“GASP PRICES” IS A TYPO, BUT IT WORKS: For First Time Since 2011, IRS Makes Mid-Year Adjustment In Standard Mileage Taye Due To Spike In Gasp Prices; 62.5 Cents Per Mile Is Up 11.6% From 2021.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Since politicians are largely surrounded by suckups, they have trouble grasping how disliked they actually are by the general populace.

REVEALED: DHS disinformation board pushed for partnership with social media platforms.

HOW LOW CAN HE GO? Biden polls his worst yet — and headed lower.

As Biden and the Democrats poll worse among inflation and shortages, their politics become more confrontational and authoritarian. It’s like they secretly want a genuine insurrection. At this rate, they’re going to wind up with people thinking of the January 6 protesters as martyrs who tried to save us from disaster.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA:

● Shot: ‘Game over:’ The tiny Central Coast town of Cambria is about to run out of water.

—SF Gate, Monday.

● Chaser: Residents celebrate as California Coastal Commission rejects plan for Huntington Beach desalination plant.

—The L.A. Times, May 12th.

BE PREPARED: Peltor Tactical Sport Earmuffs.

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Pennsylvania Dem Says ‘Diseased’ GOP Must Be ‘Cleansed’ After Preaching ‘Unity.’

OLD AND BUSTED: “Yellen expects high inflation rates to be temporary.”

The New Hotness? U.S. Inflation Hit 8.6% in May. Energy, groceries, shelter costs drive fastest rise in consumer-price index since December 1981.

Related: Treasury secretary concedes she was wrong on ‘path that inflation would take.’

More: Real Wages Have Declined This Much Under Biden, New Inflation Data Show.

#JOURNALISM: Press Coverage on the Assassination Attempt of Justice Kavanaugh: The New York Times lists sixteen news stories above the attempted murder of a Justice.

ANDREW SULLIVAN: THE SCOLDS ARE IN RETREAT.

Sullivan’s latest piece on Substack is titled “The Vibes They Are A-Shiftin’” and that actually undersells the case he makes that the woke left (or whatever you prefer to call them) appear to be in retreat. He opens by noting that it was only 2 years ago that the world was figuratively and sometimes literally on fire. Activists were demanding police be defunded and Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo were seemingly anointed as our foremost public intellectuals. Jump forward two years and things look very different.

Last year, Eric Adams became mayor of New York City, propelled by minority voters horrified by surging crime and chaos. This past week, DA Chesa Boudin, scion of leftwing terrorists, was ousted by minority voters in San Francisco…

Elite imposition of the new social justice religion — indoctrinating children in the precepts and premises of critical race and gender theory — has also met ferocious backlash as parents began to absorb what their kids were being taught: that America is a uniquely evil country based forever on white supremacy; that your race is the most important thing about you; that biological sex must be replaced by socially constructed genders of near-infinite number; and that all this needs to be taught in kindergarten. Yes, some of this was politically exploited or hyped by the right. But if you think there is no there there in this concern about schooling, you’re dreaming…

The Washington Post this week was convulsed by public infighting — initiated by a reporter, Felicia Sonmez, whose crusade to dismantle the “oppressive systems” she endures at the WaPo went on for a week of public name-calling, vitriol, and victim-mongering…

And yet even in this wokest of woke newspapers, the editor finally had enough. Sonmez was fired yesterday for “misconduct that includes insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity.”…

In the popular culture, the scolds are retreating.

Talk about change: “[P]erhaps the clearest sign yet that the world is finally waking up and turning against rote wokery comes from  . . . Starbucks.  Remember how Starbucks ostentatiously opened its bathrooms to the general public after a racial incident caused Starbucks to close down for a whole day of racial sensitivity training back in 2018? Well: Starbucks’s C.E.O. Howard Schultz: ‘I don’t know if we can keep our bathrooms open.’”

REMEMBERING THE INFLATION OF THE 1970S: “It was always there in the background. Occasionally it receded, only to return worse than before. Inflation was a sometimes disquieting, sometimes terrifying fact of life.”

WAY TO GO BRANDON:  Wealth Across US Households Drops for First Time in 2 Years on Stock Market Declines.

THE SPECIAL FORCES UNIT CALLED “THE SOYLENT GREENS” IS KIND OF A CLUE:  Ukraine says Russian army is storing dead soldiers in meatpacking plant.

THEY’VE FORGOTTEN WHAT THEIR CORE BUSINESS IS:  Disney morale is ‘terrible’ after CEO Bob Chapek axed Peter Rice.

OPEN THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS NOW – THIS MUST NOT STAND:  National sriracha sauce shortage may lead to spiceless summer for some.

Not that I personally like hot things, but the males in my family…. well!

AH, YES, EQUITY. KILL THE ANTS TO FEED THE GRASSHOPPERS:  Portland, Maine to raise property taxes to pay for free housing for ‘asylum-seekers’.

IN UTAH, NO LESS:  Today’s blacklisted American: School officials attempt to censor and shut down conservative club at Utah high school.

YAH, WE KNOW:  It’s never about the issue, but about control.

HE’S NOT DITHERING. HE’S MAKING IT WORSE:  Biden Dithers While Inflation Hits New 40 Year High.