READ THE WHOLE THING: The ‘COVID Collaborative’: More Proof Our Smug Ruling Class Is Real.

PRIORITIES: ‘Every officer is up to speed on diversity training. Not so much ship handling’: Scathing official report finds US Navy is too woke for war because of risk averse, politically correct, control-freak top brass.

BUT THE NARRATIVE! Evidence Shows Georgia Hand Recount Was ‘Riddled With Massive Errors and Provable Fraud,’ Claims Lawsuit.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: Capitol Police Using Army Surveillance Tech To Monitor Americans And ‘Identify Emerging Threats.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Desperate Democrats Already Bracing for a Red Wave.

Plus:

• Unmaking peace in the Middle East
• Biden Admin finally finds immigrants they won’t let in
• Snuffle up, buttercup

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

GRAFT, CORRUPTION, RENT-SEEKING… THE NEW NORMAL: Oversight Members Outline ‘Pattern of Ethical Issues’ at Granholm’s Energy Department.

In a Tuesday letter to Granholm that focused on whether assistant secretary Kelly Speakes-Backman “acted inappropriately” by promoting the interests of her former employer in her official government role, the lawmakers called out the agency for ignoring complaints about ethical lapses.

“On May 12, 2021, we first requested information about another conflict of interest regarding your relationship with Proterra, Inc,” the letter states. “Your agency has failed to provide a substantive response. This lack of transparency and apparent pattern of ethical issues raises questions about the stewardship of the agency by the Biden Administration.”

The complaint the committee referenced was in regards to Granholm’s promotion of electric battery company Proterra while she still held millions of dollars in shares of the company. The agency did not produce documents requested by the committee, which is now asking for documents related to Speakes-Backman.

The next time the GOP is in power, entire departments like DOE need to be zeroed out — just like Gingrich & Co. promised (but failed) to do in the game-changing ’94 election.

#DEFUNDTHEFBI: Whitmer Kidnap Plot Defendant Demands Info on the DOZEN FBI Informants and Paid ‘Snitches’ Involved. “The architect of the FBI investigation – running those informants – into the Whitmer plot is also the same overseer of the Capitol riot.”

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Go Figure, China Isn’t Keeping Its Promises on Climate Change.

Way back in 2017, I jotted a quick tweet, “if your climate plan is that I give up beef or my light SUV, but you’ve got no plan to deal with this over in China . . . I’m unpersuaded.”

The folks at Vox — the publication that launched with the slogan, “the smartest minds, the toughest questions”– took issue with that perspective, and wrote that their review of China’s policies “utterly destroy the conservative argument” and concluded, “China is waging an aggressive, multi-front campaign to clean up coal before eventually phasing it out . . . China is tackling climate change with all guns blazing. The US, not China, is the laggard in this relationship.”

Here we are, four years later, and the Vox assessment has proven spectacularly wrong.

Well, Vox.

Plus:

Earlier this year, Jordan McGillis, deputy director of policy at the Institute for Energy Research, pointed out “with its March release of a new five-year plan (FYP), the 14th in its history, China has embarrassed its climate cheerleaders in the West. Beijing’s plan institutes no carbon cap, no coal phase-out, and no roadmap by which it will execute upon Xi’s words. Despite the carbon-neutral-by-2060 pledge, the FYP emphasizes the importance of coal to China’s continued development, not the emissions that come with its use.”

China’s climate promises are for purely domestic consumption — Western domestic consumption.

EXCLUSIVE: Texas Attorney General Challenger Exposes Secret DA Order That’s Putting Felons Back on Texas Streets.

NEXT UP: CNN EXPLAINS HOW MOON WOBBLES ARE CAUSED BY YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT. NASA predicts a “wobble” in the moon’s orbit may lead to record flooding on Earth.

CHEAP DEMAGOGUE INDULGES IN CHEAP DEMAGOGUERY: Biden Dials Up His ‘New Jim Crow’ Rhetoric to an Absurd New Level.

WHAT THEY DO IN THE SHADOWS: Cuba clamps down on social media and internet access as protests spread.

Can’t stop the signal: They’re fed up. These videos show protesters demanding change in Cuba.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy Since the Civil War. “Sadly, we are saddled with a pretender who isn’t really there and is being used as a front for a cabal that’s attempting to advance the worst of all that American commie progressivism has to offer. Of course, everything that American progressivism has to offer is the worst, so that’s a problem.”

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, THE PENTAGON OR YOUR OWN LYIN’ EYES? Pentagon insists race theory isn’t taught, Air Force Academy instructor brags it is.

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: Megyn Kelly Says Media Ratcheted Up Jan. 6 Riot Coverage, Making It ‘Worse Than It Actually Was.’

VIDEO: The Latest Stunt by the Texas ‘Champagne Socialists’ May Be the Dumbest Yet.

THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT BEIJING GOT THE MONEY: WHO Squanders Cash on Shoddy Chinese Vaccines.

HARSH BUT FAIR: Texas Democrats Running Away From Their Duties Isn’t New or ‘Uncharted.’

HE’S ENJOYING HIS ICE CREAM: ‘Where’s President Biden?’: Officials Sound Alarm As ‘Socialist Shock Troops’ Deployed On Cuban Protesters.

GLORIOUS NEWS, COMRADES! FULL COMMUNISM HAS FINALLY BEEN ACHIEVED: North Korea Faces Another Terrible and Totally Avoidable Famine.

DON’T BE EVIL: How Google Translate deceives you. “Now, I don’t know if Google Translate omitted that damning reference because it obviously provokes the question I raised — why are oppressed Palestinians inspired by the land-grabbing oppressors of history? — before or after I cast the spotlight on it in my article.”

HMM: AG Barr’s Handling of Election Fraud Claims Slammed by Ex-U.S. Attorney in Letter Released by Trump. “On Election Day and afterwards, our Office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities. As part of my responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations. Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities.”

TRANSPARENCY: Keith Ellison Moves To Shield Records on Controversial Legal Scheme.

TYLER O’NEIL: An Ominous Portent for America Under Biden Gets Even Worse.

THAT ’70S SHOW:

But, hey, the Administration wants you to know you saved 16¢ if you treated your family to the lamest Independence Day cookout ever (without driving anywhere).

The big guy won’t notice until his 10% cut no longer buys him enough ice cream.