HMM: China’s Xi Jinping Takes Rare Direct Aim at U.S. in Speech.

NEW FROM REASON TV: Remy: Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters Parody).

PROJECT FEAR: Covid Hysteria was Engineered.

OLD AND BUSTED: The Southern Poverty Law Center exists to fight radical extremism and domestic terrorism.

The New Hotness? SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Why Are Asian Americans Voting Republican in Large Numbers?

WE SURE ARE HEARING A LOT MORE ABOUT YOUNG ADULTS’ HEART RISKS LATELY: Feeling invincible, lacking healthcare, young adults’ heart health at risk.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 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.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime.

YouTube, for instance, suspended users for statements that disputed the efficacy of face masks; these statements have now been vindicated by a landmark Cochrane review of 78 randomized controlled trials, which found that masks made “little or no difference” in preventing the transmission of COVID-19. Resulting mandates negatively impacted deaf and hard-of-hearing people, affected the learning and development of young children, and impaired the social cognition of elderly dementia patients. Because they disallowed open public discussion of their favored policies, social media companies should be considered partially responsible for the collateral damage that ensued.

During school closures in 2020, for example, fatal teen drug overdoses doubled, the child homicide rated increased by 28%, confirmed evidence of child abuse rose by 30%, and there was a 31% increase in the number of child sexual images online. Clearly a critical assessment of the COVID restrictions placed on children was morally imperative, yet Twitter blacklisted a prominent advocate for school reopening, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, as soon as he opened his account. As Dr. Bhattacharya recently argued in Tablet, this move and similar actions hampered the conversation around ongoing masking, testing, and quarantining protocols in schools, and these protocols continued in many states without evidence-based deliberation.

IRAN: New Wave of Protests in Iran After Hundreds of Schoolgirls Poisoned.

WELL, HARVARD: Harvard dean says students these days regularly fail to understand basic sentences from texts more than a century old.

I mean, one cannot expect Harvard undergraduates to have the literary skills and dedication of maximum-security inmates.

YEP: “One of the reasons they have such a strong “orientation toward the present” is that the past has been rewritten for a lot of them.”

Plus: “I get the impression that a lot of ‘educators’, at all levels, have not much interest in knowledge, but are rather driven by some mix of (a) careerism, and (b) ideology.”

BECAUSE WE’RE INCENTIVIZING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES: Why trans kids are now ‘coming out’ as animals. “You’re xenogender if you feel more akin to animals or plants or foods than humans. It’s funny, but it’s also frightening. There’s a girl on TikTok who explains very seriously that her gender is bird – a cardinal specifically, ey/em pronouns. And several people I’ve found identify as cake. Cake is actually just one of a smorgasbord of available gastro-genders. There is some disagreement in the community about how it feels to be cake, but in general I gather it’s a sort of sweet, fluffy feeling; a lightness. No one who’s cake-gender can have tasted a cake I’ve baked.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Lynching the Deplorables.’ “‘Lynching the Deplorables’ is a stark warning about the Jan6 prosecutions, and it’s from a former New York Times foreign correspondent who pretty much hates you deplorables.”

Plus:

• Hands up, masks down?
• Antifa terrorist plays stupid games, wins powerful tasing
• “It barely works, let’s do it more.”

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

REP. CORI BUSH ALLY IS 109 TRILLION YEARS OLD: And if you doubt that Nathaniel Davis — a privately paid security guard for the Missouri Democrat — is that old, well, you better be careful because he also has incredible powers, as described by the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr:

“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.”

Oh, and another thing, Davis is a former member of the New Black Panther Party. If you don’t recognize the “Nathaniel Davis” name, perhaps you know him as “Aha Sen Plankhy.” I am not making this up and I know Kerr to be a solid journalist, so you can assume he’s not making it up, either.

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PRETTY MUCH: Is Leonid Brezhnev Running Georgetown Law? “This story concerns a student at Georgetown Law who asked a series of intelligent and wholly serious questions (none of which were ‘conspiracy theory’ comments) about the school’s coronavirus policies. But instead of answering them thoughtfully, Dean of Students Mitch Bailin lashed out at the student. He targeted the kid for destruction because he dared even question the school’s unscientific and obscene policies.”

Nothing says there’s no conspiracy like lashing out at and trying to silence anyone who questions your decisions. And ordering them to a psychiatrist.

THIS IS PROBABLY CONNECTED TO THEM SHOWING “REMARKABLE AWARENESS” OF WHAT THE FED IS DOING: ‘Voters are not confident in the Federal Reserve,’ new Dem poll finds.

Well, to be fair, the Fed hasn’t done a very good job in the last 110 years or so. But note that what’s giving rise to these news stories now is that Democratic Party officials don’t like what it’s doing, causing the dutiful press to echo their narrative.

Also, “aggressive rate hiking?” 1981 Paul Volcker would like a word.

WHISTLEBLOWER: FBI’s D.C. Office Tried To Sic Local Agents On Innocents After Bank Of America Volunteered Gun Records. “Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, datamined its customer base.”

PUSHBACK WORKS: Texas A&M system bans DEI statements.

PROJECT FEAR: Leaked Texts Reveal British Government’s COVID Terror Campaign.

THE DEMAND FOR RACISM IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Another claim of racist slurs from fans falls apart.

JOANNE JACOBS: Learning math matters.

Math scores are way down: The Education Recovery Scorecard estimates students lost half a year. But Boaler believes it doesn’t matter. It’s “quite clear” the students gained “knowledge and insights about the world, health challenges, global upheaval, exponential growth, technology, and ways to help their families and navigate complex social situations,” she writes.

This is not clear to me at all. If anything, it’s quite clear that many lost the ability to navigate complex — or even simple — social situations, and I’m dubious about their knowledge and insights too. Screen time soared. That doesn’t mean they’re masters of technology. Physical and mental health declined.

Learning math matters, responds Fordham’s Nathaniel Grossman. Two decades of growth was “wiped out in just three years,” NAEP scores revealed.

America’s math scores weren’t very good three years ago.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Tucker Carlson Begins Nuking False J6 Narrative From Orbit. “Unfortunately, the real criminals here are all backed by a corrupt Dept. of Justice and won’t be facing any consequences in the near future.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges.

A staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits “hate groups,” was arrested Sunday on terrorism charges, with police saying he took part in a violent riot where agitators threw rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at police at a training center near Atlanta.

According to DeKalb County Jail records, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested Thomas Webb Jurgens, describing him as a 6-foot male with brown hair and brown eyes. Jurgens faces one charge of “domestic terrorism.”

This is from Tyler O’Neil, who has been reporting the SPLC’s antics before hardly anyone else knew it was a story.

“FREEZE?” THEY SHOULD FIRE EVERYONE INVOLVED: Report: DHS Freezes Intelligence Program Over Civil Rights Concerns: ‘Runs Like A Corrupt Government.’