AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: After ‘Lightyear’ Bombs, Disney Quietly Cancels Their Upcoming Movie ‘Brokeback Woody.’

IT’S COME TO THIS: Christian policeman faces disciplinary action in Australia after posting ‘there are 2’ genders.

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: The coming blackouts. Do NOT say you were not warned.

RULE OF LAW: Wehle: To Do Something About Guns, We Need the Courts to Ignore the Law So Plaintiffs Can Bankrupt Firearm Manufacturers.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: Woman Pleads Guilty to 26 Felony Counts of Vot­er Fraud in South Texas.

NOW OUT FROM LORI GARVER: Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age. We are extremely fortunate that America’s space policy has been in the hands of two National Space Society alumni, Lori and Scott Pace, and those two did amazing work creating today’s environment in which space ventures can flourish.

UPDATE: For the people noting that she worked under Obama, that’s kind of the point. We had Lori running space policy under Democrats, and Scott under Republicans. It’s why Obama’s space policy was surprisingly good. This is how you get things done.

THIS SEEMS WRONG: Supreme Court Ignores Constitutional Violations by Federal Police, Green Lights Absolute Immunity Even in Cases Dealing with Attempted Murder and Well-Documented Lies by Officers.

IT’S NOT BEING DONE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. IT’S BEING DONE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. Against the Great Reset.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Biden’s Cigarette Crackdown a Boon for Drug Dealers, Experts Warn.

The Food and Drug Administration is preparing this month to require lower nicotine content in all cigarettes—a move critics argue will wreck the $75 billion U.S. tobacco industry amid a global economic crisis and boost a black market as crime spikes nationwide. The news comes weeks after the agency announced its plans to ban menthol cigarettes, which will cost federal and local governments an estimated $6.6 billion in the first year alone.

Richard Marianos, a 27-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, said these regulations will shift the demand for cigarettes toward unregulated tobacco grown internationally, which is then purchased and sold by drug dealers.

“The problem again with this administration is they do not take into consideration a totality of subject matter experts,” Marianos told the Washington Free Beacon. “I’ve never seen this much foolishness in my life.”

Marianos, who worked on gang violence at the ATF, said the black market for cigarettes is dominated by street gangs and would grow at least a hundredfold after the FDA implements its nicotine decision. He claims one of his former informants discovered some dealers make $5,000 selling cigarettes in a single afternoon. The FDA’s “uneducated and silly” cigarette plan, he said, would require law enforcement to focus on tobacco sales rather than drugs and violent crime.

That appears to be a feature, not a bug.

KINSLEY GAFFE:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

I SHOULD GET ONE JUST TO GO OUT OF CHARACTER: 2022 Ford Bronco Raptor First Drive Review: King of the Hill and the Hammers.

STANDARD-SETTING: US lawmakers push for universal chargers for smartphones, mobile devices.

‘[SUPREME] COURT STRIKES DOWN MAINE’S BAN ON USING PUBLIC FUNDS AT RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS.’ Public schools get to indoctrinate kids in the totalizing ideology of “wokeness” because even though it serves as drop-in (if lousy) replacement for religion, it claims to be secular. (This increasingly seems to me to be a “bug” in the Constitution’s language – I don’t think the Founders conceived of replacement religious ideologies that would claim not to be religions.) So it’s only fair that those who prefer their religion to the state-sanctioned one get the opportunity to take their tax dollars elsewhere.

HISTORY REPEATS: Why Russia Keeps Turning to Mass Firepower.

KAMALA IS A COP: Kamala Harris’s zombie disinformation board — A bad idea that won’t go away.

HYDROGEN IS USUALLY MADE FROM NATURAL GAS: Volvo Trucks begins testing vehicles powered by hydrogen-powered fuel cells.

I drove a GM hydrogen car for Popular Mechanics a few years ago. My comments still stand: “The car advertises itself as petroleum-free, which is true. But—and here’s my problem with hydrogen cars—it’s not really fossil fuel free. Most hydrogen is made by ‘steam reformation’ of natural gas, which is still a fossil fuel. You can also make it out of water, via electrolysis, but unless you’ve got a non-fossil source of electricity the hydrogen is really just functioning as an energy-storage medium, rather than a source of energy. Of course, build lots of nice, clean nuclear plants, or orbiting solar power plants, or whatever, and that problem goes away.”

Nowadays, there’s plenty of natural gas available via fracking, but you won’t be fossil-fuel-free. And most people who push hydrogen vehicles seem to be anti-fracking.

WELL, KRUGMAN: Paul Krugman Predicted a ‘Biden Boom’ That Never Came.

MAYBE IF THE ESTABLISHMENT WOULD STOP GIVING PEOPLE REASONS TO DRINK: U.S. death rate from alcoholic cirrhosis has tripled since 1999.

HEH: Amazon drones are coming to town. Some locals want to shoot them.

GET WOKE…: Disney Stock Has Tumbled Nearly 50 Percent as Audiences Turn Away.

TUCKER CARLSON: “We’re scarred by what we saw last week. It’ll be a long time before we can revisit the Capitol again. It’s going to take a lot of therapy before we can recapture the carefree innocence Stephen Colbert stole from us.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Welcome to Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow capsule of news. Getting Juneteenth wrong is this week’s big crazy.

Plus:

• “Kids and kink can coexist”
• Terrence K. Williams will not be canceled, and neither will his delicious pancakes
• Fake women claim real women will die out

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: We asked teachers how their year went. They warned of an exodus to come.

“I feel like at the beginning of the school year, I basically got second graders, because that’s the point where they were in school full time,” she said.

“Though you’re a fourth grade teacher, you’re teaching kids who are emotionally at the second grade level. And academically, we’re back to working miracles, like, ‘Hey, we need to get these kids caught up, we need to fill these gaps.'”

Beyond academic development, teachers are also reporting serious concerns around mental health.

Polk-Hoffses said that although her pre-K students were coming to her “fresh” at a young age, she had witnessed the concern among her colleagues.

“They’re very worried about the students that they had this year, because they saw a lot of depression. Someone even brought up cutting, they were afraid that a student would begin cutting again,” Polk-Hoffses said.

“Students were learning in isolation, then they came back, and they’re overwhelmed, and they’ve experienced a trauma. And unfortunately, all schools aren’t equipped to deal with the trauma that the students have experienced during the pandemic.”

The trauma was unnecessary, as were the lockdowns — both encouraged by the teachers’ unions.

CHARMING: Ghoulish Teens Stage ‘Bloody’ Protest in Front of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Home.

DEAL OF THE DAY: LED Camping Lantern. #CommissionEarned