OH: Mayorkas Admits Just 3 Percent of Afghan Evacuees in U.S. Are Special Immigrant Visa Holders.

SKI MASK SEASON: Vail Resorts to require proof of vaccination for guests at cafeterias along with all workers.

I LOVE A LITTLE BLUE-ON-BLUE ACTION: Abandon Ship! Progressive Caucus Threatens to Bail on Infrastructure Deal. “Progressive Congresscritter Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) told CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday afternoon that her caucus is more than willing to torpedo the smaller bipartisan bill if they don’t get their way on the bigger bill.”

WOKE: How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career.

Most people haven’t heard of James Zimmermann, but most have heard him. A decorated musician with a long string of acoustic accolades, Zimmermann, 39, has made the sound of his clarinet difficult to avoid. He played at President Barack Obama’s second inaugural, has recorded tracks for best-selling video games, and helped create Walt Disney World’s new theme.

Zimmermann was also the principal clarinetist of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade—that is, until the orchestra fired him last February over accusations of racial harassment. To hear his accusers tell it, Zimmermann had insulted, intimidated, and even stalked his black colleagues, going so far as to menacingly drive by their homes. Human resources had already warned the clarinetist in 2019 that his behaviors could be grounds for dismissal, the orchestra claimed in its termination letter to Zimmermann. His refusal to heed that warning was ostensibly why he was fired in 2020.

But six of Zimmermann’s ex-colleagues and the orchestra’s own documents tell a very different story. They suggest that Zimmermann himself was the target of a witch hunt, instigated by a black oboist whom Zimmermann had stuck his neck out to help.

This is a fascinating story, well told.

MANY OF US ALREADY HAVE BUT IT ISN’T YET ENOUGH: How Far Will COVID-19 Medical Authoritarianism Go Before We Say ‘Enough’?

THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF THE CLOWN CAR: White House Reporters File Formal Complaint Against Biden For Refusing To Answer Questions. “The entire editorial component of the U.S. pool went immediately into Jen Psaki’s office to register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president’s Oval Office, and that wranglers loudly shouted over the president as he seemed to give an answer to Ed O’Keefe’s question about the situation at the Southern Border.”

BOMBSHELL BUT HARDLY SHOCKING: Former Biden Border Chief Makes Bombshell Accusations Against Administration. “Of grave concern is the fact that the Secretary and other political appointees within DHS have provided factually incorrect information to Congressional Representatives and to the American public. Furthermore, they have directed USBP personnel to allow otherwise ineligible aliens to remain in the U.S. inconsistent with the … established legal processes and law.”

HECKUVA JOB, JOE: ISIS terrorist who killed US troops in Kabul was one of the terrorists released in Bagram. “America’s disorganized retreat from Afghanistan has led to hundreds of highly-competent and highly-committed terrorists being set free to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.”

OF COURSE: Portland Activists Survey Themselves and Conclude Un-Woke Cops Are to Blame for Their Riots.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden’s Fake Presidency Could Wreck the Dems For a Long Time. “While I do worry about the damage to the U.S. Constitution our senile, alleged president and his puppet masters can do before November of 2022, I also relish the fact that his scorched-earth commie plan might relegate the Democrats to the backbench for quite some time.”

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Black Lives Matter wants to ‘cancel Carmine’s’ and no one can tell the truth.

In a city that was inflamed by protests over inequity and racism in the summer of 2020, it’s amazing that so little conversation ensued over the obvious bias of this vaccine mandate. As of today, only 38% of Black New Yorkers are vaccinated.

The fact that over 60% of the Black community in New York City can’t eat inside Carmine’s is, of course, discrimination. But it’s not discrimination by Carmine’s. It was forced on them by an out-to-lunch Mayor Bill de Blasio and a complacent city that does not question directives that make no sense.

Restaurants were never a major spreader of COVID. And if you’re vaccinated, why do you care if others are not?

Karen cares — and will find one way or another to make you feel just how much.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Inflation has turned $15 an hour wages into a setback.

YOUR LYIN’ EYES: Are We Supposed to Believe Dr. Fauci or the Data Collected on COVID-19? “How much longer is Dr. Fauci going to be allowed to make proclamations that contain confounding variables, data-free assumptions, and outright falsehoods with no pushback?”

FEDERALISM: As Biden Continues to Foment Border Crisis, Governors Step Up.

AJ KAUFMAN: Biden Claims He’s ‘Prioritized Rebuilding Our Alliances’ at Debut UN Speech. “The unilateral retreat last month from ‘America’s longest war’ and its horrific aftermath gave Beijing an opportunity to produce an unholy alliance with the Taliban.”

SLAP ON THE WRIST: Twitter to Pay $809.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Jack Dorsey, Others Misled Investors.

THEY SHOULD GO BACK TO BUILDING NUKE PLANTS: Energy Crisis Hits Europe With Natural Gas Prices Rising a Whopping 250 Percent.

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats’ dwindling 2022 map. “Democrats are trying to unseat only about half as many Republican House members next year as they did in 2020, trimming their target list from 39 to 21.”

PRIORITIES: No Room in Joe Biden’s America for Persecuted Christian Refugees.

ONE SMALL RAY OF HOPE: Liberal Minister who called Taliban her ‘brothers’ loses seat in Peterborough-Kawartha.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Media Drives #WhipGate Fake News About Border Guards Whipping Haitians.

Plus:

• Doctors treating sick people is so passé
• So are colleges that prepare young people for the real world
• Reconciliation madness, however, is the new hotness

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

CHAIN OF COMMAND: General Milley Often Went Rogue.

A witness from inside the administration has suggested that rogue behavior wasn’t abnormal for Milley.

E. Casey Wardynski, a former assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, claimed that Milley — who, according to the book, “Peril,” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, called his Chinese counterpart twice to tell him that the US would not attack Beijing — routinely violated the bounds of his authority.

Wardynski said Milley and chief of staff of the US Army Gen. James McConville engaged in a “pattern of behavior” to thwart President Donald Trump.

Wardynski also called Milley a bully who had no intention of supporting the president.

Milley’s job is to give advice and follow orders — not behave like the Woke version of a four-star Hollywood heavy.

YOU STAY CLASSY, JEN: Psaki Invokes Biden’s ‘Personal’ Losses After Botched Airstrike Killed Seven Kids.

THOSE AT THE TOP OF THE HIERARCHY WANT TO MAKE DAMN SURE YOU KNOW IT: The COVID Hierarchy Is A Power Hierarchy And Everyone Knows It. “So confident are they in this power, they flaunt it on national television. They don’t fear the unwashed masses. What are they going to do, stop watching the Emmys? (Done.) Refuse service work in states like New York and California? Elect Republicans where there are none?”

A VERY PUBLIC EDUCATION: Students Protesting Severe Bullying, Suicides Hit With Mass Retaliation by New York School District. “Students walked out of class on Friday and held a protest in support of students who are facing cyberbullying and other incidents of bullying in school, including by teachers, they say. The district locked the children out of the school and refused to allow them transportation home, leading parents to scramble to find them safe rides home.”