BLUE ON BLUE: Radical Environmentalists Take On DC Commuters, Biden.

“If they don’t want to do what we ask, or do what we’re demanding, the next step is to rebel,” said Kevin Cramer Jr. of the Palm Collective, a radical black and queer liberation group. “I’m giving us a minimum of probably 10 years—10 years until we start seeing the severity of like, damn, everyone, we can’t take baths, bitch, here is a bucket of water. The crisis is that high.”

Cramer said Biden has “lied” to his party’s left flank about promises to combat climate change through the Green New Deal, open borders to immigrants, and reform law enforcement.

“He’s done a horrible job. He’s lied, suggestively lied—like saying he’s going to grant citizenship, saying we’re going to have a Green New Deal,” he said. “He hasn’t even addressed police brutality, and he’s been in office for months.”

The most radical first-year agenda in American history and it still isn’t enough for the Left’s radicals.

PRESIDENT KLAIN IS DUSTING OFF OBAMA’S OLD “JOBS CREATED OR SAVED” PSEUDO-METRIC:

But think of the savings! White House Boasts Cookouts Are 16 Cents Cheaper This Year and the Internet Isn’t Impressed.

Exit question: “”So what are you doing with your 16 cents?”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Tenure Tantrum Shows How Identity Politics Mobilizes Victimhood For Power.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: To Eradicate Critical Theories in K-12 Parents Need to Know about the Invisible Layer of Control.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Our bossy society is completely losing sight of the value of risky behavior.

USEFUL IDIOTS? FELLOW TRAVELERS? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Watch CNN gush over the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping on CCP’s 100th anniversary.

UPDATE (From Ed): ‘Communists Did The Right Thing’: Berkshire Hathaway Chief Charlie Munger Praises CCP’s Authoritarianism, Oppression.

(Via Ace.)

JAMES BOVARD: Sham Surveillance Safeguards Vs. Tucker Carlson. “Those quick to dismiss the TV host’s concerns that he is being spied on by the NSA should consider the sordid history of illicit surveillance.”

I regard his claims as presumptively true, given recent — and not-so-recent — history.

THIS JUST IN: Remember Imran Awan, the horrible dirtbag who worked for horrible dirtbag Debbie Wasserstein-Schultz? Awan, an IT specialist accused of improper access to certain congressional computers, was arrested in July 2017 at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, as he tried to board a flight to Lahore, Pakistan. He had wiped his cellphones of any data, and federal agents found a résumé in the name of “Andrew Awan,” which they said suggested Awan planned to leave the country permanently, according to court documents.

Unsurprisingly, because then-President Trump tweeted about the case, the mainstream media took him up as a cause celebre, and they kept referring to a “conservative conspiracy” theory. He eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of fraud in a plea deal. All in all, some shady shit, given that:

Most Democratic lawmakers cut their ties with Awan and his family after the criminal investigation became public in early 2017. But Awan continued to be employed by Wasserman Schultz, although it’s unclear what his job duties were, given the fact that he had been barred from accessing the House IT system for months.

Fast forward to today. Horrible dirtbag Awan had filed a lawsuit against The Daily Caller and others, alleging all sorts of claims in libel, emotional distress, and what not. Today, D.C. Superior Court Judge Fern Sadler dismissed his complaint against The Daily Caller.

Order Granting in Part Defs’ Mots to Dismiss(256115651.1).

THE OHIO GOP COULD USE A GOOD SHAKE-UP: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author J.D. Vance Shakes Up Crowded Ohio Senate Race.

AT HELEN’S PAGE: King Harv’s July coffee special are here!

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Critical Race Theory Has ‘Most Corrosive’ Influence on Military.

ROGER SIMON: What the New York Election Fiasco Tells Us about Voter Fraud.

Nothing underscores this more dramatically than the mega-fiasco surrounding the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. As the world knows now, some 135,000 non-existent votes were somehow magically injected into the system.

The winner of this supposed “ranking system” election (it certainly was “rank” in every sense of the world) is naturally suing and we seem headed for a do-ever.

This primary was, needless to say, virtually the city’s mayoral election since New York voters these days seem constitutionally allergic to Republicans, or to civic health, for that matter. They already showed their great intelligence electing Bill De Blasio in the first place, perhaps the most universally hated politician of our time.

As someone born in NYC when it was a wonderful place to live, I look on the demise of that once great city as a true domestic, even a global, tragedy.

But this demise has something to tell us. New York is the media capital of the world and it (they) have been lying to us and themselves for a long time, decades really.

The old line “If you can make it New York, you can make it anywhere,” now has redolence we never anticipated. Maybe it should be rewritten as “If New York can [blank] it up, anybody can.”

It should tell us that election fraud or malfeasance or just plain gross error, all of them together or separately, are not only possible everywhere in our country, they likely have happened everywhere—or nearly.

If condemning potential election fraud is the third rail of politics in 2021, then I eagerly await Eric Adams becoming an unperson by the DNC-MSM:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The latest example of ‘white privilege’: Eating French food.

JIM TREACHER: Donald Rumsfeld, R.I.P. He goes now into the great known-unknown. “Far too many people don’t know what they don’t know. If you’re not smart enough to get this, you’re one of those people. I’m pretty sure Rummy would also be amused by all the outright communists who are rejoicing today at his death. He wouldn’t want it any other way.”

ANYTHING FREE IS WORTH WHAT YOU PAY FOR IT: More Than 10,000 Canadians Died Waiting For Their ‘Free’ Healthcare.

COLLUSION: Public universities contribute thousands to leftist WaPo ‘Made in History’ blog.

SEEN AT HELEN’S PAGE: The perfect film for this 4th of July weekend: Sons Of Liberty.

PROGRESS: SpaceX Almost Ready to Move Super Heavy Booster to the Launch Pad.’

The 215-foot rocket dubbed Booster 3 recently reached full height, with construction taking a mere six weeks, according to Teslarati.

SpaceX is getting ever closer to its first orbital Starship launch — and the Super Heavy booster is just as much part of that plan as the spacecraft itself. If recent progress is anything to go by, the first Starship could be entering orbit before the end of the year.

Booster 3, however, isn’t destined to fly to orbit. In a Wednesday tweet, Musk noted that “Booster 3 will be used for ground tests. We’re changing much of design from 3 to 4.”

Build, test, learn, iterate… and quickly.

BUGGING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN: U.S. pulls out of Bagram Airfield without notice. “It shouldn’t be too surprising that we left in the dead of night without coordinating our exit with the locals. While American officials have traditionally hated to admit it, our Afghan allies in both the local government and the military are rife with spies and saboteurs who coordinate with the Taliban against us. If we had coordinated our exit with them, the Taliban might have been ready to launch an attack on the departing forces. Still, this likely won’t be going down in the history books as one of our proudest moments.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: California Is Dumb Enough to Keep Gavin Newsom Around. “It would be great if California could get rid of the tyrant Newsom but that wouldn’t guarantee an improvement. As I wrote in March, California has a neverending parade of horrible Democrats. You get rid of one, another who is almost always worse shows up as a replacement. The leftist rot is complete there.”

WELL, BIDEN’S AMERICA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC: Cy Vance’s Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies. “Corporations almost never get criminally prosecuted for this sort of thing, but Vance wanted the name ‘Trump’ in his indictment. You can bet that he would have indicted The Donald if he had the goods. The feds — who’ve been auditing Trump’s taxes forever — haven’t filed charges.”

Related: Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice. “Vance acquired years of Trump Organization tax records, yet all he’s found is an alleged failure to pay proper taxes on corporate perks like cars, tuition and apartments. Any other company and it’s a civil suit, an audit, perhaps a hefty fine. If Vance had any evidence suggesting serious fraud (as press leaks long suggested), he’d have included them already. . . . All that Vance & Co. really have is partisan hate, not evidence.”

Related: Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is A Crime.

Also: Questions about Cyrus Vance, Jr.

UNDER A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, THIS WOULD BE NEWS TO AMERICAN MEDIA, TOO: Thousands of migrant children detained in Texas in appalling conditions – BBC News.

THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE, CONT’D: Canadian official admits ban on in-person gatherings is to prevent spread of ‘false information. “‘The information’ being shared during in-person gatherings ‘itself if listened to creates risk to the public,’ claimed stammering Nova Scotia chief medical doctor Robert Strang, necessitating ‘a need to manage that misinformation campaign’ by restricting socializing.”

Tar. Feathers. It’s like it was always about control, not public health. Even I was insufficiently cynical.

U.S. ENVOY KERRY SAYS WORLD NEEDS A ‘WARTIME MENTALITY’ OVER CLIMATE.

If we’re going by Kerry’s own “wartime mentality,” does this mean that he’s ready to surrender now, toss his medals over the Capitol Hill Fence, and call it a day?

In any case, find another metaphor: William James’ “moral equivalent of war” speech was well over a century ago; the first “Earth Day” over 50 years ago — both surely qualify as quagmires by the old Winter Solder’s standards.

LESS THAN PRIME: 2 delivery companies in Oregon reportedly stopped working for Amazon, their only client, alleging ‘intolerable’ conduct and unsafe working conditions.

The companies sent a letter to Amazon accusing the e-commerce giant of “intolerable, unconscionable, unsafe, and most importantly, unlawful” conduct in the past two years, according to Vice. Together, the delivery companies employ roughly 150 drivers and make more than 20,000 Amazon deliveries in the Portland area on average every day, The Oregonian reports.

The companies said Amazon nixed delivery routes and changed rules without notifying them, according to Vice. The letter, obtained by Vice says that, because drivers commit to routes ahead of time, Last Mile and Triton are still on the hook for wages even if Amazon cuts routes at the last minute due to low inventory or warehouse staffing.

In the letter, the companies also accused Amazon of accessing drivers’ personal information, reducing reimbursements, firing drivers without giving the companies a say in the matter, and allocating deliveries unevenly among workers. Because deliveries weren’t evenly divided, some workers ended up needing to drive faster, potentially endangering other drivers or pedestrians, and work 12-hour shifts, even though Amazon only reimburses them for 10-hour shifts, according to Vice.

More to come, I’m sure.