INSTAPUNDIT READERS HAVEN’T BEEN: MIT Tech Review: No Need To Panic About COVID-19 Variants.

TWO LIES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE: Senior White House Covid Advisor Says Biden Wears Mask Inside ‘Because He’s A Very Important Person.’

THE NEW ANTIRACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: Lawsuit Alleges Racism in Biden Administration’s Covid Relief for Restaurants and Bars.

WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: How The New York Times Manufactures Lies For Democrats To Attack Their Opponents.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden Needs To Stop the COVID Vaccine Harassment Already. “The relentless mask/vaccine one-note messaging from the Biden administration is getting more wearisome by the minute. There are other things going on in the world that the empty husk’s handlers should be making him pretend to deal with.”

Look around. It’s all they have.

LAWFARE: Pentagon Backs Off Xiaomi Blacklisting After Legal Challenge. “The U.S. Defense Department agreed to remove Xiaomi Corp. from a blacklist banning U.S. investment in the Chinese tech giant, opting against further defending a Trump administration action that alleged ties between the smartphone maker and the Chinese military.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Joe Biden Gives Us More Reasons to Question His Cognitive Health.

BREAKING: Maricopa County Election Audit Uncovers ‘Significant Discrepancies.’

CHRISTIAN TOTO: You Won’t Believe How Trevor Noah Spins Hamas’ Assault on Israel. “This time the ‘both sides’ rationale sounds even more nauseating than usual.”

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB: The GOP’s Nominee for Virginia Lieutenant Governor, Winsome Sears, Just BLASTED Critical Race Theory.

DANEGELD: Colonial Pipeline Paid Nearly $5 Million In Ransom To Hacker Group.

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN: Growing inflation is Biden’s hidden tax on working Americans.

MEGAN FOX: More Lawsuits Filed Against Court Guardian Elaine Pudlowski in St. Louis Family Court Scandal.

THEY’LL BE BACK: Colorado Democrats shelve effort to impose a gun-purchase waiting period this year. “Colorado lawmakers were debating implementing a waiting period of three to five days before deciding to shelve the bill.”

BIDEN’S RETURN TO LAWFULNESS: Biden HHS Secretary Attempts to ERASE a Federal Abortion Law He Doesn’t Like.

FOLLOW THE ACTUAL SCIENCE: Lockdown Mongers Can Point Fingers, But The Science Is In: They’re To Blame. “As is so often the case, however, the conventional wisdom was wrong. A new study from Chicago University economist Casey Mulligan validates what the anti-lockdowners knew all along: Lockdowns are a bad idea. After workplaces implemented mitigation measures, they became far safer environments than people’s homes.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: The Left Loves Nothing Like Women-Oppressing, Gay-Murdering Terrorists.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s the best way to show your support for women, gays, and oppressed minorities?

Answer: By celebrating misogynist, gay-murdering, rocket-wielding terrorists, of course.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• An Army of none
• Toure — remember him? — calls for racial violence
• Jennifer Granholm says, “Let them eat lithium”

Bonus Sanity: Texas working on a law that says steak is meat.

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

LAWN GUYLAND FOR TRUMP: What’s All the Noise From Long Island? It’s the Pro-Trump Long Island Loud Majority.

AND WE’RE NOT QUITE FOUR MONTHS IN: Biden’s Middle East Failure.

The first is the U.S. Navy’s seizure over the weekend of a significant weapons shipment. It contained “dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades launchers … [and] advanced optical sights,” the Fifth Fleet said in a statement.

The cache was destined for Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, whom the Biden administration recently delisted as a terrorist organization. No serious person believes the arms didn’t originate in Iran, though for obviously political reasons the United States Navy prefers not to state the obvious.

In neighboring Iraq, a prominent Iraqi political activist and critic of Iranian influence in his country, particularly the arming and funding of pro-Tehran militias, was gunned down—the latest in a series of Iran critics to turn up dead. The early reporting suggests an Iranian militia is to blame.

Finally, there is the escalating security situation in the Persian Gulf. After several years of tranquility along one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, Iran has returned to harassing American ships.

Let’s not forget that Iran-backed Hamas is testing Biden’s support for Israel — and finding it wanting.

WHEN IN DOUBT, ASK YOURSELF “WWTD?”: The Biden Regime’s Response to Its Many Crises Will Make You Facepalm So Hard You’ll Hurt Your Neck.

(What Wouldn’t Trump Do?”)

20 MINUTES FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS: Oblique wave detonation engine may unlock Mach 17 aircraft. “Rotating detonation engines, in which the shockwaves from one detonation are tuned to trigger further detonations within a ring-shaped channel, were thought of as impossible to build right up until researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) went ahead and demonstrated a prototype last year in sustained operation. Due for testing in a rocket launch by around 2025, rotating detonation engines should be more efficient than pulse detonation engines simply because the combustion chamber doesn’t need to be cleared out between detonations.”

CRISES BY DESIGN: Trump Explains Why Joe Biden Is Worse Than Jimmy Carter. “I see that everybody is comparing Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter. It would seem to me that is very unfair to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy mishandled crisis after crisis, but Biden has CREATED crisis after crisis.”

COLD WAR II: Taiwan’s TSMC joins American chip coalition in another blow to China’s self-sufficiency drive.

While ostensibly created for lobbying purposes in the US, the coalition showcases US influence over the globalised semiconductor supply chain, and is likely to complicate Chinese government efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on US technologies, analysts said.

China’s chip self-sufficiency ambitions “continue to face headwinds from surging efforts in America to reshore and ring-fence semiconductor value chains and technology” said Alex Capri, research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation and lecturer at the National University of Singapore.

TSMC’s increased investment and participation in building leading edge 5-nanometer (nm) and even 3-nm chip manufacturing plants in America may increase the pressure on Beijing because it appears the Taiwanese company will not do the same in mainland China, Capri said.

You’d have to be a fool, suicidal, or on the take to build an advanced fab in mainland Communist China.

UNFIT: Adults in the Room: Retired Military Brass Not Afraid to Voice Their Concerns About Biden. “On Tuesday, 124 retired military leaders released an open letter warning about key threats to America, from China to the border crisis to the ideologies undermining American freedoms. They also proved willing to address a major elephant in the room: President Joe Biden’s mental capacity and how Democrats’ concerns about nuclear codes undermine the chain of command.”

Much more at the link.