• Harris wins “public service” award, signs Hollywood deal: Who says they don’t give participation trophies anymore? Over the weekend, failed former VP Kamala Harris reached a pinnacle of sorts by becoming the first-ever failed Democrat presidential candidate to win the NAACP Chairman’s Award. Harris couldn’t resist taking a swipe at her vanquisher: “Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy, and ask, ‘What do we do now?’” That’s easy, actually. If you’re Harris, you join Joe Biden and the Obamas in signing on with a Hollywood talent agency, all the better to improve her platform for supporting woke causes. At least one Democrat has seen the light, though. Former fundraiser Lindy Li now says, “I had no choice but to leave the cult and am finally free to return to my roots as a conservative.”

• NBC settles suit regarding immigration lie: MSNBC’s parent company, NBC Universal, has avoided a public trial by agreeing to a settlement with a Georgia doctor whom MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes had labeled the “uterus collector.” Dr. Mahendra Amin, who worked at an immigration facility in 2020, filed a $30 million defamation lawsuit against the Leftmedia outfit for falsely claiming he had been performing “mass hysterectomies” on detained migrant women. The MSNBC hosts presented the allegations to characterize Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement actions negatively. The trial date was set for April following a ruling by a federal judge last year determining that Maddow, Wallace, and Hayes had made 39 “verifiably false” claims against Amin and reasoned that a jury could find MSNBC acted with “actual malice.” The settlement amount was not disclosed.

• U.S. votes with Russia and North Korea at the UN: On its surface, at least, it was a dark day for America’s stature as leader of the free world. Yesterday at the UN, the U.S. voted with Russia and North Korea against a Ukraine-introduced General Assembly resolution that called out Russia for invading Ukraine three years ago. The UN is woefully corrupt, but still we wonder: If Russia didn’t invade Ukraine, who did? On the other hand, Donald Trump, meeting yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron, thinks the end of that appalling war could be just “weeks” away. Perhaps, in terms of potential lives saved, the end justifies the rhetorical means. In addition, nearly all the key details are in place for a rare-earth mineral deal between the U.S. and Ukraine. Such a deal would relieve our reliance for such materials on China, our foremost geopolitical foe.

• Dems move to end Trump’s energy emergency: Senate Democrats led by Tim Kaine and Martin Heinrich are seeking to rescind Donald Trump’s executive order in which he declared a national energy emergency. The Democrats have introduced a resolution to force the Trump administration to continue the Biden administration’s costly green energy investments, framing Trump’s EO as benefiting Big Oil and costing Americans more in energy prices. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Mike Lee rejected the claim, noting, “Their message to families is clear: pay more, expect less. Luckily, President Trump is committed to unleashing American energy and rescuing the country from the energy crisis that they have perpetuated.” The vote is set for Wednesday but is not likely to pass, as the Republican majority supports Trump’s energy agenda.

• Trump gets a win against the AP: The White House scored an initial judicial win in its ongoing standoff with the Associated Press over Donald Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of America. The White House denied the AP special access to the Oval Office and Air Force One due to its refusal to use the new name. The AP sued, citing First Amendment freedom of the press. On Monday, federal Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the AP “has not made the requisite showing” and he “will thus deny the motion.” As Brian Hudak, chief of the Justice Department’s civil division, argued to the court, “Most journalists have no routine access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, or the President’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Presidents historically provided this special access to the Associated Press, but that discretionary choice does not create a constitutional right.”

• Woke Connecticut releases a killer cannibal: This seems like blue-state idiocy run amok. Unless there’s something beneficial about releasing criminally schizophrenic cannibals back into society that we’re just not picking up. Same with columnist Matt Walsh, who writes, “The role of modern psychiatry in freeing violent offenders is often ignored. But it’s very much a crisis in this country, and it’s been one for some time.” Are we overreacting here? You tell us. Tyree Smith himself admitted that he killed his victim with an ax before eating his eyeballs and some of his brain. On the other hand, according to the director of the Connecticut Psychiatric Security Review Board, Smith is “a joy” and “a really calming presence for other patients.” What could go wrong?

• House Judiciary subpoenas Biden-era weaponization docs: Now that Kash Patel is ensconced as FBI director, maybe we can begin to get some answers about the bureau’s well-documented weaponization of the Justice Department against politically disfavored Americans. Ohio Republican Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee, for one, is pressing forward, issuing subpoenas to the FBI for documents related to Joe Biden’s deployment of the bureau against his political enemies. Apparently, according to Jordan, former FBI Director Chris Wray “failed to produce many of these materials” before stepping down. Imagine that.

• Barring the CCP from buying farmland: Due to the concerning development of various Chinese companies acquiring farmland near U.S. military installations over the last few years, Republican Senators Cynthia Lummis, Mike Crapo, and John Barrasso are reintroducing legislation that aims to bar the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing farmland near U.S. military property out of concern for national security. While a Department of Agriculture report from 2021 found that Chinese nationals’ ownership consists of less than 1% of all foreign-owned U.S. land, where that land is located is concerning. Why the U.S. would allow any foreign adversary to own any American land is puzzling.

Headlines

• More than 20 staffers quit Musk’s DOGE, rebuke Trump admin government cuts (Newsweek)

• House Rules Committee advances budget resolution to floor vote (Just the News)

• Trump calls for company building Keystone XL pipeline to return to America and “get it built” (Fox News)

• Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit after Dakota Access Pipeline protests (NPR)

• MSNBC axes shows hosted by three more lefty anchors in wake of Joy Reid’s ouster (NY Post)

• NYC’s notorious Roosevelt Hotel shelter will be migrant-free in coming months (NY Post)

• The NSA’s secret sex chats (City Journal)

• Humor: Stephen Miller uses sock puppets to explain Constitution to White House press corps (Babylon Bee)

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