DO YOUR SQUATS: Heart attack patients with strong legs have better prognosis.

GOODER AND HARDER, SAN FRAN: SF Mayor announced a crack-down on open-air drug markets, but was shouted down and had a brick thrown at her.

OKAY, GROOMERS: The North Face Debuts ‘Summer Of Pride’ With Campy Drag Video Amid Ongoing Bud Light, Target Backlash.

Despite ongoing customer boycotts against Bud Light and a new controversy with Target’s latest Pride Month push, outdoor sports gear brand The North Face just debuted an over-the-top “Summer of Pride” promotion on social media.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Instagram comments were still turned on for the post. The video clip features drag queen and self-described environmentalist and community organizer Pattie Gonia. The influencer co-founded the non-profit organization The Outdoorist Oath.

Why is North Face aiming their merchandise at kids?

THAT’S NOT HINKY AT ALL: White House U-Haul ramming suspect Sai Kandula jailed until next week, charges downgraded.

[Sai Varshith] Kandula later told federal agents he took a one-way flight from St. Louis to Washington, DC, and arrived around 8 p.m., court papers state. He then allegedly rented a U-Haul box truck and “drove directly to the White House.”

He allegedly said his goal was to “get to the White House, seize power, and be put in charge of the nation.”

When asked how, he responded he would “Kill the President if that’s what I have to do and would hurt anyone that would stand in my way,” according to court documents.

But now, hey, no biggie: “His federal charges have since been downgraded to a single count of depredation of property of the United States in excess of $1,000.”

KRUISER HAS MY VOTE: If Elected, I Will Outlaw All Virtue Signaling.

RIP: Tina Turner dead at 83.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Ways to Protect Your Gun Rights and Those of Your Children.

(ALMOST) SPACE: No one should be surprised Virgin Orbit failed—it had a terrible business plan.

That’s it. After six years, Virgin Orbit is done, and its LauncherOne will fly no more. The purpose of this article is not to criticize the company’s technology or employees. In truth, the engineering teams did a magnificent job of getting a liquid-fueled rocket to drop from a 747 aircraft, ignite its engine, and reach space.

No, the problem was Virgin Orbit’s management, including Chief Executive Officer Dan Hart and its founder, Sir Richard Branson. Due to their leadership, the company had a terrible, unsupportable business plan and compounded those issues by hiring an unsustainable workforce of 700 people.

Virgin Orbit originated more than a decade ago as an offshoot of Virgin Galactic, which was using an aircraft as a first stage to launch a suborbital space plane for tourists. In its early years, the company hired several engineers from SpaceX to begin designing a rocket that could be dropped from an aircraft.

This business ran fairly lean until Virgin Orbit was separated from its parent company in 2017, and Branson hired Hart, who had spent decades as a system engineer at Boeing’s Space division as its president. Hart instituted a more cautious approach and began staffing up the company. A planned first launch in 2018 was delayed by more than two years.

When LauncherOne finally took flight for the first time in May 2020, the company had spent a staggering amount of money, nearly $1 billion, developing the rocket and air-launch system. It was clear at the time that Virgin Orbit was never going to make that money back by charging $12 million to $15 million to launch a few hundred kilograms per mission.

I see two fundamental flaws here: “Cautious” and “Boeing.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Ninja AMZ493BRN Compact Kitchen System. #CommissionEarned

BREAKING: DeSantis Officially Files to Run for President.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Trans Movement Hits the Toilet in Oregon. “Common sense broke out in one Oregon high school over trans issues — or was it just vandalism?”

CHANGE: Netflix’s password sharing crackdown officially hits US users. “You can share your Netflix account with someone who doesn’t live with you for $7.99/month more.”

PEOPLE NEED TO BE PUNISHED, AND EXAMPLES NEED TO BE MADE: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: L.A. Dodgers Surpass Dallas Cowboys As Gayest Team In Sports.

