THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Today’s deep question: Will Twitter suspend Sotomayor for COVID misinformation?

● Sotomayor: “Why is a human not like a machine when it is spewing bloodborne (!) viruses?”

● Sotomayor says Omicron is as deadly as Delta.

● Here is Justice Sotomayor saying that “hospitals are almost all full capacity” and there are “over 100,000 children” hospitalized with covid “many on ventilators. None of those things are true. Not even close.

Related: Sotomayor Claims Not to Understand the Distinction Between State and Federal Powers.

Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reports: Oral Arguments Postponed As Justice Sotomayor Gets Gavel Stuck Up Her Nose Again.

BIDEN IS MAKING THOSE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE: PayPal, Venmo, Cash App to Report $600 in Total Transactions, Require Your Tax Info.

I THINK THE STUPID AND CRINGEY BIT IS THE WORST PART, BUT YEAH: The Bigger Problem With The Hamilton Performance At the Capitol On January 6: “Dear Theodosia” is sung by Aaron Burr, who was an accused insurrectionist. “In any event, celebrating an accused insurrectionist is not the right symbolism for January 6.” Or maybe it is. You know, all of the Framers were “insurrectionists,” actually.

JOEL KOTKIN: Is this the end of progressive America? Multiple fronts of resistance are taking shape.

JIM TREACHER: It’s Friday, Write Your Own Headline.

The great Andrew Stiles at the Washington Free Beacon looks at “A Day in the Life of a Traumatized Journalist.” Here’s an excerpt of what daily life is like for those unsung heroes:

9:25 AM — Check your phone. You have two missed calls from your editor, so you ring her back. You’re too damn proud to request another day off for self-care, so you decide to power through and pitch her the following story ideas: 1) “How to Talk to Your 8-Year-Old Nephew About ‘Harry Potter’ and The Author Who Must Not Be Named,” 2) “How the New CNN+ Streaming Service Could Be a Safe Alternative to Sending Kids to School,” 3) “Twitter Sleuths Raise Doubts About Casey DeSantis Cancer Diagnosis,” and 4) “Why You Shouldn’t Feel Bad About Berating Your Maskless Delivery Driver.” 

I don’t know how these brave champions of truth and honor manage to maintain their integrity, day in and day out. Make sure to thank a journo today, if you can get a word in edgewise.

Heh. Read the whole thing.

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Rep. Eric Swalwell is Latest Democrat Caught Maskless in the Free State of Florida.

SHOCKER: Ditching cigarettes for smokeless tobacco can help cut cardiovascular risks, study finds.

MORE ON THE SUPREME COURT: “Conservative Supreme Court justices on Friday appeared skeptical that the Biden administration has legal authority to impose a broad vaccination-or-testing requirement on large employers.”

THIS IS NOT THE CHANGE VIRGINIANS VOTED FOR: Glenn Youngkin Taps Ed Secretary Deeply Linked To The Critical Race Theory Education Swamp.

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW UPDATE: Meteorologist says transportation officials ignored forecasts, leading to I-95 disaster.

The chief meteorologist for Accuweather criticized transportation officials for effectively ignoring forecasts of a winter storm that hit the mid-Atlantic on Monday morning, saying engineers had adequate warning and could have prevented the I-95 gridlock.

Accuweather’s Jonathan Porter provided screenshots showing that his team predicted six to 10 inches of snowfall in the Washington, D.C., area. Up to 10 inches of snow ultimately fell across the D.C. metropolitan area, according to The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, marking the highest total the region has seen since Jan. 2019 and one of the biggest snowfalls on record in the city.

To be fair though, why bother checking the weather? All the best people assured us ages ago that: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.

HAHA, LIKE THERE ARE ACTUAL STANDARDS? Today’s deep question: Will Twitter suspend Sotomayor for COVID misinformation? “Sotomayor wasn’t the only Supreme Court justice with a comprehension issue. Breyer apparently confused admissions with capacity and assumed hospitals have run out of resources, but that’s not the case.”

So often the Party Of Science doesn’t actually understand the science.

THAT’S A LONG WAY SOUTH OF MOLINE: Debris from failed Russian rocket falls into sea near French Polynesia.

Jody said it’s mine but you can have it for seventeen million.

BUILD BACK BRANDON: U.S. gains scant 199,000 jobs in December as businesses confront labor shortage and omicron.

I HOPE IT DOES — SO FAR, IT’S A FUN PLACE TO BE: Why GETTR’s Moment Could Last.

INTERESTING: Dogs know when a language is from a foreign tongue, study shows.

SOCIALISM ALWAYS CREATES SHORTAGES: There Aren’t Enough U-Hauls for Fleeing Californians. “California remained the top state for out-migration, but its net loss of U-Haul trucks wasn’t as severe as in 2020. That can be partially attributed to the fact that U-Haul simply ran out of inventory to meet customer demand for outbound equipment.”

Related (From Ed): This is the sort of headline that’s accelerating those shortages: California Wants to Double Its Taxes.

R.I.P. SIDNEY POITIER.

He played Thurgood Marshall in the vastly underrated docudrama Separate but Equal, which miffed my old lawprof Charles Black a bit — he was jealous that Thurgood got Poitier to play him, while for Charlie Black they cast an actor who looked just like him. Charlie didn’t live to see Thurgood played by Chadwick Boseman in Marshall, which would have just rubbed salt in the wound. . .

‘SCREENSHOT THAT ONE!’ Katie Pavlich and others spot a problematic 2020 tweet from Kamala Harris’ new comms director:

Flashbacks:

● Kamala Harris says she will be ‘first in line’ for a coronavirus vaccine if health experts approve it, but ‘if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, then I’m not taking it.’

—Business Insider after the debate between Harris and Mike Pence, October 7th, 2020.

● Here’s a montage of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Andrew Cuomo saying not so long ago that you shouldn’t trust the feds, the FDA, and the vaccine.

—Not the Bee, September 11th, 2021.

Despite poisoning the well: As His Presidency Founders, Biden Scapegoats The Unvaccinated.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Eight Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy.

BREAKING: December Jobs Report Is Another Big Miss as Dems Remain Focused on Non-Insurrection.

RIP: Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor, dead at 94.

YEAH, IT’S NOT THE MESSAGING THAT’S THE PROBLEM, IT’S THE PERFORMANCE: CDC director turns to media consultant as COVID messaging frustrations mount.

SCENES FROM AN ACTUAL INSURRECTION: Repeat Antifa Rioter Has Charges Dismissed After Claiming Community Service.

Beaverton resident Eva Warner, who is also known as Joshua Warner, was part of the riotous mob that set fire to the Portland Police Association (PPA) office on North Lombard Street and busted out the building’s windows on Aug. 8, 2020, FOX News reported.

The antifa rioters shoved dumpsters out into the street and used vehicles to block motorists.

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) declared a riot and tried to disperse the crowd, at which point Warner began shining a high-powered laser into officers’ eyes, FOX News reported.

Warner went on the fight when police tried to apprehend her, resulting in her forceable arrest.

Then things got weird.

TYRANNY: Unvaccinated Australians Told They Can’t Work or Even Exercise Anymore.

TOP SELLER: COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey. #CommissionEarned