It wasn’t just Tulsi Gabbard: The “quiet tyranny” under President Joe Biden saw no-fly lists used to punish countless average Americans.

Simply resisting mask mandates was enough to get 19 Americans stuck on watchlists, more than half on no-fly lists, the Department of Homeland Security revealed Tuesday.

This would be demented at any time, but the targeting of non-maskers under Biden’s Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske was part of “Operation Freedom to Breathe” (such a sick name), which launched in September 2021 — long after the worst of the pandemic was over, and nearly six months after the CDC relaxed its rules on indoor masking.

So the Biden crew was penalizing Americans not for posing any danger to others, but for having the audacity to buck the regime’s obsessive micromanaging during COVID.

The TSA put another 280 people on watchlists, and five on no-fly lists, for alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 protests — on the basis of half-baked “intelligence,” such that one no-fly designation hit a National Guardsman who was deployed to DC for Biden’s inauguration and wasn’t even at the Capitol during the riot.

The TSA ignored warnings from its own ranks, including its chief privacy officer’s reported email: “TSA is punishing people for the expression of their ideas when they haven’t been charged, let alone convicted of incitement or sedition.”

The federal no-fly list is supposed to focus on people with suspected terror ties, and for good reason: Being barred from boarding any domestic flight can be life-altering, a consequence to mete out only in the most extreme cases — not because someone is on the wrong side of the party in power.

Even being put on a watchlist is a pain, meaning at least constant hold-ups at airport security.

And the creepy directives even had air marshals diverted to spying on these “suspects,” often even as they left the airport.

The Biden TSA’s abuses are obscene, but also completely in line with how the rest of the administration behaved.

From the FBI pressing social-media sites to censor conservatives to its probing of right-wing organizations to the Justice Department’s relentless lawfare campaign against President Donald Trump, using state power to target political opponents was the norm under Biden.

And “prestige” media completely ignored it all — because someone on their side was sitting in the Oval Office.

Yes, the right as well as the left is capable of weaponizing the state against political enemies, but only Democrats get a pass.

And the same media “watchdogs” are still turning a blind eye as the full truth slowly surfaces about the Biden team’s stomping on Americans’ freedoms.