BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER: Jill Biden Invites Congressional Spouses to White House, Gives Unvaxxed Nasty Set of Rules.

MEGAN FOX: How One Bad Teacher Almost Destroyed a New Mexico Family Using the State as a Weapon. “Due to DuBois’ allegations, the Lowther children were removed from their home, separated from each other, and placed into foster care for eleven months while the slow wheels of justice turned.”

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S WILLINGNESS TO F*** THINGS UP: Biden Administration Fumbles F-35, Free World’s Fighter, Despite War In Europe.

MATT MARGOLIS: The Most Disqualifying Statement Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Made Yet.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (RUSSIA EDITION): Putin loses his 15TH top commander as Ukraine continues to take out elite troops: Colonel is latest to die as Russia suffers worst loss of military leaders since World War Two.

Related: ‘The Ukrainians Are Listening’: Russia’s Military Radios Are Getting Owned.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Joe Biden and World War III for Dummies. “Who had ‘Big Mouth Biden Talks His Way into the Third World War’ on their Everything Sucks 2022 Edition bingo card?”

CALIFORNIA: Bill Maher Warns Many Californians Are Going to Turn on Democratic Party: People Here ‘Can’t F*cking do Anything.’

Host Adam Carolla and Maher spoke at length about regulations that inhibit California citizens. Both referenced the complexities of setting up their solar panels.

“I have a picture of eleven people at my house that finally showed. Eleven people. To turn on a lightbulb, basically, I had to build a shed to house the thing. I had to build its own home. Which could probably house the homeless, people could probably live in that shed,” Maher said.

He added, “All the regulations that, I mean, I don’t know if it’s Orwellian, or Kafka-esque, or both of them, but it’s just strange. Very strange. The hoops you had to jump through to do something that the state was advising you to do. Solar power was something- I thought I was being a good citizen trying to hook up.”

Carolla then chimed in with his own experience of installing solar panels. After reading all the state and county regulations Carolla decided, “fuck it,” and abandoned the project.

Progressivism isn’t about being a good citizen, it’s about jumping through all the hoops and then still giving up.

HMM: A Transparent Voting Process That Can’t Be Corrupted, Hacked, or Cheated — Democrats Will Hate It. “Welcome to Redo Voting, the world’s first and only transparent, unhackable, incorruptible, paper-based voting system. No wiggle room on chain of custody, no Zuckerbucks to buy influence, and no reason to stop counting votes at 10:30 p.m. when the Republican presidential candidate is pummeling whatshisface, you know, the thing.”

Previously: Paper ballots are hack-proof. It’s time to bring them back.

JOE BIDEN DID THAT: Gas Prices Shoot Up at Fastest Rate on Record. “Inflation-adjusted gas prices aren’t at record highs. But if March prices average $4.22 a gallon, as they have so far, they still show that motorists will have been saddled with the biggest month-over-month price increase since EIA records began in the mid-’70s. The next-highest increase was after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”

Katrina was a natural disaster. Joe Biden is a rolling series of man-made disasters.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Now All the Unvetted Afghans Biden’s Handlers Brought Here Can’t Be Deported.

“I LOVE MY COOL SON”: In a first, brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts.

MATT MARGOLIS: I’ve Been Permanently Banned From Twitter for Telling the Truth. “What happened? Well, I was replying to a tweet by a social worker who made a rather ridiculous assumption regarding the Lia Thomas issue.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: Medical Marijuana Leads to Addiction, Not Shown to Be Effective. “Gilman said it was ‘disturbing’ that patients treating symptoms of depression or anxiety with marijuana were the most vulnerable to developing cannabis use disorder. The study concluded that marijuana may ‘pose a high risk or may even be contraindicated for people with affective disorders.'”

I’ve never thought people should go to jail for smoking the stuff, but it was never medicine.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Disney’s LGBQTWXYZ Frenzy Sows Division in the Company Family. “This is really sad for those of us who love Disney. I turn into a 9-year-old kid whenever I go to Disneyland (Disneyworld is overrated) and I will never stop loving the place. My screensaver on my phone for the last five years is from spending Father’s Day 2017 at Disneyland with my daughter.”

STAGFLATION: Mortgage rates are surging faster than expected, prompting economists to lower their home sales forecasts.

VIDEO FROM THE RESISTANCE: Watch What Happens When a Mother at a School Board Meeting Tries to Read Explicit Content Served Up to Students.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX will launch OneWeb’s satellites following Russia’s ultimatum. “OneWeb will turn to a competitor to ferry its remaining first-generation internet satellites to space after Russia’s Roscosmos space agency issued an ultimatum to the company at the start of the month. On Monday, OneWeb announced an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The private firm will ferry the remainder of OneWeb’s constellation fleet, with the first launch scheduled for later this year.”

SO NICE HAVING THE GROWNUPS BACK IN CHARGE: ‘Her Office Has A Higher Turnover Than Taco Bell’: Kamala Harris’ National Security Adviser Latest Staffer To Quit.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Portland Children’s Hospital Gives Kids Tips on ‘Tucking’ and Sex Shops.

THADDEUS MCCOTTER: The Democrats’ Magical Thinking Redux: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Appeasement.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Democratic Party is its penchant for magical thinking. Indeed, when discussing their Leftist foreign policy, it makes more sense for one to translate the word “diplomacy” as “magic.” Nowhere is the Democrats’ magical thinking more readily apparent than in their lust to negotiate a deal with the Iranian regime over the “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Appeasement” – oops, “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action”, the goal of which is to ensure Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful.

Four elementary questions exemplify the Democrats’ magical foreign policy and that of some of its cohorts in the P5+1 regarding the Iranian nuke pact.

First, Iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful, and it has no intention of building a nuclear weapon. So, why is the JCPOA necessary?

Hmmm…. This is a tough one. After all, negotiations require trust between the parties, namely Iran and the P5+1 – the U.K., France, Germany, the European Union, communist China, and Putin’s Russia. Trust isn’t the first virtue that springs to mind when examining the relations between the members of the negotiating team’s roster. (More on that, below.) And honesty sure isn’t the forte of the Iranian regime.

Enter Democrats’ magical thinking: Iran is simply staking out a negotiating position, one born of long years of defending itself against the U.S.’ provocations. Once the deal is signed, Iran will be secure and free to be honest in its diplomatic dealings.

Read the whole thing.

NEWT GINGRICH: Kamala Harris May Be the ‘Dumbest Person’ Elected as Vice President.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: How the War on Ukraine Will Shatter Global Food Security.

Russia is the leading exporter of wheat, while Ukraine is the fourth-largest exporter. Together, these countries account for nearly one-third of total wheat exports in the world.

Much of Russia’s and Ukraine’s wheat exports are sent to the Middle East and Africa.

For Egypt, which is the top importer of wheat and has more than one-quarter of its population living below the poverty line, Russia and Ukraine are the sources of 78 percent of its wheat imports.

In addition to wheat, Russia and Ukraine are large exporters of fertilizer. Russia, and its ally Belarus, account for 42 percent of all potash exports, which is used for producing fertilizer.

The supply disruptions from the war on Ukraine will particularly impact the agricultural sector in India – one of the largest importers of fertilizer. India sources one-third of its potash from Russia and Belarus. Its agriculture sector is sizable and makes up 15 percent of the country’s GDP and provides employment for 60 percent of its workforce.

“Food security” is a recent notion — and a fragile one, too.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Kamala Harris, Mystic Voyager Through Time and Space.

Plus:

• Take the Harris Supercut Challenge!
• Pro-Kremlin paper scrubs Ukraine War casualty figures, but we have them
• Incentivizing hypocrisy gets you more (and more blatant) hypocrites

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

COLORADO: No more valedictorians in Cherry Creek. “The practices of class rank and Valedictorian status are outdated and inconsistent with what we know and believe of our students. We believe all students can learn at high levels, and learning is not a competition.”

“IT WORKED, DIDN’T IT?” The New York Times Doesn’t Care If You Know That Big Tech Helped Rig Joe Biden’s Election.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.