BUT IT’S HIS BEST LOOK: Gavin Newsom vacations in Montana despite travel ban. Hypocrisy isn’t a good look, Governor.

WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS: NPR Goes Full Groomer, Promotes ‘Queer’ Sex Education.

MCU: ENDGAME. ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Delivers Woke Camp, Not MCU Thrills.

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

BUG HUNT: Army Cuts Off More Than 60K Unvaccinated Guard and Reserve Soldiers from Pay and Benefits.

WITHOUT REMORSE: How Will Democrats Ditch Biden? “In more than 40 years of watching politics professionally and just for sport, I’ve never seen anything quite like the Left’s burgeoning ‘Ditch Biden’ movement.”

COLORADO: Boulder County gun restrictions proposal gets initial approval.

The ordinance drafts cover the five following restrictions:

Banning the sale of firearms to anyone under the age of 21
Requiring a waiting period of 10 days to sell or purchase a firearm
Prohibiting the carrying of firearms in sensitive public places
Banning the sale of assault rifles along with large magazines and trigger activators
Regulating the possession of unfinished gun frames and guns without serial numbers, sometimes referred to as ghost guns

Tuesdays’ approvals now open up the opportunity for a second reading where the community can get involved, questions can be asked, and tweaks can be proposed before a formal vote takes place.

Maybe they should brush up on current events.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Another COVID Vax Mandate Bites the Dust.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: PA Dem Pushed COVID Lockdowns During Taxpayer-Funded Jersey Shore Vacay, Records Show.

Pennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman (D.) took a taxpayer-funded security detail on a family vacation to the Jersey Shore while publicly advocating strict coronavirus lockdowns.

Pennsylvania state police spent $3,500 for overtime, food, and lodging during Fetterman’s trip to Ocean City, N.J., from June 24-27, 2020, according to records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Fetterman, the Democratic Senate nominee for Pennsylvania, made the trip amid a surge of cases in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Health warned at the time against nonessential travel. New Jersey’s governor threatened to crack down on Jersey Shore revelers because of a spike in cases there two days before Fetterman’s junket.

Fetterman has aggressively pushed lockdowns, masking, and other measures to fight the pandemic.

Fetterman requires taxpayer-paid vacations during a pandemic lockdown because he’s working so hard on the taxpayer’s behalf. Also, maybe a nice little dacha in the woods.

WOW: Black GOP Congressional Candidate Runs the Boldest Gun Rights Ad Ever.

ALL BUBBLES POP: At least 40% of Denver homes for sale saw price reductions in May.

DISPATCHES FROM THE RED ZONES: When It Comes to Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery, Red States Are Leading the Way.

WINNING: Governor DeSantis Rights Another Pandemic Wrong for Florida Residents.

OH NO: Storage firm Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

First formed as Data Robotics in 2005, Drobo manufactured solutions for remote and network storage. Parent company StarCentric filed bankrupcy papers with the California Northern Bankruptcy Court (San Jose) on June 20, 2022.

According to official court documentation, the company is to hold its first creditors meeting on July 19. There is also a final deadline for filing claims against the company, which is October 17, 2022.

The company has no commented publicly on the decision. However, the company appears to have been badly affected by the coronavirus. In February 2020, the company tweeted about production delays, and in March 2020, its CEO Mihir Shah addressed concerns over how the coronavirus would affect the company.

“We are in close contact with all of our suppliers and we are trying to mitigate the impact of any delay in the supply chain,” he wrote in a blog post.

There have been no further blog posts since then. Drobo Support hasn’t tweeted for over a year, and Drobo’s main Twitter account has been silent since December 2021.

I love my Drobo — I’m on my second one after outgrowing the original — which is basically a complicated RAID array for people who don’t want to have to think about the complexities of RAID arrays.

I hope the company pulls through Chapter 11 and can maintain product support, but it doesn’t look good.

THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN INSTITUTIONS BREAK TRUST WITH THE SOCIETY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO FURTHER AND PROTECT: Institutional Confidence Among Americans Plummets to All-Time Low.

NO. US carriers want to bring ‘screen zero’ lock screen ads to smartphones.

Android smartphones can be a rough market, and to squeeze as much profit out of a phone as possible, carriers often sell every square inch of a phone to the highest bidder. Packed-in, often un-installable crapware apps fill your app drawer and advertise their services. The rules are a lot looser for packed-in apps compared to Play Store apps, so data-hungry companies like Facebook often pay for a spot where they can more easily harvest data.

According to a report from TechCrunch, one new startup is inventing a new, more invasive form of crapware: lock screen ads. The company, “Glance,” is a subsidiary of Indian ad tech company InMobi, and TechCrunch reports the lock screen “content” company is “planning to launch its lock screen platform on Android smartphones in the US within two months.”

Glance’s app is a full-screen takeover of the lock screen. It looks a lot like a generic swipe-heavy social network, like TikTok or Snapchat Discover, but it only shows content from Glance. Imagine if every time you turned on your phone, you were first presented with an auto-playing video from a popular off-brand TikToker, and you get the idea. The company’s website promises “unparalleled reach” and “authentic engagement” from its captive audience. Naveen Tewari, founder and CEO of InMobi, gave a rather dystopian description of his company’s strategy to Forbes India, saying, “Consumers will move from seeking content to consuming what is shown to them.”

I thought it felt invasive, 30 years ago, when I first starting seeing ads on gas pumps.

Plus this from the comments: “I can’t wait for the first full screen lock screen ad that looks like a lock screen and manages to capture my PIN.”

Guaranteed that will happen.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Clueless Democrats Are in Full ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Mode Now. “Starting at the very top, this current crop of D.C. Dems is the largest collection of dullards they’ve ever had in power. They’re a bunch of pants-wetting demagogues who are completely devoid of any intellectual heft. Because of that, they’re dumb enough to believe the lies that their flying monkeys in the mainstream media continually tell for them.”

HMM: Georgia Guidestones explosion: Blast has ‘destroyed a large portion’ of monument, police say.

NEVER BEND THE KNEE: COVID Journalist Alex Berenson Settles Suit With Twitter, Is Reinstated Nearly a Year After Refusing to Bend Knee.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: S.F. fires nonprofit hired to clean Tenderloin amid allegations its workers sold drugs, harassed residents. “Over the past few months multiple staff members have witnessed extremely inappropriate behavior that contributes to the chaos on the street rather than support cleanliness and safety.”

THIS WAS A TOUGH ONE TO WRITE: What’s Going On with the Highland Park Killer’s Parents? “It’s a story involving guns, police visits, a mysterious UPS Store mailbox, and a legal system with a ‘catch-and-release’ policy regarding the dangerously mentally ill.”

LONGEVITY: Drug that increases human lifespan to 200 years is in the works. “Taken in pill form, the drug would eliminate cells in the human body that are responsible for advancing the ageing process – potentially doubling our lifespan. But is this desirable?”

Yes. Next question?

KEVIN DOWNEY JR’S WOKE WEDNESDAY: Libs Happily Teaching ‘Sex Pleasure’ Classes to Kids. Wait Until You See the Curriculum.

OH, CANADA: Halifax Bank Update: They Made It Worse. “Yesterday’s story on Halifax Bank telling customers to leave if they didn’t cotton to pronoun pandering seems to have struck a nerve.”

Correction: This is a UK story, not Canada.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Senator Manchin Strikes Deal on Massive Drug Pricing Package.

The drug pricing deal was originally part of a reconciliation package known as the “Build Back Better” bill, but Manchin balked at the $2 trillion price tag and the bill died aborning.

But Biden needed the Build Back Better bill, or some version of it, to give Democrats a record to take to the voters for midterms, so he asked Chuck Schumer to keep after Manchin to get something — anything — passed.

It appears now that Schumer has succeeded.

Details at the link.