GETTING READY FOR THE SPEECH:

UPDATE: Supporting documents are on the White House website.

BLUESKY GAVE UP ON COMPETING WITH X: “Bluesky really did grow for a while and lots of people on the left started trying to move not just their own accounts but many of their followers over to the new platform. These days the site has 45 million registered users. And yet, 18 months later it’s fair to say that Bluesky is nowhere near being a competitor to X. Exact numbers are hard to source but X currently has about 250 million daily users whereas Bluesky is hovering somewhere between 1.5 million daily users and fewer than half that.”

It’s not exactly the friendliest, most welcome place to hang out:

I ENTERED THE EDITOR’S MIND WHILE YOU WERE TALKING TO DR. MCCOY, CAPTAIN. IT WAS ALL DARK AND EMPTY, and there were little mice in the corners and spiders had spun this web…: Inside the Mind of an NYT Editor.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

GODSPEED…:

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UPDATE: Well, that’s a scrub for today. Better luck tomorrow.

LET’S NOT GO ON ABOUT WHO KILLED WHO — THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A HAPPY OCCASION!

But this strategy is basically an admission. Time for the Guarantee Clause powers? That piece was a random bit of musing, more or less off-the-cuff, but I’ve heard from a couple of eminent constitutional law professors who thought I was dead-on. We’ll see.

Related: What will Trump say?

WELL, YES:

“JUSTICE.” Now More Than Ever, Ensuring Supreme Court Justices’ Personal Security Is Critical. “This is outrageous stuff and, obviously, totally unacceptable. And with another hot-button case like Viramontes being decided next year, it’s critically important that security for the Justices be tighter now than ever. Leftists have carried out shootings before — or tried — and said in the manifestos they left behind that they did it, at least in part, to advance the cause of gun control. With the rise in the glorification of assassins on the left in recent years, don’t think they wouldn’t try to take out a conservative justice again, whether to affect the Viramontes ruling or for any number of other left wing priorities.”

THAT’S THEIR FLOOR, NOT THEIR CEILING: Arizona Congressional Dem hopeful caught following OnlyFans, witchcraft accounts.

The official campaign Instagram account of Arizona Democratic congressional hopeful JoAnna Mendoza bizarrely followed multiple OnlyFans models, witchcraft accounts, and sexually explicit content producers.

Mendoza at one point followed a dozen accounts that frequently share sexually explicit content, including a transgender socialist who is known for sharing images of sex toys, according to screenshots of the follows taken and reviewed by The Post.

Her official Instagram account has nearly 12,000 followers and is following 1,230 users. She is still following several of the accounts in question.

At least she doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo… that we’re aware of.