NO, JOE DIDN’T PUT THE MLK BUST IN THE OVAL OFFICE: The Lid exposes yet another Biden White House falsehood, claiming in an official tweet that Joe was responsible for the Martin Luther King bust being in the Oval Office. In fact, the bust was placed there in 2009 by then-President Barack Obama. Next: Joe Biden invented sliced bread?

OH: ¿Dónde Estás, Car 54? Blue States Are Hiring Illegals as Police, Giving Them Guns.

EPOCH TIMES APP DOWNLOADED MORE THAN NYTIMES: Interesting compilation by the Epoch Times staff of recent hit pieces in the Mainstream Media. Even in their ludicrous attacks on ET, they have to admit its immense and still-growing readership. Millions of Americans still hunger for real journalism.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED? Dept of Ed opens investigation into Temple University over anti-Semitic incidents.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Red Sea risk to oil ‘very real,’ prices could change rapidly if supply disrupted, Chevron CEO says.

The British oil major Shell has suspended shipments through the Red Sea, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Shell declined to comment in response to a request from CNBC.

Shell’s decision to halt shipments through the crucial trade chokepoint comes about a month after BP paused transits through the Red Sea. Several major tanker companies, which transport petroleum products such as gasoline as well as crude oil, halted traffic toward the Red Sea on Friday.

Houthi militants, who are based in Yemen and allied with Iran, have repeatedly attacked commercial vessels in the Red Sea in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. The U.S. and Britain have launched airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen to secure shipping through the waterway.

The Houthis have continued to launch attacks despite the U.S.-led strikes. The militants on Tuesday launched an antiship ballistic missile that struck a Maltese-flagged bulk carrier in the Red Sea, according to U.S. Central Command. No injuries were reported and the vessel continued to transit the waterway, according to CENTCOM.

Just a reminder that the Houthis are armed and financed by Iran, which benefits from higher oil prices and from Biden’s relaxation of Trump’s sanctions.

THE NEW VICTORIANS: Cancel Culture is happening on a historic scale:

Victorians and modern social justice advocates share a deep conviction that their fight is of profound moral and social importance and, therefore, that dissent is too great a risk to the future to tolerate. They both betray a certainty of their own righteousness and a willingness to use legal and social forces to get people to bend the knee. Like the Victorian era, the age of Cancel Culture is highly moralistic and relies on cancelers simply declaring dissenters as immoral or otherwise “bad people” rather than refuting the dissenters’ arguments. As Rikki Schlott and I argue in “The Canceling of the American Mind,” cancelers rely heavily on the psychology of taboo to win arguments without winning arguments.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Triggering the Lefties Never Ceases to Amuse and Entertain. “Rachel Maddow would break out in hives if she ever uttered anything truthful on the air. She’s made a career of spewing angsty lies while furrowing her brow, which her low-info fan base believes makes her trustworthy.”

GOOD: Amid National Backlash, Colleges Brace for Fresh Wave of Anti-DEI Legislation.

INSURRECTION: USCP Arrested 130 Pro-Palestinian Mennonites in the Cannon Rotunda.

Since it’s a lefty-approved cause they’ll get a slap on the wrist instead of solitary confinement, which is what our corrupt “justice” system metes out to its opposition.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Don Surber: State-sanctioned protest: Only lefties are permitted to rally in Washington, DC.

#JOURNALISM: Another Bogus Border Story Goes Viral And Most Outlets Aren’t in a Hurry to Issue Corrections.

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Disgusting: Anti-Israel Protesters Harass NYC Cancer Hospital, Taunt Child Patients Watching From Windows.

STILL NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME: It’s so cold, Teslas are struggling to charge in Chicago.

In some cases, tow trucks were called to move the cars, in scenes that were relayed by local TV news. The Tesla owners’ plight became an emblem of the misery extreme cold is inflicting on wide sections of the U.S.

“I’ve been here for over five hours at this point and I still have not gotten to charge my car,” Tesla driver Brandon Welbourne told CBS News Chicago, as car horns blared nearby. “A charge that should take 45 minutes is taking two hours.”

Other drivers spoke about how the cold seemed to drain their batteries more quickly than normal.

“Fill ‘er up” still takes five minutes or less.

COVERUP: “An aide to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked a 911 operator that an ambulance retrieving the secretary not use lights and sirens to keep things ‘subtle.'”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The white-collar class derided mass layoffs among the blue-collar workers. It’s about to feel their pain.

DOG BITES MAN: Trump Prosecutor Fani Willis Caught in Another HUGE Lie.

THEY’RE ALL NONESSENTIAL ANYWAY: Snow Thwarts Anti-Israel Government Employee ‘Walkout.’

AT AMAZON, Shop the Deals at the Winter Sale. #CommissionEarned

CHANGE? New York Gov Hochul to travel to DC to plead for ‘stronger border,’ blaming federal government for crisis.

“Since day one, I have said this is ultimately the responsibility of the federal government to address this crisis,” Hochul said. “Congress, the House of Representatives in particular and the White House, must remain at the negotiating table until they restore the rule of law at our border, fix our asylum system, and provide relief to states like New York, who have been shouldering this burden for far too long.”

“But until we see a change in federal policy that slows the flow of new arrivals, we’re going to be swimming against the tide,” Hochul said.

Hochul also said that her proposal includes $2.4 billion that would go toward the massive influx of migrants going into New York, calling it the “right thing to do” for the migrants and New York City.

“We also know that companies won’t do business in New York if there are thousands of people sleeping on the streets, where the quality of life is dramatically impacted, because the city is forced to cut essential services,” Hochul said.

“We’re going to continue focusing on security work authorizations and put the migrants and asylum workers to work,” Hochul also said. “Put them to work, that’s exactly what they came here for.”

You can thank Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis for this latest blue-on-blue hit to whatever remains of Joe Biden’s reputation.