FOLLOW THE MONEY: Semafor Says It Wants To Fix the ‘Crisis of Trust in News.’ It Just Partnered With a Chinese Communist Influence Group. “Ben Smith, the cofounder of Semafor and a former Buzzfeed editor, says the China initiative is aimed at counterbalancing ‘hawkish’ views in Washington toward China, with an advisory board that represents a ‘diversity of opinion’ on the topic of U.S.-China relations. But a glance at the advisory board’s members calls that claim into question as well.”

GOOD: Researchers find asteroid redirection a viable possibility for planetary defense.

SCAM OF THE CENTURY? Canada’s Trans Teacher with the Enormous Fake Boobs Put on Paid Leave. “Bear with me here as we plunge deep into the details of this stand-out story.”

THE TANK ISN’T DEAD IN AN ARMY THAT KNOWS HOW TO USE THEM: Ukraine’s Combined Arms Warfare Edge

…successfully conducting an armored attack’s violent ballet of tanks, infantry, air and artillery fire takes intensive training. The Russian soldiers in the BTGs, if they ever got that message, never got the training.

Last year the usual ignorant media briefly claimed “the tank is dead.” Fortunately, those claims disappeared. One reason: video of Ukrainians using tanks in successful counterattacks. Real experts pointed out the Ukrainians understood combined arms warfare.

My latest column.

RELATED: Close Air Support Training. An A-10, of course. And an M1A2 tank’s Tank Urban Survival Kit.

(Bumped, by Glenn.)

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Study: Vitamin D could help keep dementia at bay.

NO TELESCREENS REQUIRED: Meet the software company tracking college students’ behavior.

Established in 2003, the software company provides client schools with the ability to create online reporting forms and keep records regarding student behavior.

“Whether it’s student discipline, academic integrity, care and concern records, Title IX matters, or just an ‘FYI’, Maxient’s Conduct Manager has you covered for all things related to a student’s conduct and well-being,” the company’s website states.

Lance Watson, senior client support specialist at Maxient, told The College Fix via email “the schools using a Maxient system have control over how they utilize it and even how they customize it,” such as how they might label the types of processes or issues being tracked.

According to the company website, Maxient receives 7,000 reports daily from client schools, which “range from small private liberal arts colleges to the nation’s largest public institutions.”

One process that may be facilitated by the software is bias reporting systems, which nearly 500 higher institutions in the U.S. have introduced over the past eight to 10 years to address student behavior perceived as “bias.”

“Bias” can mean most anything college administrations need it to mean, which is the entire point.

STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: Man sues bar after he was allegedly banned for being ‘old, white.’

COMRADES, PLEASE TUNE YOUR TWO-WAY TELESCREENS TO THE CHANNEL SHOWING MINISTRY OF TRUTH: THE NEXT GENERATION! Revealed: Roald Dahl books were neutered by woke consultants aged eight to 30 — led by ‘non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who is on the autism spectrum.’

AMERICAN STASI: Okay, So It Looks as if the Justice Department Probably Has Spies in Catholic Churches.

A WHISKEY FUNGUS AMONG US: Jack Daniel’s warehouse project halted after local residents complain of facing a plague of whiskey fungus ‘on steroids.’ This ethanol-fed fungus is a known hazard of aging too much whiskey in too small an area, which it seems Jack Daniel’s is doing. I do wish that the reporter for Fortune knew the difference between a fungus and a virus, though.

HMM: ‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by energy weapon or foreign adversary, intelligence review finds. “One agency, which the officials did not name, determined that it was ‘unlikely’ that a foreign actor was at fault, a slightly less emphatic finding that did not appreciably change the consensus. One agency abstained in its conclusion regarding a foreign actor. But when asked, no agency dissented from the conclusion that a foreign actor did not cause the symptoms, one of the intelligence officials said.”

It would be easier to take the findings at face value if our intel agencies were still trustworthy.

HE REALLY ISN’T UP TO THIS TERM: 68 Percent of Voters Say Biden Is ‘Too Old for Another Term.’

DEAL OF THE DAY: Anker 521 Portable Power Station. #CommissionEarned

DEAL OF THE DAY: eureka NEU182A PowerSpeed Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

AGAIN? Close call between 2 aircraft at Boston Logan under federal investigations. “The NTSB is also investigating four other runway incursions involving commercial airliners at major US airports this year.”

It’s only the beginning of March.

ROLLBACK: No more DEI at New College. “The New College of Florida Board of Trustees recently voted to abolish the college’s DEI office and programming, a move protested by the college’s progressive students and faculty. Proposed DEI changes include eliminating the DEI office–which has a $442,227 budget–and moving its staff into residence life, financial aid, and other non-DEI functions at the college.”

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE DOING THE SAME THING WITH BIDEN: The Dems Are Using Fetterman Like a Puppet. “John Fetterman joined a bipartisan group, did he? Has anybody told him yet?”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Usurper Edition.

Megan Fox is filling in for Kruiser today, who is sleeping off his birthday festivities.

MAKE THEM PAY: Prof fired after speaking out against antisemitism, sexual misconduct wins $1M settlement.

Why is higher education such a cesspit of hate and bigotry?

EVERY SILVER LINING HAS A CLOUD: TikTok’s potential ban in U.S. could be boon for Meta and Snap. “Andrew Boone, an analyst at JMP, said Meta likely stands to benefit the most should TikTok face a U.S. ban. Facebook has been pumping money into its TikTok rival, Reels, which has yet to establish a revenue model that’s as effective as the core newsfeed.”

THAT’S BEEN THE MAIN CONTROLLING CLAUSE SINCE 1937: Please show us the Experts Clause of the Constitution, Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. “There is no provision within the United States Constitution that accords unlimited power to bureaucrats simply because some people consider them to be well-credentialed.”

Well, there’s nothing in the text, but there’s a lot of caselaw to the contrary.

WELL, PAUL RYAN: Et Tu, Paul? Ryan Rolls Over on Tucker Over Fox News Content.

THE NATION, SIX YEARS AGO: Are We Witnessing a Coup Operation Against the Trump White House? Our intelligence apparatus is doing far more than stoking paranoia about the Russian bogeyman—it’s threatening democracy. “Read the histories. The Ivy League culture that still suffuses the CIA has from the first been far more liberal than conservative. The Democratic Party’s Clintonian era is perfectly exemplary on this point. As a smart friend said the other day, John Brennan, who served Bill Clinton and then Obama at the CIA and wanted to serve in an HRC administration, had a lot of trouble sorting out his role in Langley and his relations with the Democrats. Now look.”

Plus: “Either the media are Clintonian liberals before they are newspapers and broadcasters, or they are servants of power before they serve us. This is the media’s disgrace, but our problem.”

Well, that certainly turned out to be the case here.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Obesity Raises Risk Of Early Death By 90 Percent. “After adjusting for biases in BMI, Masters found people carrying excess weight had far worse mortality outcomes than previously known.”

WORST A.G. EVER: Garland Claims Ignorance About Leaks From Trump, Biden Docs Investigations.

Plus: Merrick Garland Hungry For Expanded DOJ: ‘We Don’t Have Enough.’

Why pay gangsters to oppress us?