CHANGE: Russia Says It Will Leave the International Space Station in 2024.

YES: Three Cheers for the Patriarchy.

My second grade teacher, Mrs. Heron, once called me a sexist. I had claimed that boys were better than girls at all the sports I knew: baseball, football, and kickball, dodgeball, basketball, and soccer. And that opinion, I was told in front of twenty-five fellow classmates, was verboten.

But even to an eight-year-old in 1991, wasn’t it undeniable? The boys were bigger and more aggressive. They ran faster. They threw harder and could kick the ball farther. I saw it everyday on the playground. What was wrong with stating the obvious? It wasn’t like I was saying all girls were worse at everything. I even knew some girls were more athletic than many boys. But any fool could see that if the best boys faced the best girls at any of those sports, it would be a rout.

Nevertheless, even then, with the Cold War winding down in the latter years of George H.W. Bush’s presidential term, an irrational gender ideology that told little boys and girls to ignore, if not deny, the realities of biology was seeping into American public schools. Little did I know it had already affected an entire generation of college graduates. Thirty years later, it now dominates all of America’s elite institutions. Indeed, questioning it could even get you fired. Millions of Americans are told, nay coerced, to refute the testimony of their eyes.

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: First Felon Hunter Biden Needs a Good Perp Walk. “Those of us who traffic on the honest news side of the street have known for a good long while that Hunter Biden is most certainly an utter sleazebag. The potential criminal extent of that sleaziness is difficult to ascertain because, as we’ve been aware since the fall of 2020, the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media work overtime running interference for him.”

THE AP THEN:

The AP now:

I’m guessing this means tomorrow’s reveal of last quarter’s GDP figure is going to be even worse than expected — and the expected figure is worse than the first quarter’s -1.5% annual rate.

Exit Question: If you ever doubted that the AP had become a government mouthpiece, do you still?

THE DESTRUCTION IS INTENTIONAL: Justin Trudeau Decides to Walk Down the Same Failed Green Path as Sri Lanka.

STOP CELEBRATING THESE PEOPLE AND WE’LL STOP CALLING YOU GROOMERS: Child rapist and murderer lauded as ‘feminist’ and ‘advocate’ for LGBTQ Rights.

THAT MEANS WE’RE IN ONE: White House Refuses to Say What Its Definition of a ‘Recession’ Is.

THAT’S WHAT SHOW TRIALS DO: Jan. 6 Committee Hiding Evidence That Absolves Trump.

COOL. NOW DO NANCY PELOSI: Feds charge former GOP congressman Stephen Buyer with insider trading after he ‘used information from consulting business clients to bank at least $400,000 in illicit profits.’

TICK, TOCK: Democrats Freak Out as Manchin and Murkowski Become Latest Victims of Senate COVID Outbreak. “Unlike the House of Representatives, the Senate does not have any provision for allowing lawmakers to ‘phone it in’ and vote remotely or by proxy. With their razor-thin majority, Democrats can’t afford to be without swing-vote Republicans — and they need every single Democrat — in order to pass high-profile legislation before leaving for their home states on August 8.”

OH:

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern:

"We will continue to be your single source of truth… Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth"https://t.co/r03MhqCgzI

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 25, 2022

THAT’S WHAT LEFTY HACKS DO: The Lincoln Project Praises Biden’s Terrible Economy.

IT’S SAFE, THEY TOLD US. IT’S REVERSIBLE, THEY SAID: FDA warns of brain swelling and permanent vision loss found in children taking puberty blockers.

ATHENA THORNE: Pot Was a Gateway Drug After All, and Here Come Psychedelic ‘Shrooms.

HANG ON TIGHT: Nouriel Roubini says predictions for a mild recession are ‘delusional’ as severe financial crisis looms. “The famed economist, who called the 2008 financial crash, told Bloomberg that the economy is headed for a severe recession as well as a severe debt and financial crisis.”

Meanwhile: Yellen Says We’re Not In A ‘Recession,’ We’re In A ‘Transition In Which Growth Is Slowing.’

HMM: The Biden Administration Is Crawling With Conspiracy Theorists. “New filings in the John Durham investigation of Hillary Clinton’s Russia collusion hoax indicate that those Biden administration conspiracy theorists could drag the president into the investigation.”

PUTTING OUT FIRE WITH GASOLINE: Stimulus check update: These states are sending ‘inflation relief’ payments.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: How Not to Catch Monkeypox for Dummies. “If I’d been that demonstrably stupid, I’d have kept my mouth shut about it. Köhn wrote 1,400 words for The Guardian.”

Plus:

• Gov. Hochul flies the overly friendly skies
• Three more reasons Elon Musk will get out of the Twitter deal
• Whoopi nominates DOCTOR Jill Biden for Surgeon General

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

BLUE ON BLUE: Rep. Carolyn Maloney Claims She Is Entitled To ‘A Woman’s Job’ In Primary Against Jerry Nadler.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney is telling voters to re-elect her in New York’s Twelfth congressional District over fellow Democrat Jerrold Nadler because serving in Congress is “a woman’s job.”

Maloney and Nadler were forced into an Aug. 23 member versus member primary by New York’s new congressional maps, which were drawn by a special master after the state’s high court threw out a pro-Democrat gerrymander. Nadler currently represents Manhattan’s Upper West Side, while Maloney represents the Upper East Side. Both representatives were first elected to Congress in 1992 and chair committees.

In her first campaign ad, released Monday, Maloney notes the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence, parental leave, and gay marriage as issues animating her career in Congress and the New York City Council.

“Being at the forefront of women’s rights has taught me that we can fight back and win, if we just don’t quit,” Maloney says.

“I approve this message because it also taught me, you can not send a man to do a woman’s job,” she concludes.

The amazing thing is that either Nadler or Maloney will still serve in Congress next year.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Should the GOP Look Ahead to a 2023 Revenge Agenda? “It’s a shame that Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney won’t be members of Congress next year but that will add a little spice to the proceedings when they’re hauled out of their private life revelry to testify before a committee that’s hell-bent on being vindictive.”

JOANNE JACOBS: Grading ‘reforms’ teach kids they can ‘do nothing, get something.’ “Teachers can’t give a zero for a missed assignment, unless they document their efforts to contact a parent about the problem. It takes a lot of time to send multiple emails, the teacher says. So he just gives students the required minimum — 50 percent — even if they did nothing.”

ACTUALLY, IT IS — JUST NOT THE WAY THE WANT YOU TO THINK IT IS: Media Watcher Touts J6 Committee TV Show as ‘Civics Lesson.’ Hardly.

WHEN IS A RECESSION NOT A RECESSION? WHEN DEMOCRATS SAY IT ISN’T, JACK:

It’s different now because reasons.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

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Matt Margolis: The White House Isn’t Grooming Kamala Harris for the Presidency. “Biden’s contracting of COVID-19 has given us plenty of reason to be concerned — at least more concerned than usual — about a different vacancy that could put Kamala Harris in the Oval Office.”

Chris Queen: Here’s How We Know That This Summer’s Heatwaves Are Weather Events, Not Proof of Climate Change. “We don’t just have to look at a decade ago to see that heatwaves are largely isolated phenomena.”

Yours Truly: UKRAINE WAR: Kyiv on the Counterattack (Maybe). “There hasn’t been much offensive action by Russian forces in over three weeks, but there might be something big brewing under the surface that glossy TV news reports can’t show you.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Walmart Plunges After Slashing Profit Outlook, Blames Fuel/Food Costs.