The Foundry.

President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced a debt limit deal Saturday, with a vote expected Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

Heritage Foundation experts scrutinized the text of the 99-page bill, including provisions related to spending, pro-growth policies, student loan cancellation, and work requirements for welfare. The following is their latest analysis of the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Drone attacks hit Moscow, stirring fury at the Kremlin (Al Jezeera)

Russia’s war in Ukraine (CNN)

Russia strikes Kyiv in daylight after hitting Ukraine’s capital with series of nighttime barrages (WGN)

Russia hits base in Ukraine in new wave of strikes, Zelenskiy praises Patriot (Reuters)

Russian Media Chief Calls for Lindsey Graham’s Assassination  Can’t say that I blame him.

Rep. Waltz: China ‘On the March,’ Readying Military

SUPPORT: Chinese Military Tech Support

RUSSIA: Patriotic Zealots and Pariahs

Russia Expels German Teachers and Embassy Employees

Warsaw Seeks To Purge Russian Influence

Major Drone Attack On Moscow Damages Several Apartment Buildings

‘We Have No Plan’: United States and United Kingdom Struggle to Combat Chinese Influence, Officials Say

Alleged Russian ‘Spy’ Whale Reappears Off Sweden’s Coast

Russia Gets Taste of Own Medicine With Drone Attacks on Moscow

China, India Kick Out Nearly All of Each Other’s Journalists as Rivalry Escalates (Wall Street Journal)

US Says ‘the Time Is Now’ for Sweden to Join NATO and for Turkey to Get New F-16s

Bidens offer ‘safe harbor’ to Hunter as he flails over scandalous reports, new messages show (N.Y. Post)

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

The stark numbers driving Democratic panic about a third-party 2024 bid

Biden’s underrated deal-making prowess strikes again (Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin takes a break from her normal job of bashing Trump in order to prop up the Narrative that Biden is in charge at the White House.

US Spent $13 Billion Sponsoring Unaccompanied Minor Children At The Border Since 2012

Afghan Women Who Aided U.S. Military Wait for Asylum in America (N.Y. Times)

Biden won’t claim debt ceiling win, because he must play the owned lib (Washington Post) Laughing all the way to the bank–ruptcy….

WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris (Vol. 9)

Migrant Kids Throwing Ragers in NYC Hotels Turned Shelters  Pack ’em up, send ’em back.

Message to Hunter

McCarthy Threatens To Hold FBI Director In Contempt Over Stonewalled Biden Evidence

Biden Admin Tells Adults How to Discuss Sex With Teens Behind Parents’ Backs

Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia (The Guardian) I am not making this up.

Evidence of Joe Biden’s knowledge of and involvement with Hunter’s schemes

“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight Into Hunter Biden & His Collapsing World Of Corruption

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In any case, the one thing nobody says is what I’m about to say, which is that income tax is absurd based on the government’s own preferred theories of economics. It’s so absurd as to be a parody of a rational taxation system and it sustains itself only through willful blindness to how absurd it really is.

Debt ceiling deal includes surprise approval of natural gas pipeline championed by Manchin (Politico)

CNN Edits Fox to Bury Critique of Media Over Biden Family Scandal

Why the White House Correspondents’ Association Ripped Into Joe Biden This Weekend

Biden’s Free Fall Continues

Department of Education Investigates Schools for Not Sexualizing Kids

Inside Biden’s relentless soft-sell on the debt ceiling bill (Axios)

DOJ, Prosecutors Trying To Claw Back Donations Made To J6 Defendants

Kamala Harris brushes off Afghanistan failures in West Point speech (N.Y. Post)

GOP Lawmakers Demand FBI Briefing On Jan. 6 Pipe-Bomb Probe Following Whistleblower Disclosures Regarding Suspect

Gingrich: Where Are Woodward And Bernstein When We Need Them  Shilling for Democrats, of course. Follow the money.

In Pursuit of Consensus, Did Biden Find the Reasonable Middle or Give Away Too Much? (N.Y. Times) Note that there is no concern about whether McCarthy gave away too much, because the Republicans are not their team.

Senior moment with a local twist

Biden Blasts ‘Science Defying’ Supreme Court Ruling Against EPA Overreach

State Department Partners With Left-Leaning Media in Propaganda Push, Documents Reveal

Wray to Meet Comer Over Alleged Biden Pay-to-Play Document

Top Biden official repeatedly met with Soros’ foundation and other influential left-wing groups, docs show (Fox)

Biden DOJ Drops All Charges Against Soros-Backed DA Who Resigned: Turley The Crust take care of their own.

Legislation To Block Biden’s ATF Rule Stalls As Millions Set To Become Felons Overnight 

The Russia Collusion Hoax Lives On. Or Does It?

Biden Says Anyone Can Crash Twitter, It Takes A Real Leader To Crash Economy (Babylon Bee)

2 in 3 Americans Say Biden Reelection Would Be ‘Disaster’ or ‘Setback’ for America

Left Seeks to Extend Voting to Prisoners, Noncitizens to Expand Base

The Guardian.

Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America’s shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government.

The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old.

How Biden gave McCarthy a ‘victory’ on the debt limit — while giving away absolutely nothing (MSNBC) As always happens.

VP Harris allegedly silent on plea from world’s former ‘murder capital’ as leaders offer US migrant advice (N.Y. Post)

House passes measure overturning Biden’s student debt forgiveness program (The Hill)

Biden Admin Pushing to Make AI Incubator for Leftist Politics

Biden Marks Anniversary Of Uvalde Massacre By Renewing Call For Stricter Gun Control (Huffington Post) Amazing how none of the proposed measures would have prevented, or even mitigated, the ‘massacre’ that prompted them.

IRS: DOJ Behind Biden Probe Whistleblower Removal

CBS Rediscovers Hunter Biden Scandal With IRS Whistleblower Interview

How Biden’s DHS Is Weaponizing an Anti-Terror Program Against Christians, Conservatives & the GOP

Biden Admin’s Grants to Left-Wing Projects Aim to ‘Destroy’ Conservatives, Watchdog Says

Tennessee to Send 100 National Guard Troops to Southern Border

Migrant Children Released into United States by Biden Admin Are Being Put to Work, Lawmakers Say

Rep. Cohen: Biden will likely have to use 14th Amendment to raise debt ceiling (NBC News) Which would be unconstitutional.

Here’s how Biden can avoid default and a constitutional crisis (The Hill)

Second Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower emerges after dismissal despite five years on case (N.Y. Post)

Expert says case is ‘going nowhere’ as IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden case is removed (CBS)

Here are the whistleblowers scorching the Biden administration on Hunter probe, IRS, FBI (Fox)

“Everything’s On The Table”: Jim Jordan Threatens To Cut FBI Funding, Open Clinton Probe

‘Playing Hide the Ball’: Hunter Biden’s Mistress Asks Court To Jail Him Over Failure To Provide Financial Disclosures

Biden’s Border Chaos Is Neither an Accident, Nor Incompetence. It’s Intentional. (The Foundry)

Biden Admin Says School District Can’t Remove Sexually Explicit Books Because It Violates Students’ Civil Rights

Former Deputy Nat’l Security Adviser: FBI, CIA & DOJ Will Rig 2024 Election

Biden again claimed son Beau died ‘in Iraq’ to Marines at Japan stop (N.Y. Post) In fact, Beau died of brain cancer at Walter Reed Hospital in Maryland.

America’s Missile Defense System Is in Tatters, Government Report Finds

The Student-Loan Payment Pause Led Borrowers to Take on More Debt  Yeah, that worked out great.

Hillary Clinton: Biden’s Age ‘Is an Issue’

GOP extortion has backed Biden into a corner. He still has a way out. (Washington Post)

Lawyers: Another IRS Agent Alarmed by Hunter Biden Case

Let’s Play a Game: Fun with Hunter Headlines!

New York Democrats Urge Biden To Fast-Track Illegal Alien Work Permits

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

At the G7 meeting in Japan, Joe Biden went on a riff that seems to be about our federal budget. See if you can figure out what he is trying to say….

A US foreign policy for the middle class (Financial Times)

NYT op-ed mocked for dismissing border crisis as fearmongering tactic: ‘Reprehensible excuse for journalism’ (Fox)

ABC’s Raddatz Asks: Could GOP Let America Default on Its Debt? (Newsbusters) The qustion is, could Democrats?

Miami Mayor Suarez on Migrant Crisis: No Help From Federal Govt

Hunter Biden Faces Call For Key Business Associates In The Arkansas Proceedings

‘Let’s Take the Fight to Them’: Why This Legal Group Keeps Suing Biden Administration

Biden’s Refugee Numbers Paradox, and His Nation-Wrecking Welcome Corps, (John Derbyshire)

AP-NORC Poll: Biden Losing Ground on Key Issues

WH Prepares to Release National Antisemitism Strategy  I’ll bet you didn’t know that we needed a ‘national antisemitism strategy’. I suppose it goes alongside of our efforts to suppress ‘white supremacy’. Missing, however, is a national strategy to suppress socialism, of which there seems to be an even more urgent need.

FBI abused spy law but only like 280,000 times in a year  Well, that’s all right, then.

Biden Announces More Aid for Ukraine as Group of 7 Powers Meet in Japan (N.Y. Times)

Russia-China, Will Talk Security Monday

Biden: Zelenskyy Promises Not to Use F-16s in Russia  And if you believe that one, he’ll tell you another one.

Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines, missiles (CBS News)

As hold on Bakhmut slips, Ukrainian forces push to encircle city (Washington Post)

US National Security Experts Urge No More Weapons For Ukraine In NY Times  The drumbeat for war appears to be faltering.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Gains In Bakhmut, Talk Of Imminent Fall Swirls

Zelenskyy says ‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts’ after Russia claims control of Ukrainian city (Associated Press)

Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin claims control of Bakhmut (UK Telegraph)

Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut (BBC)

Explainer: How important is the claimed capture by Russia’s Wagner Group of Ukraine’s Bakhmut? (Reuters)

US to sign strategic pacts with two Pacific states, hopes for third in weeks (Reuters)

Russia Issues List Of 500 Americans Under Sanctions, Including Obama & Stephen Colbert  Would that we could do the same.

Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds (The Guardian)

G-7 Leaders Respond To China’s Economic Bullying At Hiroshima Summit, Warn Of ‘Consequences’

Trump or DeSantis? Neither, say Ukrainian-American voters angry at war stance (Reuters)

Russia scrutinized for placing Hague prosecutor on wanted list after Putin ICC warrant

UK’s Sunak: China Poses World’s Biggest Threat to Peace  After all, look at all the wars it’s been in during the last 50 years.

SEA TRANSPORTATION: Notorious North Korean Smuggling Fleet

Ukraine Admits Murdering “Quite A Few” Russian Civilians Who Back Putin And His Invasion

Ukraine Expands Weapons Training For Children As Bakhmut Reportedly Falls

‘Absolutely not’: Americans weigh in on whether Kamala Harris can lead on AI after Elon Musk mocked her (Fox)

Energy Commissioner Warns Of ‘Major Threats’ To Power Grid

Biden Administration’s New Mortgage Policy: Unjust And Dangerous

FBI Improperly Used Surveillance Program To Spy On Jan. 6 Suspects

Biden says he thinks he has authority to use 14th Amendment on debt ceiling (The Hill)

Chuck Todd Says You Shouldn’t Worry About Biden’s IRS If You Pay Taxes

The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway. (N.Y. Times) The U.S. didn’t leave them behind; Biden left them behind.

Biden bets DeSantis’ ‘Florida blueprint’ will help him flip the Sunshine State and win reelection (CNN) More fool he.

Experts Warn Border Policies Will Overrun Texas Jails

Biden Taunts Russia At G7 When Asked About “Colossal Risk” Of Escalation

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Between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas lies the Rio Grande river. On one side is the Matamoros migrant camp where thousands of illegal invaders prep for the invasion with the aid of American open borders non-profit groups, squatting in their own filth, fighting, shaking each other down and starting fires like those that killed 40 male migrants. Across is America.

At 160 feet wide and only 2 feet deep, the invaders have little trouble making their way across. Despite the slur ‘wetback’, little actual swimming is usually required. Past proposals to widen and deepen the river so it’s a tenth of a mile and twenty feet deep would have been fairly expensive, but was shut down by open borders advocates who claim the invaders might drown.

In one week in April, some 15,000 illegal invaders traversed the river. The media regularly features dramatic photos of migrants crossing the Rio Grande and offers sympathetic portrayals of the invaders such as the New York Times story: “Desperate Migrants on the Border: ‘I Should Just Swim Across.” The coverage often describes these invasions as “sudden” or “unexpected”.

But there’s nothing sudden or unexpected about them. They’re the work of the Coyote-in-Chief.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

It wouldn’t be if it were imposed by a private party, although there might be other problems with it. But can a government entity require its employees to assent to a series of political propositions, and to take what is effectively a loyalty oath? I don’t think so.

That’s why my organization has moved to participate in the case of Henderson v. Springfield R-12 School District, now on appeal in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, as an amicus. The Henderson case is horrifying, and yet typical of what is going on in contemporary America. Plaintiffs are school district employees who were required by the district to undergo “anti-racism” training. The district’s “training” was a series of Maoist struggle sessions.

Millions flowed to Biden family members. Don’t pretend it doesn’t matter. (Washington Post)

House GOPs Claim Biden Family Received Millions From Foreign Contacts (CNN)

House Republicans’ findings about the Biden family’s foreign business practices, explained (PolitiFact) More whitewash from the Narrative media.

Biden Justice Department Declined To Prosecute Disgraced Soros-Backed U.S. Attorney  The Crust take care of their own.

Rep. Matt Gaetz: FBI Director Wray Lied Under Oath

Dems Scramble to Avoid Biden Gaffe in New Hampshire

Gaetz Demands DOJ Indict FBI Agents Following Durham Report

The Numbers Are In On How Biden-Era Funding Is Skewing Scientific Research Ever-Wokeward

FBI Concerned Jan. 6 Footage Would Expose Undercover Agents, Informants: Whistleblower

Biden’s State Department Is Putting Brazilian Trans Activists in English Classes

BofA Gave FBI Access To Jan. 6 Bank Records Without Customers’ Knowledge: Whistleblowers  My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

White House reporters stuck with $25,000 charges after Biden trip canceled (Washington Post) Does your heart not bleed for them? (Bleed, hearts, bleed….)

Dem Senators Demand Biden Simply Ignore Debt Ceiling Law  Why not? Biden just loves ignoring the law.

Report: Biden Appears Confused at G-7 Summit

Tuberville Blocking Promotion of Navy Captain Who Allowed Drag Shows Aboard USS Ronald Reagan  I like that idea.

John Brennan, Enemy of the People

Texas Gov. Abbott Begins Busing Migrants to Denver

State Department Offers Counseling To Misgendered Employees Triggered By Email Pronoun Debacle  Poor iddle snowflakes….

Most Migrants Are Still Released Into the Country After Apprehension

UK Daily Mail.

The FBI had at least four criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were ultimately shut down months before the presidential election in 2016, a new Justice Department report reveals – and Republicans want to reopen those probes.

A long-awaited report by Special Counsel John Durham released on Monday shows the FBI began investigating claims in late 2014 from a ‘well-placed’ confidential source that two foreign governments were trying to make illegal donations to buy influence with Hillary during her presidential campaign.

Investigators were even offered documents of one alleged $2,700 illegal contribution that led to a ‘substantial’ further donation.

Biden declares ‘America will not default,’ says he’s confident of budget deal with GOP lawmakers (Associated Press) Republicans will cave, as usual.

Joe Biden ‘Confident’ U.S. Won’t Default (Newsweek)

Biden views the debt ceiling as a staring contest with Republicans, not his duty as president (Fox)

Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill (Politico)

Blistering DOJ watchdog report reveals why Biden-nominated US Attorney Rollins is resigning (Fox) She ought to go to jail–but won’t.

Keller: Devastating Rollins report shows why she walked away from this fight (CBS Boston)

US attorney in Massachusetts leaked sensitive information to journalist to influence political campaign and lied under oath, federal reports say (CNN) She ought to go to jail–but won’t.

Rachael Rollins committed ‘an extraordinary abuse of her power,’ US Office of Special Counsel wrote to Biden (Boston Globe)

Student loan payment pause will end this year, education secretary confirms (CNN)

Hunter Biden’s Shady Business Partners Called To Testify in His Arkansas Child Support Case

FBI Audit Reveals 8,000 Unjustified Searches Of Americans’ Communications

Judge Slams WH for Releasing Migrants After Title 42

Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Articles Of Impeachment Against FBI Director Chris Wray

Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces impeachment articles against Merrick Garland

Inside Biden’s plan to win back Latino voters (Axios)

Joe Biden, Habitual Racialist Demagogue

Biden to Illegals: Stop, Or we’ll Give You More Money! (Ann Coulter)

Whistleblowers and agency intimidation: IRS and FBI

‘Interphobia’: Blinken Celebrates International Day Against Phobias Nobody’s Heard Of

The 10 Most Nauseating Lines From Wired’s Pete Buttigieg Profile

Rep. Greene Adds Biden to Articles of Impeachment List  She’s certainly been busy.

Jim Jordan’s FBI whistleblowers testify publicly before Congress as questions about their legitimacy remain (CNN) … in the Narrative media–and who else matters?

Biden State Department Slaps Pronouns on Emails and Misgenders Staff

Negotiators see progress on debt ceiling, as Biden’s liberal allies worry (Washington Post) Apparently it is ‘liberal’ to spend money like a drunken sailor.

Fact-Checking Biden Admin’s Claim That Illegal Immigration Drops With End of Title 42

US X-Date Is Now June 5 As Treasury Burns $52BN Cash In One Day, Only $87BN Left

GOP Presidential Candidates React To Durham Report: ‘Shut Down The FBI’

Report Reveals ATF Misappropriated $20 Million To Pay Bureaucrat Salaries

Why Biden Can’t Use The 14th Amendment To Raise The Debt Ceiling

Hunter Biden Lobbied State Department in 2016 on Behalf of Corrupt Romanian National, Records Show

Papua New Guinea Declared National Holiday for Biden’s Visit. Then He Canceled.

DOJ Watchdog: US Attorney in Mass. Tried to Influence DA Election

Pete Buttigieg Takes Parental Leave Again After Adopting A Highway  (Babylon Bee)

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Imagine if, after the Supreme Court’s racial integration decision Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist advocacy groups and Southern senators had showed up outside the Supreme Court to announce legislation to change the number of justices. Or if, after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the Democrats had tried to change the outcome by adding justices to the court in hope of achieving a different result.

There’d be justifiable outrage at interference with judicial independence, and with outcome-based disappointment driving process-based changes. And there’d be understandable skepticism about whether such court-packing would lead to a never-ending cycle of each new Congressional majority changing the rules to add justices who agreed with them to the high court, eviscerating the judiciary’s constitutional role as a check and balance to the other branches of government.

On Tuesday, Senators Markey and Warren of Massachusetts and Tina Smith of Minnesota, along with representatives Jerrold Nadler, Hank Johnson, Cori Bush, and Adam Schiff, Democrats all, introduced the Judiciary Act of 2023, which would add four justices to create a 13-member Supreme Court.

How Garland’s release of Trump-Russia probe report differed from Barr’s (Washington Post)

Migrants to be housed in 6 more NYC school gyms — outraged parents say plan is ‘just insane’ (N.Y. Post)

NYC housing migrants in public school gyms (Fox)

Tony Blinken Could Become First Secretary of State Held in Contempt of Congress  Which doesn’t matter a damn, because they won’t do anything about it (like impeachment).

Biden administration may halt plans to move Space Command to Alabama over state’s abortion law, officials say (NBC News)

The Media Is Normalizing Debt-Ceiling Extortion (New York Magazine) Jonathan Chait pushes the Narrative. Funny how all of the Narrative media think that the other Narrative media are somehow right-wing.

House GOP Lawmaker Readies Contempt Charge for Blinken

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower claims is ‘clearly retaliatory’ (N.Y. Post)

IRS removes ‘entire investigative team’ in Hunter Biden probe, whistleblower claims retaliation: report (Fox)

Karine Jean-Pierre’s 10 Biggest Gaffes as Press Secretary

Yellen: US Default Would Cause ‘Worldwide Panic, Runs’  Well, I can certainly see why it would give Janet Yellen the runs….

Mayorkas impeachment pressure builds inside the House GOP (CNN)

EXCLUSIVE: 3,000 Military Veterans Reject Pentagon’s ‘Left-Wing Social Agenda,’ Support Tuberville’s Fight

25 Governors Petition Biden To Protect Women’s Sports

US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense

Biden, NYC Mayor Adams Break Caused by Migrants, Crime

MTG Introduces Impeachment Articles Against FBI’s Wray

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Eight states have enacted new education choice policies or have expanded existing ones so far this year, including Indiana, Montana, and South Carolina earlier this month alone.

Of the eight, four states—Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, and Utah—enacted school choice policies that will be available to all K-12 students, joining Arizona and West Virginia in making every child eligible for education savings accounts or ESA-like policies that allow families to choose the learning environments that align with their values and work best for their children.

Indiana came close by expanding eligibility for its voucher and tax-credit scholarship policies to about 97% of K-12 students statewide. South Carolina’s new ESA is limited to low- and middle-income families, while Montana’s new ESA will expand education options for students with special needs.

More states have adopted robust education choice policies this year than ever before—and several state legislatures are still in session. This week, three state legislatures are making progress toward adopting new education choice policies or significantly expanding existing ones.

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Special counsel John Durham, in a widely anticipated report Monday, condemned the Justice Department and FBI for their conduct in the “Russian collusion” investigation of Donald Trump.

Durham’s investigation looked at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the name of the FBI probe of whether Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russians to win the election.

The investigation was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, after Trump was elected president. Mueller’s team concluded there was no evidence of conspiracy or collusion between Trump or his campaign and Russia.

Biden expected to meet with Hill leaders Tuesday following ‘productive’ debt limit meetings among staff (CNN)

GOP Oversight Chair Says He’s Lost Track of His Biden Corruption Informant (Daily Beast)

Rep. James Comer: House Oversight Dems are acting as criminal defense attorneys for the Biden family (Fox)

Watch: Did CNN Accidentally Admit The Truth About Illegal Migrants And Title 42?

How the Supreme Court might view the debt limit fight (Politico)

Judge Gets Nashville Shooter’s Unredacted Manifesto

Report: Busload of Migrants Arrives Near VP Harris’ Home

U.S.: Record-Setting Migrant Surge as Title 42 Ends

Border Patrol Braces For Surge As Migrants Celebrate End of Title 42

Biden And DHS Secretary Claim ‘White Supremacy’ Is The Greatest US Terror Threat

Politico: VP Harris Could Harm Biden’s Reelection Bid  Oh, ya think?

What Happens if President Biden Caves on the Debt Ceiling? (The American Prospect)

Biden Awarded Honorary Doctorate For Work As Honorary President  (Babylon Bee)

Packers O-Lineman Calls Out Biden For Scripted Interviews

Kamala Said Border Crisis Is ‘Going Rather Smoothly.’ Then a Busload of Migrants Showed Up at Her House.

US “Plans” To Buy 3 Million Barrels For SPR Days After It Drained 2.9 Million In One Week

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Buried long into an interminable New York Times thumbsucker about intergenerational wealth transfer and racial inequality comes this sentence: “The president’s latest budget proposes largely offsetting spending on social programs with revenue from a minimum 25 percent annual wealth tax on households with a net worth of $100 million or more.”

I follow this stuff pretty closely and somehow I missed Biden proposing a “25 percent annual wealth tax.”

Joel Kotkin.

We will soon be leaving the first quarter of the 21st century behind us. But in the minds of our transportation planners, the punditry, and some real estate interests, the way forward is actually to step back to the glories of the 19th century. At the state level, and most significantly in Washington, we are about to pour an unprecedented $20 billion more into transit, especially subways and other trains. This is folly: changing demographics and geography, as well as new technologies, suggest a very different future for how most of us get around. We are simply not going to become a nation of train travelers, and it would be pointless—not to say destructive—to try.

There’s nothing new here. Much of the national media, in chorus with urban political and economic leaders, have been pushing these train-focused approaches since the days of Jimmy Carter. The stated aim is usually to move Americans away from their supposedly evil and pernicious love of the private automobile. Americans drive not because they irrationally love cars—although some do—but because it is simply by far the best way to get around.

Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be. That was fine when the alternative was horses or bicycles, but we have moved beyond that now.

Recession Odds Rise To Highest In 40 Years: Fed

German newspaper cancels corruption report on Biden’s Albanian buddy

‘All We Want Is to Be Safe’: Migrants Push North After End of Title 42

The Disinformation Governance Board Is Out; The “Foreign Malign Influence Center” Is In…

Why Must the Washington Post Fact Checker Discount the Hunter Laptop Factor?  Because it’s contrary to the Narrative. Duh.

US Homeland Security Chief Says Border Crossings Are Down 50%

Comer: Key Informant in Biden Probe Is Missing  Apparently Biden has Hillary on speed-dial.

Chuck Todd Suggests GOP More to Blame for Border Crisis Than Biden  The Law of Liberal Projection strikes again.

McCaul: Will Pursue Contempt Charges on Blinken  How about ‘impeachment’?

The Case for Violating the Debt Limit Is Dangerous Nonsense (N.Y. Times) NYT, Democrat mouthpiece.

7 doomsday scenarios if the U.S. crashes through the debt ceiling (Washington Post) WaP0, Democrat mouthpiece.

Biden Heads To Beach House To Recuperate After Grueling 5-Hour Work Week  (Babylon Bee)

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Well, probably not all. But when did public school education become, on net, a force for evil? At some time after public sector unions were legalized in, as I recall, the 1960s. One of the worst mistakes in the history of our democracy. Now, the teachers’ unions have mobilized teachers as left-wing activists, and a great many of those who were not comfortable with that politicization have left the profession.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

The Democratic Party press has done its best to suppress the Joe Biden corruption story, beginning with the “Dirty 51” letter that successfully blocked the story during the 2020 presidential campaign, and continuing up to the present day. Moreover, when the issue has been discussed, it has far too often been framed as relating to Hunter Biden, as though Hunter, an unemployable and degenerate crackhead, had anything to sell to a foreign power. As I have written many times, no one has ever bribed Hunter Biden.

Ukraine live briefing: Russian strikes reported in three cities; concerns over safety at nuclear plant (Washington Post)

US Military to Bolster Defensive Posture in Gulf After Iran Seizes Tankers

Why The Economic War Against Russia Has Failed

China Has ‘Supreme Access’ to TikTok, Former Exec Alleges

Russia Establishes Anti-Drone Police As Threat To Cities Grows

The Battle for Bakhmut

MARINES: U.S. Marine Corps Tomahawk Missile Batteries

Zelensky Uninvited to Eurovision Stage

Germany Announces Its Biggest Military Aid Package for Ukraine (N.Y. Times)

US Blocks China’s Attempt To Condemn Israeli Attacks On Gaza At UN

Bad To Worse For Russia: Multiple Aircraft Downed In 24 Hours – Ukraine Gains In Bakhmut

Kathy Hochul begs Biden for more aid to confront escalating NY migrant crisis (N.Y. Post)

The White House Says Immigration Officials Don’t Release Migrants. The Border Tells a Different Story.

Texas Gov. Abbott: Biden WH Pulling Patrol Agents Off Border

New York Times Mocks Comer’s Case: ‘GOP Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden’

Migrants Reveal Plans To Sneak Into US Since Title 42 Has Expired

White House accuses fed Judge Kent Wetherell of ‘sabotage’ after blocking potential mass release of migrants (N.Y. Post)

Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week

Watch: Texas Governor Buses More Illegal Migrants To Kamala Harris’ House  Hey, she’s the Border Czar.

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Revised award to EcoHealth Alliance will no longer involve studies of hybrid coronaviruses

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

President Biden refuses to do his job. He has erased our southern border and facilitated the systematic invasion of our country by illegal aliens from all over the world. With the imminent expiration of Title 42, the invasion he has facilitated seems to be approaching a peak, but you never know. It can get worse.

We look on as helpless bystanders. His excuses and lies grow increasingly absurd, if that is possible, which it probably isn’t. Biden speaks as though he himself is an innocent bystander to the catastrophe he has wrought: “It’s going to be chaotic for a while.”

He would have us believe he can’t do anything about it. What is to be done with a president of the United States who refuses to do his job?

U.S. finalizes asylum restriction to ramp up border deportations once Title 42 lapses (CBS News) Sure, I believe that….

Biden admits migrant surge is ‘going to be chaotic’ when Title 42 ends (N.Y. Post)

In pictures: The surge at the US-Mexico border (CNN) Machine guns and a mine field would take care of it, as the East Germans learned long ago.

Border chaos in Arizona seems inevitable as Title 42 ends (Arizona Republic)

Brownsville bus stop crash survivor and family members in Colombia plead with Biden for help (NBC News)

Border Patrol Outraged at Biden CBP Plan in El Paso

Retired Navy Commander Applauds Drag Influencer  No wonder they have a recruiting problem.

Jacqui Heinrich Calls Out KJP Over ‘MAGA Republican Extremists’ Rhetoric on Debt Limit

WATCH: Biden’s Presidency Collapsing Before Our Eyes

Hunter Biden Claims He Took Out Personal Loans To Pay Legal Team, Has Incurred ‘Substantial’ Debt  Maybe he could ask the Big Guy for his 10% back.

Biden says he’s exploring 14th amendment to defuse debt ceiling standoff (Politico)

UGA football team declines invitation to White House celebration (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Congress Must End the Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children

NJ Mayor Denied White House Access Praised ISIS

Social Security’s Buying Power Eroded by 36%

Comer Set to Unveil Details in Biden Family Probe

US Prices Pick Up, Inflation Still Hot at 4.9%

CIA Solicited Signatures For Hunter Biden Laptop Letter, Congressional Testimony Shows (Federalist)

House Oversight: Biden Family Got Over $10 Million From Foreign Entities While He Was VP

April Report Shows ‘Inflation Is Still Firmly Entrenched in the Economy,’ Economist Says

Watch Live: Comer Unveils Evidence Of Biden Family Corruption

Biden admin to allow for the release of some migrants into the U.S. with no way to track them (NBC News)

After disruptions, new White House press rules prompt retaliation concerns (Washington Post) Yeah, Trump will love this new rule when he becomes President.

Wind And Solar Aren’t Nearly Enough: Why Biden Is Suddenly Supporting Fossil Fuels

WTI Extends Losses After Biden Admin Drains SPR By Most Since December

Biden Campaign ‘Coordinated’ with Ex-CIA Official to Shop Hunter Biden Letter, House Report Says

Biden family ‘got $1 MILLION from ROMANIA’ while Joe vowed to clean up corruption: GOP ‘influence-peddling’ probe into $10M in foreign cash reveals Hunter set up 15 companies AFTER his dad became VP and lay out how money came from China (Daily Mail)

To Get His Poll Numbers Up, CNN Says Biden Must Go Further Left  But that trick never works….

Party of the People: Biden Schmoozes Billionaires in Manhattan as Border Crisis Worsens

Border Patrol apprehends over 10,000 migrants a day ahead of Title 42’s end, highest ever recorded

Biden Oblivious to National Debt Larger Than Economy

FLASHBACK: Biden Tells Migrants To ‘Surge to the Border’

‘The Dam Is About To Break’: Border Sees Highest Ever Crossings Just Days Before Title 42 Ends

Schumer on Cusp of Defunding DC Police Department as Crime Explodes

5 Keys to Understanding Biden’s Nominee for Top Economist Who Pushed for IRS Expansion, Green New Deal

FBI Denies Request For Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto, Writings

Biden’s Border Crisis Doesn’t Look Very Made Up Now

The four times the United States government defaulted on its debt (2021)

Biden DHS Coordinating Illegal Immigration In-Flows with Mexico (Center for Immigration Studies)

Ukraine Situation Report: RQ-4 Global Hawk Flies Off Sochi

Chinese Spaceplane Docked With Another Object Multiple Times Data Indicates

China Retaliates After Canada Expels Its Diplomat Over ‘Political Interference’

AIR DEFENSE: China Ahead In SHORAD Tech

AFGHANISTAN: Banking On China

Ukraine Unit Says Russian Brigade Routed Outside Bakhmut

NKorea Warns Japan Against Joining SKorea-US Nuclear Group

UK poised to label Wagner group terrorists as France urges EU to act (The Guardian)

The west must be ready for this moment of opportunity and risk in Ukraine (The Guardian)

Pakistan’s Army Polices Capital As Provinces Urge Military Help Against Protests

Watch: Panic Hits Tel Aviv Beach As Over 100 Gaza Rockets Pound Israel

TikTok’s Parent Company ByteDance Doing Communist Chinese Gov’t’s Censorship Work

After ‘inflection point’ of Ukraine, Switchblade maker AeroVironment unveils upgrades, goes global

Weapons tracing shows Russia firing new cruise missiles at Ukraine just weeks after production

Scott Johnson at Power Line.

Rep. James Comer called a press conference this morning to release the House Oversight Committee’s second bank records memorandum on the Biden family business. The committee press release is posted online here. The 36-page bank records memo released today is posted here. I have posted video of the press conference below.

There is a lot of information to digest here and I haven’t done so. The 50-minute press conference provides a useful summary of what it’s all about and what is to come. Mark Tapscott asks a question seeking to place this matter in historical context at about 40:00. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything quite like it before.

Read it.

The Bureau of Land Management was formed out of the General Land Office, which sold and distributed public land to settlers, and the Grazing Service, which settled the range wars on the side of the farmers. Its mission under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) is “the management of the public lands and their various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people”.

Unfortunately BLM became a bastion of environmentalists opposed to any kind of development and, under Biden, even outright eco-terrorists, like Tracy Stone-Manning, his BLM director.

Tracy Stone-Manning had been the spokeswoman for the eco-terrorist group EarthFirst and had sent a threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that the terrorists had rigged a forest with traps and concluding with, “You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.”

Read it.

What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware?

That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice.

The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist.

The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges.

Significant political calculations follow from those decisions.

Even if he is, nothing will come of it. The Crust take care of their own.

The Foundry.

The Internal Revenue Service  not only is involved in voter registration, it should get more involved, a coalition of over 50 liberal groups argues.

Meanwhile, the Obamacare exchange will attempt to drive up voter registration, while agencies within the Justice Department have acted to ensure that prisoners in federal custody may cast a ballot if eligible.

President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which requires federal agencies to get involved in boosting voter participation, is a little over 2 years old.

However, members of Congress, the press, and watchdog groups unsuccessfully have sought information on how Biden’s order is being implemented. The Justice Department has claimed presidential privilege to shield related documents from release.

CBP, ICE to launch enforcement operation in El Paso as migrant numbers surge ahead of Title 42’s end (Fox) Oh, yeah,  election coming up, I guess we’d better pretend to do something.

El Paso mayor on surge of migrants in the city as COVID-era immigration order expires (PBS)

Border Patrol Union criticizes feds after ‘warning’ sent ahead of migrant ‘enforcement operation’ in Texas (Fox)

Juarez mayor speaks about more Texas troops coming to the border (KVIA)

Top Republican investigating Biden administration withdrawal from Afghanistan threatens to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress (CNN)

This Is Why Our National Debt Rises In Good Times And Explodes Higher In Bad

Tanked Biden pick highlights escalation of dark-money forces (Associated Press) It couldn’t have possibly been that she (he? it? was a left-wing wacko.

Trump, DeSantis Beat Biden In ABC/WaPo Poll As Joe’s Approval Hits Record Low

Nearly 610,000 public sector workers got student loan forgiveness after Biden loosened the rules (CNN) One hand washes the other.

Biden Would Veto House GOP Immigration Bill

Texas Gov. Abbott Deploys ‘Tactical Border Force’

Axios With Hard-Hitting Scoop: Jill Hates How Old Joe Loves Ice Cream, Pizza

Kamala Harris Is Finding Her Stride as Team Biden’s Voice to Black Voters (Bloomberg) If that voice is a cackle.

Union Lawsuit Wants Biden, Yellen to Ignore Debt Limit  Look for … the Union label….

Biden Wages War On Small Businesses During National Small Business Week

The food fight in the White House: Biden’s diet (Axios) Another pro-Biden thumbsucker from the Narrative media.

Mexico: Smugglers Using Title 42 Expiration to Lure Migrants

Border Patrol Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl in Single Weekend to Kill Entire Population of Chicago

White House Blocks New York Post Reporter From Rare Biden Event

Nets Ignore Biden White House Banning NY Post Reporter Who Asked About Hunter

Watch: Drone Footage Shows Wave Of Migrants Approaching Texas Border

Retired Navy SEAL to Newsmax: ‘We Need Pipe Hitters, Not Pole Dancers’

Journos Spar with KJP Over Biden’s Lack of Focus on Job

Biden Admin Won’t Let Authorities Seize Sanctioned Iranian Oil Tankers

Biden Is Draining the Strategic Oil Reserve. Republicans Are Demanding an Investigation. I don’t know why we have a Strategic Oil Reserve in the first place. It might have made back in the 70s when we were an oil-importing nation, but today we have enough oil to sell it to other nations (when Democrats aren’t choking off the supply).

‘Nothing Like This Has Been Seen Before’: Migrants Crowd Border To Await End of Title 42

Biden to be first sitting president to visit Papua New Guinea (The Hill) But he can’t be bothered to visit the American border.

Politico Invokes ‘Russian Misinformation’ to Defend the Bidens on Bribery Allegations

Biden Taps Economist Who Slammed ‘Low’ Gas Prices

CNN Blasts State Dept on Afghanistan Withdrawal Cable

The Inhumanity of Biden’s Border Policies

‘Sad Joke’: Border Patrol Union Slams Biden Admin for Tipping Off Illegals to Enforcement Operation

Biden Delays SPR Refill Again, Now Says Must Wait For Storage Repairs First

Migrants Flow North to US Border Ahead of Policy Changes

Mayorkas Heads To Border To Fire Starter Pistol When Title 42 Expires (Babylon Bee)

The Antiplanner.

In 2004, Denver voters approved spending $4.8 billion building six new rail transit lines, and the first line opened ten years ago. This was soon followed by four more to the gushing praise of various outsiders.

Inside Denver, however, people are beginning to realize that the whole thing was a miserable failure, suffering massive cost overruns and never attaining its ridership projections. The West line, which had its tenth anniversary last week, never carried as many passengers as were projected in its first year. It’s too bad that the reporters who are questioning this now weren’t asking the same questions in 2004.

Denver’s Regional Transit District (RTD) suffers from numerous problems that can be traced back to its rail construction projects. It is heavily in debt and doesn’t have the money or the borrowing power to build the last rail line it promised in 2004. It also doesn’t have enough money to pay enough drivers to keep its trains and buses running, and staff shortages have led to many delays and reduced service. The rail lines never attracted enough riders to put a dent in traffic congestion or reduce air pollution before the pandemic.

Read it.

Of all living Americans, Angela Davis may have the most disgraceful history. She is a Communist–her description, not mine; she was twice the Communist Party’s candidate for vice president, and was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. She once participated in the murder of a judge in California. She was acquitted of the crime by a biased jury, but there was never any serious doubt about her guilt: the murder and associated crimes were perpetrated with her guns.

Since then, Davis has gone on to a lucrative career as a taxpayer-supported professor. Above all, she has gotten rich on the college lecture circuit. Universities pay her tens of thousands of dollars to deliver an hour-long rant against free enterprise. Nothing original, just warmed-over Marxism. Apparently today’s college students are too dumb to notice the irony.

US weighs restrictions on investment in Chinese AI firms (Fox)

Brussels to Sanction Chinese Tied to Russia

China Wants Killer Robots To Fight The Next War

Iran Hid Arms in Earthquake Aid to Syria In Order to Attack US Troops

Growing Pushback Over BlackRock In Ukraine: “Taxpayers Pay The War Bills, Private Firms Get The Profits”

Arab League Agrees To Reinstate Syria After 12 Years

Russia Launches Mass Strikes Across Ukraine

Sanctions don’t work

WARPLANES: Shahed-136 Scam

SUBMARINES: Iran Builds More Big Submarines

China’s Arctic Ambitions Pose a Threat to the Western World

Mayorkas deflects blame on border crisis, says it’s been an issue ‘since the ‘90s’ (Fox) Yeah, but it’s your job to fix it.

In Bordertown USA, Biden sends in troops — and Trump rubs his hands (The Times)

Abbott: We don’t need 1,500 soldiers at the border, we need 15,000 or 150,000 (The Hill)

Mayorkas ripped for saying there are ‘orderly pathways’ to enter country legally: ‘That’s for suckers’ (Fox)

Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Devon Archer urged to spill Biden dirt to avoid prison (N.Y. Post)

Biden Black Voters Lacking ’20 Enthusiasm

Desperate Dems Float 14th Amendment As Debt Ceiling Override

Will Biden’s Plan To Tax Crypto Mining Reduce Emissions? Critics Say No

New Disinfo Office to Combat Foreign, US ‘Public Opinion’

Parody Becomes Reality: Babylon Bee Predicts Gender Bender Friendly Military Recruitment

Biden Admin Backs Down In Standoff With Catholic Hospital Over Chapel Candle

Israeli Whistleblower With Info On Biden Corruption Disappears In Cyprus After Saying Biden Regime Wants To ‘Bury Him’

How Did They Get Here? What We Know About Unaccompanied Children Arriving at Southern Border

U.S. Offers Palestinians $100k to Promote ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ in Arts and Sports

Media’s long con to bury Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal (N.Y. Post)

Yellen Warns Against Debt Ceiling Talks With ‘Gun to the Head of the American People’  That’s not what she minds; what she is really objecting to is the gun held to the head of the ruling class.

Gingrich Steamrolls Williams on Hunter’s Corrupt Business Dealings

‘Not a Good Number’: CNN Reports on Bad Polling Numbers for Biden

Russian Tank With ‘Cope Cage’ Covered In Explosive Reactive Armor Emerges  Obviously a defense against Javelin and similar ATMs.

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims Patriot Intercepted Kinzhal Air-Launched Ballistic Missile

Digital Fentanyl: The CCP’s Cyber Campaign To Destroy America