LOL, THAT WOULD REQUIRE SOME SORT OF ACTUAL PRINCIPLES:
Is there a protest held tomorrow at @Columbia to speak out against these horrors? https://t.co/5590oZYIYl
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) March 7, 2025
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March 7, 2025
NONE OF THESE COME AS A SURPRISE: Scientists Identify 10 Lifestyle Factors Linked to Stroke Risk and Severity.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Engineered stem cells automatically deliver arthritis drugs at prescribed times of day.
MAKE APPLE GREAT AGAIN: Apple Delays Siri Upgrade Indefinitely as AI Concerns Escalate.
Apple Inc.’s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
Apple said that features introduced last June, including Siri’s ability to tap into a user’s personal information to answer queries and have more precise control over apps, will now be released sometime in “the coming year.” The iPhone maker hadn’t previously set a public deadline for the capabilities, but they were initially planned for the iOS 18.4 software update this April.
Bloomberg News reported on Feb. 14 that Apple was struggling to finish developing the features and the enhancements would be postponed until at least May — when iOS 18.5 is due to arrive. Since then, Apple engineers have been racing to fix a rash of bugs in the project. The work has been unsuccessful, according to people involved in the efforts, and they now believe the features won’t be released until next year at the earliest.
In the lead-up to the latest delay, software chief Craig Federighi and other executives voiced strong concerns internally that the features didn’t work properly — or as advertised — in their personal testing, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
As a result: Apple Likely Targeting iOS 19 for Delayed Siri Features. “Further, both Reuters and CNBC interpreted Apple’s statement as a delay of the Siri features until 2026, and wrote headlines stating as much. If Apple was only counting on a delay of a couple of months, it’s likely the company would correct the 2026 assumption, but Apple has offered no further clarification nor has it asked for those sites to change their wording. We’ll get the first iOS 19 update in September 2025 alongside new iPhones, so if 2026 ends up being accurate, the Siri features might not even come in the iOS 19 release. They’ll instead be slated for a future iOS 19 update, perhaps iOS 19.2 or iOS 19.3.”
OH, DRY UP: Dems Pushing Federal Mag Capacity Bill.
SPOILER: IT WAS NEVER THAT VALUABLE. Why Has the ‘Valuable Resource’ Known as 538 Been Summarily Discarded? “Well, there’s a lot to work through here and I suppose the best place to begin is with ABC News claiming to offer ‘best-in-class polling,’ to which my reply can be summarized briefly: LOL, are you kidding me?“
THIS IS WHAT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SURGERY DEPT IS UP TO INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, TEACHING SURGERY: These tweets are all in the last two weeks… And, not joking, I initially thought the first tweet on the surgery Grand Rounds on voting rights was satire from the Babylon Bee or something.
UPDATE: It turns out that the UVA Board of Visitors just announced the dismantlement of the DEI infrastructure at the university. Maybe in time to save a few lives.
THEY’RE EVERYWHERE NOW:
Bill Nye just did a Nazi salute.
This absolutely ruined my Friday.
This is probably the darkest day in our nation since January 6th.
I’m fucking shaking right now…
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) March 7, 2025
PALLYWOOD: THE MOTION PICTURE.
🚨 "No Other Land" Exposed by Pro-Palestinian Activist 🚨
Below is the text of a Facebook post published by Erez Ganor—an Israeli who claims to have worked for years to help Palestinians—about the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land."
Erez deleted this post after… pic.twitter.com/YWRzVpI1Yy
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) March 6, 2025
LOTS OF EXCITEMENT [VIP]: Exploding Sky Candy — and Seeing Stars
READER FAVORITE: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned
WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT DOESN’T ENFORCE: A Weaponized ATF Was Too Busy Shutting Down Legitimate Gun Dealers to Bother With a Stolen Rifle and a Falsified 4473.
WINNING:
The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge. pic.twitter.com/CAj8xINzJG
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 7, 2025
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: World’s Dumbest Criminal NOT From Florida? YOU Make the Call! “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a jewelry heist that’s hard to swallow, what not to play with in the backseat of your Lyft, and Georgia Woman’s Whataburger caper might have taken away Florida Man’s Crown of Shame forever.”
AND IT’S JUST THE OPENING SALVO: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia University.
Literally all Columbia had to do to avoid all this was to enforce its preexisting rules about campus behavior, and the law, and not give special treatment to Hamasnik students, faculty, and outside agitators. And also cooperate with Congressional investigators looking into Title VI violations, rather than stonewalling hoping that things would blow over after the 2024 elections. That’s really it.
As a former research fellow at Columbia Law School (1994-95) I hate to say it, but not only am I not going to go the ramparts to defend Columbia, I’d be happy to dance on its grave. Let it go bankrupt, and have Yeshiva University buy up its assets.
READER FAVORITE: Orange Ninja 4-Stage Knife Sharpener. #CommissionEarned
BEEGE: EPA’s $20B ‘Slush Fund’ Zeldin and DOGE Discovered Looking Really Dodgy. “Zeldin was on Jesse Watters last night and sketched out the what they’ve uncovered. As he tells Watters, it’s $20B parked in an outside bank with the funds dedicated to only eight specific NGO’s.”
Read the whole thing.
WHO KNOWS HERE IT COMES FROM AND WHERE IT GOES: ActBlue Crisis Spells Disaster for Democratic Campaign Cash.
ONLY WATCHABLE TALKING HEAD ON CNN TO RECEIVE WELL-DESERVED RAISE: CNN to hand pro-Trump pundit Scott Jennings big pay raise as part of new deal: report.
CNN is on the verge of finalizing a lucrative new contract for conservative commentator Scott Jennings, a move that demonstrates the left-leaning network’s recognition of his growing influence and appeal among supporters of President Trump, according to a report.
Jennings, a veteran political strategist and respected voice in Republican circles whose analysis serves as a counterweight to the network’s often left-leaning discussions, is set to receive a substantial pay increase, according to the Status newsletter.
Specific terms of Jennings’ reported compensation boost couldn’t immediately be learned.
The new contract for Jennings, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is testament to his growing popularity among Trump supporters on social media who routinely post clips of his contentious interactions with co-panelists.
As Charles Krauthammer famously remarked about Fox News, “the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes was to have discovered a niche market in American broadcasting — half the American people.” Why is CNN shocked when someone comes along who speaks for them — and routinely wins the argument — on their network?
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: The Democrats’ Identity Crisis.
The Democratic Party has a split personality. It was on full display Tuesday night.
Face one: wacky, ideologically fevered, performatively outraged. Face two: collected, reassuring, conventional—and utterly misleading.
The split reflects a deeper problem. Democrats have no power, no leader, no role, no identity. Their presidential candidate lost every swing state and the popular vote. Their reputation is at its lowest level in decades. They are divided: Go wild, or stick with the old playbook?
The House Democrats chose derangement. As President Trump delivered his address to Congress, my eyes remained fixed on the House floor. There was no escaping the Democrats’ hysterical display.
It was a mass psychic breakdown—the political equivalent of the airline steward who, after his flight had landed, announced to the cabin that he was quitting his job, guzzled two beers, opened the emergency exit, and slid to the tarmac on the evacuation chute.
The theatrics began when Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D., N.M.) held a small card that read “This is not normal” above President Trump’s shoulder as he walked down the aisle to the House rostrum. She might as well have held bunny ears behind him. What was she thinking? Voters are used to Trump. They’ve elected him twice. What isn’t normal is Stansbury’s stunt.
Her colleagues were even less restrained. Rep. Al Green (D., Texas) was ejected from the chamber—and subsequently censured by the House—for heckling Trump at the speech’s outset. The image of the 77-year-old Green screaming and shaking his cane at the president was partly disturbing but mostly pathetic. He embodied the “old man yells at cloud” meme.
Speaking of memes, this was the video the Democrats released the following day: Uh Oh! Even Jimmy Kimmel is Mocking the Democrats’ Cringe-Tastic Behavior.
🤡 These are actually real live sitting members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/mGHdv7nMXI
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2025
Meanwhile, Rosa DeLauro (D-Gotham City) continues her quest to appear like a Batman supervillian:
This is why they lost, but nobody tell them that. I hope they keep listening to their staffers who write them goober things like this. pic.twitter.com/q67ef4e832
— Alexis Wilkins (@AlexisWilkins) March 7, 2025
How bad are the above videos They’re so bad that they easily make Donald Trump appear to be the grownup in Washington: Fixed It for You! Trump’s WH Responds to Democrat’s Cringe ‘Fighter’ Video and It’s Perfection (Watch).
Hey @HouseDemocrats, we fixed this for you! https://t.co/8j9PzwF7l4 pic.twitter.com/ogHTclsu7w
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 6, 2025
Finally, regarding the left’s current identity crisis: Tim Walz stumped with blank stare when questioned on who leads the Democratic Party.
THAT WOULD BE NICE: Norovirus vaccine hints at defusing explosive stomach bug in early trial.
YOU CAN BARELY TELL THE PLAYERS APART EVEN WITH A SCORECARD: Another Day, Another Democratic Activist Scam Artist. “As Democratic activists never tire of reminding us while they lose election after election, not only are they smarter and better education that those inbred Trump-voting freaks of JesusLand, they’re simply better people than those greedy, money-grubbing peasants they look down on. Yet somehow, despite those giant piles of moral superiority, time and time again it turns out that they’re the ones committing fraud.”