SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS: Female High School Students Appeal Ruling on Transgender Athletes. “Our clients—like all female athletes—deserve access to fair competition; that means authentically equal opportunities to compete, achieve, and win.”

NO, IT’S NOT A HOMELESS PROBLEM: San Francisco’s Substance-Abuse Crisis. Governor Gavin Newsom touts Project Roomkey, his hotels-for-the-homeless program, as a model for the rest of the nation, and the program is expanding with funding from the Biden administration. But take a stroll through the city’s Tenderloin, Civic Center, and South of Market neighborhoods:

Block after block, you’ll see thousands of people who are barely alive. Some are alone; others are piled on top of one another, running into traffic, or standing slumped over, unconscious. They’ll be injecting or smoking heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine in front of you, unaware or unfazed by your presence. Scabs cover their faces and bodies, limbs are swollen red and blue, often bloody and oozing pus. You’ll notice the garbage, rotting food, discarded drug detritus, and feces surrounding them. A shocking number are mere teenagers, but many are old or have aged well before their time.

Project Roomkey’s hotels offer no addiction-recovery treatment, and there’s no sobriety requirement. But the hotel residents do get fresh needles.

ROCKETED UP THE CHARTS: Thanks mostly to InstaPundit readers I think, Stephen Halbrook’s new book, The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? has rocketed up from 775,000 to 3736, and it’s now #5 in Constitutional Law.

Good for people to see this question being asked, since the Supreme Court has just decided to address this very subject.

DON’T GET COCKY: The Census Results May Give Republicans an Edge in the 2022 Election.

SAME AS OCCUPY, WHERE THE BIGSHOTS STAYED AT THE W HOTEL WHILE THE PLEBS SLEPT IN TENTS: BLM Co-Founder’s Jail Reform Group Dropped $26,000 At Luxury Malibu Beach Resort. There’s no one with a more aristocratic temperament than the leader of a leftist equality movement.

IF THEY ACT AS THOUGH FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS AREN’T IN THEIR INTEREST, IT’S BECAUSE THEY CAN’T WIN FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS: Democrats Don’t Seem Interested in Securing Our Elections.

KAMALA ISN’T VERY LIKABLE: Not yet: Forty-three percent have ‘very unfavorable’ view of Kamala Harris and are split on her being president.

I think all the intra-party hate thrown at Cuomo is because Democrats know she’ll be unpopular if/when she succeeds Biden in the next couple of years, and they want to preclude a primary challenge.

YES: Should Kerry resign and/or face charges over “aid and comfort” to Iran? I thought we had decided during the last presidency that “foreign collusion” was an unpardonable sin.

IT’S POPULAR AMONG EVERYONE BUT THE POLITICAL CLASS: Poll: 77% support requiring photo ID for voting.

WELL: Tesla posts record net income of $438 million, revenue surges by 74%.

SCIENCE: Texas, Florida Report Fewer New COVID Cases Than Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York. But: “I’m not getting my hopes up that the Democrat governors will give in and stop restricting freedoms.” For them, restricting freedoms is less a means than an end.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: John Kerry Is a Treasonous Idiot Who Needs to Be Perp-Walked.

TREASON: Pompeo Pushes Investigation Into Kerry for Leaking Secrets to Iran: Kerry must immediately resign from the Biden administration, says Rep. Banks.

GOODER AND HARDER: Austin City Council Continues Assault On APD. “It’s obvious that the current Austin City Council hates the Austin Police Department, and will do anything they think the can get away with to strip it of money and power. The most recent example: They’re stripping 911 funding from the police to hand it over to a newly created department.”

TO BE FAIR, OBAMA SET THE BAR LOW: Trump’s Official Smithsonian Portrait Unveiled and It’s Everything You Wanted It to Be. Well, he’s not riding a velociraptor while firing a machine gun, but it’s not bad.

And yeah, the side-by-side comparison is really something:

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO DECENCY: The White House Responds to Growing Scandal Over Giving Away VP’s Book to Illegal Aliens. “Since the White House, Health and Human Services, and Harris herself remain silent on the issue, it’s unclear who’s paying for the books.”

WELL, TO BE FAIR, UNIONS ARE THERE TO ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, NOT THE INTERESTS OF THEIR MEMBERS: Coal workers union doesn’t always represent coal worker values.

When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard last Monday that United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts approved of President Joe Biden’s plan to move the nation’s energy industry away from fossil fuels, Morecraft said he anticipated the news would be misconstrued.

“I knew the story would come across as though all coal miners approved of this deal, with no mention of how [un]representative the UMWA is of the coal miner population,” said Morecraft, just before going down for his shift at the Bailey Mine here in Greene County.

“The UMWA in actuality represents a small portion of the people who work in the mines,” Morecraft said. “What that means is, that deal was not made with the support of most of the people who do the work in the industry.”

He is not wrong.

According to the latest energy statistics for the U.S. government, there are 6,758 coal miners working underground in this country today who are members of the UMWA, compared to the 24,820 miners, such as Morecraft, who are not members of the union.

The same goes for the surface-mine workforce, where just over 3,000 are members of the UMWA, compared to the nearly 17,000 who are not.

Once a dominant force that represented virtually everyone working in the entire industry, the UMWA membership today is the smallest portion of the mining workforce.

Had you not really followed the decline of the UMWA membership over the decades and were sitting at home watching the news reports and thought, “Oh, wow, the coal miners are now backing Biden’s ‘climate-justice’ infrastructure package, maybe it is not that bad,” you were misled.

Also to be fair, the press will present things that way because the press, too, is there to advance the interests of the Democratic Party.

And if you were misled — well, that’s the whole point.

FROM ALMA T. C. BOYKIN:  Golden Summer.

Early ripe, early rotten, or so the proverbs claim.

Pjtor Adamson Swendborg defeated the Harriers and opened NovRodi to the lands across the White Sea. But his wife has not born another living child, and there are whispers that Godown has cursed her or him. He chafes at the old men and old ways that surround him. He may be emperor, but even he must bend to the will of the nobles and the church. As Pjtor wrestles with his past, he discovers that defeated enemies do not always stay defeated.

In his haste to save his world, Pjtor’s impatience may undo all that he has won so far.

IS IT SATIRE? WHO CAN TELL ANYMORE?

Plus, the actual truth:

YES, IT’S VENOMOUS BUT ITS BITE PROBABLY WON’T KILL YOU. PROBABLY:  Miami zoo discovers new venomous tarantula species.

THE EM HUM WAS PROBABLY REALLY ANNOYING, SO THEY CHEWED THE CABLE UNTIL IT STOPPED:   How beavers caused an entire Canadian town to lose internet.

FOR THAT MATTER, WHY IS EVERYONE PRETENDING HE’S THE ACTUAL, REAL PRESIDENT?   World’s shortest post on immigration.

AND ANOTHER VIEW OF THE MESS:  V is for Vital Information.

SOMEBODY HAS TO EMPTY THE ASH TRAYS AFTER THEY BURN THE MEMOS:  VP Harris says she was last person in the room before Biden’s withdrawal decision.