? Well, wish granted. Happy now?

It may take a village to raise a child, but I swear it's going to take a whole vineyard to homeschool one.

Did a BIG load of pajamas so I would have enough clean work clothes for this week.

From my email.

THE VIRUS RULES: Will a microbe decide the 2020 election?

What the coronavirus has done is rob President Trump of his ability to control events. The president has a knack for putting his human opponents on their toes, for establishing facts on the ground that are difficult to contest. But the coronavirus doesn’t read Tweets, doesn’t watch television, and doesn’t go away if ignored. It has to be defeated, or endured. America prides itself on having a government of, by, and for the people. But here, today, the virus rules.

I still believe the people will rule.

I'M FINE WITH THAT. The Democrats indulge in a death wish.

If they want to hang themselves, I'll happily sell them the rope.

TWITTER TWITS OVERREACH: the free speech social media platform known as “Parler” hit number one on the Apple App store’s News section.

Just wait until President Trump signs up....

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has arrived. There are many, many good ones this week, but this one perfectly captures the moment:

Now go see the rest.

DON'T WAKE ME for the Armegeddon.

MY THOUGHT EXACTLY: “Fuck no. Quit it with all this bullshit. Come on, push back.”

THE CDC ADMITS DEFEAT: The CDC now says COVID-19 cases may be 10 times higher than first reported (I noted that here first); and lockdowns were worthless.

SO WHAT ARE THE REST? BLM PROTESTORS? OR ANTIFA? Pew analysis shows only 1 in 6 BLM protesters are Black.

Or just thugs along for the ride?

#CANCELFIORINA: Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says she 'can't support' Trump.

I genuinely liked Fiorina during the 2016 Republican primaries and was sorry she didn't catch on. Turns out I was wrong; she appears to be just another never-Trumper.

Update: I wasn't alone.

MARK LEVIN unloads on BLM 'tough guy' Hawk Newsome:



Much collateral damage ensued.

ONE YEAR SEEMS TO BE A WOKESTER LIMIT: New, less problematic history books will only include what happened in the current year.

WELL, AS A MATTER OF FACT, YES: Is the rise in COVID cases a result of the BLM protests? (Click on the image to expand.)

GOV. RALPH NORTHAM [D(umb)-VA] asks Virginians to report churches, gun ranges that violate COVID restrictions. When I lived there a few years back, the state motto was 'Virginia is for Lovers'. I see it's been changed to 'Virginia is for Snitches'.

WHAT IS YOUR BREAKING POINT IN TOLERANCE FOR THE 'WOKE CULTURE? Two closely related essays.

Mine occurred decades ago with the birth of the autocratic government's Safety Nanny.

DAILY CALLER: The people in Seattle are getting sick of the autonomous zone.

Instapundit comments.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 26, 2020:

It looks like there is a bit of cheating going on to (spike) up the coronavirus death rate. The Covid Tracking website last night posted a 2,500 increase in daily deaths; the Coronavirus Dashboard just posted today a daily death toll of 2,580.

For the last 14 days the daily deaths have been steadily dropping; (via the Coronavirus Dashboard) from 515 on the 13th to 493 yesterday with only two spikes of just over 1,000. There is no indication which state/territory generated that sudden spike, but my money is on one or more of the top five: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. The southern states that have already reopened are all showing increases, but even in sum do not begin to approach a tenth of that number.

Despite the sudden spike, the cumulative deaths curve is still trying to flatten, and the death rate curve is still maintaining its downward trend. The death rate has maintained its downward trend to 0.0903% and my estimate of the percentage of Americans still uninfected has dropped again to 57.276%.

In Georgia, the sharp spike in new cases, roughly 1,800/day continues, but deaths are way down -- the rolling average is continuing its downward trend.

My previous report is here.

STATES ARE CUTTING UNIVERSITY BUDGETS. Taxpayers aren't interested in funding campus kooks.

Related: Funding cuts may not help public education, but they sure won't hurt it.

JOURNALISTS ABANDONING ‘OBJECTIVITY’ FOR ‘MORAL CLARITY’ really just want to call people immoral.

'Moral Clarity' is the woke Left's latest euphemism for bullying.

LOS ANGELES TIMES: It's not enough to be colorblind.

Here's what one of PowerLine's readers had to say:

Listen up!

Every one of you arrogant, self-important, entitled, over-rated jerks should get down on your knees every day and thank your lucky stars for the position of privilege you hold. Yes, privilege. It’s not a right. For every one of you a**holes there are at least a hundred more than qualified replacements of every race, creed, ethnicity and sexual orientation who would kill to have the opportunity you enjoy. You all can be replaced in a heartbeat with equally, if not more, qualified staff who would also have an attitude of gratitude for the opportunity.

