GOING UNWOKE: Libs Throw Tantrum Because No More Pride, BLM Flags Can Be Displayed at ExxonMobil HQ.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: Never-Trump Conservatives Keep Proving Their Irrelevancy. “It seems that anti-Trumpism has made Never-Trumpers true pawns of the radical left, making them utterly incapable of producing anything resembling legitimate political analysis. The latest example comes from CNN’s S.E. Cupp, during a recent episode of Unfiltered on CNN.”

Megan Fox: Solving the Groomer School Problem Is Easy. Keep Calm and Sue Everyone! “This is a cult. This is a religion, and it is violating the rights of every student who is not a part of the 🌈 cult. PJ Media reached out to the school for comment and did not hear back in time for publishing. Smart parents have recourse against assaults on reality like this and don’t need laws to make this grooming stop.”

And Of Course: Florida Man Friday: Mike Tyson Says Knock You Out.

WATCH: Remember When Obama Pushed Graphic Sex Education to 5-Year-Olds?

MINI ME-ME-ME: Get a Load of Dr. Fauci’s Office in What May Be His Last CNN+ Interview.

WELL: Court Rules That New York’s Rabidly Partisan Redistricting Map Was Improperly Gerrymandered. “The 2012 map created 19 Democratic districts and eight Republican seats. The current map will have one less seat due to New York’s loss of population. But this new map would have cost Republicans five seats. Does this mean that in a state with 27 congressional districts only three Republicans will be allowed to serve?”

FASTER? PLEASE! Space Force looking at U.S. needs for ‘responsive space.’ “The demonstration is part of a congressionally directed effort to create a ‘tactically responsive launch’ program. Congress inserted $50 million in the 2022 defense budget, arguing that DoD should figure out how to use commercial launch services during a conflict to replace damaged satellites or deploy new ones quickly if needed.”

COVID IS OVER: 95% of Cases In Mumbai Are Asymptomatic, Doctors Say ‘No Cause for Concern.’ “Meanwhile, in China, the Communist country’s chief financial, commercial, and shipping hub will remain under lockdown until COVID is ‘eradicated.'”

AND ANOTHER ONE GONE: Harris chief of staff Tina Flournoy leaving administration. “Flournoy is the highest-ranking official to leave the vice president’s office, and news of her exit comes after a series of other departures from Harris’s staff.”

BARELY INTO HIS SECOND YEAR: Biden Has Now Surpassed Jimmy Carter’s Record of Incompetence.

STEPHEN MILLER: CNN+ crashes and burns.

CNN+ and its historic collapse after a $300 million launch is indeed reflective of the CNN roster of talent. CNN+ gave programs to network names like Brian Stelter, Jake Tapper and Don Lemon. All of these hosts (and others) have enough trouble drawing an audience on regular cable broadcasting, let alone streaming.

Over the past six years, CNN has become the network of resistance to Donald Trump and the Republicans, without a single opposing viewpoint for balance. Although former CNN president Jeff Zucker is gone, CNN has not moved on from his “All Trump, All Fox News, all the time” model. Much of the talent that made their names off that model still remain at CNN.

That’s all fine and well if that’s what CNN wants. But the network continues to pretend otherwise. Until it can reconcile those two models, it will never succeed. Brian Stelter still acts as though he is a straight news man when in reality he is little more than a janitor for a largely agenda-driven industry. Jim Acosta made his reputation as a grandstanding anti-Trump White House reporter and was rewarded with a show.

So to disagree with Licht, CNN won’t recoup any kind of value with its audience until it cuts loose personalities like that, as well as its sinking streaming service. CNN’s talent is the problem.

The truth hurts.

ROBERT SPENCER: Don’t These People Ever Go Away? “The answer is on the bottom line. Six of the fifteen richest counties in the country are in Virginia and Maryland, right outside Washington, D.C. Public service in the United States has become a lucrative exercise in mutual back-slapping, with numerous well-heeled lobbies eager to pay a cash-strapped congressman or senator outlandish speaker’s fees after he gets them what they want on the legislative floor.”

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Narco Tanks of Mexico. “Cartel violence waxes and wanes, and regular readers know that the cartels are heavily armed. Even so, it may come as a shock to many that Mexican drug cartels have their own ‘tanks’ (AKA ‘Monstruo’), i.e. up-armored civilian vehicles more accurately described as technicals or armored cars.”

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB: Tulsi Gabbard Clown-Slaps Mollycoddle Romney Over ‘Treasonous Lies’ Quip.

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO LAWFULNESS: New figures show Biden administration thumbing nose at courts over Remain in Mexico policy.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Jill Biden’s Criminal Elder Abuse Is Going to Ruin Us All. “It’s important to keep reminding ourselves that we are, in fact, not crazy. After all, we’re living in a time when the seemingly pervasive mainstream media keeps insisting that what we can plainly see with our eyes and hear with our ears isn’t really happening.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: NASA is supporting some seriously risky missions to the Moon—it’s about time.

In recent years, NASA has been funding a second, much smaller-scale Moon program, at just 3 percent of the cost of Artemis. This is the “Commercial Lunar Payload Services” program, which seeks to use private companies to send small- and medium-size landers to the Moon’s surface for primarily science-based missions. Its budget is about $250 million per year.

This program, known as CLPS, is showing some promising signs and will beat the Artemis program to the Moon by at least a couple of years. Moreover, it represents a bold new effort by NASA’s Science division, which is seeking to leverage the emerging commercial space sector to radically increase scientific and exploration capabilities. If successful, the CLPS model of exploration could be extended to Mars and beyond.

But will it be successful? We’re about to find out.

Much more at the link.

LUCKY DEVILS: Spotify Parts Ways With the Obamas.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Denver Pub Offers Embarrassing Crash Course on Cancel Culture. “This isn’t the first attempt to cancel Carano’s Denver appearance. The far-Left Pop Culture Classroom attempted something similar last month when news of the star’s appearance first went viral. The team behind the group clearly hoped its actions would coax FAN EXPO DENVER to reconsider its decision.”

HMM: Things Just Got Real in Elon Musk’s Attempt to Buy Twitter. “In a Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, Musk reports that he’ll put up $21 billion of his own money and has secured outside financing to cover the rest of a sweetened deal to buy Twitter. All told, Musk is offering $46.5 billion in a potential tender offer.”

But: “Maybe we’re better off if Elon Musk’s attempt to take over Twitter fails. No, wait, hear me out.”

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Austin City Council Wants To Pay People $1,000 A Month For Breathing, Rake Off Graft For The Radical Left.

CHANGE: New Virginia Law Bans Police Departments from Enacting Arrest Quotas. “House Bill 750 and Senate Bill 327 – which both received unanimous bipartisan support – will prohibit police departments from establishing formal arrest quotas or maintaining informal arrest quotas, Just the News reports. These quotas would encourage officers to secure a certain number of arrests in a given time period.”

LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN WAS GOING TO MAKE THE WORLD RESPECT AMERICA AGAIN: Saudi Ruler Screamed at Top Biden Official, Told Him to ‘Forget About’ Boosted Oil Production.

CLEANEST ELECTION IN HISTORY: Complaint Alleges Over 300,000 ‘Unverified’ Votes in Fulton County, Georgia in 2020.

NO PROBLEM FOR JOE BIDEN, HE’S GIVEN US PLENTY OF ALL THREE: Americans’ 3 Big Concerns Are Inflation, Immigration, and Incompetence, Rep. Mike Johnson Says.