ONE TRUTH, ONE LIE: Michelle Obama is not a fan of the Second Amendment and says Obama administration was scandal-free.

FROM MY SOMETIME WRITING COLLABORATOR LAURA MONTGOMERY:  His Terrible Stall: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure.

On a lost and stranded colony world, with his brother’s family at risk, Peter Dawe will do what he must to protect them.

A lost starship’s settlers turn one valley on an alien planet into a terraformed replica of Earth. The rest of the planet offers only hardship and madness. Despite the oasis First Landing provides, the ship’s crew fled decades earlier with their fabricators, spacecraft, and knowledge when those controlling the valley threatened their freedoms.

THEY’RE NOT THE SAME:  Friday Thoughts: Equity, Equality and Outcomes.

THE LEFT ARE INCREDIBLE RACISTS:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: NY bans whites from honoring American Indians in school nicknames.

IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE:  “White man” isn’t an argument, so knock it off.

A LEFTIST SPECIALTY:  DARVO.

IS THIS CRITTER INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO GET PEOPLE KILLED?  TikTok ‘Trans Lesbian’ Threatens Christian Conservatives With Violence; Urges ‘Allies’ to ‘Arm Up’.

I ACTUALLY SAW THIS COMMERCIAL AND THOUGHT IT WAS AN INTENTIONAL PARODY:  Anheuser-Busch Thinks We’re Idiots.

It really is that bad.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Feds Still Fighting Release of J6 Tapes Despite Mounting Legal Pressure.

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL FOR WHAT HE DID WITH AIDS:  Twitter Files: The Fauci Pharma Files Begin.

THEY’RE DUE FOR A LARGE DOSE OF HEINLEIN’S BAD LUCK:  Germany Shutters Its Last Nuclear Power Plants, Becoming More Reliant on Fossil Fuel Energy.

THEIR FIVE YEAR PLANS NEVER WORKED. MUCH LESS THE 100 YEAR PLANS:  Illusions.

THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS CONSTITUTIONAL:  Joe Biden Wants Homebuyers With Good Credit to Subsidize High Risk Mortgages.

And that’s besides being hard-core stupid.

NO, REALLY, LEARN TO CODE:

IN HELL, MENGELE’S SHADE SMILES:  NIH Funding an Experiment to Remove 18-Year-Olds’ Testicles.

LEARN TO CODE:  BuzzFeed News Shuts Down After 11 Years, Parent Company Laying Off 15% of Staff.

WAR ON COMPETENCE:  ‘Diversity in Recruiting’: LinkedIn Implements Feature Allowing Recruiters to Find People by Their Demographics.

WHEN CHINA IMPLODES, WE’LL FIND OUT WHO WAS BEING BRIBED:  Michigan’s Democrat-Led Senate Approves $175 Million for a Chinese Battery Plant.

CHANGE: Range Rover, Defender and Discovery 4X4s to ditch 75-year-old official ‘Land Rover’ name as JLR unveils its £15billion investment strategy.

UPDATE: Land Rover Name Won’t Die amid JLR’s Rebranding, Despite Reports. “Reports circulating online about Land Rover’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. After news surfaced earlier today that the storied brand was dead, Car and Driver reached out directly to Jaguar Land Rover (now officially called JLR), who confirmed the beloved Land Rover name will live on. ‘We are not losing the Land Rover name; its spirit is—and will continue to be—a crucial part of our DNA,’ the company said in a written statement.”

(Updated and bumped.)

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

THIS WILL END WELL, I’M SURE: Pentagon Moves Troops To Prepare For Possible Sudan Embassy Evacuation.

WELL, MAKE UP YOUR MINDS: Pentagon has ‘no credible evidence’ of aliens or UFOs that defy physics. Was all that earlier talk just an effort to cover up the Chinese balloon story?

I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE: 8 Hours of Loneliness Can Be as Draining For Some People as Going Without Food.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: NIH study recruiting 18-year-olds to learn ‘unknown’ side effects of testicle removal for gender dysphoria: The NIH research said the side effects of surgically removing testicles from biological males has ‘not been extensively studied.’

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! John Fetterman ‘Wasn’t Functional’ When Wife Went On Media Blitz, Became Firefighter After Senate Election.

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman recently opened up about how he “wasn’t functional” after his November Senate election, as his wife Gisele embarked on a lengthy media tour and even became a volunteer firefighter.

Fetterman opened up about his struggles with depression in an interview published Wednesday by People Magazine. “I literally stopped eating and drinking and I wasn’t functional,” Fetterman said about his depression following his November victory against Republican opponent Mehmet Oz. Fetterman struggled with words in an October 2022 debate with Oz, who made Fetterman’s health a focal point of his campaign. (RELATED: ‘I Stopped Leaving My Bed’: Sen. John Fetterman Opens Up About Depression)

He’s still not looking very functional today: