DESPITE THE STATUS-ANXIOUS THINKING HIS BRASH STYLE MEANS STUPIDITY:  Epstein Scandal: No Matter How Clever You Think Trump Is, You Do Not Appreciate His Brilliance Enough.

ABOUT TIME:  Benghazi Terror Suspect Apprehended, Extradited to U.S..

THEY KNOW. THEY THINK THIS WILL LEAD TO UTOPIA:  Do they know that they are causing the breakdown of Civilization? Do they care? The Left ruins everything it touches.

SAME THING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS ALWAYS DID:  I infiltrated radical groups 40 years ago. Leftists are desperate for martyrs. Congressional testimony from 1980s exposes how revolutionary organizations put activists in danger to create sympathy.

ABSOLUTELY:  Don’t be Anti-Communist, be Pro Freedom.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH THE WASHINGTON PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM: Hall of Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen dies at 91.

Sonny Jurgensen, the Hall of Fame quarterback whose strong arm led to passing records for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders and affable personality made him a beloved figure, has died at the age of 91.

ESPN was on in the locker room of the gym this afternoon, and I watched the newsreader discussing Jurgensen’s pro career by uttering something like “his time playing football in Washington,” as a way to avoid the R-word entirely.

Similarly, if the WaPo’s readers are wondering what happened to its sports section, rest assured its demise was entirely self-inflicted:

@ericfingerhut @JacksonSports The Washington Post sports desk pushed the NFL to have the Washington Redskins change their name. It was a political sports desk.

The entire sports desk was laid off today.

America is healing.

— Mike Mcdonnell (@MMcdonnell54533) February 4, 2026

PLENTY OF VOLUNTEERS FOR RESEARCH WILL BE AVAILABLE: It’s time to think about human reproduction in space, scientists urge.. “If reproduction is ever to occur beyond Earth, it must do so with a clear commitment to safety, transparency and ethical integrity.”

That’s not really how it’s worked on Earth.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

Oregon in the current year: Tren de Aragua members abduct woman and torture her with a power drill to steal her debit card info, turn out to be living in a drug den that is listed as a “drug rehab facility” receiving $2.3 million/year in Oregon Medicaid funds. Owners have likely… pic.twitter.com/7YiGjFuaVg

— Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) February 6, 2026

WHAT ARE THE DEEP SEVENS UP TO NOW? Signs of Mysterious Structures Near The Core Detected in Earth’s Magnetic Field.

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Identify Key Protein That Could Reverse Brain Aging.

DATA: Statins do not cause the majority of side effects listed in package leaflets, large-scale analysis finds.

OLD AND BUSTED: Dow 36,000.

The New Hotness? Dow surges 1,200 points for first close above 50,000 in sharp rebound from tech rout.

Evergreen: Krugman On Election Night 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

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

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Mercedes-AMG Isn’t Done With Gas—It’s Going Bigger.

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.

SHE’S BACK! Douglas Murray: Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe.’

If you´re still not clear on what is going on, well, at least Kamala and her team have given us a couple of clues. One is that they have decided to adopt the X-label of “@headquarters_67.”

This is a reference to an online meme briefly popular with some youths some while ago.

The meme — which, like a lot of online memes, is too complicated and unimportant to go into here — signals a desire to be down with the kids.

Unfortunately, the meme was already long dead and buried even before Kamala and her social media geniuses decided to dig it up and batter its corpse one final time.

Even CNN has admitted that this attempt to look cool is almost the epitome of what the kids might call “cringe.”

Kamala couldn’t have looked more out of sync if she’d started talking about Pepe the Frog.

Which is why her clueless social media team decided it was time for a quick re-rebrand:

I regret to inform you that, after being clowned on, “Headquarters 67” is now “Headquarters 68.” Unfortunately I can now predict where this is going. https://t.co/D8by0fvBPT pic.twitter.com/a5YKibZ1EA

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) February 6, 2026

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

Toniiq Ultra High Purity Resveratrol Capsules. #CommissionEarned

‘VERY REVEALING!’ One Short Word in AOC’s WaPo Layoffs Take Gives Away How Dems View the Media.

The left have viewed the Post as “our media” for quite some time. In the fall of 2006, Bill Clinton told a Washington Post interviewer, that “There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies — and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.”

That’s a pretty mild way to describe what the media would shortly morph into a year later, as Obama worship went into overdrive, followed by everything we’ve seen over the last decade to attack the Bad Orange Man.

IMAGE: “Walz only seemed like a football coach to voters with no preexisting relationship to football. His image embodied the liberal conception of nontoxic masculinity, a reverse Margaret Thatcher.”

OR MAYBE ERUCTATES? CNN Erupts After Scott Jennings Drops Truth Bomb on Election Denialism.

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.