WHO KNEW THAT ORWELL WAS AN OPTIMIST? Social Media Bias Just Got Even More Orwellian.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): This app lets you order hormone blockers so you can gender reassign without ever having to see an in-person doc or shrink.

NOT EXACTLY REAGAN VS PATCO: Chicago Teachers Were Ordered Back To Classrooms, When They Didn’t Show Up They Were Given Another Day.

MATT MARGOLIS: Let’s ‘Circle Back’ To Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Homophobic Tweet.

COLLUSION: Russian Spies are Behind Environmental Groups. Democrats Shrug. “It’s been well known for some time that the Russians are highly active in the environmental movement and that dates back to the Cold War. European environmentalists are a major priority, but Moscow has its tentacles in the US environmental movement as well.”

And there’s Joe Biden, using environmentalism as a justification for shutting down US energy extraction and transportation.

CHANGE? House Republicans Prepare To Oust Liz Cheney From Leadership. “The timing of her move on the eve of the vote hurt members of the caucus she ostensibly leads, according to many members. They also cited the extreme rhetoric she used in pushing for Trump’s removal from office.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Dear Biden Voters, You’ve Been Seriously Had.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What does it take to fully disillusion a Biden voter?

Answer: Whatever it is, Biden probably has done it twice already.

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

• Andrew Cuomo sets new land-speed world record for flip-flopping
• Soros-backed LA DA apparently cool with paroling a Manson Family killer
• Come meet your (pasty, scraggly, whiny) oppressor

Bonus Sanity: Californians finally turning against Gavin Newsom.

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

GOODER AND HARDER: Biden energy ban an economic hammer to Colorado.

Between 2021-2024, Biden’s leasing ban will eliminate 5,172 jobs annually, wipe out $2.8 billion in oil and natural gas investments, $1.3 billion in production, $546 million in much-needed tax revenue and a whopping $1.6 billion in high-paying wages.

Colorado’s neighbors to the north and south face similar threats from President Biden’s ban.

As the fifth-largest oil and natural gas-producing state, New Mexico extracts nearly half of its oil and 67% of its natural gas from leases on federal lands. Before the pandemic, tax revenue generated from oil and production overall comprised 20% of the state’s budget. With 62,000 jobs at stake, a federal leasing ban will be catastrophic for one of the country’s most poverty-stricken states.

A federal leasing ban is equally devastating for the Cowboy State. Wyoming’s oil and gas economy is dependent upon federal oil and gas leases. A federal leasing prohibition will severely impact 51% of the state’s oil production and a whopping 92% of its natural gas production.

Ouch.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME KIND OF EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND, CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRICES AND DEMAND: California City Raises Wages For Grocery Workers, Grocery Chain Responds Predictably. “In order to reward to work for grocery store employees, Long Beach passed the ‘Hero Pay’ measure, which increased the pay of grocery store employees by four dollars an hour. While the measure seems like it was well-intentioned, good intentions don’t balance budgets nor make the availability of products any more diverse. Long Beach officials were looking for a positive moment in the press, however, the Kroger grocery brand quickly put that to rest, by announcing that they were closing two grocery stores in the city, a Ralph’s location as well as a Food4Less store.”

COMMIES LIE: Huawei’s HarmonyOS: ‘Fake it till you make it’ meets OS development. “After getting access to HarmonyOS through a grossly invasive sign-up process, firing up the SDK and emulator, and poring over the developer documents, I can’t come to any other conclusion: HarmonyOS is essentially an Android fork.”

This is actually a fun read if you’re at all interested in mobile OS development, or Huawei’s tech and sales woes since Trump sanctioned the Communist front company.

SHE’S DOING HER VERY BEST: Is Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki Even Trying Anymore?

THE CINC HAS GOT YOUR BACK OR WHATEVER: White House has nothing to say on Space Force.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki seemed surprised when a reporter during her daily briefing Tuesday asked if President Biden has made any decisions regarding the U.S. Space Force.

“Wow, Space Force,” Psaki said, visibly taken by surprise by the question.

“It’s the plane of today. It is an interesting question,” she responded.

The “plane” comment is a reference to a question Psaki got during her Jan. 22 briefing on what color scheme Biden would prefer for Air Force One. She said Biden “has not spent a moment” thinking about the color scheme for the presidential airplane.

Her reaction to the Space Force question suggests Biden has probably not given much thought to the Space Force.

The country is in the very best of hands.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Please Call 911 If You See Jen Psaki’s Last Brain Cell. “I’m sure that Jennie from the block will one day have to answer a question. Something about what color shoes her boss is wearing that day or who her favorite Beatle was. If they give her enough time to answer she may not glitch and just repeat ‘circle back’ over and over like a short circuiting Stepford wife.”

FLATTEN EVERYTHING: 2 million Australians forced into five-day ‘full lockdown’ after single hotel security guard tests positive for COVID. And the arrests have already started.

SCORCHED EARTH: Democrats Make No Bones About Their Ultimate Goal in Impeachment.

LEARN TO CODE: John Kerry May as Well Have Told Laid-Off Keystone XL Pipeline Workers to Learn Chinese.

SHE’S FRAGILE: AOC Uses #MeToo Claim to Silence Political Opponents.

OH: Biden’s Adviser To Pick Federal Judges Was Accused of Physically Assaulting Children, Nudity.

THAT IS THE GOAL: Andy Ngo Unmasks Antifa in New Book and Warns: ‘Antifa Lives and Thrives Only if America Dies.’

DIFFERENCE WITHOUT DISTINCTION: Oregon 1st state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs.

JOANNE JACOBS: Don’t care much about history.

Families for San Francisco‘s report links to the renaming committee’s Zoom meetings and its spreadsheet with citations from Wikipedia. Here are “case studies” of some of the decisions.

It’s filled with “embarrassing, avoidable and credibility-destroying errors” based on cutting, pasting and then misinterpreting from dubious sources, writes Eskenazi.

Based on a Top-10 list from the History Channel website, the committee condemned Paul Revere for fighting against the Penobscot Indians. In fact, he fought the British (not very well) at Penobscot Bay, named after the Indians, who were not involved.

“Educators.”

THANKS, BUT NO: Ford says ‘millions’ of its vehicles will run on Google’s Android starting in 2023.

Flashback: Hotel Googlefornia. “Jason Evangelho reports what happens when your smartphone, computer laptop, and tablet are denied access to ‘Google’s 8,699,648 (!) IP addresses,’ and the results weren’t pretty.”

Cars, too.

NOTHING DOES: Biden Approval Index: This Sure Doesn’t Look Like the Mandate Democrats Think They Have.

FRANCIS TURNER PRESENTS: A host your own server blogging platform. “Micronetia is a system for people to create their own standalone blog, website or other internet connected resource that is hosted by them so that it can’t be arbitrarily deleted because some part of BigTech decided that either the content or its creator needed to be cancelled.”

YOU DON’T SAY: CU Professor says much of climate research ‘untethered from the real world’; cites misuse of scenarios.