FOR NOW: California Vaccine Verification Bill Dies for Now. “If passed, the bill would have required all employers, public or private, to have their employees show proof of vaccination or submit to a weekly COVID-19 test.”

BIDEN’S BUNGLED BUGOUT: American Interpreter Biden Left Behind In Afghanistan: ‘I Don’t Believe In Anybody Anymore.’ “On Monday night, an American citizen who worked as an interpreter for the American military in Afghanistan but was left behind by President Biden told CNN, ‘I don’t believe in anybody anymore.’ She added, ‘I just can’t believe no one told me that this is the last flight.'”

I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN GRIEVING MOMS WERE THE ULTIMATE MORAL AUTHORITY: ‘America Hates You’: Mom of Marine Killed in Kabul Writes Scathing Message to Joe Biden — and Is Silenced by His Big Tech Buddies.

THEY GOT WOKE: Vice Media Lays Off Writers. “Vice had done some interesting work early on, but had gradually morphed into a hard-left Gawker-lite. Indeed, having either on your resume should be as toxic to future employment prospects as having Gawker itself on there.”

AWFUL: Biden Leaves Service Dogs Behind, Caged and at the Mercy of the Taliban.

JUST MORE REASONS TO PRINT UP MORE FUNNY MONEY FOR MORE “PROGRESSIVE” CAUSES: Democratic lawmakers want the Federal Reserve to focus on climate change as well as ‘racial and economic justice.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Let’s Punish People for Getting Vaccinated.

Plus:

• College students vent their Ls about Biden
• One of our Veeps is missing!
• David Frum is still the worst

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

CHANGE: South Korea passes bill limiting Apple and Google control over app store payments. “The South Korean parliament approved a bill on Tuesday that will ban major app store operators — like Google and Apple — from requiring developers to only use their payment systems to process the sale of digital products and services.”

HMM: What Could Have Inspired Him? FBI Believes Texas Lyft Murderer Was ‘Inspired’ by Foreign Terrorists.

YOUR KINDER, GENTLER TALIBAN: Taliban Executes Afghan Folk Singer. “The Taliban executed an Afghan folk singer days after its spokesman warned inhabitants ‘music is forbidden in Islam.’”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: As Afghanistan Fell, Taliban Gave the U.S. the Option to Secure Kabul. The U.S. Refused.

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS: Gun Control Advocates Frustrated With Biden. “Biden has done all he could possibly do to pass gun control, but the people who control its fate aren’t interested in letting it happen.”

Biden doesn’t have the clout to get much done on Capitol Hill, his sole saving grace.

NEVER. NEXT QUESTION? No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Wasn’t a Superspreader Event. So When Does Gov. Noem Get Her Apology From the Media?

OH: No biggie, just bin Laden’s security chief triumphantly returning to Afghanistan — with Taliban protection.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden Weaponizes Dept. of Education to Become the COVID Mask Gestapo. “The mask fetishists have really been letting their freak flags fly under the cover that Biden’s Afghanistan cock-up has been giving them. They get creepier by the hour. Seriously, these people need to be rounded up and put in some sort of leper colony for fascists. They will be free to keep the masks on their rage faces all they want.”

NEWSBUSTERS: Nets Ignore ‘Terrified’ University Students Abandoned in Afghanistan to Taliban.

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Megan Fox: Here’s What to Do if the FBI’s ‘Sedition Hunters’ Show Up at Your Door. “If the FBI can turn ‘unlawful entry’ and ‘disorderly conduct’ into a threat of a twenty-year sentence, they can do that to anyone for any infraction.”

Matt Margolis: Mitt Romney Is Still a Useless RINO, Even After Biden’s Botched Withdrawal. “ While I guess it’s a good thing Romney found it in him to partially blame Biden, Romney seems to be ignoring the facts to justify criticizing Trump.”

Yours Truly: What if Biden Believes His Own Lies? “ In Biden’s younger days, he wasn’t shy about telling whoppers. The difference today is, he seems to believe it. Or, maybe more accurately, Biden doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s repeating a false narrative crafted for him by others.”

DON’T GET COCKY: Florida Redistricting Has Dems in a Panic Over Losing the House.

VICTIMHOOD MENTALITY: James Madison University Teaches Students: Whites, Men, And Christians Are All Oppressors. “The outrageous claims were part of a PowerPoint presentation for new students covering social justice, identity, power and privilege, and white supremacy.”

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY THE VERY BEST PEOPLE THAT THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: A Stunning Number of Absentee Ballots in DeKalb County, Georgia, Violated Chain-of-Custody Rules.

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT ANALYSTS? Removing Afghan air support was ‘critical error’ say analysts.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: North Korea Restarts Weapons-Grade Yongbyon Nuclear Reactor Halted Under Trump.

ALL THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS: Unfinished Tractors, Pickup Trucks Pile Up as Components Run Short. “Companies determined to keep factories open are trying to work around shortages by producing what they can, at the same time rising customer demand has cleaned out store shelves, dealer showrooms and distribution centers. As a result, manufacturers are amassing big inventories of unsold or incomplete products such as truck wheels and farm tractors. Companies that are used to filling orders quickly now have bulging backlogs of orders, waiting for scarce parts or green lights from customers willing to take deliveries.”

JACK DUNPHY: Capitol Police Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks (but Shouldn’t Have). “Understand that it is not only Byrd himself who will be accused in the wrongful death suit yet to be filed. His department will also be named when the suit is brought in the jurisdiction the plaintiffs choose, and in speaking with Holt, Byrd exposed some departmental deficiencies a jury may see as having contributed to Babbitt’s death.”

YOUR BODY, THEIR CHOICE: Union for state employees sues Washington Governor Inslee as thousands protest vaccine mandates.