WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Democrats Want to Weaken Section 230… to Target ‘Health Misinformation.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: FOMO Alert? Desperate De Blasio Tries to Save NYC with Cringeworthy Slogan.

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• Is greysexuality as drab as it sounds?
• You won’t believe be told how well Sweden is doing against COVID
• A big win against CRT

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

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Help! My Boyfriend Is Also in a Relationship With a Mannequin Named Barbara.

MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY: CNN’s Biden town hall flops, finishes behind Fox News, MSNBC with only 1.5 million viewers.

HMM: Was This Labor Shortage Bernie Sanders’ Plan All Along?

LIKELY VOTERS GIVE HILL GOP BIG LEAD ON BORDER CRISIS: New survey for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) finds Hill GOP with a 10-point lead over Biden, Democrats on handling border crisis among likely voters in 85 battleground congressional districts.

MOST GOVERNMENT ‘HELP’ IS: Colorado’s ‘affordable’ housing scheme a con job on the poor. “The real cruelty happens when the ‘poor’ homeowner tries to sell her property and realizes she only kinda, sorta owns her home.”

TAKING BIGOTRY TO COURT: Court rebukes university for punishing Christian student group for not allowing gay leaders: A second federal court has ruled against University of Iowa’s punishment of InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship.

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Matt Margolis: The Biden Administration Is About to Force a No-Win Situation on Parents. “We’re on the verge of having parents being put in the position of choosing between having their kids wear masks in school, despite the health risks, or having their kids get vaccinated, despite the unknown long-term impact of the vaccines.”

Bryan Preston: The Black Rifle Coffee Incident Is a Media Info Op Against Conservative Brands. “The Times hit piece is a media battlefield operation against people it considers and treats as enemies.”

Yours Truly: The Bad (And Good) News About Going Unvaccinated. “When ABC News and the Left’s adoring Twitteratti say that COVID-19 has become a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated,’ they’ve defined ‘pandemic’ so low as to be meaningless.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Prof blames ‘every single’ future COVID death on the GOP.

THIS SEEMS SHADY: Rare FAA rules change means Blue Origin crew may not get official ‘wings.’ “The Federal Aviation Administration changed rules for the program on the same day Bezos, his brother and two others made their historic first commercial spaceflight on Tuesday. For the first time in 17 years, the FAA updated its Commercial Astronaut Wings Program. Before the change, all that was required to be recognized was to fly to at least an altitude of 50 miles. The change added a requirement that any commercial flight must also include activities during flight that are ‘essential to public safety’ or contribute to ‘spaceflight safety.'”

Space tourism is an important driver of technology and an important source of capital for technological development. And that does contribute to public safety and spaceflight safety.

SPACE RACE II: China Launched a Little Baby Version of the X-37B Spaceplane. “The unnamed craft reportedly takes off like a rocket and lands like an airplane, much like the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, but can’t go all the way into orbit like the American spaceplane can. The Chinese version is the first of a series of reusable spacecraft that will benefit the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).”

If it isn’t an orbital, long-duration spaceplane, then it’s no X-37B.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Sorry Libs, Ron DeSantis Isn’t Going to Fall Apart. “What’s impressive about DeSantis’s continued success is that the Democrats and the media have been working overtime to set him up and make him fail. Much to their chagrin, he keeps not failing. The Democrats, bless their hearts, seem to have not grown tired of being embarrassed by DeSantis yet.”

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Read my lips: We’re not going back to masks and lockdowns again.

YEP: Biden tells fleeing Cubans to get lost — while flooding the southern border.

THE DIFFERENCE IS, IRAN MEANS IT: Iran Throws Support Behind Cuban Government as Biden Admin Champions Protesters.

NO, RED STATES AREN’T THE UNVACCINATED: Biden administration officials are insisting that most of the unvaccinated reside in Red States, with the implication that it’s Republicans keeping the nation from achieving higher total vaccinations. But Issues & Insights says most the biggest anti-vaxxers are on the Left.

“The states with low vaccination rates also tend to have larger minority populations. And blacks are the least likely racial or ethnic group to have been vaccinated, with Hispanics the second least likely, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

“Alabama and Mississippi, for example, are the states with the lowest vaccination rates in the country. They are also that states that have some of the highest share of blacks – 38 percent in Mississippi and 27 percent in Alabama. Louisiana (the fifth least vaccinated state), is 32 percent black, and in Georgia (sixth lowest vaccination rate) blacks make up 31 percent of the population.

“In fact, six of the 10 states with the lowest vaccination rates have larger-than-average black populations. At the other end of the spectrum, eight of the 10 states with the highest vaccination rates have larger-than-average white populations.”

HMM: Nonprofit Sues HHS to Immediately Stop Emergency Use Authorization of COVID-19 Vaccines. “The complaint alleges that the legal requirements to issue and maintain COVID-19 vaccine EUAs aren’t being met.”

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Forecast: 1.8 million illegal migrants under Biden, ‘worst ever year.’

CLOSE TO THE VEST: Trump Explains Why He Has Not Announced 2024 Decision Yet.

STANDING AGAINST FREEDOM, AS USUAL: Biden Admin Backs Iranian Protesters Amid Regime Crackdown.

FINANCING OUR DESTROYERS: Missouri School District Shells Out $15,000 On CRT Professor To Conduct History Curriculum Audit.

MAN BITES DOG: The NY Times published a positive story about an NYPD officer saving a man’s life and readers are grateful.

BIDENFLATION: Inflation Pushes Consumer-Goods Giant Unilever to Accelerate Price Increases: Warning from maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream follows similar moves by Procter & Gamble and General Mills.

The maker of Dove soap and Hellmann’s mayonnaise warned of accelerating price increases across a range of products, as it seeks to counter cost inflation across its business.

Unilever UL -5.43% PLC said Thursday that it was grappling with higher costs for ingredients, packaging and transportation, which would likely lower its full-year profitability—a warning that sent shares down 5% in early trading.

The London-listed consumer-goods giant said it would step up price increases across the world, having already raised prices 1.6% in the second quarter.

“We are going to have to take a little higher levels of price increase,” Chief Financial Officer Graeme Pitkethly told reporters.

Inflation has continued to pick up pace, rising at the fastest pace in 13 years in the U.S. last month as the recovery from the pandemic gained steam and consumer demand drove up prices of everything from autos to clothes and restaurant meals. Other packaged-food manufacturers, including Procter & Gamble Co. and General Mills Inc., have also warned of rising prices this year.

This is how you get an inflationary spiral, when people raise prices based on the expectation of future inflation.

RATIO’D: Twitter Says It’s Testing a New Capability. Joe Biden Will Dislike It.