February 5, 2026

BAD BUNNY IS SKIP BAYLESS APPROVED! Skip Bayless gets brutally honest about Bad Bunny and ‘boring, cliche’ football players ahead of Super Bowl LX.

A frequent critic of the NFL, Skip Bayless is applauding the league and partner Roc Nation for picking Bad Bunny to headline Sunday’s halftime show Santa Clara.

‘I thought it was an inspired, different sort of choice,’ Bayless told the Daily Mail at this week’s NFL Crucial Catch dinner in San Francisco, hosted by the American Cancer Society. ‘He’s the most downloaded artist in the world, so good for the NFL.’

Born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Bad Bunny is the Grammy Award-winning musician, actor and Donald Trump critic detested by conservatives for his Spanish lyrics and anti-ICE stance. But while some are furious to see him get the biggest stage in music, Bad Bunny has intrigued Bayless, albeit in small doses.

‘You know, it’s funny,’ Bayless began. ‘I thought he was not good, [but] great, in Happy Gilmore 2 because he stole it. He’s a very gifted actor, and I like him on Saturday Night Live. I like him a lot.

‘And the music, I haven’t gotten into yet, I try,’ he continued. ‘And then I heard a song today that I liked, and maybe I’m too out of the demo, but all I know about Bad Bunny is: He is extremely talented in many, many ways, so I’m happy. I liked [the decision].’

I’m so old, I can remember when mass audiences actually knew the music that would be performed at the Super Bowl halftime show — and had heard of the performer before he was announced by the NFL.

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPEAKING OF DOOMED LEFTY INSTITUTIONS: Rick Moran at PJ Media lays out the likely demise of national election-shaping lefty political power in a column updating the old saw that “demographics are destiny” for a country.

“The blue states are in a demographic doom loop. They need to create high taxes to pay for the numerous goodies they give to residents, but that leads to an exodus of wealth and people. To make up for the losses, blue states import and encourage illegal aliens to settle there. But illegals are a huge drain on the state treasury, leading to the need to raise taxes, and the loop closes on itself.”

Yes, Lord, please let it be so!

Posted at 5:02 pm by Mark Tapscott

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon.

On Wednesday night, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman revealed that the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts will be allowed to bring iPhones and other modern smartphones into orbit and beyond.

“NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones, beginning with Crew-12 and Artemis II,” Isaacman wrote on X. “We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments for their families and share inspiring images and video with the world.”

NASA astronauts have long captured amazing photos from the space station, but having a smartphone on hand will open up a world of video possibilities. This will likely be especially useful when astronauts are conducting an experiment or looking outside a window and see an interesting, transient phenomenon.

“Can you hear me now?” is a joke, but only until SpaceX builds out Lunar Starlink.

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD EXPANDING; LOOKING TO HIRE THE BEST FABULISTS ON THE PLANET:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AND TRUMP IS PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN IT AND US HERE: The West’s forbidden truth: Ethnic cleansing is now official policy.

When a dictator in a distant, war-torn nation announces a plan to shrink an ethnic group inside his borders, the Western world erupts. Anchors denounce it. Newspapers detail the plight of the targeted people. Sanctions follow. Diplomats whisper about regime change. The moral verdict arrives quickly, and it arrives correctly: ethnic cleansing.

Yet Western leaders now make a parallel declaration in a cleaner suit. Their countries, they insist, have grown “too white.” The white population must fall. The electorate must change. No denunciations follow. No sanctions arrive. Corporate press treats the project as enlightened policy. A global consensus that once claimed to oppose ethnic cleansing now tolerates it — provided the target is white people in Western nations.

French writer Renaud Camus gave us the “Great Replacement.” For years, polite society treated the phrase as radioactive. Say it on television and you became a pariah. Post it online and platforms erased you. That taboo held only as long as people could be bullied into denying what they could see.

The concept’s explanatory power proved stronger than the gatekeepers. Major conservative outlets now discuss replacement openly. YouTube will still attach warnings to videos that mention it, yet the subject refuses to disappear because the policy keeps showing up in schools, boardrooms, and border statistics.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green

I SHOUTED OUT WHO KILLED THE WAPO, WHEN AFTER ALL IT WAS JEFF AND ME: The Washington Post Disaster is an Indictment of Both Publishers and Society.

