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JIM ACOSTA IS AND WAS A JOKE BUT DOESN’T MEAN HE’S FUNNY:  Why This Former CNN Reporter Saying He’d Fire Scott Jennings Is Amusing.

THIS ALSO COMPLETELY BAFFLED ME:  More Dildos.

Pussy hats, dildos… What does the left think they’re achieving by this.

INTERESTING:  What life was really like in the American wild west.

GOOD:  IDF Captures Top Jihadist in Lebanon Raid, Eliminates Hezbollah Artillery Commander.

SOME SANITY:  Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction to Pause California Law Banning Masks on ICE Agent.

DEPENDENCY TRAP:  The War on Poverty: Success or Dependency Trap? The poverty that plagued America in the 1960s is all but gone, but the government’s role remains much debated.

WHAT HE SAYS:  Ian, what is “Guano-psychosis”? And “Guano-psychotics”?

WELL, JESSICA RABBIT IS THE MORE INTERESTING BAD BUNNY:  Rabbit Season.

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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.

RING’S ‘LOST DOG’ SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL SPARKS MASS SURVEILLANCE FEARS:

A Super Bowl commercial that features Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera triggered tremendous backlash online, with many viewers worrying that it glorifies mass surveillance.

The “Be A Hero In Your Neighborhood” ad begins with a video of a young girl reunited with her dog before jumping to a fictionalized preview of when her family pet went missing. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff explains during the ad that 10 million dogs go missing every year. The clip then cuts into a montage featuring missing dog posters stapled to telephone poles.

The commercial then shows the family using “Search Party” from Ring, which “uses AI to help families find lost dogs.”

“Since launch, more than a dog a day has been reunited with their family,” Siminoff continues as a neighborhood of Ring doorbell cameras scans and analyzes the dogs wandering by. “Be a hero in your neighborhood with Search Party. Available to everyone, for free, right now.”

Lucius Fox could not be reached for comment:

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

SASHA STONE: The NFL Used Bad Bunny to Divide America to Boost Ratings.

So what’s the play? Well, if these are the performers slated for the Super Bowl, they know exactly what the response will be. They needed the people who ordinarily wouldn’t watch the Super Bowl to turn out like they did when Taylor and Travis were the happy couple kissing after the Chiefs’ win. Bonanza ratings, like 150 million people tuned in. You think they’re going to get that number with only foo