ONE WOMAN WITH COURAGE MAKES A MAJORITY: I Am a Harvard Crimson Editor and I Stand with Israel.

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF TRANSPHOBIA?! Transphobic California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggests that men can’t get pregnant.

GOT WOKE…: Disney’s Market Freefall.

“Shares of Disney have plummeted 23.5 percent since the start of March, falling from $145.70,” Ng writes. “Market cap is down $62.6 billion, from $265.3 to $202.7 billion.”

(For the uninitiated, Investopedia defines market capitalization as “the total dollar market value of a company’s outstanding shares of stock. Commonly referred to as ‘market cap,’ it’s calculated by multiplying the total number of a company’s outstanding shares by the current market price of one share.”)

I don’t know about you, but it’s hard to wrap my head around losing that kind of money. I freak out if I lose a $20 bill, so losing tens of billions because I took a political position that appeases a percentage of my workforce and a smaller percentage of the world at large at the expense of everybody else would be disastrous. That amount of money may be chump change to Disney, but it’s still nearly a quarter of its market cap.

Disney’s stock has performed poorly over the past several months, dropping 30% over the past year.

And other corporations have apparently started paying attention:

AN AUDACIOUS CLAIM: Terraforming: why the Moon is a better target than Mars. But does farming lava tubes really count as “terraforming?”

THEY’VE NORMALIZED PHYSICAL ATTACKS ON PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY SAY: Dave Chappelle Attacked on Stage. “After the Will Smith incident at the Oscars, there was a lot of talk about whether it would inspire other attacks on performers, whose vulnerability on stage had been so vividly exposed.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “Quite the week and it’s only Wednesday. We’ve rediscovered the existence of women, and now people are concerned about black-on-black violence.” (Bumped, because that’s funny.)

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Ministry Of Truth Announces Target Of Today’s Two Minutes Hate Is Tucker Carlson.

YOU’VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE: Richard Hammond reacts to his old car videos before Top Gear!

Drivetribe needs to shoot a video of modern-day Jeremy Clarkson responding to his old Top Gear videos from the 1990s and his enormous permed hair back in the day.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Joe Biden Embarrasses Himself in Cringe Moment During Event Honoring Paralympic Athletes.

But things got a bit awkward later on after Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor praised “wheelchair player Matt Scott” during a speech she gave to those in attendance. As Taylor moved in for a group photo, Joe Biden said “don’t jump” as the photo, which included other Olympic and Paralympic athletes including Scott and some of his fellow wheelchair Paralympians, was being taken.

The cringe moment was reminiscent of another one from March of this year when Biden joked to members of the 82nd Airborne Division that they shouldn’t “jump” from the second floor to the first floor, where he was giving his speech.

More infamously, there was the one involving Biden and a Missouri state senator when Biden was then-Democrat nominee Barack Obama’s vice-presidential nominee. Flashback to 2008:

At the start of his remarks, [Biden] pointed out several state lawmakers in the audience for praise. When he got to Chuck Graham, a state senator from Green Meadows, Biden urged the lawmaker to “stand up Chuck, let ’em see ya.”

But Graham, who is in a wheelchair, can’t stand up – a fact Biden quickly picked up on.

“God love ya, what am I talking about,” Biden said. “You can tell I’m new,” he quipped, asking the audience to stand up for Graham instead.

The pilot light has gone out: Joe Rogan Says He Didn’t Vote for Biden Because He ‘Can’t Talk Right Anymore.’

DEAL OF THE DAY: Valano Men’s Long Sleeve Shirts UPF 50+ Sun Protection. #CommissionEarned

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Diets high in protein, zinc and vitamin B3 boost heart health, study finds.

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, AND NOT ANY DROP TO DO THE DISHES: Shrugging at Drought. Zany as ever, the California Coastal Commission wants to scuttle a desalination plant that could meet 16 percent of Orange County’s water needs over concerns about plankton and “environmental justice.”

The proposed Poseidon Water facility could meet 16 percent of the water needs of Orange County, with its 3.1-million population. A similar facility down the coast in Carlsbad meets 9 percent of the water needs of San Diego County’s 3.3-million residents. That’s nothing to scoff at in the midst of water rationing, but those who think that way obviously aren’t fixated on the plight of local plankton.

