PRESIDENT KLAIN: Biden’s chief of staff faces fierce backlash for claiming high inflation is no longer a problem. “Ron, the prices are still high, the increase has just slowed because it’s a rolling 12 month calculation. Have you been to a grocery store in the last year?”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Biden 2024 Train Wreck Might Be Happening. “The real question that has to be asked is if Biden can physically handle the rigors of a real campaign. He spent most of the 2020 run in his basement with his Legos and baggie full of Cheerios, only putting on his big boy pants to make the occasional video with DOCTOR Mama Jill. He wasn’t mentally sharp enough to run then and we’ve all witnessed his precipitous decline in the last year.”

THE LONG MARCH BACK THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS: A sharp right turn for Florida’s New College: ‘We are recapturing higher ed.’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to turn the very progressive New College of Florida, the state’s liberal arts honors college, into a classical liberal arts school that replaces “diversity, equity and inclusion” with “equality, merit, and colorblindness.” He appointed six new conservative trustees, including the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo and Hillsdale College’s Larry Arnn.

According to a press release, New College will “hire new faculty with expertise in constitutionalism, free enterprise, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles” and “establish a graduate school for training teachers in classical education.”

DeSantis has vowed to fight “philosophical lunacy” in public education, report Ana Ceballos and Jeffrey S. Solochek in the Tampa Bay Tribune.

“We are recapturing higher education,” said Rufo, who’s campaigned against teaching “critical race theory and gender ideology” in public schools.

The knives are already out:

You can read the thread starting here.

IT’S EASY TO LAUGH AT THIS STUFF, RIGHT UP UNTIL YOUR EMPLOYER’S H.R. DEPARTMENT USES IT AGAINST YOU: ‘Deflective Whiteness’: The Latest Cockamamie Social Justice™ Race Hustle. “A libbed-out white liberal arts professor named Hannah Noel has invented a whole new weapon for corporate diversity trainers and public school social workers to wield against their captive white audiences, which also conveniently serves as a tool for personal enrichment via her accompanying book.”

SOFT TARGETS: IRS Audits Targeted Poor at Higher Rate Than Millionaires in ’22. “The taxpayer class with unbelievably high audit rates — five and a half times virtually everyone else — were low-income wage-earners taking the earned income tax credit.”

ROBERT SPENCER: Las Vegas Solar Plant Suffers Terror Attack, but What Kind?

KLAS reported that a man named Mohammad Mesmarian is “facing terror-related charges after police said he rammed his car through a gate at a solar plant outside Las Vegas and set his car on fire, disabling the huge facility.” It seems that Las Vegas Metro police responded to a call from the plant on Wednesday morning; “employees at the plant said they found a car smoldering in a generator pit.”

The plant in question is called the Mega Solar Array, and it is no minor installation: it “provides energy to MGM properties,” which are quite considerable in the Las Vegas area, and “is run by a company called Invenergy.” Mesmarian, however, has put the plant out of action for at least two years by “ramming through a fence and setting the car on fire.”

Developing…

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: A Dominatrix Walks Into a City Council Meeting… “This week we have the happy ending that wasn’t, equal spankings for all, and the cutest dog that ever got to go to a Miami Heat game.”

BREAKING: Key Republicans Flip to McCarthy.

TO BE FAIR, HE WAS A RIDICULOUS PICK FOR THAT CABINET POST: Buttigieg Gives the Most Ridiculous Excuse Ever for Using Private Jets.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: These Are The Top 7 Times The Military Went Woke In 2022.

HMM: ‘Framework’ for a Speaker Deal Emerges.

COMPLETELY INADVERTENT: Social Security numbers of Trump officials, allies posted in Jan. 6 files.

KRUISER (FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS): Here’s All I Want Out of the GOP’s Speaker Squabble. “Let the fights be frequent but let them be focused.”

THE GREAT RE-SORTING: Torrent of Taxes Sends New Yorkers Fleeing on Southbound Expressway.

HOW ABOUT SOME GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE? The EU Just Shivved Facebook and I Can’t Stop Smiling.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN RUSSIA DIDN’T DARE INVADE UKRAINE AND IRAN WAS FULLY SANCTIONED: Russia is bombarding Ukraine with drones guided by U.S.-made technology, and the chips are still flowing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: President Harris Really Stinks at Her Job. “When President Biden refers to ‘President Harris’ we should all ponder what might happen if she does end up with the title for real.”

AFTER BIG GAINS IN KHERSON AND KHARKIV, AND STOPPING THE RUSSIANS AT BAKHMUT, WHY SHOULD THEY TAKE PART? Putin orders weekend truce in Ukraine; Kyiv won’t take part.

IT SEEMS A LITTLE SOON FOR THAT: What Is a Woman? Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Working on a Memoir.

NOW CAN WE CALL IT A RECESSION? U.S. trade deficit shrinks 21% to 26-month low as imports tumble.

UGH: Police Release Chilling Details About Idaho Quadruple Murder.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST TWITTER’S WOKE ENFORCEMENT SQUAD…: ‘We don’t do this’: Even Twitter’s censors rejected Adam Schiff’s censorship request.

CHAZZ PALMINTERI: ‘Art Can’t Be Safe.’ “I write what’s in my heart, that’s it. I don’t mean to hurt anyone, but I write what’s in my heart.”

WELL, YEAH — BUT WHAT IS WHO STILL LYING ABOUT? WHO Director Says China Is Lying About COVID Deaths and Withholding Vital Genetic Data.

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: ‘Whiteness is going to have an end date’ says Rutgers professor of gender and Africana studies.