KANGAROO COURT: McCarthy Pulls His Five Republicans From Riot Commission After Pelosi Rejects Conservative Reps.

VITAMIN C UPDATE: Harnessing the combined power of Vitamin C and TET proteins may give scientists a leg up in treating autoimmune diseases. “You can’t make a banana split without bananas. And you can’t generate stable regulatory T cells without Vitamin C or enzymes called TET proteins, it appears.”

FASTER, PLEASE: New study raises prospect of ‘fine-tuning’ immune response through individual T-cells.

KIRA DAVIS: California Parents Start Petition to End Absurd School Mask Mandates.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Testing to Find the Best Tactical Flashlight.

VIDEO: Cuban Exile Questions Biden’s Handling of the Opportunity to Free the Country From Communism.

CUI BONO: Vandalism May Be Latest Reason the Golden Ray Ship’s Salvage Is Endless. “The ship capsized in September 2019 with thousands of new vehicles onboard. As the salvage operation continues, police are investigating why four mooring cables seem to have been cut deliberately.”

#RESIST: Backlash in states starts over Biden court-packing scheme. “While some other states have passed simple resolutions on the issue, their plan, dubbed “Wisconsin Keep 9 Resolution,” calls for a constitutional convention to debate an amendment that would require nine [justices].”

THEY’RE COPYING EVERYTHING BUT THE KANGAROOS: The Democrats’ Capitol Riot Committee Will Be a Soviet-Style Show-Trial of Trump.

SHOW ME A MAN’S INCENTIVES AND I’LL TELL YOU HOW HE BEHAVES: Employers urge Governor Polis to end supplemental unemployment benefits early. “There are more jobs than workers, so removing this would incentivize people to get back into the workforce. As the state has opened, we believe it is safe to return to work.”

BIDENFLATION! Grocery Prices Could Rise 10 to 14 Percent By October, Grocery Chain CEO Warns.

HOW TO PREVENT A POWER SHORTAGE FROM BECOMING A CRISIS. People with generators, like me, should be subsidized for switching to them when power is in high demand. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

JIM TREACHER: Anthony Fauci Is Immune to Answering Questions. “I don’t trust Anthony Fauci anymore, and I don’t trust anybody who expects me to trust him. I want nothing to do with the weird little cult these freaks have built around him. They have the right to their religious beliefs, but it’s not science.”

Earlier: The Suicide of Expertise.

LET’S: ‘Let’s Stop the Panic’ Over Delta Variant Says Medical Doctor. “You’re more likely to get murdered in Chicago (18 murders per 100,000 people) than a senior citizen is to be hospitalized for the Wuhan Flu (2.9 per 100,000), Delta variant or no Delta variant.”

OUT: POLLUTION FROM STRAWS. In: Pollution from discarded masks. “The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to generate up to 7,200 tons of medical waste every day, much of which is disposable masks. And even as the pandemic slows down in some parts of the world, health care workers are expected to continue wearing masks most of the time.”

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden’s border ‘as bad as it’s been in memory.’ “The Border Patrol reported the most action in 21 years in June. Agents recorded 178,416 arrests, defying Homeland Security officials’ public predictions that activity at the border would cool off in the summer.”

IT’S SATIRE — OR IS IT? Ben & Jerry’s Targets Anti-Semite Demographic With Audacious New Ice Cream Flavors.

NOBODY STEPS ON A CHURCH IN MY TOWN: 48 Canadian churches have been vandalized or burned down in the past two months, and woke white people seem to be the culprits.

SPACE: Lockheed Martin opens new spacecraft facility in Florida. I’m not super optimistic about the Orion lunar capsule, but hey.

NO ‘CUBA LIBRE PLAZA?’ DC ERASES PRO-FREEDOM MESSAGE FROM STREET: “Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser allowed ‘Black Lives Matter’ to be painted permanently on a city street. That makes her (charitably) an idiot. She also has had her Department of Public Works erase a similar sign reading ‘Cuba Libre’ from the street outside the Cuban Embassy. That makes her a useful idiot.”

TELLS:

If you follow this thread, it’s, well, not exactly a defense of Fauci but an explanation of sorts. I’m not convinced it makes Fauci look any better, though.

THIS SEEMS SHADY: Can the Attorney General’s Daughter Clerk on the Supreme Court?

At the very least, it illustrates just how cozy our nomenklatura are.

GOOD: New drug may lower blood clot risk following surgery, study finds. “The drug abelacimab prevents blood clots in patients undergoing knee replacement surgery, a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine found. Abelacimab, developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based Anthos Therapeutics, reduced the risk for blood clots in people who had the procedure by about 80% compared with the blood-thinner enoxaparin, the data showed.”

THIS POST BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LATHROP, MCCANN, OSCAR, AND PETERSON AD AGENCY: The Greatest Solo of All Time.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HOW’S THAT 355-SHIP NAVY COMING ALONG? CNO Gilday Says With Current Budget, Cutting Ships Necessary for Navy Long-term.