AT HELEN’S PAGE : Innovation: “Our goal is to democratize 3D printing and make this technology accessible to everyone. That lead us to launch our first product, the Autoprint One.” You can read about this new technology here.

HMM: Bipartisan Majority of Americans Now Believe Coronavirus Leaked from Lab.

The survey found that 52 percent of Americans believe coronavirus leaked from a lab, compared with 28 percent who think the pandemic started following human contact with an infected animal. Support for the lab-leak theory is bipartisan, with 52 percent of Democrat and 59 percent of Republican respondents backing the theory.

In a Pew Research Center survey conducted from March 10-16, 2020, just 29 percent of Americans said they believed coronavirus leaked from a lab.

The current bipartisan agreement on the lab-leak issue is unusual, said Bob Blendon, professor of health policy at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the designer of the survey.

“Usually, our polls find a big split between Republicans and Democrats, so this is unique,” Blendon told Politico.

Regardless of whether the Wuhan Virus actually did escape from a Communist Chinese lab — and I’m more than inclined to believe that it did — the real news here is that neither Republicans nor even Democrats still buy the Party Line.

CHANGE: For The First Time, Scientists Have Connected a Superconductor to a Semiconductor.

TYLER O’NEIL: Toyota Blacklists Republicans Who Contested the 2020 Election. Now, Do Democrats.

I THINK THE VARIANTS HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD: COVID vaccines still work against mutant, researchers find.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Sex Ed Teacher Who Taught 6-Year-Olds About Masturbation Resigns, Blames Bosses. “Justine Ang Fonte, a health director at a leading prep school in Manhattan who notoriously taught six-year-olds about masturbation and showed teens OnlyFans photos, has resigned — and she’s blaming her bosses at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School for her ouster, not the porn.”

HANNAH COX: Is It Time to Go Single Issue on Qualified Immunity? As she notes, it’s a “made up” legal doctrine, with no basis in the Constitution or in statute. If government officials are to be free from lawsuits, let Congress do it.

But if qualified immunity is a bad idea for cops, who have to make split-second decisions, then there’s really no excuse allowing it for school administrators and other bureaucrats, who don’t.

IT’S DIFFERENT NOW BECAUSE SHUT UP: After Rejecting Help From Trump, Lightfoot Asks Biden to Send Federal Troops to Chicago.

LINCOLN PROJECT’S STEVE SCHMIDT: JAN. 6 CAPITOL RIOT LEGACY WILL KILL MORE AMERICANS THAN 9/11. Setting aside my instinctual revulsion at this comparison, I don’t think you can separate the two events. You don’t get a “1/6” (sigh) without the massive unleashing and growth of the security state that is the legacy of 9/11. I don’t think you even get a Trump presidency.

GOOD NEWS FOR MY PROFESSION, AT LEAST: Law School Application Surge Means ‘Nightmare’ Contest For Slots.

GOODER AND HARDER: San Francisco Political Leaders Out of Touch as City Descends Into Lawlessness.

If you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist.

That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future.

The Democrat tweeted that “every single one of my friends right now is considering leaving” San Francisco because of the big increase in crime, adding: “My friends are scared for their children, and their husbands are scared for their wives.”

Kate Chatfield, a senior director for San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, responded from a now-locked Twitter account: “‘Husbands are scared for their wives’—your reminder that the ‘crime surge’ crowd shares the same ideology as The Birth of a Nation.”

Read the whole thing.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Desperate Joy Reid Shows the Tide Turning Against CRT.

Plus:

• How many more ways can we say “crazy and bored?”
• Not even friendly procesutors can hide the ravages of being a leftism
• Name that party? Name that politician!

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

WELL, YES: Supplemental unemployment holding back Colorado’s recovery.

CHEAP DEMAGOGUERY FROM A CHEAP DEMAGOGUE: Kamala Harris Says Republicans ‘Don’t Want You to Vote.’

SUMMER READING: Instead of watching TV or something mindless, I have been reading Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder. I loved hearing about his life, how he came to love body building and why lifting weights helps in every aspect of one’s life.

COLD WAR II: China Is Weaker Than Xi Will Admit.

China’s first weakness is strongman Xi himself. Instead of selling off inefficient state-owned industries and banks, which still make up a significant portion of the Chinese economy, he is trying to recentralize power. He has done away with the improvement of Hu Jintao, his predecessor as Party leader, which set the expectation that CPP leaders would step down after two five-year terms. This was Hu’s attempt to begin to modernize Communist Party governance by trying to regularize changes of leadership. Instead, Xi is trying to return China to the bad old days of succession struggles after a political strongman (now Xi) dies or is incapacitated. In addition, the private economy continuing to carry the burden of sclerotic state-owned “key” industries and banks will slow Chinese economic growth.

Also likely to slow economic growth is China’s demographic crisis. As countries develop and industrialize, they have fewer children because less labor is needed in the agricultural sector and greater numbers of children raise costs to individual families. Thus, many developed countries around the world have declining birthrates. However, China’s problem is much worse because of the Communist Party’s disastrous “one-child policy,” which was revoked only after it had exacerbated the demographic crisis.

Furthermore, China has restive ethnic inhabitants of Xinjiang and Tibet and a politically unruly pro-democracy population in Hong Kong, which China is suppressing in violation of its promise to allow a “One China, Two Systems” approach. Such fractious populations weaken China internally.

Communist China is far more brittle than any U.S. leader other than Donald Trump is willing to admit — or exploit. Our current leadership seems happy to let Beijing hit our weak spots without fear of retaliation.

THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S STUPID AND RACIST: Critical race theory not very popular in new educator survey. “Teaching critical race theory (CRT) doesn’t seem to be very popular among non-union educators, according to a new survey.”

HMM: Did the Feds Lie About January 6? Navy Vet Capitol Protester Says So and Wants His Case Moved Out of ‘Trump-Hating’ Capital.

A VOICE OF SANITY: Berkeley, Cornell professors criticize ABA for anti-bias training mandate proposal. “One professor noted that the new mandates are ‘based on pseudo-science on race relations which has no valid backing.'”

Well, that’s true.

IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE THE WORLD’S MOST MENACING WOODPECKER: Here’s a New Image of the Secret B-21 Raider Bomber. Let’s Analyze It.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Everything About the Biden Stasi Should Frighten You. “President Alleged and his minions have been content until now the merely harangue the American public about vaccinations. Now they’ve accelerated the pace at which we’re becoming New East Berlin.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems are losing the multiracial working class on basic lifestyle issues.

I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THE RESPECTABLE LEFTY PUNDITS WERE PUTTING HIM FORWARD AS A SERIOUS LAWYER: The End of Avenatti: the Rise and Fall (and Fall and Fall and Fall) of the Creepy Porn Lawyer.

To be fair, they also told us Anthony Fauci was a distinguished scientist.

SYSTEMIC RACISM: Court Showdown Over Boston “Zip Code Quota Plan” And Concealment of School Committee Anti-White Texts.

AN AMUSING TAKE ON THE LEGO INSURRECTION FROM LAST NIGHT’S OPEN THREAD: