Donald Trump Rails on Biden During Wedding Speech at Mar-a-Lago  —  DONALD TRUMP MAR-A-LAGO WEDDING SPEECH ... Enough About The Couple, Let's Talk About Me … It's been over 4 months since the November election, and Donald Trump is still acting like a sore loser — that, or a belligerent wedding guest.

Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed  —  Snarky tweets targeting Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren came after the CEO told execs they weren't pushing back hard enough on critics.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Amazon has long been at odds …

French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘abused boys in Tunisia’  —  The philosopher Michel Foucault, a beacon of today's “woke” ideology, has become the latest prominent French figure to face a retrospective reckoning for sexually abusing children.  —  A fellow intellectual, Guy Sorman …

Inside America's Most Interesting Magazine, and Media's Oddest Workplace  —  The publication of the “Harper's letter” attracted huge attention.  Most people had stopped reading the magazine, which is stranger and better than you might expect.  —  Last August, when the pandemic seemed endless …

Insurrection fundraiser: Capitol riot extremists, Trump supporters raise money for lawyer bills online  —  Brenna Smith Jessica Guynn Will CarlessUSA TODAY  —  Defendants accused in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 crowdfund their legal fees online, using popular payment processors and an expanding network …

The Unlikely Team of Prosecutors Hunting Trump in Georgia … The public integrity unit at the Fulton County District Attorney's office once had a miserable reputation.  Now, a new crew there is investigating the biggest target of them all.  —  A sheriff's deputy who went to law school but remained a cop for another two decades.

Scoop: Kids' border surge expected to last 7+ months  —  The Biden administration projects the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border could spiral from more than 16,000 this month to as many as 26,000 in September, according to documents leaked to Axios.

University of Oxford considers scrapping sheet music for being ‘too colonial’ after staff raise concerns about music curriculums' ‘complicity in white supremacy’ after Black Lives Matter movement  — Professors set to reform music courses to move away from the classic repertoire

The Biden do-over: Democrats get a chance to try again on Obama defeats  —  Barack Obama, facing pressure from both parties, worked to keep his stimulus package under $1 trillion.  Joe Biden launched his presidency by spending about $2 trillion and hopes to bump it up to $5 trillion.

Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising — especially among younger people.  —  Scientists view Florida — the state furthest along in lifting restrictions, reopening society and welcoming tourists — as a bellwether for the nation.  —  If recent trends there are any indication …

POLITICO Playbook: Dissension inside The Washington Post  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  It was supposed to be an upbeat town hall to rally the newsroom, as Washington Post leaders highlighted their moves to defend reporter SEUNG MIN KIM from internet trolls.  But sources tell us the March 16 Zoom meeting …

The Week in Fascism  —  On Claremont and Tucker  —  I was recently teased by a friend that my Substack was “all about Nazis,” which I don't think is entirely fair, but I have to admit is some truth to it.  I'm sorry, but they keep coming up!  —  I would like very much to move past the …

Lindsey Graham Says He Could Shoot Gangs With His AR-15, Twitter Critics Go Ballistic  —  “If there's a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to,” he said.  —  In the event of a natural disaster …

‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won't be easy  —  White House-led effort tries to corral more than a dozen initiatives  —  The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as …

Joe Biden is a paradigm shifter  —  The great Civil War historian James McPherson once explained why the most articulate voices of an era — the politicians, the journalists, partisans of various kinds — often dominate how a period is understood.  “It is the squeaky wheel,” he wrote, “that squeaks.”

Biden to unveil major new spending plans as Democrats eye bigger role for government  —  The president is set to unveil key components of infrastructure reform, and the early contours of his 2022 budget  —  President Biden this week is set to begin sketching out his plan to commit trillions …

Birx recalls ‘very difficult’ phone call from Trump following her Covid-19 warnings  —  (CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx revealed in a CNN documentary clip released Sunday that she received a “very uncomfortable” and “very difficult” phone call from Donald Trump after speaking publicly about the spread …

What happened in Wuhan?  Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus  —  A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated.  Lesley Stahl reports.

Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around?  —  _ … Most readers who have played so far are pretty good at this game, at least in certain kinds of places.  The precincts that voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump or just as heavily for Joe Biden …

Panetta's assessment of Biden's first days  —  Joe Biden is off to an auspicious start with passage of his $1.9 trillion COVID Relief bill, has made excellent appointments, and generally has struck the right tone.  Now is when trouble is likely.  —  That's not just the view of a hack pundit.

Parler explains ‘free speech’ to angry users after sharing Capitol riot posts with the FBI  —  Parler tried to throw Facebook under the bus.  Now the right wing social network's users are angry.  —  Just as Congress was finishing up grilling the CEOs of Facebook, Google …

Biden and the Blame Game at the Border  —  The issues involved are nearly impossible to settle as long as policymakers regard decency as a political weakness rather than as a moral strength.  —  During the past decade, three U.S. Presidents have each faced a humanitarian emergency at the southern border.

Defense Department Hires A ‘Diversity And Inclusion’ Officer Who Compared Trump To Hitler  —  The official hired this month to oversee U.S. Special Operations Command's office of diversity and inclusion compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in a photo posted to Facebook last year.

Inside Myanmar's Army: ‘They See Protesters as Criminals’  —  Four officers spoke about life in the feared Tatmadaw, which has turned its guns on civilians again.  For most soldiers, one said, “The Tatmadaw is the only world.”  —  Capt. Tun Myat Aung leaned over the hot pavement in Yangon …