So here’s the bottom line. If you don’t like it here, there is the door. We’ll be sad to see you go because we chose you for these positions of privilege. And we did so on the basis of hiring the best we could–irrespective of race, etc. We intend to continue doing so. We are not trying to nor will we have “goals,” “timetables” or any other double talk equating to set asides for government sponsored minorities. We value excellence and that’s what we recruit for.

If you don’t like it and have a bad attitude then get out now ... and don’t let the door slam your ass on the way out.

Any questions?

Competence is no longer a hiring criterion; crazy is....

I KEPT TELLING YOU: Closing the insane asylums was a bad idea.

LET THERE BE VIOLENCE: U.S. Marshals told to ‘immediately prepare’ to defend national monuments.

With extreme prejudice. To the attackers.

I’M TIRED OF TAXPAYER-FUNDED APPARATCHIKS claiming authority to say what “our values” are and demanding that everyone abide by them.

Fire them. Fire them all. And if we can't fire them, then defund them -- every damn dime penny.

I'M GLAD I DON'T LIVE THERE ANY MORE: Austin City Council votes unanimously to partially defund police.

ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE, George Floyd unrest, pandemic fueling Minnesota gun sales surge.

SURELY YOU JEST: Students demand segregated ‘Black House’ so they can ‘feel included.’

Unfortunately, no.

IT’S TIME to cancel the statue-toppling morons. I think the Moron Movement will be pretty much self-canceling after the November election, but I have no problem giving them an extra push as they exit the stage (left).

GOOD COVID-19 NEWS: Death rates are falling, and may be even smaller than they seem.

I've been saying this for weeks, and it appears that even I've not been skeptical enough.

BUSINESSES SUE Seattle over ‘occupied’ protest zone.

From what I've been reading, it appears unlikely that they will win, but just suing may cause the ruling apparatchiks to think twice before allowing the protests to get violent.

CANCEL THEM ALL: The hollowness of virtue signaling.

YES, I noticed.

MINNESOTA NICE? No, Minneapolis crazy.

More from Fox News here.

THIS IS WHAT A DOMESTIC TERRORIST SOUNDS LIKE: Black Lives Matter leader states if US ‘doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system.’

HORRORS! Kids gave their dad a noose for Father's Day.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The 'elites' are revolting. In the most sickening sense of the word.

AT THE FIRST ONE. Where do we draw the line in tearing down statues?

The complete post is behind the Washington Post's paywall -- a place I refuse to go.

BECAUSE THEY CAN’T CREATE, they destroy. Read it all. Carefully.

JOE BIDEN ADDS A KAREN to his list of potential vice-presidential candidates.

DE BLASIO: What this city needs is a giant police operation to root out … illegal fireworks that keep me awake.

Nothing like addressing the important problems....

BECAUSE BLACK LIVES MATTER: Why are Democrats blocking criminal justice reform?

They must be kept on the Democrat plantation.

HOW LONG will the vandals run amok?

BUBBA WALLACE wants his victim status back.

GREAT MOMENTS IN RACISM: the dash cam tapes. Who do you believe -- me, or your lying eyes?

BIDEN’S MENTAL CAPACITY: The left knowingly nominated a house plant to run for the presidency.

They wanted someone of the same mental acuity....

IGNORANT AMERICANS -- a viral threat far more deadly than the coronavirus.

IN 2,000 DAYS AS SPEAKER, Pelosi has increased debt a record $9.6 trillion. So yes, let's keep the Democrats in control of the House of Representatives.

How much of that $9.6 trillion did you get? I got $256.

WELL, YES. YES, IT IS. Rejecting vote-by-mail is voter suppression. ILLEGAL VOTER suppression.

#TWEXIT: Not being a twit, I have no particular axe to grind; Twitter, via Twitchy, is actually kind of amusing in a morbid way. That said, however, it is gratifying to see users pushing back and moving on to greener pastures.

THIRD SHOOTING reported in Seattle’s CHAZ.

Officers and Seattle Fire Department medics staged nearby and met the victim outside the area known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP).

The victim refused to provide any information about the circumstances surrounding the shooting or a suspect description to officers. Medics transported the victim to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of a gunshot wound to the calf.

Based on that paragraph, I'd guess that the 'victim' would be well-advised to attend a NRA-sponsored gun safety class....

WHAT HAPPENS when demand for racism far outstrips supply? Garage door ropes become nooses.

GET RID YOUR PERSONAL SECURITY FIRST. Idris Elba, Queen Latifah, more stars join 300 black artists, execs asking Hollywood to ‘divest from police’.

LET'S DO IT. Defund the thought police.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What happens when the madness ends?

AMERICAN THINKER on Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome:

Today's yellow brick road to a coronavirus-free world is as phony as the one Dorothy took to find her way back home (in The Wizard of Oz). Too many are acting as though they were characters in a fantasy instead of real human beings in the actual world. Such an astounding disorientation as we are witnessing on account of a virus leaves little doubt that political maneuvering and the hand of corporate media have a lot to do with the oppressive official response to COVID-19. Relying on the mainstream media for all you need to know about this pandemic is to put your faith in their honesty and objectivity. Not for me, thank you, considering the track record.

Read it all.

ALL THE BIAS THAT’S (UN)FIT TO PRINT: New York Times embraces partisan ‘truth’ over objectivity.

So -- if it's not partisan, it's not true?

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED? Facebook moderators brag about deleting pro-Trump posts in Project Veritas sting.

MORNING GREATNESS: Another day, another race hoax.

MRS. EPPIE SENTER teaches covid math.

JUST ANOTHER WEEKEND: Black lives that don't matter.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 24, 2020: I meant to update yesterday, but to my chagrin -- forgot. Herewith the June 23rd update, updated again for today.

As expected, the cumulative deaths curve is still trying to flatten, and the death rate curve is still trending down despite two blips yesterday and today. The death rate has dropped to 0.0911% and my estimate of the percentage of Americans still uninfected has dropped to 58.694%.

In Georgia, we've seen a sharp spike in new cases, roughly 1,800/day for the last two days, but deaths are way down -- the rolling average for today is just one shy of the lowest since early April. I suspect it's a result of increased testing finding mild and asymptomatic coronavirus infections.

My last post is here.

OXFORD - THE FIGHT BACK HAS BEGUN.

From my email. Interestingly, it has been reported as false by Snopes, but a little further investigation viaMaggie's Farm showed that it is, in fact, real -- just not written by the administration at Oxford. Instead, it was written by James Delingpole for Breitbart in 2015 as a letter that Oriel College should have written in response to loony, entitled, race hustlers at Oxford University campaigning for the removal of a statue from Oriel College of Cecil Rhodes, British imperial hero, founder of the Rhodes scholarship. The post is titled Mud Huts v Western Civilization: Why #RhodesMustFall must fail. Here's the post:

Dear Scrotty Students,

Cecil Rhodes's generous bequest has contributed greatly to the comfort and well being of many generations of Oxford students - a good many of them, dare we say it, better, brighter and more deserving than you.

This does not necessarily mean we approve of everything Rhodes did in his lifetime - but then we don't have to. Cecil Rhodes died over a century ago. Autres temps, autres moeurs. If you don't understand what this means - and it would not remotely surprise us if that were the case - then we really think you should ask yourself the question: "Why am I at Oxford?"

Oxford, let us remind you, is the world's second oldest extant university. Scholars have been studying here since at least the 11th century. We've played a major part in the invention of Western civilisation, from the 12th century intellectual renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond. Our alumni include William of Ockham, Roger Bacon, William Tyndale, John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Erasmus, Sir Christopher Wren, William Penn, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Samuel Johnson, Robert Hooke, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Emily Davison, Cardinal Newman, Julie Cocks. We're a big deal. And most of the people privileged to come and study here are conscious of what a big deal we are. Oxford is their alma mater - their dear mother - and they respect and revere her accordingly.

And what were your ancestors doing in that period? Living in mud huts, mainly. Sure we'll concede you the short lived Southern African civilisation of Great Zimbabwe. But let's be brutally honest here. The contribution of the Bantu tribes to modern civilisation has been as near as damn it to zilch.

You'll probably say that's "racist". But it's what we here at Oxford prefer to call "true." Perhaps the rules are different at other universities. In fact, we know things are different at other universities. We've watched with horror at what has been happening across the pond from the University of Missouri to the University of Virginia and even to revered institutions like Harvard and Yale: the "safe spaces"; the? #?blacklivesmatter; the creeping cultural relativism; the stifling political correctness; what Allan Bloom rightly called "the closing of the American mind". At Oxford however, we will always prefer facts and free, open debate to petty grievance-mongering, identity politics and empty sloganeering. The day we cease to do so is the day we lose the right to call ourselves the world's greatest university.

Of course, you are perfectly within your rights to squander your time at Oxford on silly, vexatious, single-issue political campaigns. (Though it does make us wonder how stringent the vetting procedure is these days for Rhodes scholarships and even more so, for Mandela Rhodes scholarships) We are well used to seeing undergraduates - or, in your case - postgraduates, making idiots of themselves. Just don't expect us to indulge your idiocy, let alone genuflect before it. You may be black - "BME" as the grisly modern terminology has it - but we are colour blind. We have been educating gifted undergraduates from our former colonies, our Empire, our Commonwealth and beyond for many generations. We do not discriminate over sex, race, colour or creed. We do, however, discriminate according to intellect.

