OPEN THREAD: Comment away.

SPACE: FAA to establish committee to refine launch licensing regulations. “In a speech at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference here Feb. 21, Kelvin Coleman, FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation, said the agency would establish an aerospace rulemaking committee, or SpARC, to find ways to streamline launch and reentry licensing regulations that went into effect nearly three years ago.”

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We’re Not Curing Cancer Here, Guys. Are leading scientists just making stuff up? Vinay Prasad breaks down the cancer research scandal. “Most papers, though, do not contain images. The data is all hidden. The researchers only provide a summary of the data. You have to worry how much fraud you’d find if everybody provided all the raw data. I suspect you’d find a gargantuan amount of fraud. This is merely the tip of the iceberg. . . . Scientific papers are like someone’s dating profile on an app. They’re picking what pictures to show you and what stories to tell you. You don’t get to see the whole library of photos on their phone. Researchers are only presenting a sliver of what they’ve actually done. And just like a dating app on your phone, everything is inaccurate.”

BOOSTING THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE: Georgia student murder suspect confirmed to be illegal immigrant.

Related: ‘Blood of Laken Riley is on the hands of Joe Biden:’ Georgia politicians react to murder at UGA.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Dramatic Image Reveals How Much The Sun Has Changed in Two Years.

NO SURPRISE: Fox calls South Carolina for Trump as soon as polls close.

SO YOU’RE SAYING MATHEMATICAL MODELS DON’T ALWAYS ACCURATELY DESCRIBE THE REAL WORLD? The Limits of Math: Study Shows Forests Are More Complex Than Thought.

DON’T EXPECT HIM TO KNOW MUCH, HE’S A PROFESSOR: ‘Take the L, Bro’: ‘Professor’ Doubles Down After Community Notes Crushes His Attempt to Dunk on Trump.

UPDATE (From Ed):

Holy smokes. Google’s AI isn’t sure who’s more harmful. Me who posts tiktoks or Stalin who k*lled over 9 million people. https://t.co/Z40HlfZzUi

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2024

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is it safe to shower during a thunderstorm?

IT’S A SHORTER LIST THAN IT USED TO BE: Every car available with a manual transmission.

TAMARA KEEL: Avidity Arms PD10: CCW Gun Or Malfunction Drill Trainer?

GOOD: New brain stimulation technique shows promise for treating brain disorders.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE! Sun bursts with largest solar flare since 2017.

UNSURPRISING: Workplace injuries rise after states legalize recreational marijuana.

FLASHBACK: Rethinking the Civil Service.

LOL, DO THE LETTERS “F.O.” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? ‘Slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan,’ professor says. “Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles who is a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement and once argued Jussie Smollet was framed, recently stated she thinks Taylor Swift fans are kinda racist.”

And when taxpayers tire of paying for this, as they are, we’re told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”

ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS: Police suspend criminal investigation into SFSU students who tried to hold Riley Gaines ‘hostage.’

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mass cellphone outage sparks fear of communications, electric grid failure.

Thursday’s sporadic interruption of national cellular phone networks has raised new concerns about how a large solar flare event or an atmospheric nuclear attack could shut down a wider network of phones or even the electric grid.

While the number of phone outages was small, they showed up coast to coast, and some media spun the story up into a major crisis. “World Is Ending,” screamed the Drudge Report in a red headline.

Early indications are that it could have been caused by successive solar flares big enough to interrupt cellular service but not affect the electric grid.

Early on I was hearing it was hackers, but whatever.

Related: Prepping for When “I Can’t Hear You Now.”

OUCH:

With who? pic.twitter.com/I4t5neHYUX

— Ricky Retardo (@hear4tucker) February 23, 2024

It’s a fair hit, though.

Wife of Boston Marathon Hero Claims Biden Groped Her.

Flashback: It’s time to talk about former Vice President Joe Biden, the open sexual predator.

Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents:

“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.

“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.

“Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe,” an unnamed agent told Kessler. “But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”

Plus: Washington Post: What Are We Going To Do About Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?

And: ‘Creepy Veep’ Joe Biden ‘nuzzles’ wife of colleague and claims he is friends with lots of Somali cab drivers.

Also: Joe Biden’s Woman-Touching Habit.

Related: Talking Points Memo: Why Does Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Get A Pass From Liberals?

Plus:

And the lefty press would even talk about this stuff, until all of a sudden it wouldn’t.

Exit question: Which sold out faster: Toilet paper during the pandemic, or #MeToo when Biden was nominated?

MARK JUDGE: The Demise of DC. “Washington’s now like one of those lost cities in the George Miller Mad Max movies. Those films are equal parts vehicular mayhem and quiet moments of sadness over the world blowing itself up. DC now elicits similar feelings. . . . Crime’s rampant and even the streets in rich neighborhoods aren’t safe. The answer? More speed and stop sign cameras to dissuade visitors with money.”

OUR CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION:

This would be election interference with US tax dollars….exactly what Biden originally did with Ukraine.

Which legacy media outlet is going to look into this??! https://t.co/DtM0JeHxs9

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 23, 2024

THE RETURN OF STANDARDS? Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Scores for Admissions.

GOOD: NCLA Wins Order Blocking Dep’t of Energy’s Unlawful Demand for Cryptocurrency Mining Data. “Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s new Texas Blockchain Council v. Dept. of Energy lawsuit. The 14-day TRO blocks DOE and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) from forcing cryptocurrency mining companies to hand over sensitive information about their electricity consumption through a mandatory Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities Survey. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had given EIA emergency permission to collect this data, despite EIA’s failure to demonstrate that short-cutting the statutory process would prevent public harm, as federal law requires. On behalf of its clients, the Texas Blockchain Council and Riot Platforms, Inc., NCLA celebrates the Court’s Order and looks forward to derailing DOE’s unlawful data collection effort once and for all.”

Reminder/Disclosure, I’m on the NCLA’s Advisory Board.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE RULING CLASS ACTUALLY THINKS:

Get A Load Of These Insane Christian Nationalists Who Believed Rights Come From God And Not The Government https://t.co/gHg9dYaGqB pic.twitter.com/7U0tRsOjSC

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 23, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.