Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing  — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people’s attention in this latest whirlwind week? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you’re so inclined), and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication — here we go!

#1 – LOOSE LIPS: Eric Swalwell Discusses Capitol Hill Sex Parties, Ivanka Trump’s Looks During Lobbyist Dinner — by Jennifer Van Laar

Obviously, the things Swalwell was discussing with not just his dinner companions but random people in the restaurant are even worse; hopefully, we’ll be able to hear the audio.

#2 – NPS Staffers Hang Upside-Down Flag in Yosemite to Protest Firings — They Don’t Get Reaction They Expect — by Nick Arama

Now I get that losing a job is not a happy thing. But we’re also over $35 trillion in debt and need to get our house in order. We’ve needed someone to come in with an axe for some time, to care about spending and get things under control. In the private sector, no one has a guaranteed job, but somehow people in the federal government seem to think they do. There are also people who seem to think that the vast unelected bureaucracy gets to tell the duly elected president what to do, rather than the other way around. 

That’s not the way our constitutional system works.

#3 – Stephen Miller Crushes It: Many ‘Remarkable and Disturbing’ Things Zelensky Said That Led to Epic Blowup — by Bob Hoge

It’s going to be fascinating to see how this plays out. This Russia-Ukraine war is an ugly and tragic thing and needs to be ended yesterday, and Putin is no friend of the USA, but Trump is right that it’s not going to happen if one of the key players is uninterested in negotiating a peace.

#4 – WHOA: Fox Reporter’s Backstory on Trump-Zelensky Meeting Shows Just How Mad Trump Was — by Nick Arama

But it sounds like they’re already backpedaling, knowing this was a very bad move by Zelensky. They better get their act together if they hope to salvage this at all, because Trump is not going to put up with this kind of behavior, he’s not Joe Biden

#5 – Chuck Todd Slams Bret Baier; the Fox News Host Delivers a Savage Response — by Bonchie

I’m repeating myself, though, as I’ve made that point several times recently. When Baier was asked about Todd’s sleight on Thursday, he delivered a characteristically polite yet savage response.