GOOD:  Florida Supreme Court Leaves DeSantis Redistricting Map In Place, In Blow To Democrats.

MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT AT DA’SHONTAY KING FUNERAL AT GRACELAND CEMETERY, WISCONSIN.

OPEN THREAD: Okay, everybody, lie down on the floor and keep calm.

WAIT, WHEN WAS MILTON FRIEDMAN RUNNING THE SHOW? How the Government is Destroying Our Money (Explained).

(Classical allusion in headline.)

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Startups raise millions for lunar rovers and asteroid mining.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: AOC-backed progressive candidate drops out of NY race, blames Democratic Party’s redistricting and accuses it of racism.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: School shootings show our leaders, not Americans, are the moral failures.

It’s a standard pattern. After a tragedy like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, pundits, journalists and politicians come forward to say that the event is evidence of some deep moral failure, a flaw in America’s soul. Predictably enough, of course, they then preach that salvation can only come by doing what they want.

But when the facts come in, it invariably turns out that the tragedy doesn’t stem from a spiritual failing in America but rather from the fact that some (most?) of our institutions are run by creeps, crooks and incompetents.

Read the whole thing.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: CA Charter School Touts ‘Proud Queer Asian-Latinx Educator’ Teaching ‘Complexities of Intersectionality’ to 5-Year-Olds.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses To Tell Press — Or Can’t Tell Press — Who Briefed Joe Biden About Baby Formula Crisis. Biden: CEOs Understood the Abbott Shutdown Would Be Devastating– But I Didn’t.

NARRATIVE CONTROL: Has Anyone Highlighted This Key Detail About the Texas Shooter’s Background Check?

So, what happened here? Was this a background check failure? It’s not the first time. Dylann Roof, Devin Patrick Kelley, and Nikolas Cruz were all able to legally buy their weapons either due to severe clerical errors or authorities simply dropping the ball. If that’s the case, then this whole narrative about expanding background checks has been delivered a massive blow. The system is only as good as the people tasked with its maintenance. Scott Hounsell over at RedState also made this point regarding Ramos listing his grandparents’ residence on the background check form. That needs investigating, but we’ll probably never get one since that distracts from the Democrats’ gun-grabbing antics. It’s a key detail. And for those on the Left who are all about doing this, that, and the other to enhance public safety in the wake of this tragic shooting—this is the litmus test. Are you going to take this seriously or not.

As I say, we keep being told that these shootings are a symptom of America’s deep moral failings, when really they’re because we’re ruled by crooks, idiots, and incompetents.

FASTER, PLEASE: U.S. Intel: ‘Everyone Is Sensing the End Is Near’ for Putin.

THE TRUTH ABOUT PRIDE MONTH: His Fraudulency proclaimed June as Pride Month because America is, according to him and those who think as Joe Biden does, a racist, bigoted, homophobic land marked by “relentless attacks” on LGBQT people.

There are relentless attacks in America but not against those Biden lauds. In my latest column over at PJMedia, I provide three specific examples, which is three more than the President put forth in his defamatory proclamation about the vast majority of Americans.

I’M ON THE NCLA BOARD, BTW: NCLA Wins Appeal: Second Cir. Rejects Cornell’s Effort to Strip Due Process Rights from Faculty in Title IX Hearing.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today vacated the dismissal of the Title IX and defamation claims in Dr. Mukund Vengalattore v. Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Education. It held that university discrimination against faculty on the basis of sex is subject to suit under Title IX. The majority and concurring opinions expressed shock at the lack of due process and general treatment of Dr. Mukund Vengalattore by Cornell University. Judge José Cabranes, in his concurrence, noted that Cornell’s actions (if proved at trial) represent “deeply troubling aspects of contemporary university procedures to adjudicate complaints under Title IX” and “signal a retreat from the foundational principle of due process.” . . .

Judge Amalya Kearse, writing for the majority, described Cornell’s procedures in dealing with the allegations as “fundamentally skewed.” Judge Kearse noted that “The accuracy of the investigators’ recommended finding that Vengalattore had a sexual relationship with [Jane] Roe … is plausibly called into question not only in light of the investigators’ rejection of Vengalattore’s requests to pursue evidence that could have supported his denial of a sexual relationship with Roe, but also in light of rationales proffered by the investigators for certain conclusions.”

Cornell’s investigators dismissed all exculpatory witnesses as irrelevant to the investigation or outright refused to listen to them. The investigators also ignored inconsistencies in Roe’s statements and refused to tell Dr. Vengalattore what charges he was facing yet required him to prove his innocence. Cornell denied Dr. Vengalattore a hearing, denied him the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied him the right to present his own live witnesses. Notably, Judge Cabranes, in the concurrence, stated, “insulated from review, it is no wonder that, in some cases, these procedures have been compared unfavorably to those of the infamous English Star Chamber.”

With good reason.

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AND THIS IS WHY WE SAY, “DON’T GET COCKY:” Gas Prices Are Skyrocketing, So House Republicans Are Running On Reducing Greenhouse Gases For Midterms.

In accordance with the prophecy: Democrat Pilot And Republican Co-Pilot Argue Over How Fast They Should Fly Plane Into Ground.

GOOD NEWS FOR STEPHEN GREEN: “The human liver stays youthful even while the rest of our bodies grow old, according to new research, and on average the organ is less than three years old, no matter what the age of the person it’s attached to.”

WELL, YES: Voters, not NRA money, drive the resistance to gun control.

Democrats assume that everything is astroturf driven by billionaires and special interest groups because that’s how things work for them.

NEWS FOR PEOPLE WITH UTERUSES: Freezing eggs may be the best option for women who want to delay childbirth. OMG, the headline says “women.” How bigoted!

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Gov. Ron DeSantis to Veto $35 Million Tampa Bay Rays Facility Amid Polarization of Shootings. “DeSantis is giving a voice to the people who do not want their sports and children’s companies on the front lines of the cultural divide. Florida residents had called for DeSantis to veto the spending anyway, saying that Floridians’ tax dollars should not help fund a facility for a professional sports team.”

UPDATE: The Governing Style of Ron DeSantis: Create the Public Polling Results, Don’t Follow Them.

THAT’S WHO THEY ARE, THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: NPR Conflates Mass Shootings With School Shootings to Wildly Overstate the Problem.

THE SIGN IN THE WINDOW IS NOT PHOTOSHOPPED: Seen in East Hanover, NJ.

SMART: The Colorado and Ohio Model Programs That Train Teachers to Defeat Active Shooters.

NOW JUDGE, SUPPOSE I FAIL? Amber Heard ‘can’t pay’ $10.4M Depp judgment.

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: New documentary shows pediatrician saying prepubescent kids are ready for trans hormone therapy ‘whenever they ask for it’ and claiming you can ‘pause’ hormones ‘like music’ with the same drugs used to chemically castrate pedophiles.

THE PAST IS NOT ONLY STRANGER THAN WE IMAGINE, BUT STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE: Park Ave. Pickelhaube Pyramids — WW1’s Strangest Monuments. New video from historian Mark Felton: