BEEGE WELBORN: Marines Remind the WHO You Don’t Keep What Doesn’t Belong to You. “Is there no war of words or arms, small or large, that this administration cannot solve?”

MUSK SHIFTS GEARS: Moon Megacity Beats Mars Colony in the Race Against Time.

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: California Sues The Gatalog, CTRLPew for Distribution of Code for 3D Printing Guns. “Frustrated by the spread of 3D technology and their inability to nationalize their increasingly oppressive gun control laws beyond a few like-minded blue states, politicians in California have looked for ways to spread their tentacles into free America. They took a big step toward doing exactly that on Friday when Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed suit against two popular repositories of 3D printing files, The Gatalog and CTRLPew.”

MILAN: Lindsey Vonn’s Crash and the Brutal Truth About Olympic Risk. “When setting experience against physics, physics always wins.”

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO… GOOD LORD, THAT’S A TOTAL IMPLOSION: Jeep maker Stellantis announces a ‘reset’ of its business and massive charges. Shares crumble.

The company said Friday that it would take charges of more than $26 billion, the bulk of which includes write-offs and cash payments for canceled EV products and costs of resizing its EV supply chain.

The announcement sent Stellantis (STLA) shares crashing. They fell as much as 30%.

The strategy revision follows similar — and expensive — actions from Ford and General Motors in recent weeks.

Many carmakers in the United States had invested heavily in EV plans in response to strict environmental regulations put in place by the Biden administration. They also expected some states to follow California and ban sales of gasoline-powered vehicles within a decade.

But the Trump administration has rolled back those emissions rules along with financial support for EVs. It is also challenging states’ authority to set their own tougher rules.

Commenting on the charges of €22.2 billion ($26.2 billion), Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said they “largely reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition.”

The company also said in a statement that the shift to EVs “needs to be governed by demand rather than command.”

You don’t say.

IT’S TRUE, THOUGH:

This is so mean I wish I typed it. https://t.co/m1myaRQiAG

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 9, 2026

HE’S PLAYING WITH FIRE: The Man Who Always Has Proof Tomorrow: Adam Schiff Cries Election Fraud Again.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter.

Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont’s Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can’t be charged in a garage.

Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.”

“We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said.

“When government rushes money out the door to satisfy green mandates, basic questions about performance, safety, and value for taxpayers are always pushed aside,” Behrens said. “Americans deserve to know who approved this purchase and why the red flags were ignored.”

General manager at Green Mountain Transit (GMT) Clayton Clark told The Center Square that “the federal government provides public transit agencies with new buses through a competitive grant application process, and success is not a given.”

Why should a local transit manager care about success when there’s government money to be had?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Election Fraud Fetish Will Be What Ends America. “Because a collectivist brain rot affects the Democratic hive mind, they want everyone to partake in that misery. While I am having a good time here on the Trump 47 MAGA train, I am ever aware that we’re just one presidential election loss away from the Republic being brought to the cliff edge of oblivion. Look at how much damage the desiccated husk of Joe Biden and his commie puppet masters were able to do in just four short years. If the Dems get another two term president any time soon, we’ll all be speaking Mandarin and forced to watch those crappy movies that Barack Obama makes for Netflix.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: ‘We’re Not Criminalizing the Unhoused’: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down.

From Prince George’s County, “which has the highest Democratic vote-share of any county in the United States, at 86 percent.”

“The dilapidation of this community was caused directly by the county,” said Phil Dawit, Quasar’s managing director. “The reason it’s so bad now is that everyone let it fester.”

This report is based on emails from county officials, interviews with residents of the Marylander, invoice records and maintenance logs, and dozens of hours of video footage, much of it from the body cameras that Quasar executives wore when they visited the condo.

It reveals a Kafkaesque battle between law-abiding citizens and the left-wing bureaucrats who abandoned them, as officials in a deep blue county vowed to be “compassionate” and avoid “criminalizing the unhoused.”

The costs of that compassion fell predominantly on poor, non-white condo-owners who saw the value of their homes evaporate as vandalism from the encampment pushed the complex into disrepair. That in turn made banks unwilling to finance security upgrades—without which the condo was more susceptible to crime—and caused inspectors to deem many units “unfit for human habitation” after the heating system was vandalized.

The county is now taking the condo to court to enforce an evacuation order against those units. If a judge rules in the county’s favor on Thursday, the residents who for years were terrorized by a homeless encampment will become homeless themselves.

“The people working hard and following laws are on their way to being homeless,” Dawit said. “Meanwhile, the homeless encampment gets to do whatever it wants.”

Read the whole thing.

ROBERT SPENCER: Mamdani Has a Terrific Idea for How the U.S. Should Handle the Immigration Issue. “Hizzoner started out, however, by magnanimously invoking the wisdom of a different religion, in an apparent effort to throw his critics off the scent and dispel growing suspicions that he is a far more hardline Muslim than he ever gave any hint of being during his campaign.”

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: With Purge, Xi’s Military Control Rises—and so Do the Region’s Risks.

The investigation of the officers, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, marks one of the most consequential political military purges in China’s armed forces in decades. Zhang, a Politburo member and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Liu, chief of staff of the commission’s Joint Staff Department, sat at the apex of China’s military system. Their sudden removal for alleged disciplinary and legal violations has hollowed out the military’s most important governing body and no doubt shaken the armed forces’ senior leadership.

The immediate effect is stark. The seven-member Central Military Commission has been effectively reduced to just two figures—Xi Jinping himself and political commissar Zhang Shengmin.

Zhang Youxia’s downfall is particularly striking. Long viewed as untouchable, he was a red aristocrat with revolutionary pedigree, deep personal ties to Xi, and rare combat experience. He was among the oldest senior commanders to have fought in China’s 1979 war with Vietnam. Unlike much of today’s Chinese military leadership, whose experience is shaped overwhelmingly by exercises, simulations and political work, Zhang had seen the realities of combat. He was widely regarded by observers as one of the few generals who was likely capable of telling Xi what he needed to hear, not simply what the party leader wanted to hear.

With this move, Xi has reinforced a central truth of Chinese civil-military relations: the military is not a national army; it is the armed wing of the Communist Party and ultimately an instrument of Xi’s personal authority. The purge confirms that no pedigree, no combat record and no past loyalty confer immunity when control is at stake.

Exit quote: “A military preoccupied with internal discipline campaigns, loyalty checks and political rectification is unlikely to press aggressively for major external operations. Over time, however, the risks begin to accumulate.”

Stay tuned…

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Leftist Shoots Right-Wing Livestreamers in Portland in Drive-By Attack Near ICE HQ.

WINNING:

BREAKING: An appeals court just lifted a previous judge’s ruling blocking Trump from gutting DEI

DEI is on its deathbed

MASSIVE WIN pic.twitter.com/pyhe44MeE3

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 6, 2026

KRUISER: This Awful Thing That the Super Bowl Has Become Belongs on the Hallmark Channel. “Real sports fans loathe commercials. In fact, if there were an Olympic event that involved racing to grab a remote and mute an ad while we’re watching a game, we would all be contending for gold medals. Heaven help the person who gets between me and the remote as a football broadcast goes to a commercial about medication for leaping chlamydia.”

THAT WOULD BE TRULY AWFL:

Imagine having 90% less violent crime.

We could literally do it.

But unfortunately, it would require upsetting the neurotic women and effeminate men who are active on Bluesky.

So I guess we just have to deal with the violent crime. https://t.co/1WAVdZY5mI

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 5, 2026

VIDEO REVIEW: Precision Armament’s TiTrex .30 Cal Suppressor Sets a New Bar. “3D-printed from Grade 5 titanium, the TiTrex is one of the smaller, lighter .30 cal cans on the market at just 6.2 inches long and weighing only 9.2 ounces including the mount and front cap (5.9 in and 7.2 oz for the body alone). Inch-for-inch, it just might be the quietest .30 cal suppressor available. Even when paired up against longer, fatter, heavier cans, it beats out nearly all of them.”

It’s nice-looking, too.

