“MODERATE JOE” IS THE PUPPET OF IDEOLOGUES: Pollsters Warned Biden That Inflation and Immigration Could Sink His Approval.

THEY AREN’T EVEN ASHAMED TO ADMIT THEY WANT TO CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN SAY AND SHARE: Panicked CNN Guest Wonders ‘How We’re Going To Control The Channels Of Communications In This Country.’ “We gave over what amounts to our airwaves or our internet waves to Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and we are in so much trouble because those guys believe in making money.”

To be fair, making money hasn’t exactly been a priority at CNN.

“MIGHT.” Virus might be behind mystery child hepatitis cases: US agency. “Nine young children from Alabama affected by a mysterious hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) all tested positive for a common pathogen called adenovirus 41, a study by the US health agency said Friday.”

Because it’s common anyway, I’m not sure this is the factor.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’ “I know everything is polarized these days, but I still have a hard time understanding how we can’t all agree that the government creating a Disinformation Governance Board led by a person famous for spreading disinformation is a batsh*t, awful move.”

Related: Great moments in leftist performance art: MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan rages over ‘petulant and not-so-bright billionaire’ Elon Musk just handing Twitter — and the midterms — to ‘neo-Nazi’ GOP (video).  “All the Left had to do was not be crazy. They couldn’t meet that bar.”

UPDATE: ‘It just got real’: Musk fires back at ‘lovely people’ at MSNBC in a big way for calling all Republicans ‘Nazis’ and OH HELL YEAH. “NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis…Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people,” Musk tweets.

(Updated and bumped.)

SPOILER: THEY WILL. Relax: Mayorkas Says His New Thought Police Won’t Monitor U.S. Citizens.

HMM: Experimental vaccine during pregnancy may protect infants from RSV.

The last RSV vaccine worked out badly, but a good one would be nice.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Diesel prices soaring beyond crude, gasoline — and likely to stay that way. “In a recent report, Verleger makes a similar argument. He sees the biggest difference as the structural changes in the market, many of them related to government mandates, having permanently altered the diesel market into a situation where traditional spreads between crude and diesel, and diesel and gasoline, have disappeared and won’t be returning.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Trevor Noah used the White House Correspondents’ dinner to force Joe Biden to laugh at how bad the nation is suffering under his own policies.

YA THINK? Research suggests cancer care systems need to be more patient-centered.

HMM: I Wonder Why Hundreds of CDC Employees Aren’t Vaxxed.

Well: 4-Times Vaxxed Kamala Harris Is Prescribed COVID Drug For Severe Illness.

And: Johns Hopkins professor mocks Fauci for refusing to go to White House correspondents’ dinner despite being vaccinated FOUR times.

Maybe the vaccines just don’t work that well and for otherwise healthy people just aren’t worth even the small risk.

IT’S GUARANTEED TO MAKE IT SEEM LONGER: ‘Longevity’ diet high in vegetables, with fasting, can add to lifespan, researchers say.

NOBODY DOES, SO WHAT MAKES THEM SO SPECIAL? College grads don’t want to pay their debts. “College graduates dominate the media and academia, Demsas writes. They set political agendas. But they risk fracturing the Democrats’ already shaky coalition.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT AUTOMOBILE QUESTIONS: “You’ll have heard how the Alpine A110’s combination of lightness and rightness has earned the admiration of evo’s tillermen. And that’s all well and good, but what’s it like if you’ve just had a vasectomy? To find out, I went to a central London clinic and invited a large, medically qualified man to have a good rummage amongst my underparts, then realised with dismay that I had booked to borrow a low-slung French sports coupe almost immediately afterwards.”

IT’S A DIRTY BUSINESS: Clean Energy Has a Dirty Little Secret. “Clean energy does solve one of the Left’s problems: People they don’t like doing things they don’t approve of.”

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH CNN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: CNN: All jokes aside, Biden’s doing terrible.

(Link safe; goes to Ed Morrissey.)

CULTURE: Netflix cancels Meghan Markle’s animated series ‘Pearl’ amid cutbacks: David Furnish was expected to produce the show believed to be about her own childhood.

HMM: ‘F*****g cowards’ Russian officer shoots OWN troops as army morale on brink of collapse.

A recently intercepted telephone conversation between a Russian officer and his wife revealed the desperation of Putin’s frontline commanders as they try to motivate their soldiers.

The officer said: “My soldiers don’t want to fight. I even shoot them – but it’s no use.”

The commander reserved his sharpest criticism for the new recruits being sent by the Kremlin to the trenches.

I’m not reading too much into this this, at least not yet. Russian officers have been shooting Russian conscripts for a very long time, in both losing and winning wars.

I THINK HE MEANS OUR INFLATION PROBLEM, BUT POINT TAKEN: Biden’s Inflation Problems Are Even Worse Than We Thought.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Frontline Plus Flea and Tick Treatment for Dogs. #CommissionEarned

NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I’D BEEN HOPING FOR: Israeli and US Navy lasers successfully shoot down drones, rockets, artillery.

OF COURSE IT DOES: GWU student government wants conservative group suspended for ‘transphobic’ tweets.

Student government used to be touted as training in democracy. Now it seems to be bringing up junior autocrats.

SABER-RATTLING, OR WORSE? Russia Threatens to Nuke Britain, France, and Germany. “Channel One’s 60 Minutes program, one of the most popular TV shows in Russia, featured ‘the chairman of the nationalist Rodina party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov,’ who ‘suggested Russia could launch a Sarmat missile attack on the UK.’ This was not, however, Zhuravlyov’s eccentric view: ‘Producers then cut to a map of Kaliningrad and seemed to suggest that missiles could be launched from the Russian enclave between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.'”

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Catholic university speaker urges students to “crucify whiteness.” “The speaker suggested that whiteness is a concept, and stated that people of color can ‘also be white.'” It’s as if “whiteness” has nothing to do with race or racism and just means “our political enemies.”

Which of course, it does.

CHANGE? Germany: Quitting Russian oil by late summer is ‘realistic.’ “Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck said Sunday that Europe’s largest economy has reduced the share of Russian energy imports to 12% for oil, 8% for coal and 35% for natural gas. Germany has been under strong pressure from Ukraine and other nations in Europe to cut energy imports from Russia that are worth billions of euros, which help fill Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war chest.”

THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. As the Babylon Bee points out using satire, what has been done is being done again. But by far more ridiculous people.