LIFE IN 2022: Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Prepper Too? (Shhhh, Just Don’t Tell Anyone). “Also, the same dolts who mock you for your secret pantry will be the first to beg you for a can of SpaghettiOs when the excreta hits the air cooler (SHTF) and their little Connor starts to get ‘hangry.’ So keep your supplies a secret.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’ Features Film’s First ‘Abortion Baby Shower.’

FBI WHISTLEBLOWER LEAKS BUREAU’S ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISM SYMBOLS GUIDE’ — And you won’t believe what’s on it! Ok, yes you will.

I figured I was already on their “list” for being a free speech lawyer, but I guess now I am super-duper on their list. Are you?

BREAKING: Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), three others dead in car crash.

THAT INSPIRES CONFIDENCE: Chevrolet Offers Bolt Owners Money If They Waive the Right to Sue. “So, if the car experiences a bout of thermal runaway and burns down your garage or some other catastrophic issue takes place, GM is legally protected.”

JOANNE JACOBS: Don’t say ‘cisheteronormativity.’

In Portland, Oregon public schools, the “sexual revolution starts in kindergarten,” writes Christopher F. Rufo. Many of the city’s K-5 teachers are using a radical curriculum based on academic “queer theory,” he writes. He posts documents.

Kindergarteners learn that “person with a penis” may be a boy, but not necessarily, and a“person with a vulva,” may be a girl. Or not. The “gender spectrum” is “infinite,” like the number of stars in the sky.

By first and second grade, students that it is “not true” that there are “only two genders, girls and boys.” A lesson called “Our Names, Genders, and Pronouns” teaches six- to eight-year-olds they can be “boys,” “girls,” “cisgender,” “transgender,” or “nonbinary,” and experiment with pronouns such as “they/them” and “ze/zir.”

In third through fifth grade, the district begins lessons on how the categories of “man” and “woman” are used to oppress minorities. “The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight and cis is called cisheteronormativity,” the lesson plan states. Students are told this oppressive system is designed to benefit “white straight cis boys” and to punish “LGBTQIA2S+” people, writes Rufo.

Grooming, straight up.

WELL…: How About Some Positive News About Joe Biden?

READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds with MagSafe Charging Case. #CommissonEarned

HE’S TOXIC: Two New York reps join growing list of Democrats who refuse to commit to supporting Biden in 2024.

JOHN NOLTE: CNN’s Latest Anti-Cop Race Hoax Is a Doozy of Desperation.

Here’s the opening paragraph:

The mass exodus of an entire police department after the hiring of a Black town manager in North Carolina has opened a conversation about public safety and race relations in a small town of just over 1,500 residents.

Then we get paragraph after paragraph of this…

Residents split on whether it’s a ‘race issue’

Brittney Hinnant, a Kenly resident, said she feels like the situation is a “race issue” given that Jones is Black, while the entire Kenly Police Department is White. Hinnant also said she doesn’t think the police department supports Black people and she feels they often harass Black residents.

But if you’re able to hang in there for 18 — 18! — paragraphs, CNNLOL drops this fairly important piece of context on you…

Others in the community say they believe there is not a racial component to the situation due to the fact the previous town manager was a Black man. [emphasis added]

Wait.

Whuh?

Hundreds of words devoted to smearing an entire police force as racist, as so racist they would rather be unemployed than work for a black person… And only after 18 — 18! — paragraphs do these lying pigs come across with the truth: that these same people had no problem working under a black town manager before.

This is what happens to a far-left propaganda outlet when they feel it all slipping away, when it knows its ability to sway public opinion is vanishing: they get this desperate, this outrageous, this audacious in their lies.

This isn’t journalism. It’s not even propaganda anymore. It’s trolling, childish trolling committed by angry babies reduced to throwing things for attention…

Earlier: “CNN President Chris Licht’s message to Republican lawmakers: We’re sorry. Please, come back.”

Licht and his boss, Warner Brothers Discovery chief David Zaslav, say they are committed to reshaping the image of CNN no matter the ratings. (CNN makes most of its revenue from cable subscription fees, not commercial advertising, anyway.)

Licht and his overlords have said for months that they’d pivot CNN away from partisan opinions and gain the reputation of a trusted news agency.