A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC: Target Removes Satanic Pride Items Glorifying Violence but Blames Angry Customers for Being Confrontational.

PEOPLE SHOULD BE JAILED BY THE HUNDREDS FOR THIS GLOBAL ABUSE OF POWER. Australia’s Creepy Covid Cops: On the heels of an expose down under, new documents show how America’s Five Eyes partner cast a broad net over pandemic-related speech.

Seriously, the abuses are such that we need something along the lines of Nuremberg.

ED MORRISSEY: Another MSM meltdown: The DeSantis/Florida “book ban” that was … none of those. “So this national story about Ron DeSantis’ Florida and book banning comes down to … one school district moving three books in a ‘media center’ from one shelf to another.”

IS IT JUST ME, or do the Men’s Clothing offerings at Amazon look . . . different, somehow?

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Jack Dorsey trips over tenure as Twitter CEO while sounding alarm about FBI, CIA, NSA.

CDR SALAMANDER: The U.S. Navy in Disrepair.

That’s right kiddies; that rusting eyesore is the flagship of SNMG2.

The US Navy decided that this was the warship they wanted to represent the US Navy and the nation it serves. This was an act of commission – of intent – as conscious of an act as that which ensured that in the last few years that warship was not manned, trained, equipped, or maintained at a level which would allow for basic maintenance. Even as she got ready to get underway, no one stopped her. No one tried a last minute fix. The whole evolution has an ambiance of, “Who cares. Send her.”

Hey, the time and money for those trans-inclusion seminars has to come from somewhere.

Plus: “Next time someone gives you some unnecessarily complicated explanation as to why the US Navy has severe recruiting problems, just stop them short and show them the picture of the WILLIAMS and ask them, ‘Would you want to serve in this Navy? Would you want your friends, family, or potential mate see you waving from this deck?’“

RAVING AND DROOLING: Roger Waters dresses up as SS officer, compares Anne Frank to Abu Akleh in Berlin.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Pride Cult Really Hates Judeo-Christian Values.

FRUITS OF THE “PUBLIC HEALTH” COMMUNITY’S POLITICIZATION AND DISHONESTY: Study shows growing mistrust of HPV vaccines among parents.

GREEN NUDE EEL: How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea.’

Over the last few years, this swathe of desert has been steadily carpeted with one of the world’s largest concentrations of solar power plants, forming a sprawling photovoltaic sea. On the ground, the scale is almost incomprehensible. The Riverside East Solar Energy Zone – the ground zero of California’s solar energy boom – stretches for 150,000 acres, making it 10 times the size of Manhattan.

It is a crucial component of the United States’ green energy revolution. Solar makes up about 3% of the US electricity supply, but the Biden administration hopes it will reach 45% by 2050, primarily by building more huge plants like this across the country’s flat, empty plains.

But there’s one thing that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – the agency tasked with facilitating these projects on public land – doesn’t seem to have fully taken into account: the desert isn’t quite as empty as it thought. It might look like a barren wilderness, but this stretch of the Mojave is a rich and fragile habitat for endangered species and home to thousand-year-old carbon-capturing woodlands, ancient Indigenous cultural sites – and hundreds of people’s homes.

Residents have watched ruefully for years as solar plants crept over the horizon, bringing noise and pollution that’s eroding a way of life in their desert refuge.

“We feel like we’ve been sacrificed,” says Mark Carrington, who, like Sneddon, lives in the Lake Tamarisk resort, a community for over-55s near Desert Center, which is increasingly surrounded by solar farms. “We’re a senior community, and half of us now have breathing difficulties because of all the dust churned up by the construction. I moved here for the clean air, but some days I have to go outside wearing goggles. What was an oasis has become a little island in a dead solar sea.”

Well, they have been sacrificed — to appease an angry Gaia and to grease the correct palms.

I’d just add that carbon-free nuclear plants have tiny footprints and produce reliable energy for decades.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: When the Mob Came Is the Cancel Culture Takedown We Needed.