This is another example of why @brithume is my favorite news anchor. The administration's envoy calls Putin a humanitarian, and Hume calls him what he is, a war criminal, on Fox's own air. No other host there will challenge Trump like that.

Reading some of the coverage of Justice Kagan's interview at Catholic University yesterday, which I attended, and it seems to me to exaggerate how tough she was towared her conservative colleagues. 1/6

The Paris Zoo is missing about 100 chimps from its enclosure. Police are on the lookout for the missing chimps but are expressing great difficulty in finding them due to the “Nature of the current riots in Paris.” Follow: @Schizopost69

2010 — German Chancellor Merkel: multiculturalism had “failed utterly.” 2011 — British PM Cameron: it encouraged cultures to “live separate lives.” 2011 — French Prez Sarkozy: multiculturalism was “a failure.” They all knew. Then Europe spent another 15 years preserving separate identities instead of demanding assimilation. The result is visible in the same Paris suburbs that has been at the center of repeated unrest for more than 20 years. Multiculturalism was declared dead over a decade ago. But elite institutions turned assimilation into a dirty word. And the leaders who knew better didn’t have the guts to make it policy.

As long as you're a left-wing activist, the cause doesn't really matter. Climate one day. Palestine the next. French high school students the day after that, in a movement with more than 6,000 arrests and schools set on fire. Tomorrow it'll be something else, and next week something new again. The cause changes. As long as it fills the emptiness inside and the anger over that emptiness has somewhere to go, it doesn't matter what the sign says.

A lot of people are responding to this by saying that the French government should just use force to put down the riots, but I don't think it's realistic and I want to explain why. Before you get angry at me and accuse me of being a pussy, you should know that I personally think a building such as Limoges's town hall is worth more than most human beings and certainly more than the brainless thugs who burnt it down, but it doesn't matter what I think. We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible. It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower. I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw videos of 16-year-old kids having their brains blown out by cops. I doubt even Le Pen would do that and, if she tried, she would quickly backtrack because of the backlash it would inevitably generate. When you start shooting rioters after years or even decades of letting them run amok with impunity, it will initially result in even more violence, because repression is no longer credible and they will assume that you will cave in the face of the outrage. So it's not enough to shoot people once, you have to keep doing it until your credibility is restored and nobody will even want to test your resolve anymore, which in turn means that you have to kill a lot of people. And you have to be confident that, as you do that, your subordinates and political allies won't get cold feet and desert you because they anticipate that you'll lose and will not want to be on the losing side, giving rise to a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen. The Soviet hardliners didn't have the stomach for this kind of carnage in 1991, which is why the August coup failed almost immediately, so frankly the idea that French elites in 2027 will is just delusional. As I say below, there are things we can and should do, but we have our work cut out for us and it will take a long time.

NOW - Macron addresses the nation, calling for order and says that the youth of France are "expressing great anguish and concern about the future... we need to pay heed to what they are saying and we must not minimise the hardships that they are facing."