DIM BULBS OF THE WEEK

The ACLU of Virginia

When Glenn Youngkin was a candidate for Governor in Virginia, he promised to make masking in public schools, optional. On his first day of office, Youngkin signed an executive order doing just that and after some legal challenges, signed a law passed by the legislature removing the mandate. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of parents of children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, asthma, Down syndrome, and diabetes, saying the lack of a mandate hurts them. The ACLU said that without universal masking, Youngkin “effectively barred the schoolhouse door.” Now, the American Civil Liberties Union pushing for a government mandate is dim enough, but where was the ACLU when schools were actually closed, leaving vulnerable students in the lurch causing untold damage to students most at-risk without inperson instruction? Nowhere.

CNN’s John Harwood

The hot takes trying to pin the blame on former President Donald Trump for Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are bad enough, but shouldn’t we expect a little more from the organization that bills itself “the most trusted name in news?” On Twitter, Harwood said, “The Russian thug now attacking Ukraine helped Donald Trump become president because he thought that would some day make this kind of attack easier to pull off. He was right in the short term.” That’s a level of chess even Gary Kasparov couldn’t win. Harwood would have us believe that it was all part of Putin’s plan, starting in 2015, to get Trump elected, thereby making it easier to invade Ukraine in 2022. Wow.