FINALLY, A POSITIVE RESULT FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Jen Psaki Tests Positive for COVID.

BATTLESWARM: Virginia Governor’s Race/Loudoun County School Board Roundup. “The whole ‘war against parents’ thing isn’t going well for Democrats.”

THESE DAYS, WHO ISN’T? Parents, Juan Williams Thinks You’re Racist “If you’re teaching children to feel guilty about a practice ended almost 160 years ago — by a largely white army, I might add — you might have an agenda that’s something quite other than fighting racism.”

HOW ABOUT A “WIN A DAMN WAR FOR A CHANGE” CZAR? Pentagon Will Add a Climate-Policy Czar.

“EVERYTHING WOKE TURNS TO S***,” SAID THE WISE MAN: As Bodies and Tent Cities Pile Up, Antifa-Ravaged Portland Learns Tourists Are ‘Afraid’ of Their Utopia.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Unearthed Wuhan Lab Docs Show ‘Bat Lady’ Shi Zhengli Isolating Coronavirus Strains For ‘Direct Human Infection.’ “The admission follows mounting evidence that COVID-19 traces its origins to the Wuhan-based lab and can be linked to risky ‘gain-of-function’ research funded by Anthony Fauci. A ‘longtime collaborator’ of several Fauci-funded researchers, Shi, also known as ‘Bat Lady,’ has listed grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director on her resume.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Record Number of Students Flee Nation’s Largest Public School Districts.

EVERGREEN: Democrats Have a Lot of Bad Ideas for Tax Reform.

HEH: ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Now Has Its Own Dance.

Maybe they should name it “The Incontinental.”

Update: The original link died, now replaced.

LOCKDOWN FALLOUT: Covid-19 Pushed Many Americans to Retire. The Economy Needs Them Back.

Older workers who could least afford to retire early—those with lower incomes and less education—have been more likely to leave the workforce during the pandemic, researchers have found. The question is whether their retreat is temporary or permanent. Some retired because of Covid-19 fears, and others after failing to find suitable work.

The rising value of stocks, homes and other assets also has prompted a group of more affluent boomers to also retire earlier than expected, economists said. Other researchers believe the rise in the number of retirees is because fewer of them are re-entering the workforce.

The shifting labor force is complicating the work of economic policy makers trying to determine which jobs lost in the pandemic will return and how many American workers will be available to fill them. So far, it isn’t clear if recent retirees will be lured back to work by better jobs and pay—or because they miss their working lives—and how many are gone for good.

It will be more expensive to lure them back after the lockdown than it would have been to keep them working without a lockdown, adding yet more fuel to the inflationary fire.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Dems Prove Vaccine Mandates Have Nothing To Do With Public Health or Safety. “The safety of the public can be compromised in more ways than one. In an effort to create the illusion that this virus can be gotten rid of, the petty tyrants are throwing some of the most important people tasked with keeping the public safe under the mandate bus.”

WELL, THAT’S A TAKE: Energy Secretary Blows Off Biden’s Failure To Pass Infrastructure, Claims He’s Uniting Democrats. “Granholm joined NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press” where she argued that despite the fact that Democrats still appeared to be struggling to reach a deal within their own party, the negotiations proved that Biden was able to unite them.”

Previously: Desperate Democrats Aren’t Making Sausage, They’re Dropping Live Pigs Into a Woodchipper.

WE’VE ALL HEARD QUITE ENOUGH FROM EXPERTS: McAuliffe: Parents Shouldn’t Pick Textbooks, ‘We Have Experts Who Actually Do That.’

HEH: Trump Does ‘Tomahawk Chop’ At World Series and The Left Flips Out.

OF COURSE: House Dems To Introduce Resolution to Condemn Israel, Praise Terrorist Palestinian Groups.

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Tiki-Torch Wielding Virginia Dems Caught Faking White Supremacist Photo Op to Smear Glenn Youngkin.

UPDATE (From Ed): Lincoln Project takes credit for tiki torch stunt McAuliffe campaign passed off as genuine Youngkin supporters.

It does seem awfully on-brand for them:

(Updated and bumped.)

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend messages: “Why would Lincoln Project include a black guy in its fake tiki torch white supremacist lineup? For authenticity, because there actually are conservative MAGA blacks? I mean, I applaud the stab at verisimilitude. But it does kind of undercut the intent.”

Well, the Lincoln Project. Remember when they said they were leaving the Trump GOP to fight for decency?

STIFF COMPETITION: ABC News Takes the Prize — for Dishonest Journalism. “Having falsely established Steele’s bona fides, George Stephanopoulos allows him to repeat his anti-Trump smears while merely noting here and there that not everyone agrees with his view.”

One quibble: Stephanopoulos is not and has never been a journalist.

Of course, that hardly makes him unique among his peers and coworkers.

MATT MARGOLIS: PETA’s Latest Absurd Demand. “In the wake of revelations that Dr. Fauci’s NIH tortured beagle puppies without any scientific reason, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is keeping its focus on the important things. With the start of the World Series this week, PETA is suggesting that Major League Baseball retire the use of the term ‘bullpen’ because it ‘references the holding area where terrified bulls are kept before slaughter.'”

I’D LIKE TO SEE THAT:

The thing about Musk is that he might just do it.

ROBERT SPENCER: Just the Beginning: Ten Afghan Evacuees Detained as National Security Risks.

NEW YORK: Black Lawyers Group Says New York Concealed Carry Restrictions Are Racist.

Flashback: The racist origin of gun control laws.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Desperate Democrats Aren’t Making Sausage, They’re Dropping Live Pigs Into a Woodchipper. “While Biden needs to get something, anything passed to try and prevent becoming the nation’s only first-term lame duck, the most radical House members of his own party have taken an all-or-nothing approach. It’s even funnier on the Senate side, where the Wall Street Journal reports the Democrats are scrambling to raise taxes without raising taxes to pay for a bill that Democrats also say costs nothing.

Read the whole thing.

WHAT SHE MEANS IS THAT THERE’S AN UNWELCOME DEBATE OVER THINGS SHE’D RATHER PARENTS NOT KNOW ABOUT: ‘There Is No Rational Debate’: Loudoun County School Board Chair Trashes Parents.

THIS SURE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE CULTURAL TOUCHSTONE OF A GUY WHO GOT 81 MILLION VOTES: Not one, not two: Four anti-Biden ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ songs reach iTunes top 10. “Bryson Gray keeps hold on top spot despite being suspended by YouTube.”

DON’T GET COCKY: As Pence Visits Battleground Virginia, Youngkin Widens Lead.