IT’S A TRANSITORY, HIGH-CLASS PROBLEM: Inflation a ‘concern’ for California food bank as price hikes ‘put a lot of pressure’ on household budgets.

IN A WAY, IT’S NEWS THAT THIS KIND OF THING HAS BECOME SO ROUTINE: SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Food crisis: Inflation forcing change in eating habits.

Hit hardest are families with children — with 72% changing their habits to accommodate higher prices for basics such as eggs, milk, butter, and bacon — and women under 40 at 73%.

Rasmussen found that nearly all Americans, 89%, have been paying more since President Joe Biden took office, and 61% believe they will still be paying more in a year.

Notably, there was virtually no difference between Republican and Democratic reactions to the question of paying more. The survey analysis found that 88% of Democrats are paying more for food than they were a year ago, and 90% of Republicans said they are too.

Unfortunately, higher prices are a reality with inflation at a 40-year high.

It didn’t happen by accident.

WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS BIDEN WAS NOT BRIEFED ON FBI RAID AT MAR-A-LAGO:

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that President Biden was not made aware that the FBI planned to searchformer president Donald Trump’s personal residence at Mar-a-Lago before the action was carried out on Monday.

“What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden. “Nobody at the White House was. Nobody was given a heads up and we did not know about what happened yesterday.”

There’s a possibility this is actually true, given how undisciplined this White House has been. As Matthew Continetti asked last month: Who’s In Charge?

If all the White House has to offer is excuses, if decisions are made either slowly or randomly, if the communications team and the president and vice president seem to live on different planets, if incompetence and mismanagement appear throughout the government, it is because the chief executive allows it. No conspiracy is required to explain the ineptitude. This is Joe Biden we are talking about. Lately, though, I have been having second thoughts. Not that Barack Obama or Ron Klain or Dr. Jill are running the show in secret. What I have been wondering, instead, is whether anyone is leading the government at all. There is no power, either overt or covert, in or behind the throne. The throne is empty.

Think of the economy, the border, and Ukraine. From time to time, Biden addresses these issues. He may even answer questions about them. The White House sends out press releases describing its latest initiatives. Vice President Harris or the second gentleman pops up somewhere to talk about all the good she and he are doing.

Yet each of these elements—the president, his staff, his spokesperson, his vice president, his policy—comes across as disconnected, discombobulated, as if each inhabits a separate sphere of activity. Whether because of Biden’s age, or his weekend trips to Delaware, or years of remote work, or lower-level staff turnover, or a painstakingly slow decision-making process, or ideological stubbornness, or a lack of a strategic plan, this administration drifts from crisis to crisis, and from one bad headline to the next. And nothing improves.

The raid on Mar-a-Lago certainly helped to get a lot of bad headlines for Biden out of the press, by putting Trump front and center in the media again, which the administration is thrilled about. It will likely dominate the Sunday talk shows, getting Team Brandon past yet another disastrous news cycle.

ACTUALLY, HE TURNED UP THE POLITICS AT JUSTICE FROM DAY ONE. THE VOW WAS ALWAYS JUST A LIE. Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. Remember when he treated parents who spoke up at school board meetings as domestic terrorists?

Flashback: Merrick Garland has proved himself unfit for Supreme Court — but he shouldn’t be AG either.

SHE’S TERRIBLE: Hillary Clinton Flaunts Her Democrat Privilege, Peddles ‘But Her Emails’ Swag the Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid.

JULIETTE OCHIENG: “About the raid again: please stop expecting them to go by the book. Why should they start now?”

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THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Urgent polio boosters for London children.

All children aged one to nine and living in Greater London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was detected in sewage.

The virus, which can cause paralysis, has been found 116 times in London’s wastewater since February.

The urgent immunisation campaign will see nearly a million children offered the vaccine – including those already up to date with their jabs. . . .

However, what is happening now is slightly complicated as the samples detected are linked to a polio vaccine used in other countries.

Parts of the world still dealing with polio outbreaks use the oral polio vaccine – which is safe, but uses a live virus. This gives a huge amount of immunity, but has the potential to spread from person to person in areas where not a lot of people are protected.

Everything is going swimmingly.

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IS PUSHED DOWN BY THE RULING CLASS, NOT DEMANDED BY THE MASSES: Progressive Pollster Finds That People Oppose Progressive Policies: Winning Jobs Narrative Project says Dems should ‘realize progressive Twitter isn’t real life.’

DEAL OF THE DAY: GearLight S2000 LED Flashlight. #CommissionEarned

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: U.S. Labor Productivity Suffers Biggest Crash Ever Recorded, Labor Costs Soar Most Since 1982.

1982 was the big year of the early ’80s recession engineered by Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan to squeeze inflation out of the economy — and set the stage for the ’80s boom times.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, is just getting started taxing and regulating productivity gains out of existence.

THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TOP-DOWN PRIORITY IN AMERICA: Some tech employees have had enough of the DEI focus at work.

WHEN THE LEFT DOES IT, IT’S “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE,” WHEN THE RIGHT DOES IT, IT’S AN “INSURRECTION:” Arizona Dem Praised Radical Immigration Group That Harassed Sinema: Kirsten Engel’s support for leftist groups could alienate voters.

BETTER SEND IN MORE FBI GUYS: Wait — Those ‘Classified’ Docs FBI Sought in Trump Raid Were Already Declassified.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:  Report: FBI Raided Mar-A-Lago After Tip That Parents Were Protesting A School Board Meeting There.

APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY: New Details About Judge Who Approved Mar-A-Lago Raid Raises All Sorts of Red Flags. It seems the Justice Department should have put an issue of this magnitude before a full federal judge, rather than a magistrate, and that maybe it should have found someone without an Epstein connection. Maybe there’s nothing actually wrong here, but you can’t blame people for wondering. And maybe they figured that if they’d put it in front of that sort of a judge he would have laughed and told them to go away.

WELL PLAYED. EXCEEDINGLY WELL PLAYED:  Israeli students accuse Ben & Jerry’s of occupying tribal land in Vermont.

COOL. DEAR BORDER GOVERNORS, WE THE CITIZENS VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTE CASH TO HELP SEND EVERYONE WHO CROSSES THAT BORDER TO NYC AND DC:  DHS Ending Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy.

REALLY? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO CAMPAIGN FOR? CLOSED BORDERS?  NYC Mayor Adams Wants to Bus New Yorkers to TX to Campaign Against Gov. Abbott.

WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THAT THE MARXISTS ARE GIBBERINGLY PANICKED AND ACTING LIKE THE LUNATICS THEY ARE:  omething’s Happening Here: Feds Seize Cell Phone Of Trump Ally House Rep Scott Perry Day After Mar-a-Lago Raid.

NO, NO, NO. HE ISN’T WEAPONIZING THEM. THEY’RE ALREADY WEAPONIZED:  White House Spox Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses To Say If Biden Is Weaponizing DOJ, FBI Against Political Opponents.

THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES BELIEVING THEIR LIES:  When Rulers’ Lies Come in Battalions.

MAY? MAY???  Joe Manchin May Have Just Cooked His Own Goose.

The pop up timer on that goose popped a while ago.

VERY FEW THINGS LEAVE ME WORDLESS, BUT THE STUPID FBI TRICKS YESTERDAY DID SO: Speaking of Bad Plots.

OH, YOU DON’T SAY. HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SHOCKED FACE?  Judge who signed off the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion donated $2,000 to Barack Obama’s campaign and represented Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express pilots, his scheduler and ‘Yugoslavian sex slave’.

Is it pedophilia all the way down?