DOOMSDAY IS EXAGGERATED, AGAIN: Read This Before You Panic Over ‘Forever Chemicals’ Reports in US Drinking Water.

JIM TREACHER: Hollywood #Resistance Libs Call Themselves ‘The Decency Collective.’

Flashback: Harvey Weinstein in 2009: “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion.”

SPACE: European Space Agency Targets Orbital Debris, Solar Storms.

SOME PEOPLE MADE FUN OF ARIANNA HUFFINGTON WHEN SHE WAS PUSHING SLEEP HYGIENE, BUT SHE WAS ONTO SOMETHING: One-third of ‘critical workers’ not getting enough sleep.

JOE ROGAN IS THE WALTER CRONKITE OF OUR ERA.

Well, I wouldn’t hold that against him — unlike Cronkite, Rogan has never pretended to be objective, and has openly disclosed his biases and political views.

FASTER, PLEASE: Cambridge biotech company working to develop coronavirus vaccine.

ELIZABETH WARREN HAS HER ‘JOE THE PLUMBER’ MOMENT: Iowa Dad Demolishes Her Student Loan Forgiveness Plan.

LABOR’S LOVE LOST: Membership in government unions falls to a 20-year low.

Faster, please.

HEALTH: China’s Hubei province confirms 15 more deaths due to coronavirus.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Early Groundhog Day Edition.

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: The new Space Force logo sure looks like the Starfleet logo (And the old Air Force Space Command logo).

Exit question: “What if….Star Trek is real and Trump invented Starfleet? And that someone was sent from the future to create it today?”

Related: STAR TREK: PICARD HAS FINALLY BEAMED DOWN. DOES IT DELIVER THE GOODS? Some thoughts and an episode recap, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

BREAKING: Trump Lawyer: Dems Are ‘Asking You to Tear Up All of the Ballots’ by Removing Trump in an Election.

IF THE RIGHT CONSPIRED TO MAKE ACADEMIA IRRELEVANT, IT COULDN’T DO BETTER THAN ACADEMIA IS DOING FOR ITSELF: Calls for reparations hit Notre Dame amid allegations of harm, oppression against blacks, Native Americans.

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BUZZ OFF, LOSER: Prof who said white people ‘take up space’ now says whites can’t decide what’s racist.

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AIRCRAFT COMPATIBILITY TESTING ON USS FORD: A U.S. Navy T-45 Goshawk lands aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford. The new carrier is undergoing a range of tests, to include its controversial Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) — a new catapult. Here’s some background on the Ford‘s teething problems. Scroll down to the second paragraph. “…in February 2018 the navy confirmed that it had major problems with the design and construction of its new EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) catapult…” The post dates from May 2019 but is a thorough sketch of the situation.

HMM: A Man Diagnosed With Wuhan Coronavirus Near Seattle Is Being Treated Largely By a Robot.

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Goes After Mnuchin for Criticizing ‘Kid’ Greta Thunberg, Huge Backlash Reminds Him of Nick Sandmann.

STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING: Gallup: Satisfaction “with the way things are going” in the United States has reached a 15-year high, about four times better than the low points registered under President Barack Obama.

BERNIE SANDERS WELCOMED AS NEWEST MEMBER OF ALT-RIGHT AFTER JOE ROGAN ENDORSEMENT.

From America’s Newspaper of Record, the Babylon Bee. 

Related: Bernie Sanders faces backlash from left for promoting endorsement from Joe Rogan.

BEING A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IS INHERENTLY RACIST; IT DOESN’T REQUIRE ANY ACTUAL RACIST ACTIONS. “I’d just recently been thinking that Trump has not given much material to the people who want to portray him as a racist, but Kaplan has him continually ’emanating’ racism. Whatever it is she’s picking up, it’s manifesting itself in her own hostility toward white people.”