PARAGRAPHS I NEVER EXPECTED TO READ: Big Labor is a bastion of the Democratic Party’s New Deal coalition, right? So how to account for this by Ben Frederick, writing in The Federalist:

“For professional trade unions in Michigan — as for any entity focused on longevity, opportunity, fewer regulations, and lower taxes for hard-working people — Republicans aren’t just one ally in Lansing, they are the only ally in Lansing. Where Democrats once advocated for trade union values, they now choose activism over job creation, time after time.”

If these Michigan unions aren’t exceptions that prove the rule, much of the conventional wisdom about the 22 and 24 elections will be out the window.

427,000 Parents Respond to National School Board Association Labeling Them ‘Domestic Terrorists.’ “NSBA cites a tiny number of minor incidents in order to insinuate that parents who are criticizing and protesting the decisions of school boards are engaging in, or may be engaging in, ‘domestic terrorism and hate crimes.’ NSBA even invokes the PATRIOT Act. The association of legitimate protest with terrorism and violence reveals both your contempt for parents and your unwillingness to understand and hear the sincere cries of parents on behalf of their children. To equate parents with terrorists dishonors the thousands of victims of actual terrorism around the world. Have you no shame?”

Clearly, no.

LEGAL INSURRECTION: Our New Database: “Critical Race Theory infiltrating America’s 25 most elite private K-12 schools.”

SUPPLY CHAIN: Workers at all Kellogg’s cereal plants go on strike.

VIA A FRIEND: “Remember: They’ll spend trillions on bills they haven’t read but want details on how you spent $600.”

WHAT’S SHE AFRAID OF? Michigan Gov. Whitmer vetoes GOP election bills.

THE OLIGARCHY:

OUR DOJ ISN’T POLITICIZED, IT’S POLITICS INCARNATE: Arizona attorney general sees border agent purge at pro-immigrant DHS.

IN THE BIZARRO WORLD OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, EVERYONE IS A TERRORIST EXCEPT THE TERRORISTS: James Morrow: FBI ignores Antifa and Black Lives Matter while targeting parents.

STICKER OF THE DAY: Dont Tread On Me American Flag Sticker Laminated Decal (2 Pack).

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Fascist Attorney General Garland Has Angered the Wrong Parents. “Make no mistake, the Democrats very definitely want to use the government to shut down any dissent. They’re letting their fascist freak flag fly all the time now.”

GANG OF CROOKS: The Devolution of the DOJ: Merrick Garland’s focus on school board meetings over violent crime diminishes the department.

Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice has discovered a new group that poses a pressing threat to the country’s safety and wellbeing.

Their potential crimes are heinous: Objecting to the propagation in our schools of critical race theory and anti-white racism.

How deep does this criminal behavior go? We can’t say. Announcing a “partnership among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement to address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” Garland offers no statistical evidence about the rising threat of infuriated parents. He makes no mention of any arrests. He doesn’t say whether a police department or state anywhere has asked for the federal government’s assistance in stopping “threats against public servants.”

Those are curious omissions, given that the FBI just last week released a trove of crime data detailing information about victims as well as the perpetrators and their motivations. It suggests the so-called threat is either an empty political concoction intended to mollify left-wing activists concerned that parents are wising up or, more troubling, that the Justice Department intends to conflate the protests of concerned parents with criminal behavior.

If Garland has heard that the country’s murder rate last year spiked nearly 30 percent nationwide—the largest one-year increase ever recorded, and presumably a development that falls within the Justice Department’s remit—he is choosing to focus his attention on matters he has deemed more important. To wit: Garland hasn’t sent any letters about assembling a task force to address the fact that this year’s homicide rate is on track to surpass 2020.

Though Garland pledged at his confirmation hearing to “fend off any effort by anyone to make prosecutions or investigations partisan or political in any way,” his letter this week demonstrates the acceleration of the Justice Department’s transformation into an unofficial wing of the Democratic Party.

Into politicized thugs.

PROBABLY NOT: Is China Getting Ready To Invade Taiwan?

