ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The left is furious with Biden as eviction moratorium ends.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: It Just Got Harder to Buy a Gun in Colorado.

HB21-1298 “Expand Firearm Transfer Background Check Requirements,” went into effect on June 29, and is specifically designed to “address the epidemic of gun violence we have seen in Colorado,” said bill sponsor Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver.

Under existing federal law, if a background check doesn’t come back after three days, gun dealers can transfer a firearm to another person. However, HB 1298 undoes this and requires gun dealers to get approval — no matter how long it takes — before transferring a gun.

Additionally, before the enactment of HB 1298, when a background check resulted in denying someone a firearm transfer, they could appeal the decision, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was required to review that person’s background records and render a final decision within 30 days. HB 1298 changes that 30-day deadline to 60 days and allows for indefinite denial in certain instances.

Finally, HB 1298 adds 11 misdemeanors the list of background check disqualifiers and makes it so those convicted of these misdemeanors can’t purchase or possess a gun for five years from the date of conviction.

Spoiler: None of these provisions will do anything to combat the surge of so-called “gun violence” occurring in badly-run, Democrat-controlled (but I repeat myself) cities.

#JOURNALISM:

THEY DON’T EVEN WISH THEY KNEW HOW TO QUIT HIM: NYT Says It’s Trump’s Fault Biden Isn’t Pleasing the Climate Change Cult Quickly Enough.

HERE WE GO: NYC will require vaccination proof for indoor dining, gyms.

PORKULUS II: THE REVENGE. 2,702 Pages Of Pork. “All this only scratches the surface of a bill week-kneed Republicans are telling us is acceptable only because it doesn’t have every leftwing wishlist item the $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill does.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Fourth Capitol Hill Riot Police Officer Commits Suicide, Welcome to Insanity Wrap Conspiracy Central.

Plus:

• Soros financier has us wondering if QAnon was right all along
• Neurodivergent minors are using kitty and pup and bunnyself pronouns because our stupidest possible timeline somehow just got stupider
• It’s news when a reporter reports news

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

A FEDERAL TAX ON EVERY MILE YOU DRIVE: The Lid reports it’s on page 511 of the draft text of the Senate infrastructure bill, authorization for a national pilot project for a Mileage-Based User Fee for every mile you drive. Glenn highlighted the privacy concerns of such a program in Road & Track in 2019.

CHANGE: Number of students being homeschooled in Colorado more than doubles. “Colorado is representative of what we’re seeing across the country – which is families had to make a lot of hard decisions last year and some of them chose to homeschool. Either for family flexibility or disenchantment with how remote school was going or they didn’t like the hybrid model — there are a lot of reasons where homeschooling may have been a better fit during the pandemic.”

After, too.

ALL THE EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT NATURAL “RECOVERED” IMMUNITY IS AT LEAST AS GOOD AS THE VACCINES: Law professor with naturally acquired COVID immunity battles GMU’s strict vaccine mandate. “Multiple clinical studies have shown that natural immunity provides at least as much protection against reinfection as the most effective vaccines—and unquestionably more protection than less-effective vaccines from China and elsewhere that university policy approves.”

Oh, please. If they’ll accept Sinovac then they’re not serious about health. They’re just too greedy to turn down foreign students who pay full tuition.

QUESTION ASKED: “If it’s okay for a privileged Democrat like Barack Obama to have a bunch of people surrounding him for his birthday party as the Delta variant spreads, why isn’t it okay for anyone else to do so?”

TALCULM X: White Privilege? Racial Trickster Shaun King Buys Lakeside Mansion.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: REPORT: Public university presidents’ salaries, tuition hikes since Great Recession.

JOANNE JACOBS: SF school board, union undercut pandemic hubs. “’Political infighting undercut the effectiveness of city-sponsored learning hubs for vulnerable students last year,’ writes Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle, citing a report by independent researchers.”

It would be much easier to still believe in public education if only public educators still believed in public education.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW IS SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEAN. It’s a pretty good gig as deanships go, with a happy productive faculty and a sensible and supportive university administration.

RADLEY BALKO: I don’t think those identical tweets are coming from Chinese bots:

It’s almost like you can’t trust stuff on social media.

WHEN LENE LOVICH WROTE ‘STATELESS’ I DON’T THINK SHE WAS THINKING OF PERKINS, COIE: Hillary Clinton’s old campaign law firm uses China excuse to avoid Carter Page lawsuit: Perkins Coie’s claim of “stateless” entity wins at federal appeals court level. Is Supreme Court next?

NO, AND THAT’S WHY CHINA CONTINUES TO CONTROL THE INFORMATION: Can US know COVID origins conclusively when China controls the information?

CONVENTIONAL NON-WISDOM:

Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday is a very clear exposé of the profound political division in America today. Her position is that Donald Trump is a deadly combination of crazy, dishonest, and incompetent, that there can be no possible question that he was and is unsuited to be president, and that he was unquestionably honestly defeated in the presidential election. More, he deliberately incited a violent assault upon the U.S. Capitol on January 6, his party is afraid of him even though his support is thin and diminishing, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s investigation into the events of January 6 must be pursued with energy and thoroughness, for the chief purpose of ensuring that Trump never returns to public office.

This is the epiphany of the comparatively civilized Trump-hater and it is almost entirely false.

At no point does Noonan dispute the accomplishments of the Trump Administration, and I do not recall that she has ever disputed them. The near elimination of illegal immigration and of unemployment and the sharply rising incomes in low-income ethnic minority areas, reduced taxes, the identification in sober terms of the Chinese challenge, the elimination of oil imports, the extermination of ISIS, shaping up of NATO, the Abraham Accords in the Middle East, and the pressure on Iran and de-escalation of the confrontation with North Korea; to the best of my recollection as a regular reader of hers, Noonan never disputed any of this.

And yet previously she has compared Trumpism to metastatic cancer. This and similarly extreme strictures establish her as one of the most perfervid of the respectable Trump haters.

Peggy is the voice of the establishment. Unfortunately, our current establishment is a toxic stew of corruption, incompetence, and disconnection from reality.

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Matt Margolis: Kamala Harris’s Unpopularity Is Truly Historic. “What makes this significant is that Kamala Harris’s approval ratings matter a great deal. From the very beginning, there’s been a sort of co-presidency vibe from this administration.”

Kevin Downey Jr: Liberals Worldwide Are Ramping Up the Panic About COVID Stats. Here Are Some Fast Facts. “The woman who published the tweet below, Debbie Burnett, is running against Rep. Boebert in Colorado. She is histrionic about COVID. She is actually a veterinarian who volunteers at a hospital as a physical therapist. The rolling average of new COVID cases in Aspen (which is Boebert’s district) is five per day. This woman is dangerous.”

Yours Truly: The Dumbest Well-Read Man in America Wants to Pummel You Into Submission on Vaccines. “He was and remains the master of the ‘He couldn’t be that dumb for real, could he?’ explainer piece.”

JAMES LILEKS: Here it comes, it seems: the Remaskening! “Just remember: everything that is going amiss is due to people you don’t like. Right? No. But . . . everyone I like is guided by reason, right? Not necessarily. Or entirely.”

THAT’S NOT EVEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR A CCP SPYWARE COMPANY AND ITS AMERICAN ENABLERS: Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google.

UNPOSSIBLE. KARENS EVERYWHERE HOLD THEM OUT AS LIFESAVERS. Disease Expert Tells CNN: Most Masks Don’t Really Work Against Wuhan Coronavirus.

To be fair, Fauci said that at one point. But then, he’s said everything at one point.