OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: A city on the moon: Why SpaceX shifted its focus away from Mars: It’s all about speed, and Elon Musk’s catastrophe concerns.

I also think that looking at the world today, he didn’t want to go to Mars while leaving his rear areas undefended.

UPDATE: Related:

🚨NEW: Elon Musk explains his vision for future space exploration, mass drivers, and harnessing the power of the sun.

"In order to understand the universe, you must explore the universe. We're only using roughly 1% of the potential energy of Earth. The only way to access the… pic.twitter.com/SBl2Kg6Kb1

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 11, 2026

NOW THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL FULL SELF-DRIVING: NASA Rover Drove Across Mars Without Human Control For Two Days.

THE MEDIA PARTY AT WORK:

wild find, how the media first introduced Jeffrey Epstein 25 years ago https://t.co/RZLXdHQvKr

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 10, 2026

WELL, GOOD: New Molecule Blocks Deadliest Brain Cancer at Its Genetic Root.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventing obesity.

PUSHBUTTON PUSHBACK: 2027 Audi A6 e-tron and Q6 e-tron Now Feature Physical Controls. “Unfortunately, other important functions, such as the climate control system, are still exclusively handled by the screens.”

Not good enough, Audi. Flashback: Touch Screens Are Making Cars Worse. It’s Time to Bring Back Buttons and Knobs.

OH, CANADA: At Canada’s Tumbler Ridge School Massacre, When Seconds Counted, Good Guys Were Hours Away. “A shortage of good guys with guns allowed the killer to continue the rampage for quite a while before the lunatic finally put himself down. . . . It all began at 1:20pm. Authorities issued a shelter-in-place alert after forty minutes. Police finally secured the scene of the massacre a little over four hours later.”

TO SPITE TRUMP: Why is California Protecting 33,179 Criminal Illegal Aliens in its Prisons and Jails?

THE HORROR: 4 times drinking coffee was illegal—or even punishable by death.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Overlooked group of gut bacteria appears key to good health, global study finds.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Obesity linked to one in 10 infection deaths globally.

HOW’S IOWA DOING? From California to Florida. See which states reported shark attacks in 2025.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: What if AIs set out to conquer the world . . . with love?

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: U. Kentucky staff say DEI, ‘antiracism’ are still ‘important’ in undercover videos.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Among the events scheduled for this month is a closed ‘live demo’ instructing students on the use of a chest-binding product known as ‘TransTape.’

DON SURBER: Macron’s confrontation with Trump is a real life Bambi Versus Godzilla.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Vance vs. Rubio.

#JOURNALISM: Laid-off WaPo journos shocked to be locked out of employer’s accounts. The replies are brutal.

BARACK OBAMA ASSURED ME THAT THESE THINGS DON’T HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES: B.C. community of Tumbler Ridge in mourning after mass shooting kills 9, including 6 inside school.

Another "trans" psychopath.https://t.co/2OzPF7GXQ8

— Aurora Blaze 2.0 (@MxPotHead) February 11, 2026

I BELIEVE THAT’S CALLED “DEMOCRACY.” Hardline conservative Takaichi expected to use polls mandate for dramatic change.

WWII AND THE COLD WAR: “Our Germans are better than their Germans.”

21st Century: Our Chinese are better than their Chinese.

For every woke Asian who touts gay race communism in America, there is an equal and opposite based rooftop Asian who hates commies more than anything else https://t.co/zJbJnit6C1

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) February 11, 2026

CHANGE: English Only: State Eliminates Foreign Language Options on Driver Test Following Deadly Crashes.

THE LEFT LIKES CIVIL UNREST, AND CIVIL UNREST SELLS GUNS: Gun Demand Surges in Minnesota After Violent Anti-ICE Protests and Confrontations.

DON’T SHUT IT DOWN UNTIL YOU CAN REPLACE IT WITH A NUCLEAR PLANT: TVA proposes keeping Kingston coal plant running past 2027: The Tennessee Valley Authority cites growing electricity demand from data centers and population growth.