HARDEN NOW:  Quick Word on Disconnection.

Diversification, expansion, anti-fragility. The next few years are going to suck. They’ll suck worse if we’re stupid.

OH, PLEASE! TWO SHOULD PLAY THAT GAME:  Left Calls for ‘Army of Citizen Detectives’ to Monitor & Report Trump Supporters.

I call for an army of patriots to expose, mock and annoy the leftist stasi. It’s only fair.  I mean if they’re going to LARP that we’re dangerous, let’s tie their tails in knots, shall we?

UNITY WATCH: As Trump Leaves Office the Left Shows Us They’re Miserable, Even in Victory.

IF YOUR SWEARING IN TAKES PLACE BEHIND 12-FOOT RAZOR WIRE, AND 25,000 TROOPS YOU DON’T FULLY TRUST, IT’S NOT NORMAL. THIS JUST MAKES IT WORSE: Acting DHS Deputy Secretary: Pelosi Wanted ‘Crew-Manned Machine Guns in Washington – That Was Rejected.’

SOME NICE ART FROM STACY TABB. I like her TANSTAAFL.

UPDATE: For those who don’t like Instagram, here’s a direct link to her site.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: Words of Division. Cloaked in an appeal to unity, President Biden’s inaugural speech hit all the expected themes of racial resentment and blame.

PROFESSOR KINGSFIELD WOULDN’T CARE WHAT THEY THINK, AND NEITHER SHOULD ANYONE ELSE: Harvard Law Students Petition Administration To Denounce Professor Adrian Vermeule’s ‘Highly Offensive Online Rhetoric.’

Students are “offended?” So what?

‘WE MUST END THIS UNCIVIL WAR,’ BIDEN SAYS, TAKING OVER A U.S. IN CRISIS:

Standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol two weeks after a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the building, Biden called for a return to civic decency in an inaugural address marking the end of Trump’s tempestuous four-year term.

“To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity,” Biden, a Democrat, said after taking the oath of office.

“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this – if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.”

That’s nice. But in war, the other side gets a vote:

Besides, as Dana Loesch writes: Biden Should Say “Civility,” Not “Unity.”

UPDATE: Unity!

(Updated and bumped.)

OPEN THREAD: The first Open Thread of the Biden Era.

ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe could make a 2nd stop at infamous asteroid Apophis.

FROM A FRIEND: “Advice to the despairing: sit back and enjoy the show, it’ll be absurd before it becomes entirely ridiculous.”

TEN SIGNS THAT you are the side chick. These may apply in politics, too . . .

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Kamala Harris. Love her or hate her, she put a lot of black men in jail for bullshit reasons.”

SPACE: SpaceX launches first Starlink satellite mission of 2021.

HOUSE GOPERS SAY ‘STOP TRASHING COVID VACCINES:’ Republicans Ted Budd of North Carolina and Mike Garcia of California want the CDC to tell New York, Washington and other states to get the red tape out of the vaccination process.

AMAZON POLITICIZES VACCINE DISTRIBUTION: Amazon Offers To Help Biden Administration With Vaccine Effort After Sitting On The Sidelines For A Month.

Amazon offered to help the Biden administration on Wednesday, shortly after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, with efforts to distribute the coronavirus vaccine, a proposal that the tech giant had not submitted to the Trump administration in the month since the vaccine was approved for public use.

“As you begin your work leading the country out of COVID-19 crisis, Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration,” Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of world-wide operations, wrote in a letter to Biden, according to Axios.

“We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts. Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19, and we stand ready to assist you in this effort,” said Clark.

Clark also requested that Amazon’s 800,000 employees — who he characterized as “essential workers” — should be prioritized for vaccination.

Between delaying vaccine distribution for political reasons and nuking Parler, Amazon has had quite a January.

WELL, GOOD. Court Blocks Biden HHS From Forcing Catholic Doctors to Perform Transgender Surgery.

I wouldn’t want to go under the knife of any surgeon happy to take orders from bureaucrats.

DAVID BERNSTEIN: The Need for Ideological Diversity in American Cultural Institutions: As the left increasingly dominates, the right is increasingly distrustful, and that’s not healthy.

He’s right, but it’s hard to imagine too many people listening. At least, among the people who run those institutions.

THE LUNAR LEGAL LANDSCAPE.

WOW: You Can Now Lease a V-8 Chevy Camaro for Under $300 a Month.

THAT WAS FAST:  Minutes after Biden took office, the Report of President Trump’s 1776 Commission (on which my colleague Peter Kirsanow served) was taken off the White House website.  I am told a Biden Executive Order has abolished the 1776 Commission already.

This afternoon I got an email from Pete.  As he put it,  this “tells you everything about the Left’s priorities–can’t have the truth about America out there for even a minute” and “I’m sure the Fahrenheit 451 crowd is tracking down every copy they can.”

FLASHBACK: Revisiting the Future with the 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car.

A friend of mine who’s a turbine engineer worked for Garrett on a turbine-powered semi. It pulled like crazy, even on steep grades, but fuel consumption was . . . prohibitive.

OY: Anti-Israel Malley Joining Biden As Special Envoy To Iran, His ‘Uncle’ Yasser Arafat Would Be So Proud.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Biden Sees Own Shadow, Predicting Just Six Weeks Of Being President.

HOW NICE OF THEM: Now the Washington Post Admits Trump Did Not Incite the Capitol Riot.