NEVER BEND THE KNEE: Ginny Thomas Ruins J-6 Committee’s Plan to Destroy Her.

READER FAVORITE: Official Creality Ender 3 V2 Upgraded 3D Printer. #CommissionEarned

BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS PRESIDENT KAMALA: Why is no one discussing the 25th Amendment option after “Where’s Jackie?” “When President Donald Trump was in office, the media talked constantly about the 25th Amendment. There were even reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein tried to invoke the 25th Amendment and replace Trump with Vice President Mike Pence. Now, however, the media area silent.” They know Harris is unelectable, even as an incumbent. They want Biden to stick around until they have someone to install in his place in 2024.

If you just remember that they’re pretty much always acting instrumentally, and in bad faith, the mysteries disappear.

A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR COLONISTS: New evidence for liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School officials texted Oakland shooting victims to not cooperate with police investigation: Sources. “Another disturbing headline about the shooting in Oakland comes from the ABC7 I-Team, law enforcement sources tell us school officials have sent text messages to shooting victims, instructing them not to cooperate with police. We’re hearing it’s a pattern, and some parents at the school are worried that a lack of action by school officials after previous incidents may have led to this escalation in violence. Law enforcement sources tell the I-Team, Oakland police investigators have obtained text messages from the shooting victims’ phones in which Rudsdale school officials tell them not to cooperate with police.“

OH: Pro-Vax Doc Believes COVID Booster Accelerated His Cancer.

LONG STORY SHORT: Is antibiotic resistance good evidence for macroevolution? Maybe, maybe not, according to this animated Discovery Science video on HillFaith.

ENEMIES OF HUMAN FREEDOM, CREATIVITY: See, for example, the University of Michigan Health system, which I explain in my latest PJ Media column, fired Physician Assistant Valerie Kloosterman for refusing to use gender identity-based pronouns or prescribe certain gender dysphoria treatments. First Liberty Institute has given the system a deadline for making things right. Given the givens, I’d say the system would be well-advised to make the deadline.

YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS: Florida’s aquatic animals prepare early for storms like Hurricane Ian.

HE’S JUST TRYING TO OPEN NEW MARKETS: Planned Parenthood Director Claims That Men Can Get Pregnant During Hearing.

ADAMS AFTER DARK: Mayor Adams close to deal for Norwegian Cruise ship to house migrants in NYC waters.

Mayor Eric Adams is finalizing a deal with the Norwegian Cruise Line to house migrants on one of its massive cruise ships and dock it at Staten Island’s Homeport, The Post has learned.

Adams wants to lease the luxury liner for at least six months and use it to house and process migrants before they enter the city’s shelter system, a source familiar with the matter said.

The migrants would be allowed to come and go while staying on the ship, the source said.

Preliminary estimates show the plan will be “cheaper” than erecting another tent city similar to the one the city plans to open in the Bronx at the Orchard Beach parking lot, the source said.

Once again, life imitates Saturday Night Live’s classic “Dukakis After Dark” Sketch, when painter Leroy Neimann, played by Kevin Nealon, tells Jon Lovitz’s dejected Dukakis that his latest painting is titled, “‘What Might Have Been.’ It shows the nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz after its conversion into a floating shelter for the homeless.”

A MILLION HIPPIES AND CRYSTAL LADIES LOOK SMUG: Case study: Remission of metastatic breast cancer may have been due to use of cannabis oil and magic mushrooms.

JIM TREACHER: Lawyer Who Firebombed Cop Car for George Floyd Doesn’t Want to Be in Jail Anymore.

We’ve all been there: It’s Friday night, you’ve had one too many vodka shots, a black guy in a city 1,000 miles away just got killed by the cops, you’re sad and angry about a bunch of other stuff, and…

Well, okay. So maybe. Possibly. Perhaps… you firebombed one little police car. Out of all the law enforcement vehicles in the entire world, maybe one of them caught on fire because of your actions. Not 100. Not 10. Not even two. Just one single solitary teensy-weensy cop car.

Does that mean you should go to jail? For, like, years?

Josh Christenson, Washington Free Beacon:

A left-wing lawyer who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police cruiser is asking for a commutation of her sentence, pointing to the fact that she was inebriated at the time of the offense and coping with “unprocessed trauma,” according to court filings.

Attorneys for Urooj Rahman argue the self-described human-rights activist was “numb, disassociated, and inebriated” when she threw a Molotov cocktail into a New York City police car during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. Lawyers say Rahman was also reeling from her many “abusive partnership relationships” and processing “early trauma” from being taunted as a Muslim after 9/11.

