- DOJ may allow safe injection sites for heroin use (Fox News)
- Biden administration funding crack pipe distribution, saying it’s needed for racial equity (Just The News)
Trouble in Paradise:
President Biden’s Cabinet member, Dr. Eric Lander, who served as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, resigned after an investigation found he had spoken disrespectfully to colleagues.
- Biden Cabinet member resigns after admitting to ‘disrespectful’ behavior toward colleagues (Fox News)
Hypocrisy:
Stacey Abrams, who recently appeared maskless among masked children during a visit to an elementary school, did so “on the condition that everyone around her” wore a face covering, including children, her campaign said.
COVID-19:
CNN medical expert Dr. Leana Wen said that it might be time to lift mask mandates — not because they don’t work or because the threat has passed, but in order to “preserve public health authority for when it’s needed again.”
- CNN Medical Expert Says It’s Time To Lift The Mask Mandates — To Preserve ‘Medical Authority’ (Daily Wire)
How many people have died from omicron? Has the United States seen a peak of the variant?
- Have omicron deaths peaked in the US? (News Nation Now)
Joe Rogan:
Jamshid Sharmahd:
Jamshid Sharmahd, a German Iranian dissident and long-term legal resident of California who was abducted by Iran’s regime in Dubai in 2020, went on trial Sunday and could face the death penalty, all over what critics are calling false links to a deadly bombing at a mosque in 2008.
- Iran ‘sham’ trial of California resident sparks allegations that world powers have abandoned him (Fox News)
SPS Board Member:
Maryam Mohammadkhani joined us last week to chat about the SPS Board. She will be joining us again tomorrow morning in the 7 a.m. hour.
The Springfield News-Leader wrote a piece about her recent interview with us.
- Byrne, Makoski get support from SPS board member Maryam Mohammadkhani (Springfield News-Leader)