IT’S OFFICIAL: The NSA Unmasked Tucker Carlson.

PROPPING UP COMMIE DICTATORS FROM MOSCOW TO BEIJING TO HAVANA: Biden Administration Slow-Walks Plans To Give Cubans Internet Access: Cuban regime blocked social media access in response to pro-democracy protests.

NOW OUT: From Jesse Watters, How I Saved the World. I heard the author on the radio last week and I need to get this book. (Bumped)

SUBSTACK: Last, Best Hope for Free Speech.

So the internet was a democratic revolution. For a while. Today, though, a huge proportion of ideas flows through just a few tightly controlled pipelines owned by the e-barons who rule Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and Google. The tech lords simply shrug at anyone who protests when they ban books, movies, newspapers, business bloggers, medical discussions and even a sitting president of the United States, which is what Donald Trump was when he was kicked off Facebook and Twitter. He continues to be banned from both platforms even as a private citizen, although the initial rationale was that he must be prevented from reaching an audience because he commanded the armed forces.

For those whose epistemology boils down to: Let everything be discussed, and may the best ideas win, it’s essential to build a safe haven for  free exchange of ideas. Just in the past few months, Substack has emerged as that platform. To call it a breath of fresh air would be an understatement; it’s more like a blast of pure oxygen after emerging from a coal mine. Legacy outlets such as New York magazine and the New York Times, and even sites built specifically to challenge existing narratives such as Vox and The Intercept, have driven out some of their most talented people, but they’re all having the last laugh on Substack, where they are finding large and receptive audiences — and in some cases are startled to suddenly find themselves among the highest-paid columnists in the United States.

There are Substack newsletters about running, Hollywood, basketball, art, food, wine, money, sex and lots of other subjects, but the platform’s greatest value is in publishing thinkers who challenge the intellectual ruling class. Bari Weiss, the New York Times writer and editor who quit last year in spectacular fashion after being bullied by her colleagues — ‘Twitter is not on the masthead of the New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” she said in her resignation letter — has quickly established a Substack op-ed page, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, that doggedly and vigorously challenges conventional wisdom and has become essential reading. The left-wing writer Glenn Greenwald, who was hounded out of The Intercept even though he was its principal founder, continues to strike an anti-imperialist, anti-war, class-based approach to politics on his Substack. That approach makes him deplorable to mainstream progressives, who are far more interested in race than in anything else and tend to parrot the Democratic party line on everything. Matt Yglesias, who co-founded Vox in 2014 but was increasingly marginalized by his own colleagues, started the wonkish newsletter Slow Boring to emphasize policy solutions over woke rants. Jesse Singal delves into social-science research and how it sometimes conflicts with progressive dogma on his newsletter. John McWhorter dares to wade into the turbulent waters of race and language. All of these newsletters offer some of their content for nothing but ask for a small fee, typically $5 a month, from subscribers who want to unlock everything they write.

Read the whole thing.

“EMERGES” IS JOURNO-SPEAK FOR “WAS FED TO US BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES:” AP: As Herschel Walker eyes Senate run, a turbulent past emerges.

You know, the same people telling us that Hunter Biden’s business and, er, romantic history doesn’t matter.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Ibram X. Kendi is the false prophet of a dangerous and lucrative faith.

Just another of the racist demagogues the Democratic Party has been giving aid and comfort to for going on two centuries.

DO YOU KNOW ANURADHA MITTAL? Probably not, but odds are good you’ve eaten the premium ice cream her company makes. Mittal is chairman of the board of directors for Ben & Jerry’s. She’s also a veteran left-wing activist who has supported U.S. funding of Hamas and defended Hezbolla, according to Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon.

WE CAN’T BE WHO THEY WERE, BUT WE CAN COME CLOSE TO SEEING THROUGH THEIR EYES:  How Wielding Lamps and Torches Shed New Light on Stone Age Cave Art.

WHY AREN’T THE RESIDENTS OF THESE HOMES VACCINATED?  Unvaccinated staff eyed in rising nursing home cases, deaths.

If the residents are vaccinated, how and why is Covid-19 killing them? If the residents are not vaccinated, why vaccinate staff?

There is no circumstances under which the vaccinated are infecting the vaccinated. that’s not how vaccines work. Anyone who says that is claiming vaccines do nothing beyond virtue-signal.

They can also take their stupid hysteria and fold it all in corners. You know what would make a big difference in nursing homes? Not hiring recent immigrants who have no culture of hygiene. You know what else would make a big difference? Don’t dump the elderly in elderly warehouses.

Bah.

SOME REALLY FUNNY ONES:  the life in Biden’s America.

SALT LAKE? CLEAN HOUSE, PLEASE:  Salt Lake City mayor, city council declare racism a public health crisis.

THAT EVENTUALLY THE REST OF US WILL ALSO GO:  What Billionaires Going To Space Really Means.

BEHOLD! PEOPLE WHO THINK BREAKING THE FIRE ALARM STOPS FIRES:  Today’s blacklisted American: Democrats introduce Senate bill demanding companies censor social media.

BURN THE FEDERAL “LAW” AGENCIES TO THE GROUND, SALT THE EARTH:  The tangled web: more on the Whitmer kidnapping plot, the FBI, and entrapment.

SPIT OUT THAT BLACK PILL, SPIT IT OUT: It’s Not The Worst of Times.

You don’t know where it’s been, or who is feeding it to you.

FIRST, HOSPITALS ARE ALWAYS A HUGE HOTBED OF BUGS:  ‘Superbug’ Fungus Spreading in D.C. and Dallas Healthcare Facilities.

Second? At this point? Stop trying to stampede us! We are not at home to “Doom, gloom, the end of the world!”

ON PURPOSE, YES:  Critical Race Theory Is A Societal Dead End.

WELL, SEE, THIS IS ALL JUSTIFIED! THEY’VE HAD A DEATH FROM DELTA VARIETY COVIDIOCY:  COVID Madness – Australian Woman Fined For Using Drone to Go Shopping While in Government Forced Hotel Quarantine.

I mean, this is Australia. Everything else is trying to kill them. They can’t afford to let Covid kill the last still-alive citizen.

Or you know, they’re being ruled by idiotic sadists who rejoice in humiliating and destroying them.

I WONDER HOW HE SAYS “SPIRIT COOKING” IN CHINESE:  Huawei Technologies, China’s Quasi-Government Controlled Cell Phone Tech Company, Hires Democrat Lobbyist Tony Podesta.

INTERVIEW: Marsha Blackburn on what to do about Critical Race Theory.

OPEN THREAD: I’ve got bloggers on every planet — got one named Xena, one named Janet.

SPACE JUNK — BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: Senators push for action on space traffic management.

EYESIGHT TO THE BLIND: Study: Wearable camera reduces collision risk in blind, visually impaired.

BIG DEAL. HOW MANY DOCTORS DIE IN HOSPITALS ANYWAY? Study: Female doctors have lower in-hospital deaths than male doctors. A study like this, finding something that is “statistically insignificant when they accounted for the number of years the doctors were in practice,” would never be released if it showed women doing worse than men.

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