PRIVACY: Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: ‘We need to inflict pain.’

TAKE BACK HIS EMMY: Democrats slam ‘lying’ Cuomo over COVID-19 nursing home ‘cover-up.’

Related: Start apologizing, Gov. Cuomo — and stop the lies.

Plus: 55 percent of voters flunk Cuomo’s disclosure of COVID nursing home deaths.

WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS UPDATE: 30 Taliban militants are killed in explosion during bomb-making class at Afghan mosque.

THE HELPING HAND OF GOVERNMENT, ALWAYS FINDING A WAY TO MAKE THINGS WORSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING: Cops Arrest Mom Working Evening Shift at Pizza Place for Leaving Kids, Ages 10 and 2, Alone.

When I was 10, I was babysitting my younger siblings.

YOU STAY CLASSY, MICKEY: Gina Carano says Disney tried to force her to apologize for her ‘misuse of pronouns.’ She also found out she’d been fired through social media.

CTHULHU SMILES: Mystery Lifeforms Have Been Found in The Hostile Darkness Beneath Antarctica.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama’s Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?

I’VE HAD MY DIFFERENCES WITH BAEN, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS:  Publishing House Baen Books Attacked by Cancel Culture.

A lot of what the idiots are complaining about is coming into a site where you’re not familiar with the culture and skimming till offended. Also Baen is not particularly right wing. It just has some right wing writers (or to the right of Lenin) instead of de facto cancelling them.
Of course, this means the left sees them as a soft target.
Again I’ve had my differences with them — partly because they’re in the invidious position of being a traditional house while trad pub is collapsing, and no one is dealing well with that — but they do not deserve this, and it is threatening the livelihoods of my friends.

AND CNN IS ON IT! Joe Biden Played ‘Mario Kart,’ and the Media Thinks You Care Because ‘Journalism.’

SO WE SHOULD ONLY BE RESPONDING 3.5 TIMES HARDER THAN WE DO TO THE FLU, RIGHT? COVID-19 death risk 3.5 times that of the flu, study says. Instead of, like, 300 times harder.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Venezuela Turns to Privatization After Being Bankrupted by Socialism.

BLUE CITY PRIORITIES: Kendra Black Proposing Utensil, Condiment Opt-In for Takeout, Delivery. “At a Denver City Council committee meeting today, February 11, Black will present a proposal that would require restaurants and delivery apps to ask customers whether they want to opt in to receive single-use items such as forks, straws and condiment packets — even napkins — along with their food.”

WITH OR WITHOUT VACCINES, ALL PANDEMICS END. CASES ARE DROPPING NOW, AND VACCINES PROBABLY AREN’T THE MAIN REASON. Karol Markowicz: The vaccines will end the pandemic — whether Dr. Fauci likes it or no.

UH-HUH: Democrat Claims Trump Violated Anti-KKK Law by ‘Inciting’ Capitol Riot.

I LIKE A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: 30 Taliban militants are killed in explosion during bomb-making class at Afghan mosque.

JOANNE JACOBS: ‘Culturally responsive’ — or indoctrinated?

Originally, CTRL required teachers to “embrace and encourage progressive viewpoints and perspectives,” Will writes. “Progressive” was changed to “inclusive,” under pressure.

“CRTL would require teachers to “assess how their biases . . . affect . . . how they access tools to mitigate their own behavior (racism, sexism, homophobia, unearned privilege, Eurocentrism, etc.)’,” he writes.

That constitutes an ideological litmus test, writes Mark Glennon on Wirepoints.

Well, yes.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Here Come the Lunatic Gun-Grabbers.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When Joe Biden endorsed “commonsense gun law reforms,” what did he really mean?

Answer: The most radical set of eliminations, restrictions, fees, and punishments ever even considered in American history.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Democrats are holding your schools hostage For The Children™
• Fast food workers strike to eliminate their own jobs
• The Pentagon quietly just kind of admits to studying alien materials for decades

Bonus Sanity: Israel and enjoying incredible success with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

ZOOM AND GLOOM ON CAMPUS: Between censoring doctors’ talk about COVID and using a platform that folds to the Chinese communists, the pandemic has been hard on campus speech.

SPOILER ALERT: YOU THERE IN YOUR NICE SUBURB OR QUIET RURAL COMMUNITY ARE ACTUALLY A TERRORIST. Pelosi Pushes Ahead With New Domestic ‘War on Terror.’

A “WITCH HUNT” INVOLVING ACTUAL WITCHES: The New York Times and American Communism.

One can certainly debate whether, in the absence of criminal liability, being a Soviet stooge during Stalin’s reign merited blacklisting. One cannot argue, however, that Soviet stooges were not Soviet stooges, but that seems to have become the default assertion about blacklisted Hollywood writers among the cultural elite.

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS TOLD US TO LISTEN TO THE CDC EXPERTS: Senators Portman, Whitehouse, and Klobuchar Think They Know Better Than The CDC About How To Treat Acute Pain.

RADICAL CHIC: IT’S WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST. Get ready for Proud Puffs, a chocolate-flavored, vegan cereal formed in the shape of a Black fist.

BUT IT’S OUTDOORS AND ALMOST EVERYONE IS WEARING MASKS ANYWAY: Italy won’t open its ski slopes due to virus fears.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Judge concerned by ‘unbridled discretion’ of university officials to favor left-wing student groups.