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What We’re Reading: Impeaching Biden, Taming The IRS, Does Barbie Hate Men? . . . And More

Headlines and issues that caught our eye.

Biden Corruption Scandals Deepen . . . Further

Hunter Biden put then-VP dad Joe on the phone with business associates at least 2 dozen times, ex-partner Devon Archer to testify — New York Post

Does Ukraine’s Zelensky Have Blackmail Information On President Biden? — Gateway Pundit

Biden’s narrative on never discussing business deals with Hunter continues to crumble — Fox News

Hunter Biden’s gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor ‘friend’ who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission — Business Insider

Media beg Republicans to ‘move on’ from Hunter Biden – because they know scandal is serious — New York Post

16 Romanian payments allegedly went to Biden ‘shell companies’, could lead to impeachment — Fox News

Report: FBI Told David Weiss It Partially Corroborated Biden Bribery Allegations — Breitbart Politics

Kevin McCarthy Says Impeachment Inquiry of Joe Biden Being Prepared — Hot Air

10 Media Hack Factories That Pooh-Poohed The Biden-Burisma Scandal As A Conspiracy Theory — The Federalist

Taming The IRS

Alarm over ‘militarization’ of IRS after it spent $10M on weapons, gear since 2020 — Fox News

IRS to End ‘Most’ Unannounced Home Visits, Reversing ‘Decades-Long Practice’ after Alleged Abuses — National Review

The Assault On Freedom Grows

Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online — Pew Research

The scariest poll you’ll see this summer — Unreported Truths Substack

Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified — The Guardian

Democrats Value Free Speech Far Less Than Republicans — Townhall, via Real Clear Politics

OK, Delicate Question Here: Is ‘Barbie’ Movie Anti-Male?

Elon Musk joins backlash against Barbie film’s portrayal of anti-man feminism — UK Daily Mail

Enter the Barbie Longhouse — Peachy Keenan’s Extremely Domestic, Substack

The Based and Hilarious Reason Gen Z Bros Are Flocking to the New Barbie Flick — PJ Media

Socialism Or Barbie-ism — Compact

Election ’24 Is On Like . . . Donkey Kong

How Trump is gaining an advantage in the nitty-gritty battle for delegates — AP News

Many redistricting redos pending, but ’24 election outlook unclear — Roll Call

Operation Get Trump: FBI, Deep State At Work — American Spectator

‘The Perfect Crime’: Tech Companies Are Manipulating Our Elections and Indoctrinating Our Children — How We Can Stop Them — Gatestone Institute

Summer Arrives, Climate Madness Ensues

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators — The Epoch Times, via ZeroHedge

GOP lawmakers slam Biden administration’s proposed clamp down on home water heaters — New York Post

Holy smoke and mirrors: Solar panels Three Times more carbon intensive than natgas? — Hot Air

Justice Delayed, But Not Denied

Woman gets job back at Lowe’s after being attacked while trying to stop shoplifting — WTOC.com

Maskless churchgoer settles lawsuit over 2020 arrest, calls liberalism a ‘modern-day cult’ — Fox News

Official COVID Story Continues To Unravel

‘Serious Doubt’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety After Forced Release of 15,000 Pages of Clinical Trial Data: Legal NGO — The Epoch Times

Statistician Nate Silver calls COVID lockdowns ‘crazy’ — Twitter

Fauci-Influenced COVID-19 Paper To ‘Disprove’ Lab Leak Theory Faces Growing Calls For Retraction — Shore News Network

Why Did Scientists Suppress the Lab Leak Theory? — Reason, via Yahoo News

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