THIS IS PROBABLY THE WEIRDEST NEWS YOU’LL READ ALL DAY. TWICE: The Weirdest Thing Just Happened in Ukraine… Again.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: UCSF staffer allegedly threatens to ‘hunt’ down and ‘kill’ conservative activist.

A woman who appears to be a University of California at San Francisco employee was caught on video allegedly threatening to “hunt” down and “kill” a conservative activist who was protesting against cutting off the healthy body parts of gender-confused children.

Parents’ rights activist Beth Bourne told The College Fix she filed a police report after the Feb. 21 incident outside the California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco.

Bourne also posted a video of the confrontation Monday on X. Several commenters identified the woman as Madeline Mann, an associate director at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

The Post Millennial also identified the individual as Mann; it described her as a “transgender activist” who has a daughter who identifies as male.

Exit quote: “The email directed inquiries to institute Director of Program Administration Molly Belinski. She did not respond to an email from The Fix asking if Mann was the individual in the video and why her bio page is no longer on the website.”

THESE CCP SHILLS ARE NOT DIFFICULT TO SPOT AND DISMISS…:

I had never heard of this “Professor” Jiang until a few days ago, and now he’s suddenly everywhere, which is an obvious sign that he’s astroturfed agitprop. Meanwhile, the people giving him a platform are just retards. https://t.co/FPPobLuW5D

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 5, 2026

…so it’s a safe bet the people parroting them are CCP shills, too.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Ultimate Theatre Kid Gets the Hook in Congress. “Nearly every image of Walz in our library looks like he’s performing in a Broadway musical. This man is the ultimate theatre kid — playacting as a serious, credible politician.”

SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG, SWINGING… STICK:

😲… Interior Secretary Doug Bergum standing next to Venezuela interim President Delcy Rodriquez, as the govt thanks President Donald Trump…. who just forcibly snatched Nicholas Maduro.

Um, that's a level of ultimate boss beyond what I ever thought possible. 😀 Wow. Just… https://t.co/4A2uy0tA0R

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) March 5, 2026

BEN THOMPSON ON THE RIFT BETWEEN THE PENTAGON AND ANTHROPIC ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Anthropic and Alignment.

Why would the U.S. government want to kneecap one of its AI champions?

In fact, [Anthropic CEO Dario] Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest:

International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right.
There are some categories of capabilities — like nuclear weapons — that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea.

To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons — or beyond — is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military.

Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality.

Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however — and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei — then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary:

Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President.

Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.

Much more to chew on at the link. Fascinating piece.

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS (EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO FIRST WAGE A LITTLE WAR):

I'm getting tired of explaining this, but I'll do it again because there is so much stupidity out there.

Here is the Seven Step Plan:

1. Decapitate Iran's leadership and destroy its military.

2. A new regime comes to power that will no longer fund Hamas/Hezbollah.

3. Without…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 5, 2026

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: One Intel Coup After Another.

ZINEB RIBOUA: China is Scrambling.

First, the Iranian counterweight is gone. In 2021, Xi told senior Party officials that “the East is rising and the West is declining,” that America was “the biggest source of chaos in the present-day world,” and that China was entering a period of strategic opportunity. Iran was central to that thesis. Beijing needed a defiant Tehran to keep Washington pinned down in the Gulf, to sustain a sanctions-proof energy corridor, and above all, to stand as living evidence that American power had hard limits. The entire architecture of CCP’s dogma of inevitability, which rested on Iran’s ability to endure, and Epic Fury removed the foundation in a single afternoon.

Khamenei was the man who made the thesis feel real. Beijing’s relationship with the Islamic Republic was never really ideological, but Khamenei’s survival was the single most useful fact in Chinese foreign policy. Here was a man Washington had threatened, sanctioned, plotted against, and encircled for over four decades, and he was still giving Friday sermons. Xi personally signed the comprehensive strategic partnership with Khamenei’s government. He personally authorized the weapons transfers. And he personally wielded the Security Council veto. None of it kept Khamenei alive for one additional hour once Washington decided he was finished.

Second, Xi’s own story is collapsing from the inside. The story he told 1.4 billion people, that America is a declining power incapable of decisive force projection, does not match what happened in seventy-two hours over Tehran. State media can suppress the footage and the censors can scrub Weibo, but the ones who matter most, the military planners, the foreign policy professionals, the provincial officials who read between the lines for a living, know what they saw. And if the story is wrong about Iran, the unavoidable next question is whether it was ever right about anything else.

Read the whole thing.

WHEN THEY SHOW YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM:

Virginia Democrats have a bill to criminalize political memes.

I’m not kidding. That’s what this bill does. pic.twitter.com/X9ioKGwGSf

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) March 3, 2026

HOW CAN CALIFORNIA BE OVERREGULATED WHEN IT STILL HAS SOME MONEY LEFT? Newsom Roasted After Admitting on Kimmel That California Is ‘Overregulated.’

