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Biden Now Promises “Swift and Severe” Response if Putin Attacks Ukraine

The story also notes “there are roughly 112,000 Russian ground forces on the doorstep of eastern Ukraine and in Crimea” (Daily Mail). From Senator Tom Cotton: “Weakness is provocative, and Joe Biden has given our adversaries like Vladimir Putin every reason to believe that he will respond to a crisis with weakness — that’s what he did for 50 years as a senator and vice president” (Fox News).

Canadian Truckers Send Trudeau Into Hiding

From the story: ..as the truckers who’ve assembled what they call the Freedom Convoy to protest COVID vaccine mandates and restrictions cruised into the capital… he fled — breaking isolation to do it (NY Post). Trudeau is trying to paint the convoy as “hateful” and “violence toward fellow citizens” but witnesses say it is peaceful (Fox News). From the Babylon Bee: Trudeau Dons Blackface To Escape Capital Undetected (Twitter).

White House Frustrated with Health Chief Becerra

From the story: White House officials have grown so frustrated with top health official Xavier Becerra as the pandemic rages on that they have openly mused about who might be better in the job, although political considerations have stopped them from taking steps to replace him, officials involved in the discussions said (Washington Post). Jim Geraghty points out National Review editors warned them a year ago (National Review).

88 Percent of Portland Voters Say Quality of Life is Declining

The fully woke city is discovering that fully woke is fully miserable.

Hot Air

Shapiro: Democrat Gerrymandering “Designed to Exclude the Orthodox Jewish Vote”

He points to the Guy Benson tweet outlining the bizarre effort to give Democrats a safe New York district 10.

Twitter

Newsom AGAIN Spotted Without a Mask as He Mandates Masks for the Little People

This time at the Rams-49ers game in multiple posed photo ops.

Washington Times

CNN Runs Reports on “Ugly Truth” of Beijing Leading Up to Olympics

Jake Tapper hosts a series of reports that quickly gets into the human rights violations of the communist country.

Twitter

Whoopi Apologizes After Claiming Holocaust Was “Not About Race”

The segment in question (Twitter). From Rich Lowry: This has to rank among the most hilariously stupid and incompetent TV segments ever (Twitter). Her full tweet apology: “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both,” Goldberg wrote in a statement she shared on Twitter. “As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s [sic] systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected. The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver [sic]. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg” (Daily Wire).

California Firefighter Shot and Killed While Battling Fire

A man was arrested following the murder. No motive was known at the time this story posted.

Fox News

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School Changes Mascot, Removes God from Motto and “A.D” From Seal

The high-end Manhattan school has gone obsessively woke.

NY Post