BEZOS HASN’T GUTTED THE POST ENOUGH YET: Colin Kaepernick Washington Post story on Super Bowl Sunday draws social media backlash.

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was top of mind for The Washington Post ahead of Super Bowl LX on Sunday.

Kaepernick was described in the story as Super Bowl LX’s “most relevant” figure despite the 49ers not making it and the subject of the story being out of football for nearly 10 years.

“The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol,” Adam Kilgore wrote of Kaepernick. “The social issues swirling around America’s largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL.”

The story continued to assess Kaepernick’s legacy after he launched a kneeling protest against social injustice in the U.S. and wondered about his voice amid outrage against the Trump administration’s policy on illegal immigration after two deadly incidents involving federal agents in Minnesota.

The story garnered immense reaction on X.

In which a sports reporter at the Washington Post declares that “The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is” . . . Colin Kaepernick. They cannot fix themselves. They will not fix themselves. They are incorrigible, monomaniacal weirdos. https://t.co/sZRc6GxVT0

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 8, 2026

Much of sports media is just crazy left wing propaganda masquerading as sports news. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Sports audiences overwhelmingly reject this content, but shutting down the sports department and having this article run two days later is just too perfect.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 8, 2026

Exit quote: “Kaepernick has maintained that he’s staying ready for another NFL shot. He will be 39 in November.”

Tom Brady, Blaine Gabbert, and the ghost of George Blanda smile.

BE PREPARED: ERAYAK 4500W Portable Inverter Generator for Home Use. #CommissionEarned

LOSERS DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OTHERS: Arkansas State U. protesters want ‘accountability’ following alleged racist incidents: Want a ‘commitment’ administrators ‘will not use the First Amendment to defend ‘derogatory’ speech.’

“Reports of racist incidents” on campus are usually hoaxes.

CAPTAIN CAPITALISM (Aaron Clarey) reviews my new book:

DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: University of Minnesota arrests 67 at hotel protest, leftist student group slams school. “The University of Minnesota arrested 67 people at an anti-ICE protest outside of a campus hotel. The school’s chapter of Students for a Democratic blasted the school in multiple social media posts, calling for it to ‘LET THE GRADUATE PROTESTERS THE F*** OUT.’”

Lock them up and expel them.

#JOURNALISM:

Exactly. Which is why they deserve no sympathy when they continue to destroy the institution they claim to love.

— Shooting News Weekly (@SN_Weekly_) February 8, 2026

ICYMI: “But now that we are learning that hundreds of billions—at least—of government expenditures go to fake nonprofits and businesses, and that likely a similar amount is sent out in inflated costs attached to legitimate government contracts, it has been dawning on me and others that some significant fraction of our apparent economy amounts to storefronts that provide little to no actual goods and services.”

MESSAGING: Trump Officials Have Been Working Hard to Alienate a Critical Core Constituency They’ll Need in November – Gun Owners.

Know your core constituencies.

“THIS IS WHY THEY STOPPED TEACHING CIVICS IN HIGH SCHOOL:”

This is what happens when you stop teaching civics in high school.

This is why they stopped teaching civics in high school. https://t.co/XBoA1zoqEh

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) February 8, 2026

LIGHTNING DEAL: Air Tracker Tags-4 Pack for Apple Find My (iOS Only). #CommissionEarned

JOSHUA TREVIÑ0: England As It Really Is. “On the one hand, this is ordinary. England is under no obligation to meet an American standard. On the other hand it is deeply out of the ordinary, because the England we find is increasingly alien even to the English. . . . This does not strike the American as a cause for celebration, but perhaps we love England more than its academics do.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE POLITICO: 

Got what I asked for award https://t.co/p3VUtl8CwV pic.twitter.com/zzCrHoMyEs

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 7, 2026

NEWS YOU PROBABLY CAN’T USE: How to cross the Atlantic in short hops.

A MOVIE REVIEW:  A Contemporary Story of Redemption- A Review of Moses the Black. The 4th century saint, Moses the Black, is probably not well-known by most. However, his journey from bandit chief, to monk, to priest and martyr provide the backdrop for a story of redemption.

IF YOU’RE A STARTING OUT INDIE AUTHOR THINGS LIKE THIS ARE A FORCE MULTIPLIER:  Based Book Sale.

And if you’re a seasoned pro with a following, you kind of owe it to the newbies to take part, so you increase their visibility, too. Okay, not owe precisely, but I follow the Heinlein tradition of paying it forward.

THE ‘FRENCH LAUNDRY’ SEEMED EXPENSIVE BUT THIS MONEY LAUNDRY BEATS IT HOLLOW:  Inside ‘Shangri-La’ homeless scam as taxpayer millions bankroll jets, mansions and luxury excess — and Newsom won’t cut ties.

SURELY SOMEONE HAS SEEN IT?  Unseen footage puts Benghazi attack suspect at scene of crime that killed 4 Americans at US embassy.

I CAN’T BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS; I’VE PAID THEM NO ATTENTION SINCE BEFORE THIS CENTURY:  American Olympians Bash Their Own Country As Democrats and Media Gush.

CHINESE WHISPERS’ IS BRIT NAME FOR WHAT WE YANKS CALL ‘GAME OF TELEPHONE”:  How Chinese Whispers reveals the true workings of the human mind.

IN FAIRNESS, JUDGE BOASBERG DECLARED IT FIRST:  The Trump White House Declares War on This Little District Judge.

I’M SO OLD I RECALL WORRYING ABOUT THE ARAB STREET RISING IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  A globalist utopia? No, a European caliphate under Islamic mob rule.

NOTED:  Doing The Honourable Thing. Not in Britain’s repertoire anymore.

THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES:  CATO Institute Peddles Pathetic Poppycock.

YES, INDEED:  Bitcoin, Bullets, Beans, and Bonfires.

UH:  The size of the blasts and decoupling are consistent with Chinese developmental testing for 4th Generation nuclear weapons. That is, pure fusion nuclear devices which do not use either plutonium or highly enriched uranium fission to start fusion.

AND FOR THE CANCELLED OF X:  Here.