THAT’S REAL MONEY: Meta could face $11.8 billion fine as EU charges tech giant with breaching antitrust rules.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Remember This Whenever Muslims Demand More ‘Rights’ in the West.

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: California college trustee wants to ‘cull’ conservative faculty, ‘take ’em to the slaughterhouse.’

THE TWITTER FILES, Part VII: The FBI All Up in Twitter’s Bu “Following the Twitter drops can be confusing, and there is some redundancy in the latest batch of tweets, so let’s look at some crib notes.

BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein Verdict Is In.

BREAKING: SCOTUS Delays End of Title 42.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Tucker Carlson let Mike Tyson smoke a truckload of weed at his house.

MATT MARGOLIS: This Poorly Photoshopped Pic of Biden From a Dem Strategist Is So Cringey.

BATTLESWARM: Two Juicy EU Scandals Bubble Up. “Two big EU scandals seem to be breaking (one the European media is all over like a winter junket to a fact-finding mission in Greece, the other they’re ignoring the way American media try to ignore any Biden family scandal), and I’m trying to figure out what to make of it all.”

IT’S OFFICIAL: January 6 Committee Refers Trump to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Nothin’ to do but feed all the kangaroos.

NEW YORK FINALLY GETTING WHAT IT VOTED FOR: ‘We cannot continue to address this alone:’ Eric Adams warns there will be 15 busloads with thousands of migrants arriving in NYC each week after Title 42 is lifted on Wednesday.

LINCOLN BROWN: One More Step Toward Dystopia. “At times we drift, stumble, run or even stampede toward the words of Harrison Bergeron, depending on the issue. There is no way that everyone can feel attractive, athletic, or talented without making sure someone else does not feel that way. While the reality of life is that it is unfair, the powers that be seem to want to level the playing field by using a steamroller.”

SAY ANYTHING: Biden Admin Says Its Natural Gas Phaseout Will Save Taxpayers Millions. It Will Do the Opposite.

EXCLUSIVELY FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS: Here’s How to Avoid Stumbling into World War III. “The biggest obstacles to Kissinger’s plan are just two men: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Putin seems content to ride out a long and ruinous war, no matter what the risks. And Zelenskyy shows no willingness to compromise: It’s either Ukraine’s 1991 borders or maybe WWIII.”

THEY MAGICALLY WINKED INTO EXISTENCE: Electric school buses are practically free now.

MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS? Elon Musk Voted Out as Head of Twitter — Now What?

OH: Russian oligarch suddenly dead after dinner on Côte d’Azur. “According to Baza, the Russian oligarch was invited to dinner with friends in Antibes that evening. After making his way home shortly after midnight, he suddenly felt unwell and then fell over the banister for unknown reasons.”

WE USE POCKET-SIZED SUPERCOMPUTERS TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIEROGLYPHS: Young People Are Using Emojis as Pronouns and I Can’t Even.

“FLATLAND” DIRECTOR LADD EHLINGER’S FILMLADD BLOG IS BACK, now as a YouTube channel.

I enjoyed this one: No KanYE, Hitler Didn’t Invent The Microphone.

DRAIN THE SWAMP? Trump Tells Anti-McCarthy GOP Rebels to Back Off Their ‘Dangerous’ Opposition.

SAY ANYTHING: Biden Makes up a Story About Awarding a Purple Heart, and It Gets Much Worse From There. “Absolutely everything about the story is false.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Musk Applies Twitter Rules to Libs and the Poor Dears Lose It. “I sincerely hope that this is causing emotional trauma for these truly awful human beings. The vile left media types have been begging for a karmic payback for a long time and Musk is giving them one at the moment.”

GREEN NUDE EEL: Oil industry faces end of the road in California regardless of Newsom penalty on profits.

Oil companies in California are planning an all-out fight against Gov. Gavin Newsom over his proposal to punish them for what he calls “unconscionable” profits. But that may be the least of the industry’s worries.

Fossil fuel companies face an existential threat in California as the state shifts to a carbon neutral future: Lawmakers have set a deadline to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles. State and local officials have restricted, or in some cases banned, new oil wells. And some cities are even banning gas stations and non-electric lawnmowers.

These and other measures suggest a grim outlook in the country’s largest car market for an industry more closely tied to the state’s development than the Gold Rush.

“It’s clearly redefining the industry and its role,” Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, said of efforts by lawmakers. “And it’s consistent with phasing out the fossil fuel industry.”

Left unsaid: How California will produce the energy to replace those fossil fuels.

Decline is a choice, and Californians have chosen it.

UGH: CDC Obesity Chart Balloons to Accommodate Gargantuan American Children.

HMM: Reports of Beijing Covid Deaths Fuel Speculation China Covering Up Data. “China’s hospitals, especially outside major cities, are under-resourced and its unclear whether the country has sufficient stockpiles of anti-virals and other Covid-19 medications.”