But there’s this from Richard Fernandez: Why not Luzon instead of Formosa in 2021?

PHIL MAGNESS: The Great Barrington Declaration One Year On.

From October 2-4, 2020, the American Institute for Economic Research hosted a small conference for scientists to discuss the harms of the Covid-19 lockdowns, and maybe hint at a path back to normal life. Organized by Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya, the conference made a scientific case for shifting away from the heavy-handed lockdowns of the initial Spring 2020 outbreak. On their final day together in Great Barrington, the scientists wrote a short statement of principles, calling it the Great Barrington Declaration. This Declaration, their Declaration, touched a nerve well beyond the scientific community, and well beyond anything they or AIER could have expected. So here we are, a year later. Where do we stand?

The aim that our guests had in offering the Great Barrington Declaration was to spark scientific dialogue that had been missing from the lockdown discussions until that point. It was AIER’s goal to facilitate this dialogue. The Declaration was a success in bringing, for the first time since the pandemic started, an anti-lockdown voice to mainstream policy discussion. The signatories’ stance was generally in line with the pre-pandemic plans that many, if not most mainstream authorities, (the World Health Organization, the epidemiology center at Johns Hopkins University, and the Centers for Disease Control to name just three) held. People tend to forget what the pre-2020 conventional wisdom on pandemics even was.

Well, the pre-2020 wisdom was based on science, the 2020 approach was based on politics and power-grabs. Much more at the link, all of it worth reading.

HMM: Marine Jailed for Slamming Pentagon Brass Over Afghanistan to Trump: ‘I Don’t Want or Need Your Help.’

DEMOCRATS HAVE A TRADITION OF OWNING BLACK BODIES: Unhappy NBA star who got vaccinated under pressure: “I guess you don’t own your body.”

AG GARLAND’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Hans Bader points to the conflict-of-interest behind Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memorandum on the “domestic terrorism” of parents criticizing school boards that allow teaching of hateful doctrines like Critical Race Theory:

“Attorney General Garland has a conflict of interest in bringing this investigation. Erika Sanzi of Parents Defending Education notes that ‘Parents are concerned over intrusive surveys and ‘screeners’ that ask 12-year-olds if they are pansexual or gender fluid. The surveys are often created/administered by’ Panorama Education. ‘Merrick Garland’s daughter is married to the president and founder.’

“As PDE’s Asra Nomani observes, ‘In its survey @PanoramaEd asks students if they are ‘pansexual’ or ‘gender fluid.’ She argues that by investigating parents, ‘US Attorney General Merrick Garland is freezing parents protesting fraud and protecting his son in laws business interest.'”

IT LOOKS LIKE A GARAGE DOOR PULL TO ME:  Givenchy slammed for noose-style necklace at Paris fashion week.

SOMEHOW I SUSUPECT HER “SCIENCE AND RESEARCH TEAM” ARE NAMED LARRY, MOE & CURLY?  Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop launches new ‘DTF’ female ‘sexual desire’ booster.

OTOH given how difficult it is for lefty females to behave like normal humans, they need all the help they can get.

CLIMATEDIOCY. JUST ANOTHER FORM OF THE COVIDIOCY:  “Climate Emergency” – Nothing But Politics And Propaganda Unsupported By Scientific Data.

THIS DOESN’T SEEM TO BE GOING ACCORDING TO THE PROGRESSIVES’ PLANS:  Parents take a stand against FBI crackdown on CRT opponents.

The question is, why did they think it would?

IT’S THE GOVERMENT’S MONEY, THEY’RE JUST LETTING US USE IT … FOR A FEE:  Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600.

Heads on pikes! And the horses they rode in on, too.

“Let’s go, Brandon.”

OR PERHAPS PROGRESSING TOWARDS THE ASH HEAP OF HISTORY: Slouching towards progress.

BECAUSE THOSE WHO DISTORT HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO DERP:  Merrick Garland Prepares to March on Concord.

NOT JUST THEM. ALL OF THE LEFT:  The pressure to stay relevant has driven Playboy executives crazy.