The shocking diminishment of The Washington Post, which has just announced it is cutting a third of its staff, is not just another story of a great paper succumbing to algorithms, social media, and the march to idiocracy. In their zeal to be seen as fair and evenhanded, journalists tend to accept the common criticism that they failed to adapt — that, basically, they didn’t produce enough viral TikTok videos.

There’s some truth to that, but the main problem lies elsewhere. This disaster is an indictment of the business side of journalism: its inability to understand what remaining readers value, its mistaking novelty for strategy, its cowardice about insisting the product has economic value, its refusal to collaborate as an industry, and its refusal to get out of the way of the product it exists to serve.

Of course, there is also a failure of society. We faced a test over the past thirty years: Did we educate ourselves to value truth (and civility and justice and progress)? Do we care enough to pay enough to keep the machinery of reliable information going — the way we do for beer and sneakers? And guns in dumb places and guaranteed healthcare in smarter ones? Turns out that we did not.

What is this “machinery of reliable information” you refer to?

More from Nolte here: Washington Post-Mortem: A Suicide in Five Acts.

Well, six actually:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

ROGER KIMBALL: We are rapidly approaching the denouement of the 2020 election drama.

Commenting on the tsunami of news crashing out from Georgia, the great Cleta Mitchell, who advised President Trump when he contested the Georgia election results,  noted that on the morning of election day,  November  4, 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Trump led by 103K votes with only 94K ballots left. “Four days later,” Mitchell noted:

[T]here were 300K more ballots, including 148K absentee ballots from Fulton County. That’s 25,535 more ballots than voters, more than double Biden’s margin. Over 133K ballot images were deleted. Zero of 148 Fulton County tabulators had the required tapes. Nearly 7K fictitious ballots remain certified, and no one investigated.

Then there is the news about Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Grand jury testimony that was just unsealed revealed that Kemp told the chief of Georgia Bureau of Investigation not to [investigate] allegations of fraud in the 2020 election, Saying he was a “team player,” the official dropped the case.

The mask is being ripped off as I write. A Gestalt shift in The Narrative is underway. Wikipedia says that Cleta Mitchell “aided Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the election results and pressure election officials to ‘find’ sufficient votes for him to win.” How long will it be before the site is forced to note instead that she aided the president in his efforts to get to the truth in Fulton County?  What happened in Georgia is just one falling domino in the giant reversal that is taking place. A lot of reputedly “impossible” things are in the process of being revealed.

Stay tuned. As Chris Queen wrote last Friday: If Georgia’s 2020 Election Was ‘Fair,’ Fulton County Sure Is Defensive About It.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S COME TO THIS: Stanford’s Fake Disability Crisis Is America’s Future.

The Stanford Scam: Gaming Disability for Better Dorms

The numbers are damning: 38% of Stanford undergraduates are registered as having a disability. Meanwhile, at community colleges? Three to four percent. The schools that boast the most academically successful students are the ones with the highest “disability” rates—disabilities that you’d think would deter academic success.

The accommodations are generous: single rooms (instead of cramped triples), extra test time (some students get double), excused absences, late assignments, and even exemptions from class participation for “social anxiety.” The process? A 30-minute Zoom call with minimal skepticism. According to one Stanford student who wrote about her experience, she “probably didn’t even need a doctor’s note.”

Even students with legitimate diagnoses feel the rot. One student with ADHD and Asperger’s admitted: “I probably didn’t deserve the accommodations, given the fact I got into Stanford and could compete at a high academic level.”

Fake Jains and Whole Foods: The Meal Plan Hustle

The gaming doesn’t stop at disability. Stanford requires undergrads to purchase an $7,944 annual meal plan—unless they claim a religious dietary restriction the cafeteria can’t accommodate.

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So some students claim to be devout members of the Jain faith, which rejects any food that may cause harm to living creatures—including insects and root vegetables. They spend their meal money at Whole Foods instead, enjoying freshly made salads while their honest classmates eat “burgers made partly from mushroom mix.”

Administrators are powerless. How do you challenge a religious dietary claim without risking a discrimination lawsuit? The university created a system with no verification and wonder why it gets gamed.

Much more here: Nearly 40% of Stanford undergraduates claim they’re disabled. I’m one of them. One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll