JIM TREACHER: California Uber Alles: 2021. Vax fascists will control you:

I’m vaccinated. If you want my opinion, you should get vaccinated. If you don’t want my opinion, you should get vaccinated. The vaccine works. An overwhelming majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the summer of 2021 are among the unvaccinated. If you refuse to take the vaccine, you’re a fool. I won’t gloat if you get sick, like the scumbags we rely on for our “news,” but I won’t have any sympathy for you either.

And, also, in addition to that: Nury Martinez and all the people who think like her are fascists. This pandemic is a perfect opportunity for them to seize control of your life. Are you going to let them?

Totalitarianism in the Golden State. If you won’t protect yourself, the state will do it for you. California Uber Alles!

Read the whole thing.

I DID YEARS AND YEARS AGO AND IT’S BEEN MARVELOUS: Americans Are Willing to Take Pay Cuts to Never Go Into the Office Again.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: It’s good to be the Climate Czar! John Kerry’s family jet has taken 16 trips this year.

THE INSTA-WIFE, WHO’S SCHEDULED TO GET HER BATTERY CHANGED SOON, WOULD APPRECIATE THIS: Researchers present battery-free pacemaker powered by the heart.

AUSTIN STAR POLICE DETECTIVE ACCUSES DA JOSE GARZA’S OFFICE OF CRIMINAL WITNESS TAMPERING IN HIGH-PROFILE CASE.

A HIGH HURDLE, EASILY CLEARED: Is Cori Bush the Biggest Hypocrite on All of Capitol Hill? This Video Says ‘Yes!’ “A typical politician is two things: A hypocrite and at least somewhat savvy about it. So give credit where it’s due to Congresscritter Cori Bush (D-Suck It): She is not a typical politician.”

BUT IF WE DID THAT, HOW COULD WE DEMAND VACCINE PASSPORTS? WHO chief urges wealthy nations to pause COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

CRISES BY DESIGN: Biden admin to require vaccination for legal foreign visitors. Others? Not so much.

JUST ANOTHER DC MONEY & POWER GRAB: The ‘Infrastructure’ Bill: The Deeper You Get, The Worse It Gets. “It has just $110 billion, or less than 10%, for what’s historically been considered infrastructure—roads and bridges. The other 90% is to fund mass transit waste, green energy nonsense, and more items that the states or the private sector could do.”

GREAT MOMENTS IN TIMING: Mask Mandate Reinstated in San Francisco—as Daily COVID Deaths Hit Zero.

Meanwhile San Francisco seems to be going full Bane: Woman leans out of car, holds AK47 in San Francisco.

AFL-CIO PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUMKA DEAD AT 72, SOURCES SAY: “Trumka, 72, had served as president of the federation, which represents more than 12.5 million workers, for more than a decade and has been a close ally of the Biden White House. Trumka died of what was believed to be a heart attack, a source familiar with the matter said.”

MAYBE THE FACT THAT SHE COULDN’T WIN A SINGLE DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A TIPOFF THAT NO ONE LIKED HER: Scoop: Inside a Kamala Harris crisis dinner.

SHOCKER: Johns Hopkins Professor Says COVID Infection Provides More Immunity Than Vaccines. “A doctor and professor with Johns Hopkins University said in a recent television appearance that, contrary to the official government narrative, those who actually catch the coronavirus and recover are approximately seven times more immune from future infections than those who receive a vaccine.”

People with natural immunity are also less likely to transmit the disease should they be reinfected than people who have been vaccinated.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Admin Has Dropped Thousands of COVID+ Illegal Migrants Into Just One Texas Town.

TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, 80, pulls out of band’s US tour after undergoing emergency surgery in London.

Watts, who learnt drum along to old jazz records, will be temporarily replaced by session drummer and long-time friend of the band Steve Jordan.

According to the Sun, the band hope to have him back for their 60th anniversary celebrations in 2022, when they will release their first album of ­original songs in 17 years.

Hopefully Watts recovers quickly; meanwhile the Stones will be in good hands this fall with Jordan, who was (is?) the drummer in Keith Richards’ solo project, the X-Pensive Winos (which played loads of Stones songs while touring), and prior to that, the Blues Brothers and David Letterman’s house band.

