KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Public Schools Really Don’t Want Parents To Do Any Parenting. “COVID has really exposed those in charge of our public schools as the awful people that they’ve always been. We here on the conservative side of the political aisle have been saying for decades that public schools would prefer that parents have as little input as possible in their children’s lives. If Democrats had their way, kids would be whisked off to pre-pre-K immediately up exiting the womb.”

CYBERWAR: Russia’s second-largest internet provider cuts off Russian websites.

For better or worse, Russia’s internet just got kneecapped.

Cogent Communications is cutting off internet service to its Russian clients, the Washington Post reported on Friday. This puts it in league with companies like Meta, which has blocked Russian state-affiliated news agencies on Facebook in Europe; Twitter, which slaps a warning label on tweets from state-run Russian media outlets; and others.

Cogent is an internet infrastructure provider that serves international clients, including many companies in Russia. In fact, it is the country’s second largest internet service provider, according to Reuters.

In addition to the traditional war it has waged on the ground since invading Ukraine, Russia has staged cyberwar offensives against the neighboring nation’s military and banking websites. It is also using its state-affiliated media outlets and bot propaganda networks to put out a version of the country’s invasion of Ukraine that is favorable to Russia.

However: Social media turn on Putin, the past master.

In Russia on Friday, Vladimir Putin, a man who is now scared of his own shadow, took the extraordinary step of attempting to outlaw information. He banned Facebook. He shut down Twitter. He passed a new law that declares journalism a criminal offence: any journalist found to have published “fake news” on the war in Ukraine now faces up to 15 years in prison.

It is, like so many things in the last week, incredible, unprecedented, horrifying – but more importantly it’s also desperate and absurd. Because in 2022 you can’t ban information. It’s like trying to ban oxygen. It’s the kind of move that one of his grey-faced Soviet predecessors might have made. It’s as modern and up-to-date as a typewriter. Only a fool would make predictions right now, but here’s one anyway: it proves that Putin, the founding father of what’s come to be known as “information war”, just lost the information war.

Trying to wage war using tools and technology you don’t control is even more of a fool’s errand than war usually is.

Something we might want to keep in mind as Xi Jinping gets friskier.

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HMM: Zuckerbucks declared ‘bribery’ by special counsel in Wisconsin.

BIDEN LIES. A LOT: ‘Full of Sh**!’: Border Patrol Agents Blast Biden over Immigration Claims.

GOOD: Iowa Bans Biological Males From Women’s Sports.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Fire at Ukraine Nuclear Plant After Russian Shelling. “Early reports say it appears that Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting for control of the facility. It is estimated to provide power to 25% of Ukraine. Taking the plant offline because of the emergency could cripple Ukraine’s response to Russia’s military advance. Reuters is reporting that Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed the fire and said, ‘If it blows up, it will be ten times larger than Chornobyl! Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!'”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN REMISSION: Russia Involved in Plot To Help Iran Bust US Oil Sanctions. “The two tankers, named the Pegas and Linda, were recently sanctioned as part of U.S. efforts to isolate Russian businesses over the Ukrainian invasion. It has now become apparent that the two ships have been ferrying illicit Iranian crude oil in recent months, a move experts see as a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions and signal an increase in Tehran-Moscow relations.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Woke Eggs and Ham Time—Lefties Are About to Ruin Dr. Seuss. “If it seems that the perceived crimes against humanity to be found in the Dr. Seuss oeuvre have been forgiven, that’s not entirely correct. There’s always a price to be paid with these people.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Carjackings in cities like NYC, Philadelphia jump over 200% – often with kids behind the wheel, officials say.

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ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook Researchers Find Its Apps Can Make Us Lonelier.

CLEANEST ELECTION EVER: Wisconsin Special Counsel Finds ‘Widespread Election Fraud’ In 2020 Nursing Homes.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Poop attack perp told cops ‘s–t happens’ before being released without bail. “The sicko who allegedly smashed his own feces in a Bronx straphanger’s face joked with cops that ‘s–t happens’ before sneering to a Bronx judge, ‘F–k you, bitch.'”

KING OF SPACE, EVS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: Elon Musk Trolls Joe Biden on Twitter, and It Is Epic. “Tesla was oddly missing from the speech as well as the accompanying tweet posted by whoever controls Biden’s Twitter account. And Tesla CEO Elon Musk noticed that Biden had once again snubbed him because, unlike GM and Ford, Tesla isn’t unionized and is therefore unworthy.”

HMM: Why China’s tech industry will abandon Putin. “Sanctions have teeth, especially when chips — and the machines that make them — are on the table.”

MEGAN FOX: Ron DeSantis Is the Hero Our Kids Need. “Cut to the breathless reporting of leftist news anchors decrying DeSantis’s gall of telling kids what to do and the mother of one of the students who now says he felt ‘pressured’ to take the mask off his face because the ‘authority figure’ told him to. Give me a break, Junior. You totally wanted to. But, whatever, I get it. Mom’s listening now. And by the way, why isn’t your mom wearing a mask?”

WHEN CANCEL CULTURE COMES FOR AN ENTIRE NATION:

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