NEW YORK'S CONCEALED-CARRY SOCIAL MEDIA BACKGROUND CHECKS are meant to weed out political views that disagree with those in power.

JUST WHEN YOU THINK THEY'VE REACHED PEAK CRAZY: Are there transgender mice?

I'M A DEMOCRAT; I'M ENTITLED TO LEAD YOU. No elections needed.

VIDEO: Student calls cops on Prager U.

Be prepared to laugh.

BIDEN'S ECONOMIC VICTORY LAP is 58 pages of malarkey.

If you have masochistic tendencies, here is the entire report.

REVOLUTIONARY DRINKING: A day-long experiment in colonial boozing.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD 'rallies relief effort' for migrants by shipping them to Cape Cod military base. At taxpayer expense, in case you haven't guessed.

No vacation homeowners, apparently, stepped up to offer shelter to illegal immigrants from America's southern border.

Zero. None. Tells you all you need to know....

I'M A WEE BIT (WELL, A LOT) LATE with the God Save the Queen edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures. My favorites, though, have nothing to do with the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Here they are:

and

There are many more good ones. Go see them.

IT WON'T BE LONG before satire becomes reality.

Congratulations to the Babylon Bee.

FACTS ARE SO ... INCONVENIENT: Congressional squad members AOC and Tlaib 'debunk' facts with nasty threats.

STEVEN F. HAYWARD ON THE PIPELINE: California's electric boogaloo to Nowheresville.

Yeah, and it's a great deal for electric vehicle manufacturers. You have to buy the car and the manufacturers don't have maintain it since it'll never leave the driveway.

STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS is [progressive] class warfare.

JUST BECAUSE WE'RE A SANCTUARY CITY doesn't mean we want illegal aliens running around. D.C. City Council member delivers hilarious take on 'emergency' from busing illegal aliens.

NEW MEXICO IS BROKEN: Democrat Judge teams up with leftwing nutters to boot a Republican county official from office as an 'insurrectionist'.

I saw it coming when I left permanently nearly 40 years ago even though I loved living in the high desert.

IN NAME ONLY: Is Joe Biden still President?

U-HAUL? You’ll never guess who Gavin Newsom blames for the droves of people fleeing California.

Nope. Trump (of course).

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF WOKE LIBERALISM IS TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF, and the residents of Martha’s Vineyard certainly rose to the challenge of providing proof.

FALLING LEAVES 2022, week 1. It begins.

Let's start with the usual view of the pond from the deck. From there it still looks pretty 'summery' -- no obvious leaf loss and no color changes

But looking the other way (west) from the front of the house, my bellwether tree (lower left) from last week is redder than ever and already losing leaves. The hardwoods towering above are also losing leaves and those remaining are turning yellow already.

Back to the view from the deck. Looking roughly north toward the fire pit is another view of summer. We're seeing more leaves on the ground, but for the most part the trees are still green and full.

To the south, however, the guard is changing. Here's a view looking south. Mostly green still, but the leaves are changing.

A landscape view, again looking north, showing that our new lawn is beginning to take shape. Hopefully the grass will continue to thicken even with the cold weather approaching.

And finally, a view from the pond taken from the dock. The leaves are still full but beginning to show clear signs of yellowing. Leaf fall should begin soon

Until next week. In the meantime here is week one from 2020 and 2021.

CORRECTION: Public education is a man-made progressive-made disaster.

There. Fixed.

SARAH HOYT: the dividing line.

I think she might be right.