For that to happen, CNN must not neglect an entire half of the country, as it did under the leadership of Jeff Zucker.

Be the change you’re promising the viewers, fellas.

SPACE JUNK, BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: ‘Like an alien obelisk’: space debris found in Snowy Mountains paddock believed to be from SpaceX mission.

TERRORIST AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI KILLED IN THE HOME OF A NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTOR:

Sirajuddin Haqqani is a New York Times contributor.

American forces blew up Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s number two after Osama Bin Laden, in Haqqani’s home in Kabul, Afghanistan.

I’m only being somewhat flippant. The New York Times gave Haqqani space to make a case for the Taliban in its pages. There was no staff revolt.

This is the same New York Times that saw a staff revolt over sitting United States Senator Tom Cotton offering up an op-ed on using force to quell the riots around the United States.

You need to remember the New York Times staff was more at ease with a member of the Taliban in its pages than a sitting United States Senator.

Oh sure – next you’re going to tell me that the AP shares an office building with Hamas. Oh,wait…

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Humans settled in North America 17,000 years EARLIER than previously believed: Bones of mammoth and her calf found at an ancient butchering site in New Mexico show they were killed by people 37,000 years ago.

VIDEO: World Agricultural Output Is Screwed, US Output Is Not.

Once again, if you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the video, Lawrence Person has done a great job of breaking out the bullet points as text.

ITS APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: CNN Just Got Some More Awful News. “Projections from S&P Global Market Intelligence say CNN’s profitability is on a pace to decline to $956.8 million this year. That would mark the first time since 2016 that the network had dipped below $1 billion in profit, according to three people familiar with its operations.”

Which is why we’re seeing headlines such as this: CNN President Asking GOP Lawmakers to Please Come Back, Give the Network Another Chance.

Curiously though, most of the staff haven’t gotten the memo yet: Stelter Brings on Economic Dunce Krugman to Say US Not in Recession.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Other factors — like avoiding eviction, having access to good medical care and growing up in a household with two parents — may also make upward mobility more likely. . . . Churches and other religious organizations may have some lessons to teach other parts of society.”

Via the comments to this post, yesterday.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Prices Fall Most Since Great Recession. “In Denver, previously one of the hottest markets, average home prices dipped by $25,000 — a decline of more than 3% — in just one month.”

DID NANCY GO TO TAIWAN TO DISTRACT FROM THIS? Paul Pelosi pleads not guilty to DUI charges months after crashing Porsche in California. “The arraignment comes a day after his wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, rattled U.S.-China relations with a trip to Taiwan, which Beijing considers part of its territory. And it comes a week after reports that he sold millions of dollars in Nvidia stock leading up to a House vote on a bill that would impact the industry.”

Related: It Seems Pelosi Wasn’t Just Drinking When He Was Arrested for a DUI, Per Court Records. “The first count Pelosi faces, DUI causing injury, charges Paul Pelosi with a misdemeanor (emphasis added) for allegedly ‘unlawfully, while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and a drug and under their combined influence, drive a vehicle and in so driving, concurrently did an act forbidden by law and neglected a duty imposed by law which proximately caused bodily injury to John Doe.'”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Remote surgical robot to be tested on International Space Station. What I want, at the very least, is a Larry Niven style Autodoc.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russian Military Satellite Appears To Be Stalking A New U.S. Spy Satellite. “A recently launched Russian satellite with capabilities unknown is getting suspiciously close to what is reportedly a new U.S. spy satellite.”

BIDEN LOOKS FOR OFF-RAMP: White House Stenographer Tom Friedman Throws Zelenskyy and Ukraine Under the Bus, Calling Both Corrupt. What Does It Mean?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Biden complaining about corruption? Probably means a check bounced.

HMM: Several people injured in blast at French military explosives producer. “The cause of the blast was not immediately clear.”

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: “The Supreme Court, in overruling Roe v. Wade, turned the question of access to abortion over to the people of the states. And now we are beginning to get what we were deprived of for so long: the voted-for preference of the people.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Unbreakable Metal Reading Glasses. #CommissionEarned

HOPEFULLY THIS TIME IT STICKS: Al Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Is Dead…for at Least the 4th Time.