WE DON’T NEED “SPACE ETHICISTS” MUCH. Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we’re not talking about.

CHANGE: Car Prices Hit $50,000. Now the U.S. Wants to Ease Emissions Rules: The Trump administration’s approach to rising new car prices is to scale back emissions regulations, a move that could affect the EV market.

KEIR STARMER WANNABE?

🔥🚨BREAKING: Miami police are now flagging residents Facebook posts and sending police to their homes to intimidate them for talking badly about the mayor.

We never thought this would be possible in America.

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— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) January 19, 2026

Introduce her to the Streisand Effect.

UPDATE: Okay, the above is in error. It was Miami Beach, not Miami: Miami Beach police chief defends detectives’ visit to activist over Facebook post about mayor.

“Given the real, ongoing national and international concerns surrounding antisemitic attacks and recent rhetoric that has led to violence against political figures,” Jones wrote that he “directed two of his detectives to initiate a brief, voluntary conversation regarding certain inflammatory, potentially inciteful false remarks made by a resident to ensure there was no immediate threat to the elected official or the broader community that might emerge as a result of the post.”

He went on to write that “the interaction was handled professionally and at no time did the mayor or any other official direct me to take action.”

The statement comes after Raquel Pacheco, a Miami Beach political activist and veteran who previously ran for city commission and a Democratic state Senate candidate, said Miami Beach detectives arrived at her home.

“He said, ‘We are here to talk to you about a Facebook comment’ and I said – ‘What? Is this really happening?” Pacheco told Local 10 News.

Pacheco had commented on a Facebook post by Meiner, who is Jewish, in which he described Miami Beach as “a safe haven for everyone,” contrasting it with New York City, which he said was “intentionally removing protections” for and “promoting boycotts” of Israeli and Jewish businesses.

Pacheco responded to the post by writing, “The guy who consistently calls for the death of all Palestinians, tried to shut down a theater for showing a movie that hurt his feelings, and REFUSES to stand up for the LGBTQ community in any way (even leaves the room when they vote on related matters) wants you to know that you’re all welcome here,” followed by three clown emojis.

She recorded the brief exchange with the detective who spoke with her about the post. In the video, Pacheco is heard asking, “Am I being charged with a crime?” and “So you are here to investigate a statement I allegedly made on Facebook?”

Okay, she’s a lefty loon but sending police to people’s houses over social media posts still reeks of Keir Starmer’s Britain. (Updated and bumped).

CHANGE: Interior Secretary Orders Federal Lands to Effectively be ‘Shall Issue’ Hunting- and Fishing-Friendly Spaces.

I CAN SEE THAT:

I think we can all agree that the most deranged white liberal woman in Minneapolis is Don Lemon.

— Joseph Massey (@jmasseypoet) January 19, 2026

But the competition isn’t over yet:

🚨 BREAKING: A group of liberal white women (mostly) have taken over a Target in St. Paul DEMANDING Target stop letting ICE and Border Patrol agents use their bathrooms

I kid you not.

We live in freaking clown world 🤡🤣 pic.twitter.com/iv12xBvDEu

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 19, 2026

TOXIC PUNDITRY: Progressive activist calls for prosecution of Trump and his allies if Dems take majority in Congress: During an interview with activist Jennifer Welch, former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta suggested that the Democrats should expand the Supreme Court to hold Trump accountable

BIG SHIP: Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. If she were a red heifer I’d be worried.

RISE OF THE MACHINES: A new robotic system could perform delicate eye surgery.

YOUNG MEN WHO WANT TO BE MUSCULAR: NPR warns about “Bigorexia.”

“For many people, the fact that boys and men have body image pressures is completely not on their radar,” Nagata said. “When we get referrals for boys and men with muscle dysmorphia, there’s often a long delay in referral and diagnosis.”

Those with the condition are more at risk of disordered eating, steroid use and suicidal ideation. When disordered eating becomes severe, patients can be hospitalized. And a growing share of those patients are now boys, according to a longitudinal study in Canada. The authors of that study say there’s a “pressing need” to educate clinicians about the trend.

Or they could just euthanize them, as one does in Canada.

Plus:

While researchers continue to debate this distinction, it’s clear that certain groups, like transgender men, are more at risk.

“Biologically, they may have appearance factors that are more feminine, and then they’re trying to change that so that they feel like they’re in a more masculine body,” Nagata said. “There’s added sort of hoops that they have to go through to get this sort of muscular build.”

Well, the dangers of becoming overly obsessed with progress are well known in the lifting community, even if NPR has just discovered them. On the other hand, like anorexia, this problem is dwarfed by the obesity problem.

Also, I kinda suspect a prank when the story about guys who don’t think they’re big enough is centered on a guy whose name is “Mycock.”

YES:

Let me do the competent lawyer thing again.

No, the DOJ has not arrested anybody yet. You are absolutely correct that that is not happened yet. That’s because this isn’t a TV show and the DOJ under @AGPamBondi and @AAGDhillon are attempting to actually build cases rather than… https://t.co/dv8iAB0bCB

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 19, 2026

“IF THEY TAX THE BILLIONAIRES WILL I GET TO KEEP MORE OF MY MONEY?” “ALSO NO.”

AND THEY ALL NEED TO BE JAILED OR HANGED: Don Lemon, Boko Haram, and the KKK All Attack Churches for Spreading the Wrong Word.

UPDATE:

They put Douglass Mackey in prison for a meme. They put Steve Bannon in prison for following the Constitution. They jailed Christian pastors for praying outside abortion mills. They put grannies in prison for walking in an open government building during business hours.

All I…

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 19, 2026

SO WHEN WE ELECT MAGA, CORPORATIONS BECOME LESS GREEDY? GOOD TO KNOW.

Senator, can you thank the corporations for being less greedy now that egg prices are at an all time low? https://t.co/ZSNe2135Ke pic.twitter.com/aEHLzK4OYn

— tedfrank (@tedfrank) January 18, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Amherst removes officials behind sexually graphic freshman orientation programming.

STANDING UP FOR FREE SPEECH: America First Legal sends letter to Boston University defending student who received death threats after ICE report.

2017 FLASHBACK: Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy. “As I’ve pondered this, I’ve gone back to Tyler Cowen’s statement: ‘Occasionally the real force behind a political ideology is the subconsciously held desire that a certain group of people should not be allowed to rise in relative status.’ I think that a lot of the elite hatred for Trump, and for his supporters, stems from just such a sentiment.”

Plus this; “The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.”

HE’S A DEADBEAT CAD: Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Wants Him Jailed Over Broken Child Support Deal.

What’s the big deal, Hunter? Just sell a couple of paintings!

TO DEMOCRATS THAT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE:

Senator….

The US spends $5T on healthcare.

We spend more on healthcare than the entire GDP of all but two countries on earth.

The problem isn’t that we don’t spend enough on healthcare. The problem is that the money goes to your political donors instead of to patients. https://t.co/g8fE0ujAm1

— Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA (@DrDiGiorgio) January 18, 2026

STUPID PEOPLE DOING STUPID THINGS:

What a perfect encapsulation of the progressive left: a bunch of white people threatening and assaulting a non-white dude, in the name of tolerance. https://t.co/Iz9bL84nxQ

— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) January 18, 2026

Also vicious people doing vicious things.

YES:

When I was young, I believed smart people always saw things clearly and were thus immune to terrible ideas. What I've realized since then is that they do often embrace bad ideas, but unlike dumb people, they're good at coming up with sophistry in defense of those ideas.

— jojo (@jojo193713) January 19, 2026

Related: The Suicide of Expertise.

THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:

Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to suppress peaceful protest, and desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas, at gunpoint. Not the National Guard, but the U.S.’s plain old Regular Army. Equipped with live rounds. For 1/1,000th of what leftists are currently doing in Minneapolis. https://t.co/vpnGe6qgHB

— Sólionath (@Anarseldain) January 18, 2026

AFTER MICHAEL BELLESILES — AND A NUMBER OF “EXPERT WITNESS” HISTORIANS I’VE OBSERVED — I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM ANYWAY: Second Amendment Roundup: Expert Historian Testimony Is Unnecessary in Second Amendment Litigation.

A DEMOCRACY, HOW DOES IT WORK?

I thought a functioning republic elected its leaders and allowed them to pursue the policies they promised, but I guess not. https://t.co/b07xgaiHz1

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 18, 2026

When Democrats talk about democracy, they mean rule by Democrats.

REMINDER:

This is needed to save democracy in America https://t.co/jSoISFIQgq

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026