CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Illinois Judge Rules State’s Gun Ban and Registry Unconstitutional.

IN THE MAIL: From Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. #CommissionEarned

OUT: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! IN: UC Irvine professor studies ‘abolition medicine’ with nearly $1,300,000 grant.

LIE BACK AND THINK OF DIVERSITY: Fear of rape can be due to being ‘White’ or ‘Republican’, grad student argues.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Wait, so colleges are screaming that one in four college women are sexually assaulted while in school but to worry about it is a white thing? Y’all need to get your stupid, made-up stories straight.”

Hey: Try Reynolds Online University: “The One Where Nobody Gets Raped.”

AS HE SHOULD BE: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Vows To Fight ‘Toxic Masculinity,’ Gets Mocked.

SO THIS ONLY WORKS AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING, BUT NOW WE’RE FACING “CLIMATE CHANGE” SO WHAT’S THE POINT? Solar Geoengineering ‘Only Option’ to Cool Planet Within Years, UN Says.

DEAL OF THE DAY: BULLIANT Men’s Belt. #CommissionEarned

D.C. SHOULDN’T EVEN HAVE HOME RULE, BUT DEMOCRATS DON’T SEE IT THAT WAY: Why Biden Stabbed D.C. in the Back.

For the first two years of his presidency, Joe Biden positioned himself as a champion of statehood and home rule in the District of Columbia. The president urged Congress to make D.C. the 51st state—even as the Senate filibuster stood in the way—and vowed to defend District residents’ right to govern themselves through their limited local democracy. Any “denial of self-governance” in D.C., he proclaimed, is “an affront to the democratic values on which our Nation was founded.”

Then, on Thursday, he stabbed D.C. in the back. In a single tweet, the president reversed more than two years of staunch support for home rule—abandoning his principles the moment they became politically inexpedient. Biden announced that he would sign legislation nullifying the modernization of D.C.’s criminal code. His action will, perversely, make the District less safe, preserving an outdated 122-year-old criminal code whose ambiguities actually make it harder for prosecutors to charge violent crimes.

Just as importantly, Biden’s decision will empower congressional Republicans to continue overriding D.C.’s democratically enacted legislation, including progressive laws expanding the rights of immigrants, abortion providers, LGBTQ people, and other vulnerable groups. The president has, in effect, declared open season on the District’s democracy.

Crime is the Democrats’ kryptonite, and listening to woke idiocy has been a huge, unforced error. Even Slow Joe is figuring that out.

OF COURSE THEY DID: FBI Shielded Identities Of Undercover Assets Who May Have Been Inside Capitol On Jan. 6, Whistleblower Says.

The FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) affirmed that there may have been “undercover officers” and “confidential human sources” inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to whistleblower testimony obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. . . .

Many have speculated FBI agents were among the crowd on Jan. 6. In November, FBI Director Christopher Wray refusedto say whether or not the bureau had confidential human sources among Jan. 6 protestors when asked by Republican Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins. Executive Assistant Director of the FBI National Security Branch, Jill Sanborn, similarly dodged the question when it was posed by Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at a Jan. 11, 2023 Senate hearing. . . .

The FBI declined to comment.

It’s going to turn out that they set this whole thing up, isn’t it?

Given that it’s already been established that the government allowed/encouraged weapons to move from U.S. gun stores to Mexican cartels, so that they could use the presence of U.S. guns in Mexico as an excuse for more gun control, we can’t even pretend that they’d never stoop to something like that.

GOOD. Idris Elba not backing down to woke race outrage.

This stuff is bullshit, everyone knows it’s bullshit, but people have been bullied into not saying it’s bullshit. It’s good to see people who can’t be bullied pointing out the obvious, which is that it’s bullshit.

WHAT? SHE “PAID” ALMOST $500 FOR THAT HAIRSTYLE? (ADMITTEDLY, THE STYLIST HAD TO SPEND HOURS IN HER PRESENCE AND LOSING IQ POINTS THEREBY):  AOC blamed aide for stiffing merchants behind Met Gala perks: probe.

Remember children, commies are cheap liars. If you work for them, they’ll stiff you and blame you for their failures.

YOU ONLY HAVE SO MUCH CONTROL OVER THE WORLD:  Do It Yourself.

HMMMMM … WHO WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2012?  US home prices just did something they haven’t done since 2012.

THERE’S ONE SCHOOL BOARD THAT CLEARLY ISN’T ABLEIST:  Cat-ears-clad school board member says district should not hire teachers from Christian university.

I HAVE A VAGUE MEMORY THAT SOMETIME IN HISTORY SCOTLAND HAD MEN:  Scotland Just Banned a Surgical Anaesthetic Because of Climate Change.

Like, with testosterone and everything.

AND WITH A COMMAND ECONOMY IT’S A PRESCRIPTION FOR STARVING AND FREEZING IN THE DARK:  Feasibility for Achieving a Net Zero Economy for the U.S. by 2050.

Also I want them to prove that carbon, or for that matter warming is a problem before they do any of this.

SOME PEOPLE JUST TAKE BEING CALLED PIGS, NAZIS AND HAVING THEIR JOBS MADE IMPOSSIBLE SO PERSONALLY:  Cops quit woke Austin in droves, plunging Texas city into crisis: ‘If you’re conservative, it’s a hostile place’.

THE DIFFERENCE IS BIDEN DIDN’T WIN AN ELECTION; THEN AGAIN, WHAT DO WE KNOW? MAYBE FDR ALSO DIDN’T:  Deception and Failure.

SHE’S NOT WRONG. AND ANY WOMAN DATING A “NON GENDER BINARY” MALE SHOULD ASK HERSELF WHAT SHE’S DOING WITH HER LIFE:   Friday Thoughts: Non-binary, Gender neutral, or Neutered?

Then perhaps take a long stiff drink and find a new hobby, before the the “they” in her life finds a boyfriend.

BECAUSE IT’S THEIR EXCUSE FOR COMMUNISM:  Biden Admin Admits Going Green Is More Important Than Energy Security.

We’re supposed to obediently starve and freeze in the dark.

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS:  Marcotte Has Aneurysm About Republicans Again.

AT THIS POINT, I’D BE SHOCKED IF HE DID:  Surprise! Biden’s FAA Nominee Doesn’t Know Anything About Aviation.

MADAME, AFTER THE LAST COUPLE OF ELECTIONS THE LEGITIMATE VOTERS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE CLOSER TO RAPE VICTIMS THAN YOU ARE:  Gisele Fetterman Called out After Embracing Comparison of Her ‘Journey’ as a Senator’s Wife to Rape Victims.

Dear Bob, she’s like an uglier, mentally slower Occasional Cortex.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEXT YOU’RE GOING TO TELL ME THAT XI GOT ZHOU BAI DEN FRAUDED IN! THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Canada’s Election Watchdog Opens Probe Into Allegations of Chinese Meddling to Keep Trudeau in Power.

Look, Castreau can’t rely on his old man. Castro is dead.

HOW LONG ARE WE GIVING CULTURAL POWER TO THE MENTALLY ILL?  Woman Behind Destruction of Roald Dahl’s Children’s Literature Described As ‘Non-Binary, Asexual, Polyamorous Relationship Anarchist’.

Because that’s self-contradictory word-salad. She should be made to feel bad, not only by books published before she was born, but by any sane person who reads that. (And no, she’s not “they” — we’re not at home to multiple personalities. She can go and compel speech somewhere else.)