THAT’S WHAT CARTELS DO: Colorado school districts move to stifle education choice. “There are public school choice options in Colorado—open enrollment, magnet schools, and charter schools. But students who want access to these options are at the mercy of local school districts. Nearly every type of public school in Colorado must be authorized by a local school district. This results in a clear conflict of interest: If districts allow other options and families take advantage of those options, district schools will lose enrollment and a portion of per-student funding.”

SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED: ‘Pro-Free Speech’: Washington State Governor’s Plot to Criminalize Election Fraud Complaints Moves Forward.

PRIORITIES: Budget uncertainty ‘throttles’ MDA’s development of a hypersonic missile interceptor.

MDA in November selected three companies to design a Glide Phase Interceptor that would hit enemy hypersonic missiles during the glide phase, or the flat path they take while en route to their targets. MDA awarded Lockheed Martin, Northrop

Grumman and Raytheon Missiles and Defense other transactional agreements for an “accelerated concept design” phase of the program, Defense News reported at the time.

Asked about the path forward for the three companies developing their solutions, MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill told Defense News on Wednesday he had little news.
“The best answer I can give you in this environment today: … We live in a world right now where we don’t have current year appropriations, and we also don’t have insight into the following year’s topline. So unfortunately, that throttles this program,” he said after speaking at an American Society of Naval Engineers conference.

Yes, but that congressional investigation into an insurrection that didn’t happen is proceeding on schedule.

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Kamala Harris on ‘What Has Gone Wrong’ at the Border: [BLANK STARE].

FINGERS CROSSED: GM declares chip crisis over — and says it’s time to let the cheap cars roll.

HE CAN STILL GO LOWER: Biden’s Poll Numbers, Like Biden Himself, Keep Reaching Appalling New Lows.

RETURN TO DECENCY: Classified State Department email declared Hunter Biden ‘undercut’ U.S. efforts in Ukraine. “In an email kept from public view for more than five years, a top U.S. State Department official in Kiev wrote to Washington superiors at the end of the Obama-Biden administration that Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine ‘undercut’ U.S. efforts to fight corruption in the former Soviet republic.”

The Biden crime syndicate thrives on corruption, not on cleaning it up.

PRIORITIES: Leftist Loudon County Wants to Suspend Maskless Kids, but not a Transgender Rapist.

ELDER ABUSE: Biden Gets Bad Grades From Governors and Jill Leads Him off the Stage.

MEGAN FOX: Fire Whoopi! Mutually Assured Destruction Is the Only Way to End Cancel Culture for Good.

CHOKEPOINT: GoFundMe freezes Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ page after it raises $10 million.

“This fundraiser is currently paused and under review to ensure it complies with our terms of service and applicable laws and regulations,” read a notice at the top of the convoy’s GoFundMe page, as of Wednesday evening. “Our team is working 24/7 and doing all we can to protect both organizers and donors. Thank you for your patience.”

Before being suspended, the GoFundMe page for the Freedom Convoy 2022 made more than $10.1 million since having been established on Jan. 14. That amount far exceeded the amount raised by Canada’s major political parties last quarter.

Well, there you have it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Ignores Fact That CNN Went Into the Toilet Under Zucker. “It has been almost 18 years since Dan Rather was caught lying about George W. Bush in an attempt to use the power of CBS News to influence a presidential election. He was the first of the heavyweights to be exposed by new and alternative media types. There have been many since but, bless their biased hearts, the MSM hacks don’t seem to grasp that we’re watching.”

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook shares plunge more than 20% on weak earnings, big forecast miss. “Inflation, supply chain disruptions at advertisers and users shifting to products that ‘monetize at lower rates’ are among the key issues the company faces.”

Related: Meta’s VR division lost $3.3B on $877M in revenue in Q4.

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Matt Margolis: Is Joe Biden the Worst President Ever? (Not compared to next year’s Joe Biden.)

Rick Moran: Meta (Facebook) Will Allow Solicitation For Human Smuggling on its Platforms.

Yours Truly: Ranking the Bond Movies: Part 007 (The Best of Bond). “This is such rarified air that only two Bond movies can breathe it.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Here’s How to Save ‘Wordle’ After its Purchase by New York Times.

AGREED: If it’s Not an Election Year, Political Signs on Your Lawn are Obnoxious.

OH: Amazon whistleblower imprisoned, tortured in China for 2 years asks tech giant to apologize.

A Chinese whistleblower who alleges he was imprisoned and tortured for two years after he revealed substandard working conditions in factories producing Amazon products is now asking the Jeff Bezos-owned company for an apology.

Tang Mengfing reportedly spent two years in prison after exposing the working conditions inside Foxconn factories producing the company’s Alexa-enabled devices, including the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. The factory also manufactures Kindle devices. Tang told The Guardian that he was beaten and tortured by Chinese authorities during his imprisonment.

Tang alleged that school-aged children were put to work in the Foxconn factory, and that many were forced to work beyond the allotted 36 hours of overtime in a month, with some exceeding over 100 hours – essentially functioning as unpaid workers beyond their allotted hours.

“My father always taught me that I should be a good person and, because I followed my heart and believed that justice should be served, I reported the serious violations at Hengyang Foxconn. Yet my imprisonment has caused such great harm to me and my family,” he said.

Mengfing’s story doesn’t come up on a search of the Bezos-owned Washington Post archives.

#RESIST: ‘Convoy to DC 2022’ Gaining Steam as American Truckers Begin to Organize.

VIDEO: SUNY Prof defends ‘adult-child sex,’ saying ‘I don’t think it’s blanket wrong at any age.’

UGH: Biden Voter Furious That Illegal Immigrant Who Killed Her Daughter Will Not Be Deported.

“MODERATE JOE” WAS ALWAYS A LIE: Coalition of States Call on Biden to Rescind Federal Reserve Nominee Over ‘Radical’ Views. “We, the undersigned, oppose Ms. Raskin’s radical banking and economic views and are deeply concerned that she would use the supervisory authority as Vice-Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank to disrupt the private banking sector, reliable energy supplies, and the U.S. economy.”

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR DESTROYING A NETWORK: CNN President Jeff Zucker Suddenly Resigns Over Undisclosed Romantic Relationship.

Previously: CNN Ratings Crater Nearly 90%, Jeff Zucker Needs to Go.

UNEXPECTEDLY: US Lost 301,000 Jobs in January vs Predicted 200,000 Gained.

GAMING THE SYSTEM: Swiss Man Legally Declares Himself A Woman To Retire With Pension 1 Year Early.

OH MY: Durham Investigation of Obamagate Expands. “According to recent court filings, Durham has gained access to a significant amount of FBI internal affairs files in his effort to uncover the Obama administration’s maneuvers to promote bogus allegations against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Team Obama’s disingenuous investigation of the anti-Trump allegations, called Crossfire Hurricane, relied on the discredited Christopher Steele dossier, which was paid for by party activists.”