SUPPRESSION OF MALENESS IS ONLY GOING TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE:  I pretended to be a 14-year-old boy on TikTok — what I saw terrified me.

Also, she’s easily terrified….

THE ATF REMEMBERS WACO: Unfortunately for them so do the rest of us.

PRESENTISM IS PARTICULARLY BAD NOW BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN THROUGH A SORT OF SINGULARITY:   Nothing Beyond the Current Moment.

Children raised in the bizarrely affluent present can’t even understand the deprivation of past eras. (Or other places.)

IT’S LIKE A TICKING TIME BOMB, ON THIN ICE, ON A LAKE FILLED WITH OBLIVIOUS SKATERS:   Protests Break Out As Chinese Cities Drown Under $10 Trillion In Debt, Fail To Make Payments.

THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH:  NY Times can’t bring themselves to admit truth about inflation.

AND THE ERASURE OF 12000 YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY. YES, THAT’S THREE ZEROS:  Fauci Wanted Universal Human Separation Forever.

#teamheadsonpikes yields the floor (respectfully) to #teamdrophimnakedinthemiddleoftheAmazonjungle.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Privatizing Fascism: How Team Biden is getting more and more corporations to do its bidding.

OPEN THREAD: Hold forth.

SPACE: Investors in space startups see hurdles in defense market.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST THE GUARDIAN — TO TRUMP: The Democrats botched the Ohio disaster response – and handed Trump a victory.

Buttigieg’s no-show in East Palestine reinforces the perception that the Democrats really don’t care. It didn’t help that on February 20, as East Palestine was still dealing with the fallout from the derailment, Biden made his surprise visit to Kyiv. “The biggest slap in the face,” Mayor Conaway called it on Fox News, adding, “that tells you right now he doesn’t care about us. He can send every agency he wants to, but I found out this morning that he was in Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us, and I’m furious.”

The perception that Democrats really don’t care exists because Democrats really don’t care.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Meet the Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru on Cori Bush’s Payroll.

He claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies. An intergalactic master of psychic self-defense born 109 trillion years ago, his days, he says, are now spent tending to his crops and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies.

Nathaniel Davis III also happens to be Rep. Cori Bush’s (D., Mo.) close friend and her highest-paid private security guard.

Davis has earned over $137,000 providing “security services” for Bush since 2020, according to FEC filings, the latest of which showed disbursements of $5,000 in Dec. 2022. Using dozens of social media posts, including photos and videos that show Davis with Bush, the Washington Free Beacon has confirmed that Davis is in fact a St. Louis, Missouri, spiritual guru known as Aha Sen Piankhy who teaches classes on how to read minds, summon mythical beings, and maintain urban gardens—to avoid having to buy food from the Jews.

Davis, a former member of the vehemently anti-Semitic New Black Panther Party, is a natural fit for Bush, who has a history of associating with anti-Semites. She spent years working with anti-Israel activist Neveen Ayesh, who has said she wants to burn Jews alive. A vocal supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, Bush is a close ally of her fellow Squad member, anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.).

As Glenn has joked, getting Bush, AOC and the rest of “the squad” elected was Roger Stone’s last and greatest political dirty trick.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH RUSSELL BRAND IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Comedian Reduces MSNBC’s John Heilemann to Repeatedly Blubbering ‘Non-Responsive.’

Brand, who touted his heroes Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, thinks all media are hopelessly corporate: “Do you think you can improve America by determinedly and avowedly condemning FOX News without acknowledging that you’re participating in the same game?” He taunted him: “I think to sit within the castle of MSNBC throwing rocks at Fox News is ludicrous. Make MSNBC better. Make MSNBC great again!”

Heileman challenged back: “You don’t have a single actual fact.”

There is no real debate about Heilemann crumbling under the facts presented that countered his challenge that “I’d like to hear a provable specific example of an MSNBC correspondent or anchor being on television saying something they knew was false.”

