DON’T GET COCKY: The GOP midterm wave is set — and Democrats can’t do anything about it.

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: The Daily Wire Comes Under ‘Sustained DDoS Attack’ Intended To ‘Disrupt’ Premiere Of ‘What Is A Woman?’ “The attack began shortly after the start of the live-stream of Daily Wire’s Backstage program, which preceded the premiere and featured Daily Wire hosts discussing the making and meaning of the film. Many users encountered difficulty accessing the live-stream due to the malicious event. Nevertheless, the event was the most trafficked live-stream in Daily Wire history.”

YOU’LL EAT LESS AND REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT: Get Ready for $1 Per Egg: USDA Forecast Predicts Highest Food Inflation Since 1980. “All of the predictions in the May report from the USDA are subject to upward revision.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Carbon Steel Pruner/Secateurs with Genuine Leather Holster. #CommissionEarned

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: New York loses $19.5 billion in population exodus, IRS confirms. “Wirepoints, in its analysis, noted New York suffered the worst net loss of income of any state, with the $19.5 billion representing a 2.5 percent decline in adjusted gross income. The independent nonprofit research firm said New York lost $1 trillion in income through population losses since the beginning of the century.”

THEY DESERVE TO BE DISMISSED: Stanford students file complaint about course’s ‘colonialist’ text, professor’s ‘dismissive’ attitude.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The D.C. Swamp – A Place Where Only Leftists Like Sussmann Get a Jury of Their Peers.

EDUCATION IN THE BIDEN ERA: College students go remote due to high gas prices.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Adam Carolla on Corrupt MSM: ‘Wake the F*** Up!’

THE PRESS IS COVERING FOR HIM LESS ENTHUSIASTICALLY: Biden: CEOs told me my plan would save $500 per household in utility costs. WaPo: Lie.

SOUP NAZIS IN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE: His Fraudulency is warning schools participating in the federal Free Lunch program for disadvantaged children, according to Elizabeth Troutman, that either they comply with the administration’s LGBQT policies or they will no longer get the food for the kids.

Puts a new spin on “But it’s for the children,” doesn’t it?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Pride Month Pandering Is Beyond Wearisome. “Pride Month still exists only to perpetuate the myth that gay and trans people are marginalized.”

THE PUBLIC’S GULLIBILITY IS UNDERPERFORMING ESTABLISHMENT EXPECTATIONS: Poll: Strong majority favor arming teachers. “The demographic split here is interesting. While you would never guess it by listening to all of the coverage at CNN or the Washington Post, nearly half of the Democrats canvassed in this survey are open to arming teachers. Perhaps even more surprising is the 67.5 percent of Republicans who were in favor of the idea. (I had assumed it would be higher.)”

THEY TAKE IT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH NOT TO INVOLVE JOE, WHO’S LEGENDARY FOR HIS ABILITY TO FUCK THINGS UP: Tapper: Does “whole of government” on formula crisis not include Biden?

SPOILER: HE’LL LOSE GOOD PEOPLE. Musk to Tesla and SpaceX workers: Be in the office 40 hours a week or quit.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. We Have Entered the Self-Pity Stage of the Biden Presidency.

There is a familiar gripe at the center of all of this ennui: that Democrats are actually getting things done, they just aren’t calibrating their messaging in a way that gets through to voters. This is typically aired over conversations about the economy: Democratic administrations, the data clearly shows, are better at managing the economy than Republican ones are—and yet voters still believe that the GOP is better for their pocketbook. And so the solution to this problem is obvious: more and better messaging, as quickly as possible.

There’s no doubt that Democrats are seeing a perplexing disconnect with the public: In one particularly daunting example, the onetime recipients of the now-expired expanded child tax credit have, according to polls, moved from supporting the Democrats to supporting Republicans—all despite the fact that no member of the GOP supported the expansion of the credit. But the carping over how the people are failing to truly see the distinction between the parties only underscores the self-pitying tone of the administration and its leader at the moment.

Real Americans prefer an economy with low inflation and increasing wages — like we had under the last American president, before the lockdowns — to an economy that practically requires child tax credits just to get by.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): “The magnitude of Joe Biden’s failures is now so large that even Joe Biden is beginning to grasp it.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Marines feature rainbow-colored bullets for Pride Month.

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Matt Margolis: America No Longer Identifies as Energy Independent. “Biden used the word transition to suggest a temporary change that we’ll soon get over. We certainly have been going through a transition, but it began when he took office, and it’s been uglier than Richard Levine’s transition to Rachel Levine.”

Kruiser: MADNESS: I Had a Civil Exchange With a Liberal on Twitter! “Every liberal in America seemed to have gotten a humorectomy at the same time.”

Yours Truly: Putin’s War: Russia, Ukraine in Bloody Seesaw Over Donbas, Kherson. “Russian forces have proven incapable of an envelopment on a large scale, but that doesn’t mean they can’t take what’s left of Donbas while delivering a serious body blow to the Ukraine Army.”

LAW AND ORDER IN THE BIDEN ERA: One Man’s Case Shows Why the Looting Isn’t Going To Stop Any Time Soon: Serial looter committed serious crimes, never spent a day in prison.

TRANSLATION: LACKING ARGUMENTS, WE WILL APPEAL TO EMOTION. Jeh Johnson: It’s time to show the real horror of mass shootings. In pictures.

Remember, this is from the establishment that won’t show pictures of people jumping from the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks because that would be prejudicial and inflammatory.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO COMPETENT GOVERNANCE: Biden Overrules Biden, Escalates Ukraine-Russia Tensions With Decision to Send Longer-Range Rockets.

FROM STEPHEN HUBBARD:  A Conspiracy of Ravens (The Codex of Wretches & Kings Book 1).

Once and an age —

The precipice of war is never more than the width of a blade away. Now, when the legendary assassin known as the Black Rose has slaughtered Baron Dartris Gorsha and all who made up his house, then fled with the nobleman’s young daughter, three nations that knew tenuous peace prepare for the brutality of prolonged conflict.

Yet a new and mysterious danger has emerged. The Shrike arrives to offer mercy and vengeance in equal measure to all those with a role to play, bringing cryptic messages from his unnamed master. Underlying his threats is one simple command: Retrieve the daughter of Gorsha.

Three Ravens of Danot — Celnor, Derrigan, and Martyn — are called upon to protect the child, and they seek answers to troubling questions and motivations. Manipulated by their queen, feeling as no more than pawns in the history unfolding around them, they conspire to bring about what they believe is a necessary change to the balance of power.

The secrets of their own shadowed pasts serve to pull at their union, threatening to unmake their pact, and leading them to ask one simple question: Are there roads too entrenched in darkness to allow for redemption?

In a time of growing doom and dread, when long lost magic begins to find a new foothold, Wretches and Kings alike maneuver and scheme as the Codex is inscribed with the fell deeds and heroic sacrifice compelled by a conspiracy of Ravens.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Few Short Questions About Gun Control.

Here are a few short questions for those supporting new restrictive gun control laws.

If a state passes legislation limiting now extant gun-ownership rights, and that state includes one or more native American Indian reservations where a majority of the registered members remain attached to their traditional gun-ownership rights and they refuse to comply with the new laws ….

Do you advocate sending in the U.S. Marshal to make arrests and to seize their guns?

If the U.S. Marshal and his deputies (and posse) are insufficient to overcome resistance by our nation’s indigenous inhabitants, do you advocate sending in the U.S. National Guard or the regular U.S. military? And if your answer is “no,” then what happens to equality under the law?

By the way, would you like to volunteer for that mission?

That would be racist.

ONLY 1% CAN SEE THIS? BUT IT’S BLEEPING OBVIOUS!  Can you spot the panda in this optical illusion?

AMERICAN PEOPLE: THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT GOES UNDER THE COLLECTIVE NAME “JOE BIDEN”:  Biden’s Navy Secretary: The Existential Threat Is Climate Change.