Overnight News: None so deserving: When Facebook put me in my place, it moved itself one space closer to MySpace.

As I mentioned, I got thrown off of Facebook for three days, giving me time to think about what I want to do with them.

(Would-be closers take note: Giving the customer time and reason to think about killing your deal is contra-indicated.)

When Amazon shivved Parler, we had to rethink them, too. We can’t get all the way rid of them, so we cut our annual spend by around 90%, moving those purchases to other vendors.

I think I’m going to do the same with Facebook. I like the families and pets stuff, but I’m going to move everything else here or to Gab.

What makes a happening hotspot work? Everything has to work. What makes it fail? When the people who once thought it was hot decide it’s no longer working. Driving away reliable content creators is how Facebook will join MySpace, in due course.

In other news:

Housing Wire: Soaring home prices are spooking buyers.

Mike DelPrete: iBuyers: Paying Above Market and Reselling For More Upside.

Helen Raleigh: Suni Lee’s Olympic Triumph Is More Evidence American Meritocracy Works.

City Journal: Costly and Counterproductive: An executive order to mandate electric-vehicle sales presents economic and environmental problems.

The Heritage Foundation: Judge Defends Equal Justice Against Tide of Critical Race Theory, Disparate Impact.