DON SURBER ON OUR TINFOIL HAT MEDIA. “CNN conspired with the Obama administration to turn that two-page summary into the biggest and most bogus scandal in DC history. CNN triggered a media frenzy that lasted for years and stunted the presidency of a man chosen by 30 states. And it was all a lie. All of it. Hillary’s campaign, the Democrat Party and Obama colluded with the Kremlin to create a dossier that falsely accused President Trump of collusion. How ironic. How despotic. How utterly unAmerican. It is just one of the media-approved tinfoil hat conspiracy theories. Remember the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax?”

HMM: Russian Ruling Party Told to Liken Ukraine War to Stalingrad Victory. “Road signs at the entrance to present-day Volgograd have been replaced with ‘Stalingrad’ in honor of the 80th anniversary ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s expected visit there.”

I wonder if this is a temporary propaganda move or if the Kremlin will re-rename the city back to Stalingrad.

Previously: Putin’s dangerous campaign to rehabilitate Stalin.

ADULT SUPERVISION ARRIVES: ‘A Drain On Resources’: DeSantis Announces War On College Diversity Funding And ‘Deadweight’ Professors.

I’d cap the number and salaries of administrators at what they were ten years ago. Nobody can seriously argue that there weren’t enough of them then. Then I’d roll it back a decade at a time.

UPDATE: DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities.

HOW THINGS WORK TODAY: “FDA officials told reporters Tuesday that they do not expect anyone at the FDA to be fired or reassigned over the infant formula shortages.” Just one of those things, you know?

HMM: Curtains for The Cackler? Washington Post Is ‘Worried’ About Kamala Harris.

POLITICAL SCIENCE: The New York Times Finally Finds a Scientist It Doesn’t Like. Hint: She’s the one who doesn’t want to rip out your gas stove.

STILL TRYING TO SHUT THEM DOWN:  In both New Mexico and California, efforts to shut down immigration detention facilities are on-going.  Honestly, I’ve toured three of these facilities in my capacity as a civil rights commissioner. They weren’t half bad.  One of them was really quite nice—so nice my progressive colleagues were a bit stunned.  It was amusing to watch the looks on their faces as the guide was showing us around.  They were so sure they were going to be shown hellholes.

PAUL KENGOR: What in the Hell Is the Penn Biden Center? “I’ve worked for think tanks with budgets under a million bucks that produced more in five months than the Penn Biden Center has done in five years. Chi-comm connections aside, let it be said that even the very essence of the Penn Biden Center as a think tank is questionable. Other than serving as a dubious tribute entity to Joe Biden, I don’t see this thing as doing much.”

Suits its namesake.

Earlier: White House Misled Public About FBI Search of Penn Biden Center.

DEAL OF THE DAY: RAK Telescoping Magnetic Pickup Tool. #CommissionEarned

RICHARD EPSTEIN:  “Home Equity Theft.”

BOMBSHELL: White House Misled Public About FBI Search of Penn Biden Center.

I’VE REISSUED THE LAST OF THE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED DARKSHIP BOOKS: I’m now — barring disaster (can we bar disaster? Please? Just for a year or so?) ready to roll with finishing and releasing new ones, though the one for late this month is not a science fiction but the next entry in the Daring Finds mysteries (A Well Inlaid Death.)  After that we’ll have Hacking the Storm, Fuse’s story. Then the next Shifters (All Hot.) And then Darkship Defiance. Now that we’re empty nesters, and I have a small group of helpers (though still ironing out kinks) might just make it easier to get all the piled up stuff out at last. Barring disaster and knocking on head.

For now there is Darkship Revenge (Yes the second half probably May: Darkship Defiance. I mean the book is a complete arc, but obviously there’s the battle for Eden ahead.) Oh, yeah, and yes, there is a hardcover. Amazon just hasn’t associated it yet.

#CommissionEarned

NOW PURSUE BAR DISCIPLINE AGAINST LAWYERS WHO BROUGHT THIS BASELESS LAWSUIT — THAT’S WHAT DEMOCRATS DO TO GOP LAWYERS: Judge dismisses lawsuit over DeSantis migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard.

CLOWN WORLD IS RIGHT:   Dispatches from the coulroverse: Biden shared classified docs with Hunter?; “feminist chemistry” class teaches science is racist, something.

MOST OF US HAVE STORIES LIKE THIS:  The next chapter in my own personal blacklisting story.

BAH:  Professor creates “guide” to handle racism “deniers”.

Guide best used as a rolled up newspaper on professor’s nose.

NO. YOU EAT THE BUGS:  The Great Food Reset: ‘Lab-grown meat’ harvested in ‘massive steel vats’ edges closer to fed approval & U.S. dinner plates – As EU approves human consumption of worms & crickets.

We don’t have a shortage of food. We have governments at war with the production of food, because they have a fetish for making us eat bugs. No.

OF COURSE THEY DO:  Emperor penguin ESA listing in 2022 used Antarctic sea ice models known to be flawed.

AND THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  Thousands of federal bureaucrats defrauded taxpayers to double their paychecks with Covid aid meant for the unemployed.

PLOW IT UNDER. SALT THE EARTH:  The Astounding Saga Of Hamilton 68 Illustrates Scope Of America’s Institutional Rot.

HONESTLY, I’M KIND OF SHOCKED THEY RETAIN ANY TRUST AT ALL:  It is no wonder the media has lost the trust of the people.

ALWAYS:  This is how you do it: Make woke academics live up to their own rules.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  Pfizer Responds to Project Veritas Video, Admitting to ‘Engineering’ Covid Variants in Lab Studies.

Also, hey, I think this needs to be a thing. Let’s make “hotter than a Project Veritas undercover journalist” the new high mark for hotness. Make it so.

CHICKEN WINGS, REALLY?  Illinois School Worker Allegedly Stole $1.5 Million of Food, Mostly Chicken Wings, From District.

SACRIFICES TO MOTHER GAIA, SO IT’S ALL GOOD: Another Dead Humpback Whale Washes Ashore in New York.