DIMINISHING RETURNS: 4th booster protects the elderly… for four weeks.

OH MY: Whistleblower who handed Hunter’s abandoned laptop to congressmen and DailyMail.com reveals he has 450 gigabytes of DELETED material including 80,000 images and videos – and has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from White House.

HEALTH: Scientists Have Discovered a Brand-New Type of Cell Hiding in The Human Body. “The new RAS cells are similar to stem cells – ‘blank canvas’ cells that can differentiate into any other type of cell in the body – and are capable of repairing damaged alveoli cells and transforming into new ones.”

BEWARE: Wikipedia’s Dirty Little Secret.

I NEVER DO: Nobel economists were dead wrong on inflation: Don’t expect an apology. “The laureates seemed to have overlooked that previous COVID benefits had often exceeded what tens of millions of workers regularly earned and that recipients displaced by COVID were never required to look for other work. While the high priests of economic “science” were cheering on higher federal spending, larger deficits and increased taxes, employers were and are continuing to deal with inflation face-to-face. They are forced to bid up wages, sometimes doubling them, to keep and get employees even as overall labor force participation seems unlikely to return to pre-COVID levels anytime soon.”

MEGAN FOX: Patriarchy Alert! ‘International Asexuality Day’ Is an Attempt to Erase Female Sexuality. “Before you head to your celebratory feasts I thought I’d drop in here to mention that the LGBTQWTF squad is attempting, once again, to groom your daughters into their cult through pathologizing normal female sexuality.”

DEMS TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN: Stacey Abrams Goes From Poor Politician to Multimillionaire by Losing an Election.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Will Deadbeat Students Ever Be Forced to Repay Their College Loans?

MARGOT CLEVELAND: Court Reinstates Louisiana AG’s Lawsuit Against Zuckerberg’s Election-Meddling Group.

DUMB: Biden Hid Successful Hypersonic Missile Test to Avoid Angering Putin.

BIDENFLATION: Cost of air travel is expected to rise 10% over the next MONTH as high fuel prices continue to batter travelers: Average domestic flight will cost $100 more than it did in January.

WE WERE NEVER SWEET ON IT: Americans Sour on Disney’s LGBTQ Agenda.

THIS IS BIG: House GOP Poised for Late Redistricting Rebound.

Republicans only need to flip a handful of seats across the country this fall to take over the House and give them the power to stop the White House from passing President Biden’s agenda for the last two years of his term. With the GOP favored to win the House, Democrats are limping toward November but have sought solace in several early redistricting wins.

But any early Democratic advantage – perceived or actual – was threatened last week after a judge threw out New York’s new district lines written by the Democratic-controlled legislature after an independent commission tasked with the job deadlocked last fall. That ruling followed a similar one a week earlier by a Maryland judge who struck down the Democratic-drawn map in that state as unconstitutional. They were the first two maps written by Democrats to be thrown out by the courts this cycle. Judges have previously intervened to block what they deemed to be GOP gerrymanders in North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

“This is a big win for the people, the state of New York,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who co-chairs the GOP redistricting efforts, told reporters Thursday following the judge’s decision. The judge enforced a constitutional amendment New York voters passed in 2014 aimed at preventing partisan district drawing.

“We feel very good about the way so far for us because we’re out there protecting maps that we believe are constitutional,” Christie said about Republicans’ legal wrangling over the maps.

Still, don’t get cocky.

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Are in Big Trouble With Their Dedicated Base According to New Focus Group Data. “The focus groups dispensed with the fiction that voters only care about unemployment numbers or economic growth when they pay significantly more for groceries and gas personally. According to Lizza and Daniels, participants used words like ‘exhausted,’ ‘uptight,’ ‘unsure,’ ‘concerned,’ and ‘anxious’ to describe their feelings about the current environment.”

CHANGE? Republicans Wallop Democrats in Spending on Tuesday’s Wisconsin School Board Races.

Wisconsin voters are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote in critical local elections for mayors, school boards, and county executives in what may give an early preview of where the battleground state’s electorate stands on issues that could prove critical to statewide and national races decided in November.

With school boards especially, eyes are on these hyper-local races to see if the success Glenn Youngkin had in Virginia last November by championing parental rights and school transparency translates to voters in other states.

While Wisconsin Democrats have been largely complacent when it comes to school board races — spending less than $10,000 to protect incumbents or elect their party’s candidates — local Republican parties have been spending big — more than $70,000 according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — ahead of Tuesday’s elections.

Democrat control of school boards isn’t just bad because it gives them control of education, but because they use those elections to groom candidates for higher office.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB: Justice Barrett Heckled Onstage at Reagan Library. It Didn’t Work Out Well for the Heckler.

HMM: Elon Musk joins Twitter’s board, but it caps his ownership of the social media to 15% to avoid hostile takeover.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Obama Returns to White House and Biden Can’t Find a Friend. “When this trip was announced it was obvious that Biden’s puppetmasters were hoping that a visit from The Lightbringer would inject some energy into an administration that can’t even aspire to be moribund right now. What they got was Barack Obama being Barack Obama and Joe Biden wandering around like the sad boy who can’t get anyone to play with him at his own birthday party.”

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento Mass Shooter Was Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison in 2018, Paroled in 2021 Over DA’s Objection.

STACEY LENNOX: Two Questions Mitt Romney Should Answer About His Disappointing Vote to Confirm Judge Jackson. “Romney’s reversal is a legitimate line of inquiry in light of the revelations during the confirmation hearing, not just because of the type of criminal Jackson showed sympathy for during sentencing.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DeSantis to authorize Hamilton Center for teaching the ‘foundations of western and American civilization.’ “The University of Florida is set to receive $3 million to establish its Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education.”

BREAKING: Durham Releases ‘Smoking Gun’ in Case Against Hillary Lawyer.

ERASING WOMEN: The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board will be removing the term ‘Squaw’ from geographic locations, deeming the term as derogatory.

OK, GROOMER: Another Woke Teacher Abandons Education to Talk to 5th-Graders About Being Gay.

SPACE: Jeff Bezos and Amazon just hired everybody but SpaceX for Project Kuiper.

Amazon on Tuesday announced the largest commercial launch deal ever. The company said it has finalized agreements with three different rocket companies for a total of 83 launches. The rockets will deploy a majority of Amazon’s low-Earth-orbit constellation of broadband satellites.

With this deal, Amazon has acquired an extraordinary amount of medium- and heavy-lift launch capacity over the next five years, procuring launches from every major Western provider except for its direct satellite competitor, SpaceX. Aside from SpaceX, this purchase represents the vast majority of any “spare” launch capacity for larger rockets in the United States or Europe over the next half-decade.

Amazon announced launch agreements with the following companies as it seeks to build out its constellation of 3,236 satellites.

I couldn’t help but notice that Bezos’ own Blue Origin — which has yet to reach orbit — received the fewest orders of the three launch companies.