SPACE… WELL, MARTIAN AIRSPACE: Mars Helicopter Sets Records in Most Challenging Flight Yet.

PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: Democrat Officials Are the Real ‘Domestic Terrorists.’

PUTIN STOOGE: Biden under pressure to respond to Russian hackers’ claims of responsibility for ransomware attack.

June 2: Biden says he is ‘looking closely’ at retaliation over Russian-linked cyberattack.

April 7: Biden Eyes Russia Retaliation After Meddling, Hacking Review.

He’s weak.

WHAT’S AN AUTOCRAT TO DO WHEN THE RABBLE STOP FEARING THE ‘RONA? Andrew Cuomo Seizes Emergency Powers to Fight Gun Violence ‘Public Health’ Emergency.

MEMORY-HOLED: Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Scrubs Website Of Pledge To Teach Critical Race Theory. “Per The Daily Wire’s reporting, the NEA’s original agenda item promised to create a team of staffers dedicated to providing members with information about how to ‘fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric’ and ‘share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.'”

Spoiler: Nothing has changed but the NEA trying to hide what it’s doing.

VICTORIA TAFT: The NW Heatwave Was So Bad That ‘Climate Change’ Disciples Re-Think Views on AC Units – For ‘Equity,’ Naturally.

MILE HIGH SAN FRANCISICO: Capitol Hill residents fencing off parkways to keep homeless away from properties. “Even with them not camping in front of my house, they stole everything. They went over the fence into my courtyard and got rakes, shovels and hand tools. They also went over the fence across the street and went into a neighbor’s shed and got a brand new bicycle.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Burning Churches, Speech Police…Canada Is Getting Creepier. “We’ve seen the use of nebulous ‘hate speech’ laws as a way to issue broad attacks on free speech that doesn’t fit leftist orthodoxy. The hate speech definition is built to expand to fit whatever words or concepts progressives suddenly find offensive. Note: they’re offended by everything conservatives say.”

CHANGE: Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says. “In a court filing on Monday, New Delhi said Twitter has lost its immunity in India after the American social network failed to comply with the new local IT rules, which were unveiled in February and went into effect in late May.”

EXCLUSIVE: Legal Expert Warns of Coming ‘Canadian Ministry of Truth, a Modern Inquisition.’ “Bill C-36 is calculated to punish legal independent thought and crush it out wherever it finds it using punitive fines and imprisonment.”

A VIP TWOFER COURTESY OF PAULA BOLYARD…:The Biden Admin’s Latest Stunt to Push COVID-19 Vaccines Is the Most Terrifying Yet.

…AND YOURS TRULY: Terry McAuliffe Answers the Question: How Many Cringes Can You Fit in a 21-Second Video?

KRUISER: Be Nice: AI Could Make Me ‘Digitally Immortal.’

PERSONNEL IS POLICY: Biden to nominate environmental lawyer as assistant Army secretary.

DISPATCHES FROM YEAR ZERO: Vandals Topple Statues, Burn Churches to the Ground in Canada.

THE LEFT WILL WRECK ANYTHING IT CAN’T SEIZE, AND SOME THINGS IT CAN: Biden’s Administration Is the ‘Wrecking Crew.’ “We should have seen this coming. Remember the first official act of President Biden on Inauguration Day? Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline to ensure that the country would not have access to cheap oil and gas, but would instead be forced to rely more heavily on so-called renewable energy sources that can only be affordable with the help of vast government subsidies. The Department of Energy is now the Department of Less Energy, and fewer jobs too, to the tune of 50,000 construction and oil workers sidelined by Biden.”

A bare minimum of 74 million of us saw this coming.

ANYTHING FREE IS WORTH LESS THAN YOU PAID FOR IT: Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site Has Become ‘Thought Police’ That ‘Shackles Conservative Viewpoints.’

CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD: Why Saving Comedy Is So Crucial To Saving America.

Real humor requires risk-taking — it requires saying something that will surprise and, sometimes, appall the listener. So why should we be surprised that humor is vanishing?

People aren’t dumb. They’ve looked around, and they see that telling the wrong joke — or even simply laughing at one — is a quick way to destroy your life; better to just suffer in silence and watch old Eddie Murphy clips from the 1980s like they’re banned readings in the Soviet Union, which, soon, they might well be.

Most of the funniest comedy today comes from anonymous people online — the people who make internet memes and run anonymous Twitter accounts. Think about that: Random idiots on the internet are way funnier than professional comedians paid millions of dollars a year for one simple reason — only anonymous people can actually be funny without fear.

Read the whole thing.

BECAUSE OFFERING UNEARNED TENURE TO A FABRICATOR WOMAN OF COLOR IS RACIST AND SEXIST: ‘1619 Project’ Founder Rejects Her Alma Mater’s Tenure Offer, Cites Racism and Sexism.

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COLD WAR II: China Is Preparing for Nuclear War.

Nuclear analyst Jeffrey Lewis revealed that China is building what appears to be 119 missile silos across more than 700 square miles in the Gansu desert. Construction began in February.

The silos suggest Beijing no longer seeks to maintain only a “minimal deterrent.” The Chinese military may even be building a nuclear “war-fighting” capability.

Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, has also identified another 26 silos in China.

“It’s really a startling pace of construction,” he said to CNN. “It’s much larger than anything we expected to see.”

The silos appear designed to take the DF-41 missile, which has a maximum range of 9,300 miles and can carry 10 warheads apiece. The 145 silos, if fully stocked, would pack a punch against continental American targets.

Related: Democrats take aim at the US’s new $264 billion ICBM amid search for cash to boost the military.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Who’s Ready for Another Subprime Real Estate Crash? Joe Biden, That’s Who.

Plus:

• From Walgreens to Neiman Marcus in one generation (of shoplifters)
• True Conservative™ David French defends teaching CRT to children
• You’ll never guess what happens when California prisons stick men in with the women

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

SWINDLE OF THE CENTURY: Norway Carbon Offset Deal Blows Up Rationale for Biden’s Trillions to Fight Climate Change.

Norway has long positioned itself as green, even though it is one of world’s largest oil producers. Norway plans to increase its oil production by 40 percent by 2025 and is expanding its Arctic drilling program.

To maintain its green pose, Norway is buying offsets. What’s interesting about the Gabon offsets is that Norway is purchasing them for a mere $5 per ton of CO2 “stored.”

Keeping in mind that Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats want to spend trillions and trillions of dollars on climate, Norway seems to have found a solution it can sign on to – CO2 offsets at $5 per ton.

The U.S. consumption of energy produces about 5 billion tons of CO2 per year. So at $5 per ton, the entire U.S. energy-related CO2 footprint could be offset Norway-style for “mere” $25 billion. That is a lot less than Biden’s trillion and trillions of dollars.

It was never about saving the earth. It was always about getting the money.

OH: A Review of COVID-19 Deaths in Two California Counties Drops the Total by Nearly 25%.

IT’S OK TO QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM: Maxine Waters Attacks The Declaration Of Independence On The 4th Of July.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: What the Heck Is a ‘Demisexual’? We’re Not Sure, But There’s One in Andrew Cuomo’s Family.

Kevin Downey Jr: Why Can’t the Left Let Go of Slavery?

Yours Truly: Clyburn Joins Ranks of Democrat Flip-Floppers on Voter ID.