In a stunning development, Robin Bullock, a hard-rocking-looking Christian prophet, was told by God that President Joe Biden is “deceiving America” on Monday morning. Since Mr. Bullock is the only human capable of interpreting the commands of the supreme creator of all being, this spells serious trouble for the Biden Administration, who cannot govern legitimately without His blessing. It is unknown at this point if Mr. Bullock will be invited to the White House as an emissary of God to intermediate and negotiate the terms of President Biden’s capitulation.

“In late December and early January, as COVID-19 vaccines were just beginning their chaotic rollout to the states, a secretive scramble took place inside the Trump White House. One after another, political appointees at very high levels approached chief of staff Mark Meadows and members of the National Security Council to ask a favor: They wanted to be on the list. It was, to be sure, the ultimate VIP list: On it were the names of U.S. government officials whose work was considered so essential that they needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 from a limited allotment that would otherwise have gone to the general public. The allotment was intended to protect career staff who could not telecommute (such as White House butlers), critical workers in the field (such as Secret Service agents), and those in the line of presidential succession. The question of who was eligible in an outgoing administration, with just weeks remaining until the inauguration of a new president, was complex. To make the cut your role had to be ‘essential’ to national functions.”

“Though it is not clear who ultimately succeeded in crashing the list, which morphed continuously as names were punted off of it and then mysteriously reappeared, most petitioners ran into a surprisingly hard line. ‘It ain’t happening,’ was a common refrain, said one career official familiar with the decision-making. In part this was because Meadows – who, like many working in the White House, contracted COVID-19 late last year – had received explicit directions from his boss. On December 13, President Trump tweeted that White House employees would wait their turn unless ‘specifically necessary.’ But in a White House awash in special favors, that didn’t stop almost every stripe of political appointee, at almost every rung of the ladder, from ‘shamelessly’ attempting to jump the line, according to a senior administration official. (Meadows and President Trump did not respond to requests for comment.)” – Vanity Fair.

Washington Post: “Speaking outside El Paso on Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said border agents he had met earlier that day issued dire warnings that suspected terrorists are trying to cross into the United States via Mexico. ‘You saw it in their eyes,’ McCarthy said, referring to the agents. ‘They talked about, ‘They’re on the list.’ … The terrorist watch list.’ McCarthy’s claims, which were echoed by another Republican congressman, were among the most alarming raised by a GOP delegation that aimed to highlight a growing crisis for the Biden administration amid a surge of migrants.”

“But some Democrats from border states pushed back late on Monday and demanded evidence to back up McCarthy’s assertions. ‘Weird as the Chairman of the subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations and a border state member of Congress haven’t heard anything about this,’ tweeted Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Democrat who represents the Phoenix area. ‘Gonna ask for a briefing. Pretty sure he is either wrong or lying.’ U.S. Customs and Border Protection didn’t immediately respond to messages from The Washington Post early on Tuesday about whether anyone on the watch list has recently been caught at the border. McCarthy’s office also didn’t immediately return a message.”

Four more European nations has suspended the use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine over concerns that it causes blood clots in some patients, complicating the nations’ response as Italy and other nations deal with spikes in cases, the New York Times reports.

Germany, France, Italy and Spain joined Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland, who had suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over the last week.  The AstraZeneca vaccine has not yet received emergency use authorization in the United States.

Countries from the UK to Italy have been experiencing significant increases in cases over the past two months.  Italy has reinstated strict public health regulations to curb the spread of the disease.

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Fox News is truly an alternate reality where they think because they air it, it automatically becomes true.  Former White House economic advisor and cocaine addict (really) Larry Kudlow, who doesn’t have a degree in economics, claimed on Laura Ingraham’s talk scream show that the way you get “upper income people to pay more in taxes is to lower their tax rate.”

Kudlow was the first in a string of exceptionally questionable guests on tonight’s Ingraham show, including noted pandemic denier and radiologist Scott Atlas and …. (I’m not sure what he is) Raymond Arroyo.

After giving the cold shoulder to Biden Administration outreach for the last eight weeks, North Korea finally responded to US communications with a statement from Kim Jong-un’s sister, CNN reports.

“We take this opportunity to warn the new US administration trying hard to give off powder smell in our land,” Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of Kim Jong-un and a trusted advisor to the North Korean dictator, said in a statement.  “If it wants to sleep in peace for (the) coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step.”

The missive comes as South Korea and the United States prepare for scheduled military exercises, which will be greatly scaled down and done mostly through simulations due to the coronavirus pandemic.  US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are also in the region to meeting with their counterparts from South Korea and Japan, two key allies. 