That means, inter alia, that when our undergrads or postgrads come up with fatuous ideas, we don't pat them on the back, give them a red rosette and say: "Ooh, you're black and you come from South Africa. What a clever chap you are!" No. We prefer to see the quality of those ideas tested in the crucible of public debate. That's another key part of the Oxford intellectual tradition you see: you can argue any damn thing you like but you need to be able to justify it with facts and logic - otherwise your idea is worthless.

This ludicrous notion you have that a bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed from Oriel College, because it's symbolic of "institutional racism" and "white slavery". Well even if it is - which we dispute - so bloody what? Any undergraduate so feeble minded that they can't pass a bronze statue without having their "safe space" violated really does not deserve to be here. And besides, if we were to remove Rhodes's statue on the premise that his life wasn't blemish-free, where would we stop? As one of our alumni Dan Hannan has pointed out, Oriel's other benefactors include two kings so awful - Edward II and Charles I - that their subjects had them killed. The college opposite - Christ Church - was built by a murderous, thieving bully who bumped off two of his wives. Thomas Jefferson kept slaves: does that invalidate the US Constitution? Winston Churchill had unenlightened views about Muslims and India: was he then the wrong man to lead Britain in the war?"

Actually, we'll go further than that. Your Rhodes Must Fall campaign is not merely fatuous but ugly, vandalistic and dangerous. We agree with Oxford historian RW Johnson that what you are trying to do here is no different from what ISIS and the Al-Qaeda have been doing to artefacts in places like Mali and Syria. You are murdering history.

And who are you, anyway, to be lecturing Oxford University on how it should order its affairs? Your ?#?rhodesmustfall campaign, we understand, originates in South Africa and was initiated by a black activist who told one of his lecturers "whites have to be killed". One of you - Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh - is the privileged son of a rich politician and a member of a party whose slogan is "Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer"; another of you, Ntokozo Qwabe, who is only in Oxford as a beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship, has boasted about the need for "socially conscious black students" to "dominate white universities, and do so ruthlessly and decisively!

Great. That's just what Oxford University needs. Some cultural enrichment from the land of Winnie Mandela, burning tyre necklaces, an AIDS epidemic almost entirely the result of government indifference and ignorance, one of the world's highest per capita murder rates, institutionalised corruption, tribal politics, anti-white racism and a collapsing economy. Please name which of the above items you think will enhance the lives of the 22,000 students studying here at Oxford.

And then please explain what it is that makes your attention grabbing campaign to remove a listed statue from an Oxford college more urgent, more deserving than the desire of probably at least 20,000 of those 22,000 students to enjoy their time here unencumbered by the irritation of spoilt, ungrateful little tossers on scholarships they clearly don't merit using racial politics and cheap guilt-tripping to ruin the life and fabric of our beloved university.

Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.

Yours,

Oriel College, Oxford

Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes), the Chancellor of Oxford University, about the same time, apparently commented "Education is not indoctrination. Our history is not a blank page on which we can write our own version of what it should have been according to our contemporary views and prejudice."

Personally, I think it's a letter that ought to be reproduced and sent to every college and university in the U.S. as a "You, too, may be soon feeling our wrath if you continue kowtowing to the campus wokesters."

CORPORATE AMERICA, dividing the country and preventing people from unifying.

Agreed. Just from my occasional watching of recent television commercials, it's easy to see that the corporate mucky-mucks are much more interested in virtue-signaling to their counterparts than serving their customers, a fact not unnoticed by Glenn Reynolds and his co-bloggers at Instapundit.

I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA: Canceling Yale.

It's such a great idea that it should be extended to other institutions of (?)higher(?) learning.

RESISTANCE THEATER ENDS: Judge Sullivan ordered to dismiss Flynn charges.

As best as I can tell, Judge Sullivan hasn't actually dismissed the case yet, and my bet is that his 'handlers' (and funders) will insist on an appeal -- anything to keep the case going until Nov. 3rd.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: With statues gone, pigeons forced to poop on rioters.

Not all unintended consequences are bad....

EZRA, HAVE YOU LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW? How identity politics changed the Democratic Party — for the better.

Vox's 'explanatory journalism' would be better described as 'incomprehensible journalism'.

I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT: Seattle officials vow to clear out violent 'CHOP' zone.

THEY'RE BOTH BULLIES AND COWARDS. South Carolina BLM protests postponed -- due to coronavirus infections.

SO PAY ME REPARATIONS: A Hispanic vendor in Tulsa uses Alinsky tactics against a white BLM supporter.

WHEN KARMA COMES CALLING: Olympia [WA] Mayor Cheryl Selby, upset at picture of a police officer and other armed citizens guarding a gun store, sees her own home vandalized by rioters.

Heh.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Those WHO DESTROY HISTORY are DOOMED to REPEAT IT.

MY NEIGHBORHOOD needs fewer virtue-signaling lawn signs.

And much more virtue.

IF ANYONE SHOULD TAKE A KNEE, it's Democrats.

And they do.

HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR grabs petard, hoists himself, then apologizes for having done it.

JUST DON'T KNEEL: Under pressure from the ignoratti.

Stand tall -- and learn them some history.

BLM -- Black Lies Matter.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has a picture of the new Wokester National Monument:

Now go see the rest.

WOKESTERS: Thinking like children -- and expecting applause.

Except children are smarter.

GOOD FOR HER: Air Force names first woman as top noncommissioned officer of any US military branch.

And for the U.S. Air Force.

POWERLINE continues to chronicle the crazy times (#7).

WALLS 'R' US: CNN erects a ‘wall’ to their own hypocrisy.

No walls for little people.

IT'S TIME for America to become a CHAZ-free zone.

If violence is necessary, so be it....

IT WON'T STOP 'EM FROM TRYING: They can't cancel all of us.

But in-your-face threats of defunding might.

THANKS TO THE WOKESTERS, minority communities are being canceled -- no more Eskimos, Indian maidens, Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Bens, Mrs. Butterworths, Cream of Wheat chefs cooky foody makey persons....

AMMO GRRRLL declares The Republic of SOOZ.

HE DIDN'T KNOW BLACK IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT? Harvard professor apologizes after suggesting Biden should pick VP based on accomplishments.

THIS LETTER (OR ITS EQUIVALENT) SHOULD BE SENT TO DAMN NEAR EVERY INSTITUTION OF 'HIGHER EDUCATION' IN AMERICA: Cutting off donations to my alma mater.

IT'S TOUGH trying to keep track of the crazy emanating from Democrats.

FAUCI FALLS; fumbles forbidding football.

THIS IS WHAT 'DEFUND THE POLICE' BRINGS: Fatal shooting in CHOP zone.

Wokesters: You bought the bed -- sleep well.

HMM: Where are all the guns and ammunition purchased under Obama?

MICHIGAN GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER: Let them eat cake hot dogs.

THAT OUGHT TO MAKE SURE THE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE PEACEFUL: 1,000 Black gun owners plan pro-Second Amendment walk in Oklahoma.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Planned Parenthood clarifies Black lives only matter once they've been born.

Sadly it's satire in name only....

ATLANTA IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT: What happens when cops have had enough?

Especially those in the poorer and minority communities.

BECAUSE SHE'S NOT BLACK? Amy Klobuchar drops out of Biden VP contention.

No, because she's not a fool.

THIS COULD GET INTERESTING. Messages call for NYPD July 4th strike to protest anti-police climate.

If you're not a New Yorker.

CHAZ/CHOP CHEERS when NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo says that "if the people of a city down't want there to be a police department, then 'they shouldn't have it.'"

Expect theft 'uplanned donations' at a minimum.

IF ONLY: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes vow of silence to end racism, immediately gains bipartisan support.

NO FUTURE. Right.

IT'S DIFFERENT when rioters come to your home.

THERE IS ONE WAY to stop the unraveling of civic society: Refuse the mob.

We have seen again and again that the mob comes only for those who hope to please it. And when it does, no amount of apology will save you. We stand against the mob and all its aims. We stand against the chaos and violence, the silencing of debate, the purging of heretics, the rewriting of history, and the destruction of the greatest country in the world. We will defend the most majestic achievement of humankind, the United States of America, against the most ignoble impulse in human history, to tear down that which is good.

I stand with them against mob rule.

DOES HE INCLUDE HIMSELF? California Gov. Gavin Newsom says people now required to wear masks in public.

Somehow I doubt it.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 19, 2020: It's been a week since the last update. Here's what it looks like today.

There's been a scale change (all axes), but that said, it's pretty much as expected. The cumulative deaths curve is still trying to flatten, and the death rate curve is still trending down. It's over. Despite all the hype, we just had a bad flu season.

Today's death rate is 0.0954%, typical of flu, and the estimated number of uninfected Americans is now down to 61.493%. Testing is now much more widespread, with total tests approaching 26 million, less than 9% positive, and 0.43% of the tested population dying.

In Georgia, the 7-day rolling average of reported cases has exceeded its previous (April 12) high, but the death rate (again a 7-day rolling average) is declining again after an initial spike.

