A GOOD FIRST STEP: Bill would allow monetary, punitive damages against cities with gun control.
I mean we should hold politicians liable who vote for these unconstitutional laws, but that can come later. This is a good beginning.
February 11, 2026
February 10, 2026
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.
PROJECT MÖBIUS LOOP:
Hard to express in words just how hilarious this is.
Imagine how stupid and arrogant you’d have to be to 1) work with the Feds to backstab and sabotage your sting/ambush artist business partner, only to 2) get busted bragging about what you did in a honey trap ambush designed by… https://t.co/tHdvvAIMkX
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 10, 2026
Flashback: A Word to the Wise Liberal. “This is a PSA to all male Democrat staffers: If a really hot chick goes on a few dates with you, there’s a 75% chance that she works for James O’Keefe.”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Sam Darnold’s insane California tax bill stunningly exceeds Super Bowl winnings.
Sam Darnold’s big Super Bowl win Sunday night actually ended up costing the quarterback money.
Because of California tax laws, the Seahawks star reportedly will owe more than the $178,000 he earned for helping lift Seattle to a 29–13 victory over the Patriots at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
According to Sportico, Darnold’s bill to the Golden State will be $249,000 following Seattle’s latest championship.
The outlet stated the sizable check is due to California’s “jock taxes,” which force pro athletes who don’t live in the state to fork over percentages of their yearly income based on the number of days they work in California.
The days have been dubbed “duty days,” and after the Seahawks touched down in NorCal on Feb. 1, Darnold and the rest of his team accumulated eight days total by playing in Santa Clara on Sunday night.
The next Super Bowl will be in the L.A. Rams’ SoFi Stadium, so we’ll be seeing these same articles next year. Sure California is a high-tax state, but just look at the stunning results it delivers for its citizens…
PURITANISM: The Haunting Fear That Someone, Somewhere, May Be Having Fun.
I never cease to be amazed how “environmentalists” never talk about how
95% of all the plastic in the world’s seas and oceans come from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa. It’s always, “Starbucks should ban plastic straws,” never, “drop a nuclear bomb on Jakarta.” https://t.co/ES9LpYReOv— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) February 10, 2026
RING BUD LIGHTS ITSELF: ‘Creepy’ Super Bowl ad sparks backlash, viewers vow ‘never’ to buy this popular product.
Super Bowl commercials often spark conversation, but one 2026 ad in particular has caused quite a stir.
The home security company Ring aired a Super Bowl advertisement highlighting the AI-powered Search Party feature. When a pet owner reports their pet missing in the Ring app, Search Party kicks in on participating outdoor Ring cameras, scanning the area for the missing pet.
The commercial presented the feature as a wholesome way to reunite pets with their beloved owners, but many viewers took issue with the implications of Search Party.
“Do you see what I did there? I disguised mass human surveliance [sic] as a puppy search party,” one X user wrote.
Other social media posts slammed the commercial as “creepy as can be,” “concerning” and “invasive.”
“Marketing team at Ring Camera HQ seriously sat around and was like, ‘How do we sell unconstitutional surveillance of our citizens during the Super Bowl?’ And one guy was like “DOGS!’” one person quipped.
Another X user stated that their main takeaway from this year’s Super Bowl commercials was “never buy a Ring camera.”
One wag tweeted yesterday:
I’ve never seen a commercial destroy a company’s reputation before.
Great work, Ring.
— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) February 9, 2026
Bud Light would like a word pic.twitter.com/pdCA5KOffa
— 4everLSU 💜💛 (@Mignonne21) February 9, 2026
To be fair, it wasn’t just the appearance in 2023 of Dylan Mulvaney, it was the words of Bud Light’s (now-former) marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid, attacking her (now-former) customers:
“It’s like we need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. What does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity,” [Heinerscheid] opined. “It means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different. And appeals to women and to men. And representation, isn’t it the heart of evolution?”
She went on: “We had this hangover, I mean Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach.”
