OPEN THREAD: Come now and try to understand.

NEWS YOU HOPEFULLY CAN’T USE:

SPACE: Firefly Aerospace picks SpaceX rocket to launch Blue Ghost moon lander in 2023.

YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT, KID:

No word yet if this type of ammunition can be used as well:

Or if it can be fitted with this popular accessory:

David Chiu “is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, which encompasses the eastern half of San Francisco.

UPDATE: California assemblyman gets massively triggered by BB gun packaging.

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‘DEELY NUTS, BEEFY KING:’ Hundreds of Fake Farms Received Fraudulent Stimulus Loans, Exposé Reveals.

Exit quote: “‘There’s no farming here: We’re a sandbar, for Christ’s sake,’ said the Mayor of Long Beach Township, whose address was fraudulently used as the supposed location of a ‘farm’ that received a stimulus loan.”

TIM BLAIR: When the Going Gets Tough, the Electric go Petrol. Electric car-maker Tesla isn’t taking any range risks in Australia with their support vehicles. When they need to repair their breakdown-prone plug buggies, Tesla use reliable, petrol-powered Mitsubishis.

Plus some thoughts on Ford’s new coal-powered F-150 pickup.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED: Young orangutans have sex-specific role models.

I’M CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRIVACY ISSUES INVOLVED IN WHAT OTHERWISE MIGHT BE AN EXCELLENT TECHNOLOGY: Smart toilet may soon analyze stool for health problems.

Related: Big Tech’s ‘trust’ problem will soon cost lives by scaring people away from life-saving technology.

TOM COTTON: “Fauci Is Playing Word Games” About Gain-of-Function Research In Wuhan (video).

UPDATE: Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate On Covid-19 Origin: Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; Adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab.

Flashback:

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PUTIN PUPPET: Team Biden bends the knee to Russia on Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Flashback:

Ted Cruz notes, “[B]asically what Joe Biden has decided is pipelines in America, bad. Jobs in America, bad. Pipelines in Russia, good. Jobs in Russia, good. And this is exactly backward. It is asinine. And four months into it, Joe Biden is crawling in bed with Putin and Russia and the enemies of America. It doesn’t make any sense.”

Flashback: So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:

If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:

Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.

“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”

Yep.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. DeSantis on Critical Race Theory: ‘Offensive’ to Expect Taxpayers to Pay to Teach Kids to ‘Hate Their Country.’

The curriculum currently being foisted off on America is like something you’d impose upon a conquered population to break its will.

BIDEN’S HANDLERS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: Trump 1776 Commission to meet despite being abolished by Biden.

The education advisory commission set up by former President Donald Trump will resume operations despite being disbanded by President Joe Biden, aiming to undermine the acceptance and teaching of critical race theory in schools.

The 1776 Commission is scheduled to convene on Monday in Washington on the annex campus of Hillsdale College to plot its next steps. An agenda for the private meeting, which is closed to the media, was not available. But in an interview with the Washington Examiner, Matthew Spalding, the 1776 Commission’s executive director, said the group sees a major role for itself in the explosive debate over the teaching of the history of the United States in public and private schools.

On one side is critical race theory. The decades-old academic study of U.S. history, more prevalent recently, argues that racism remains deeply embedded in all aspects of American life. According to the concept, the only way to unravel this systemic racism and bring about a just society is for institutions, public and private, to place race and ethnicity at the center of policymaking, hiring, and how people are treated generally.

On the other side are traditionalists who believe in de-emphasizing race and ethnicity. The 1776 Commission does not intend to whitewash the nation’s history of racism, Spalding said. Rather, the group wants to promote a history curriculum that defines racial equality as an American tenet, from the founding creed of the Declaration of Independence — “all men are created equal” — to Martin Luther King’s dream of a colorblind nation and beyond.

More like this, please.

TARGETED KILLINGS? Ransomware attacks are becoming more common – how do we stop them?

Also, make it illegal to pay ransom.

GOODER AND HARDER: St. Louis’ murder rate, already highest in US, soared last year; mayor vows to defund the police.

St. Louis’ last Republican mayor left office in 1949.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: MSNBC Tiffany Cross host proposes ‘the most radical of things’ to fight police brutality: ‘Time to burn it down.’

—The Blaze, today.

● Chaser: MSNBC’s Mitchell Blames Palin, Again, for Tucson Shooting.

—NewsBusters, January 11^th, 2011.

SMALL BUT DEADLY BUT MOSTLY SMALL: I Carry: Ruger LCR22 Revolver in a PHLster City Special Holster.

WHY ARE UBER-WOKE ORGANIZATIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF BIGOTRY? Eugene Chung claims NFL team said he’s ‘not the right minority’ in job interview.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Mars rover starts roaming the Red Planet.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nikole Hannah-Jones at the Summit. The Pulitzer Prize-winning force behind “The 1619 Project” has begun the descent that favored radicals of the past such as Rigoberta Menchú suffered after people began to scrutinize their claims.

OR ANY OTHER AGE: Too much TV may dull the aging brain.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF JEREMY CORBYN’S PARTY CONTINUES APACE: BBC Journalist’s “Hitler Was Right,” Other Antisemitic Tweets Exposed.

SCIENCE: Newly discovered flower mimics the smell of rotting insects to trap coffin flies.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Don Lemon said only Dems are “operating in reality” and then claimed he’s not a political person, just a “journalist” who “lives in reality.”

Flashback: CNN’s Don Lemon Asks If a Black Hole Could’ve Swallowed the Missing Plane (Video).

SHOCKER: Stair climbing a big step up for heart patients’ health.

ANY REPUTABLE NEWSROOM WOULD’VE FIRED CHRIS CUOMO BY NOW. CNN ISN’T REPUTABLE.

Nonsense – they’ve taken serious action in regards to Chris Cuomo’s scandal: Hypocritical CNN Fires Rick Santorum, But Still Refusing to Punish Chris Cuomo.

CNN has fired Rick Santorum, one of the few conservatives on the network, according to the HuffPost. The move came after lobbying from liberal organizations in the wake of Santorum saying that “there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.” The political commentator apologized for his comments and said he misspoke, but that apparently wasn’t enough for the liberal news outlet.

Showcasing the hypocrisy of CNN, the network has REFUSED to punish star Chris Cuomo for the shocking revelation that he participated in strategy sessions advising his governor brother, Andrew Cuomo, on how to survive the multiple sexual abuse claims against him.

Just think of CNN as an organization almost entirely staffed by Democratic party operatives with bylines, and the disparity makes perfect sense.