JUST DO IT: NASA Considers Using SpaceX Crew Dragon to Extend Hubble Telescope’s Life.

MITTENS: No Surprise: ‘Liz’ Romney Stabs Mike Lee in the Back.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: San Francisco Unified School District facilitates secret child sexual transitions and allows students to identify as “it.”

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: FBI allegedly engaging in ‘purge’ of conservative employees, retaliating against whistleblowers.

MARK JUDGE: Unserious Moonlight.  A review of Moonage Daydream. (Written and directed by Brett Morgen, PG-13, 135 minutes, in theaters.) David Bowie was the glorious product of a classical Western education, but a new documentary traffics in clichés.

How fascinating, penetrating, and wonderful “Moorage [sic—Ed] Daydream” might have been had Brett Morgen slowed down and taken the time to examine the books that made Bowie Bowie. Rather than the usual narrative of the kid who discovers the Beats and goes on to embrace revolutionary politics, it may have shown David Bowie as the glorious product of a classical Western education.

Read the whole thing. I saw Moonage Daydream (in a surprisingly empty theater) this past weekend in Fort Worth. Deafening soundtrack, albeit with a good use of surround sound, and overall, very far removed from the typical A&E Biography sort of documentary. If you’re not familiar with the broad overview of Bowie’s history, you may emerge completely baffled by its seriously trippy style. But between the imagery and Bowie’s narration, I thought it did a good job of getting into the Thin White Duke’s mindset at the various points in his career, even if, as Judge writes, it could have been so much more.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Biden and Education Department accused of muzzling conservatives.

BOB MCMANUS: Eric Adams is flunking his Rudy Giuliani moment on the border crisis.

PRIORITIES: Insane Man Murders EMT in NYC as Crime Up 33% and Mayor Returns from Puerto Rico Photo-Op.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT DEMOCRATS AND CHILD ABUSE? Tim Ryan Attends Fundraiser Hosted by Attorney Who Pressed To Minimize Payouts to Nassar’s Victims.

GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Salon: first they come for the transgenders, then they will come for you.

Then they accuse us of being violent. Even “silence is violence.” They fake hate crimes every day to prove how awful Americans are too. Here’s their current rant:

Violence is central to fascism. It forms its origin myths and is one of the primary ways that fascism asserts itself. The power to engage in acts of violence against designated enemies with near-total impunity is one of the main reasons people join fascist movements. As history makes obvious, once fascists take control of a society they maintain and expand their power through violence.

In an era when the Republican Party, the “conservative” movement and the larger white right have de facto embraced fascism, political violence is a constant threat — and the “culture war” may no longer be largely rhetorical or categorical. Indeed, the struggle over cultural issues are a principal battlefield in the current struggle for American democracy.

Yep, America’s cities were burnt down in 2020 by White Supremacists, Crisis Pregnancy Centers are getting vandalized at the instigation of Ron DeSantis, and conservative mayors and governors have opened the doors of prisons and invited flash mobs to ransack stores. Right wing violence is rampant. Even exhibit #1 of right wing “violence”–January 6th riot–was mostly selfies and walking around the Capitol. The only person who died was shot in the back by a Capitol Police officer, although the president keeps lying and saying 5 people were killed. When Biden opens his mouth nothing but lies and made up words come out, it seems.

To be fair, Salon has been declaring Republicans to be fascists while begging for socialism to be nationalized for quite some time.

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Youngkin’s midterm advice to GOP: It’s the “kitchen-table issues,” stupid.

NORDSTREAM: Sigh. I shouldn’t do this, but…

I call them “incidents” for a reason. I grew up in overseas oilfields. I try to, by training, observe everything from as objectively neutral a viewpoint as possible.

In my experience when anything involving energy-industry hydrocarbons explodes … well, sabotage isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. And honestly, when it comes to a pipeline running natural gas under Russian (non)maintenance, an explosion means that it’s Tuesday. Or Friday. Or another day of the week ending in “y”.

“But, LawDog,” I hear you say, “It was multiple explosions!”

Yes, 17 hours apart. No military is going to arrange for two pipes in the same general area to be destroyed 17 hours apart. Not without some Spec Ops guy having a fit of apoplexy. One pipe goes up in a busy shipping lane, in a busy sea, and everyone takes notice. Then you wait 17 hours to do the second — with 17 hours for people to show up and catch you running dirty? Nah, not buying it.

Lots to chew on at the link.

NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL THIS TIME: 2nd grader kicked out of school after parents’ outrage over bathtub picture assignment.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Digital Meat Thermometer. #CommisionEarned

ROGER KIMBALL: Joe Biden and the Sovietization of America.

But what has been true of Joe Biden from before his administration began continues to be true. It is not he who was the architect of his performance, from the imperial stage set, of which Albert Speer would have been proud, to his hectoring attack on “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans [who] represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”

THEY’RE FLAILING: White House in Turmoil, Planning Major Shake-Up.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Mortgage rates near 7%, cooling off housing markets.

ARIZONA: As Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward Alleges Maricopa County Broke the Law in the 2022 Primary Election, Groups Launch Drop Box-Watching Operations.

The Arizona Legislature was unable to get a bill passed this year clearly banning unmonitored absentee ballot drop boxes, so local activists are organizing schedules of volunteers to watch them, concerned after reports of unusual activity during the primary election this year. Existing law, A.R.S. 16-1005(E), prohibits absentee ballot drop boxes operated by entities other than the government, but legal disputes remain over how much the government is required to monitor them.

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward told The Arizona Sun Times the party is working to facilitate addressing complaints from the absentee ballot drop box watchers that come in. “We are building the attorney network and the reporting structure so we can address problems as they happen,” she said. “We also have thousands of poll observers trained and we are working to make sure Maricopa County doesn’t break the law again in the general like they did in the primary.”

Keep an eye on ’em.

I NO LONGER KNOW IF THE BABYLON BEE IS GIVING THE JUNTA IDEAS OR MERELY PREDICTING THE FUTURE:  Russian Spy Awarded Presidential Medal Of Freedom For Being First Openly Transgender Traitor To Country.

ALL OF THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE MSM SOURCES ASSURE ME THIS NEVER HAPPENS:  Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes.

IN THE END, IT’S HUMANS THEY HATE. THEY WANT US ALL DEAD:  Climate Activists Attacking Fertiliser Use, Mass Produced Food.

If environmentalism were a conspiracy of an hostile alien race against humanity, what would be different?

ANOTHER ACADEMIC COMMIE:  Richard D. Wolff and the ice cream cones.

READ THEM AND WEEP:  Part 1: The ugly corrupt lie of the experimental COVID jab.

Part 2: How the liars spread the ugly corrupt lie of the COVID jab.

THE BIBLE BELT DOESN’T BUCKLE THE WAY IT USED TO:  Georgia lawmaker comes out as nonmonogamous, plans to start a family with 2 partners.

“Muslim” eh? I wonder what they’d think of that in Saudi Arabia.

BETRAYING THOSE THEY SUPPOSEDLY SERVE:  Manchin electric grid takeover mirrored by KCC.