MEGAN FOX: FDA Bans Farmers from Caring for Their Own Animals Without Costly Vet Approval.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Turned Thunderbunny Into Thunderdome. “This week we have the man who doesn’t know art but knows what he dislikes, a baby-saving time traveler, and a Colorado driver gone to the dogs.”

GROOMING, STRAIGHT UP: Target partners with org pushing for kids’ genders to be secretly changed in schools without parental consent.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Bedlam at City Council: Somali ‘Culture’ Takes Minneapolis by Storm. “That Somalis felt comfortable enough to enact their culture here in America is connected to the unwavering Rule of Numbers: the more non-Westerners, especially Muslims, grow in the West, the more phenomena endemic to their nations—in this case, a breakdown of law and rise in thuggery—grows with them.”

SO JUST LIKE HIS FIRST TERM THEN: Majority Of Americans Think Biden Second Term Would Be ‘Disaster’ Or ‘Setback.’

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT: Jailed Luggage Thief Sam Brinton Is Also a Member of the L.A. Dodgers’ Favorite Anti-Catholic Group.

HEALTH: Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink announces FDA approval of in-human clinical study. “The implant aims to help patients with severe paralysis regain their ability to communicate by controlling external technologies using only neural signals.”

REAL MONEY: DeSantis Raises Huge $8.2M in First 24 Hours After ‘Failed’ Launch.

SAD: Goodbye, Minnesota.

The last reason I’m leaving Minnesota is because of a lack of hope. I’m a realist, and realism tells me there’s nothing more I can do to help prevent Minnesota’s decline. Not only its declining public safety, but also its declining public schools, its hopelessly irrational light-rail transit system and its eroding future.

I know our current leaders won’t solve these problems because they won’t even acknowledge they exist. Minneapolis recently unveiled a new multimillion-dollar ad campaign to draw visitors into the city to “see what all the fuss is about” because “negative perceptions” have “overshadowed” the positive. Unfortunately for that campaign’s credibility, the “fuss” on the day it was announced was about six people under the age of 18 shot in Brooklyn Center.

Plus: “I know I’ve benefited greatly from the excellent public education and wonderful career opportunities that Minnesota provided me. I can leave knowing that I’ve repaid the state many times over with the millions in taxes I’ve paid and the hundreds of jobs I’ve created. That reciprocal history makes it painful for me to say goodbye, but it’s time to end my dysfunctional relationship with the new Minnesota.”

Losing an entrepreneur like Howard Root after he retired is bad enough. What really hurts is the next generation of entrepreneurs who will give up on Minnesota before they pay those millions in taxes and create those hundreds of jobs.

TALES FROM THE SWAMPLAND: Comer Says Biden Linked to $5 Million Bribe While VP, But FBI Is Obstructing Investigation.

SO YOU’RE SAYING IT’S ALIENS: This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here. “In comments made at SALT iConnection 2023—a conference that convenes investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers—Nolan stated that he believed extraterrestrial intelligence had not only visited planet Earth, but that ‘you can go a step further, it hasn’t just visited, it’s been here a long time, and it’s still here.'”

YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS: Why Is the Indy Youth Carnival Barring Parents?

DOUBLING DOWN: Internal email to Target employees reveals $9 BILLION in losses for one week, pivot to George Floyd anniversary. “Today brings more reflection, pain and the need for continued care as our team, hometown and world remember the murder of George Floyd. As you make space to take care of yourself and each other, know that you can always tap into these tools from Team Member LIfe Resources, and as Mental Health Awareness Month continues, turn to Take Five to Take Care hub for more wellbeing support.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Black Lives Matter Going Broke Is the Feel-Good Story of the Week. “The more lily white the Democrat, the more they like to pretend to be down with the struggle.”

UKRAINE WAR: Russia resorts to massive Soviet-era bombs as Ukrainian air defenses prove a match for missiles, drones.

Ukrainian investigators have increasingly found instances of Russia dropping older bombs, some around 1,100 pounds. The low-tech explosives easily circumvent modern air defenses like the U.S.-made Patriot missile systems that are designed to counter long-range missiles and drones.

Russia’s bombs, resurrected from Cold War-era ordnance stashes, have two major advantages over missiles in that they have no propulsion system for air defenses to track, and they remain airborne for barely a minute.

