JOE BIDEN DID THAT: Inside wartime Russia, Putin isn’t losing. “Russian shoppers can no longer buy many Western products or use certain payment methods, and many goods they can buy are now more expensive thanks to the sanctions. But they don’t blame Putin, says Yana, a journalist in Moscow who asked that we not use her last name.”

I’ve argued from the beginning that sanctioning Russia’s civilian economy was a mistake.

Russians have a long history of enduring any hardships brought on by the enemy.

Instead of waging economic war on Vladimir Putin and his cronies, we’re waging it against the Russian people — so they’re treating us as the bad guy instead of Putin.

TABLES TURNED ON TATER: Brian Stelter Invites Guest to Trash Fox News, Gets Shocked When He Turns the Tables Against CNN.

FIGHT THE POWER: Victory! Emory Law recognizes free speech student group after seven months of viewpoint-based rejection.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Athena Thorne: How to Save America From Our Illegal Immigrant Occupation. “Americans — the ultimate targets of the Globalist oligarchy — are simply too humane to do anything but help such acutely vulnerable people. Globalists know this and use it against us.”

Matt Margolis: Can the GOP Push Biden to the Center Next Year? “In theory, this makes sense. But I think they’re being very optimistic in their presumption that Biden cares what party controls Congress when it comes to enacting his agenda. Barack Obama certainly didn’t, and Biden has modeled his presidency after his former boss’s.”

Yours Truly: Shanghai Despair: Starving Lockdown Victims Jumping From Highrises. “Some residents, broke and increasingly hungry, are making the last desperate act of defiance.”

Bonus: Florida Man Friday: Now That’s What I Call Getting Tased.

TRUE: Fixing the federal budget requires changing how entitlement programs spend. “Though American politicians rarely acknowledge it, federal finances are relentlessly deteriorating almost entirely because of automatic growth in entitlement programs. We often lose sight of this reality whenever other events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a tax cut or an appropriated spending binge, cause a onetime worsening of the federal budget deficit. But such events have very little to do with why federal finances keep worsening year after year. This problem cannot be corrected unless lawmakers reform mandatory spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

IN A WAY IT’S AN IMPROVEMENT. THEY USED TO DO IT QUIETLY, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS:  Today’s blacklisted American: News staffers at CBS demand network blacklist Republican.

DO NOT PICK FIGHTS WITH PEOPLE WHO BUY (DIGITAL) INK BY THE BARREL:  Joe Rogan takes aim at Nancy Pelosi, pols for ‘insider trading’.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE DARE:  Panic on The Left: How Dare You Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes.

Pray you never have to find out.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND TRUMP ARE THE ROOT CAUSES OF NPR EVIL:  NPR Wrongly Blames Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption, and Weather.

H*LL TO THE NO. YOU BROKE IT, JUNTA. YOU BOUGHT IT:  Psaki: Inflation Report Will Be Bad, Please Blame Putin.

OKAY, GROOMER:  WATCH: Polyamorous, genderfluid ‘witch’ brags about how she teaches her preschool students about sexuality.

We have a serious mental health crisis in this country, but why is every padded cell candidate teaching kids?

SOMEONE WARN CASTREAU ABOUT OVER-COMMUNISM: WATCH: Justin Trudeau warns against ‘overnationalism’.

And any communism is too much.

THERE ARE NO ROOT CAUSES; ONLY LAME EXCUSES:  Contra “Root Causes”.

DO YOU GET A FEELING THE JUNTA WANTS WWIII?  The Threat Horizon Expands.

WORTH READING:  War, Ag, Demographics, And The Worst Is Yet To Come.

A TALLY OF THE DAMAGE; NOT EVEN COUNTING THE GOOD DOCTORS RUN OUT OF THE PROFESSION OR FORCED INTO GROUP PRACTICES:  Obamacare’s Hollow Celebration.

WHO WILL PAY? BESIDES YOU AND ME?  Exposed: The Russian Companies That Will Get Billions From New Iran Nuclear Deal.

DEAD LAST BEING THE THING. REAL HUMAN LIVES DESTROYED AND LOST:  Lockdowns Didn’t Work: Blue States Rank Dead Last for COVID Response.

And who will pay? Because in the human story, there must be payment. Things must be made right. There must at the very least be acknowledgement of wrong and repentance.

Who or what can wash those hands? They would turn the sea incarnadine.

QUITE THE BILL INDEED:  Just in Time for the Apocalypse: Albrecht Durer and a Different Take on the Symbolism of the Four Horsemen.

BECAUSE THERE’S ALWAYS GREAT RECKONING:  “Green” Dreams Kill People.

And they’ve been piling quite the bill. Quite the bill.

SIGH:  Woke medical schools.

THE LEFT THINKS THEY’RE BEYOND CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS:  Naming Names.

And yet the bill keeps mounting, till there’s great reckoning in a small room.

AT THE VERY LEAST, STRIVE TO BE HIGHLY IMPROBABLE: The Power of Impossible.

US TELLS NON-ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT WORKERS TO LEAVE SHANGHAI DUE TO COVID-19.

SPACE: House committee leaders ask White House to withdraw proposed NTSB regulations on commercial launch investigations.

The leaders of the House Science Committee have asked the Biden administration to withdraw a controversial proposed rule regarding commercial spaceflight investigations, calling it “plainly unlawful.”

In an April 6 letter to President Biden, Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) and Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the House Science Committee, called on the administration to withdraw proposed regulations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that would give the board new authority to investigate launch failures.

The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), published in November, would require companies to notify the NTSB in the event of a failure of launch licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and give the board the authority to investigate such accidents. During a public comment period that closed in January, many companies and industry groups sharply criticized the proposed regulations, calling them duplicative with existing FAA regulations and warning that they could create “a chilling effect” on industry.

In their letter, Johnson and Lucas argue that NTSB overstepped its bounds by proposing to take a role in commercial spaceflight investigations. “Responsibilities and authorities for space accident investigation are to be determined by congressional action, as reflected in Title 51 of the United States Code, not through proposed regulations that are outside of established authorities,” they wrote. “The NTSB’s proposed rulemaking is inconsistent with statutory authorities, existing interagency agreements and regulations, and it is plainly unlawful.”

The letter is not the first time that members and staff of the committee have raised their concerns about the NTSB proposal.

Every successful system accumulates parasites. The commercial space industry is now big enough that the parasitic load is increasing. Bureaucratic power grabs are just the beginning.