BUT OF COURSE: Tlaib Blames Islamophobia for Dem Reaction to Omar’s Anti-Semitism.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: College RA training guide: ‘Make America Great Again’ example of white supremacy.

Universities became Democrat super-PACs so gradually that — oh, who am I kidding, everyone noticed.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Maryland lawmakers target state’s handgun permit board over rate of granting appeals, seek to abolish panel.

People free to exercise their rights (pending official review and approval, that is)? We can’t have that.

How about a swap: Abolish the panel in exchange for a must-issue law.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “Improbably, for a country awash in oil reserves, gasoline in Maracaibo may be about to run out due to refinery breakdowns and distribution problems. This would be catastrophic to a population dependent on generators and scavenging.”

We’re watching the last chapter of Atlas Shrugged play out in Venezuela in realtime.

WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: Liberal comedian and commentator Bill Maher said Friday that cultural appropriation is ‘just made up.’ Maher later added that ‘these people just want to b*tch.'” Yeah, pretty much.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: It’s just not worth it and much, much more. “Speaker of the House Pelosi told the Washington Post that impeaching President Trump was ‘just not worth it.’ Could you just hear the progressive heads explode when she said that? There’s some drama in the Democrat caucus now since the grandstanders can’t hold out impeachment as a carrot to their flock. I wonder how bad the internal polling is if Nancy is coming forward to wipe impeachment off the Democrat menu.”

Pelosi might be the best vote-counter and arm-twister on Capitol Hill since Lyndon Johnson ruled the Senate, but even she can’t wangle this new Democratic caucus. Dashing their impeachment dreams will make it even more difficult for her.

SUDAN: Chaos in Khartoum intensifies.

BLACKHAWKS IN BULGARIA: Four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters with 3rd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, land at the airfield at Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria. Photo taken March 4, 2019.

SOMEBODY’S ANGLING TO JOIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Jeremy Corbyn Aide Wrote Hitler Was ‘Uniquely Excoriated Because His Victims Were Almost All White Europeans.’

FINLAND: Government Collapses Over Universal Health Care Costs, #Bernie2020 Hardest Hit. “Similar problems are bedeviling Sweden and Denmark, two other countries frequently held up as models to follow on health care.”

You’d think this was an international story with a domestic political angle or two, given the Democrats’ embrace of socialized medicine… but the American press has largely ignored it.

Well, you know the drill.

LIFE UNDER LATE SOCIALISM: Caracas Goes Thirsty as Power Crisis Shuts Down Water Plants.

BECAUSE IT’S ALL JUST WEAPONIZED POLITICAL BULLSHIT: Tucker Carlson: “Why are the people who considered Bill Clinton a hero lecturing me about sexism?”

CHANGE: Trump to cut $4 billion in domestic programs, elimination of Legal Services Corporation.

IF YOU THINK FACEBOOK HAS TOO MUCH POWER, WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT PRESIDENT WARREN DOES WITH THE FBI, CIA, AND NSA AT HER COMMAND:

COLLUSION: Dark Money Org Gave $2 Million To Group Working With Fusion GPS, Steele. “A dark money group with links to several high-profile liberal activists contributed $2 million to The Democracy Integrity Project, an organization founded by a former Dianne Feinstein staffer that has contracted with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump. . . . TDIP was founded on Jan. 31, 2017, by Daniel Jones, a consultant who worked for Feinstein, a California Democrat, when she controlled the Senate Intelligence Committee. Jones has disclosed to the FBI that he hired Fusion GPS and Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier, to continue an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”

I’VE WONDERED MORE ABOUT THIS AS THE PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN MORE AGGRAVATING: Username and Password Hell: Why the Internet Can’t Keep You Logged In.

Whenever you enter your username and password, the app or site opens a “session,” quickly compiling relevant data to your account and connecting you to the servers and tools you need. That creates a security risk: If your session is still open and another person on the same computer goes to the same site, he or she could have access to all your stuff. As a result, most developers set an end date for your session, automatically closing your connection to the site or app after a specified amount of time. This security risk is also why you have to confirm your identity when changing account settings or shipping purchases to new addresses.

When you only had one computer, entering passwords every few weeks didn’t feel so arduous. Now you have laptops and phones and tablets and maybe even smart TVs, all logged in to the same things, each demanding a bi-weekly re-up.

And it gets worse. Each device now has multiple browsers and apps—and nowhere is it more chaotic than on our beloved smartphones. If you check sports scores on an app, you have one login, if you do the same on the Safari or Chrome browser, that’s another. If you click a link on Twitter , or someone emails it to your Gmail account, those apps have their own browsers, and you have to log in through each one. It starts to feel like a constant nag.

I’ve found that Apple’s FaceID is an elegant solution for mobile devices, but for security reasons can’t be used on computers (like non-all-in-one desktop models) without an integrated camera. But even FaceID doesn’t solve the problem — or eliminate the extra steps — of websites which keep you logged on for mere hours instead of weeks.

CHANGE: Houston Pitched As Possible Space Force Headquarters.

DAVID HINES: If Conservative Alumni Were Smart, Here’s How They’d Punish Campus Hooliganism.

FOXY BROWN, LEIA ORGANA, ELLEN RIPLY, KARA ZOR-EL, RED SONJA, SARAH CONNOR, NIKITA, TANK GIRL, SAMANTHA CAINE, TRINITY, SELENE, SILK SPECTRE, JYN ERSO, PRINCESS DIANA, AND MORE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: How ‘Captain Marvel’s’ $455M Global Bow Shattered the Glass Ceiling.

HMM: Elon Musk’s late-night announcement to raise prices and reopen some stores. “Collapsing sales and more senior staff departures suggest a company in disarray.”

The reason for the volte-face was not spelled out, but it paints a potentially worrying picture of corporate governance at the electric car OEM. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that most of Tesla’s retail landlords had been given no notice as to the termination of leases, many of which had no cancellation clauses, thus exposing the company to a host of potential lawsuits.

What is clear is that Tesla sales in 2019 have been disastrous. InsideEVs, a publication close to Tesla, tracks US electric vehicle deliveries, and, according to its numbers, January and February deliveries were down by around 80 percent compared to the months leading up. Although Tesla said it would concentrate on making up volume in Europe and China, neither of those markets appear able to take up the US’ slack.

If Tesla has finally geared up Model 3 production only to see demand collapse, that’s not a sign of good corporate health.

SHE GETS AN INTERSECTIONAL PASS BECAUSE SHUT UP: Rep. Ted Deutch Calls Out Fellow Democrats for Leniency on Rep. Omar’s ‘Anti-Semitic Lies.’