PROGRESS: Fresh Heavy Duty Truck Safety Tech Emerges at CES 2025.

CHANGE: ATF Reverses ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Policy That Shut Down Hundreds of FFLs Nationwide.

That’s nice. Now shut down the ATF.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brain-connected implants help paralyzed patients feel objects and shapes.

WAGES OF OVERREGULATION: AT&T kills home Internet service in NY over law requiring $15 or $20 plans.

LET HER WORK: Stranded astronaut Suni Williams performs spacewalk at ISS.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE WATER FILTER INDUSTRY: Unregulated, harmful contaminants found in vast amount of U.S. drinking water.

“WHEN YOU LOCK THINGS UP, YOU DON’T SELL AS MANY OF THEM.” Walgreens CEO says locking up products hurt sales.

BIDEN’S SOCIAL MEDIA INTERNS DECLARE SOMETHING:

Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. pic.twitter.com/oZtS6Q89zG

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 17, 2025

Even if America had a functioning, mentally competent President — which we clearly do not — this is not within the President’s power. But imagine the howls if Trump used it to ban all special treatment for women?…

FIGHT THE POWER: Conservative professor’s lawsuit against ASU’s DEI training may proceed, judge rules.

DO YOU GUYS REALLY WANT A WAR? REALLY? Columbia anti-Israel activists call on followers to ‘fight and escalate’ following announcement of Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

If you really want to “globalize the intifada,” you need to be ready for airstrikes wherever you are.

WHEN LAW PROFESSORS DISAGREE: “Let’s assume that Shugerman is correct, and that Prakash is wrong. What does Shugerman have in mind by way of ‘accountability’ where Prakash remains unmoved and unwilling to voluntarily concede error? What would Shugerman have third parties do? Should third parties convene a tribunal or board of inquiry? Who would be the judges? Would the finders-of-fact be generalists off the street or specialist academics, and if so, in what field(s)?”

If law professors are now to be punished for obvious errors of analysis, well . . . . And it turns out that Professor Shugerman is not above reproach here.

THEY NEED BETTER SPIES: The CCP Was Expecting a Harris Win. It Didn’t Happen and Trump’s Election is Changing Xi’s GamePlan. “The expectation of Xi Jinping, his top advisors, and PLA generals, was a continuation of a Democratic Party ruling the United States that was consistently cutting defense spending, and pulling back in terms of confrontation with the CCP across the world. Now they’ve got Trump. All bets are off.”

DIVERSITY! Trump, Youngkin poised to give Virginia its first woman governor.

MAY THEY FACE MANY MORE: Democrats faced an ‘ugly day’ in DC, says Greg Gutfeld.

BRAVE JOURNALISTIC FIREMEN, RUNNING TOWARD A BONFIRE OF THEIR VANITY: WATCH: Jim Acosta Holds Up Jim Acosta Poster While Boasting of Jim Acosta’s Importance.

HMM: Bill Maher Wonders: Why Does It Take a Catatstrophe to Cut Red Tape?

IT’S AS IF THIS WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG: SUBSIDIZE GREEN GROUPS TO WRECK AN ECONOMY, THEN BUY IT OUT ON THE CHEAP. Climate Cult Update: China Begins to Sniff Around the Bones of Germany’s Empty Factories.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: How I became a gun person.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India completes on-orbit docking test in step towards major space plans.

FAILURE ANALYSIS:

Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.

Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2025

WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? Scientists Found Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth’s Core.

HMM: New Study Reveals Early Fasting Melts Away Abdominal Fat.

IT’S NOT SO MUCH THAT JOE DIDN’T WRITE IT. IT’S THAT HE COULDN’T WRITE IT.

What makes this post especially wild is the simple fact that Biden didn't even write it.

We're being warned of misinformation from people who are literally impersonating the president – and running the country in Joe Biden's name.

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 16, 2025

A NOBLE EFFORT: Xenon gas shows promise in Alzheimer’s treatment, leading to clinical trial.