SADLY, THIS IS NOT THE SILLIEST OR MOST DANGEROUS THING TO COME OUT OF THE BAY AREA: San Francisco State University Prof Says Jewish Pot is Making Black Men Gay.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Logistics Crisis Will Lead to Long-Term High Prices, Ports Council Chair Warns.

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: China Pulls Celtics Games After Player Says ‘Free Tibet.’

China pulled Boston Celtics games from the streaming service Tencent on Thursday after center Enes Kanter protested Beijing’s repressive rule over Tibet and called President Xi Jinping a “brutal dictator.”

Wearing a T-shirt bearing an image of the Dalai Lama, Kanter in a Facebook video post called for China to “free Tibet,” saying the Communist Party is carrying out a campaign of “cultural genocide” in the region.

“Shame on the Chinese government,” Kanter said. “The Chinese dictatorship is erasing Tibetan identity and culture.”

More like this, please.

MATT MARGOLIS: Merrick Garland Debunks Democrat ‘Insurrection’ Claims About Capitol Riot. “Surely the Biden administration, with all its tough talk about holding the rioters accountable, could find someone to charge with insurrection, right? If they could, they certainly would have, and we all know it. Instead, they’ve been charged with other crimes related to their actions on that day. Just not insurrection. Why not? Because the riot wasn’t an insurrection. Attorney General Garland knows this. Congressional Democrats know this. Heck, the media probably knows it too.”

They do, but plenty of news sources — including the AP — continue to use “insurrection” in their “news” stories.

SHOCKER: Colorado’s vaccine sweepstakes didn’t boost rates. “The findings contradict previous statements from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis touting the program — which gave $1 million to five randomly selected winners. The Democrat has repeatedly suggested it helped, despite prior evidence to the contrary.”

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: Just a Coincidence? Richmond Schools Give Teachers Full Week Off During Election.

BIDENFLATION: House Democrats and rising energy prices.

With great excitement, House Democrats on the Government Oversight and Reform committee recently announced they will conduct a hearing on October 28th focused on climate change. It will feature senior leaders from BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Chamber of Commerce.

It’s not clear why the Democrats are excited about this hearing; the timing could not be worse.

Their intent is to haranguing oil companies and the Chamber about climate change, which no one outside of the Democratic donor ecosystem cares about. Moreover, multiple surveys have made it clear that approximately no one is willing to pay anything to address climate change.

Unfortunately for Democrats, however, the hearing is much more likely to wind up highlighting rising energy prices, which just about everyone – including Team Biden — cares about. Just last week, it was reported that senior officials in the Biden Administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, and climate czar Gina McCarthy, have had conversations and meetings with oil and gas industry executives about how best to restrain price increases.

That seemed odd, given that the administration has spent its entire time in office trying to … increase the cost of energy.

Mission accomplished.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will McAuliffe Continue Being the Democratic Cockroach? “The current governor’s race in Virginia is particularly interesting for a few reasons. The first is that the Republican might actually win. The second is that Terry McAuliffe is still hanging around, fulfilling his duties as the unkillable cockroach of the Democratic party. The third is that issues that parents all over the country can relate to are being played out on a big stage.”

MECHAZILLA: SpaceX Finally Installs ‘Robot Chopsticks’ to Catch Super Heavy Booster. “The chopsticks are actually a set of massive arms that will be used to recover the giant Super Heavy booster as it lands, catching it as it comes back down to Earth. While SpaceX founder Elon Musk initially announced the catch arms back in December 2020, it wasn’t until Tuesday that the company was able to assemble the chopsticks and place them on the launch assembly.”

Ten months to assemble something hardly anyone had even dreamed of before — the “finally” seems a bit presumptuous.

READINESS: New Report on U.S. Military Readiness Is Terrifying. “Billed as the ‘only non-governmental and only annual assessment’ of American military muscle and preparedness, this year’s report ought to send some chills up the spines of America’s military leadership, both uniformed and civilian. Then again, ‘spine’ assumes a fact not currently in evidence.”

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LET’S GO BRANDON! Tides Turning? Boston Fans Chant ‘F**k Joe Biden’ At ALCS.

There are two things you can know for certain about Boston: the people there are incredibly passionate about almost everything, and it is a firmly liberal city. That’s why what happened after Game 4 of the ALCS between the hometown Red Sox and the Houston Astros might come as a surprise.

Between chants of “F— A-rod” (former New York Yankees third baseman and Fox Sports analyst Alex Rodriguez) and “F— (Astros second baseman Jose) Altuve,” impassioned and clear chants of “F— Joe Biden” could be heard just outside of Fenway Park.

Now we all aren’t surprised when college campuses in the South break out in these cheers during football games (since the South tends to be conservative anyway), but a place like Boston joining in on the fun goes to show just how much our president’s approval has dropped in just nine short months.

Short?

WHEN YOU’VE LOST MSNBC…: Not Even MSNBC Believes Biden Whopper That $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Will Cost ‘Zero.’

FIGHT THE POWER: Sheriffs to Vaccine-Mandating Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Pound Sand. “Illinois sheriffs are declining to provide mutual aid to the Chicago Police Department, citing Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and overall anti-police policies.”

YOU DON’T SAY: AG Merrick Garland Admits Federal War On Parents Sprang From School Boards Letter, Not Evidence.

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BLUE CITY BLUES: Austin Police Department Morale Hits Bottom. “Yesterday, 99.97% of the patrol shifts worked with below authorized staffing. Only one shift at authorized level because they were able to fill vacant spots with partial shift overtime. #PropA is a staffing plan. We have not seen Mayor Adler’s staffing or cadet hiring plan.”

As I’ve been saying since last summer, demoralizing the police can be just as effective (for the Left, that is) as defunding them.

Washington State Football Coach’s Firing Just Gave Away Governor’s ‘Illegal’ Mandate Trick Play.

PURPLE ARIZONA: Kyrsten Sinema Isn’t Hitting the Panic Button. “Sinema, whose office did not respond to multiple requests for comment, is not underwater yet. She’s lost some standing among Arizona Democrats, but her approval rating is still at 56 percent, according to Noble’s most recent poll. (At this early juncture, approval polls are probably more reliable than likely-voter models.) Sinema can afford to anger the Democratic base a little, so long as she gets at least 50 percent of it in her primary race, Noble said. John McCain won only 52 percent of the GOP primary vote in his last election, in 2016, but he still won the general by 13 points. Similarly, Sinema’s power is her cross-party appeal: 42 percent of independents view her favorably, and she’s almost as popular among Republicans.”

Sinema faces very little pressure back home to get on board with Biden’s multitrillion-dollar regulatory and welfare boondoggle, and lots of reasons not to.

She’s a decent fit for Arizona moderates, but a lousy one for woke DC Democrats.

Joe Manchin is so fed up with his party’s dominant far-left wing that he has already “devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure” from the Democrats and sit in the Senate as an “American Independent.”

The big question about when/if Manchin or Sinema go independent is with which party they would caucus.

But it does seem that if McConnell and Schumer had to fight over them, both Sinema and Manchin could wield a lot more influence as independents than they can now in their radicalized party.

THE NEW HOTNESS: Atlanta’s Mayor Urges Eyewitnesses to Call 911 Instead of Videoing Incidents.

Old and cold: Mayor says City of Atlanta has been ‘defunding the police’ for the last few years.

AND YET, THEY DO: ‘You Are WEAK!’ Don Lemon ERUPTS on Biden, Democrats: ‘It’s Not Our Job to Sell Your Agenda for You!’

SPACE: SpaceX Might Make Elon Musk World’s First Trillionaire. “Musk’s space ambitions are huge. He’s not interested in shuttling to the International Space Station or even getting us back to the moon. He wants to go to Mars. Personally. He’s practically accomplished more in the last five years than the moribund NASA bureaucracy has since Neil Armstrong took his first famous lunar step.”

And whoever figures out how to profitably mine 16 Psyche could be the first quadrillionaire.

SALENA ZITO: Virginia delegate races could reflect national anti-Democratic mood.

While much of the media is paying attention to the gubernatorial race here, it will be interesting to see if these same center-right suburban voters are telling us how they feel about the state of things in the world. In short, have the media and the Democrats been effective in still making everything and everyone that is a Republican a mini version of Trump that will storm the state capital on any given day?

Or are center-right suburban voters unsatisfied with how the Democrats have handled the power voters gave them?

All 100 state House seats are on the ballot. Will voters tell Democrats they are seen not as a governing body but as a party with a bad overreach problem?

As in 2020 nationally, Democrats running for the Virginia House also have a sizable cash advantage over the Republicans, and they have had luminaries such as former President Barack Obama coming in to remind voters to vote straight Democratic. Then again, ask former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds how much that helped him in his run for governor in 2009, when voters were reacting to national Democrats’ supermajority and superoverreach in that election cycle.

Don’t get cocky.

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: They’re at It Again: The Left Is Using Its California Playbook in Virginia.

THERE’S NO NEWS IN THE NEWS ANYMORE: As Florida COVID Cases Plummet, Media Falls Silent.

Evergreen:

ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS THE NARRATIVE: Nets Censor Devastating Poll Numbers for Collapsing Biden Presidency.

According to Quinnipiac, the President sits at 40 percent approval. It’s even worse for the Grinnell College poll, showing Biden at just 37 percent approval and 50 percent disapproval. Both are respected polling companies and included in the Real Clear Politics Average of polls. (The new numbers can be found here.)

Again, you wouldn’t know that if you watched ABC, CBS or NBC. It’s not as though Good Morning America’s Jon Karl wasn’t aware of at least one of the polls. He cited Quinnipiac, but only the outfit’s numbers on Donald Trump: “A new poll from Quinnipiac found that 78 percent of Republicans want Donald Trump to be president again in 2024.” That amounted to just 8 seconds on the network.

In contrast, Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo highlighted the bad news on Wednesday, noting, “When asked about the most urgent issues facing America, the top answers were the economy, Covid-19, immigration and health care.” Those are subjects that mostly look bad for Biden.

Mostly?