EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Disney Thinks Tinker Bell and Captain Hook Are ‘Potentially Problematic.’ “Tinker Bell (yes, I thought it was one word too) raised concern because she is ‘body conscious’ and jealous of Peter Pan’s attention. A young attractive woman who cares about her appearance and likes boys—the horror! Meanwhile they reportedly fretted over Captain Hook because has a disability but likes to do villainous things, and that could be considered by some to be discriminatory.”

This is not a satire piece, by the way.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Growing Impotence of Old Media on Display At WaPo and CNN+. “It is important to acknowledge that corporate, mainstream media is losing the stranglehold it once had on the information flow in this country. It may not be happening as quickly as we’d like but it is happening.”

HMM: Russia Decides to Blame NATO for Sinking the Moskva. “It appears that the evolving Russian propaganda response to this catastrophe is not to deny that it happened, but to deny that it happened in the way it is described: The Ukrainians didn’t sink the Moskva; NATO sank the Moskva using Ukrainian proxies. As one Russian commentator put it, the Russian yellow press started disseminating the story that ‘the attack on the cruiser Moskva was a carefully planned joint action of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Western countries. In addition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military specialists from Britain, Canada and Australia took part in it.'”

That’s a non-trivial escalation of Moscow’s anti-Western propaganda effort.

SOUNDS LIKE MAJOR GRAFT: Biden’s Rollback of Trump-Era EPA Rule Will Add Years to Some Projects and Double Costs.

I DOUBT MANY OF THEM WILL: University expects students to still ‘comply’ with professors’ masking ‘requests’ after it ends the mandate.

HE FIGHTS: DeSantis Takes the Fight Directly to Disney. “On Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he is calling on the state legislature to consider legislation in a special session to end the Walt Disney Company’s special protections after the company committed to opposing the recently signed Parental Rights in Education Act.”

DeSantis moves quickly, too — last week this was barely even a trial balloon.

HIS APPEAL HAS BECOME MORE SELECTIVE: Jon Stewart’s new show on AppleTV+ is reportedly a flop.

HMM: Google Maps has stopped hiding Russia’s secret military & strategic facilities. Allowing anyone in the public to view.

THE TRAGIC KINGDOM: Disney made itself an arm of the Democratic Party on a losing issue. “The GOP isn’t picking fights with corporations and painting them as fringe extremists. Those corporations are backing fringe, extremist ideas when they back Kaepernick’s anti-police screeds or the Democratic Party’s support for medical transitions for children.”

WELL, GOOD: The White House Surrenders on Mask Mandate for Public Transportation.

Actually, I’m not certain the White House surrendered. More likely they were looking for an off-ramp for a deeply unpopular policy, and now they have the bonus of a Trump-appointed judge to take the heat from the Dems’ COVID-panic base.

BUT WE HAD BEEN TOLD TO FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Mask mandates are back on campus. But they go against CDC guidance.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: If The Left Wanted to Save Black Lives, They’d Teach Young Black Men to Not Resist Arrest Instead of Making Heroes Out of Dead Thugs.

PRIORITIES: Biden’s Economic Report Mentions ‘Gender’ 40 More Times Than ‘Inflation.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Everyone Is Going Nuts Over Tucker’s Testicle Tanning.

Plus:

• LibsOfTikTok, doxxed by professional Mean Girl
• Goodbye China, hello stagflation (if we’re lucky)
• Did Obama just torpedo Biden 2024?

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

GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Our Stupid World: Fake Cop Home Invader Edition. “A man killed home invader who was pretending to be a cop.”

HMM: Was Trump’s Endorsement of J.D. Vance for Senate a Mistake? “The fence-mending is all fine and good, but Vance has deeper problems that Trump seems to have ignored or dismissed.”

#METOO: Colorado Democratic lawmakers want relief from new fees they put into law.

ANOTHER SELF-INFLICTED SUPPLY-CHAIN WOUND: The Biden Administration Ignores Trucking Industry Recommendations for a New Driver Training Program. “The Biden administration believes that it must charge these young kids even more money and bureaucratic hoops before they can get out on the road to help relieve the supply chain crisis that’s affecting all Americans.”

Sure would be nice if we had a Secretary of Transportation who was on the job of seeing to our transportation issues.

I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Babies Born During COVID Talk Less with Caregivers, Slower to Develop Critical Language Skills.

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Matt Margolis: The Media Is Now Defending Biden in The Worst Possible Way. “It appears the new strategy the media is taking is to claim that all the problems that Americans are lashing out at Biden over are simply issues out of his control.”

Megan Fox: Greetings From the Land of Swine Flu, Where No One Cares if You Live or Die (Because It’s Flu and We Don’t Care About That Anymore). “It wasn’t COVID. I used multiple tests to find out. And then I realized, I’ve had this terrible joint and leg pain before with a scarily high fever and violent coughing. This is swine flu. It is the most violent and painful flu I’ve ever had. This round didn’t disappoint. It was as bad if not worse than I remembered. I know what you’re thinking: ‘You should have gotten a flu shot!’ Except the CDC admitted its shot was only 16% effective this year.”

Yours Truly: Only 13 States Have Recovered From the Lockdown (Guess What 12 of Them Have in Common). “Colorado is an interesting exception to the GOP recovery rule.”

Bonus: Florida Man Friday: Is That a Gator in Your Truck or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT BLOCKCHAIN MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: ‘We Are F*****’: Crypto Stablecoin Collapses After $182M Hack. “On Sunday, cybersecurity firm PeckShield reported the attack on Beanstalk Farms, saying hackers stole more than $80 million for themselves, but the protocol’s losses appeared to be even higher. The company later said its initial analysis showed the losses amounted to around $182 million.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Anti-Science, Emotional Weakling Mask Fetishists Had a Rough Monday. “It’s a kink with these emotional cripples. They crave being controlled by the government. It’s a turn-on for them. The thought of being left to their own devices terrifies their submissive, masochistic psyches.”

HE’LL PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU: Elon Musk says Twitter board won’t be paid if he acquires company. “Board salary will be $0 if my bid succeeds, so that’s ~$3M/year saved right there.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE; MUCH MORE: The White House Has Found a New Way to Hide the Disaster That Is Kamala Harris.

YES: The Only Way To Fight Disinformation Is To Fight Political Censorship.