EVERY TRIAL LAWYER IN AMERICA SIGHS, PUTS DOWN PORSCHE CATALOG. PayPal Pulls Back, Says It Won’t Fine Customers $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’ after Backlash.

OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s alright for blogging, get a little action in.

MY QUESTION IS, DO THE RUSSIANS MAINTAIN THEIR NUKES BETTER THAN THEIR OTHER GEAR? Want a Nuke Wargame? I’ve Got One for You. The answer is probably somewhat better, but how much better?

SPACE: Virgin Orbit awaiting license for first UK launch.

DAMN, THOSE THINGS ARE HARD TO GET RID OF: A Large, ‘Extinct’ Australian Cockroach Has Reappeared After More Than 80 Years.

BLACK MEN ALREADY KNOW PLENTY OF BLACK WOMEN LIKE HER: Steve Harvey tries to get black men to vote for Stacey Abrams and it doesn’t go well. “The concern is that black men will stay home instead of getting out to vote in November. She’s been courting their vote since she knows that black male voters are trickling over to vote for Republican candidates in recent years. The vast majority still vote for Democrats, of course, but the real concern is that this race may be tight and they won’t vote at all.”

Why should black men vote for her?

DO TELL: China Began Stockpiling PPE Months Before Covid Outbreak: China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts say.

Related: China increased spending on pathogens testing months before acknowledging COVID-19, report says.

THE MORAL EFFECTS OF INFLATION? “Might some of the social decay of the 1970s (its “narcissism,” if you like Chris Lasch’s famous indictment) be attributable to the steadily rising inflation of the decade?”

VIA A FRIEND:

SPACE ARMAGEDDON: Why the Pentagon fears Russia and China’s star wars weaponry: Russia and China are both in a race to catch the US with their space warfare capabilities.

WELL, SHE’S NOT WRONG: Tulsi Gabbard: FBI and Intel agencies committed treason trying to steal our democracy.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY? Berkeley Law’s “Jew-Free Zone” Controversy.

HOW #JOURNALISM WORKS TODAY:

SURVEILLANCE STATE USA: Biden quietly unleashes spymasters in dramatic Executive Order.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Stewart Baker in the comments says this report is all wrong: “This story is about as wrong as wrong can be. The Obama executive order is being repealed because it’s been replaced by a new order. The new order says that “Signals intelligence collection activities shall not be conducted for the purpose of:(1) suppressing or burdening criticism, dissent, or the free expression of ideas or political opinions by individuals or the press.” That’s practically identical to the language that this story says the administration is repealing. Without the fundamental error, there’s nothing to this story.”

Remember that at InstaPundit we don’t promise to always be right, only to correct things that turn out to be wrong.

READER FAVORITE: Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

WELL, THAT’S JUST BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T CARE: As Chicagoans Die In the Streets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot Dances and Sings on TikTok.

AND THAT’S UNCLE JOE, HE’S A-MOVIN’ KIND OF SLOW: Retirees sleep more, exercise less, study shows.

READER FAVORITE: Yampahpa Seat Cushion Pillow for Office Chair. #CommissionEarned

I DON’T KNOW, BUT TO BE FAIR, NEITHER DOES BIDEN: “Look at that quote: Did Biden say the government is guilty of illegal race discrimination?”

COVID IS OVER: CDC will end daily COVID-19 reports.

MOMENTUM: 14th Federal Judge Joins Boycott, Refuses To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks.

Notably, one initial criticism leveled at Judge Ho’s speech was that Ho alone would not have the clout to affect Yale Law by withholding clerkships. “Perhaps I’m underestimating Ho’s clout, but I can’t imagine students turning down coveted seats at the nation’s most prestigious law school because he put it on his personal blacklist,” the lawyer Vivia Chen wrote in Bloomberg Law earlier this week. “And what are the odds that other federal judges, even unabashed conservative ones, will trash the resumes of awesome Yalies because of the school’s woke reputation?”

If the growing momentum of the 14-federal-judge-strong boycott is any indication, those odds appear to be quite high.

If Dean Heather Gerken isn’t worried about this, she’s a fool.

SEE, I’M TOTALLY NORMAL: Zoning out while awake is natural, like brain going offline, study says. “The findings, indicating the brain cannot sustain a constant stream of thought, appeared this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”

SPECIAL MISSION V-2 — AMERICA’S RACE TO CAPTURE HITLER’S MISSILE: New video from historian Mark Felton.

GAS PRICES RISING AND THE #RESISTANCE IS ON THE JOB: Justin Binik-Thomas sends this, commenting: “I’m starting to see the resistance pop in again. This time in a more conspicuous place.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Californians Move to Texas Episode 2: The Cookout (Video).

Episode One is here.