GOODER AND HARDER: ‘Gotta get that inflation down’: Students are worried about getting a job.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: ‘Mega Emergency’ Unfolds For World’s Top Coffee Growers As Fertilizer Costs Spike. “Coffee farmers in Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, some of the largest coffee-producing countries in the world, are having trouble affording high fertilizer costs. Some farmers are substituting organic waste as a low-cost solution to nitrogen, phosphorous, and potash fertilizers. The move, however, will result in significantly reduced harvests of the bean.”

If the coffee runs out there’s going to be serious trouble.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Quarantine Slaughterhouse: Non-COVID Deaths Spiked During Lockdowns.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Resistance is rising to woke colleges’ and corporations’ race and sex discrimination.

JOANNE JACOBS: Students’ search for meaning. “Wokeism has infected universities with ‘an already weakened intellectual immune system. Students haven’t learned to think, so they lack the means to spot its inconsistencies, its hypocrisies, its absurdities.'”

Mission: Accomplished.

HOW’S THAT WELCOME WAGON PROGRAM COMING ALONG?

● Manhattan led US in population loss during year of pandemic.

—The New York Post, yesterday.

● L.A.’s population dropped by 176,000 in 1st full year of pandemic, 2nd largest drop nationwide.

—L.A.’s ABC-7 yesterday.

There’s another issue that’s very likely playing a factor. As the Wall Street Journal noted in June of 2020: Liberal Cities, Radical Mayhem: Democratic mayors and governors seem unable to stop the destruction of their own cities.

The “broken-windows” school of policing says that you can help maintain public order by taking care of even small examples of disorder—such as fixing broken windows. Liberals scorned that policy in the last decade as somehow racist. Well, in recent days we’ve learned that America’s left does have a broken-windows policy: Let rioters break enough windows and loot enough stores and maybe their righteous anger will be satisfied.

That’s certainly how it looked when the June sun rose Tuesday over the broken glass, looted storefronts, burnt-out cars, and vandalized buildings in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Madison and other American cities. Public officials let rioters exploiting the memory of George Floyd run wild in the streets. Even after nearly a week of violence, these and other liberal Democratic cities let lawless radicals harass and plunder almost at will.

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This isn’t merely about damage to property. It’s about destroying the order required for city life. Non-criminals are afraid to go into these cities to make a living. The police pull back from active policing, which creates more opportunity for criminals, especially in poor and minority neighborhoods. Businesses that are finally starting to emerge from government lockdowns have new costs to absorb and more reasons for customers not to return.

What all these cities have in common is that they are led by Democrats who seem to have bought into the belief that the police are a bigger problem than rampant disorder. They are either cowed by their party’s left, or they agree that America is systemically racist and rioting is a justified expression of anger against it. They offer pro forma disapproval of law breakers but refuse to act to stop them.

CTRL-F “Riot” brings up zero results from both articles, curiously enough.

Related: From AP yesterday: LA police: Wearing expensive jewelry could make you a target.

WELL, THAT’S PROBABLY BECAUSE HE DID: More believe Biden ‘perhaps profited’ off son Hunter’s schemes.

THE CRAZY YEARS CONTINUE:  Washington State “Schools Adopt Race-Based Discipline, White Students to Get Harsher Punishment.” (Yes, of course, this is illegal.)

SCOTT GERBER: The Constitution won’t interpret itself. Ketanji Brown Jackson owes us an answer on her judicial philosophy.

EASY EVEN FOR A NON-BIOLOGIST: Five (Easy?) Questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson.

STILL POPULAR: Hanes Men’s Long-Sleeve Beefy Henley T-Shirt. #CommissionEarned

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden Approval Rating Plummets in Deep-Blue State He Won by 29 Points.

OKAY, GROOMER: Disney Launching Task Force to Make More LGBTQ+ Content for Children and Families.

Chapek and his senior leaders say they will now embark on a global listening tour and meet with employees in the United States and internationally as an act of contrition for their actions.

He promised more apologies on more sites and in more countries until staff are satisfied.

Disney also said it has established an LGBTQ+ task force to be led by Paul Roeder, senior vice president of communications for the Studios, and Lisa Becket, senior vice president of global marketing for Disney Parks, Experiences and Products.

The company said the task force will seek out experts to develop a concrete plan to ensure Disney is “a force for good” for LGBTQ+ communities, especially children and family.

Offer void in China, however: What’s Holding Disney Back From More LGBT Characters Like Loki? Chinese Censors.

OOPS: Backfire: Florida parental rights sex-ed policy supported by 52% — of Dem primary voters.

The problem for Democrats is the existance of “woketraps” — positions that even most Democrats hate, but in which the woke activists who control the party are irrationally invested. The opportunity for Republicans is in getting the Democrats stuck in as many of these as possible.

SANCTIONS: Just How Screwed Are Russian Airlines? “Both Boeing and Airbus have suspended all maintenance support with Russia. Without legitimate spare parts, even Russian-owned aircraft could be banned from flying internationally. And even Russian Sukhoi depends on German Lufthansa Technik for spare parts.”

Much more at the link.

EUGENE VOLOKH: Justice Kavanaugh on Strict Scrutiny.

ALL PART OF THE SOCIAL-CREDIT PLAN: The coming federal weaponization of banking.

Our ruling class doesn’t see the CCP as a foe or a warning, but as an example.

BIDEN WARNS OF FOOD SHORTAGES IN WAKE OF RUSSIA–UKRAINE WAR: ‘It’s Going to Be Real.’

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a press conference earlier this week that the U.S. is itself not expecting a food shortage for Americans.

“While we’re not expecting a food shortage here at home, we do anticipate that higher energy, fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical . . . food supplies for countries around the world,” Psaki told reporters.

Flashback: Biden warns of ‘winter of severe illness and death’ for the unvaccinated.

The Biden administration sure is a font of good news. But hey, as Bloomberg told its Biden-supporting readers this past Saturday, “Nobody said this would be fun.”

THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME THAT THE PHILADELPHIA CITY COUNCIL HAS TAKEN A LIBERTARIAN STANCE ON ANYTHING: Philadelphia City Council votes against calling for no-fly zone in Ukraine.

If the vote had gone the other way though, it would have made perfect sense for World War III to have begun in modern day Philly.

DAHLIA LITHWICK WONDERS WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE AFRAID TO SPELL OUT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL THEORIES, and Ann Althouse replies: “I think I can solve the mystery of what the Democrats are afraid of. They’re afraid of the electorate and that to lay out a ‘theory for progressive jurisprudence’ would only alienate people. It’s better to hold back, blandly honor the historic!!! nominee, and wait for the Republicans to create the opportunities to call them meanies. I strongly suspect that Lithwick knows this very well.”

ENDORSED: New York Post: Drop Airplane Mask Mandates Yesterday.

UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Tennessee Schools Flagrantly Breaking Anti-CRT Law. “We’re business as usual in this district… we don’t really let anybody tell us what to do.”

GOOD NEWS FOR MY INDUSTRY: Student Interest In Law School Has Ballooned During The Pandemic.

THE #RESISTANCE IS STILL AROUND: Salt Lake City:

The octane is some sort of weird Utah thing, apparently. And from Northwest Pennsylvania:

THE GOP NEEDS TO STOP BUYING WHAT THE LEFT SELLS:  If GOP Doesn’t Make Right Moves, More Problems Ahead.

I swear they’re the only people who do. They have to realize no one wants a uniparty.