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.

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

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

SPACE LAW: Can current space law handle the new space age?

AIPOCALYPSE: Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation.

MICROBIOME NEWS: A Mysterious Gut Microbe Keeps Appearing in Healthy People Worldwide.

YOU WON’T MISS WHAT COMES NEXT:

You'll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says "I can do it" when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.

— Kendric Tonn (@kendrictonn) January 6, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:

I'm sure they don't have any idea why it's happening. When reality does not comport with their models, it is reality that is wrong, not their projections https://t.co/JzYllmpWTx

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) February 9, 2026

MARK JUDGE: I Just Got Kicked Off Of X. Whodunit?

LEFTISTS ARE LOSERS: Another Social Misfit Busted for Threatening an Assassination Online…And More.

THE MEDICAL WORLD SEEMS TO BE PUSHING BACK AT MEDICAL AI A LOT LATELY: Can medical AI lie? Large study maps how LLMs handle health misinformation.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? A cup (or 2 or 3) of coffee or tea a day helps keep dementia away.

JEFFERSON DAVIS, CALL YOUR OFFICE:

Sanctuary states aren't defending illegal immigrants out of empathy –

They're defending their congressional seats, and allowing a permanent underclass

Ironically, this is **exactly** why slave states fought to count slaves in the census

Literally exactly why. Read the… https://t.co/rqUsZWn8Uw pic.twitter.com/vM4BB8BNFv

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) February 9, 2026

NO MAGIC BULLETS: AI no better than other methods for patients seeking medical advice, study shows. “Asking AI about medical symptoms does not help patients make better decisions about their health than other methods, such as a standard internet search, according to a new ​study published in Nature Medicine. The authors said the study was important as people were increasingly turning ‌to AI and chatbots for advice on their health, but without evidence that this was necessarily the best and safest approach.”

Well, my dad chose his prostate cancer treatment regimen using AskJeeves (remember that?) and it worked out fine.

ACADEMIA HAS REACHED THE F.O. PART OF THE EQUATION: Oklahoma governor ends tenure at most public universities.

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: University System of Georgia requires full syllabi transparency following Campus Reform article. “The policy change was announced in a Jan. 22 email to faculty, just one day after Campus Reform published an op-ed highlighting loopholes in existing guidelines. Under the new policy, professors across 26 of Georgia’s public institutions must post their full course syllabi online.”

I can’t imagine why anyone would resist that.

FACTS MATTER:

It's really not.

He knowingly overstayed his tourist visa.

He spent 20 years knowingly breaking the law, probably skirting taxes, and otherwise flouting the law.

Now he has to go home because he got caught.

Remind me again why I should feel bad for him?

— Hannibal Lecture (@AltKurtis) February 9, 2026

And the politics aren’t what some people think:

"Here's an attractive white guy they want to deport. That will outrage those white racists and demonstrate their hypocrisy."

*Send his pale potato-gobbling ass back on the next Aer Lingus flight*

"Wait, wut?" https://t.co/uaNjqoeJRn

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 10, 2026

THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES AND CAREERS WERE RUINED FOR BEING PREMATURELY, UNFASHIONABLY, CORRECT:

Anybody remember Richard Sander?

He was a law professor who proposed the “mismatch” theory of racial preferences in school admissions.

The theory basically claimed that racial preferences in admissions to elite schools actually HARMED those minority students who were admitted… pic.twitter.com/ow2OTTxJMN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 10, 2026

PRIVATEERS TAKE YOUR STATIONS! CDR Salamander: The Sanctioned/Stateless Tanker Nabbing Gives…if we are Willing to Take …the commerce raiding hint screaming from on high. “So, from the GUIK Gap to the Indian Ocean, the US Navy (and her USCG sidekick) are, in essence, conducting entry-level commerce raiding.”

Plus: “Be ready, because at least in the opening months of the next Great Pacific War, if we are smart and ready, we will be commerce raiding from Tierra del Fuego to Svalbard.”

I repeat: Privateers ahoy!

PROGRESS: Morning Greatness: Appeals Court Backs Noem Move to End TPS Protections for Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua.

IT’S ONLY “CONTROVERSIAL DOMESTICALLY” BECAUSE IT HURTS DEMOCRATS, WHO DEPEND ON ILLEGALS FOR VOTES:

“Controversial as it may be domestically, Trump’s stace on illegal immigration is unexceptional in the global context. Many other nations … pursue similar policies, and usually without anything close to the same level of controversy.”https://t.co/fTlv00ExDh

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) February 9, 2026

GOOD, THEY SHOULD BE CRUSHED: Weird How Voting Rights for 500K Illegals Can’t Buy You Love: Spanish Socialists Trounced in Regionals.

WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Bombshell New Docs Show Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006: ‘Thank Goodness You’re Stopping Him.’

SADLY BELIEVABLE: Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump.

ROLL ON, COLUMBIA: She Was Dismissed From a Leadership Post at Harvard. Now She’s a Candidate for Columbia’s Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies. With Rosie Bsheer at the helm, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies brought speakers to campus who ‘appeared to justify’ October 7, according to Harvard’s anti-Semitism report. “A professor removed from her leadership post at Harvard University after bringing in a raft of anti-Israel guest speakers and panelists and few, if any, dissenting voices is among four finalists to become the Edward Said chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, internal communications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.”