IF THIS SURPRISES YOU, YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN SUSPENDED ANIMATION FOR DECADES:  Images show 33 migrants crammed into U-Haul amid 100-degree heat in Texas.

IF THIS SURPRISES YOU, YOU MIGHT BE PATHOLOGICALLY TRUSTING:  BREAKING: Defector Claiming Chinese Military Responsible for COVID-19 Identified as Top Counterintelligence Official.

EVERY TIME YOU THINK IT’S IMPOSSIBLE, THEY GO AND BUILD A BETTER IDIOT:

And then fraud (totally a verb) him into power over the country.

THEY ARE ALL INSANE:  LOSING IT: Read Lori Lightfoot’s DERANGED Emails to Staff.

THREAD: How is NPR Doing?

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The tide is turning against the woke-liberal Blob that misrules us.

YES. Parents seeing through educrats’ lies about critical race theory can ‘fight the power’ and win.

WUHAN CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: BREAKING: Defector Claiming Chinese Military Responsible for COVID-19 Identified as Top Counterintelligence Official.

YEAH, WELL, ABOUT THAT: We won the Cold War, right?

OPEN THREAD: Treat me right.

KEITH RICHARDS, JIMMY PAGE, AND THE GHOST OF JOHN BELUSHI STAND IN AWE OF HUNTER BIDEN: Hunter Biden was banned from Chateau Marmont for ‘drug use.’

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Shenzhou 12 spacecraft docks at space station with 3 astronauts.

THAT MAKES SENSE: Younger people drink more when they’re casually dating, study says.

SEEN AT HELEN’S PAGE: The perfect film for the 4th of July: Sons Of Liberty (Bumped)

FASTER, PLEASE: Antibody targets mechanism that enables lung cancer to grow and spread.

WAGING WAR AGAINST THE NORMALS: Thieves now mock the rule of law in ‘progressive’ cities like San Francisco.

VIA EMAIL: Hagerty, Cotton, Blackburn, Scott Introduce Bill to Protect American Universities from Foreign Influence.

WASHINGTON—United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has joined Tom Cotton (R-AR), along with Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Tim Scott (R-SC), to introduce the Foreign Funding Accountability Act, which seeks to combat malign foreign influence in American colleges and universities by strengthening Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. Full text of the bill may be found here.

“As a strategic adversary seeking to overtake the United States, the Chinese Communist Party is going to extraordinary lengths to exert malign influence over America’s free and open society, including our higher education system. By increasing transparency, closing loopholes, and imposing new civil penalties in U.S. law, this important legislation seeks to prevent the CCP and its intermediaries from hiding in the shadows to buy control and influence within our higher education, to manipulate what American students are taught about China, and to steal intellectual property from our nation’s researchers,” said Hagerty.

“The Chinese Communist Party has made consistent attempts to infiltrate American colleges and universities. Our bill will close donation loopholes, barring the CCP and other foreign agents from donating millions, or even billions, to levy influence and steal American intellectual property,” said Cotton.

“Communist China has infiltrated American colleges and universities. It is imperative we cut off Beijing’s access to funnel money in exchange for influence in higher education. Our children’s education should not be available for purchase by the CCP,” said Blackburn.

“Attempts by the Chinese Communist Party and other bad actors to infiltrate the American education system is a blatant example of foreign competitors trying to maintain and expand their global power to our detriment,” said Scott. “By holding institutions of higher education accountable for foreign donations we are taking necessary steps to promote transparency, protect our intellectual property, and ensure our country’s future leaders get a quality education.”

Specifically, this legislation would:

Require the disclosure of full names of foreign donating entities—individual, institutional, or otherwise
Require the disclosure of the specific purposes of foreign gift-transactions
Close the loophole allowing gifting by registered foreign agents
Close the loophole exempting in-kind gifts from counting towards the disclosure minimum
Clarify that foreign gifts to university foundations are not exempt from disclosure
Lower the minimum reporting threshold for disclosure in terms of dollar amount—from $250,000 to $25,000
Levy a graduated civil penalty structure against institutions willfully, and repeatedly violating Section 117

Full text of the bill is here.

