JFK COULD NEVER WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION TODAY: What JFK would tell Democrats about midterms and Joe Manchin.

SHADES OF THE ARTICLE ON PRIVATE SPY SATELLITES THAT ROB MERGES AND I WROTE IN THE 1980S: Drone On: Court Recognizes First Amendment Right to Use Drones for Newsgathering, Voids Texas Restrictions.

UNEXPECTEDLY: In first months since passage of St. Paul’s rent-control ordinance, housing construction is way down.

NOW OUT FROM BLOGOSPHERE LEGEND FRANK J. FLEMING: Superego: Betrayal.

BRUCE WILLIS HAD ‘COGNITIVE ISSUES’ ON SETS AHEAD OF APHASIA ANNOUNCEMENT:

Bruce Willis was having cognitive issues on the set of his recent films, and was unable to remember his lines before his family stepped in “to take care of him,” a source told Page Six.

On Wednesday, Willis’ family announced that the star has been diagnosed with aphasia and will step away from his decades-long career.

There was buzz last year that Willis was having issues on productions dating back to 2020 when the busy former “Pulp Fiction” star was making a string of mostly B action movies with titles such as “American Siege,” “Survive the Game,” “Cosmic Sin” and “Hard Kill.”

A source told Page Six of the 67-year-old star: “He was having cognitive problems, they all knew Bruce was having problems.”

The insider added, “Everybody knew, the cast and crew. His family has stepped in, they moved in to take care of him.”

Related: What is aphasia, condition that Bruce Willis is suffering from: “Aphasia is disorder stemming from damage to the parts of the brain that deal with language, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Those areas reside on the brain’s left side in most people, the institute says on its website. It usually occurs suddenly after a stroke or head injury, but can also be due to a brain tumor or progressive neurological disease, the institute said. It hits one’s ability to express and understand language, as well as read and write, and may go hand-in-hand with speech disorders. It was not clear what had brought the family to announce Willis’s condition at this time, and what could be causing it. Aphasia comes in many forms, with more than one cause, said Dr. Andrew Rogove, medical director of stroke services at Northwell Health Care’s South Shore University Hospital in Bayshore, N.Y.”

MARYLAND ABORTION BILL LEGALIZES INFANT GENOCIDE: How else to understand a proposal that legalizes allowing a child to be abandoned to die up to 28 days after being born? Check out my latest PJMedia column.

DON’T GET COCKY: Chuck Todd: It still looks as if Democrats are ‘going to get walloped’ in the midterms.

COLLUSION AND WORKER EXPLOITATION: GM China Has Employees Living Inside Factories.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Northern lights may glow over United States on Wednesday night. “On Monday, NOAA’s sun-watching satellites detected two eruptions on the surface of the sun that sent enormous clouds of charged particles blasting through space. These events are known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. After analyzing the eruptions, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center said that the Earth is directly in the path of these two CMEs, which is good news for folks hoping to get a glimpse of the aurora. Further analysis found that the second CME is traveling through space slightly faster and will eventually catch up and merge with the first, forming one massive cloud of charged particles before arriving at Earth late on Wednesday.”

SINCE HE’S A LEFTY THE PRESS WILL IGNORE: Kentucky Activist Indicted for Attempted Murder in Assassination Attempt of Louisville Mayoral Candidate.

A grand jury in Louisville on Monday indicted Brown on one count of attempted murder and four counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. Four of Greenberg’s staffers were nearby when the shooting occurred, according to a media release from Jefferson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine.

Brown has been on home incarceration with an ankle monitor since he was released on bond shortly after his arrest. A group called the Louisville Community Bail Fund paid the $100,000 cash bond, prompting outrage from Greenberg, who said it was “impossible to believe” Brown could be released from jail after the shooting.

Leftist privilege.

CHINA: Biden Pushing Ukraine Crisis into ‘Nuclear War.’ “No matter how well Biden’s propaganda machine works, it cannot downplay the fact that such a blunt statement at a sensitive time could further inflame the situation. This was unwise and irresponsible, reflecting a dire problem within U.S. policy-making: some politicians are taking their personal grievances to the national level.”

Previously: Joe Biden and World War III for Dummies.

STILL POPULAR: Made in USA Can Opener (Black). #CommissionEarned

I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: Scientists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene. “The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman’s well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.”

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Engineering Lunar Network 2: Artemis and other moon missions will need high-speed communications.

OLD NYT: WHAT GOOD ARE ARMED CIVILIANS AGAINST A MODERN ARMY? New NYT:

The area had been a base for Russian special operations soldiers, or Spetsnaz, and ethnic Chechens fighting on Russia’s side, according to Western military analysts and Ukrainian soldiers.

Here, as elsewhere in the fighting around Kyiv, the Ukrainian military achieved its battlefield success by deploying small, fast-moving units largely on foot that staged ambushes or defended sites with the benefit of local knowledge. Many such units are based in central Kyiv, commuting to the war zone by car.

Possible retort: The Russians don’t have a modern army. But we were told that they did, by the New York Times.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: How About We Keep Wearing Masks on Trains and Subways Forever?

THE INSURRECTION THAT WASN’T: Federal Judge Blasts Double Standards in J6 Sentences.

GOOD: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy.

VIDEO: Why Russian Technology Is Screwed. “Many national industries simply cannot exist without foreign inputs. Substitutes would take years, if not decades.”

If you don’t have time to watch a 17-minute video, Lawrence Person has done his usual job of breaking out the bullet points as text.