I haven’t watched every episode of Perry Mason, but I definitely missed the one where he railed against the system and shouted, “I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all police stations down and probably the courts too. This sh** won’t ever stop unless we f***in’ take it all down. The only way they hear us is through violence.”

STACEY LENNOX: A Winning Midterm Strategy for Republicans.

THANK YOU, DR. OBVIOUS: Hospitals in coastal areas at greater risk of flooding during hurricanes.

In other news, hospitals in New England more vulnerable to blizzards than those in Florida.

VIDEO: Doddering old man wanders off again – FEMA can’t save him. “Biden wanders away from the podium as his FEMA administrator attempted to lead him in another direction.”

THE LEFT IS FURIOUS WITH KYRSTEN SINEMA AGAIN (BUT SHE’S RIGHT):

“Kyrsten Sinema sold us all out.”

“Kyrsten Sinema facilitates fascism!”

“Parents: make sure to give your children all the attention they need, so they don’t grow up to be Kyrsten Sinema.”

Social media posts like this targeting Senator Kyrsten Sinema accrued hundreds of thousands of likes and shares this week.

What did the maverick Arizona Democrat do to prompt this unhinged outrage? Simply take a stand for the filibuster, part of our system of checks and balances that keeps us free, a position that until quite recently was uncontroversial even among Democrats.

“The danger of eliminating the 60-vote threshold is that the Senate becomes the House,” Sinema said at an event earlier in the week. “And I remind everyone, I left the House and ran for the Senate for a reason.”

The senator made a compelling case for maintaining the Senate filibuster, which requires 60-votes to pass legislation instead of a bare majority, 50 votes.

“When Republicans are in control, they pass a little bit of crazy legislation,” she argued. “When Democrats are in control, they pass a little bit of crazy legislation. And the job of the Senate is to cool that passion.”

In sharp contrast: The Humiliation of Joe Manchin.

THAT’S A WELCOME CHANGE FROM THE USUAL LAWLESSNESS: Biden Scales Back Student Loan Debt Relief Because He Knows the Plan Is Illegal.

GREAT MOMENTS IN #METOO: “Traumatized” by Kavanaugh, #MeToo Snowflake Journalista Runs to Al Franken.

As part of her promotional tour, Lithwick did an extended interview with her old friend … Al Franken. Franken, a former Saturday Night Live writer and personality, resigned from the Senate in 2017 among accusations of sexual misconduct. There were eight accusations in total, including Leeann Tweeden, a radio news anchor, who says Franken groped and forcibly kissed her during a USO tour in 2006, before the former comedian was a senator. Tweeded says Franken “aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth” when the pair rehearsed a skit that featured a kiss. A photo emerged showing Franken looking at a camera while pretending to grab Tweeden’s breasts as she was sleeping.

Imagine if such a photo showing me or Brett doing something similar ever came out.

Imagine Dahlia’s trauma.

Read the whole thing.

LAUGHING WOLF’S TAKE ON PUTIN’S ANNEXATION, ANTI-WESTERN, FOREVER WAR SPEECH: Well, Shit. “I really want to go back and re-listen to his words and phrasing, but I believe Vladimir may have just repudiated every arms treaty, strategic or otherwise, in effect. That Russia would not be bound by efforts to reduce her defense by other powers who were already in violation of said treaties and using them to keep the Rodina down. Huge, and I suspect this is going to get overlooked in the short term. Oh, it was also the reason for my ‘Oh. Shit.’ twitter post.”

Read the whole thing.

DEAL OF THE DAY: CARTMAN Warning Triangle DOT Approved. #CommissionEarned

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX again doubles the world in upmass.

In its quarterly reports on orbital space launches, the BryceTech analysis firm tallies upmass by each launch provider. During the second quarter of 2022, the report found that SpaceX delivered 158.7 metric tons to low Earth orbit, ahead of China’s space corporation CASC at 38.8 tons, Roscosmos at 17.2 tons, United Launch Alliance at 13.0 tons, and Arianespace at 9.8 tons.

Small potatoes for now … SpaceX alone doubled the rest of the world in the amount of payload delivered to orbit. It launched four times the mass of the entire nation of China. The bulk of this mass, of course, was composed of Starlink satellites as the company builds out its low Earth orbit megaconstellation.

Musk uses Starlink to create the demand SpaceX needs to generate the profits required to develop Starship to move even further ahead of the competition.

It’s about as clever a business model, certainly at this scale, as any of us is ever likely to see.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Mitt Romney’s Tedious Treachery Shtick Has Worn Thin. “Mittens masquerades as a man of deep principles. In reality, he’s a base political opportunist, no different from most politicians.”

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY: University of Vermont under federal investigation for alleged antisemitism.

THE WAR ON POLITICAL OPPOSITION: