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What We’re Reading: A Binary Budget Deal, Net-Zero’s Failure, Waking Up To Woke … And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Budget Ceiling Deal: Triumph Or Disaster?

Fiscal conservatives blast debt ceiling ‘sell out’ — Based Politics

Biden lost the debt negotiations — The Aspen Beat

Republicans win on the debt ceiling: Here’s why House GOP should support deal — Fox News

CBO preliminary analysis: Debt-ceiling deal would cut spending $2.1 trillion over 6 years — Hot Air

Kevin McCarthy: Wasteful Government Doesn’t Have to Keep Growing — Wall Street Journal

‘Net-Zero’ Is A Failure: Will Your Lights Go Out?

Dealing with the Upcoming Climate Failure Blame Garme — American Thinker

The US would need to produce 20-50% more electricity annually if all cars were electric vehicles — USAFacts.org

Environmentalists Are Why We Can’t Have Infrastructure — Sultan Knish

Tulsi Gabbard: The Democratic Party is tearing us apart — Fox News Video, via Common Cents Blog

What’s With China?

Chinese Defense Minister Rejects Meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — Breitbart

China’s economy has turned rotten and its reopening boom is a ‘charade,’ market expert says — Yahoo Finance

China’s Fading Recovery Reveals Deeper Economic Struggles —Wall Street Journal

COVID’s Social Damage Was Immense

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Caused Massive Mental Illness on the Left — Townhall

The Great Silence — Daily Reckoning

Memory-Holing of COVID False Narratives Picks Up Steam — PJ Media

Global Consensus That Anti-COVID Policies Were A Disaster — Powerline

Study: Lockdowns Produced No Reduction in COVID Deaths — PJ Media

‘Woke’ Business Model Isn’t Doing So Well

Boycott Target — Powerline

Stores, Stores Everywhere, and Not a Place to Shop — PJ Media

Target shows the blueprint to beat the left — American Thinker

Corporate America Has Launched A Religious War. It’s Time To Choose Your Side — The Federalist

Bud Light, Target Bleeding Money After Boycott. The Dollar Amount Is Staggering — Daily Caller

Target’s Marketing VP also Works for Organization Pushing Transgender Agenda in Schools — American Greatness

Miscellaneous Stuff . . .

Trust in Media Declines: Majority of Voters Agree Media Are the ‘Enemy of the People’ — MRC TV

Three Years Later, No Justice for BLM Insurrection in D.C. — American Greatness

San Fran’s Tragic Decline: Mayor, city leaders booed out of drug-infested UN Plaza as brick thrown in crowd — New York Post

Jane Fonda Blames White Men For ‘Climate Crisis,’ Demands Their Imprisonment — Daily Wire

‘It’s all about the money’ — The Dysfunctional Biden Family Legacy — American Thinker

Bidens offer ‘safe harbor’ to Hunter as he flails over scandalous reports, new messages show — New York Post

Nobody Wants Biden’: Wall Street Quietly Hopes Another Dem Wins The Party Nomination: Wall Street Journal — Daily Caller

. . . And Summer Reading!

Summer Reading With CJ — PJ Media

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