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Liz Cheney is trailing by twenty two points in her primary contest against [It Doesn't Matter].

Former President Donald Trump's pick to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney in the race for Wyoming's lone House seat holds a commanding 22-point lead with a month until the primary, a new Casper Star-Tribune poll shows.

Natural resources attorney Harriet Hageman leads Cheney 52% to 30%, the poll shows. No other challenger received more than 5% support. Only 11% of voters were undecided.

The poll, conducted for the Star-Tribune by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, surveyed 1,100 registered Wyoming voters likely to participate in the primary, resulting in a margin of error of plus or minus 3%, according to Brad Coker, Mason-Dixon managing director.

Note that they did not poll "registered Republicans," but "registered voters likely to participate in the primary." Liz Cheney is courting Democrats to vote for her, and many will. However, this poll indicates that she's still far behind, even with Cheney's Democrat allies' support.

New analysis: the covid vaccine affects menstruation.

A new analysis of reports from more than 35,000 people offers the most comprehensive assessment so far of menstrual changes experienced by pre- and post-menopausal individuals in the first two weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study adds to the evidence that significant numbers of people experience this unexpected side effect.

"Menstruating and formerly menstruating people began sharing that they experienced unexpected bleeding after being administered a COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021," the scientists who led the study wrote. Because vaccine trials typically do not ask about menstrual cycles or bleeding, this side effect was largely ignored or dismissed.

Doctors who weighed in on the subject after hearing early reports about post-vaccination menstrual changes were often dismissive of patients' concerns, said Kathryn Clancy, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who led the research with Katharine Lee, an anthropology professor at Tulane University. Some clinicians said it was unclear how a vaccine could trigger such changes.

It might not be as alarming as it initially sounds. Other vaccines have also triggered these side effects, due to triggering the immune system:

However, other vaccines--including those for typhoid, Hepatitis B and HPV--are sometimes associated with changes in menstruation, Clancy said. These side effects are believed to be tied to an uptick in immune-related inflammatory pathways and are less likely to be driven by hormonal changes.

Fauci to retire by the end of Biden's term.

He plans to spend more time with his synthetic Chinese gain-of-function viruses.

Which he funded, and then lied to Congress about funding.

Instapundit linked to this old article, from October 2021, in which the NIH admitted that Fauci's henchman at EcoHealth, Peter Daszak, had funded gain-of-function research on, get this, bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab.

A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan and revealed that EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. non-profit that funneled NIH money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not transparent about the work it was doing.

In the letter to Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH cites a "limited experiment" that was conducted to test if "spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model." The laboratory mice infected with the modified bat virus "became sicker" than those infected with the unmodified bat virus.

The revelation vindicates Republican senator Rand Paul, who got into heated exchanges with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director Anthony Fauci during his May and July testimonials before Congress over the gain-of-function question. At the second hearing, Paul accused Fauci of misleading Congress by denying that the U.S. had funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Remember, Anthony Fauci had always opposed Obama's ban on gain-of-function funding and had stealth-edited the ban to actually allow it, slipping in the edit during the transition from Obama to Trump when there was confusion and high turnover between the administrations.

I had forgotten that the NIH admitted this. Fauci's told so many lies I just didn't remember this one. Did you?

Why is he not being prosecuted for perjury or obstruction of a Congressional investigation?

Kamala Harris is campaigning to end the filibuster.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said she and President Biden "will not let the filibuster stand in our way" on protecting abortion access and voting rights, while urging voters to cast ballots in November's midterm elections to protect "our most essential rights and freedoms."

Harris, speaking at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Monday, said leaders of the organization have "fought hard to move our nation forward."

"And yet we must recognize that there are those who are fighting to drag us backward," Harris said. "Extremist so-called leaders who are fighting to drag us backward. Extremist so-called leaders who are attempting to undermine our democracy and assault our most fundamental freedoms."

The freedoms Harris listed included "the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies and the freedom to vote."

And the freedom to expand the membership of the Supreme Court to 21 and pack it with leftwingers, she didn't say.

Biden, of course, reversed his longstanding position and declared he supported the far left's campaign to end the filibuster (to codify Roe, outlaw guns, and pack the court) after the Dobbs decision. Because he was bleeding support from the far left.

And because everything Biden has done has been done to keep his support from "The Squad" wing of the party.

Remember when NeverTrump promised us Biden would govern from the center and would represent a moderate, stabilizing force?

Has a single one of these smug cunt narcissists confessed a dollop of error yet?

Speaking of Kumala: She tossed another salad. Of words.

She sounds like Wanda Sykes with an aneurysm.

New Kamala Harris (de)Motivational Posters at The Federalist.

1. She always sounds stoned off her fartclam and/or poopsnizz.

2. She always sounds like the dumb kid who has to give an oral (oral!) book report on a book she didn't read, so she quickly reads the title and glances at the cover art and starts guessing about what it might be about, repeating the title a lot.

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