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With no way to counter the bombs themselves, Ukrainian forces must target the planes that drop them, a tall order for a national air force with planes far older than Russia’s modern aircraft.

“Trying to intercept these bombs isn’t effective, it’s not even rational,” a Ukrainian air force spokesman told the newspaper. “The only way out of this situation and the only way to stop it is to attack the planes that launch these bombs.”

I bet F-16s would help.

FASCISM, STRAIGHT UP: Corrupt Bedfellows: SPLC and FBI Working Together to Frame Catholics as Terrorists.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: The County Sold Her Home Over Unpaid Taxes and Kept the Profit. SCOTUS Wasn’t Having It.

When local bureaucrats in Hennepin County, Minnesota, seized an elderly woman’s home over a small tax debt, sold it, and kept the profit, they likely had no idea they would set in motion a series of events that would cripple the practice known as “home equity theft” across the country.

Yet that’s what happened. The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that the government violated the Constitution when it took possession of Geraldine Tyler’s condo over an overdue property tax bill, auctioned the home, and pocketed the proceeds in excess of what she actually owed.

Tyler, who is now 94 years old, purchased the Minneapolis-area condo in 1999. But a series of events, including a neighborhood shooting, prompted her to relocate to a retirement community in 2010, at which point it became difficult for her to pay both her new rent and the property taxes on her former home. She accrued a $2,300 tax bill, which turned into an approximately $15,000 bill after the government added on $13,000 in penalties, interest, and fees. Local officials then sold the home for $40,000—and kept the remaining $25,000.

Read the whole thing — Tyler is hardly alone.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Harvard Law Exposed: Courses Encourage Ape Behavior. “What you are about to read about Harvard Law School is real. This is not The Babylon Bee.”

This is the fifth in PJ Media’s ten-part series exposing the nation’s top law schools.

PRIORITIES: Democrats to Biden: Get ‘off the bench’ in the debt limit fight.

“They need to use the power of the presidency. I don’t buy this argument that [public silence] helps the negotiation,” said Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steven Horsford (D-Nev.). “I need the American people to know that Democrats are here fighting, working, prepared to reach an agreement to avoid a default and only the White House, the president, can explain that in this moment.”

Biden is set to be even further out of sight this weekend when he leaves Friday for Camp David, and then travels to Delaware. Told Biden was planning to leave Washington for the weekend, one House Democrat expressed disbelief.

“Please tell me that’s not true,” said the lawmaker, who was granted anonymity for fear of angering the White House. “You’re going to see a caucus that’s so pissed if he’s stupid enough to do that.”

The GOP has already passed a debt limit increase. Biden has another weekend off.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: At long last, the glorious future we were promised in space is on the way.

After losing the initial lander contract to SpaceX two years ago, Blue Origin did not just bid a lower price this time around. Instead, it radically transformed the means by which it would put humans on the Moon. The Blue Moon lander is now completely reusable; it will remain in lunar orbit, going up and down to the surface. It will be serviced by a transport vehicle that will be fueled in low-Earth orbit and then deliver propellant to the Moon. This transporter, in turn, will be refilled by multiple launches of the reusable New Glenn rocket.

To be sure, that is a lot of hardware that has yet to be built and tested. But when we step back, there is one inescapable fact. With SpaceX’s fully reusable Starship, and now Blue Moon, NASA has selected two vehicles based around the concept of many launches and the capability to store and transfer propellant in space.

This is a remarkable transformation in the way humans will explore outer space—potentially the biggest change in spaceflight since the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957. It has been a long time coming.

“We knew these were the right ideas decades ago,” said George Sowers, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. “It is gratifying to see folks coming around.”

Indeed.

OUCH: Target Loses $9 Billion in Market Value After Boycott.

SAME: Adam Carolla on CIA, FBI, DOJ and CDC: ‘I Do Not Trust Them Anymore.’

MAGIC! Presto-Chango, See Which Democrat Attack Transforms Into ‘Republicans Pounce!’

SKYNET SMILES: Meet the AI-powered robot replacing humans as security guards in Switzerland.

PJ MEDIA’S PAULA BOLYARD: A Note to Readers About Our Coverage of the 2024 Presidential Race. “We believe honest debate is what separates us from the Left, which forces conformity and doesn’t tolerate the slightest deviation from The Narrative.”