RIOT POLICE HIGH-FIVE EAGLES FANS IN PHILLY AS CELEBRATIONS BREAK OUT ACROSS THE CITY.

Crazed Eagles fans seem to have little problem scaling the light poles lubed with hydraulic brake fluid.

Related: Found via Jonathan Last, at the time of this post, the Philadelphia PD scanner audio feed is jumping, with reports of a Christmas tree on fire, a car being flipped, and a street light torn down.

UPDATE: Eagles fans are partying hard in Philadelphia.

More: Fires, mayhem, insane trust falls in Philly after Super Bowl win.

Meanwhile up north: Violent riot starts after Super Bowl. No, not in Philly … In Amherst, MA.

UPDATE: Terrifying Things Heard on the Philadelphia Police Scanner After the Eagles Won the Super Bowl.

‘TAKE A KNEE’ AND ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ PROTESTERS BLOCK LIGHT RAIL CARRYING SPECTATORS TO SUPER BOWL.

Related: Seventeen activists taken away in Super Bowl protest.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Related: No players kneel during national anthem at Super Bowl.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Alec Baldwin may be Donald Trump’s “Picture of Dorian Gray.” “Did you watch the cold open on ‘SNL’ last night? Alec Baldwin was back, playing the part of Donald Trump, and it’s just uncanny. Baldwin seems to be weathering into the Trump impersonation, even as Trump floats above the usual quick-aging that besets American Presidents. It’s as if Baldwin is aging for Trump, like ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.'”

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OBAMA’S LEGACY: FISA Memo Fallout: Fear of our own intelligence agencies has been normalized.

TONIGHT’S OPEN THREAD. Did anything happen today?

REVIEW: Wilson Combat Glock G19.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Dodge under fire after using Martin Luther King Jr. in  Super Bowl ad.

And note this:

Not totally sure the Dodge RAM ad guys read that whole MLK speech.. https://t.co/QPa16BGv3d pic.twitter.com/3eFVZjb3BB

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) February 5, 2018

As Twitchy says, “oof.”

UPDATE: MLK Jr’s Daughter & Foundation Denounce Dodge Super Bowl Ad.

ROGER KIMBALL ON THE MEMO AND THE MADNESS.

YEAH, WELL. The Parents Of This Dead Robber Are Really Mad His Victim Had A Gun.

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21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Professor: We ‘Must Be Prepared’ for Rise of ‘Digisexuals’ Who Prefer Sex Robots.

Hey, 2019 is next year, you know.

“ANYONE CAN SAY ANYTHING WITH THE DOOR SHUT:” A male backlash against #MeToo is brewing.

I wanted to do a research project on judicial hiring, to see if there are fewer female clerks hired by male judges next year, but sadly the data aren’t available.

SEASTEADING, THE OLD FASHIONED WAY: These Nomads Spend Nearly Their Entire Lives at Sea, But They Might Be The Last Group to Do So.

UK native James Morgan was studying photography in London when he read about a group of seafaring Southeast Asian nomads who had survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami with almost no casualties.

“They understood the ocean so well that they headed for protection before the tsunami hit,” Morgan told Business Insider.

An anthropologist by training, Morgan decided to document the Bajau Laut, who have begun to lose their culture in recent years because of government programs that force them ashore and the difficult reality of fishing for a living in overfished seas. . . .

The Bajau are a nomadic Malay people who have lived at sea for centuries, primarily in a tract of ocean by the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Cool pics.

ROBERT TRACINSKI: ENJOY THE SUPER BOWL WHILE YOU CAN, BECAUSE FOOTBALL IS DOOMED. “Science is telling us that football is a sport in which the audience entertains itself by watching men turn their brains into mush. That can’t last.”

Earlier: Super Bowl singer vows his son will never play football.

A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: Violent NYC bicycle mob is caught on camera smashing cars and terrorizing drivers in shocking coordinated attack that left one cop injured.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: 500 Women Scientists: Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science.

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Journalism is Dead.

Journalists weren’t interested in that, or anything else associated with the memo. They, like McMullin, couldn’t care less about government abusing its power as long as it does it against people they don’t like. We saw this play out with the IRS scandal during the Obama administration – the media ignored it as long as they could, talked about it for a quick minute, then returned to repeating the lie that Obama’s tenure was “scandal-free.”

Were Trump not President, were the Oval Office occupied by any of the other candidates who ran in 2016, the story would be nearly the same. There might not be the personal ferocity or sense of urgency, but the simmering contempt would still be there and it would still dominate the actions of these people.

They don’t care. Journalism is dead. It didn’t die of natural causes, it was murdered by its practitioners in the name of attacking Republicans, in particular Donald Trump.

Huh — seems like it was just last month that half the MSM were telling us all to go see Steven Spielberg’s new movie, The Post.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: “Sean Spicier” parody account catches a big fish! The Washington Times quoted Sean Spicer in SOTU piece, only it wasn’t Spicer.

THE PARADE OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S VICTIMS NOW INCLUDES AN ANGRY UMA THURMAN:

For starters, there’s the blue car scene from “Kill Bill 2.”

As Thurman’s character, Beatrix Kiddo, was on the way to find her target, she flew down a Mexico road in a modified blue convertible.

She’d been told the car was safe, but the modifications that took it from a stick shift to an automatic made her feel unsafe. She didn’t want to drive it, and requested a stunt person.

Tarantino was having none of that.

* * * * * * * *

She lost control and smashed into a palm tree. There was footage, shot from the back seat of the car, showing Thurman struggling to keep control of the car before the eventual crash, and it’s tough to watch.

She fought for 15 years to get that footage.

Read the whole thing.

PUSHING THE LIMITS OF EXTREME BREATH-HOLDING: “Humans test their limits in an endless variety of ways, but none is simpler or more elemental than breath-holding. There’s no pacing, no tactics, no bonus points; you simply deprive your body of its most urgent need until you can’t anymore. As a result, it offers a convenient laboratory for exploring the nature of human limits, for parsing the gradations of meaning between ‘won’t’ and ‘can’t.’ Scientists have long speculated that what feel like physical limits are often merely warning signals generated by the brain’s protective circuitry. In the case of breath-holding, a spate of recent studies offers a glimpse of what it takes to tap into the hidden reserves beyond these boundaries—and what price you might pay for access.”

Your body starts trying to breathe long before you absolutely need to. You can hold out a lot longer with training and determination. Just knowing that you don’t really need to breathe when you think you do can help.

MICHAEL WALSH ON ROSE McGOWAN: Trans ‘Woman’ Gets Into Fight with Real Woman.

MICHELLE MALKIN: ‘DEATH OF THE GOP’ AND ‘PERMANENT MAJORITY’ FOR DEMS IF TRUMP DACA PLAN PASSES.

IT’S COME TO THIS: After Crisco didn’t work, Philly police use hydraulic fluid on street poles for after the Super Bowl.

As Allahpundit tweets, “Either outcome today is likely to result in the city of Philadelphia being destroyed by its residents, so we’re all winners.”

Related: This Eagles fan emptied out his 401(k) to go to the Super Bowl.