BAH. HOSPITALS IN DENVER WERE OVERWHELMED WITH ILLEGALS BEFORE I MOVED:  NYC hospitals are overwhelmed by migrants.

CASTREAU, FINDING A LITTLE MERRY WAR TO DISTRACT THE PUBLIC FROM THE TOTALITARIAN SH*THOLE HE’S MAKING CANADA INTO:  India Orders Canada to Remove over 40 Diplomats From Delhi Embassy.

SNORT. GIGGLE. OH, IT’S MUCH TOO LATE:  Biden Admin Waives Numerous Federal Laws to Construct a Border Wall in South Texas.

Of course, he thinks he can then claim he solved a problem he inherited. Yeah. It’s much too late.

DISBAND THE FBI, SALT THE EARTH:  Report: FBI Targeting Donald Trump Supporters as Threats to 2024 Election.

Also consider this your warning 2024 is already rigged. And they’re already terrified you’ll object to rigging.

WE KNOW:  Donald Trump was right.

POPCORN AND A DECK CHAIR, PLEASE:  Popcorn or toasted marshmallows?

MIGHT???  ‘Embarrassing’: Even The RNC’s Own Members Are Admitting Trump-less Debates May Be A Waste Of Time.

TOO FAR FETCHED FOR THIS SCIENCE FICTION WRITER, EVEN:  Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities.

OPEN THREAD: Wherever you go, that’s where you are.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aren’t just having a good time — they’re bringing America together.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Interviewing Biden ‘the saddest thing’ as he ‘couldn’t finish his sentences,’ ex-ESPN host Sage Steele says.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Japan’s SLIM moon lander makes lunar flyby.

DOG PEOPLE, UNITE: Biden ‘Kicks, Punches’ His Dogs.

I’m a dog person. My wife is so much of a dog person that the first big test of our budding relationship was when she looked me square in the eye and asked if I was a dog person. I should add that this was maybe 40 minutes into our first date. Two decades later, our two sons are dog people and dote on all three of our dogs, all the time.

Back in the day when dog food had to be cooked at home, my dad — then 10-year-old Steve Sr. — refused to serve his Boxer, Chris, any food that Dad hadn’t first tasted himself. I didn’t believe Dad when he told me that story many years ago, but my grandfather (also a dog person) confirmed it.

So it’s with outrage and trembling hands that I’m writing this report.

More at the link.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: FBI Stops By Antifa Riot To Ask If They’ve Seen Any Dangerous MAGA Around.

TWO MURDERS—AND THE COST OF LUXURY BELIEFS:

Recently, two high-profile supporters of “justice reform” were murdered.

At 4 a.m. on Monday, Ryan Carson, a 32-year-old social justice and climate change activist, was walking with his girlfriend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when he was stabbed to death by a stranger. Only a few hours earlier in Philadelphia, activist and journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed in his home.

And two Democratic lawmakers who voted to “redirect funding to community-based policing reforms” have been recent victims of violent crime.

On Monday night, blocks away from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Congressman Henry Cuellar was carjacked by three armed men. (The lawmaker survived the incident unscathed.) In February, Angie Craig was attacked in an elevator at her apartment building in Capitol Hill. A homeless man demanded she allow him into her home to use the restroom, then he punched her and grabbed her around the neck. She escaped after throwing hot coffee on him.

Of course, these people did not deserve harm because of their support for soft-on-crime policies. But I’ve long argued that many people who hold “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes—are oblivious to the consequences of their views. Support for defunding the police is a classic example.

Luxury beliefs can stem from malice, good intentions, or outright naivete.

But the individuals who hold those beliefs, the people who wield the most influence in policy and culture, are often sheltered when their preferences are implemented.

Read the whole thing.

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Protesters hit Ramaswamy campaign vehicle outside Iowa event.

SPOTTING THE ELUSIVE antineutrino.

HERE’S THE BRIEF I’M ON, with Dave Kopel et al., in the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Rahimi case.

RIP: Legend Lost — Dick Butkus dead at age 80: NFL legend ‘dies after medical emergency at home’ as tributes pour in for Chicago Bears icon.

TO KNOW WHETHER SOMETHING FAILED YOU MUST KNOW WHAT IT WAS INTENDED TO DO: Debate: Has the Sexual Revolution Failed?

CULTURAL MARKERS IN AMERICA: Why America is Still Great: More People Own Guns and Dogs Than Cats.

ART OF THE DEAL: Trump floats middle ground in abortion wars.

JORDAN APPEARS TO LEAD SPEAKER’S RACE: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is “sure to get the nod” according to one of the House GOPers speaking on background with The Epoch Times about who should succeed Kevin McCarthy. Others interviewed enthusiastically agreed.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: Here’s How Hollywood Can Lose Millions on a Hit Movie. “Hollywood looks like it will make big bank on ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ and still end up deep in the red — thanks to this one crazy trick. That’s the lead crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of the best bad news.”

Plus:

• A dramatic school library pr0n reading by Sara Gonzales.
• This week’s Brief Moment of Sanity is so brief you might have already missed it.
• The video from our southern border that explains Biden’s backflip.

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

MARK JUDGE: Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron’s dishonest and dishonorable new memoir.

I have written a lot about this subject — in fact, probably too much. It was a traumatizing episode, and it’s time to move on. Yet I was amazed at the lack of basic journalistic practice and any sense of honor in Baron’s account of an event in which I was involved. Thus my joke about the duel. If the executive editor of one of the country’s major newspapers pens a memoir detailing an event you were central to, and does not acknowledge the many times you have corrected the record about said event, what recourse is there? Sending Baron to take Journalism 101 at the local community college?

Exit quote: “Democracy dies in dishonor.”