QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“For mayors like me that are dealing with a crisis – not of our making. And we’re not a border town – we don’t have an infrastructure to handle this level of immigration to our city. But we will create a new normal here in our infrastructure and have a humane welcome for people and an efficient service provision. But we don’t have the ability – we’re not Texas.”

—DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, as quoted by Fox 5 DC: Two buses of migrants dropped off outside VP Harris’s residence near Naval Observatory in DC.

Approximately 100 migrants, mainly from Venezuela, arrived just before 7 a.m. from the Del Rio, Texas area and off-loaded outside Harris’ official residence, the U.S. Naval Observatory, near main guard gate.

Bowser apparently hasn’t a clue* about how Texas towns have struggled under the crushing weight of Biden’s open-borders policy: Apocalyptic El Paso: Shocking photos show 1,000 migrants sleeping on border city’s streets which now resemble ‘a third-world country’ with no sanitation.

* At least not yet:

FLASHBACK: Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections. Well, of course he is.

IT’S NOT A “RIOT,” IT’S A CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE HER OF CIVIL RIGHTS: State troopers rescue Tomi Lahren after organized riot breaks out at UNM-Albuquerque. “The university knew there was going to be a planned protest. There was a banner going around social media for days, especially yesterday, leading up to the event. They knew that it was going to be bad. They knew that Antifa was involved. They knew that it was going to be an organized protest against my speech. They did nothing.”

JUST NBC THE RACISM! I don’t think anyone thought this quote through:

Since deleted, likely because, as Mollie Hemingway writes, “this tweet made their political allies look horrific.”

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS TO NOT BE AWFUL, AND THEY CAN’T DO THAT:

The needed “effective strategy” against Trump is “to show by word and deed” that it’s “a gross exaggeration” to think that “a radical left putsch… is out to take over the government and undermine the culture.” I’m not even persuaded that Brooks believes it’s all that much of an exaggeration to think there’s a “radical left putsch… out to take over the government and undermine the culture.” He just wants Trump defeated and hopes anti-Trumpsters execute a good strategy to take him out.

Instead they’ve acted like thugs and gangsters and the Chinese government — which they openly admire. Shockingly, that’s not winning people over.

Plus, from the comments:

“Trumpists tell themselves that America is being threatened by a radical left putsch that is out to take over the government and undermine the culture. The core challenge now is to show by word and deed that this is a gross exaggeration.”

Or, you know, you could paint the walls blood red, place yourself next to armed Marines, bring back Hitler and accuse half the country of being a “clear and present danger” to the United States.

Which is the path the fucking idiot thief Joe Biden took.

Yep. Also: “The fact that Brooks talks about a ‘gross exaggeration’ reveals that he thinks there is something true. If there weren’t something true, you’d call it a lie, not an exaggeration.”

SHOCKER: America’s blackest city elected a Democratic Socialist mayor and there are problems.

CHINA IS THE MODEL FOR THE Global Ruling Class. “We’ve already highlighted the many, many problems with the Online Safety Bill in the UK, which will be a massive attack on free speech, in that (among many other problems) it seeks to force websites to remove content even if it’s ‘lawful,’ meaning that they will massively overcensor. As I’ve pointed out, this is exactly how the original Great Firewall of China began, with instructions from the government to remove ‘harmful’ content or face consequences. The reaction, of course, was to remove anything that the government might consider to be harmful. It should be no surprise, then, that some of the people backing the bill have literally cited China as an example of how this regulation can work.”

SHOCKER: Biden Reportedly Pressuring FBI to ‘Cook Up’ White Supremacy Cases.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourself in the comments.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia says private satellites could become ‘legitimate target’ during wartime.

NOT MENTIONED IS THAT TRUMP IS THE ONLY RECENT PRESIDENT NOT TO START A WAR: There’s An Intriguing Link Between US Presidents And The Wars They Wage. “US chiefs who scored lower on narcissism, including McKinley and Eisenhower, tended to put the interests of the state first. Wars were pursued only as a last resort, and were ended as quickly as possible – see Eisenhower’s quick exit from the Korean War, for example. Those presidents who ranked higher for narcissism, such as Roosevelt and Nixon, were less likely to separate personal and state interests, carrying on conflicts for longer.”

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Facebook reportedly sharing private IM conversations with FBI as “leads.”

ALTERNATE HEADLINE: TARGETED INDUSTRY DEFENDS ITSELF WITH FREE SPEECH. Report: Fossil fuel industry funds research to weaken climate change messaging.

ICYMI: Sorry, Lindsey Graham: Congress doesn’t have the power to legislate on abortion.

THIS IS BIG: Fifth Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Texas Social Media Common Carrier Law. “Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say. Because the district court held otherwise, we reverse its injunction and remand for further proceedings.”

Full opinion here.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: U.S. drug shortages put people with life-threatening illness at risk.

DEAL OF THE DAY: WAOAW Seat Cushion. #CommissionEarned

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Public education is a man-made disaster.

GOOD: Another Win for Dick Heller: DC Repeals Limit on Rounds Carried by Permit Holders.

I HAD MISSED THIS: Pennsylvania House holds DA Krasner in contempt as judge orders him to write apology letters to victim’s family.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to hold Philadelphia’s liberal chief prosecutor, Larry Krasner, in contempt for refusing to cooperate with a legislative committee investigating his possible impeachment.

The committee, called the Select Committee on Restoring Law and Order, was formed amid rising concerns over Philadelphia’s crime and murder rates, which have outpaced a nationwide rise in gun violence. More than 1,400 people in the city have been shot this year, hundreds of them fatally, a higher toll than in the much larger cities of New York or Los Angeles.

Plus: “The impeachment effort this summer started with Republicans in the western part of the state, but the contempt vote held this Tuesday passed with overwhelming support (162-38) including from a majority of Democrats.”

READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned

ADVICE: Trust No One.

BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: Experts say ‘fireball’ streaking across sky in Scotland, Northern Ireland likely space junk.

HMM: U.S. monkeypox cases drop, but minorities at greater risk.

JIM ACOSTA, CALL YOUR OFFICE! Just as quickly as they arrived, the Martha’s Vineyard immigrants have been politely kicked off the island by the inclusive-and-tolerant rich white liberals.

UPDATE: