POWER GRAB: Senate Democrats Are Padding The Filibuster Numbers To Lie About Why They Want To Kill It.

Dog bites man.

ORANGE MAN BAD: Drew Holden’s thread on media’s brazenly biased coverage of Trump and Biden on Afghanistan may be his ‘most damning’ yet [screenshots].

And of course: ‘Pelosi vs. Pelosi’: Nancy Pelosi’s position on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan seems to have evolved quite a bit since Trump left office [screenshots].

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Coming Backlash.

They want to blind us. They want to gag us. They want us tip-toeing through the PC minefield, afraid to take a step less we trigger a detonation of cancellation.

But have you noticed the rumblings of resistance?

Have you noticed the stirrings of pushback?

For a while we had Trump to do the pushing, but with him in Florida we can now see others stepping up. Ron DeSantis is banning critical racism. Brian Kemp found some vertebrae and he’s defying Delta, Coke, and “Major League Chinaball” to demand election integrity. The other night, Tucker Carlson charged into the “replacement theory” ambush where we are not supposed to say what the Democrats explicitly say, which is that they intend to import pliable foreign peasants to replace American citizens at the ballot box (of course, sensible Latinos had other ideas, coming around to Trump significantly in 2020). The garbage media and establishment announced that this fact must not be spoken and Tucker spoke the hell out of it.

The backlash begins.

Read the whole thing.

CANCEL CULTURE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND: The Truth About ‘Papa John’ Schnatter Finally Comes Out. “‘Papa John’ Schnatter was destroyed by a lie, and the transcript of the call on which he ‘used’ the N-word reveals the truth.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

ROBERTS COURT HIGHLY FAVORABLE TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: That’s the conclusion of a new study published by The Supreme Court Review, which found the high court has ruled in favor of religious freedom 81 percent of the time since John Roberts became the Chief Justice.

That compares with just 46 percent by the infamous Warren Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, and only 51 percent during the tenure of Chief Chief Justice Warren Burger, according to the study, Christian Headlines reports.

So why has the conservative majority that doesn’t include Roberts so studiously declined to accept cases that might provide credible evidence that His Fraudulency’s handlers stole the 2020 presidential election?

#RESIST: ‘Keep Your Hands Off Our Elections,’ Arizona State Lawmaker Tells HR 1 Backers.

NEWS YOU (OR YOUR KIDS) (OR YOUR GRANDKIDS) CAN USE: Durable Trades: Professions That Have Stood the Test of Time for Hundreds of Years.

POWER THE NEXT ONE WITH NUCLEAR: NASA Takes Emergency Action to Save Dying Mars Lander. “NASA typically relies on powerful gusts of wind to clear off the solar panels on its Mars landers and rovers. But there hasn’t been a breeze in Elysium Planitia, InSight’s landing spot, so dangerous quantities of dust have piled up.”

NONSENSE. IF IT WERE BASED ON PARASITISM, THE LEFT WOULD SUPPORT IT. California county teacher training: U.S. a ‘parasitic’ system due to ‘invasion’ of white men.

CANCEL BRIE LARSON: Here We Go Again… Now Cheese Is Racist. “In this year alone, we’ve learned that trees are racist, as are fonts. Heck, even not being racist is racist!”

WELL, IT CERTAINLY DOESN’T PAY AS WELL AS RACIAL GRIFTING: While spending millions on luxury homes, BLM co-founder told college students that capitalism is ‘more tragic’ than COVID-19.

UPDATE: Via a friend:

LOCKDOWNS ARE OVER: More COVID state shutdowns unlikely, despite CDC suggestion. “When one of the nation’s top health officials this week suggested states dealing with a spring spike of coronavirus cases should ‘shut things down,’ the remark landed with a thud.”

IF COLD WAR II GOES HOT: China building space missiles and lasers to ‘blind’ US satellites, intel report says.

The Pentagon has already identified China’s growing ASAT weapons capabilities. A 2019 Pentagon report states, “Multiple attack options—cyber, electronic, or directed-energy weapons; anti-satellite missiles; or space-based weapons—enable potential adversaries to achieve a range of damaging effects.”

