HMM: Breakthrough Monkeypox Cases Seen Weeks After Second Jynneos Dose.

FROM MARIO FANTE AND ZOE SAUNDERS:  The Future Is Yours!  #CommissionEarned

She is a Terran Academy Scout in good standing, who can map the stars and even pilot a starship. But she still needs to learn how to navigate the hopes and fears of growing up. And her eccentric father is there to teach her!

INTERESTING NEWS YOU CAN’T DO MUCH ABOUT:  Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN MICHAEL STEELE WAS MISMANAGER OF THE RNC:  In a new low, MSNBC spews sickening speech about Republicans whose opinions it doesn’t like.

He has won this strange new respect the old fashioned way: by turning his coat.

APPARENTLY THERE IS ONE THING ON WHICH DON LEMON AND I CAN AGREE:  CNN’s Don Lemon claims covering politics in primetime gig had ‘gotten old’.

Le Lemon’s covering up of democratic insanity and fraud had indeed gotten tedious.

REAPING WHAT THEY’VE SOWN:  San Franciscans arm themselves to walk to work past drug clinics.

WELL, YOU KNOW, IT’S NOT LIKE WE HAVE A MASSIVE NURSE SHORTAGE OR ANYTHING:  Nurses fired and blacklisted for either being white or Christian.

CHINA GROWTH HAS BEEN OVER FOR A WHILE:  Expats leaving China en masse; from Blackrock Capital to Peter Zeihan, “China growth is over”.

They’ve just stopped being able to hide it.

NO. NOT SO LONG AS COLORADO HAS FRAUD BY MAIL:  Midterms 2022: Colorado Senate Race.

CLOWN WORLD:  Fetterman Gets Donor To Write Doctor’s Note.

SIR? I’D TAKE UNPRINCIPLED POPULISTS ANY DAY AND TWICE ON SUNDAY OVER RAT-FINK STATISTS LIKE YOU:  Mike Pence: Beware of Unprincipled Populists.

If your presidential aspirations aren’t dead yet, let me make it clear: they are dead aspirations walking. You’ve shown us your face. You’re done. Free Americans will have none of you.

TWO OF A KIND:  Biden Snaps at Reporters, Then Mumbles His Way Through a Rally for Fetterman.

HAVE SOME COMPASSION FOR OUR BROKEN KIDS:  Kindle A Light For The Lost.

WELL, CULTURES BROKEN BY COMMUNISM HAVE ISSUES:  The shocking scale of theft in the Russian army.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE!  Gallup: “independents’ confidence” in mass media “is at the lowest point” ever.

FOR THE LEFT “FASCIST” MEANS “I DON’T LIKE YOU”:  Adam Pankratz: Vancouver’s first Asian mayor is hardly a ‘fascist,’ no matter what the left says.

THESE PEOPLE AREN’T VICTIMS. THEY’RE SADISTS:  (Actual) Ableism out of the UK.

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I HAD MISSED THIS: Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline.’ And we’ve hit China with stiff semiconductor sanctions. Sorta like the sanctions we put on Japan before Pearl Harbor.

Related: “Drastic shift.”

If China invades, it’s probably because they think they can win quickly. Putin thought that about Ukraine, too.

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THE SHE-HULK FINALE PROVES DISAPPROVING AUDIENCES ARE GETTING TO WOKE WRITERS:

In the interview with Variety, head writer Jessica Gao wanted to create a show that attacked the “trolls” that hate on shows like “She-Hulk”:

Our writers room opened three years ago. The fact that we were able to predict what the reaction was going to be, what a lot of the trolling comments were going to be, really shows how very tired and unoriginal these trolls are. That really tickled me because the little troll that lives inside of me really loves trolling the trolls.

Lead actress Tatiana Maslany heaped praise on Gao for her troll-baiting:

Jessica Gao is a genius and knows about the culture we’re living in and her position in it when she’s writing these stories about a woman superhero. She knows what that response is going to be. As a cast, it was delightful sending each other these troll responses, like “Oh my god, give them a week and then they’re going to literally see this pop up verbatim in the show and become the villains of the show.” It was thrilling.

To be clear, the main focus of this Variety article was about trolling “trolls.” This means that this was, in effect, one of the main points of this show. They wanted to make something that would make people angry.

This tells us quite a few things and none of them look good for the She-Hulk writers. Moreover, this doesn’t look good for any writers that are injecting woke ideologies into programs.

Weaponizing audiences to both gin-up hype and dismiss failed projects and was a huge mistake by Hollywood.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force briefing on military space race catches Jeff Bezos’ attention.

45 YEARS AFTER LYNYRD SKYNYRD PLANE CRASH, TRAGEDY STILL FRESH FOR SURVIVOR: Oct. 20, 1977, crash that killed 3 came days after release of Street Survivor album.

LEFT DECLARES VANCOUVER’S FIRST ASIAN MAYOR “FASCIST,” GUILTY OF “WHITE SUPREMACY:”

On Saturday, a wave of change swept through British Columbia’s municipal elections. Nowhere more so than in Vancouver, where the newly formed ABC party, led by Ken Sim, took the mayoralty, seven out of 10 council seats, as well as a majority on the park board and school board. Given that Sim was the first Chinese-Canadian to be elected mayor of Canada’s third-largest city, one would think his win would be universally hailed as a victory for progress and racial equality. Unfortunately, it was not.

KATIE HOBBS’ BALLOT ERROR JUST PROVED KARI LAKE’S POINT:

Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — also her party’s nominee for governor in this November’s election — just proved a major point of her Republican opponent Kari Lake’s case against Hobbs.

This week, under Hobbs’ leadership, the AZ Department of State improperly marked roughly 6,000 voters as only being eligible to vote in federal races — and at least 1,000 voters already received the wrong absentee ballot.

In an official letter, Hobbs issued a statement on what she called “a federal only voter data error” that the secretary of state said was to blame for the ballot fumble:

“My office found and corrected a database error in concert with the Motor Vehicle Division” that supposedly caused thousands of voters to be marked for absentee ballots that only had federal races rather than the full slate of elections, specifically excluding the race for governor — in which Hobbs is running — along with other state and local offices.

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Hobbs is, as the secretary of state, Arizona’s chief election officer. On her watch — and while she’s been busy campaigning (but not debating her opponent) — as many as 6,000 voters were improperly flagged as being eligible to vote only in federal races.

Meanwhile, one of Kari Lake’s main critiques of Hobbs has been the “incompetent” performance as the head of Arizona’s elections. Now, three weeks before election day, Hobbs’ ballot “oops” just played right into Lake’s campaign narrative.

It gets worse for Hobbs: Katie Hobbs Last Week: I Don’t Have to Debate Kari Lake, I Am Answering Reporters’ Questions Instead. Katie Hobbs Now: I’m Also Now Refusing to Answer Reporters’ Questions.