HMM: Russia Thins Out Its Embassy in Ukraine, a Possible Clue to Putin’s Next Move.

I STILL THINK IT’S MOSTLY THE PRESS: Trump Aides See the Hand of McConnell in Promoting the Idea of a Feud With DeSantis.

DOG BITES MAN: Democrats have another crime problem: several officeholders face felony corruption or sex charges.

I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Believes There’s a ’50 Percent Chance’ of War in Europe.

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Biden administration approves college students getting COVID relief checks.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Studies Show That Anti-Police Protests Have Led to Rise in Violent Crime.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

Previously: Inflation is just getting started.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Ivermectin Doctor Suspended, Forced to See Shrink.

Plus:

• Democrat says the problem with Democrats is people who vote for Democrats
• ‘Deep Thoughts’ by Kamala Harris
• Jonathan Chait is this close to taking the red pill

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

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Danish newspaper apologizes for mindlessly parroting government narrative.

STACEY LENNOX: Donald Trump vs. Ron DeSantis Is Not the Distraction the GOP Needs Right Now.

It’s also probably mostly ginned up by the press.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Russia Signals It May Move Nuclear Missiles Near U.S. Coastline As Its Anger Grows With Biden.

NOBODY EVER HAS TO WARN AGAINST METHODISTPHOBIA: In Wake of Texas Synagogue Hostage-Taking, Anti-Defamation League Warns Against ‘Islamophobia.’

NOT THE BEE: Triple-vaxxed AOC has survived the dreaded Omicron and took the opportunity to tell us how evil we are.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Sub Teacher Claims She Was Fired for Not Meowing Back at Student Who Identifies as Feline.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Winter of Discontent II: Biden Boogaloo. “In late 1978 and early 1979, the combination of inflation, harsh winter weather, Labour government dysfunction and trade union strikes brought the UK economy to its knees and ordinary citizens to a boiling point. Rail and lorry strikes led to spot shortages, and a haulers strike left mounds of garbage littering London strikes. The end result was an upheaval that would bring Margaret Thatcher to power as prime minister, and the new Tory government would swiftly move to crush the power of the unions to disrupt public order, and Labour would not regain power for nearly 18 years.”

Lots of good stuff at the link.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Have Long Perverted MLK’s Legacy. “Joe Biden — who purports to be the president of this great land — decided back in 2020 to use the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter riots to provide one of the worst hot takes ever.”

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Matt Margolis: Joe Biden Doomed His Party Big Time. “Party preferences tend to be linked to the president’s approval. Joe Biden’s approval ratings, as you know, are in the toilet, and he seems to be taking his party down the drain with him.”

Kevin Downey Jr: Here’s What Happened When I Caught COVID (Sorry, Joe, I Didn’t Die). “Much like herpes, the Chinese Sneeze has this funky habit of making you think it’s gone, then WHAM! Lie down and try again later. Or tomorrow.”

Yours Truly: James Carville to Dems: Stop Being So ‘Whiny.’ “‘Quit being a whiny party’ is Democrat consultant James Carville’s advice to his own people, just before telling Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on Sunday that tigers should change their stripes and that VodkaPundit can quit drinking any time he wants to.”

NOT REALLY: NASA says March still on the table for SLS launch.

NASA officials are holding out hope that the first Space Launch System launch can still take place as soon as March despite a delay in the rollout of the vehicle for a key test until mid-February, SpaceNews reports. “Hopefully, we’re going to be completing all of the testing to be able to roll out for a wet dress rehearsal in February and then, hopefully, a launch in March,” NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana said in a talk January 11 at the SpaceCom conference in Orlando, Florida. “That might be tight.”

That might not be right … In a separate talk, Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro presented a chart of major NASA missions in 2022 that showed both the wet dress rehearsal and the Artemis 1 launch taking place in the first quarter of the year. Spoiler alert: the SLS rocket is not launching in March, at least not March 2022. NASA officials would do well to be as transparent and honest with the public about this as possible.

Nobody paying attention will be shocked when SLS doesn’t launch in March of 2022.

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden’s Crazy Claim About MLK’s Assassination.

CLEANEST ELECTION IN HISTORY: Video Shows Pennsylvania Official Admitting Election Laws Were Broken In 2020.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD TRY NOT BEING DIRTY HIPPIES: Portland Police Training Manual Calls Antifa ‘Dirty Hippies.’ The Dirty Hippies Aren’t Happy.

HALLUCINOGENIC BEER, IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T PINEAPPLE? Archaeologists Suspect Hallucinogenic Beer Helped Bolster a Peruvian Empire.

WE MAY NEVER KNOW HIS TRUE MOTIVE: Biden Called Kyle Rittenhouse a White Supremacist, but Won’t Speculate on Motive of Malik Faisal Akram.

COLD WAR II: China Denies ‘Remarkable’ Expansion of its Nuclear Arsenal, Which Is Laughable. “Last summer, the Pentagon’s annual report on China warned that the country was aiming to build a total of 700 deployable thermonuclear warheads by 2027, and 1,000 warheads by 2030. The report states that China’s pace of warhead construction is so rapid that its previous estimate from 2020 had become obsolete in just one year.”

THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS RANDOM CRAZY HOMELESS EX-CONS THEMSELVES: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Bemoans ‘Perception of Fear’ After Another Subway Murder.