The portion of the report continues, stating, “China has already fielded ground-based ASAT missiles intended to destroy satellites in [Low Earth Orbit] and ground-based ASAT lasers probably intended to blind or damage sensitive space-based optical sensors on LEO satellites.”

Broadly describing China’s strategic goals, the report states the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is continuing “whole-of-government efforts to spread China’s influence, undercut that of the United States, drive wedges between Washington and its allies and partners, and foster new international norms that favor the authoritarian Chinese system.”

Biden, Inc.’s business partners are nasty people.

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: We’re in a ‘Perpetual Pandemic’ With No End in Sight.

IT IS UNWISE TO THINK DANGEROUS THOUGHTS, COMRADE: A Majority of Voters Think Cheating Affected the Results of the 2020 Election.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): May I suggest that this is as much due to the over-the-top hysterical reaction to criticism, and the censoring of critics, as to the criticism itself? Act like you’re hiding something, people will think you have something to hide. Act like you’re insecure, and people will think you’ve got something to be insecure about.

HMM: ACIP Punts on J&J COVID Vaccine — CDC advisors back continued “pause” until more data available.

Related: J&J Pause: ‘Gasoline’ for Vaccine Hesitancy. Well, yes. “So this looks like it’s a function of the adenovirus vector of the vaccine. We’re not seeing it at all in the mRNA vaccines. But tell me this, Vinay, help me understand this. Six cases of blood clots out of about seven million administrations, and one death. And they shut it down. I mean, help me understand. If they started doing that with all the medicines we use, we wouldn’t have Tylenol.”

Based on what we know, I’d still get the J&J vaccine since I’m not a woman of reproductive age. But we’ll see other weird low-frequency results, because we always do. And it’s hard to separate the signal from the noise. I have a friend who got her second Pfizer shot last week and has been without taste or smell since a couple of days afterward. Vaccine side effect? Late case of otherwise asymptomatic Covid? Unusually bad allergies? Unclear.

UPDATE: From the comments, apparently there are clots associated with the mRNA vaccines, too, at a similar low frequency: “Still, he said there were 35 cases of serious blood clots with the vaccine made by Pfizer/BioNTech among 54 million doses given; five cases with the Moderna vaccine among 4 million Europeans dosed.”

Plus: Thrombocytopenia following Pfizer and Moderna SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination.

So if there are clots at roughly the same low rate with the other vaccines, why is only the J&J vaccine suspended? Seems to me that either they’ve overreacted on J&J, or they’ve underreacted on Moderna/Pfizer, or there’s a double standard here. But perhaps I’m missing something.

#METOO: The Pentagon Wants to Launch a Nuclear Thermal Rocket in 4 Years.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Yeah, but what I really want is to launch a Nuclear Orion rocket in 4 years.

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Murders surge as police are defunded, up 64% in Minneapolis.

COKE BACKING AWAY FROM EARLIER STANCE UNDER PRESSURE: Coca-Cola says it’s ‘time to find common ground’ on voting measures after pressure from the Right. Keep up the pressure.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats to America—Screw You, We Wanna Expand SCOTUS. “They’ll tell you that that’s not really what they’re up to but they’ve been talking about ‘transformation’ ever since The Lightbringer got into office in 2009. What they want to transform the country into won’t be America anymore. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that they’ve got a secret list of new names for the place. They’re probably mad that Soviet Socialist Republics has already been used.”

WELL, SO FAR, ANYWAY: Fauci Fallacies at All-Time High.

PUSH HARDER:  The Pushback Against Critical Race Theory.

CULT OR MENTAL ILLNESS? Need more proof that wokism is a cult? How about this shirtless white dude in swim goggles snotting up as he screeches “black lives matter” into the sky over and over?

DON’T QUESTION THEIR PRIVILEGE: A Black Activist Is Questioning BLM’s Finances—and They Don’t Like It.