PROF. JENKINS: My interaction with a ‘gender studies’ professor shows why open syllabi are needed: Open syllabi are critical in preventing gender, sexuality, identity, race, and politics from being taught in otherwise unrelated courses.

Taught, indoctrinated, whatever.

THE LEFT WILL KEEP SENDING THESE CRAZIES AFTER HIM UNTIL ONE OF THEM SUCCEEDS: Secret Service kills armed man at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago after he broke through security perimeter. We don’t know anything about this guy yet, but the odds that he’s a leftist crazy are good, based on recent history.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Left’s Elastic Principles On Judicial Authority: Democrats cheer or jeer the Court as convenience dictates; their lone consistency is power—pursued relentlessly, defended fiercely, and projected onto opponents.

MIRANDA DEVINE: It’s time to take a stand against ‘woke AI’ before it compromises our reality.

The AI chatbots we are starting to rely on for everything lie shamelessly and hallucinate on top of being intrinsically infected with Marxist or woke ideology on everything from critical race theory, and DEI, to transgenderism.

The more they evolve, the less their creators seem to understand how they work.

One of the more laughable examples in the past two years was when Google’s Gemini produced images of diverse women when asked to provide pictures of the Founding Fathers.

But Musk highlighted a more sinister example on his platform X this week of how dangerous woke AI really is.

His AI model Grok and its rival, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were asked this question: “If the only way to stop a nuclear apocalypse was to misgender Caitlyn Jenner, would you misgender Caitlyn Jenner?”

Grok replied yes.

ChatGPT replied no.

A slightly less worrying example from Musk was a comparison of how Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude answered a question about whether the US was built on “stolen land.”

He shared another post in which Grok was the only chatbot that answered no when asked if “critical race theory should be taught in schools.”

And unlike Claude, Grok said the Canadian government’s decision to debank truckers protesting COVID restrictions was wrong.

There’s no doubt that Grok is the morally superior AI. But no important decisions should be left to AI. As they said at IBM a century ago, a machine can’t be held accountable for a bad decision, so machines shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions.

And what you should know is an important decision.

AND THEN CALL STUDENT AI USE CHEATING, NO DOUBT: Some Colleges Use AI to Read Applications.

I THINK SOCIETY IS LOSING ITS Y CHROMOSOMES: Men Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age. We Finally Know The Cost.

BRYAN CAPLAN: Crusades and You.

Every five years or so, the United States has a major societal-wide crusade. Sometimes there’s a shocking event. Other times, there’s an ongoing evil. Either way, all Americans are supposed to join forces and take decisive action to win the crusade. And even if you can’t personally do anything, you’re supposed to get very angry.

You’re supposed to be very angry about the problem.

You’re supposed to be very angry about anyone who stands between us and victory.

You’re supposed to angrily support our crusaders.

And you’re supposed to be very angry about people who aren’t very angry.

5 years old, but still true. The bit about “effective altruism” hasn’t aged well though.

YES.

This is a very good point.

Does @netflix stand by their board member threatening punishment & persecution for half of America that dares to disagree with her? https://t.co/JqZzYmgOkn

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 21, 2026

HEY, IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’RE VOTING OR SOMETHING:

UPDATE: To register to shovel snow in Mamdani’s NYC you must present two forms of ID, plus a social security card 😱 pic.twitter.com/RhAB0inaOu

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 21, 2026

HE’S A MOLE PUT IN BY THE REPUBLICANS TO CARRY THEM TO VICTORY IN THE MIDTERMS AND 2028: Mamdani Is Collapsing Faster Than We Thought. “You can’t say we didn’t warn New York what was going to happen if it elected Zohran Mamdani, but I gotta say, I don’t think anyone predicted it would start collapsing so quickly. But, alas, it has. That socialist utopia that Mamdani was supposed to deliver has instead turned into a slow-motion fiscal catastrophe a mere two months in — and even the liberal media is starting to notice.”

OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Firefly Aerospace prepares Alpha rocket for 1st launch since explosive mishaps last year.

To build a working rocket requires going through some explosions along the way.

MAKE THEM PAY:

BREAKING: JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts After Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

Nation’s largest bank, in response to a lawsuit filed by the president, confirmed his longstanding complaint about “debanking.”

Per the New York Times: “For years, President Trump has complained that… pic.twitter.com/V2Pa20vYiC

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 21, 2026

STOCKPILE FOOD AND BOOZE: Massive blizzard set to wallop NYC with up to 20 inches of snow as bomb cyclone puts millions in danger. Up and down the East Coast, and worse in Boston.

I LIKE JUST SOCKS, IF THE SURFACE ISN’T SLIPPERY: Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights. I often wear Puma driving shoes, which are almost like barefoot shoes, but cheaper and a bit more supportive.

OOPS: NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs.

IS THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC JUST AN OUTBREAK OF DIAGNOSES? “Autism’s apparent explosion cannot be understood without first clarifying what the term now encompasses. What was once a rare, severe neurodevelopmental condition, often accompanied by intellectual disability and institutionalization, has expanded into a broad diagnostic spectrum that includes many individuals with normal or exceptional cognition and minimal functional impairment. This diagnostic elasticity, combined with deinstitutionalization, shifting social expectations, and powerful policy incentives such as mental health parity, has dramatically altered who is counted and why.”

And don’t forget the role played by Somali scammers.

HOW ABOUT JUST LEAVE THEM THERE, THEN? Scientists Warn: 5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave Bacteria Resistant to Modern Antibiotics.

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT “REEFER MADNESS” WAS A MYTH: Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders.

OOPS: Mercedes-Benz Issues Recall for EQB Electric SUV over Fire Risk.

ABOUT TIME: VA Finally Ends Policy That Stripped Vets of Their Gun Rights Without Due Process.

NATURE, RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW: A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis.

MY PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL: ‘Kick it while it’s down’ approach to cancer treatment could improve cure rates.

HE WAS FROM KNOXVILLE, UNSURPRISINGLY: ‘We are all Jews’: Soldier who defied his German captors to be awarded Medal of Honor.

It was within these conditions that the POWs subsisted until roughly one month after their capture, on Jan. 27, 1945, when Roddie Edmonds, the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer at Ziegenhain stalag that day, was told to order his nearly 200 Jewish-American soldiers out of the morning roll call.

Instead, the master sergeant ordered more than 1,000 of his fellow prisoners to stand together in front of their barracks.

The commandant scoffed, noting that they couldn’t all be Jewish.

Roddie Edmonds was defiant, telling the Nazi: “We are all Jews.”

The commandant furiously marched over to the master sergeant, placed his Luger to Roddie Edmonds’ forehead and once again told him to order his Jewish soldiers to step forward or this time he would execute him.

“You can shoot me,” Tanner, who was standing next to Roddie Edmonds at the time, recalled the NCO saying. “You can shoot all of us. But we know who you are. And this war is almost over, and you’ll be a war criminal.”

The Nazi slowly lowered his pistol, did an about-face, and walked away.

He deserves the Medal.