Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

“Thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Marco Rubio finding out he now has to run Spirit Airlines

Thomas Massie just sounded the alarm: Congress is on the verge of handing Monsanto total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate. This is existential for MAHA. “If farmers contract a form of cancer … from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue.” Instead of pushing to repeal Big Pharma’s vaccine liability shield, Trump and his cronies are trying to expand immunity for even more poison. It’s a complete betrayal of MAHA. And it would cause vastly more harm than all of the benefits that MAHA has done combined. @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

Fox is out with my column on the oral argument over the challenge to Virginia's gerrymandering. foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan… Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones was less than stellar in defending the vague language of the resolution on CNN...

This is nuts. 108mph right between the buttons.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave the most controversial speech *against* Western Civilization at Harvard in 1978. As a survivor of the Russian Gulags, they expected him to praise the West. Instead, he made a jarring accusation: The West is a dying civilization. If it doesn't change its ways, it is doomed to collapse. In fact, he said this has been the case for 500 years, when the West made a crucial mistake: "How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? ...the mistake must be at the root, at the very foundation of thought in modern times. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was born in the Renaissance… I refer to humanism — the proclaimed autonomy of man from any higher force above him." Solzhenitsyn said humanism made man autonomous from God, Truth, and objective morality. If all morality is subjective, then man has nothing to live nor die for. Naturally, he loses his courage, embraces materialism, and grows effeminate to modern evils. So, what is the solution? A return to belief in a transcendental morality under God: "If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual… The fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it." All cultures live, or die, based on their respect of the True, Good, and Beautiful. To save the West, Solzhenitsyn says start with beautifying your soul, for that is both how you live well, and begin to make civilization itself beautiful again.

Nick Cave perdió a su hijo de 15 años, Arthur, en 2015; y a su hijo Jethro, con 31 años, en 2022. Hace poco respondió así a un fan que le preguntaba por qué seguir creyendo en el mundo, en vez de abismarse en el cinismo.

Afroman 2028

This is a good call out. I haven’t read the book but I listened to a lecture/chat Coleman Hughes gave on the topic a few months ago. youtu.be/Foxbs8HbKm8?si=H-ym…

THE GOAL HEARD AROUND THE WORLD 🥇🥇 #WINTEROLYMPICS

James Van Der Beek passed away today. I’m a healthcare guy and I post about healthcare. Now I want to talk about James. He was special, he was 48 years old, a Father of six, a Husband. He was man who spent his final chapter teaching the ultimate guide to real life. James was part of my growing up. Dawson’s Creek. Varsity Blues. The 90s. He was just there, woven into the background. What he did over the last few years was bigger than any of that. He recorded a video on his last birthday. Cancer had taken everything he used to define himself. He couldn’t be the husband who helped around the house. He couldn’t pick up his kids and carry them to bed. He couldn’t work. He was too weak to prune the trees on his own property. And he sat with that. He asked himself the question most of us spend a lifetime avoiding: If I am none of the things I do, who am I? His answer was simple. Devastating. Beautiful. “I am worthy of God’s love simply because I exist. And if I’m worthy of God’s love, shouldn’t I also be worthy of my own?” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. We spend our careers building identities around what we produce, what we control, and what we can point to. And then life has a way of stripping it all down to the studs. James Van Der Beek faced that moment with the courage. He said cancer was the best thing that ever happened to him because it taught him how to live. He left behind his wife, Kimberly, six children, and a message that every father, husband, and man chasing the next thing needs to sit with. Watch this video. Then call someone you love. Thank you for your contribution. Rest easy…

In an age of rage, it is often difficult to stand out in the mob as so many pander to the perpetually irate. However, New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie has found a way to win the race to the bottom...jonathanturley.org/2026/02/0…

Goodnight everybody. I need everyboby to lock in. It doesn’t matter if you’re the Qb, the equipment manager or watching from home. #7 #NEPats

What is this, an investment for ants?

I've been feeling hopeless about AI automating everything. But then I realised this might be an opportunity. When so few seem interested in being a person, isn't that the best time to be one? My latest for After Babel: afterbabel.com/p/you-have-to…

DRAKE MAYE THE PATS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL

Dear @NHL New rule proposal: any team that gives up an EN goal when down by more than 1 goal, unless it is an elimination game for them, receives a delay of game minor at the start of their next game. This is getting out of hand. Thank you.

I am a @uaustinorg fan. Worth a read on the school.

Rooting for you. We need it.