FASTER, PLEASE: Brave browser takes step toward enabling a decentralized web. “Brave has just taken a step toward supporting a decentralized web by becoming the first browser to offer native integration with a peer-to-peer networking protocol that aims to fundamentally change how the internet works. The technology is called IPFS (which stands for InterPlanetary File System), a relatively obscure transport protocol that promises to improve on the dominant HTTP standard by making content faster to access and more resilient to failure and control.”

EVERYTHING IS RACIST: Biden’s Climate Team: Climate Change Is Happening Because of ‘Systemic Racism.’

CHANGE: ‘Anti-Facebook’ MeWe social network adds 2.5 million new members in one week.

I’m really happy with MeWe, and find its interface to be a huge step up from the cartoony-looking mess that Facebook has become.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Colleges Lobby Biden to Halt Federal Probe Into Foreign Donations. “Education Dept. investigation has already found $6.5 billion in unreported gifts.”

YOU DON’T SAY: After Investigation, Pentagon Finds ‘No Plot Against Biden’ Among National Guard Troops.

YES: Democracy dies in emergencies.

State constitutions grant their chief executives the power to declare states of emergency, and to assume special powers to meet that emergency. Many of those state constitutions limit the scope or duration of those powers; Colorado’s constitution does not. If the governor chooses not to end the state of emergency, the legislature must pass a joint resolution ending it.

Governor Polis, who has a detailed set of criteria for moving between Covid color levels with their attendant restrictions, has issued no objective criteria for ending the state of emergency and relinquishing his extraordinary powers. A supine press, bogged down in details it barely pretends to understand, has not pressed him on this.

All of this so far has been defended as an attempt to save lives, and indeed there is a direct relationship between a viral pandemic and public health. But what if a governor were to unilaterally declare a pet political program a “public health emergency?”

Unfortunately, this isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound. The Denver City Council, Jefferson County’s Board of Heath, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) have all declared racism to be a public health crisis. Not that racism might exacerbate a public health crisis, mind you, but that racism itself is a public health crisis.

I’m reminded of the explanation Clarice Starling gave for her conclusion that the serial killer she was investigating would never stop: “He’s got a real taste for it.”

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, BUDDY: New York Times Says Deadly BLM Riots Were ‘Isolated Instances Of Property Destruction’ That GOP ‘Exaggerated.’

HOW’S THAT UNITY THING WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Scott Adams Notes What Joe Biden Has Accomplished Before Even Getting Inaugurated – It’s Not Good.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Biden Hell Arrives—Will America Survive? “Barring an intergalactic alien invasion or a much prayed-for appearance by the Sweet Meteor O’ Death today, Joe Biden should be the President of the United States when we go to sleep tonight. He may not know that, but the rest of us will.”

WATCH: Trump Says He Prays for Joe Biden in Farewell Address.

BE PREPARED: Joe Exotic has a limo parked outside his prison, along with hair, makeup, and wardrobe people on standby, in case Trump pardons him.

CAN’T HARDLY WAIT: Are Pelosi and Hillary Clinton Laying the Groundwork for a New War on Terror?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You spelled “war on Republicans” wrong.

PAULA BOLYARD: Help Us Take on Joe Biden and His Crew of Radical Leftists.

MATT MARGOLIS: Biden Cannot Legally Get Us Back Into the Paris Climate Accords; Here’s Why.

ARBEIT MACHT GESUND: Germany To Hold Quarantine Breakers In Refugee Camps And ‘Detention Centers.’

ENDORSED: Russell Crowe Is Right, If You Think ‘Master And Commander’ Is Boring, You Need To Grow Up.

THE COST OF SUBSIDIES: Iran’s Rolling Blackouts & Thick Smog Blamed On ‘Illegal’ Bitcoin Mining. “Amid crippling US-led sanctions on Iran and a continually weakened currency, enterprising young Iranians are taking advantage of the country’s cheap electricity to mine Bitcoin, however, it’s coming at a huge cost to fellow citizens as the immense power-sucking process of mining the cryptocurrency has contributed to a national electricity shortage and rolling blackouts.”

COOL. NOW DO TWITTER AND FACEBOOK: Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store over violent content and hate groups.

CHANGE: U.S. Military Says Its Troop Removal From Somalia Is Complete.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE. Chinese Coal Output has Risen to 2015 Levels, Undermining Climate Pledges.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: ‘How I Switched From Never-Trump To Never-Biden.’ “It’s the story of why a hardcore anti-Trumper switched to being anti-Biden. The hook is that the writer is an ex-cocaine addict, and thus has an ideal vantage to talk about what the media is hiding from us about Hunter Biden.”

PARTY OF SCIENCE: Biden Taps Transgender Health Official With Horrifying COVID-19 Nursing Home Record.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: NBC News Hack Says MAGA Terrorists More Dangerous Than al Qaeda.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is 3,000 dead in an attack committed by a well-funded, international terror organization less dangerous than a one-time riot that might have been partly instigated by leftists?

Answer: Never. But you knew that.

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

• Katie Couric wants to reprogram you
• Antifa prepares to throw “pro-Trump” riots
• Lefties suddenly denying that the intern-grooming Lincoln Porject founder is one of their own

Bonus Sanity: That’s a man, baby.

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

DECOUPLING: Trump administration reportedly restricts Huawei’s US suppliers.

INSURRECTIONISTS: Celebs URGED Electoral College Members to Vote Against Trump in 2016.