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY IN FULL VIEW: calling for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign while touting his appearance at their virtual state convention.

THE RECOVERY BEGINS. In Europe.

MOB RULE: New levels of crazy.

All because our self-appointed 'betters' are too spineless to tell the wokesters to sit down and shut the hell up.

CAN’T STAND FREE SPEECH? You’re fired!

HERE'S A THOUGHT, COURTESY OF THE CANCEL CULTURE: Let’s ‘demonetize’ NBC News And Google.

And Facebook. And Twitter. And ....

I DON'T THINK HE'LL GET MANY TAKERS: Herschel Walker offers to fly everyone who doesn’t want police to places where there aren’t any.

IS THERE A VACCINE FOR STUPID? Dallas county declares racism a public health emergency.

CHAIRMAN MAO ZEDONG has gotten his revenge.

[T]here is to be no joy, no fun, no happiness, no sports, nothing outside the revolution. Only thoughts of politics and social justice, and a reliance on the guidance from the wise ones. Above all, there can be no unapproved opinions. It is an assault on the West, its civilization, and its achievements; its history is being rewritten to be one of unmitigated repression and racial hatred.

Not yet. And not if we can help it.

THIS LEFTIST TANTRUM IS AN INFORMATION OPERATION and Trump is winning it.

Scumbagistan is a giant zit on the face of liberalism, and why should Trump pop it? He’s letting it fester for all of us to see – and winning the information war.

I admit I'd like to see a few Leftist heads cracked together, but almost as good will be to watch them slink away in shame....

ONLY INSOFAR AS IT AFFECTS HIS HOUSE. Is Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler finally waking up on dangers of left-wing extremism?

NO MORE CHIEFS (OR CHEFS?): Duluth (Minnesota, natch) language police chop the word from their vocabulary. In order to have "more inclusive leadership, and less language that is rooted in hurt and offensive and intentional marginalization.”

Except 'chief' is rooted in French and Latin....

I found this part funny: "You are so right. Not only that, but chef has the same Latin root (and Chef is also the noun for chief in German, not just French). If it's so doggone problematic, what are we going to call the cooky foody makey people?"

Well, 'cooky foody makey people', perhaps. My compliments to the chef cooky foody makey person....

YEAH. THAT'LL WORK. Send in the social workers.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: How cultural revolutions die -- or not.

Once a cultural revolution gets going, there can be no contextualization of the past, no allowance for human frailty, no consideration of weighing evil vs. good.

Eventually, the architects of cultural upheavals always make two miscalculations.

One, they presume that destroying things will never apply to themselves, given their loud virtue signaling.

Two, if they are fingered by the mob, they assume they can somehow use their clout and influence to win an exemption.

In other words, once cultural revolutions turn anarchic and eat their own, they lose support.

They're beginning to eat their own, so let's hope for a quick death.

IT WASN'T THAT HARD: How I ran afoul of campus cancel culture.

CHRONICLES OF THE CRAZY TIME: "If you're going to cancel everything with a racist history then the US Democratic Party needs to be abolished."

Seconded....

THE LAMESTREAM MAINSTREAM MEDIA is coming apart at the seams.

So is the progressive Left.

But of course I repeat myself....

I'M BEGINNING to like the cancel culture.

IT WOULD BE A FIRST: Will Joe Biden become our first female president?

Read the whole thing and ask yourself "Why not?"

Added thought: Biden could have been a 'twofer' if Obama hadn't been elected first....

KURT SCHLICHTER on the brave celebrities fearlessly standing up against racism.

VICTORY GIRLS: Raz of CHAZ distributes AR-15s from Tesla trunk.

THE COVID SKEPTICS WERE RIGHT. The cure was worse than the disease.

Read it all.

AMERICAN THINKER: About my 'racism' and 'privilege'.

Am I a product of privilege? Yes — let me start with Parental Privilege. I was born into a family with two loving and strict parents. They raised me to know I could accomplish anything I wanted if I made full use of my God-given talents. Also to know there were firm limits on how to behave at all times. Then there is Athletic Privilege...I have been coordinated and skilled enough to be on sports teams my whole life, playing with and against others of all races, creeds, and income levels. None of that matters in sports — it is a true meritocracy. You have to cooperate as a member of a team, and the quantifiably best performance is what gets rewarded.

Lastly, I'll call it Geographic Privilege. I was fortunate to be born here in America.

Read it all.

MORE BABYLON BEE:

Toyota reveals the Prius has been gay the whole time.

Missionairies bring the gospel to CHAZ by translating the Bible into primal screeches.

Enjoy.

MORNING GREATNESS: Big technology revs up censorship engine ahead of 2020 election.

Many other good links; peruse at your leisure.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR presents a long overdue history lesson.

