YEAH, BUT HE VOTED FOR IT, ANYWAY: Dems Miffed Bernie Sanders Telling Truth About Inflation Reduction Act.

NORTH CAROLINA: AR-15s put in all Madison County schools to enhance security in case of active shooter.

According to Harwood, the county’s school resource officers have been training with instructors from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.

“We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safe in all of our schools in the county,” Harwood said. “We’ve also got breaching tools to go into those safes. We’ve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.”

There are six schools in the Madison County system: Brush Creek Elementary, Hot Springs Elementary, Mars Hill Elementary, Madison Middle, Madison High and Madison Early College High.

“The reason we put the breaching tools in the safes is that in the event we have someone barricaded in a door, we won’t have to wait on the fire department to get there,” Harwood said. “We’ll have those tools to be able to breach that door if needed. I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR, because that’s time lost. Hopefully we’ll never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be.”

More like this, please.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden’s Weaponized Anti-Constitution Feds Are Getting Creepier. “While we’re all over here looking forward to November, the Democrats are busy trying to turn every part of the federal government that they can on their political opponents. When they talk about growing the government to ‘help’ people, they mean to help Democrats flex their fascist freak flags.”

REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT USED TO BILL ITSELF AS THE ‘REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY’? Every Senate Democrat votes against defining pregnancy as unique to biological females.

SPOILER: HE WON’T. Even Afghanistan Is on to Him: Demonstrators Shout ‘Joe Biden, Stop Lying.’

WELL, GOOD: Israeli Airstrike Kills 2nd Top Islamic Jihad Commander.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: The Biden Administration Has Found a Sneaky Way to Compile an Illegal Gun Registry.

COVID IS OVER: Democrats Nix COVID Precautions to Ensure Vote on Spending Bill in Senate.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Stop Draggin’ My Cart Around. “This week we’ve got Florida Woman getting stabby with it, the worst magic trick ever, a video showing how not to resist arrest, and much more.”

It’s VIP only, so don’t forget that lovely VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

AUSTRALIA: Airline Passenger Fined Over $1,800 Over a Couple of McMuffins in His Luggage.

HMM: Why Did South Korea’s President Refuse to Meet With Pelosi?

THE WAR ON FOOD: Why Dutch Farmers Revolt. “The Dutch government seems to be escalating their violence at the same time Dutch farmers are hanging themselves.”

HARSH BUT FAIR: Lefties Are Objectively Pro-Monkeypox.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Desperate California Anti-Gunners Wreck Junior Shooter Clubs. “Of course, A.B. 2571 wasn’t sold as an attempt to prohibit passing an appreciation for shooting sports from one generation to the next. It was peddled instead as a restriction on marketing guns to kids, as if there’s a danger of tiny tots disguising themselves as their parents to get through the background checks at sporting-goods stores.”

HE FIGHTS: Not Fooling Around: DeSantis Sent Police to Remove Soros-Backed Prosecutor.

THE R-WORD: Is It A Recession Yet? Services Sector Shrinks Again, Signaling Strong Chance of Third Straight Economic Contraction.

GOOD READS: Dinesh D’Souza Pens Children’s Book to Warn Kids About the Dangers of Socialism.

HMM: Walls close in on Zuckerberg as executives desert Meta.

This increasing disconnect at Meta’s highest level comes as Zuckerberg’s ideas to keep his company at the top of the social media pile begin to look increasingly unsteady.

Facebook insiders hold mixed views on the executive flight, both through the medium of pink slips and through self-directed corporate postings to far flung locations.

According to one source, Sir Nick’s promotion in February to president of global affairs displayed that Zuckerberg’s trust in him had reached an all-time high: “it’s pretty important that a figure like him has good connections in Europe.”

Good as those connections may be, what Meta needs is good ideas and they are in visibly short supply.

I logged into Facebook this week for the first time in months — maybe longer — and the UI was a hot mess. The website looks like a platform that doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be, and I guess you could say the same of the company as a whole.

ENDORSED: ‘Radical Gender Theory’ Is the Perfect Catch-All Term for Our Current Gender Madness.

NEW MANAGEMENT PROMISED A RENEWED FOCUS ON NEWS BUT THEY HAVEN’T CHANGED A THING: CNN ratings collapse as network looks for ‘new revenue’—including ‘extending’ the brand in China.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sorry Dems, You Can’t Monkeypox This Election. “We all knew this was going to happen. The Democrats have tossed up what is probably the last Hail Mary pass that they have to help stave off disaster in November.”

HE FIGHTS: PayPal Unfreezes Moms for Liberty Account After Gov. DeSantis Crackdown on WOKE Banking.

CHRIS QUEEN: Indiana Republicans Have a Complicated Task in Finding a Successor for Walorski.

DON’T GET COCKY: Arizona’s Democrat Senator Seems Pretty Nervous After Last Night’s Primary. “Democratic Senator Mark Kelly is bracing for impact after Republican Blake Masters easily won the GOP primary in Arizona Tuesday night. In an email to supporters, Kelly noted the strength of Masters’ Trump endorsement and fretted about low fundraising dollars. “

VICTORIA TAFT: The Supreme Court’s Bruen Gun Decision Is Even Bigger Than You Think. “Since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made crystal clear in his ruling in New York Pistol and Rifle v. Bruen that the Second Amendment is not a second-class civil right, the question becomes: how far does this decision go? After consulting several gun and constitutional lawyers, here’s the short answer: very far. Read on.”