THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS? THEY’RE DESTROYING THEMSELVES:  CNN Director in Project Veritas VIDEO: ‘If it Wasn’t for CNN, I Don’t Know That Trump Would Have Got Voted Out’.

COOL BEANS! GREAT WAY TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING NOT TO USE THE CANAL:  Egypt Holds Ship “Ever Given”, Demanding $1 Billion Compensation for Suez Canal Crisis.

Will someone please explain to the medieval Bedouin raiders that this is the future, and this kind of crazy destroys you in the end?

HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SHOCKED FACE? IT’S GETTING SO WORN OUT:  Derek Chauvin Trial – Prosecution Problems Ignored or Misrepresented In Mainstream Media.

AND THE OTHER 38% SHOULD SHOW AN ID TO DEMONSTRATE THEY’RE HUMAN:  Poll: 62% of respondents don’t think voter ID laws discriminate.

SILLY CONGRESSWOMAN. SPEAKING YOUR MIND IS FOR LIBS:  Today’s blacklisted American: A congresswoman because she speaks her mind.

IN THIS AS IN MUCH ELSE, THIS WOMAN JUST AIN’T LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD:  Jen Psaki has conservatives pinned down pat: NASCAR fans.

SURE ARE. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ONES AT LEAST:  Masks Are Coming Off!

The physical ones? Nowhere near fast enough for a useless placebo crossed with a religious symbol of a religion I don’t believe.

DO TELL: “A group of top Democratic Party pollsters are set to release a public statement Tuesday acknowledging ‘major errors’ in their 2020 polling — errors that left party officials stunned…”

I didn’t trust them then, and I still don’t.

Plus: “When GW Bush won a disputed election in 2001, the media, led by the NYT and WaPost, immediately dispatched hoards of journalists to count every vote. I always assumed that they were looking to discredit the Bush election. Has anything like that happened after the 2020 election? I must have missed it. The fact that the media has turned a blind eye to what could be a huge story tells me all I need to know. And what did polling of Democrats look like in 2001? Most of the Democrats I know are still convinced that GW Bush stole that election.”

That’s different because shut up.

PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THEIR GOVERNMENT: COVID-19: Why is China’s vaccination rate so low?

OPEN THREAD: What are you doing to make things better?

SPACE: Blue Origin to launch ‘astronaut rehearsal’ New Shepard test flight Wednesday. How to watch live.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: COVID-19 has been much harder on those who already had anxiety and financial issues.

I’M GUESSING THAT HER FAMILY HASN’T PARTICULARLY MISSED HER:

WOKE POLITICS IS THE STATE RELIGION OF THE OLIGARCHS: Why big business loves Black Lives Matter: No one should be surprised that BLM’s co-founder is buying million-dollar mansions. “Woke politics has also been useful for firms hiding all kinds of unsavoury practices. Many firms will proclaim allegiance to BLM one day, while lobbying against curbs on forced labour the next, for instance. Indeed, whether you take the Marxist view, that all firms in a capitalist system exploit labour anyway, or the Adam Smith view, that sellers in a marketplace act out of self-interest rather than kindness, it is surely hard to take any company’s proclamations of righteousness too seriously. But there is more to all this than cynicism and wokewashing. Many of the ideas about race being pushed by BLM – particularly the ubiquity of structural racism – are now part and parcel of corporate culture and the white-collar workplace. Race experts are invited to give workshops and training on diversity and inclusion. Employees are tested for their unconscious bias. An entire race industry worth billions has mushroomed. The most famous and sought-after race entrepreneurs, like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X Kendi, can earn vast sums of money in the corporate sector – sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Those BLM protesters setting fire to police stations were not radical revolutionaries — they were more like the militant wing of the human-resources department.”

JIM TREACHER: Rashida Tlaib: ‘No More Policing… It Can’t Be Reformed.’

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In case you hadn’t noticed, the office building where these lawmakers work has been completely fenced in with barbed wire. There are armed guards all over the Capitol. Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar are being protected by the very men and women they claim to revile.

Does “The Squad” know that what they’re saying isn’t true? Are they heartless liars, or merely insane hysterics with no connection to reality? I don’t presume to know — “Half and half” is my standard answer — but I’ll start listening to those idiots when they call for the abolition of the Capitol Police. I don’t hear them clamoring to tear down those fences and shoo away all the men with guns. When Tlaib and her pals start living by the rules they advocate for the rest of us, then I’ll know they’re serious.

It’s easy to stoke riots when you know you’re safe behind your very own imperial guard.

And a expanding one at that: Watch: Pelosi talks “increasing the size of the Capitol Police force” after deadly incident.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: ICE priority arrests down 75% under Biden.

EXPECTING MORE EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: More eruptions likely as Caribbean volcano turns tropics into ‘battle zone.’

OUT ON A LIMB: CNN staffer admits network’s focus was to ‘get Trump out of office,’ calls its coverage ‘propaganda.’

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S MIDDLE EAST STILL DIPLOMACY PAYING OFF: An ambassador of the UAE swung by a falafel shop in Jerusalem during his visit to Israel. Let me explain why this is so ridiculously significant.

THIS COULD BE A DEAL-KILLER FOR SOME: In rare cases, COVID-19 vaccines cause reactions for those with facial fillers.

REMINDER: Finally Some Robust Research Into Whether “Diversity Training” Actually Works – Unfortunately It’s Not Very Promising.

Related: How Diversity Training Widens the Gulf Among the Races.

OH: Funeral aid program allows death certificates to be altered for those who ‘may have’ died of COVID. “Relatives of individuals who died in the ‘early days’ of the coronavirus pandemic will be able to seek amended death certificates that show COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death in order to receive reimbursement for funeral costs under a new FEMA program, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”