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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The public may be done with COVID, but COVID is not done with the world, as a new variant of the Omicron variant of COVID, dubbed BA.2 or 'stealth' Omicron is quickly increasing hospitalization and deaths rates in parts of Europe and Asia. The new BA.2 variant is potentially 30 percent more transmissible, so don't throw those masks away yet, and get vaccinated or boosted if you haven't already. Experts warn of dark days ahead in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but Ukrainians continue to fight back ferociously, including with sarcasm -- the chief of Ukraine's anti-corruption agency thanked the head of Russia's Ministry of Defense for his embezzlement of the Russian military budget, resulting in Russian troops being woefully under-equipped, under-supplied and under-prepared in Ukraine.\xa0 AP reporters on the ground in Mariupol debunked Russian propaganda over the Russian military's deadly bombing of a maternity hospital that they personally witnessed. The Russia media propaganda ministry ordered state-controlled media outlets to play clips of Tucker Carlson of Fox 'News' anchor channeling Kremlin propaganda, according to documents obtained by Mother Jones. YouTube has blocked Russian propaganda channels, but also ended up blocking a bunch of media that isn't Republican propaganda.\xa0 Is the loss of access to those videos a price worth paying during wartime? Also today: The one good thing that Republicans did during the George W. Bush Administration -- extend Daylight Savings Time. Callers weigh in on all of the above...