DAVID MANNEY: Don Lemon and the Cult of Self-Importance.

YES, PLEASE: When It Comes to Climate and Energy, Let’s Retire the Politics of Fear.

Sometimes it feels like the climate change crusaders are oblivious to everything going on around them. For decades, they’ve been resorting to the same tired strategies to convince us that doom and gloom are just around the corner if we don’t change our ways. What they ignore is that their tactics aren’t working – more people than ever are tuning them out.

Americans in particular have grown wise to the predictions that don’t come true and the demands that don’t make sense. In fact, so badly has science become blatantly politicized that the number of people who have a great amount of trust in science keeps shrinking.

That fact was backed up by a recent Pew Research Center report that found that “Americans’ confidence in scientists remains lower than it was prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.” To many of us, it is now obvious that the inconsistent guidance on Covid and many pandemic edicts that were later found to be ineffective and even misleading demonstrated that science was not above being overtly politicized.

While the Pew study noted a Democrat-Republican disparagement regarding trust in science (Democrats trust it more, Republicans less), only 28 percent of all U.S. adults said they have “a great deal” of confidence in scientists “to act in the public’s best interest.”

It didn’t used to be that way — and it wasn’t the public that changed.

PLEASE OH PLEASE LET HER RUN AGAIN: Even MS NOW Mocks Kamala Harris’s ‘Headquarters’ Reboot. “When you’re a Democrat who’s lost MS NOW… no, wait… when you’re a female Democrat who’s lost MS NOW [record scratch] OK, last try… when you’re a female Democrat of color and MS NOW sees right through your latest B.S. [there it is!] then it’s obvious to everybody but you that you’re not only drowning, but that new life preserver you just bought is actually a boat anchor.”

UGH: OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT.

A source close to the situation tells CNBC that OpenAI “expects ads to make up less than half of its revenue long term.” Last week, Anthropic showed off a Super Bowl commercial poking fun at OpenAI, saying “ads are coming to AI,” but not to its AI chatbot Claude. The version of the ad that aired during the game was a little less direct after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the campaign “clearly dishonest.”

OpenAI will show ads to logged-in users who use the app for free or subscribe to its cheaper Go subscription. The company says it will “keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers,” but notes that the ads will still be “optimized based on what’s most helpful to you.” Advertisers won’t have an impact on ChatGPT’s answers, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI might not share your conversations, but they’ll surely sell your most confidential data to optimize those ads.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fly Me to the Moon — Elon Musk Says, ‘YES!’ “To the lay space exploration enthusiasts like me, a lot of what NASA did after the Apollo 17 mission felt like backwards steps. The sclerotic NASA bureaucratic structure was responsible for both the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. NASA’s recent focus on getting a manned mission back to the moon almost 60 years after that was first accomplished has a sort of Groundhog Day feel to it.”

CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Why is California Protecting 33,179 Criminal Illegal Aliens in its Prisons and Jails?

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons just slammed California Attorney General Rob Bonta with a demand letter: stop playing games with Americans’ lives and start honoring ICE detainers for the over 33,000 criminal illegal aliens rotting in your jails — including cold-blooded murderers, child predators, rapists, and drug traffickers.

Time will tell if California’s insane sanctuary policies will win out in this high-profile case of the rule of law versus virtue-signaling politicians like Bonta and Gavin Newsom. Of course, we know that the innocent citizens of California will be the real victims if the illegals aren’t taken into custody and given a free plane ride out of the country.

So far, though, Newsom and his fellow travelers are winning this battle. In just the past couple of weeks, they’ve turned loose 4,561 criminal illegal aliens. These are people who have 31 homicides, 661 assaults, 574 burglaries, 184 robberies, 1,489 dangerous drug offenses, 379 weapons offenses, and 234 sexual predatory offenses on their rap sheets. It’s a pretty safe bet they haven’t suddenly turned their lives around and given their hearts over to Jesus while they were briefly in custody.

Indeed.

ICYMI: Musk Shifts Gears: Moon Megacity Beats Mars Colony in the Race Against Time.

TRUTH:

NEW: Hegseth tells me the real reason why there are massive production delays in the defense industry: “A lot of the hang up has been us.”

“The way we do business, we’ve been impossible to deal with.” @theblaze pic.twitter.com/hv87VWMHw6

— Rebeka Zeljko (@rebekazeljko) February 9, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Teen athlete says she was sexually violated by trans wrestler – and the school district did nothing.

A couple of minutes into the 190-pound bout, Kallie found herself face down on the mat – with her opponent’s arm between her legs and fingers pressing into her vagina. Hard.

What happened – and didn’t happen – in the two months that followed highlights the extent to which public school districts in Washington state will go to to protect trans athletes at the expense of girls – and even at the expense of following the law.

Video taken by Kallie’s mom on December 6 captures the disgust and panic in Kallie’s face. She tries to mouth something to her mom: “Her fingers are in my (vagina).”

Her mom can’t make out what she’s saying and is on the wrong side of the mat to see what’s happening to her daughter. The referee is also out of the line of sight.

“I don’t know what she said. I don’t know why her face looked like that,” her mom can be heard saying to someone off camera.

Traumatized and confused, Kallie decided to let her opponent pin her.

“I just wanted the match to be over,” the teen told me, her hands grasping together. I could tell she felt awkward even talking about it.

After the match, Kallie immediately told her mom what happened.

“I couldn’t find my coach,” she said. “There were other matches going on.”

As she waited for a break in action to inform her coach of what she felt like was an intentional sexual assault, a coach from an opposing team came up to her and told her something that would make the ordeal even worse.

Kallie’s opponent was a biological boy.

Keep predators out — out of women’s sports, locker rooms, all of it.

