DON’T MESS WITH SPACEX:
NEWS: The US labor board is abandoning a yearslong legal battle against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and signaling it will steer clear of future cases against the company. https://t.co/Y7KGBu6bT9
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 9, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
JOHN HINDERAKER: The Vapidity of Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends.
The idea that Epstein had a “client list” and ran some kind of international pedophile ring was always, I think, a myth. And this seems to be confirmed by the absence of any such evidence in the releases of Epstein documents to date. Although, to be fair, if Epstein supplied underage girls to anyone, Prince Andrew seems to be first on the suspect list.
So what do the Epstein documents show? The vapidity of the world’s supposed elite, I think. Epstein was a minor player in the world of finance, but he was regarded as an intellectual–a thinker!–with strong connections at both Harvard and MIT. Intellectuals like Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, were in his orbit, along with numerous members of the business elite.
James Marriott takes up this theme in the London Times: “Jeffrey Epstein circle’s ‘big ideas’ were vacuous guff.” . . .
You have to be good at something to make money, or to become a university president. But the idea that this something, whatever it may be, makes you a member of a global elite who should tell the rest of us how to live, is a malignant fantasy. We saw this in, among many other instances, the covid fiasco.
So it is entirely fitting that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump. Trump, more than anyone else in recent times, has been willing to expose the hollowness of the elite to which he once belonged.
Read the whole thing.
PEOPLE KEEP CLAIMING HE’S A PARASITE ON NASA, BUT THE NUMBERS SAY OTHERWISE: Elon Musk reveals NASA to make up just 5% of SpaceX revenue this year as IPO looms.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Time Crystal Made in a Lab Using Little More Than Styrofoam And Sound.
JUSTICE:
Judge: He's just a hurt black man
Suspect: I would do it again, b*tch https://t.co/1oRbSVASH0 pic.twitter.com/B3jt4d7uGo
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 9, 2026
CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY:
I’m stunned https://t.co/3sGKVpOzNy
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 9, 2026
AT LEAST THE AIPOCALYPSE IS AMUSING: Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case. “rustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with ‘out-of-left-field’ references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the rare step of terminating a case this week due to a lawyer’s repeated misuse of AI when drafting filings. In an order on Thursday, district judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that the extraordinary sanctions were warranted after an attorney, Steven Feldman, kept responding to requests to correct his filings with documents containing fake citations.”
IF YOU WANT MORE BABIES, EXPOSE YOUNG WOMEN (AND MEN) TO MORE BABIES: Woman in Tears Declares Want for Eight Kids Holding Newborn.
I have a theory that many young women are indifferent towards motherhood simply because they’re hardly exposed to babies. Your heart melts when you hold a baby. https://t.co/GU5Q3uGyza
— Andrea D. Huberwoman, Ph.D. (@thegenesisbl0ck) February 8, 2026
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWER THEMSELVES:
— Political Blasphememes (@PBlasphememes) February 9, 2026
YEP.
Well, well, well. https://t.co/a1bv5Y8b56
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) February 8, 2026
21ST CENTURY LEGAL ISSUES: I Ask a Lawyer: If Your Car’s AEB Fails, Can You Skirt the Blame?
TAMARA KEEL: The Decision Cycle. “The people who do well in these situations not only see the situation developing, they recognize it for what it is, have a plan to execute in that situation, and the skills available to execute the plan.”
Plus: “Remember this: when you hear someone say, ‘They just came out of nowhere!’ well, ‘They’ really didn’t just come out of nowhere.”
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW NOBODY FROM THE PRESS ASKED CHINESE ATHLETES WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT JIMMY LAI’S PERSECUTION? China critic Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in jail after landmark Hong Kong trial. Given his age, that’s a life sentence.
CENSORSHIP: 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.”
CULTURE ISN’T JUST SOMETHING YOU CONSUME, IT’S SOMETHING YOU MAKE:
🚨BREAKING: Music Industry is Shook as Kid Rock OVERTAKES Bad Bunny for the Top Song in the World.
This is despite Apple’s nonstop promotion of Bad Bunny.
We have the power to change culture 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/iMbCOLi5cA
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 9, 2026
To be fair, vastly more people had heard of Kid Rock prior to the Super Bowl than had heard of Bad Bunny: HALFTIME S***SHOW: Even NFL Players Have No Idea Who Bad Bunny Is (Just Like the Rest of Us).
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy: The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: More than one-third of American college students say they’ve scrolled on their phone during sex.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, NOT THE ACTIVISTS:
Activist: "Your cows are fed soy from cleared rainforests."
Farmer: "My cows eat grass."
Activist: "All cattle eat soy."
Farmer: "Mine don't. They're ruminants. Grass is literally what they're designed to eat."
Activist: "Industrial cattle are fed soy."
Farmer: "I'm not… pic.twitter.com/S2wOnY4p6W— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) February 6, 2026
FEMINISM TODAY NOW MEANS SAYING “DUDE, CONTROL YOUR WOMAN:” Bill Belichick Facing Calls To End Relationship After ‘Inappropriate’ Outfit. “Bill Belichick is facing calls to end his relationship with Jordon Hudson after she wore an ‘inappropriate’ outfit to Saturday night’s UNC vs. Duke game.”
“SWEDES.”
Two “Swedes.” https://t.co/IrzCCTiWRU
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) February 8, 2026
ICYMI:
My latest for @thetimes
"Many educated elites have long excused rule-breaking among people in more disadvantaged communities, arguing that the system is stacked against them…Now, bizarrely, they are extending that same moral leniency to themselves."https://t.co/qS9fsVY3VG
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) February 6, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
The use of seize to refer to election results reveals the assumption that there is something illegitimate about parties on the right winning elections. https://t.co/fletEtGlxL
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 9, 2026
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