BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Green Swatted.

WILL THE BIG GUY GET HIS TEN PERCENT? Biden Pursues Deal Handing World’s Largest State Sponsor Of Terrorism $1 Trillion.

HE’S RUNNING IN ’24: Newsom Vetoes a Bill That Would Have Set Up Legal Drug Injection Sites.

DIFFERENT POLITICAL NEEDS REQUIRE DIFFERENT NARRATIVES, COMRADE: Two Years After Kenosha Riots, Why No August 23 Committee To Investigate The Big Lie That Stoked The Flames?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Delicious Stupidity of Liz Cheney’s Presidential Folly. “I cannot begin to describe how much I would like to see her go through with this. I may have to rent a storage space for the extra schadenfreude I’ll have when this ego train wrecks.”

OK, GROOMER: World’s Youngest Trans Model Has Two Trans Parents, Will Have ‘Gender Surgery’ At 16. “McMaher and her partner appear to have another young infant they are raising as non-binary, referring to the child as a ‘theybie’ who is often photographed in a jumper which reads ‘genderless is more.'”

COYOTE UGLY: Border Agents Fend Off Aggressive Suspected Smugglers in Wild Video.

CDR SALAMANDER: Some Damn Fool Thing in the Balkans.

You would think one war in Europe at a time would be enough, but you should never underestimate the Serbs.

As with most of us who were on active duty in the 1990s, I have more than a passing interest in the former Yugoslavia – and invested my quota of effort in its wars.

Later in my career I later served in NATO with Slovenes, Croatians, and N. Macedonians. I’ve vacationed a few times in Slovenia and Croatia. One of my daughters has studied, twice, in Serbia.

I keep an eye on it … and thankfully so are some smart people in The Pentagon.

The Balkans is always on the edge and has been for centuries, so it is only natural that now and then it bubbles over.

You may have missed with all the other news that the frozen conflict in Kosovo was throwing sparks again.

Much more at the link.

MATT MARGOLIS: Interview With Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group on the 2022 Midterms. “Despite the recent tightening of the generic ballot, Cahaly still believes that Joe Biden will drag down his party at the polls in November.”

BREAKING: Guilty on All Charges in Michigan Governor ‘Kidnapping’ Case.

FINALLY: The end of IKEA instructions? Scientists develop new method for 3D-printing flat-pack furniture that self-assembles into complex shapes as it dries.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Paul Pelosi benefits big with PPP forgiveness, company won’t repay millions.

NOW THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR: Soulless Greens Are Trying to Ruin Scotch Whisky. “Because peat is decaying organic matter that must be burned to obtain energy, it is considered a fossil fuel — and you know what that means.”

If you read between the lines, it’s obvious that banning or limiting peat is just a way for distillers who don’t use peat to legally kneecap superior distillers.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: China in Charge at U.S. Lab.

The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), part of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), focuses on “dangerous pathogens” with the “potential to be used as weapons around the world.”

This same GNL signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that gave China the power to destroy “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups. “The agreements applied to “all cooperation and exchange documents, data, details and materials,” were renewable every five years, and the confidentiality terms remaining in force even after termination.

As The Epoch Times reports, the UTMB now concedes that officials signed “poorly drafted” agreements, and that the signing could violate Texas law. Also in play are violations of a more serious order.

The Galveston National Lab is a 2008 creation of NIAID, the division of the National Institutes of Health headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984. Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function research, which makes viruses more lethal and transmissible, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, controlled by Communist China and not accountable to American officials.

In addition to some $4 million in U.S. funding, which Fauci laundered through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, the WIV received a cargo of deadly pathogens courtesy of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu. As Israeli molecular biologist Dr. Dany Shoham documented in China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, the Chinese scientist came to head the special pathogens program at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.

The viruses that were “surreptitiously shipped from the NML to China included Machupo, Junin, Rift Valley Fever, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, and Hendra. In 2017-18 alone, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips to the Wuhan lab.

Read the whole thing.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Can Anyone Explain the Appeal of Drag Queens and Why Lib Parents Bring their Kids to Watch Them?

GOODER AND HARDER: Crime spiking in upscale New York neighborhoods, NYPD statistics show.

MEGAN FOX: The People v. Cynthia Abcug: Who Is the ‘Conspiracy Theorist?’ “Today, more than 30 potential jurors unknowingly walked into a horrible day on jury duty because the state of Colorado didn’t care if it traumatized its citizens with a fake story of child abuse. I aim to do better.”

BECAUSE THE POLITICAL NECESSITIES CHANGED. NEXT QUESTION? The CDC (Finally) Admitted the Science on Natural Immunity. Why Did It Take so Long?

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Lefties Beg, ‘Fauci, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You!’ “The Left’s unending obsession with Anthony Fauci, even as he retires, is this week’s big crazy.”

Plus:

• Portland just got stabbed with a whole lot of unexpectedlies
• Gavin Newsom did the right thing for once… and I can tell you why
• Take the TikTok Endurance Challenge!

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

SCIENCE! Chicago children’s hospital admits reliance on ‘anecdotal evidence’ for treatment of ‘trans’ youth.

REVEALED: Biden White House Directly Involved in Conspiracy to Entrap Trump in Criminal FBI Probe.

ALL BUBBLES POP: Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Pandemic Boomtowns. “Redfin found that 70% of homes for sale in Boise, Idaho, had their price cut in July, the highest share of 97 metros.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Punches Back at Latest Failed Dem Fishing Expedition. “The White House has spent the last couple of weeks polishing halos and insisting that Team Joe had nothing to do with the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago fishing raid. Once again, the Dems were lying.”

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: In Retirement, Fauci Will Collect $350,000 a Year… From You.

NO, HE’LL TRIPLE DOWN ON STUPID: Will China’s Latest Energy Rationing Kill Biden’s Green Dreams? “While Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Americans to buy an electric vehicle, batteries and other essential components may soon be in even shorter supply than they are now.”