Thousands of 15- to 17-year-old undocumented migrants who came over the border will be housed at the Dallas convention center as the volume of migrants coming across the southern border hits a two-year high, the Associated Press reports.

The teens, who came across the border unaccompanied by a parent or legal guardian, are stressing the available resources of the Department of Health and Human Services, which takes guardianship of minors who come across the border alone.  The Border Patrol is supposed to turn children over to HHS for placement with a US-residing relative or assignment to a foster home within three days.

The Dallas convention center will be a “decompression center” for the next 90 days.  Currently, around 1,000 children, some as young as four years old, are being housed in a tent encampment in Donna, Texas, 500 miles south of Dallas, is inadequate for the population it’s currently handling.

“Civil liberties groups are ratcheting up pressure on major corporations based in Georgia – including Coca-Cola, Aflac, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot and UPS – to oppose a Republican-led effort to make it harder to vote in the Peach State. It’s a continuation of a dynamic that emerged after the Jan. 6 insurrection, when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on the erroneous belief that widespread fraud handed the 2020 election to President Biden: Facing intractable opposition from lawmakers determined to restrict voting, voting-rights advocates are taking their case directly to Republican lawmakers’ allies in the business community.”

“On Friday, the advocates scored a win when the Georgia Chamber of Commerce issued a statement expressing ‘concern and opposition’ to the measures under consideration in the legislature, which would end no-excuse absentee voting, limit early voting hours, restrict drop-boxes for mail ballots, and curtail early voting on Sundays. Representatives from Coca-Cola and Home Depot told The Washington Post that their companies are ‘aligned’ with the Chamber’s comments. But the activists want the Chamber’s individual member companies to do more – and they say the state’s Black voters, who make up 30 percent of the state’s electorate and have billions in collective spending power, are watching” – Washington Post.

Army Lt. Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, the twin brother of Alexander Vindman, a key witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment hearing, will become a full colonel despite efforts by Trump administration officials to torpedo his promotion, Politico reports.

Although he had no part in the impeachment, Yevgeny Vindman was given negative performance reviews in his position as the senior ethics official and deputy legal adviser at the National Security Council, where he served in the White House from July 2018 to February 2020.  Alexander Vindman served as the NSC’s Director for European Affairs.

The brothers were unceremoniously fired from the National Security Council in February 2020 and escorted off White House grounds.  They were reassigned to the Pentagon, but Alexander Vindman opted to retire after 21 years in the Army. 

Saying there is no longer a “credible threat,” the House sergeant-at-arms Timothy Blodgett sent a memo to members of Congress stating that the fence surrounding the Capitol will be scaled back in coming weeks, the Washington Post reports.

Capitol Police will reposition fencing to be closer to the Capitol building, allowing more pedestrian traffic around the building.  The fencing, with razor wire atop, was installed around the complex after the January 6th domestic terrorist attack.

The memo noted that there will continue to be an “increased security presence” at the Capitol, with around National Guard troops being deployed through mid-May.

Don’t pay much attention to conservatives screaming that the “Fake News” has been exposed again because the Washington Post issued a correction about two statements in a story about the recent release of a conversation between then-president Donald Trump and the lead investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.

Their claims of “Fake News” are literally fake news.  They’re pulling a bait-and-switch to conflate two different phone calls.

Let’s start from the beginning.  On January 9th, the Washington Post published a story about a December 23, 2020, call Trump made to Georgia SoS chief investigator Frances Watson.  In that story, based on a source, the Post reported Trump told Watson to “find the fraud” and said she would be “a national hero” if she did.

“The Senate voted 51-40 on Monday to confirm Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) as President Biden’s secretary of the Interior Department. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, is the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency” – Axios.

Politico: “President Donald Trump is out of office, but the scammers that used his name to raise money aren’t stopping. Over the past few weeks, Politico has received a number of robocalls from generically named political groups asking for cash in order to help in very Trump-specific missions. A donation of $100, for example, would help return Trump to Twitter. Or, for a similar amount, a potential donor can ‘stop Kamala Harris and socialism,’ the calls claim. Other calls ask for money to ensure that congressional Democrats don’t dismantle the wall Trump started building along the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the telemarketers behind the calls, who spoke to a Politico reporter on Wednesday, promised that ‘100 percent of the contributions go directly to President Trump.'”