OH, CANADA: Toronto Renamed a Park to Honor ‘First Peoples,’ and It’s a Disaster.

UNEXPECTEDLY: More WA businesses considering leaving the state due to high taxes.

The latest Association of Washington Business quarterly survey shows bad news on the economic front, with 44% of business leaders saying they are considering moving their personal residence out of state and businesses indicating they are now more than twice as likely – 30% to 14% – to expand outside the state than within it.

The results of AWB’s winter survey are based on 429 responses collected by email from business owners and operators across the state between Jan. 12 and Feb. 2.

“Washington employers signaled a continuing collapse in confidence in the state economy in this quarterly survey, with significant year-over-year deterioration across multiple metrics driven largely by the state’s growing tax burden,” according to the survey’s executive summary.

I wonder if part of the “no hire, no fire” economy is due to uncertainty created by ham-fisted blue-state governance.

THEY CAVED? THAT’S AWFL:

The whitest white woman thing I've ever seen. https://t.co/f3CJeos5wL

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2026

IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: She Drove the Rental Like She Rented It. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to get your rental car out of an impound lot, the very worst time to cop a feel, and the stupidest reason to impersonate an FBI agent.”

BLUE CITY BLUES: 5 largest U.S. cities don’t have enough money to pay bills.

At the end of fiscal 2024, all five cities didn’t have enough money to pay their bills despite having balanced budget requirements. In order “to claim their budgets were balanced, as is required by law in the five cities, elected officials” didn’t include “the full cost of government in their budget calculations and shifted costs onto future taxpayers,” TIA said.

Combined, the five cities had $144 billion in assets; their combined debt, including unfunded pension and other post-employment benefits (OPEB), totaled $384 billion. Their combined shortfall was $240 billion, according to the analysis. This included $92 billion in pension debt and $112 billion in OPEB, mainly retiree health care, debt.

A “common and pressing challenge persists” in all five cities, the report notes: “long-term costs of pensions and retiree health care benefits continue to strain their financial health despite short-term improvements or varying circumstances.”

“While investment gains have temporarily eased pension liabilities in cities like New York City and Houston, these gains remain unrealized and uncertain,” it says. New York City’s growing retiree health care obligations “remain vastly underfunded,” as do the other cities’ it notes.

“Chicago exemplifies the consequences of chronic pension underfunding, with liabilities exceeding assets and recurring budget shortfalls,” it adds.

“Los Angeles and Philadelphia, which have made progress in funding, face limitations in financial flexibility due to increased capital investments and rising expenses,” it adds.

The report also grades each city based on its taxpayer burden. New York City and Chicago received F grades; Philadelphia received a D; Houston and Los Angeles received C grades for fiscal health.

Aside from bad finances, guess what else all five cities have in common.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ Where Trump Makes Life More, What’s That Word Again? Oh Yes, Affordable. “Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™, where the most extraordinary thing has happened in one of the most expensive areas of the country since Donald Trump came back to the Oval Office: Things are getting — what’s that word again? — Oh, yes, more affordable. This help comes despite howling leftists who haven’t been able to repeal the law of supply and demand — yet.”

HMM: The “No Hire, No Fire” Economy.

Job seekers are discouraged by a plague of ghost job listings intended to provide the illusion of growth, with no intention of anyone ever being hired.

Inflation is low, yet consumer confidence is at the lowest level in more than a decade. Stocks are booming, yet no one seems to be hiring. (This seems to be my personal experience as well.) Trump and congressional Republicans have managed to lower taxes, yet the “animal spirits” of the American economy do not seem like they’re been unleashed.

Is AI eliminating jobs? Maybe, especially in the service sector (those AI agents everyone hates have probably replaced some humans on support lines). But tech has been a job growth driver for much of this century, and an AI infrastructure build-out seems to be sucking up all available venture capital (and then some) with very little to show for it in the way of actual profits thus far.

It’s a weird time, to be sure — but at least we have “no fire” to go along with the “no fire,” and perhaps more importantly, wages are up.

EDUCATION WIN: Teachers’ Union Loses, Idaho Keeps Its School Choice Credit.