AWKWARD: BLM protesters fall silent when asked one easy question.

If it doesn't come up directly, the video is on Twitter here.

DEFUND THE COPS; break out the Winchesters.

SEN. TIM KAINE [D-VA] CLAIMS AMERICA INVENTED SLAVERY: Roman Empire and Egyptian Pharaohs demand apology.

WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY TO CNN CORRESPONDENT JIM ACOSTA: "I have taken five of your questions. Work on your internal cohesion and get back to me."

Read it all.

ATLANTA POLICE OFFICERS vote with their feet on indictments.

First reports are often wrong, but this appears to have staying power....

THE POWER OF THE 'WOKE DOLLAR': Large corporations are not your friends.

DEMOCRATS: The party of (politically convenient) science.

CHIEF OF POLICE CARMEN BEST – the only adult in Seattle. I wish her good luck -- she's going to need it.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD REMAINS PRESCIENT: Democrats clarify that Black lives will only matter until November.

November 3rd, to be exact.

CHOP IMITATES TRUMP: "We’ll build a big, beautiful wall, and we’ll get Seattle to pay for it!”

SINCE THEY'RE ALL CRAZY, you must be (made to be) crazy too.

Don't let them. Don't get crazy, get angry.

LET SEATTLE stew in its own excrement. "Seattle suburbanites need to be made to suffer for the consequences of their choices at the ballot box. You want to subvert our Constitution, attempt to run roughshod over civil society? Pay the price."

DEMOCRATS' CONFIDENTIAL 2015 MEMO cautioned about interactions with 'radical' Black Lives Matter movement.

How times have changed ... now they kneel at the BLM altar.

YES, America is not racist.

SERIOUSLY? You want Washington to dictate police procedure?

Hell, these bureaucrats can't even dictate their way out of a paper sack.

THEY DO GO HAND-IN-HAND: Don't confuse moral bankruptcy with racism.

You don't have to be morally bankrupt to be a racist -- but it sure helps.

CHAZ/CHOP (?) CREATES A 'CONFLICT RESOLUTION COUNCIL' and the rules are spectacular.

If you start laughing at the first paragraph, you'll be rolling on the floor by the time you finish....

BE 'WOKE': How to cultivate racism and hate.

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE: Marine vet disarms rioters trying to steal police rifles.

#DEFUNDPOLICE: the not-so-hidden agenda.

#DefundPolice is as shallow and ridiculous as any bumper sticker proclamation of Deep Thought™ currently peeling off a Prius or 70s-era VW Wagon. And the politicians who claim to take it seriously aren’t actually stupid, they are dangerous.

Read it all.

And remember you can always call 911.

AN OLDER DIPLOMAD POST: "[T]hey just hate people and want a race war. Facts be damned."

Read it all.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: the suicide of expertise.

Expertise did not die at the hands of deplorable Trumpkins or even web-surfing suburban moms. Expertise wasn’t killed; it has slowly committed suicide.

Expertise died for one very simple reason: the 'experts' were so certain of their own academy credentials they never bothered to look outside.

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY:

The Mallard Fillmore link is here.

CAN WE JUST START SHOOTING THEM? Man accused of shoving elderly NYC woman has been arrested over 100 times.

"REMEMBER, the people running our institutions place the approval of their peers above the welfare of the institutions they run. And their peers are a narrow, and frankly kind of crummy, group."

NOT EXACTLY CAMELOT: A fantasy implodes. Predictably.

HEH: Truck drivers refusing to deliver to cities with defunded police departments.

Cash upfront, guys. And by the way, tell them we don't deliver; pick-ups can be scheduled at your nearest fully-funded police station.

IRONY OVERLOAD: Seattle autonomous zone 'warlord' a homophobe.

JUST SAY 'NO': Cities call on cops to work 12-hour shifts with no days off to quell unrest, despite 'defund' rallying cry.

Make it "HELL, NO!"

WHAT A SURPRISE: The Washington Post lies.

BECAUSE 'AYRABS': Black woman pissed that she can't loot a cell phone store.

The video has been removed, but a shorter version is available here. (Warning -- very vulgar. Only a few words are not 4-letter.)

COMPETITION IS GOOD: Trump establishes manlier CHAD camp next to CHAZ camp.

May the best camp win (and it will).

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES is up. My favorite is this one, from the continuing (and continuing, and continuing...) cable advertising series, 'For the Meme.com':

Go see them all. They're great this week, especially the continuing 'future news' sequence, starting with the Asian murder hornets and ending with the schedule for the next six months.

BONUS: here's one more from last week.

Rusty certainly would, but (hopefully) only at my direction. [That's not Russ, just his spitting image.]

NOT SOON ENOUGH, NOT FAST ENOUGH, NOT HARD ENOUGH: It's Going Down, Antifa.

But it's just started....

CASH ONLY AND NO DELIVERY: 'CHAZ' anarchists tweet out for vegan food, guns, cigarettes, and Gatorade.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 12, 2020:

U.S. death rate is down again, below 0.1% to 0.0996%; the estimated number of uninfected Americans continues to decline, now at 64.490% (about 1/2 of a percent daily).

In Georgia, the uptick continues but remains well below peak levels.

Unless there are significant changes, I'm going to quit posting daily. I'll continue to track, but only post on Tuesdays and Fridays.

STACEY ABRAMS, don't hold your breath.

WHITE DEMOCRAT LEADERS take stand against white privilege by resigning from Congress.

Unfortunately, it's only the Babylon Bee.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ: Gone with their Minds.

SO HOW'S THAT TESTING GOING, BRO? Over 70 coronavirus testing sites were destroyed in the week's riots.

I would not be surprised if the illness spikes (and quite happy if it primarily takes down the wokesters).

‘LIKE INTERVIEWING A 12-YEAR-OLD.’ Brit Hume sums up AOC’s interview about defunding the police.

I think he overestimated her age....

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 11, 2020:

U.S. death rate is down again, to 0.1001% and the estimated number of uninfected Americans continues to decline, now at 65.001%.

In Georgia, the uptick (but not spike) continues.

DEAR KARENS: the more you hector the less I care.

And the more likely I am to tell you to go to the childrens' table, sit down, and shut up.

SYSTEMIC RACISM AND BIGOTRY are the lifeblood of the Left.

WHY HISTORY REPEATS: Fewer and fewer students choose to study history.

Fantasy is more appealing....

OH, YOU LIVE IN SEATTLE?

Originally posted here.

THAT'S THE WAY TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO STAY: Chicago mayor considers property tax hikes.

IT'S BEING TESTED IN SEATTLE: 911 will now require white callers to press 1 to check their privilege.

"THERE WILL NEVER BE AN HONEST CONVERSATION ON RACE because liberal policies are largely to blame for the tragic and terrible state of too many black majority communities and the toxic culture that results in so much death and despair."

And liberals are never honest.

Read it all.

AMERICAN THINKER: Just open the schools already.

WE CAN HOPE: Will ObamaGate end with prosecutions?

DOUBLE STANDARDS: 'Grim Reaper' has a new gig.

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY: Celebrities show solidarity with protesters by burning their own homes to the ground.

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for June 10, 2020:

We continue down the 'same old, same old' path today. The death rate is down a tick, at 0.1004%, and the estimated number of uninfected Americans continuse to decline, at 65.273%, but still well short of the roughly 25% number believed to create herd immunity.

Georgia continues to show an uptick in confirmed cases (expected) as testing increases, and deaths (unexpected) continue to rise.

THE RESISTANCE.

Who’da thunk that this far-flung collection, spanning militants to magnates, could have moved so swiftly, so decisively and in such perfect symmetry to snatch self-defeat from the jaws of near-certain victory – and send Middle America scurrying back to Donald Trump’s waiting embrace?

Read it all.

AMERICANS DO NOT KNEEL. We stand.

More.

LET IT BURN: Lessons from Chicago.

Then start over.

TRUTH is not the chosen narrative.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Sociology Department is unlikely to be accused of aiding and abetting, but perhaps it should be.

THE DIPLOMAD: paying the Dane gelt (also known as Danegeld).

CANDACE OWENS: a heroine of our time.

The video has apparently disappeared from Fa(r)cebook, but you can find it here.

ADIOS, CALIFORNIA: SpaceX terminates Port of Los Angeles lease.

MINNEAPOLIS prepares to abolish its police department.

“Perhaps Minneapolis should change its name to Altamont. ‘Community Policing’ worked so well there.”

HEH: President Tweety.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Who do you call when your house is being broken into?

The coroner. To cart the body away....

NOT WHEN IT'S ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Mocking the slow kids is mean.

I MISSED POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures last Saturday, but they're still relevant as the week progresses. Some favorites:

Now go see the rest.

FROM AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD: Congressional Democrats unable to get back up saved by Life Alert.

AMMO GRRRLL: Cry, the beloved cities.

YOU CAN THANK YOUR HEALTHSCARE^TM PROFESSIONALS: Pandemics and Pandemonium.

Long but worth the read.

'MY WARD IS A SHIT SHOW': The Chicago Democrat machine led by Mayor Lightfoot is falling apart.

Couldn't happen to a better group of crybullies....

BUSINESS: Please don't go!

Too late. You should have thought of us earlier.