“But the calls aren’t being made by Trump’s Save America political action committee. In fact, it’s not entirely clear who’s behind them. The telemarketers on the line said they were volunteers working for the Campaign to Support Republican Leaders, which is not registered with the Federal Election Commission and doesn’t have any online presence. One telemarketer said he was calling from the 33rd floor of a Dallas office building – a building which is home to a WeWork office that’s been linked to a man named Matthew Tunstall. Tunstall is the treasurer of the Support American Leaders PAC, which lists its address as the same Dallas WeWork office on Federal Election Commission forms. Another telemarketer on the recent robocalls identified the group behind it as the Campaign to Support the President. That group, too, lists Tunstall as its treasurer on FEC forms. A Politico investigation in 2019 identified Support American Leaders PAC as one of more than a dozen pro-Trump PACs with no actual ties to Trump. Such PACs, sometimes known as scam PACs, have plagued Republicans – and, to a lesser extent, Democrats – for years. They were so persistent in hitting up donors for cash under the ruse of it going to Trump’s campaign that the actual campaign felt compelled to disavow them.”

“MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that former Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz had joined his legal team to take on Dominion Voting Systems. ‘It’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, we’re going after Dominion… for free speech,’ Lindell said Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s podcast. ‘Alan Dershowitz told me that this will be one of the biggest cases, if not the biggest case in history for free speech, for the First Amendment'” 10Ztalk.com reports.

“During the pandemic, Mississippi has had the highest COVID-19 death rate of any state outside the Northeast. On Friday, the state’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, said he remained committed to denying access to Medicaid for constituents near the poverty line, even though expanding eligibility would make money for Mississippi as a result of the new stimulus bill. ‘My position has not changed. I am opposed to expanding Medicaid in Mississippi,’ Gov. Reeves said during a press conference covered by the Mississippi Free Press.”

“When asked by Vox if the prospect of additional funding might make him reconsider his opposition to Medicaid expansion, Reeves said, ‘No, sir, it will not.’ As part of Obamacare, the federal government covers 90 percent of the cost of expanding Medicaid to people who make up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line, or about $30,000 for a family of four. Twelve Republican-led states have refused that offer, leaving about 2.2 million of their constituents without health insurance. On top of the 90 percent match, the stimulus bill President Joe Biden signed Thursday would give Mississippi, the poorest state in the country, an estimated $600 million over two years to expand Medicaid to the roughly 200,000 to 300,000 people in the state who would be eligible. Nearly 60 percent of people who’d gain health insurance as a result of Medicaid expansion in Mississippi would be people of color. The vast majority of those people are Black” – Mother Jones.

Daily Beast: “Republicans are crazy about immigration. No, really. The issue makes them loco. Just listen to the things they’re saying. Many of them have lost touch with reality. Or maybe Republicans are crazy like a fox. The GOP seems to have once again pinned all of its hopes for retaking power – in this case, by winning back control of the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections and possibly regaining seats in the House of Representatives – on the immigration issue. If either of those things happen, Republicans will be in decent shape to try to retake the White House in 2024. President Joe Biden has only been in office for about 60 days, and Republicans who want to attack him and his administration don’t have a lot of material with which to work. So they’ve settled on immigration as the issue they’ll use to try to drag Biden down. Case in point: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy leads a delegation of Republicans to the border Monday.”

“That’s what some of the current fearmongering over the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border – about half of it – is all about. The other half is made up of good ol’ fashioned nativism and racism. That’s one reason why Republicans act like the prospect of what could turn out to be 100,000 would-be refugees from Central America mostly women and children (only one in four of whom will be allowed to stay, in all likelihood) is the end of Western civilization as we know it. The whole argument is absurd. The same nation that was, nearly 250 years ago, born of revolution against what was then the world’s greatest colonial power, survived its own bloody Civil War, helped win two world wars, won the Cold War, and bounced back from the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is now going to be brought to her knees by 25,000 women and children fleeing violence and chaos?”

Breaking and it will never get the same traction or carry as far as the original story. https://t.co/PKa4FKPdnF

— Amy Kremer (@AmyKremer) March 15, 2021

“A sheriff in Upstate New York violated a federal law barring civil servants from partisan political activity by flying a ‘Making America Great Again’ flag from an on-duty patrol boat during a pro-Trump flotilla last summer, investigators said. At a campaign boat rally on Oneida Lake in August, Oswego County Sheriff Donald Hilton was photographed by the Post-Standard aboard a sheriff’s office boat providing security, with the banner depicting President Donald Trump’s face superimposed over an American flag. Hilton, a Republican, acknowledged that an attendee gave deputies the flag and he approved its exhibition, drawing criticism from residents and other officials, as well as an investigation by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.”

“In a letter sent to the sheriff on Thursday, the federal agency said it determined that Hilton had violated the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees – or officials in charge of federally funded departments – from using their official position to influence partisan elections. The anti-corruption law was applied unevenly in the Trump administration, and some of Trump’s closest advisers egregiously violated it to promote his campaign, according to government watchdog groups. The federal officials said no disciplinary action will be taken but warned Hilton against future prohibited political activity” – Washington Post.