DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California lawmakers reintroduce amended zero bail bill in waning days of session.
Three days earlier: California county saw 70% of criminal suspects released on $0 bail commit new crimes.
Gooder and harder, California.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Don’t Believe the Democrats’ Midterms Homestretch Hype. “The Democratic base may be stupid enough to believe that the Inflation Reduction Act will actually reduce inflation but the rest of us still have to buy groceries.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, JUST LEFTIES ABUSING POLICE TO TRY AND ASSASSINATE A SITTING CONGRESSWOMAN: Marjorie Taylor Greene swatted for a third time in less than a week.
YOU CAN WATCH THE ARTEMIS I LAUNCH IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES on NASA’s YouTube Channel.
Update: Now about 40 minutes out while engineers discuss a “bleed” on engine #3.
Correction: That’s T-minus 40 and holding.
Nope: Scrubbed at 0835 Eastern.
RE-REMAKING THE JUDICIARY: Shame on You for Caring More About Inflation Than Biden’s Judicial Nominees.
GREAT POWER POLITICS: US Coast Guard cutter is denied entry into the Guadalcanal port in the Solomon Islands stoking fears over China’s growing influence in the Pacific.
The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which ended Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, the Coast Guard office in Honolulu said.
There was no response from the Solomon Islands’ government for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to stop there, however, so the Oliver Henry diverted to Papua New Guinea, the Coast Guard said.
China has been assertively trying to expand its presence and influence in the Pacific, and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare alarmed some neighbors, the U.S. and others after he signed a new security pact with China.
The pact has raised fears of a Chinese naval base being established within 1,200 miles off the Australia’s northeast coast.
Related: China’s Navy Is The Largest On Earth (Yes, Bigger Than The U.S. Navy).
SAY ANYTHING: ‘The U.S. Could Lose the Right To Vote Within Months’ Says Democrat Politician. “Any Republican who dared utter such nonsense would be laughed out of the building. But Griswold was only echoing — or parroting — the company line that Democrats have been peddling for months: our democracy is in trouble because Republicans are mean, spiteful, gay-hating, trans-oppressing, anti-female fascists.”
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: U.S. ‘Drastically Changed,’ Says Texas Chaplain Fired for Criticizing Males in Women’s Sports.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Caught In a Prostitution Sting on His Honeymoon. “On this week’s Florida Man Friday, we have the worst ‘I love you’ on record, how not to stash your meth, and the return of the Swamp Thing.”
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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (EURO EDITION): Forget showering, it’s eat or heat for shocked Europeans hit by energy crisis.
40% OF 12-17 YEAR-OLD DC BLACKS ARE UNVACCINATED: DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options. “During a press conference, Bowser, a Democrat, admitted there are no alternative options, including virtual learning, for students who cannot attend school due to the District’s vaccine mandate, meaning unvaccinated children will effectively be left without an education.”
JOE RAN ON IT, DEMS OWN IT: Vulnerable Democrats Already Running Away From Student Debt Fiasco.
340-MILE-HIGH TECH: SpaceX and T-Mobile team up to use Starlink satellites to ‘end mobile dead zones.’
Speaking at SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas on Thursday night, Sievert said T-Mobile will be dedicating a “slice of its mid-band PCS spectrum” to be integrated into Starlink satellites launched next year.
T-Mobile users will be able to use messaging, MMS and certain messaging apps, from remote points across the lower 48 states, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii and even some remote points in the water.
Eventually, the service will work with voice, Sievert said. T-Mobile plans to include the service in its most popular mobile plans but did not disclose specific pricing.
Musk said the service will work with Starlink’s second generation satellites, which have very large antennae and will be able to transmit directly to a cell or mobile phone.
The service won’t require mobile users to get a new phone. Musk said in or after a natural disaster, even if all the cell towers are taken out, the planned service should work.
If I’m reading this correctly, coverage will expand as Starlink’s satellite constellation grows.
SHE JUST ISN’T VERY GOOD AT THIS: KJP Loses Control of Press Briefing as Angry Black Reporter Complains About Being Ignored. “What is it about black reporters that KJP doesn’t like?”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Seven Reasons (and Counting) Why Republicans Should Send Fauci to Jail.
ANOTHER LIBSOFTIKTOK SCOOP: Children’s hospital admits to performing hysterectomies on trans minors. “Children’s National must have seen the negative coverage about Boston Children’s Hospital because they modified their website the day after I took screenshots of it.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America Was a Better Place When the FBI Didn’t Rig Elections. “Yesterday’s news revealed a double-whammy that added more clarity to just how heavy the Bureau’s thumb was on the 2020 presidential election scale, and all of it has to do with Joe Biden’s sleazebag progeny, Hunter.”
NO, THE LOCKDOWNS DID THAT: Pandemic Triggers 89% Increase, $53 Billion, In Food Stamp Spending.
COLORADO: The Polis plan to make traffic even worse.
Your car pollutes the most in stop-and-go traffic. It pollutes least when cruising the highway at a consistent speed.
The solution to this pollution challenge is perfectly aligned with the solution to your anger with the car stuck in front of you — get that car moving again.
But thanks to a new progressive “green” law, signed by our “libertarian” governor and implemented by his transportation department and local government elites, the traffic around Colorado will by design get progressively and quickly worse.
This is governmental malfeasance. It should be criminal.
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When your veins are bulging during your next parking-lot-on-the-highway moment, remember it’s not because we have too little money going to “transportation.” It’s that the money that should go to expand that highway went to a bike path or trolley car that statistically no one is using.Like your biological bloodstream, without a healthy, free-flowing system of roads, we die. Colorado will die.
Democrats really do despise their own voters.
Well, that’s why I call it “gooder and harder.”
UKRAINE WAR: Putin’s Mobilization Push Is a Big Dud. “This was a stupid war Putin launched in February, and it keeps getting stupider all the time.”
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