ONE-MAN WRECKING CREW: Disney CEO Bob Iger in ‘damage control’ mode over possible sale of ABC, ESPN.

WELL, GOOD: Louisiana Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Bill Protecting Kids From Transgender Surgeries.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: DHS admits that 40% of catch-and-release migrants disappeared.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: This giant solar power station could beam energy to lunar bases.

COVERUP: DOJ Warned Hunter Biden Investigator Not to Answer House Committee’s Questions.

NOW OUT: From Carol Roth, You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back. #CommissionEarned

CHANGE: New “Smart” Implant Coatings Warn of Early Failure and Resist Infections.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. DEI Laws Are Meaningless Without Enforcement: To stop woke discrimination, states must create anti-DEI statutes with teeth. They need to include statutory attorney’s fees, to encourage plaintiffs’ lawyers to take the cases.

DOING WHAT? Millennials: “I’ll Be Making A Six-Figure Salary When I Graduate!” Reality: “LOL!”

UNSURPRISING: Bipolar disorder linked to heightened risk of early death from external causes.

POUNCING AND SEIZING! GOP Seizes on Pramila Jayapal’s Israel Misstep to Split Democrats.

When Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) called Israel “a racist state,” she was quick to apologize and walk back her comment.

But Republicans weren’t going to just let a good controversy die.

Ever since Jayapal made the comment on Saturday at the liberal Netroots Nation conference, Republicans have devoted much of their attention to humiliating the congresswoman, tying the rest of the Democratic Party to Jayapal’s words, and highlighting the divisions.

A one-page resolution from Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) declared that Israel is “not a racist or apartheid state,” said the U.S. would always support Israel, and announced that Congress condemns antisemitism and xenophobia. Republicans put the legislation to a vote Tuesday night, and overwhelmingly adopted the resolution 412-9-1.

Evergreen:

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: A Los Angeles Police Union Official Told Cops to Do WHAT??? “A high-ranking Los Angeles police union official told her members to do the one thing that union officials never say to their members.”

Plus:

• Won’t you give these radical climate protestors a hand?
• Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s face says everything about Biden that Democrats can’t.
• Here come the tragic detransition lawsuits.

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Exercise benefits heart health, even if only on weekends.

YOU CAN’T SPELL DEI WITHOUT DIE: Get Race Quotas Out Of The Cockpit Before We Literally Crash And Burn.

Starting in 2020, airlines panicked and did two insanely stupid things. They forced a generation of their most experienced pilots into early retirement, blaming the pandemic. Then, when they realized they’d triggered a catastrophic pilot shortage, they massively increased hiring. Unfortunately, it was 2020 so the new George Floyd rules were in effect. Airline after airline caved to the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” commissars and committed to new race-based hiring rules.
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Meanwhile, the last 12 months have delivered the highest number of near-collisions and narrowly averted disasters in modern aviation history. “With seven runway incursions of United States commercial aircraft during January and February, the first two months of 2023 saw the highest rate of such incidents in five years,” according to Wikipedia.

Unexpectedly.

KYLE SMITH: Barbie Review: Beyond Her Ken.

As bubbly as the film appears, its script is like a grumpier-than-average women’s studies seminar. At one point, nearing the climax, “Barbie” stops cold so a Mattel doll designer (America Ferrera) with depressive inclinations can deliver a long monologue on how miserable it is to be female. For instance, she feels pressured to have lots of money but also pressured to not appear to seek it. Hearing characters issue denunciations such as “You fascist!” while Barbie muses that the fate of women is “Either you’re brainwashed or you’re weird and ugly—there is no in-between” is like going to the cotton-candy factory to find it producing lead pipes. Don’t we go to a movie like “Barbie” to escape the harrumphing tone of the most aggrieved Twitter users?

Who knew a movie about Mattel toys would have ended up so woke? Would Tom Hanks’ rumored Major Matt Mason movie have ended up as badly?

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: NYU Law—EXPOSED: Course Teaches How Human Reproduction Is Oppression. “Members of the ‘NYU Law Review,’ not content to have their membership serve as a resume-inflating perk, have demanded cash for the privilege of writing articles such as ‘Queering the Welfare State: Paradigmatic Heteronormativity After Obergefell.'”

This is part seven of PJ Media’s 10-part series on the courses taught at the nation’s top ten law schools.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: New York State still on power trip to nowhere near enough power. “Quick refresher: The plants that keep the lights and air-conditioning on in a NY summer are called ‘peaker plants.’ They kick into gear at ‘peak’ times of heavy demand or when the solar and/or wind drop offline, providing that excess capacity to keep the system supplied with power. The idea is to provide both reliable back-up for unreliable renewables as well as provide additional power when the regular grid can’t generate enough to handle load demands. In their infinite Green wisdom, NY has been closing peaker plants down without replacing them.”

Related: Thank the green-energy cult for major blackouts this summer.

Also: Greens want electric cars — but not the things required to run them.

SO “WOKE BARBIE” IS A THING: Rolling Stone: ‘Barbie’ May Be the Most Subversive Blockbuster of the 21st Century: It’s a long commercial for a legacy corporate brand and a pretty-in-pink “f-ck you” to the patriarchy. It is Barbie — hear it roar.

I wonder if it will do better than Woke Indiana Jones.

UPDATE: Barbie review with SARAH VINE: The mother and daughter’s verdict that every man in this film is a bigot or a loser – my daughter totally loved it!

BLUE CITY BLUES: Beginning Of CRE Firesale? Baltimore Office Tower Dumped At 63% Discount. “Some argue remote or hybrid work has forced a downward shift in office demand — but that’s not entirely the case, well, not at least in crime-ridden Baltimore. The depressed office building demand is a vote of confidence that Democrats in City Hall have failed to enforce law and order as progressive policies backfire.”

OUCH: Execs Are ‘Panicked’ Over the Post-Tucker Fox News Primetime Lineup Ratings. “Even Sean Hannity lost the ratings battle to MSNBC.”

CHANGE: Mexico Surpasses China as the US Top Trade Partner. “In the context of the global economic landscape, where China’s rising labor costs and the uncertainty over US-China trade relations have caused concerns for American businesses, Mexico’s emergence as a leading trade partner is a promising development. The nation’s proximity and the deep-rooted political connections make it a more predictable, efficient, and beneficial partner for the United States.”

Plus, Mexico isn’t threatening to invade Taiwan.

IF “WHITE SUPREMACY” IS SUCH A CLAIM, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FAKE MINORITIES? History professor and Native American expert accused of faking ancestry.

WELL, THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: In-N-Out Bans Masks for Workers, COVID Cultists Melt Down.

THEY BELIEVE A LOT OF THINGS: POLL: Millennials believe misgendering should be a crime.

YOU CAN’T GET RICH IN POLITICS UNLESS YOU’RE A CROOK: GOP rep. estimates up to $100M flowed through Biden family accounts: This looks ‘sinister.’