In the news today: As Ted Cruz grouses that teaching children about vaccination amounts to "propaganda," fellow Senate seditionist Josh Hawley says he'll be adopting "masculinity" as his new central political theme. As Democratic strategist James Carville gets hammered for another tired take on "wokeness," the people trying to sell "wokeness" as a danger are racist conservative billionaires who've devoted themselves to stoking similar panics for decades now. Meanwhile, the Biden White House walks back a prior Biden statement suggesting Biden was rejecting compensation for refugee families caught in Trump's intentionally cruel separation policies.

Today's been a weird, weird day. There may be something in the punch.