CULTURE OF REPUDIATION: Woke teachers want Shakespeare cut from curriculum: ‘This is about White supremacy.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Whataboutism Is A Nonsense Word That Defends Hypocrisy. It does have one use, however: “In fact, when someone accuses you of whataboutism, simply take it as almost certain evidence that what you are saying is true and they cannot refute it.”

NATURE’S GPS: Lost birds can use Earth’s magnetic signature to get back on track.

TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT HAS A GREAT “I TOLD YOU SO” MOMENT AS MINNEAPOLIS HITS FULL REVERSE ON DEFUNDING THE POLICE.

ORWELL’S COOKBOOK:

This is how insane leftist culture is becoming in the US: Bon Appetit magazine and the recipe website Epicurious, which share the same parent company, are editing recipes in their archives to make them politically correct.

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What they’re doing is making the job of historians far more difficult. It is actually interesting to observe social history through the evolution of language used to write about food. It may be out of date to refer to this or that food as “exotic,” but the fact that what was exotic to the American palate in 1975 no longer is in 2021 tells a really interesting story. In my rural hometown, there’s a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and a Middle Eastern restaurant. When I was a kid, we had none of those things. I remember when the first pizzas were available in town, in the early 1970s. Pizza was exotic for us! This stupid project to edit out recipes and food stories to remove any words that cause thin-skinned 2021 progressives offense is a violation of the historical record. Do I even need to point out that this kind of thing — editing journalistic archives to reflect contemporary political policies — was Winston Smith’s job in Nineteen Eighty-Four?

In Soviet America, the future is certain; it’s the past which is always changing.

LET’S CIRCLE BACK: Ted Cruz shares Babylon Bee’s ‘beautiful’ spin on lefties’ piling on Ted Cruz for sharing Babylon Bee post.

ADVENTURES IN BUREAUCRATIC TYRANNY: A Day In The Life Of A Brewery Being Crushed By LA’s Ever-Shifting COVID Rules.

Bravery Brewing Company doesn’t have any televisions, so Sunday, Feb. 7 was set up like previous Super Bowl Sundays, with limited hours. This year, knowing people would be setting up their own parties, Bravery opened for just four hours for customers to grab beer to take home with them before kick-off. Because of that, they didn’t pay the few-hundred-dollar minimums food trucks ask to come by — something they’ve been required to do when serving people on-premises because, apparently, COVID.

This year, however, the inspectors are in charge, and surveillance footage shared with The Federalist shows Los Angeles County inspector Jatinder Chhabra entering the building just over half an hour after they opened. They had to shut down right now, she informed the employee, who was ringing up two customers at that moment. Why? No food truck.

When he protested, saying they were doing take-out only, Chhabra informed him that made no difference. She was “brash,” Bart recalls the employee telling him, and “arrogant, and she could give a sh-t less about shutting us down.”

When the employee put Brian Avery, the brewer, on the line with Chhabra, he asked her to call her supervisor. In the 20 minutes Bart estimates it took her to “resolve” her misunderstanding, the brewery was not allowed to serve the customers who were waiting.

Nor was she satisfied when her supervisor informed her that she was mistaken, the brewery and customers were correct, and business could go on. She then told the sole employee on site he had to make copies of 11 different forms — all while customers waited. While the employee filled out the forms, she can be seen rifling through the racks, exploring the bar tools, and even dancing on camera.

And she still has a job.

JUST ANOTHER LIE ABOUT BIDEN’S COVID AID PACKAGE: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a bunch of other Blue State officials were at the White House last week begging for bailouts. But as Issues & Insights points out, why do they have their begging cups in hand when state tax revenues are headed upward?

CHUTZPAH ALERT: Cuomo Accuses NY Lawmakers of ‘Extortion’ Over Calls to Investigate Nursing Home Deaths.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: This Is Why You Never Ever Apologize to the Woke Police.

#JOURNALISM: FISKING THE WAPO EDITOR WHO IS SAD HE DOESN’T GET TO ACT LIKE THE MAFIA ANYMORE. “Sorry. My title is misleading. The mafia has more honor and dignity than the American news media.”

Larry Correia is harsh but fair.

WELL, THAT’S ITS JOB: 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo Brings Effortless Performance.

SOONER OR LATER PELOSI MUST ANSWER: Four ranking GOPers on House committees concerned with Capitol Complex security are demanding answers from Speaker Pelosi on her role in the January 6 failure.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama’s Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?‘

SOME PIG: Why It Matters That Some Pigs Are Actually Pretty Good at Playing Video Games.

PARLER IS BACK ONLINE.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Oregon promotes teacher program that seeks to undo ‘racism in mathematics.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Signs Away Trump’s Illegal Immigration Legacy.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is the pen truly mightier than the sword?

Answer: No, but it is mightier than the wall.

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

• Antifa snows the cops who’s in charge [not a typo]
• Lincoln Project no longer taking Lincolns from stupid people
• There’s nothing so woke as actual racism

Bonus Sanity: Women’s sports for women returns to Mississippi.

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

NEVER TOO WOKE: This Is Why You Never EVER Apologize to the Woke Police.

“EVERYONE BELIEVES AT LEAST ONE CONSPIRACY THEORY.”

PROGRESS: FDA authorizes emergency use of Eli Lilly’s monoclonal antibody treatment. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized emergency use of a monoclonal antibody treatment for mild to moderate COVID-19 illness in adults and most youth. The federal agency announced in a statement that it authorized physicians to administer a combination of bamlanivimab and etesevimab to adults and children over the age of 12 and weighing at least 88 pounds who test positive for the virus and are high risk of developing severe symptoms.”

LIFE IS HARD. IT’S EVEN HARDER WHEN YOU’RE STUPID: This guy thought Tessica Brown’s Gorilla Glue story was a hoax, so he created a ‘Gorilla Glue challenge’ and ended up in the ER after gluing a Solo cup to his face.

GREEN NUDE EEL SNEAK PREVIEW: Frozen wind turbines hamper Texas power output, state’s electric grid operator says.

GIVEN ALL OF ETERNITY, I MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE TO CATCH UP ON MY READING: CRISPR Offers the Potential to Live Forever, But to What End?

THE SESQUICENTENNIAL BOMBER: General Electric Wants To Keep America’s B-52s In The Air Until 2097.