OH: Warnock used campaign funds to fight personal lawsuit. “Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) used campaign money to cover legal expenses for a lawsuit relating to his time as a church minister — transactions that raise questions about whether the spending runs afoul of federal rules governing personal use of campaign funds.”

SHE JUST ISN’T UP TO THE MOST BASIC REQUIREMENTS OF POLITICKING: Kamala Harris Spends 28 Seconds Saying Absolutely Nothing in Highland Park.

BIDEN SAYS YOU DON’T KNOW HOW GOOD YOU HAVE IT: Wall Street Says a Recession Is Coming. Consumers Say It’s Already Here.

Whether we’re technically in a recession or not, the Bidenflation misery is real — and likely here to stay a while.

OF COURSE: DOJ Challenging Arizona’s Citizenship Requirement for Voting.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. We are paying the violent price for refusing to lock people up — and treating them.

There also is the matter of violently expressed mental illness and its corollary, the clearly disturbed and deteriorating individual who may not yet have hurt someone, but who unmistakably is headed in that direction.

Full details are lacking on the Highland shooter, but he seems to be mad, and there’s no doubt that both the Uvalde and Buffalo killers were too. Dramatically so.

And then there are the muttering subway pushers, random slashers and incoherent sidewalk campers who pose such a threat to big-city dwellers everywhere.

But what, preemptively, can be done about them — the shooters and the street people alike?

Right now, not much. Court rulings from the ’60s and ’70s make it very difficult to intervene, even where the need is obvious, until the rifle fire begins or there’s another dead body on the tracks.

Not to be flip, but think of it as bail-reform/defund-the-police for the deteriorating mentally ill — an imperfect analogy, sure, but not by much.

A lot of obvious nonsense from the ’60s and ’70s still haunts us.

AND IT ISN’T A SLENDER MAJORITY: Majority of Americans Think Joe Biden Should Have a Note Pinned to His Sweater and Be Sent Home to Delaware.

FASTER? PLEASE! First commercially viable lithium metal battery solid state charges in just 15 minutes.

YOU STAY CLASSY, RHODE ISLAND: Ivy League R.I. State Senator Twerks Upside-Down for Votes.

MAYBE ELON WILL GET THIS FIXED: Have you noticed a difference in how Twitter tackles deadnaming Elliott Page as opposed to, say, death threats on SCOTUS Justices?

OH: Highland Park Shooter Dressed as a Woman — Tell Us Again He Is a Conservative.

THE NEW NORMAL: Prices don’t drop when inflation eases. Why your wallet will be hurting for a while.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: LOL, Trump Is Still the Democrats’ Daddy. “The House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues, also known as the J6 Committee, exists solely to make up reasons to keep Trump from running for president again because they know that they have no one who can beat him in a fair fight and without a generous assist from a pandemic.”

DON’T GET COCKY: The 2022 House Midterm by the Numbers. “In 2022, Republicans enter the midterm with much more room from their competitiveness limit than they had in 2014 and with many reasons to think that their 247 limit may no longer be their limit. There is significant movement of working class voters across racial and ethnic groups toward the Republicans. There is movement in party affiliations. In the end, history regularly constrains us; but, on occasion, history can also be made.”

HEH: Biden Travel Secretary Buttigieg’s Flight Among Hundreds Canceled on July 4 Weekend.

SEEMS LIKE A NO-BRAINER: Newberg, Oregon ‘Kids Not Camps’ petition. Stop homeless camps near schools.

ILLEGAL NATION: Biden Granting Backdoor Amnesty at Unprecedented Rate. “The numbers of administrative dismissals are stunning, nearly double the rate that the Obama Administration dared during Barack Obama’s last year in office.”

(NOT A) LONG TIME GONE: Supergroup Returns to Spotify After One Member’s Hissy Fit Over Joe Rogan.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: FCC lets Starlink offer Internet service on moving vehicles throughout US.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Angry Lefties Send America July 4 Birthday Cards from Hell.

Plus:

• Please let her get triggered some more
• Fireworks are bad for you and Mother Nature and the fuzzy woodland creatures
• God bless, you know, the thing

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

SAD: Colombia Goes the Way of Venezuela.

On June 19, Colombians elected former Marxist guerrilla Gustavo Petro as their next president. A close ally of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, Petro has pledged to confiscate and redistribute the country’s wealth. His win—along with the recent wave of victories by far-left candidates across Latin America—highlights the need for the United States to reengage with its neglected southern neighbors, or risk their falling into the grip of socialist rulers for decades to come.

At the turn of the century, Colombia was a dangerous and poor country where guerrillas and gangs killed tens of thousands of people every year. Since then, the murder rate has more than halved, average incomes have risen 50 percent, and electricity coverage is now universal.

In the same time span, neighboring Venezuela fell under a socialist regime, led first by Hugo Chávez and now by Nicolás Maduro, that has transformed the country from one of the richest in Latin America to one of the poorest. While Venezuela used to host millions of Colombian migrants, it’s now Colombia that hosts millions of Venezuelans.

The agenda of Colombia’s new president puts the country at risk of losing all it has gained over the past two decades.

Colombians will have no one to blame but themselves for their “bad luck,” but they’ll probably blame those us Norteameicanos, anyway.

BREAKING: Suspect in Custody From Suburban Chicago Parade Shooting That Killed Six.

THEY WENT WOKE: Halifax Bank: ‘We’re Going To Shove Pronouns Down Your Throat. If You Don’t Like it, Leave.’ Customers: ‘Your Terms Are Acceptable.’

NOT SATIRE… OR IS IT? Gavin Newsom Runs Ads in Florida Trying to Get Folks to Move to California for More Freedom.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. ‘Changing your parts doesn’t make you a woman’: Macy Gray speaks out on trans issues in no-holds-barred interview with Piers Morgan.

HEH: Feel-Good Story for the Fourth: Ilhan Omar Loudly Booed by Somali Crowd in Minneapolis.