CALIFORNIA BECOMES FIRST STATE TO REQUIRE VACCINE OR REGULAR COVID TESTING FOR TEACHERS.

RIP: Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher, 89.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers pinpoint promising inhibitors that could lead to new antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19.

A PEACEFUL, EASY FEELING: California’s Newsom snaps in interview: ‘Everybody outside this state is bitching about this state.’

Meanwhile, San Fran Nan is equally infantile: Pelosi says Newsom recall is ‘not good for children and other living things.’

WELL, THAT’S GENERALLY GOOD: Rare heart condition in teens after COVID-19 shots generally mild, study says.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Loudoun County Teacher Resigns: ‘I Quit Being a Cog in a Machine’ That Pushes ‘Highly Politicized Agendas.’

THAT’S JUST SAD: Spacesuit delays threaten moon landing plans, NASA watchdog says. “Cost projections for the spacesuit development are approaching $1 billion, according to the report from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General. It attributed delays to the coronavirus pandemic, technical challenges and shortfalls in congressional funding.”

Color me skeptical.

DON SURBER: Cuomo resigns. Brother and 2 LGBTQ+ leaders next?

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Buchanan, Cuomo, the Failure to Enforce the Law, and Impeachment.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: A first: Judge delivers a blow to Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in schools with temporary restraining order. “For those keeping score at home, Bexar County Civil District Court Judge Toni Arteaga is a Democrat. She was first elected in 2008 and her current term on the bench ends on December 31, 2024.”

IT’S NOT SO MUCH THE PANDEMIC AS THE LOCKDOWNS AND MEDIA HYSTERIA: Pandemic has depression, anxiety rising globally among young people, data shows.

COURT THUMBS DOWN ON DOCS’ TRANSGENDER MANDATE: My latest PJMedia culture column is on doctors and other healthcare workers who have a religious objection to participating in transgender surgeries and related treatments must be respected by the federal government, according to a federal judge. But don’t be surprised if the Biden administration appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BEST BEATLES SOLO ALBUM: The Making of All Things Must Pass.

OUT ON A LIMB: A Black Market in COVID-19 Vaccination Cards Was Inevitable.

PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1975: Fall of Kabul Imminent: Taliban Could Take Over Afghanistan Within Weeks.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Thomas Zampino, The Precise Moment.

HMM: Scott Brown ‘re-engaging in the political arena,’ resigns as head of New England Law Boston. He’s “Trumpy but moderate,” to quote a friend who pays attention. Might sell in this environment.

THE POWER LINE MIDWEEK IN PICTURES: Special Cuomo Schadenfreude Edition.

A TRILLION HERE, AND A TRILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Partisan Budget Plan, Clearing Way for Sweeping Government Expansion.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This is awful, and probably means an end to the Republic. On the other hand, there’s clearly no political appetite anywhere for addressing the deficit or the debt, so I don’t know what to do. Perhaps the Second Republic will have tighter fiscal controls. And hey, what the hell, people have been predicting financial disaster for decades as the debt and deficit grow. Maybe it won’t happen. But I feel like sooner or later they have to be right.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Cuomo Supported the MeToo Movement Until He Was Targeted. The real reason people didn’t come forward sooner is that they knew Cuomo would be defended by the entire Democratic media/political establishment. I mean, if it could turn a blind eye to thousands of deaths . . .

FORGET THE POLICE, DEFUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Oklahoma schools vow to defy state’s anti-critical race theory law.

MSNBC ANALYST GETS SHREDDED BY BEN SHAPIRO ON HBO, IS UPSET WHEN TWEETERS START POINTING IT OUT. “There were also times where even Maher was sort of getting tired of Nance’s inability to take the discussion seriously. Also, why would Nance even care about ‘bots’ if he knew he did well? Who cares about trolls in these circumstances? Most people ignore them, not Nance in this case. Maybe he was just bothered that Shapiro got the best of him. It happens.”

CAMPUS SPEAKING FEES ARE JUST PART OF THE LEFT’S MONEY LAUNDRY: EXCLUSIVE: ASU student government paid communist $15,000 for virtual speech. It’s how lefty activists are paid, in the left’s favorite way — with other people’s money, extracted involuntarily.