This corporate jabber and diversity talk might wow the sisters and woke crowd. It makes many of her actual beer drinkers want to barf.
Born into a high-powered lawyer family with connections extending from Texas to Southern California and the East, she attended Groton, Harvard and then Wharton. Alissa is the ultimate brand manager and Prep-Woke Girlboss.
Alissa talks in fluent psychobabble: the trendy drivel of her finding emotional safe spaces to process her feelings, the listening and empathy, the journey and trials. In this self-scripted narrative, she overcomes uncertainty, hardship and suffering to be the best in her field, catnip for aspiring female managers. She professes to be a beacon, “bringing women along with me and inspiring the next generation of female leaders to keep moving forward and pursue careers in male-dominated industries.”
But does Alissa Gordon Heinerscheid, Anheuser-Busch’s vice president for marketing Bud Light, by far the nation’s biggest beer brand, know her product or her customers? Does she even like them? At least she could pretend.
Speaking of hating their longtime customers, in less than a decade, Jaguar went from depicting the average Jaaaaaag man like this…
….to this, which blew that brand up in spectacular fashion:
And as a result: Jaguar Land Rover designer behind woke rebrand ‘escorted from office.’
Carhartt Men’s Relaxed Straight Rigby Cargo Pant. #CommissionEarned
NOAH ROTHMAN: A Requiem for Communist Cuba’s Apologists.
Sure, communist Cuba has been on the “brink of collapse” before. Who would begrudge prudent observers who hold their passion in reserve as they await further evidence that Havana’s grip on power is starting to loosen? But conditions on the island have deteriorated rapidly following the ouster of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
If Cuba had a geopolitical project in this century that it pursued with anything like the vigor it displayed in its efforts to export Soviet-style communism around the world throughout the Cold War, it was Havana’s efforts to establish a loyal benefactor in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan regime. It’s not clear precisely how much of Venezuela’s sanctioned oil exports are no longer making their way to Cuba, but America’s efforts to interdict illicit energy shipments are clearly biting. That and Washington’s successful lobbying of other oil-producing nations, including Mexico, to cut Cuba off have thrown the communist regime into crisis.
In late January, the Financial Times reported that Cuba had less than a single month’s worth of oil in reserve. Already, the country’s energy stockpiles appear to be dwindling. Havana informed international air carriers this week, for example, that it will no longer be able to refuel commercial jets on Cuban tarmacs.
And thus the Doom Goblin comes full circle:
DON’T BE STUPID, BE A SCHMARTY: Does Driving a Large, Gas-Powered Truck Make You a Gay Nazi? This Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Thinks So.
Journalists are the worst. Even the ones who don’t cover politics are often incapable of writing normal sentences without flaunting their sneering disdain for normal Americans. For instance, you might not believe us if we told you the Wall Street Journal‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic recently compared Americans who enjoy large trucks with gas-powered engines to Hermann Göring, the Nazi commander who founded the Gestapo and whose “martial flamboyance” fueled persistent rumors about his sexuality. But that’s exactly what he did.
The opening paragraphs of Dan Neil’s review of Ford’s gas-powered F-250 Super Duty must be seen to be believed. Even then, it’s absurd enough to make you wonder if an editor messed up by uploading the wrong text. Just a totally normal way to start a truck review:
Indeed, there are many examples of “behavior intended to signal elite social status.” In the modern context, few are more obvious than sneering at pickup trucks and the people who drive them. If your job is to write about cars, it’s certainly the most relevant option. Comparing people you don’t like to Nazis is another classic case. Most people would regard it as obnoxious preening, but such is the cost of asserting one’s moral righteousness.
