HEY, SCOTTY, ARE YOU DEAF? I SAID “BEAM ME UP”:  UFO Hearing Provides No Sign of Intelligent Life.

I HOPE PUTIN LIKES WHAT HE DID:  Switzerland Weighing Possibility of Enhancing Ties with NATO.

FOR THE FIRST TIME?   Elon Musk Says He Will Vote Republican for First Time in Upcoming Elections.

Don’t take this wrong, Elon, but you seem a little slow on the uptake.

GRANDMA BELIEVED DOCTORS WERE THE ENEMY:   Woke medicine.

I’m alive because of modern medicine.  But right now I’m making do with doc in box in emergencies. Oh, I need a primary care doctor, but I find my ability to trust is gone.  Call it my quest to turn into my grandmother.  It’s not what I meant to do. It is what it is.

SURE. TEACHING KIDS THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE LEADS TO EVIL:  Middle school forces “diversity” training over unsubstantiated claims of racism and how that sort of thing led to Buffalo shooting.

OPEN THREAD: You called me up, baby I wasn’t home.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Guess Which Theme Parks Are Conspicuously Missing From USA Today’s Top 10 List?

But could the complete lack of a presence on this year’s top 10 list mean that theme park visitors are turning their backs on Disney?

Over at Disney Dining, Becky Burkett points out that “a culture war has been taking place between Disney and Gov. DeSantis, leading many to ‘take sides,’ and while many have sided with Disney, many have taken a side against Disney.”

“While there’s no way to know whether these events have any bearing on the USA Today list, the absence of a Disney-owned theme park is, to put it lightly, noticeable,” she adds.

There’s been plenty of talk about boycotting Disney. Consumers have canceled subscriptions to Disney+ and avoided other Disney products. Even hardcore Disney-fan families like mine have talked about taking some time off before visiting the resorts again. So a backlash against TWDC could be at play.

Funny that:

MARS: NASA’s Mars lander InSight has only a few months to live on the Red Planet.

WHY DOESN’T BIDEN SUPPORT ETHICAL OIL? Alberta Premier Mocks Biden for Refusing Canadian Oil: ‘You Don’t Need the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet to Patrol the Great Lakes.’

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School Board Member to Host ‘Open Mic Night’ For LGBTQ Kids — At Her Sex Shop.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: NASA investigates another space helmet water leak.

WELL, GOOD LUCK: After two failed attempts, Boeing’s Starliner will try again this week to reach the ISS: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has yet to make it to the International Space Station, but experts are optimistic about the third test flight.

SHUT UP, BIGOT! Frogs Keep Mating With the Wrong Things.

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: First monkeypox case in US this year reported in Massachusetts.

ANALYSIS: TRUE:

ROGER SIMON: Djokovic Strikes a Blow for Medical Freedom in Rome.

Novak Djokovic is a true hero of our times and a remarkably courageous person on and off the tennis court. In his way, he’s as brave as the magnificent array of doctors whose works are frequently highlighted here at The Epoch Times (Drs. Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Vladimir Zelenko, to name just a few).

He’s also a rather impressive linguist and may speak more languages than Melania Trump.

Constantly offered the opportunity to just take some shots and return to the game to cement his position as the greatest of all time at his sport, not to mention add to his personal fortune (that was already sufficient), Djokovic declined—to the disapproval of the “good people” of the world who marched to the tune of Lord Fauci.

But the worst of it was his treatment by the sports press. Other than a few exceptions (Clay Travis and others), they are among the worst reactionary conformists extant. (I use the term reactionary to refer to today’s liberals and progressives because that’s what they are.) They virtually all ganged up on Djokovic as if they too understood “the science.”

Ironically, many of these people were those who in their past lives considered themselves nonconformists, rebels of some sort. They had devolved into the most obedient.

ESPN was the worst in this regard: slavish followers of the party line. (And speaking of the party line, it’s no accident they are owned by Disney, the most woke and conventional corporation—woke and conventional are pretty much the same thing at this point.)

As Roger writes, “It’s doubtful that even a few of ESPN’s reporters or online personalities are aware of the serious questions now being raised about the efficacy of the vaccines; that in the case of Omicron, they may even exacerbate matters—or if they are, they don’t care. The ends justify their tawdry journalistic means.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Knowing the signs of a stroke and getting help quickly can make all the difference, experts say.

Time is brain tissue.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS ARMED WITH NATIONAL SOCIALIST WEAPONS: Mark Felton on the NVA using Hitler’s weapons in the Vietnam War (video):

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Yellen acknowledges “stagflationary effects” from energy, food price spirals.

NINA JANKOWICZ’S FAULTY RECORD, NOT HER CRITICS, DOOMED THE DISINFORMATION BOARD: And The Washington Post’s wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz’s fall was an exercise in government PR.

It’s unclear whether plans for the board will be un-paused in the future; Jankowicz had initially decided to resign, reconsidered when she was told the pause might be temporary, and then ultimately left anyway.

This news comes from an exclusive report by The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz, whose scoop is buried underneath layers of pro-government verbiage. Lorenz’s story excessively flatters Jankowicz—she is glamorized as “well-known” in the field, having “extensive experience,” and “well-regarded” in just the first two paragraphs—while ignoring legitimate criticism of this so-called expert’s track record. Indeed, there is zero mention, none whatsoever, of the fact that Jankowicz was flagrantly wrong about the pivotal “disinformation” episode of the 2020 election cycle: the Hunter Biden laptop story.

For WaPo, the story is not that DHS shuttered the Disinformation Governance Board—the real story is that right-wing “coordinated online attacks” achieved this outcome after subjecting Jankowicz to an “unrelenting barrage of harassment.”

“Within hours of news of her appointment, Jankowicz was thrust into the spotlight by the very forces she dedicated her career to combating,” writes Lorenz.

She concedes that the board’s name was “ominous” and details about its specific mission were “scant.” But most of the article focuses on the tenor of the criticism of Jankowicz.

Lorenz just keeps knocking it out the park — are there any editors at the Washington Post?

UPDATE: Jim Geraghty asks, “Since When Does the Biden Team Quit in the Face of Conservative Criticism?”, and writes that “A better editor would have looked at Taylor Lorenz’s story this morning, contending that the Department of Homeland Security shut down the Disinformation Governance Board because of intense criticism from ‘the right-wing Internet apparatus,’ and told the reporter, ‘No, that’s not the story. Keep digging until you find an explanation that makes sense, checks out, and is less self-serving to those involved’…The Washington Post, which prides itself on its in-depth and detailed coverage of how the federal government really works, should be embarrassed to have published this spectacularly implausible effort at spin.”

JUST REMEMBER, SOMETIMES IT’S A HEARTWARMING STORY AND SOMETIMES IT ISN’T: At 70, a man used a DNA test to learn who his dad was. Instead, he found a whole family waiting for him.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Dow drops 1,100 points for its biggest decline since 2020 as the sell-off this year on Wall Street intensifies. “We started to see at the end of the year that consumers were turning to credit cards to pay for the rise in food prices, rise in energy prices, and that’s actually gotten much worse.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Is the Striker Control Device? “Any number of items could conceivably find their way into the holster right around the time you’re putting your firearm away. It’s rare, yes, but it can happen. With the SCD, you holster with your strong-hand thumb on the back of the slide, over the SCD. If the trigger were to catch, initiating a pull, you’ll feel the SCD moving (or, trying to move) under your thumb. Full stop, that’s all the SCD does.”

READER FAVORITE: Dual Dash Cam with Built-in GPS. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart condition. “The study compared Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) to conventional surgery in treating severe symptomatic aortic stenosis.”