STACEY LENNOX: Military Whistleblowers May Blow Up the COVID Vaccine Narrative.

FASTER, PLEASE: Stem cell discoveries hold potential to improve cancer treatment.

FUNNY, BUT NOT FUNNY:

HE WENT OUT FOR ICE CREAM: Psaki Appears To Struggle To Answer What Biden Was Doing Today, Then A Reporter Tweeted Photos Of Biden.

EVERYTHING IS SEEMINGLY SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: U.S. records most unprovoked shark attacks in 2021.

J CHRISTIAN ADAMS: DeSantis Aims to Fix Failure to Prosecute Florida Election Crimes. “We now have hard data from Florida that shows serious potential election crimes have been ignored by both county and federal prosecutors in the Sunshine State.”

TOP SELLER: TurboTax Deluxe 2021 Tax Software, Federal and State Tax Return with Federal E-file [Amazon Exclusive] [PC Download]. #CommissionEarned

SO NO BOOSTERS, THEN? Vaccination plus infection creates ‘super immunity’ against COVID-19, study finds.

NO, BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT GRIFTERS CATERING TO WELL-OFF WHITE PEOPLE: “Do they really believe that the Black voters who formed the base of the Democratic Party think like Ibram X. Kendi, or the leaders of BLM? Are they crazy?”

PRIVACY: Google Just Gave You the Best Reason Yet to Finally Quit Using Chrome.

Google is introducing an alternative [to cookies] it calls Topics. The idea is that Chrome will look at your browsing activity and identify up to five topics that it thinks you’re interested in. When you visit a website, Chrome will show it three of those topics, with the idea that the site will then show you an ad that matches your interest.

Google says that Chrome will allow users to view the Topics they are associated with, and give them the ability to delete them. Google isn’t asking users if they’d like to be part of Topics, it’s just leveraging the fact that it owns Chrome in order to force users to be a part and then giving them a way to opt out if they want. That’s great, except almost no one is ever going to do that. Google knows that.
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“At root is Google’s insistence on sharing information about people’s interests and behaviors with advertisers, trackers and others on the web that are hostile to privacy,” Peter Snyder, who is Brave’s director of privacy, said in a statement. “These groups have no business–and no right–to learn such sensitive information about you.”

Ultimately, that change in the way Google is looking at Chrome–that it isn’t a tool that serves its users, but is a tool that serves up users to advertisers, albeit in a slightly more privacy protective way–is a bad sign. It’s also the best reason to finally ditch it altogether.

I’m usually happy using either Brave or Safari.

CHANGE: Justice Stephen Breyer to Retire. Well, that should keep things interesting.

UPDATE: Heh.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Biden to ‘Expedite’ Bringing More Afghan Refugees to US.

JAMA: Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccination in the US From December 2020 to August 2021. “In this descriptive study of 1626 cases of myocarditis in a national passive reporting system, the crude reporting rates within 7 days after vaccination exceeded the expected rates across multiple age and sex strata. The rates of myocarditis cases were highest after the second vaccination dose in adolescent males aged 12 to 15 years (70.7 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine), in adolescent males aged 16 to 17 years (105.9 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine), and in young men aged 18 to 24 years (52.4 and 56.3 per million doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine and the mRNA-1273 vaccine, respectively). . . . Based on passive surveillance reporting in the US, the risk of myocarditis after receiving mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines was increased across multiple age and sex strata and was highest after the second vaccination dose in adolescent males and young men. This risk should be considered in the context of the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination.”

This is particularly significant since adolescent males and young men are at low risk of death or serious illness from Covid.

GEORGE KORDA: From Biden to Blackburn, from CNN to Fox, just stop with election fraud nonsense.

But it’s a big lie to say that this is Trump’s issue alone: A month before the election, Biden was setting himself up if he lost to make similar claims. A Reuters story from Oct. 10, 2020, lays it out: “Biden says ‘chicanery’ at polls is the only way he could lose U.S. election.”

Reuters reported: “Biden encouraged potential voters at a campaign stop in the must-win battleground of Pennsylvania, telling them ‘make sure to vote because the only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on relative to polling places.’ ” He later “clarified” to say he’d accept the results of the election.

A few months earlier, Biden had gone farther. In June 2020 he said in an interview on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” “This president’s going to try to steal this election.” How can you say that you can’t lose except if you’re cheated, but then say you’ll respect the outcome of the crooked election? That can’t be true. They are irreconcilable positions.

It’s easy when the press is on your side.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Funko closing warehouse locations in Washington in consolidation move to Arizona.

LET’S GO BRANDON: Kid Rock’s Anti-Biden Anthem Dethrones Disney Hit on iTunes.

NOW OUT: From Christian Toto, Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul. #CommissionEarned

YOU CAN MUST LEAVE YOUR HAT MASK ON: Washington DC Requires Nude Strippers To Be Masked.

WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SO HATEFUL AND EXCLUSIONARY TOWARD ASIANS? Dartmouth shut down my campus event featuring Andy Ngo — then blamed me for it: Meanwhile, students who threatened our event with violence face no repercussions.

VIDEO: Mexican Drug Cartel Modifies Drone, Drops Bombs.

WELL, THEY’LL CHANGE AGAIN BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION WHERE A REPUBLICAN MIGHT WIN: University quietly changes controversial policy, months after telling College Republicans not to campaign for Youngkin.

PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE? U.S. District Court Judge David Carter rejected Chapman University Professor John Eastman’s request to stop the House January 6 inquisitors from gaining access to more than 11,000 documents via the school.

In his ruling, according to Politico, Carter said he rejected the request because “Dr. Eastman’s actions clearly fall within the bounds of an investigation into ‘the influencing factors that fomented such an attack on American representative democracy.’”

I’m from out of town and all, and I’m not a lawyer, but Carter’s reasoning seems to presuppose Eastman’s guilt. Am I mis-reading it? Asking for a friend.

SUPER-SIZE ME: Bidenflation Has Crushed Fast Food Value Meals.

“With fast food chains and restaurants facing higher costs across the board, one thing you’re probably seeing is that deals are not as cheap as they once were,” NBC correspondent Tom Costello said. Restaurants are raising wages to confront labor shortages and “those costs get passed down to all of us. … Especially for restaurants where the margins are already very very thin, they can’t afford to eat those extra costs.”

“As a result, you and I are going to be paying more for that burger,” Costello said.

The Biden administration has faced criticism for the nation’s spike in inflation, with consumer prices climbing 7 percent over the last year, the Labor Department reported this month. A 6 percent rise in restaurant prices has contributed to the country’s economic woes. Little Caesars, for example, raised the price of its famous Hot-N-Ready pizza for the first time in 20 years, from $5 to $5.55. Popeyes has raised the price of its Big Box Deal by $1, and Domino’s Pizza has limited purchases of its $7.99 meal deal to online only.

Previously: “That raise meant nothing”: Inflation’s “unexpected” reality dawns at WaPo.

REMINDER:

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: WE’RE GOING AFTER BILLIONAIRE TAX CHEATS!

Er, turns out they’re big donors, so instead we’re going after eBay sellers and Etsy moms.