HEH: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Shows How to End a Russian Invasion With 1 Weird Trick.

JILL FILIPOVIC: The true cost of Biden’s budget: a red wave in November.

Typically, Democrats-with-bylines like Filipovic wait until after the lost election to blame Democrat politicians for not having gone far enough to the Left.

Read into that what you will.

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Athena Thorne: Tragic Kingdom: Disney Enters End Stage of Terminal Wokeness Infection. “To my many family and friends who loved the Disney company, I am so sorry for your loss. But your friend is already dead.”

Robert Spencer: Trump Reveals His Plan to Reverse the Damage of the Biden Years. “Trump did not, however, simply assess our current predicament; he also offered hope for the future.”

Yours Truly: PAIN: Inflation Will Cost You $5,200 This Year. “A $5,200 “inflation tax” means the average U.S. household is going to be 10% poorer this year. Essentially, the average American household will have its 2022 tax burden increased by a painful 33%.”

Bonus: Florida Man Friday: Trapped in Port-a-Potty, Caught With More Than His Pants Down.

CHINA: Biden Pushing Ukraine Crisis into ‘Nuclear War.’ “No matter how well Biden’s propaganda machine works, it cannot downplay the fact that such a blunt statement at a sensitive time could further inflame the situation. This was unwise and irresponsible, reflecting a dire problem within U.S. policy-making: some politicians are taking their personal grievances to the national level.”

Previously: Joe Biden and World War III for Dummies.

I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: Scientists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene. “The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman’s well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.”

THE INSURRECTION THAT WASN’T: Federal Judge Blasts Double Standards in J6 Sentences.

VIDEO: Why Russian Technology Is Screwed. “Many national industries simply cannot exist without foreign inputs. Substitutes would take years, if not decades.”

If you don’t have time to watch a 17-minute video, Lawrence Person has done his usual job of breaking out the bullet points as text.

COVER-UP? White House Accused of Withholding Docs on SCOTUS Nominee. “When the White House provided the Senate Judiciary with a list of Jackson’s child abuse cases, some were left off. One such case was U.S. v. Cane, which involved ‘over 6,500 files depicting children appearing to be of elementary, middle and high school ages, engaged in sexual acts or posing sexually.’ The recommendation was for the defendant to be sentenced to 84 months, but Jackson sentenced him to the mandatory minimum of 60 months.”

“Not pedo-friendly” has apparently become too much to ask.

THIS SEEMS LIKELY: The Fed Has Made a U.S. Recession Inevitable.

Of course, White House policy and Capitol Hill spending played the major parts.

UKRAINE WAR: ‘Russia Really F***ed Up,’ is the Battle for Kyiv Over? “While Moscow is rotating troops away from Kyiv, they aren’t abandoning their positions around the city. Anything Ukraine wants back, they’ll have to fight for. So if I had to guess, Moscow’s Plan B for Kyiv is just more of the subtle Russian operational art of firing shells and artillery at stuff until even the rubble stops bouncing.”

HOW’S THAT ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Shanghai in lockdown as officials work to test all 26M residents.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: As if the Left Hasn’t Hurt Comedy Enough, Now We Comedians Brace for Will Smith Copycats. “What can the left do to give stand-up comedy a coup de grace? How about allowing one of the biggest actors in Hollywood to assault and curse out one of the biggest comedians of our time on stage?”

SPOILER: SHE HAS NONE. Kamala Offers Some Deep Thoughts to Encourage Suffering Americans. “We’ve been, um, you know, understanding that it is a real issue, um, what we have done is we’ve actually released some of the reserves…gas is just part of the issue of the cost of living, right?”

THERE HE GOES AGAIN: White House Walks Back Biden’s Clarification of an Earlier Misstatement.

JOE DID THAT: Blistering New Report Takes Down Media’s Gas Price Narrative, Reveals 81 Ways Biden Has Sent Prices Sky High.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Liberal Perv Parade Proving Exactly Why Florida Law Is Needed. “When did the world become so insane that kindergarteners needed to know what teachers did for fun over the weekend? I come from an era when it was nigh on impossible to imagine my teachers existing outside of the school when I was that young. And we certainly weren’t going deep on gender issues then. We were mostly playing tag and eating boogers.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Gas Tax Rebates, Suspensions Are Gimmicky ‘Solutions’ to Problem Government Caused.

OK, GROOMER: Florida Teacher Says She’ll Break the Law to Keep Secrets About Sexuality From Parents.

YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU SUBSIDIZE: How Mississippi Flipped the Script on the Labor Shortage.

In early 2021, Mississippi faced the worst labor shortage in state history. By late spring, the situation had only worsened.

There were a record-high 84,000 jobs open throughout the state — more open jobs than people actually looking for work. There were still nearly 80,000 Mississippians collecting unemployment benefits — more than 10 times as many than before the pandemic struck. And Mississippi businesses desperately needed workers.

The cause of this was simple: Federal unemployment expansions and bonuses were paying people more money to stay at home than they could make working. The solution to these woes plaguing our state was also simple. Governor Tate Reeves saw the need for swift action and, in June, Mississippi became one of the first states nationwide to opt out of these expansions and bonuses months before they were set to expire.

The results have been tremendous.

Unexpectedly.

THEY AREN’T WRONG: Biden Isn’t the Only One Americans Think Needs a Cognitive Test. “So, let’s boil this all down: most Americans think the top three leaders in the nation are either in poor cognitive health or just plain incompetent.”

HE ISN’T ALL THERE: Photo shows Biden’s ‘Tough Putin Q&A’ cheat sheet.

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cook’s Tenure Packet.

Lisa Cook’s nomination to the Fed Board is being voted on by the United States Senate this week, or sometime soon. I am not sure when exactly the vote will take place. I have covered her fecklessness extensively — my article Biden’s Fed Nominee Lisa Cook Criticized For Being Unqualified, Embellishing Resume was even featured on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the most-viewed cable news show in America.
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Following my article, Cook’s only respectable publication (which was already thoroughly debunked and shown not to replicate by economist Michael Wiebe) was further found to have more glaring fatal flaws by some internet sleuths.

Much more at the link.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Harvard, MIT scientists slam door on studies showing ‘health benefits’ of drinking.

GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO: NY Nursing Home Case Involving COVID Death Will Move Forward. “In stripping away the legal immunity that Andrew M. Cuomo gifted to hospital and nursing home operators, this case represents a bellwether event for families seeking justice for what happened to the loved ones they lost. We’re surprised the story hasn’t yet been covered by larger news outlets – we discovered it during our weekend sweep of stories from smaller outlets.”

Surprised, really?

NOTORIOUS: Dems Found a Sneaky Way to Get a Statue of RBG at the Capitol.