THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX creates history: Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket launches to space 600th time.
January 18, 2026
HEY, WITH DON LEMON I’M JUST GRATEFUL IT’S NOT SEXUAL ASSAULT:
Every protester in this video has committed a federal crime
They can all be easily identified
Don Lemon needs to be in custody by the end of the day if the administration is to ever be taken seriously again https://t.co/0A54AHGuSK
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) January 18, 2026
STALIN’S AUTHORITARIANISM WAS LEFT AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE AMERICAN LEFT WAS LARGELY OKAY WITH IT:
“Authoritarianism is bad—unless it’s leftist authoritarianism”
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 18, 2026
EXERCISE IS MEDICINE: The Best Medicine For Joint Pain Isn’t What You Think, Says Expert.
RIGHT?
I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys. https://t.co/oGwZeQK4kC
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 18, 2026
UPDATE:
"Me and my street militia are going around demanding to see people's papers and shutting down churches. You know, to fight fascism"
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) January 18, 2026
SPACE IS HARD:
Yesterday China broke the world records：launching two rockets at the same day and both failed tragically. The two rockets are CZ-3B (长征三号乙) and CERES-2(谷神星二号). WOW! Great achievement, keep up!
Below is the launch of CZ-3B： pic.twitter.com/RSf1izTsvG— Bin Xie (@bxieus) January 18, 2026
The attached video is actually of a failed Russian Proton-M launch from 2013, but various sources confirm that China lost two rockets just 12 hours apart this weekend.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I wouldn’t get cocky. Blowing rockets up is an essential part of the process of getting to rockets that don’t blow up. Elon knows…
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says.
SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS: Ford’s Betting Hard on its 30-Year-Old V8 to Beat Ferrari Again.
FLORIDA SHERIFF EXPLAINS ANTI-ICE CHAOS: Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd lays out the simple facts that explain why riots erupted in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis. And the villains don’t wear ICE uniforms.
Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM STARFLEET LEARING ACADEMY: John Nolte: Free Premiere of Trump-Hating Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Bombs.
Paramount+ made Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s premiere episode available for free and, after a full day, it has amassed only 81,000 views and a dreadful like-to-dislike ratio…
As of this writing, only 3.9K people have hit the “like” button, compared to the 10K that have hit the “dislike” button.
Gee, I wonder what the problem is?
Oh, wait…
Star Trek cadets are now required to get DEI training from an obnoxious lesbian
Yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/qDFp1dfDiO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 15, 2026
What is that? A smug lesbian virtue-signaling with her strident Karen Power is supposed to be appealing, someone we can relate to, someone to aspire to? Does that teacher look like she should be training people to handle Starships or blowing whistles at ICE agents in Minnesota?
What a joke.
Everyone smelled this turd from a mile away, which is why no one bothered to tune in.
Nolte’s post went up on Friday; here’s where the likes and dislikes stand on its YouTube page as of Sunday afternoon:
I wonder how much money Paramount has left on the table by alienating men from the streaming iterations of the Trek franchise? In the 1970s, even prior to the massive Star Wars merchandizing blitz, Paramount made a fair chunk of change licensing the Star Trek brand to sell plenty of toys, books, blueprints, and wargames aimed at young males. (While Heineken apparently didn’t bother to seek Paramount’s permission to use Spock’s image to sell beer in 1975, an underemployed Leonard Nimoy being furious with the studio that he received zero royalties from the use of his image was a key sticking point that almost kept him out of the first Star Trek movie in 1979.) In the 1980s, sales of videotapes of the Trek movies and especially the old 1966 TV series were added to the mix. The same thing that someone recently posted on X about how Kathleen Kennedy killed Star Wars’ merchandizing and DVD sales dead by making the brand toxic for males applies to Trek as well:
She did so much damage it's mind-boggling. Every single franchise under her control that had originally appealed to the young male market, she tried to change it to appeal to the young female market instead.
Despite failure after failure, she kept doing it.
Instead of learning… https://t.co/EtEHTxFCoz
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 16, 2026
Absolutely spot-on. She hated the original audience. pic.twitter.com/ztla2yQKy1
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 16, 2026
Classical reference in headline:
Earlier, from Steve: I (Almost) Watched Starfleet Academy So You Don’t Have To.
DRAMA QUEEN GENERAL: California AG Bonta Files for En Banc Review of Open Carry Ruling to Ward Off ‘Fear, Chaos, and Intimidation.’
Dude, take a Midol and chill.
THEY REALLY SHOULD TEACH THAT IN LAW SCHOOL:
They don't teach this in law school, but a feature of international law is that it hibernates and only wakes up when it can be used to defend the hypothetical sovereignty of people guilty of mass crimes against humanity. https://t.co/mXIiajG6e3
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) January 18, 2026
HEH. AND DOUBLE HEH:
Stay at least 6ft away from ICE officers as they socially distancing from those infected with the woke mind virus.
— Katie Zacharia (@KatieZacharia) January 18, 2026
TRIM YOUR NAILS: XGIZMOO 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned
I HOPE YOUR BEEPER DOESN’T GO OFF:
They don't teach this in law school, but a feature of international law is that it hibernates and only wakes up when it can be used to defend the hypothetical sovereignty of people guilty of mass crimes against humanity. https://t.co/mXIiajG6e3
— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) January 18, 2026
(Classical reference in headline.)
SEEMS LIKE A FAIR TRADE:
💯💯💯
— Elizabeth Barcohana (@E_Barcohana) January 18, 2026
FIGHT THE POWER: Sacramento teachers seek to remove union control.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Are So Screwed and a Former Obama Advisor Just Proved It.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT!
I’m coming off private for about an hour so you can read this.
The billionaire tax in CA is an example of an irregular warfare action by the Chinese Communist Party on the United States.
What it does is push out the people who would fight CCP encroachment into CA. The CCP… https://t.co/cVf5rpP1qD
— Michael Guimarin (@MichaelGuimarin) January 17, 2026
The reaction to the left of California’s business community heading off to Galt’s Gulch has been instructive, though:
The entitlement here is astounding. California didn’t make these people money. These people made money for California. No one “deserves” it. When faced with crushing financial losses, it’s entirely rational for business owners to move elsewhere. Wealth taxes inevitably fail. https://t.co/VHbB7Kz9Ig
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) January 17, 2026
“WELL, HERE YOU HAVE IT–THE EXACT MOMENT WHEN THE ARABS DECIDED TO INVENT A ‘PALESTINIAN PEOPLE’ FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTROYING THE STATE OF ISRAEL:”
Well, here you have it—the exact moment when the Arabs decided to invent a "Palestinian people" for the purpose of destroying the State of Israel– August , 1960 (I think the meeting was actually held in September).
"4. At Arab League meeting at Shtaura last August, decision… pic.twitter.com/tdi09Krm3T
— Shoshana🦁🌞🇸🇨🪬 (@Shoshana51728) January 15, 2026
