THEY KEEP GETTING SMARTER, WHILE PEOPLE STAY THE SAME: Anthropic releases its ‘smartest’ AI model.

HMM: Selective jamming: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces reveal new method of attacking Wi-Fi networks.

IT’S GOOD FOR NEARLY EVERYONE: Exercise helps colon cancer survivors live longer, study suggests.

THE POWER OF SOUND MONEY:

🚨🇦🇷 MILEI’S PESO POWER: ARGENTINA’S SOCCER TEAMS ARE BALLING OUT

For years, Argentina’s top players bolted for bigger paychecks abroad.

Now? They’re coming home—because Milei’s economic overhaul made local contracts competitive again.

River Plate, one of Argentina’s biggest… https://t.co/nw5OQiYMbU pic.twitter.com/bge79jxE3d

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 25, 2025

MARK JUDGE: The New York Times Reporter Who Apologized to Me Needs to Come Fully Clean: David Enrich owes me the conversation he promised.

(There was a typo in the link, it’s fixed now. — Charlie)

YOUTHQUAKE: 3 in 4 college-age voters support Trump’s DOGE cuts: poll.

Also:

Everyone sees right through this narrative. The only people who don't want government corruption exposed are part of the corruption. https://t.co/dgtFJgzrNz

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 24, 2025

PROF. GIORDANO: Congress must dismantle the Department of Education.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Privateers ahoy! Hit cartels where it hurts with this old-school tactic.

Yes, I know I had a substack on this topic, but the Post people wanted me to do a column based on that essay.

JOHN LUCAS: Republicans Should Fight ‘Resistance’ Democrats’ Nationwide Injunctions.

IS DONALD TRUMP FDR? LINCOLN? JACKSON? WARREN HARDING? Harding was bold and enlightened on civil rights & civil liberties and ushered in peace, prosperity, bipartisanship, cautious internationalism, and innovative management.

CHANGE:

Business confidence hits fresh records as 63% of CEO’s now expect a boom. Under Biden it was just 19%.

They’re eager to invest — and create jobs — to ride the wave. pic.twitter.com/XFZZC0jbWB

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) February 25, 2025

FIRST THE USAID GRAVY TRAIN IS SHUT DOWN, NOW THIS: Democrat Donors Pull Funding From Party: The Party ‘Is F***ing Terrible.’

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, SLEAZY? SHOCKED.

Dem Sen. Whitehouse in hot water over wife's nonprofit's millions in federal grants. FOX: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife's environmental organization. https://t.co/YC0tAHJ5y0

— John DePetro Show (@JohnDePetroshow) February 24, 2025

DON SURBER: USA is refuge for manufacturing: Red China, England and Europe are making America the safe place for factories.

YEP, PATRONAGE WAS MUCH MORE ACCOUNTABLE: The Administrative State Is So Corrupt It Makes The 19th Century’s Patronage System Look Good.

Flashback: Abolish the Civil Service.

HOW DARE MUSK GO AFTER THOSE DEDICATED, EXPERT CIVIL SERVANTS: NSA Intelligence Sharing Chatroom Filled With Transgender Fetishism Discussion.

Related: DOGE Discovers “Career Civil Service Workers” Filling the Tees at Over 40 DC Golf Courses on the Taxpayer’s Dime.

FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE.” Northwestern University Mandatory Anti-Discrimination Training Pushes Unverified CAIR Data: ‘This omission is not an oversight; it reflects Northwestern’s ongoing pattern of sidelining Jewish concerns in response to activist pressure,’ anti-Semitism expert says.

TO BE FAIR, IF THEY WERE SMARTER THEY’D DO A LOT OF THINGS: If Democrats Were Smarter They Would Adopts Denmark’s Immigration Approach.

YES, PLEASE:

The best part about the AP's lawsuit is that the judge openly questioned today why the White House Correspondents Association—a self-appointed, fake organization with no statutory or legitimate authority, that exists solely to project an air of official status and wield influence… https://t.co/P6i2Sa9mux

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 25, 2025

STANDING UP FOR THE CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE II EDITION: The Fight Is On — Trump Admin Goes “All In” To Eliminate Congressional Limits on Ability To Fire Appointed Officials.

NOT BY ACCIDENT: The decline of friendship in America. “The loss of friendship is measurable, and can be seen in every age group and demographic — although working-class Americans look to be hardest hit.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Gilmour Space announces mid-March target for first Eris launch.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Privateers ahoy! Hit cartels where it hurts with this old-school tactic.

Yes, I know I had a substack on this topic, but the Post people wanted me to do a column based on that essay.

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: “I hear Timmy’s speech as part of the new masculine pride, which I associate with Trump and those in his vicinity, which is not Hollywood. But it belongs in Hollywood, and Timmy’s a good exemplar of hard work and aspiration to greatness. It’s okay again — isn’t it? — to strive to achieve.”

The new masculine pride. Dare to be great!