KURT SCHLICHTER: CRT can KMA.

Do you smell their fear rising over the competing reeks of Prius new car smell, of kale, and of the armies of shambling, squatting hoboes that have come to symbolize modern liberalism? That eau d’ uh-oh is the scent of progressives realizing that maybe pushing an ideology that tells the majority of America “You stink!” is not going to lead to the sweet smell of success.

Everyone hates CRT, critical race theory, that bizarre, ridiculous, and morally illiterate hodge-podge of Marxist mumbo-jumbo blended with a healthy dose of the kind of racial hash that would make Democrat David Duke beam. Even the lib wine moms, who were so ecstatic about the recent lack of mean tweeting – ironic that the only man able to give them pleasure was Donald Trump, and he does it by not doing anything – despise this Marxist pestilence. The guys in the campaign business I talk to are giddy and often burst into spontaneous jigs of pure glee at the poll numbers they are seeing. Hey Congress, congratulations! Thanks to CRT, there’s something America hates even more than you!

Normal America is fighting back – on social media, at school board meetings, in the states, and even in Congress. People are sick of this crap, and its purveyors are baffled. They thought enlisting in the cultural lynch mob was going to get them nothing but kudos and it’s not working out that way. Even the mighty are taking hits. Secretary of Defense That Guy from Raytheon took a break from losing wars to testify before the Senate the other day only to lose there too. Former Army guy Tom Cotton read him some snippets of the works of Henry Rogers, who ridiculous people call “Ibram X. Kendi.” Ibby, as his friends probably call him, is one of the brightest lights of race hustling, which is the world’s lowest bar. The SecDef was forced to repudiate George Wallace Kendi’s position of “discrimination now, discrimination tomorrow, discrimination forever,” and then he tried to wiggle out of Cotton’s net by denying that he had even read Kendi’s slim – if not physically, then intellectually and morally – tome. Which was super-awkward because the war-losing, ship-colliding, zampolits of the brass have been ostentatiously putting this noxious trash on military reading lists.

Ouch. Plus: “If you are looking for coherence in their pathetic bleating about America’s rejection of their garbage race fantasies, keep looking. One of their favorite flexes is to try to seize on things we Americans like and that they don’t, such as freedom of speech, to convince us to submit. So, we are treated to the spectacle of super-serious and concerned protectors of Muh Democracy bewailing the terrible attack on freedom of speech that is our refusal to allow unionized teachers and unelected bureaucrats to indoctrinate our kids with their bigoted balderdash. Let’s unpack this notion a bit, not that it matters because they aren’t serious people.”

THE INDOCTRINATION ISN’T GOING AS WELL AS HOPED: Media Panics Over Mounting Opposition to Critical Race Theory. “The best evidence that the resistance to CRT is gaining and posing a threat to Democrats is that the mainstream media is trying to marginalize and demonize the movement the way it attacked the Tea Party.”

Related: Panicked Media Escalates Disinformation War Against Critical Race Theory Opponents.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China wants to build a sustainable human presence on Mars. Here’s how.

COLORADO: Weekly $300 Pandemic Unemployment Payments Will Continue.

Easy call: Colorado’s unemployment rate will remain among the worst in the nation.

SAY ANYTHING: Biden Falsely Claims Capitol Rioters ‘Killed’ USCP Officer.

OUT ON A LIMB: Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President.

HMM: High-level Chinese Defection Rumored: Chinese State Security Vice Minister Dong Jingwei would be highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic. “Chinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang. Dong Jingwei supposedly gave the U.S. information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology that changed the stance of the Biden Administration concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

It does seem that the official line on the CCP virus changed quite suddenly not long after that. But I wouldn’t take this to the bank just yet. But it’s interesting that this site is virulently anti-Trump, yet advancing a story that makes the Democratic/bureaucratic establishment look like suckers.

STONEWALLING: 7 Questions David Chipman Still Needs to Answer.