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What We’re Reading: Remembering Afghan Heroes, $7 Mil Mugshot, ‘Transplaining’ … And More

Honoring Afghan Heroes

McCarthy Orders Capitol Flags at Half-Staff to Honor 13 Service Members Killed Leaving Afghanistan — Washington Times

Two Years Later, Afghanistan Gold Star Families Feel Abandoned By Biden — Daily Caller

Biden Had to Be Shamed Into Recognizing Troops Killed at Kabul Airport on Second Anniversary of Attack — RedState

Gold Star Families Accuse Biden Of Covering Up Evidence That Kabul Bombing Was Preventable — Townhall

The $7 Million Mugshot

Trump raised $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot  —  Politico

Trump’s Mugshot Backfires Massively On The Left — Daily Wire

Trump Is Turning His Mugshot Into a Badge of Honor — Guardian

Trump’s mug shot will backfire in 2024 — MSNBC

Election 2024

Polls show indictments are hurting Trump’s standing in general election — Straight Arrow News

DeSantis Rakes In $1M After First Republican Debate — Off the Press

The Unexpected and Completely Modern Rise of Vivek Ramaswamy — Politico

Biden advisers bristle at Newsom’s plan to debate DeSantis  —  NBC News

Could No Labels Help Throw the Election to Trump? — National Review

Bidenomics Is Working

Labor shortages plague high-stakes industries — Axios

Bernie Sanders scolds Dems for losing working class, minority voters to GOP: ‘Frankly it is absurd’… Fox Business News

Income Inequality, Health Care Disaster — Breitbart

Biden To Asks Congress Again For Money To Fund Another Covid Vaccine — Off the Press

Inflation and jobs data on tap as Fed’s path remains in focus: What to know this week — Yahoo Finance

Our Man, Joe

WATCH: Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 57) — Washington Free Beacon

WATCH: Biden gets booed in Lake Tahoe — Fox News

Climate Derangement Syndrome

Why Our EV Policies Are So Extremely Stupid — Wall Street Journal

‘Net-Zero’? Just Stop Existing! — The Pipeline

Now POTATUS wants your ceiling fan and beer — Hot Air

The Daily Chart: Total Climate Craziness — Powerline

Border Crisis

The Border Report: Nearly 1.6 million ‘gotaways’ in U.S. since January 2021 — Center Square

DHS hides monthly number of illegal migrants released into U.S after interacting with border agents — Just the News

Watch: New Yorkers Protesting Migrant Camps Chant ‘Pasty White Liberals’ at Open Borders Activists — Breitbart

Biden Passes the Buck to Congress on Aid to New York for Asylum Seekers — PJ Media

Trans World

Cosmetics Company Drops Alice Cooper for Comments Against Transing Kids — Breitbart

Forget mansplaining — transplaining is the woke way for men to talk down to women — New York Post

Misc

Nattering Neocons of Negativity — Daily Signal

Presence of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Paper Straws Highlights the Inanity of Plastic Straw Bans — Reason

Humor

WEEK IN PICTURES: Mugshot Edition.– Powerline

Fulton County Releases First Official Portrait Of The 47th President Of The United States — Babylon Bee

Trying To Keep Pace With Vivek, Chris Christie Also Releases Shirtless Tennis Video — Glorious American

Please enjoy this parody video of “rich men” responding to Oliver Anthony’s viral hit — Not the Bee

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