TRUMP IS SETTLING ALL FAMILY BUSINESS:

BREAKING: The U.S. asked Israel to eliminate the IRGC commander who plotted the assassination attempt against President Trump.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed he was shot dead, indicating the killing was carried out on the ground—not by an airstrike.

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 4, 2026

I wonder if he got Moe Green’ed.

NOT FOR LACK OF BEING WARNED, HOWEVER:

In short, four years of learning opportunities in #Ukraine have not been fully utilized. But the U.S. is not the only country with this problem. Ultimately, most western nations have suffered a ‘failure of humility’ in learning from the Ukrainians. https://t.co/qjSPLanb54

— Mick Ryan, AM (@WarintheFuture) March 4, 2026

BREAKING: Border Patrol Shoots Armed Man at Checkpoint.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon.

ICYMI: China Only Cares About This One Thing, and Sorry Iran, but It Ain’t You.

GET OVER YOURSELVES: Punk Fail? Rockers Cancel Festival Over Trump.

Now, a gaggle of punk bands planning to tour the country is calling it quits. The reason why is so very, very 2026.

It’s all about Trump Derangement Syndrome.

No, we can’t all get along, apparently, and the Punk in the Park tour’s demise has little to do with the bands in question.

Denver’s far-Left Westword shared the ugly reason for the cancellation – “continued fallout over the organizer’s recently exposed political leanings, particularly financially supporting Trump’s second presidential campaign…”

Cameron Collins is the owner of the tour’s parent company, the Dallas-based Brew Ha Ha Productions. Collins contributed to President Trump’s most recent presidential campaign.

That was enough to stop the tour cold.

And Jello Biafra? Really?

DEVELOPING…:

EXCLUSIVE: Kurdish forces in Iraq have launched a ground military offensive into Iran against the Islamic regime, an Iranian Kurdish official tells @i24NEWS_EN.

According to the official, thousands of Kurdish fighters began taking combat positions inside Iranian territory on… pic.twitter.com/g2EyzB3Ch3

— Yulia Pobegailova (@Y_Pobegailova) March 4, 2026

FINALLY: Reality Check on Cornyn, Crockett, and Crenshaw.

THE DARK NIGHT OF FASCISM IS ALWAYS DESCENDING IN THE GOP AND YET LANDS ONLY ON DEMOCRATS:

If you're defending – and actively saying you'll support – a candidate who had a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo on his chest for 2 decades, then no-one should listen to a word you say ever again. I'm serious. https://t.co/NQIcQobI04

— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) March 4, 2026

Although to be fair, deflecting for Democrats, no matter how terrible, seems to be The Bulwark’s unpublished mission statement.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: BLM Founder Clyde McLemore Caught on Video Fighting With Worker as Police Respond to Waukegan Resource Center.

PERSONNEL IS POLICY:

Calla Walsh, Warren’s old staffer, speaking in Iran:

“Glory to all the martyrs, glory to the axis of resistance. May we see victory within our lifetimes. Death to America!”

pic.twitter.com/fD6wRDnau7 https://t.co/dQwPLdh8hh

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 4, 2026

WELL, GOOD: DHS Is Revetting Nearly 200K Afghans Let in by Biden.

Although given what we know about Biden Cabal policies, the “re” is probably incorrect.

UPSETTING THE GLOBALIST CROWD IS A FEATURE, NOT A BUG:

In all seriousness, this represents a significant shift in American foreign policy.

The big frustrations for war vets:

OIF: Enemy safe haven in Iran
OEF: Enemy safe haven in Pakistan
Vietnam: Enemy safe haven in Cambodia

International waters argument aside, it appears we can… https://t.co/coXc9OjBum

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) March 4, 2026

I CAN’T WAIT TO GET OUT OF THIS STATE: Alcohol ‘fees’ another end-run around Colorado voter consent.

Volumes could be written on the misguided language and intent of the bill, which incorrectly assumes that it is someone else’s fault for individuals choosing to partake in alcohol consumption, and that they must therefore be punished.

However, for our purposes, let’s focus on the bill’s insidious attempt to bypass voter consent.

Despite the constant catastrophizing about not having enough revenue, Colorado lawmakers deliberately continue to ignore the fact that state government has grown far beyond what was ever intended by TABOR.

While tax revenue subject to voter consent has grown by only 44% since TABOR passed, voter-consent-exempt cash funds, such as those generated by HB-1271, have grown by 588%.

But it gets worse. Because of the meteoric increase in enterprise revenues, voters passed Proposition 117 in 2020 to require ballot-box approval of new enterprises whose expected revenues would exceed $100 million in the first five years.

With utter disregard for Colorado voters, legislators now use the scheme of creating several enterprises in place of a single enterprise to keep revenue below the threshold set by Prop 117, thus avoiding voter approval.

Not only that, but it’s guaranteed that the bill’s “three new enterprises in the Behavioral Health Administration” will prove nothing more than a taxpayer-funded money stream to lefty groups.