The Surfrider Foundation complains that these facilities’ water-intake systems “cause marine life mortality through impingement (pinning and trapping fish or other species against the intake structure screens) and entrainment (when intake pipes suck in and kill small species like plankton, fish eggs, and larvae) of species, and risks disrupting an area’s entire ecological balance.”

Well, OK, environmentalists will act like environmentalists. That group once noted that the Pacific Ocean isn’t a limitless resource which, although technically correct I suppose, is one of the silliest arguments imaginable considering the small sips that any de-salter takes out of the mighty ocean. But the Coastal Commission is a powerful state agency.

The actual commissioners can overrule the staff next month, but this report is the latest egregious attempt by an agency to kill the facility, and its arguments are equally nonsensical. Here’s an example: “Building this project in this location is inconsistent with the type of sea level rise adaptation and risk-avoidance planning encouraged by the state and required by the Coastal Act.”

In other words, the commission is concerned that a facility that would turn seawater into drinking water is being located next to the sea where, um, climate change could eventually raise the sea level and flood the project (and everything else along the coast). I haven’t read all of Poseidon’s filings, but I’m pretty sure the company, its investors, and insurers have taken such risks into consideration.

The late P.J. O’Rourke once wrote that “You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.” And in socialist California, you can’t get sufficient water in a state that butts up against an entire ocean of the stuff.

JUST NBC THE EPIC FAILURE: Today Show Co-Host Hoda Kotb Fawns Over American Citizen/Chinese Olympian; Completely Ignores Uyghur Genocide.

Unexpectedly!

As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: NASA to launch naked pictures of humans to space in hope of ‘attracting aliens.’

TYRANTS ARE AS TYRANTS DO: Biden’s Ministry Of Truth, Cheered On By the Media, Will Attack First and Second Amendment Rights.

THE MASKED, THE VAXXED, THE BOOSTED — EVERYBODY IS GOING TO GET COVID: Celebrities And Journalists Are Already Coming Down With COVID After The WHCA Dinner.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: AOC-Backed Congressional Challenger Blames Jewish Groups for Her Loss.

GO AWAY: CDC restates recommendation for masks on planes, trains.

Yesterday: New study: Face mask usage correlates with higher death rates. Using data from 35 countries and 602 million people, peer-reviewed study confirms previous research and cautions use of face masks “may have harmful unintended consequences.”

CHRIS ROCK: “IS THAT WILL SMITH?” Yikes: Armed assailant attacks Dave Chapelle on stage…and hilarity ensued.

THE HOLY HAND GRENADE OF ANTIOCH: Could this pottery shard be a 1,000-year-old hand grenade? Signs point to yes.

BILL AYERS SMILES: ‘MAGA is the most extreme political organization in American history:’ Biden warns of Republicans’ ‘ultra MAGA agenda’ and suggests they’ll ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Flashbacks:

● Nancy Pelosi tells 2020 Dems, “You have to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch—for the children.”

● Sen. Rand Paul had part of his lung removed this weekend because of damage from 2017 attack.

● Actor Jeff Daniels to CBS’s Stephen Colbert: ‘We Need Someone That Can Punch Trump in the Face.’

● Ilhan Omar Retweet Suggests Rand Paul Deserved to Be Assaulted.

● Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to 2020 Dems: Don’t Run Away from Trump — ‘Punch Him in the Face.’

● Parents cheer as kids bash an ICE agent piñata and throw balls at the painted image of President Trump.

● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.

● Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul.

● CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.

● Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Berkeley Student While Fellow Students Laugh.

● Journalist Andy Ngo Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally.

● John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

● Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

ACTUALLY, YOU PROBABLY WILL: You Won’t Believe What Democrats Think Is Racist Now.

I CARRY A CARL GUSTAV WHEN I’M EXPECTING TO ENCOUNTER THESE: ‘Death shadow’ dinosaur unearthed in Argentina.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Repairman who revealed Hunter Biden laptop sues Schiff, CNN, Politico and The Daily Beast. “The former shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, decided to fight back after losing his business and being harassed for 18 months by Big Tech, the media and Delaware locals in President Biden’s home state.”

BEN SHAPIRO: The End of the Road for Roe?

BBRRAAIINNNSSSS: Meta wants to improve its AI by studying human brains.