NICE. NOW HOW ABOUT SOME CHARGES FOR ALL THE GRANNIES HE KILLED? Governor Cuomo Behind Bars? New Criminal Complaint Filed Against Him Could Make It Happen.

FASTER, PLEASE: Licensed drug could reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection by up to 70 per cent, reveals study.

GOOD GRIEF: ‘You may have oppressed somebody:’ Prof to White student who said he left his house that day.

DISPATCHES FROM THE WOKELYMPICS USA WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM: Carli Lloyd Stands Alone. “The only woman who stood was playmaker Carli Lloyd. She has, to my knowledge, never knelt during any of the protests the team has engaged in over the past year. Lloyd has always stood, and as she did before the match versus Australia, often alone.”

GIRD YOUR LOINS: Indiana Handgun Permit Applications Skyrocket.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Twitter Suspends Conservative Pundit Allie Beth Stuckey For Stating That Transgender Weightlifter is a Man.

BLAME THE VICTIM: North Korean Defector Robbed by Black Muggers, as Woke Bystanders Call Her a Racist.

WHEN YOU’RE A PROGRESSIVE DEM WHO JUST LOST CHRIS CILLIZZA…: Cori Bush just handed Republicans a 2022 gift. “Bush said what she believed. And it will likely do nothing but help her standing in her strongly Democratic St. Louis seat. But for dozens of her colleagues — the ones on which the House majority will rise or fall — her comments present a major problem.”

HMM: China Says It’s Closing in on Thorium Nuclear Reactor.

“C’MON NOW” WITH BRYAN PRESTON: Here’s What Defunding the Police Looks Like in One City.

FASTER, PLEASE: Cytokine increases production of ‘beige fat’ to burn more cellular energy.

ED MORRISSEY: What would Dems have done if Trump defied SCOTUS — like Biden just did? “Biden’s action actually harms the situation further by delaying a rational response from Congress, which is as always happy to duck tough votes. The onus doesn’t solely belong on states and localities, however. Congress created the moratorium, and it has the responsibility to provide a rational off-ramp for that extraordinary intervention. Shooting cash out of a cannon and then telling states to figure it out is an abdication of responsibility for the situation.”

VACCINE PASSPORTS = SLAVE PAPERS: Liberals Praise DeBlasio For Barring 65% Of Black NYC Residents From Society.

ON THIS DAY IN 1945: The U.S. dropped a bomb that killed thousands and saved millions.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Mars rock drilling begins after NASA’s helicopter helps plan rover’s route.

WE CAN HOPE: The Voters Who Could Turn California Red. I just want to see the Democrats flip on immigration as soon as Latinos start voting Republican.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Coming Soon: Apple Scanning iCloud Photo Libraries for Child Abuse Images.

HANNAH COX: How I Responded When My Yoga Studio Reinstituted a Mask Mandate. “Civil disobedience is a deeply American tradition. Both individuals and businesses possess the power to stand up against oppression and coercion in peaceful ways.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Intermittent-fasting diets may prevent infections, study finds.

HARSH, BUT FAIR:

Also, “slack-jawed yokels?” Some forms of hate speech are fine with our ruling class, despite all the pearl-clutching delicacy it displays elsewhere.

HMM: Google founder gets New Zealand residency, raising questions.

Related? New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: That Mysterious Kim Jong-un Bandage: Now What’s Wrong Him? “In a perfect world, the bandage covers the incision where a mind-control antenna was installed in his brain like poor Malachi Constant from Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan. At a whim, still-President Donald Trump could cause Kim incredible pain and get him to agree to dismantle his nuclear program. Clearly, this is not a perfect world.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: If Mandates Fail, What Will Politicians Do for an Encore?

If “mandatory” fails to work, then what do politicians do for an encore? Cross their fingers, try to ride it out, pray that nature takes its course, as it has in the past and may do again. But they’ll have to settle for partial control over events because complete control is not an option. At least the vaccines work well enough to prevent serious death and the old luck of homo sapiens might still hold. Good old humanity could yet pull it off. Yet we might do well to remember Ian Malcolm’s words to John Hammond in the novel Jurassic Park:

“Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun. … the kind of control you’re attempting simply is… it’s not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is.”

That perhaps is something the old global world should have thought of before it built Jurassic Park … er the Wuhan Institue of Virology. CNN reports, “Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt.” A little belated, but, uh… well, there it is.

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