THE REAL NEWS WILL BE IF HE TELLS THE TRUTH: Border Patrol officials: Mayorkas is lying about the border — again.

DEAL OF THE DAY: ANCEL Classic Enhanced Universal OBD II Scanner. #CommissionEarned

NEWS FROM CLOWNWORLD:  Dems Argue Stabilizing Braces Turn Rifles Into Machine Guns In Congressional Hearing On Gun Control.

HMM: Is This Biden Photo Staged? Is He Really ‘Busy’ While Quarantining?

OUR PUBLIC-HEALTH PEOPLE ARE DOING A BANG-UP JOB: Polio reported for 1st time in US in nearly a decade.

It’s a vaccine-induced polio. The response: New York county official urges residents to get vaccinated after first case of polio in years. Okay, to be fair, the live-virus vaccine is used abroad, not in the U.S.

IT’S BEEN A SLIP OF A MASK FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS:  Gun control proponents let the mask slip.

THE EVIDENCE KEEPS MOUNTING:  Using the Wuhan panic to kill children.

And these people, mostly childless, are failing to understand the revenge they’ll unleash.

“THE SOCIETY OF PATHETIC LOSER NERDS”?   Quidditch League officially breaks from J.K. Rowling with brand new name.

I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO SHIP THESE “MIGRANTS” TO RED STATES?  Migrants sent to NYC amid homeless shelter crisis have no local ties, were directed here by Biden admin.

Clearly they’ve run out of compliant red states, and will now send them to their own.

ARE BOTH CLEARLY AND OBVIOUSLY EXPLODED AND DANGEROUS?  Globalism and the Georgia Stones.

THEY NEVER EVER BELIEVE THEIR IDEAS SUCK. INSTEAD THEY THEY THINK WE JUST DIDN’T UNDERSTAND:  The Left Should Be Happy with Biden.

Sooner or later we’ll have to pierce their preening self-conceit.

THIS IS A SURPRISE FOR ANYONE?  Black Lives Matter: Black Supremacists.

AND ALL THIS, ABSOLUTELY ALL THIS IS BEING INFLICTED ON US FROM ABOVE:  The State Of The US Consumer: AT&T Crashes As Americans Can’t Afford To Pay Their Phone Bills.

Remember that.

INTERESTING MY PREDICTIONS ARE CORROBORATED:  Blackstone Prepares A Record $50 Billion To Snap Up Real Estate During The Coming Crash.

WHO HAD “TRUCKERS, HEROES OF FREEDOM” ON THE BINGO CARD FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY?  Independent Truckers Protesting New Labor Law Shut Down Port of Oakland.

I HAVE A QUESTION: IS THE OPENING — TAKING DOWN REALLY — OF THE BORDERS, AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE NEW PANDEMIC PANIC?  New York State Confirms Polio Case, First Recorded Case Since 2013.

Just curious, really. I’m convinced attempts at such won’t work, because the Covidiocy was an example of Manuel Garcia O’Kelly’s (in Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) classification of jokes: “Funny only once.”

OH, REELY?  Gascón Bringing in Country’s Highest-Paid Attorney to Fight His Prosecutors.

NOTED. SO NO ONE CARES: Jean-Pierre Doesn’t Think it Matters Where Biden Got Infected With COVID.

We’ll remember this when you try to lock us down and contact trace us again!

GOOD LUCK:  Report: The Senate Armed Services Committee Calls For Pentagon To Cease Rooting Out “Extremism” In The Military.

MORE VIOLENCE AGAINST REPUBLICANS: Rep. Lee Zeldin attacked at Perinton campaign stop. “Congressman Lee Zeldin was attacked at a campaign event in Perinton Thursday night. Zeldin is the Republican candidate for governor in New York State. Witnesses say Zeldin was giving a speech about bail reform at the VFW on Macedon Center Road when a man got on stage, started yelling, ‘wrestled with him a bit, and pulled a blade out.’ The alleged attacker was suppressed by AMVETS national Director Joe Chenelly. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said he was taken into custody.”

Zeldin wasn’t hurt, and continued his speech. But we all know how the press would treat this with the parties reversed.

UPDATE (From Ed): Speaking of which, I guess we won’t be getting any “dangers of violent rhetoric”-style lectures from the DNC-MSM:

(Updated and bumped.)

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Here Are The Senior Biden Officials Entangled in Durham’s Criminal Russiagate Probe.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: America’s woke Army is facing a recruiting nightmare. “The worst part is this: The military leadership has broken faith with the troops. We don’t hear much about the debacle in Afghanistan that took place not even a year ago — since it makes a Democratic administration look bad, it’s not a fit subject for conversation in polite society — but people haven’t forgotten.”

Plus: “To have a volunteer army, you need volunteers.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “How fitting that this is posted right next to the robot dog with the machine gun.”

MINNEAPOLIS VENUE CANCELS DAVE CHAPPELLE PERFORMANCE, VOWS TO BECOME ‘THE SAFEST SPACE.’

First Avenue can invite and disinvite whomever it wants, of course. But it’s hard to see this move as anything other than cowardly and counterproductive.

For one thing, canceling the performance does not even accomplish the narrow goal of stopping Chappelle from speaking. As the statement noted, the performance was merely being transferred to an alternative location—and all ticket holders will be able to watch him there. If ever there was an example of virtue signaling, this is it.

Then again, is it really virtuous to punish a comedian for engaging in transgressive artistic expression? First Avenue never used to think so. The venue is featured heavily in Prince’s film, Purple Rain, and was known for promoting artists who defied boundaries and flouted social conventions. Today, First Avenue is afraid of offending a small number of hypersensitive progressives.

And given that it’s Minneapolis, getting its building torched.

Literally, that is. It was metaphorically torched by Chappelle at the venue that stepped up to host him: “So, Chappelle performed at the Variety Theater, where he laughed off the controversy like he was always going to do. No cellphones were allowed. But Chappelle was said to have called his critics a ‘small group of transgender lunatics’ and slammed First Avenue for not having more courage. ‘I can see a transgender hit squad from a mile off.’”

THE VACCINES ARE UNDERPERFORMING: A Pandemic of the Vaccinated: President Biden tests positive for COVID-19.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.