IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Loudoun County officials take taxpayer-funded trip to Uruguay, visit wineries, cannabis lab and horse farm. “Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall has traveled at taxpayer expense to Ghana, Uruguay, Germany, India, China and she’s traveled to South Korea twice.”

SANCTUARY CITY: New York City’s Message to Illegal Immigrants at Southern Border: We Don’t Want You Here.

MEET THE NEW FACE OF WHITE SUPREMACY: ‘Whistleblower X’ Is A Gay Democrat, Hopes To Be Good ‘Example’ For ‘LGBTQ People.’

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fires Reporter, Issues Corrections After Irresponsible Story About the University of Georgia.

HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? NO? CHANGE THE MEASUREMENT:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden’s Greatest Accomplishment as President—Inspiring Whistleblowers. “Joe Biden may not be at all functional, but the people pulling his strings have the relevant agencies under his charge in the Executive Branch firing on all cylinders to protect the ‘family interests.’ We know this because people are showing up with receipts.”

HAVE THEY TRIED BEING LESS BELLICOSE OR MAYBE NOT UNLEASHING PANDEMICS ON THE WORLD? China says foreign trade faces ‘extremely severe’ situation, blames geopolitics for slump.

NOT AN ACCIDENT? Dan Bongino Reveals the Latest Scuttlebutt on Cocainegate.

GET PSYCHE-D: NASA Prepares To Launch Mission To $10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid.

Psyche is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy (the first interplanetary launch for that rocket) from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, with additional opportunities scheduled through to 25th October.

After escaping Earth’s gravity, the Psyche spacecraft will use solar electric propulsion to accomplish its six-year journey to asteroid Psyche.

Measuring about 173 miles (279 kilometers) at its widest point, NASA says the asteroid Psyche presents a unique opportunity to explore a metal-rich body that may be part of a core of a planetesimal, the building block of an early planet.

Once the spacecraft reaches Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it will spend at least 26 months orbiting the asteroid, gathering images and other data that will tell scientists more about its history and what it is made of.

Luis Dominguez, the systems and electrical lead for assembly, test, and launch operations, is usually based at JPL but has been working full-time at the Cape since early June.

“We are moving forward,” he said, “and we’re confident that when we’re on the pad, we’ll be ready to hit the button. For all of us, we’ll be excited to launch this bird.”

If Psyche lives up to the hype about its metal content, it could be the key that opens up the entire solar system.

EXCLUSIVE: Child Trafficking Rescuer Highlights Horrors of Online Sexual Exploitation.

TYLER O’NEIL: Here’s the Real Reason Obama Went Out of His Way to Defend Librarians in a ‘Banned Books’ Letter. “Obama’s letter emphasized a core American value; namely, the idea that the solution to bad speech is more speech, not censorship. Yet, as with so much of Obama’s soaring rhetoric, the real message appears between the lines. Behind the effusive praise for librarians—who help “us understand each other and embrace our shared humanity”—Obama’s letter rebukes the concerned parents who dare to question why school librarians defend sexually explicit books.”

Maybe Obama is losing his touch. He’s usually much more surreptitious about pushing his subversive agenda.

IT’S WHAT HE DOES: Well, Biden Screwed Us Forever On Another Damn Thing. “Most days I manage to laugh or at least just shrug at the short-sighted, destructive, vindictive, petty, and ham-fisted preening morons in the Biden White House, but today they have me seething.”

ONE-MAN WRECKING CREW: Disney CEO Bob Iger in ‘damage control’ mode over possible sale of ABC, ESPN.

WELL, GOOD: Louisiana Legislature Overrides Governor’s Veto of Bill Protecting Kids From Transgender Surgeries.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: DHS admits that 40% of catch-and-release migrants disappeared.

COVERUP: DOJ Warned Hunter Biden Investigator Not to Answer House Committee’s Questions.

DOING WHAT? Millennials: “I’ll Be Making A Six-Figure Salary When I Graduate!” Reality: “LOL!”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: A Los Angeles Police Union Official Told Cops to Do WHAT??? “A high-ranking Los Angeles police union official told her members to do the one thing that union officials never say to their members.”

Plus:

• Won’t you give these radical climate protestors a hand?
• Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s face says everything about Biden that Democrats can’t.
• Here come the tragic detransition lawsuits.

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

YOU CAN’T SPELL DEI WITHOUT DIE: Get Race Quotas Out Of The Cockpit Before We Literally Crash And Burn.

Starting in 2020, airlines panicked and did two insanely stupid things. They forced a generation of their most experienced pilots into early retirement, blaming the pandemic. Then, when they realized they’d triggered a catastrophic pilot shortage, they massively increased hiring. Unfortunately, it was 2020 so the new George Floyd rules were in effect. Airline after airline caved to the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” commissars and committed to new race-based hiring rules.
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Meanwhile, the last 12 months have delivered the highest number of near-collisions and narrowly averted disasters in modern aviation history. “With seven runway incursions of United States commercial aircraft during January and February, the first two months of 2023 saw the highest rate of such incidents in five years,” according to Wikipedia.

Unexpectedly.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: NYU Law—EXPOSED: Course Teaches How Human Reproduction Is Oppression. “Members of the ‘NYU Law Review,’ not content to have their membership serve as a resume-inflating perk, have demanded cash for the privilege of writing articles such as ‘Queering the Welfare State: Paradigmatic Heteronormativity After Obergefell.'”

This is part seven of PJ Media’s 10-part series on the courses taught at the nation’s top ten law schools.

BLUE CITY BLUES: Beginning Of CRE Firesale? Baltimore Office Tower Dumped At 63% Discount. “Some argue remote or hybrid work has forced a downward shift in office demand — but that’s not entirely the case, well, not at least in crime-ridden Baltimore. The depressed office building demand is a vote of confidence that Democrats in City Hall have failed to enforce law and order as progressive policies backfire.”

OUCH: Execs Are ‘Panicked’ Over the Post-Tucker Fox News Primetime Lineup Ratings. “Even Sean Hannity lost the ratings battle to MSNBC.”

CHANGE: Mexico Surpasses China as the US Top Trade Partner. “In the context of the global economic landscape, where China’s rising labor costs and the uncertainty over US-China trade relations have caused concerns for American businesses, Mexico’s emergence as a leading trade partner is a promising development. The nation’s proximity and the deep-rooted political connections make it a more predictable, efficient, and beneficial partner for the United States.”

Plus, Mexico isn’t threatening to invade Taiwan.

WELL, THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: In-N-Out Bans Masks for Workers, COVID Cultists Melt Down.

YOU CAN’T GET RICH IN POLITICS UNLESS YOU’RE A CROOK: GOP rep. estimates up to $100M flowed through Biden family accounts: This looks ‘sinister.’