SHOT: Democrats Oddly Echo Biden’s ‘Optimism’ Moving Toward the Midterms.

Chaser: Biden being ‘sent out to pasture’ as 2022 Democrats flee, media challenges flailing president.

LOW BAR: Trans Nerd Amy Schneider Throws Baseball Better Than Barack Obama, Analysis Finds.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Little Giant Ladder. CommissionEarned

EVEN MOST DEMS NOW SAY IT’S BIDEN’S INFLATION: Latest results from the Issues & Insights/TIPP Poll may well prompt a wider exit from the Biden White House. Fully 53 percent of the Democrats responding to the poll, which has a 2.8 percent MOE, say Biden’s policies are the main cause of the inflation now ravaging the country.

SANITY: Swimming-FINA votes to restrict transgender participation in elite women’s competition.

I DON’T TRUST THEIR BRAINS: Behold, the Biden Energy ‘Brain Trust.’

OTHER THAN PRODUCING TOO LITTLE ENERGY AT TOO HIGH A PRICE WHILE ALLOWING OUR TRADITIONAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE TO CRUMBLE, THEY’RE DOIING GREAT: Is the Green Energy Climate Cabal Crumbling?

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Aide to Baltimore council president busted on gun, drug charges.