When Rupert Murdoch announced Fox News in 1996, CNN’s Ted Turner compared Murdoch to Hitler, and followed up with an explanation, quoted by the Los Angeles Times [in October of 1996]: “‘The late Führer, the first thing he did, like all dictators, was take over the press and use it to further his agenda. Basically, that is what Rupert Murdoch does with his media. . . .’ The Nazi analogy was too much for the Anti-Defamation League, which rebuked Turner for trivializing the Holocaust. Turner apologized, but that didn’t prevent him from likening Murdoch to ‘the late Führer’ a year later; or, in 2005, comparing the success of Fox News to the rise of Hitler.”
Now one of Murdoch’s newspapers is comparing its potential readers to Herman Goering, which in turn trivializes the Holocaust. Do multiple editors agree with Neil, or did they let his article go to print because they really, really hate him?
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
I STUCK WITH THE PUPPY BOWL THIS YEAR: TPUSA Halftime Show Ruled a Fumble. “I’ve written this article three times now, going back and forth over how criticizing Turning Point USA (TPUSA) would go over with an audience full of Charlie Kirk fans, myself among them. After surveying social media and talking to a few people, I’ve decided it needs to be said: TPUSA’s alternate halftime show was a fumble, and an ugly one.”
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
YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER THAT TEACHERS UNIONS DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE KIDS: Teachers strike closes SF schools as union, district at odds over pay and health care.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Noam Chomsky’s Lame Excuses for His Years of Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Back in 2023, Noam Chomsky confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that he received a March 2018 transfer of roughly $270,000 from an Epstein-linked account. That too was just an innocent favor, Valeria Chomsky insists.
Regarding the reported transfer of approximately $270,000, I must clarify that these were entirely Noam’s own funds. At the time, Noam had identified inconsistencies in his retirement resources that threatened his economic independence and caused him great distress. Epstein offered technical assistance to resolve this specific situation. On this matter, Epstein acted accordingly, recovering the funds for Noam, in a display of help and very likely as part of a machination to gain greater access to Noam. Epstein acted solely as a financial advisor for this specific matter. To the best of my knowledge, Epstein never had access to our bank or investment accounts.
Now, keep in mind, for just about all his intellectual career, Noam Chomsky has been a furious critic of American capitalism (“a grotesque catastrophe”), the wealthy elites of the U.S., and corporate influence over politics. He has written, “in this world there happen to be huge concentrations of private power that are as close to tyranny and as close to totalitarian as anything humans have devised… The corporations are just as totalitarian as Bolshevism and fascism.”
Recall that Epstein ran a financial management firm that catered to billionaire clients.
So just the longtime friendship with a person who had the public persona of Epstein, never mind his horrific private acts, seems like an abrogation of his stated values. The not-all-that-well hidden revelation that Epstein was a notorious sex trafficker suggests that at best Chomsky was astonishingly oblivious to a man he spent considerable time with… or he didn’t look and didn’t want to know. He was all too happy to believe that his friend was being accused by “publicity seekers or cranks.”
For what it’s worth, some big former fans of Chomsky are disgusted.
Earlier: Ben Sixsmith on “The very strange downfall of Noam Chomsky.” “If you’re younger than 35, you might have no idea how much of the internet used to be occupied by people arguing about Noam Chomsky. Left-wingers used to fight with liberals and conservatives at insane length over the merits — or lack thereof — of the ageing linguist and anti-war commentator.” As for Chomsky’s numerous enemies on the right, “These poor souls would have had no idea that all their work undermining Chomsky’s political reputation would become unnecessary when, at a grand old age, the man himself formed a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
MARK JUDGE: I Just Got Kicked Off Of X. Whodunit?
READER FAVORITE: BAMBOO COOL Men’s Ultra Breathable Underwear. #CommissionEarned
LEFTISTS ARE LOSERS: Another Social Misfit Busted for Threatening an Assassination Online…And More.
WILL SHE CHANGE HOW SHE VOTES TO REFLECT THIS RADICALLY NEW COMMONPLACE INSIGHT?
These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, decades even, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right,’ at which point the belief instantaneously becomes reasonable to have. https://t.co/9yanbM6UYh
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) February 10, 2026
