PRELIMINARY BUT A GOOD SIGN NONETHELESS: COVID cases after vaccination are still very rare—variants aren’t changing that.

EVERYBODY’S AIRBRUSHING NOW: Anger after high school alters girls’ photos to cover chests and shoulders.

EVERYBODY’S AIRBRUSHING NOW: Justice Sotomayor Expurgates The Word “Alien” From Justice Marshall Decision. “More and more, judges are refusing to quote racial epithets, even when those facts are directly relevant to a case. But Justice Sotomayor’s decision is new. Not only will she refuse to use the statutory term ‘alien,’ she will alter Supreme Court decisions that used that term–a decision from Thurgood Marshall no less!”

We are not ruled by serious people.

WOW, I CAN’T IMAGINE THAT SORT OF DONATION FLYING IN — checking notes — WACO, TX: TV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines donate to campaign against critical race theory in schools.

#RESIST: Some Michigan Residents Use Transgender ‘Logic’ to Go Maskless.

FROM BLAKE SMITH:  A Kingdom of Glass: A Novel of The Garia Cycle.

Zara hasn’t seen her family in eleven years, but she doesn’t mind. They sent her to live in a neighboring kingdom when she was small, and she’s adopted her foster parents in their place. She lives the life of an aristocratic Garian girl- riding her horse, shooting her bow, exploring the castle with her friends- and she has nothing to wish for.

Until she’s summoned home, to a prospective marriage she doesn’t want, family she doesn’t remember, and a poisonous royal court that threatens everything she’s ever known. The East Morlans are nothing like Garia, and Zara struggles to find her place among the scheming Morlander aristocrats. Along the way, she makes new friends, meets enemies, and falls in love. But secrets abound in the glittering palace, and Zara must discover who she can trust as she fights for her life and freedom in a fragile, beautiful, kingdom of glass.

CANCELLING CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL.

RED DIAPER BABIES DON’T UNDERSTAND REALITY:  Embattled San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Blames Police for Crime Crisis.

SURELY EVEN THE LEFT CAN’T BE STUPID ENOUGH TO CONTINUE BELIEVING THIS EVIL CLOWN:  Anthony Fauci Crushes His Own Theory on COVID-19 Origins,

AT THIS RATE, MY SHOCKED FACE IS GOING TO GET WORN OUT:  John Cena is a Useful Idiot for Communist China.

WAIT, WHAT? WE WERE TOLD WITHOUT POLICE THERE WOULD BE NO CRIME:  U.S. cities that defunded their police are continuing to experience historic crime waves.

Did they fail to send in social workers?

THE GOOD THING ABOUT THE LEFT IS THAT THEY’RE STUPID: Watch: Reporter tries to dunk on DeSantis, he completely clowns her and gets a standing ovation.

And honestly, stupid was made to be mocked.

WELL, OF COURSE. WE CAN’T HAVE PEOPLE THINKING:  Today’s blacklisted American: Tenured professor objects to segregated-by-race training classes at university; school investigates and punishes her.

AND AGAIN MY SHOCKED FACE:  Today’s blacklisted American: All conservatives on Facebook.

THEY DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION; THEY DO WANT THOUGHT CONTROL:  Are Schools About Education Or Activism?

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Action Alert, Windham New Hampshire Ballot Issues Identified in Adjacent Counties – Exact Same Ballot Issues, State Audit Needed.

HE’S NOT GONE, AND IT’S A GOOD THING:  President Trump Newsmax Interview Discussing Current Events and Biden’s Multiple Crises – Full Video.

IF YOU INVENTED A THEORY DESIGNED TO CREATE WHITE SUPREMACY, HOW WOULD IT BE DIFFERENT FROM CRT?  Hobbles.

OPEN THREAD: There are many here among us, who feel that life is but a joke.

DOG BITES MAN: Cost and schedule overruns continue to grow for NASA programs.

THAT’S BECAUSE POST-INFECTION CORONAVIRUS IMMUNITY IS VERY STRONG: COVID-19 infections were high among hospital staff but re-infection rates are very low.

LAWFARE: Viasat asks FCC to halt Starlink launches while it seeks court ruling. Viasat’s service is drastically inferior to Starlink’s even as things stand now; it’ll be out of business once Starlink’s constellation is complete. This is just an effort to stave off the inevitable collapse.

THE ANTI-TRUMP NOTHINGBURGER GETS NOTHINGER: DOJ Releases Redacted OLC Opinion Following Review of the Special Counsel’s Report. “Accordingly, [even] were there no constitutional barrier, we would recommend, under the Principles of Federal Prosecution, that you decline to commence such a prosecution.”

GOOD: Flu fighter: Nanoparticle-based vaccine effective in preclinical trials.

MICHAEL ANTON: Red Lines. “The Constitution invites us—and politics compels us—to consider redrawing state and local borders.”