THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Pooped President Edition.

JIM TREACHER: Musk Triggers Mass Journophrenia. Journos love free speech unless it’s yours. “If the journos had their way, you never would’ve known anything about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop full of incriminating evidence of his ongoing criminal conspiracy with his father. Because having that information might make you vote the wrong way. And that’s fascism! Stop bringing up facts that make Democrats look bad, you Nazi.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: When CNN Says It’s ‘Really, Really, Really Bad’ for Joe, You Know It’s Catastrophic.

DEPEND UPON IT, SIR; WHEN A MAN KNOWS THE MIDTERMS ARE IN NOVEMBER, IT CONCENTRATES HIS MIND WONDERFULLY: White House restarting federal oil, gas lease sales next week.

Flashback to March 7th: ‘I know the facts can be inconvenient’: Psaki snaps at question over why Biden isn’t producing more domestic oil, blames Putin for the rise in prices at the pump and says there is still no decision to ban Russian energy imports. “‘To be very clear federal policies are not limiting the supplies of oil and gas,’ Psaki said.”

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Watch: Confused Joe Biden Appears to Shake Hands With Thin Air, and It’s Kind of Terrifying.

DANIEL GREENFIELD: Disney’s Business Model is Turning Kids Into Dysfunctional Adults. “The entertainment industry went from a leisure enterprise to one that thrives on dysfunction, that is less interested in having 60% of the country watching something for an hour than having 10% of the country binge watch it for six hours. Ratings and demographic profiles of the industry reflect a profound shift away from entertainment as a past time to entertainment as a lifestyle. And even an identity.”

THE GROWNUPS ARE BACK! Jen Psaki: Peter Doocy Does ‘Sound Like a Stupid Son of a Bitch’ Since He Works at Fox News.’

Flashback: Biden promises appointees he will fire them ‘on the spot’ if they disrespect others.

PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE: The gerontocracy protects its own.

Democrats only really began to debate whether [Dianne] Feinstein remained able to represent 40 million people when she oversaw the confirmation hearings of now-Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But Feinstein’s cognitive decline has been apparent for some time now. Even before Feinstein famously turned the Brett Kavanaugh hearings into a partisan bloodbath — you may recall how the octogenarian first sat on Christine Blasey Ford’s letter until it leaked to the public — Feinstein allowed a Chinese spy to spend 20 years on her staff. In any other profession, Feinstein would have been put out to pasture long ago.

Instead, four Senators, three of whom are Democrats, are now sounding the alarm to Feinstein’s own hometown paper. Two say Feinstein failed to even recognize them, and several other people said Feinstein seemed to lose her mind while speaking at a memorial for a late San Francisco official — twice. Feinstein initially forgot to even mention the memorial’s subject, whom she had known for decades. She then returned to speak up again but spoke about the decedent in the present tense.

Questioning Feinstein being near the end of her shelf life leads to questions about the Big Guy’s sell-through date having long expired. And as former and current Democratic Party operative Chuck Todd notes: Democrats don’t want to deal with questions about Biden’s age.

“It’s a tricky thing,” Todd said later in the panel. “If you start again, if you start questioning Dianne Feinstein, the president of the United States is going to start getting this stuff, and that’s something the party doesn’t want to have to deal with, those questions here.”

Questions about moments such as this: “‘After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused.’ Joe Biden had been, for decades, a corrupt and incompetent pol. Today, he is either an extreme left-winger or an empty vessel through which the extreme left is exerting control over America. Nevertheless, I feel sorry for him. It is hard to understand how those close to him, starting with his wife, can allow him to be so constantly humiliated. It is nothing less than elder abuse.”

During that same speech, “Biden pulled a Biden and did some resume padding by claiming he was a ‘full professor’ at the University of Pennsylvania during the brief time he was not in office. Biden has a long history of lying about his personal accomplishments, to be sure, but claiming to have been a professor as one of those is a stretch even for him. Biden said, ‘I’ve been at a lot of university campuses, matter of fact for four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.’”

THE POPE GOES WOKE ON GOOD FRIDAY: ‘We Are Racists, and That Is Bad.’

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? For Passover and Good Friday, NYT essayist writes about ‘killing’ ‘hateful God.’

UPDATE: Good Friday: NBC’s Today Show Chats With Leftist in ‘Thank God for Abortion’ Shirt.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The Four Most Unhinged Responses to Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Twitter.

MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet?

OH, SO THERE WERE FEDERAL AGENTS EMBEDDED AT THE US CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6th.

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ABUSE? Democratic donor Ed Buck gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths.

Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man, Dane Brown, was repeatedly injected by Buck but survived and his harrowing account of being revived twice finally led to Buck’s arrest in 2019.

Buck, 67, a big dollar donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, appeared in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for providing fatal doses of drugs, operating a drug den and enticing men to travel for prostitution. He was convicted last summer.

Flashback: John Nolte On Democrats’ Creepy Trio of Donors: Ed Buck, Terry Bean, and Jeffrey Epstein.

THE RNC JUST TOLD THE BIASED COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES TO SHOVE IT: “The [the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)] has been plagued by accusations of left-wing bias for years. In 2012, debate moderator Candy Crowley infamously disputed Mitt Romney when he said that Barack Obama refused to call the Benghazi terrorist attack for two weeks. Crowley sided with Obama, claiming that he had, although Romney was indeed correct. The CPD has also faced accusations of personal conflict due to members’ close ties with Democrats. In 2016, several CPD board members had reportedly been Hillary Clinton donors.”

HEY, CHARLTON HESTON PLAYED HIM ON THE BIG SCREEN — ISN’T THAT ENOUGH? Moses Got Cheated Out Of Recognition On Passover.

THE BANNINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Twitter Punishes Libs Of Tik Tok For Daring To Expose Radical Leftism.

Essentially, Twitter deemed it illegal to amplify what gender-bending, Trump-hating, racist, groomer leftists have already revealed about themselves online.

Since its beginnings in November 2020, the “Libs of Tik Tok” account has amassed more than 613,000 followers on Twitter and gained rapid popularity on other platforms such as Instagram for cross-posting TikTok wokeness.

The account features nightmarish videos, pictures, and even exclusive looks at the left-wing radicalism in schools and other institutions, which it refers to as coming from the “Depths of Hell.” From advertisements for genital mutilation to critical race theory to pornographic library books, “Libs of Tik Tok” documents how U.S. public schools have become a breeding ground for progressive ideology.

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“Libs of Tik Tok” has been instrumental in helping parents understand the insane indoctrination occurring to their children every day, which is why Twitter wants to squash it under its authoritarian boot.

“[A] lot of parents are really getting awakened now. My account has been very influential on this, as well as other accounts and media outlets, in really showing parents what is going on in the schools that they otherwise wouldn’t know or realized. So I think that I do have a lot of hope for the future. And I think that we’re going to retake our school,” the “Libs of Tik Tok” creator told The Post Millenial last week. “…The average parent doesn’t want their six-year-old to be taught about pansexuals.”

Naturally, Twitter’s response is, “shut up.” Andrew Klavan’s evergreen video remains evergreen:

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats face nightmare scenario, ‘biblical disaster.’

As Glenn has written, “If you want to win, donate and volunteer. Winning takes work, and commenting on Internet blogs, even this one, doesn’t count.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Colorado Wants to Fine Schools $25K a Month That Don’t Drop Indian Mascots.

Why does the left want to toss Native Americans down the memory hole?

JIM TREACHER: Elon Musk Seems Like a Cool Guy and Maybe He’ll Hire Me at Twitter. “Libs don’t want us expressing our honest opinions, because then it’s a lot tougher to control us. And they hate being ridiculed because, as Saul Alinsky noted decades ago, there’s no defense against it. If you make a joke about Richard Levine being a man — which he is, because that’s how chromosomes work and everybody knows it — libs will panic and try to silence you. In their minds, they have no choice. The truth is just too dangerous. Elon Musk is standing up for the Babylon Bee, wielding his astonishing fortune like a giant spiked baseball bat, and it’s a modern liberal’s worst nightmare. Tee-hee!”

OUT ON A LIMB: Rent Control in St. Paul Totally Backfired and Hurt the Poor, Study Reveals.

Thomas Sowell, call your office!

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrat Operatives Warn Joe Biden Will Have 2024 Primary Challenger.

That should be fun: “[M]ost of the time, presidents who fend off a primary challenge wind up losing the general election. Here’s a look back at the major primary challenges against presidents in the modern era.”

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Two inmates at all-women’s New Jersey jail are PREGNANT after both had sex with transgender prisoners: ACLU won battle to house 27 trans inmates there.

FASTER, PLEASE: Elon Just Offered to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion Cash.

That’s right, it’s happening.

Elon has offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion in cash. He wants to take it private and “transform” it into “the platform for free speech around the globe” (his words).

And he’s apparently not quitting with just Twitter!

(I think Frank may have made that last one up.) As a result, Twitter lefties are having a meltdown right now: Here’s a roundup of the woke freakout to Elon’s takeover bid at Twitter.

As well as:

I, too, enjoyed Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism back in the day. But even I don’t make Hitler comparisons with someone who made his bones thanks to the Obama administration.

DAVID MAMET: American Occupation.

Gandhi said to the British, you’ve been a guest in our house for too long, it is time for you to leave. He borrowed the line from Oliver Cromwell, and it’s a good one. The left has occupied the high places for too long, promoting dogma even as the occasions for their complaint have decreased (what position is closed to people of color, or women? Inclusion in all levels of the workforce; preference in higher education, a seat in the cockpit, in the Oval Office, in a movie’s cast, or admission to an elite school+? And yet the vehemence of their protests has increased, progressing into blacklisting and even rioting by those claiming to represent “the oppressed.”

Old-time physicians used to speak of the disease “declaring itself.” History teaches that one omnipresent aspect of a coup is acts of reprisal staged by agents provocateurs of the revolutionaries, and blamed on supporters of the legitimate government. It would be a historical anomaly if we were not to see such between now and the midterm elections.

For the disease has declared itself, and we are not now in a culture war, but a nascent coup, with its usual cast of characters. The Bolshevists could have been defeated by a company of soldiers in the suburbs of Moscow, Hitler stopped at Czechoslovakia, and the current horrors confronted at the Minneapolis police station or a meeting of the San Francisco school board. But those tragedies, and our current tragedies, were not just allowed but encouraged to run their course.

Yet I believe there is hope for reason and self-direction.

Related: Why David Mamet went right. The playwright has undergone a conversion. He’s an apostate now.