You’re gonna need a much bigger blog: John Heilemann Demanded Examples of MSNBC Dishonesty. Here Are a Few Choice Favorites.

UPDATE: MSNBC analyst whitewashes COVID ‘conspiracy theory’ lab leak stance: ‘Always’ took it seriously. In May 2020, John Heilemann slammed Trump for pushing a ‘made-up’ story targeting China.

(Updated and bumped.)

SPACE: Juno Just Snapped Some of The Best And Clearest Images of Io Yet.

SAVINGS: How Much Is a Tesla? Cheaper Than Before—Here’s a Price Breakdown.

WELL, THAT DOES SEEM LIBELOUS: $160K Libel Verdict for Accusing Stepmother of Poisoning Father Upheld.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Live Longer and Prosper: Is “adaptive reuse” the secret to responding creatively to extended old age? “I’m republishing it as a counter to the gloom of my previous post about aging.”

BUT SHE’S EVIL AND MEAN: McCloskeys: St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Kim Gardner is ‘Just As Dumb As a Sack of Hammers.’ “Mark and Patricia McCloskey nearly lost their careers and gained felony convictions after standing up to a trespassing mob of Black Lives Matter “protesters” threatening to kill them and burn their house down. That happened thanks to the Soros-funded St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Kimberly Gardner prosecuting the couple for daring to use their guns to defend themselves and their home in St. Louis’s Central West End. Now Gardner’s facing her own legal problems and the McCloskeys are more than happy to return the favor by lending their support for campaign to remove the non-prosecuting prosecutor.”

Like Colombia back during La Violencia, if she prosecutes you, it pretty much has to be political, since she lets everyone else get away with murder.

READER FAVORITE: Surge Protector, Outlet Extender with Night Light. #CommissionEarned

FAKING: Texas A&M’s DEI: Ditching or Faking? “Those infected with social justice never give up pushing their radical ideology, administration directive or no administration directive.”

FCC NOMINEE GIGI SOHN WITHDRAWS NOMINATION AFTER THREE YEARS AMID MANCHIN OPPOSITION:

Public interest advocate Gigi Sohn has withdrawn her nomination for the Federal Communication Commission, ending a three-year effort by the Biden administration to get her appointed as the third Democratic commissioner.

The failure of her candidacy is a blow to the Biden administration’s hopes to reinstate net neutrality and implement technology regulations, and it is a significant win for Republicans aiming to slow President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Sohn’s withdrew Tuesday after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he would oppose her, making it difficult for her to gain a majority in the Senate.

Her withdrawal comes after 16 months of efforts by Republicans criticizing her activism for Democratic causes, online inflammatory remarks, and partnerships with select left-leaning groups.

“It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators,” Sohn told the Washington Post. “And with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that.”

As Ed Morrissey writes in response to that last quote, “Nonsense. Sohn had to withdraw because moderate Senate Democrats didn’t support her bid. Joe Manchin opposed it publicly, and even if John Fetterman and Dianne Feinstein returned soon, Chuck Schumer couldn’t lose another member of his own caucus. Her withdrawal tells us plenty about Schumer’s whip count.”

ANYONE WHO WATCHES SEINFELD KNOWS THIS: Poppy seeds can skew drug test results, but they won’t actually intoxicate you.

OH, GROW UP: Michelle Obama Sobbed Uncontrollably After Trump Inauguration.

WELL, THEY’RE NOT WRONG: Axios: Our competitor Semafor seems awfully cozy with China and the CCP.

Here’s the Axios story, Semafor’s China Problem.

YOU’LL EAT BUGS, AND YOU’LL BE GLAD TO GET THEM: Non-meat diets have smallest carbon footprint, study shows.

Hell, if our betters have their way, you’ll be lucky to get them.

OOPS: Hospital’s water purification system stripped out chlorine, killing 3 patients: It was supposed to improve taste, but instead led to deadly infections.

The chlorine is there for a reason.