NEWS: Senate PASSES $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, & Taiwan that also forces the sale of TikTok.

Vote was 79-18, it now goes to Pres Biden's desk for his signature.

GO NO VOTES:
Barrasso
Blackburn
Braun
Budd
Cruz
Hagerty
Hawley
Johnson
Lee
Lummis
Marshall

I’ve seen enough: Rep. Summer Lee (D) defeats Bhavini Patel (D) in the #PA12 Dem primary.

NBC News Exclusive: “We are increasingly concerned [about] the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K”, FBI Director Wray says.

STORY:

This is why all these arrests in NYC are meaningless and actually encourage more of this behavior. NYPD does their job, but the prosecutors do not. Same issue they have with other crime.

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A lot of people’s self-perception won’t allow them to acknowledge this but Donald Trump is a low-key Ukraine hawk. nationalreview.com/corner/donald-…

Poll watchers can quibble with this voter screen or that.

But they should not argue with a trend that is now observable across multiple polls. | Noah Rothman

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The message from educators the past few years is abundantly clear:

Education isn’t that important. Attendance doesn’t matter that much.

Don’t blame students for listening to their teachers.

New from me National Review
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If Biden took this as a policy recommendation and reimplemented federal masking guidelines, it would anger many more voters than it satisfied. Are there any broader lessons we can glean from that regarding the movement’s other policy preferences? Seems like there might be a few.

From David Weigel's Semafor newsletter today, ft. this funny quote re masking at left-wing protests: “To us, the optics are communicating that we deny the Biden administration’s narrative about COVID — that it’s no longer a big deal... It’s about collective safety.'

Putting aside the “Florida is in play” stuff, this crowd and room has the feel of a campaign stop for Tampa City Council

Social Security, what is it? Will it be around for my retirement? Whom should I punch?

All these questions and more are answered in my Social Security FAQ!
frankjfleming.com/p/social-secur…

A truly scary and wild story here in this amazing piece on Mike Johnson by Elaina Plott Calabro

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Mitch really is going out like a boss.

“The youth are not leading some sort of insurgency against the powers that be. They are tools of the powers that be.” Noah Rothman nationalreview.com/corner/the-big…

Student activists think they're outsiders banging on doors that bar them from the halls of power, but this is self-delusion.

They are already in the halls of power. | Noah Rothman

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This one is neither fatalistic enough for the right nor triumphalist enough for the left, so, if you give it a read, prepare to be deeply unsatisfied.

The Biggest Lie Fueling the Antisemitic Student Uprising nationalreview.com/corner/the-big…

I join Rich Lowry, Charles C. W. Cooke, and Michael Brendan Dougherty to discuss the campus antisemitism and the spectacle of Trump's trial, but things really get spicy when we get to the House-passed Ukraine aid bill. We could have gone another 30 mins. As good a debate as you're likely to get.