AT THE VERY LEAST, IT WILL BE ENTERTAINING WATCHING LEFTIES EMBRACE THE MAN THEY USED TO CALL “DARTH CHENEY”: Liz Cheney says her father is ‘deeply troubled’ about the state of the Republican Party.

TED RALL: Why I Got a Third Covid Shot: Better safe than sick, and I have a history of respiratory problems.

I was fully vaccinated six months ago. I walked into a pharmacy last week and got another Pfizer shot. I didn’t tell the pharmacist it was my third; she didn’t ask. Since the U.S. has no central database of immunization records, the store had no way to know I’d been vaccinated at a federal facility.

My friends and family disapprove. “A one-man study of the effects of three doses?” one said dryly. “That sounds safe.” Another, left-leaning and vaccine-skeptical: “This won’t be the last ‘booster’ shot you’ll ‘need.’ Every couple months you’ll be showing up for the latest injection.”

There’s a lot of this. Meanwhile the W.H.O. wants us to delay second shots and send vaccine overseas.

UPDATE (From Ed): Moderna recommends third shot of vaccine to defend against new coronavirus strains.

(Updated and bumped.)

ALLISON GOLLUST, CNN EXEC TIED TO GOV. CUOMO, ACCUSED OF BEING REASON CHRIS GETS A PASS:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t just have his brother Chris at CNN, he also has ties to one of its top executives — sparking accusations that it’s why the network has turned a blind eye to its star host’s involvement in his sibling’s sexual harassment scandal.

Allison Gollust was Cuomo’s communications director before becoming executive vice president at CNN — where she was even recently tapped to replace Jeff Zucker as Worldwide President, Fox News has noted.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

Evergreen:

ROGER SIMON: To Save America, Run for School Board.

Forget Congress, the Senate, or whatever glamorous position you ever fantasized about or not, even president of the United States, if you want to have a serious impact from your work, if, as they say, you want to make a difference, to change this country for the good in the short and long term, run for your local school board.

You would be saving America from turning into the bleakest, socialist-communist state imaginable because that is what our current educational system, K-12, is designed to do and, sadly, has been successful in doing, literally for decades—and it’s only getting worse.

You would in the process also be a true revolutionary in the tradition of the Founders of our country in bringing back truth, justice, and the American way to our children and our children’s children.

Someone’s gotta do it—the hour is late. But you, dear reader, can save us, especially if we band together—and there are plenty of us to do it.

Please consider running for the school board to radically change a highly-corrupt and evil leftwing educational system, which has crossed the border into child abuse.

It’s both necessary and fun to point out the errors of the DNC-MSM, but education reform should be the ultimate focus: The End of the Long March. “Remember those halcyon days when our biggest concerns were Howard Zinn textbooks and mainstream media bias? The left is long past that. Victory begets victory, and they feel no pressing need to shore up their wins. Now they’re gunning to control the guns—and not necessarily in the way you think.”

NOT MUCH MORE: Is There More Than Anti-Trump Politics Behind a Reported New York Times Decision Not to Investigate COVID’s Origins? “The New York Times reportedly decided not to use its considerable influence and resources to investigate the origins of COVID-19 at the same time China was lying and delaying, early weeks in the pandemic that cost lives. That story is perhaps the most important story of our time. COVID has killed millions and transformed the entire world. Where it came from and who, if anyone, is responsible is important.”

RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME: Cori Bush Defends Her Own Private Security While Advocating For ‘Defunding the Police.’

Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) made a strange argument for defunding the police while defending her own expenditures on private security.

“I’m gonna make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life. And I have too much work to do, there are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend 10 more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work. So suck it up,” Bush said on CBS News. “Defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.”

That should make a great soundbite for the GOP in 2022, along with: After the governor pardons Mark McCloskey, Rep. Cori Bush tells CNN ‘his day will come’ because he spat on her name.

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY’S SCRUB: Launch of Boeing’s Starliner Delayed Indefinitely Due to Vexing Technical Glitch. “Now is the part of my article when I’m obliged to say this is all a normal part of development and testing, that it’s good to be safe, and that problems should be expected, and bla bla bla. But as much as I’m rooting for this project, it’s clearly been a shitshow. Boeing needs to get its act together.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor suggests it should be a federal hate crime to criticize Fauci and other government-funded scientists.

The desire for a taxpayer-funded aristocracy is palpable with these people.