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.”

HE FIGHTS: Trump Called for Draining the Swamp. Now Ron DeSantis Is Actually Doing It.

LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest Ed Morrissey.

MATT MARGOLIS: Sen. John Kennedy’s Epic New Campaign Ad Is an Ad After My Own Heart.

BREAKING: Florida Gov. DeSantis Suspends State Attorney Andrew Warren for Failure to Prosecute.

JONATHAN TURLEY: The Political and Media Elite Prepare To Drop Hunter Biden in a ‘Controlled Demolition.’

For news junkies, there has been a remarkable and sudden shift in the media in the coverage of the Hunter Biden scandal. The shift is the very fact that there is suddenly coverage of the Hunter Biden scandal. From CNN to NPR, reporters are now acknowledging that the infamous laptop is not “Russian disinformation” as was widely claimed before the 2020 election. After years of burying the story, the media is now attempting an even more precarious exercise.

It is called controlled demolition: the implosion of a scandal to limit any blast effect on nearby structures or individuals. Like those buildings dropped between other structures, it takes precision and, most importantly, cooperation to pull off. Specifically, this controlled demolition will require the perfect timing of the media, Democratic politicians, and most importantly, the Justice Department.

That was the same alliance that successfully killed the story before the election despite evidence of a multimillion dollar influence peddling scheme by the Biden family.

Read the whole thing.

GOOD. KIDS ARE TOO YOUNG TO CONSENT: DeSantis Wants to Sue Doctors Who Butcher ‘Trans’ Kids for Profit.

IN OTHER WORDS, IT’S NEVER COMING AT ALL: CBO: Over 90 Percent of Promised Deficit Reduction in Manchin–Schumer Would Come after 2026.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Flailing Ways of White House Spokesditz Karine Jean-Pierre. “This woman’s primary function is to be the spokesperson for the President of the United States and she doesn’t know the primary function of the Supreme Court of the United States.”

AUGUST, 2022: Fed committed to getting inflation to 2% target, Barkin says. “The Federal Reserve is committed to getting inflation under control and returning it to the U.S. central bank’s 2% target, Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said on Wednesday, the latest in a litany of policymakers voicing determination to rein in price increases running at the highest pace in four decades.”

June, 2021: Fed’s Barkin says the current rise in inflation is clearly due to temporary factors.

#RESIST: American Farmer Puts Bill Gates on Notice. “Just like I don’t want a child abuser controlling even one child, I don’t want him to control a single acre.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: China’s Covid Zero Could Last for Years Because It Works for Xi.

For Xi, unlike most global leaders, the political risks of opening up are still far greater than the benefits.

Missteps in early 2020 to minimize — and in some cases obscure — the initial outbreak in Wuhan undermined the social contract that underpins the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimacy: An acceptance of one-party rule in return for competent governance that keeps the public safe and improves overall quality of life.

To win back trust, Xi used powers largely unavailable to democratic leaders to keep the virus out and limit fatalities. And it’s worked: While questions persist about the reliability of Chinese data, the country has reported just 5,226 Covid deaths since the pandemic began, compared with more than 1 million in the US.

“Questions persist” is putting it mildly.

UM, NO: Oh Yes, She Did: Karine Jean-Pierre Says It Was ‘Unconstitutional’ for Supreme Court to Overturn Roe.

HMM: The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China. “Department of Energy officials declined NPR’s request for an interview to explain how the technology that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars ended up in China.”

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Matt Margolis: The Media Is Wrong About the Kansas Abortion Vote. Here’s Why. “I would argue that the language of the bill is a tad misleading.”

Kevin Downey Jr: This Time It’s Personal. 10 NYC Thugs Rack up Almost 500 Arrests Between Them. “The city that never weeps over its explosive crime rate is about to cry.”

Yours Truly: BOMBSHELL: Demi Lovato Is a Woman (Maybe, for Now). “Even after years of great commercial success as an attractive and desired female, at nearly 30 years old, she still can’t definitively say whether her gender — a word with really no meaning in this context — matches up with her biological sex.”

SHOCKER: Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Has a Secret That the Lefty Media Won’t Touch.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’ Features Film’s First ‘Abortion Baby Shower.’

JOANNE JACOBS: Don’t say ‘cisheteronormativity.’

In Portland, Oregon public schools, the “sexual revolution starts in kindergarten,” writes Christopher F. Rufo. Many of the city’s K-5 teachers are using a radical curriculum based on academic “queer theory,” he writes. He posts documents.

Kindergarteners learn that “person with a penis” may be a boy, but not necessarily, and a“person with a vulva,” may be a girl. Or not. The “gender spectrum” is “infinite,” like the number of stars in the sky.

By first and second grade, students that it is “not true” that there are “only two genders, girls and boys.” A lesson called “Our Names, Genders, and Pronouns” teaches six- to eight-year-olds they can be “boys,” “girls,” “cisgender,” “transgender,” or “nonbinary,” and experiment with pronouns such as “they/them” and “ze/zir.”

In third through fifth grade, the district begins lessons on how the categories of “man” and “woman” are used to oppress minorities. “The culture, systems, and assumptions that everyone is straight and cis is called cisheteronormativity,” the lesson plan states. Students are told this oppressive system is designed to benefit “white straight cis boys” and to punish “LGBTQIA2S+” people, writes Rufo.

Grooming, straight up.

WELL…: How About Some Positive News About Joe Biden?

HE’S TOXIC: Two New York reps join growing list of Democrats who refuse to commit to supporting Biden in 2024.

VIDEO: World Agricultural Output Is Screwed, US Output Is Not.

Once again, if you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the video, Lawrence Person has done a great job of breaking out the bullet points as text.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home Prices Fall Most Since Great Recession. “In Denver, previously one of the hottest markets, average home prices dipped by $25,000 — a decline of more than 3% — in just one month.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russian Military Satellite Appears To Be Stalking A New U.S. Spy Satellite. “A recently launched Russian satellite with capabilities unknown is getting suspiciously close to what is reportedly a new U.S. spy satellite.”