BIDEN IS KILLING PEOPLE BY DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY:  Biden: Facebook is ‘Killing People’ Allowing COVID Misinformation.

Not that this shabby and senile comic book villain will understand that.

AND THERE IT IS AGAIN, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Biden Admin Calls for Cross-Platform Social Media Deplatforming.

These Buffons de Derriere think that if they sew a man’s mouth shut, they’ve changed his opinion. They have no clue what they’re messing with. Some days I feel like I’m watching toddlers play with C-4

GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC INDOCTRINATION CENTERS:  Mandatory CRT-Based Program Coming to a School Near You.

Olly olly oxen free!

Also: Commies, leave the kids alone!

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Report: Delaware Prosecutor Stalled Hunter Biden Investigation to Keep It Out of 2020 Election.

OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE:  Providence Teachers Union Confirms Affinity Group Segregation, Historical Books Destroyed, Holocaust Education Ended (Ramona Bessinger Update).

Sure, having a parent stay home and homeschool costs. Trust me, I know. But at this point, what is your choice? Did you have kids for the state?

IF YOU’RE GOING TO LIST EVERYTHING OCCASIONAL CORTEX DOESN’T UNDERSTAND:  AOC Doesn’t Understand The Cuba Embargo – Shock.

You’re going to need a bigger blog.

JOSH BLACKMAN: The Path Forward For The Texas DACA Case: A stay from the Fifth Circuit is unlikely. Do Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett have the “fortitude” to let the injunction go into effect?

Today, Judge Hanen ruled that DACA was both procedurally and substantively invalid. (Co-blogger Jon Adler wrote about it here). This case has been pending forever. Texas filed the original complaint in May 2018. The case sat around while the DACA rescission litigation wound through the federal courts. Last June, the Chief set aside the rescission memorandum in Regents. Now, a year later, the district court set aside the original policy, which has been in effect since 2012. Yes, the policy is more than 9 years old. It has stretched the entirety of my academic career.

Judge Hanen issued three very precise remedies First, the Court vacated the original 2012 DACA memorandum, in part. Second, the Court temporarily stayed “the immediate vacatur as it applies to current DACA recipients.” Third, DHS may continue to accept new applications, but the agency was “enjoined from approving any new DACA applications and granting the attendant status.”

At this point, the Defendant-Intervenors, as well as the Biden Administration, will seek a stay from the Fifth Circuit. That remedy is very unlikely, as Hanen’s decision follows very closely from the Fifth Circuit’s DAPA decision. Later, the parties will seek an emergency stay from the Supreme Court.

How do the votes shake out? I suspect the Chief Justice will grant a stay for all three remedies. There is only one jurist in the country who can radically alter federal law, and his name is John G. Roberts. And we know the Chief does not like district court injunctions. Alas, Roberts plus the Kagan three makes four–not enough for a stay. And if all four dissent from the denial of a stay, it will be obvious to the world that Justices Kavanaugh and/or Barrett refused to help the Dreamers.

Will Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett have, in the words of Justice Gorsuch, the “fortitude” to deny the stay. Justice Kavanaugh recently split the difference in the eviction case: he found the moratorium illegal but declined to put that ruling into effect. My prediction? He declines to stay the first ground of relief, vote to stay at the second ground for relief, and urges the Court to grant cert before judgment for the third ground for relief. Plus he writes a hand-wringing concurrence about how DACA is illegal but the Dreamers are such wonderful people. He can copy-and-paste from his Regents decision: “They live, go to school, and work here with uncertainty about their futures.”

Sigh.

OPEN THREAD: In the thick of night, it’ll hold up in the light.

OH, GOOD GRIEF: CDC investigating monkeypox case in Dallas in traveler from Nigeria.

More on monkeypox here. “Human monkeypox infections have only been documented six times outside of Africa; in the United States in 2003 (47 cases), in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and Israel (1 case) in 2018, in Singapore in 2019 (1 case) and in both the United Kingdom (3 cases) and the United States (1 case) in 2021.”

West African monkeypox tends less to human transmission than Central African monkeypox. Given that this case is from Nigeria, I assume it’s the former. Not likely to be much of a threat, but who needs it? And it’s interesting that Dallas saw cases during the Ebola outbreak a few years ago, too.

AT SPACE.COM, JUXTAPOSITION:

BIG BROTHER DEMANDS MESSAGE CONTROL:

WHAT ABOUT ADULTS? Teens should make own COVID-19 vaccination choices, experts say. But reading the story, the experts think teens should be able to override their parents’ decisions on this subject if they want the vaccine, so it’s not really a statement in support of free choice in general.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JOURNALISM WASN’T A GENTRY-CLASS PROFESSION, BUT A BLUE-COLLAR JOB:

That time is long past, which is one reason why journalism has gotten worse.

CHINESE CRAPWARE: BioNTech produces 10 times more antibodies than China’s Sinovac: study.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules DACA Illegal.

OPINION: Tesla’s Cybertruck Will Be Company’s First Flop.

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Griggs v. Duke Power Co., one of the least defensible opinions in the Supreme Court’s history, is now 50 years old. If you want to understand just how wrong an opinion can be (and how hard Congress tried to write a statute that couldn’t be misinterpreted), read Title VII Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden Administration Tells Border Agents to Prepare for Massive Wave of Families. Will It Re-Start the Pandemic?

FLASHBACK: My 6-year review of the RX-8.

LIDBLOG: Crazy Tokyo Olympics Get Even Nuttier with Latest Rules. “BMX freestyle rider Chelsea Wolfe (an alternate) said she will burn the American Flag if she wins. I suppose that will be okay as long as she doesn’t touch anyone.”

WELL, OF COURSE HE IS: Biden is putting politics ahead of stopping the COVID spread.

NOT THE BEST, BUT ADEQUATE: Are Hunting Shotguns Good For Home Defense?

YES, IT’S OK TO QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM: Critical Race Theory Advocates Sent Staff & Students On Chinese Communist Propaganda Trips.

WELL, GOOD: 2020 Fallout: Voters Want Tighter Voting Restrictions.

OUT: WAR ON SCIENCE. IN: WAR ON DATA. Facebook axes team over far-right data. “Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users. Facebook executives, including Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, became concerned that the CrowdTangle tool was being used by journalists to produce embarrassing evidence that right-wing content was read more than anything else on the platform. The analytics tool is owned by Facebook but is available to the public. It is one of the only ways for users to measure how well a post is doing in terms of being shared, commented on, liked or receiving a reaction emoji.”