BREAKING: The Virginia State Senate just voted (20-18) to pass a bill requiring parental notification if sexually explicit materials are used in class, along with a right of refusal. Only 2 Democrat Senators voted with the GOP. The bill is expected to pass in the GOP-controlled House and then signed into law by Governor Youngkin

BREAKING: The Virginia State Senate just passed a bill (21-17) banning local school boards from implementing mask mandates for children. 3 Democrats voted for it, along with every Republican. It now goes to the GOP-controlled House and is expected to pass and be signed into law by Governor Youngkin

WELT: South African Doctor Angelique Coetzee, who discovered the Omicron variant, was pressured by European governments not to say the variant causes mostly mild symptoms

BREAKING: Sweden declares Covid-19 pandemic over and announces end to all remaining restrictions and testing

UPDATE: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin celebrates legislative win codifying into law the ability for parents to choose whether or not their children wear a mask in the commonwealth

Washington Post: IRS abandons facial recognition plan after firestorm of criticism
The agency had planned to require taxpayers send video scans of their face to access tax returns

BREAKING: A jury trial has been ordered in a 2019 sexual assault lawsuit against CNN's Don Lemon, who is accused of rubbing his balls in a Hamptons bar and forcing another man to smell his fingers

AFP: French 'Freedom Convoy' prepares to take off from the city of Nice and head to Paris to protest vaccine passports and mandates

NEW: Official U.S. government account for the Department of Defense claims Ethno-Marxism is essential in the U.S. Military https://twitter.com/deptofdefense/status/1491535181190246405?s=21

BREAKING: Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has put a hold on the stopgap spending bill and wants HHS to reissue the FY2022 Harm Reduction Program Grant to assure the American people that U.S. taxpayer dollars will not be used to distribute drug paraphernalia and crack pipes

The Hill: Biden regime faces trucker threat. Wednesday, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security warned police partners around the U.S. of potential convoy protests similar to those in Canada, saying they could disrupt the Super Bowl and the SOTU address

AFP: Russia begins joint military drills with Belarus

BREAKING: Inflation rate just hit its highest level since August of 1982, at 7.5%

NEW: "Individuals have a perfect right to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. Once they intervene in other people's freedoms and liberties, it becomes complicated.” Biden DHS Secretary Mayorkas threatens Americans who are planning to peacefully protest in a Freedom Convoy after the government restricted our freedoms and liberties for 2 years.

CNN is panicking that failing to crush the Ottawa Freedom Convoy will spark a “worldwide rebellion” of “angry people with industrial machinery”

RCMP Manitoba: Truckers block Canada’s Emerson Port of Entry between North Dakota and Manitoba in third border crossing blockage since start of protest over vaccine mandates and passports

BREAKING: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan calls for end to 'School Mask Mandate'

MSNBC spreads Covid Disinformation: “We know that with Omicron it’s actually more severe in children than in adults.” Eric Feigl-Ding on MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Show

BREAKING: Nevada Governor Sisolak rescinds mask mandate effective immediately, including in schools

NEW: After attacking America’s energy independence Biden claims he is going work like the devil to bring gas prices down