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• Dark day in Colorado as governor signs law codifying killing of the preborn as a “fundamental right”: On Monday, Colorado’s Democrat Governor Jared Polis signed HB 22-1279, euphemistically dubbed the “Reproductive Health Equity Act,” enshrining abortion as a “fundamental right.” Polis declared that the pro-abortion law “codifies a person’s fundamental right to make reproductive healthcare decisions free from government interference.” Fearing that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn Roe v. Wade, Colorado’s Democrat-controlled legislature acted to ensure that the state would keep abortion legal. The law explicitly dehumanizes the preborn, stating that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the law of this state.” In other words, in Colorado, preborn humans are officially not recognized as human and therefore have no legal standing. Polis himself promoted the abortion lobby’s unscientific dehumanization of the preborn so as to wash his and the government’s hands of any obligation to protect the most innocent: “The serious decision to start or end a pregnancy with medical assistance will remain between a person, their doctor, and their faith.” Not only does the law remove any government protection for the preborn, it in fact bars any public entity from restricting abortion for almost any reason. “This will go down as one of the worst days in Colorado history,” lamented Jeff Hunt, president of the Colorado think tank Centennial Institute. “Proabortionists at the Colorado capital sealed the fate of countless lives.”

• BLM leaders bought a $6 million home with donations: More news has come out regarding Black Lives Matter founders’ suspect spending habits, and once again its on a multimillion-dollar home funded by the “cause” that generated millions in donations. This latest disclosure is a 6,500 square foot, seven-bedroom house in Southern California that was purchased for $6 million with donation funds by former BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors via her financial manager Dyane Pascall. In fact, it was at this lavish house that BLM’s three cofounders gathered to film a remembrance video on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. It adds to the previously reported $3.2 million in donations Cullors used to purchase four other homes, which led to her resignation from the activist group. It comes as little surprise that BLM has spun this latest revelation as the nonprofit simply purchasing a property it will be using for the “furtherance of BLM’s mission.”

• Another “hate crime” hoax exposed: Last year, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to a “hate crime” following the discovery of a message that had been penciled on a hallway wall of Rosemont High School reading, “All [n-word] should die.” When the message was first discovered, Sacramento Unified School District Superintendent Jorge Aguilar released a statement alerting the community to the “hate crime.” He also assumed prior to any investigation: “As a community, we need to loudly condemn this hateful act. Racist incidents will not be tolerated in our schools.” The trouble is, if he had only waited, and maybe just taken the time to look at the school’s surveillance footage, he would have discovered, as the police did, that those responsible for the hateful message were two black female students. It turns out that this incident is merely one of several similar “hate crime” incidents at Sacramento schools, and in almost every case it has been discovered that they were hoaxes perpetrated by minority students. So while Aguilar has repeatedly lamented a problem of racism within the district’s schools, the actual problem has been one of hate crime hoaxes, and Aguilar seems to repeatedly fall for them.

• Conservative commentator fired for a Kamala Harris UPS joke: A conservative commentator was recently fired from her radio gig after a joke she made on social media about Kamala Harris’s outfit was declared “racist.” Amber Athey, who writes for The Spectator and also used to cohost a radio program on WMAL, a Cumulus Media-owned Washington, DC-based station, found herself suddenly fired with no opportunity for recourse over a misinterpreted joke. Back during Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, Athey, along with many other social media users, posted reactions to Kamala Harris’s brown outfit. Athey wrote: “Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.” Being a conservative, whom radical leftists have long sought to cancel, Athey’s benign comment was twisted into something it wasn’t. A Cumulus executive “told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was ‘racist’ and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable,” she says. “I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately. They did not have the courtesy to offer me an opportunity to defend myself, nor did they speak to anyone at the program before handing down their decision.” She further notes that while she has been fired for “racism,” WMAL’s website still features her image and bio promoting their programming.

Headlines

• Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination moves to full Senate as three Republicans lend support (Washington Examiner)

• Secret Service renting $30,000 Malibu pad to protect Hunter Biden (NY Post)

• “Big guy” reemerges in Hunter Biden grand jury (Washington Examiner)

• President Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial after mass graves found in Ukraine (Washington Times)

• U.S. will ask to suspend Russia from UN Human Rights Council (Free Beacon)

• New Fed study shows Biden owns our economic disaster (NY Post)

• Kamala Harris’ deputy chief of staff the latest aide to depart veep’s office (NY Post)

• DC mayor: On second thought, we should probably refund the police (Hot Air)

• Hungary’s pro-Putin prime minister wins fourth term by unexpectedly large margin (AFP)

• Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam won’t seek new term after rocky five years (AP)

• French election opens up as Marine Le Pen surges (NY Times)

• Policy: Biden’s radical Title IX plan would kill women’s sports (NY Post)

• Humor: Leftists outraged to learn 10% of Twitter now owned by African-American (Babylon Bee)

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