WINNING: Trump White House Touts Wins as Dems Gripe and Moan.

BREAKING: Judge Stops California From Un-Masking ICE Agents Amid Increased Dem Violence.

WELL, THAT’S BOTH FUNNY AND A LITTLE PATHETIC:

10 Downing Street threatens to sack all Cabinet ministers unless they tweet out their support for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer by the end of the day, a Scottish Labour source tells Channel 4 News.

Contributed by @AZ_Intel_. pic.twitter.com/zEDDzhiTw0

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 9, 2026

AND TO THINK IT WAS LOS ANGELES TRAFFIC THAT INSPIRED MUSK TO LAUNCH THE BORING COMPANY:

California politicians will not let this tech happen in their state, because @elonmusk doesn't pay the going rate of baksheesh. https://t.co/YYPqLtLHbf

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) February 9, 2026

THE FRUITS OF COLLECTIVISM:

⚡️What this really is, beneath all social framing, is a signal that the American operating system is entering the tribal-logic phase of terminal democracy.

The republic only functioned as long as the founding myth – individual liberty under law, mediated through neutral… https://t.co/SpWXeRtd4X

— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) February 8, 2026

Read the whole thing.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Swarmbotics Wins US Army Contract for Swarming Ground Robots.

The award stems from Swarmbotics’ performance at last year’s xTechOverwatch competition, where its autonomous ground robotics technology competed against dozens of innovative small business teams.

Designed to operate as swarms, the sUGVs aim to create multiple dilemmas for adversaries at lower cost than traditional manned platforms, reflecting army interest in scalable force multiplication.

Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division assessed autonomous capabilities across ground and airborne systems as part of the evaluation, which was facilitated by the US Army’s Transformation and Training Command and key stakeholders.

“Mass is our objective, by employing swarms of heterogeneous small sUGVs we create multiple dilemmas for our adversaries at fractions of the cost of exquisite platforms,” Swarmbotics chief executive officer Stephen Houghton said.

Great name for the company, too.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Commie China Condemns Pro-Democracy Jimmy Lai to Jail.

TRUMP JUST DOES THE JOBS CHICAGO MAYORS WON’T: Chicago Mayor Confesses to 30% Homicides Drop After Trump Crackdown.

MIDDLE EAST: Uncle Sam Assembles Big Stick For Iran. “The U.S. military has some of the biggest sticks in the world, and right now a lot of them are Voltroning together within striking distance of Iran.”

MAJA: Japan’s Iron Lady Took a Risk — and Won Big. “Takaichi is also eager to align with other nations that have conservatives in leadership. You could almost say that her slogan is 日本を再び偉大にする — “Make Japan Great Again.” What makes Sanae Takaichi interesting isn’t any slogan, though; it’s the snap election gamble she took and how decisively it paid off.”

LOVIN’ IT: McDonald’s Sales Jump 2.4% After They Revived This Old School Strategy.

With its consumer sentiment on the decline (and a U.S. sales dip of 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024), the fast-food giant refocused its efforts on offering more choices at affordable prices.

In January, McDonald’s launched McValue, a new menu and platform that offers popular $5 Meal Deals along with exclusive and local discounts, as well as a “Buy One, Add One for $1” offering, available all day.

“When it comes to value, we know there’s no one-size-fits-all,” Joe Erlinger, president of McDonald’s USA, said in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with our franchisees to create a new platform that will let our customers define value on their own terms.”

It never ceases to amaze me that even large corporations forget that what their customers value most is… value.

UPDATE: Sorry, had the wrong link before. Fixed now.

FINALLY: We Finally Have a Trans Athlete Whom the Media Isn’t Gushing Over.

“THIS IS NOT WHERE I WAS ANTICIPATING GETTING STUCK.”

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

The Democrat Sheriff of Charlotte NC, Gary McFadden, was just completely unable to answer:

a) What the 3 branches of government are.
b) Which branch he serves under.

This is genuinely painful to watch… completely shocking. pic.twitter.com/PRIAkvFxCw

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 9, 2026

THE GOODBYE LOOK: Cuba warns airlines they can’t refuel amid Trump tariff threat.

The communist government warned international airlines they can no longer refuel at its main airport in Havana for the next month after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. A-1 jet fuel won’t be available at Jose Marti International Airport beginning Tuesday through March 11, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice Sunday.

The fuel supply situation on Cuba is critical, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, according to news agency Interfax. However, he didn’t specify whether Moscow is planning to provide oil products to the island.

Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, cancelled its Monday commercial flight to Cuba and instead sent the empty plane to pick up stranded tourists, Russia’s tour operators association said in a statement. Aeroflot flights to Cuba have been suspended until late March, it added. The group estimates there are about 4,500 Russians vacationing on the island at present.

Nicaragua, meanwhile, altered its immigration rules to block Cuban citizens from entering the Central American country without a visa. Nearly one in five Cuban residents has fled the island over the past decade amid a worsening economic crisis.

With Moscow’s attention more or less fully committed to Ukraine, there’s never been a better time to put the screws to Cuba’s commies.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

“She’s so pretty… why don’t we just let her get raped?” says an angry leftist while threatening a young Christian woman.

And they think they’re the good guys… pic.twitter.com/wIJdvGu6BM

— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) February 9, 2026

What horrible people.

Related:

I think people underestimate how psychotic and dangerous the left has become, and not just at the national level. I have "friends" from high school and college on FB posting about how Trump is going to cancel the midterms and worse. Mass psychosis. https://t.co/0GiAnF6b7b

— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) February 9, 2026

Rotten children with violent streaks.

ERIC FLORACK: Fake AI Videos. (Florack Was a Good Friend of Epstein!)