GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Vanderbilt investigates math professor over anti-Israel calculus problem. “Assume Palestine as a state with a rectangular land shape. There is Mediterranean Sea on the west and Jordan River on the east. The height (from south to north) is 2.6 times width (from east to west). From river to the sea, Palestine (…) was approximately 100 km in 1946. The land decreases by 250 km2/year due to the occupation by Israel. How fast is the width of the land decreasing now?”
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February 27, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Members List of Secretive ‘Bohemian Grove’ Men’s Club Is Leaked “Your humble columnist didn’t have the leak of the roster for the ‘Bohemian Grove’ secret society on her radar, yet here we are. While we await the denials to come pouring in, allow me to officially welcome you to this week’s West Coast, Messed Coast™ column that brings you the titillating outrages, wokeness, and weirdness of California, Oregon, and Washington.”
AND THAT’S JUST THE UPPER STAGE:
What a beauty. So shiny, so new. And a rare daylight roll to boot. I think this does a good job of showing the sheer scale of it all pic.twitter.com/e3tkJtJ6Au
— Shaun Gisler (@lifeatstagezero) February 27, 2026
FOR CERTAIN REPUBLICANS, THAT’S A MIGHTY BIG IF: If GOP Wants To Win The Midterms, They Need To Pass The SAVE Act. “While Trump’s policies are really popular, the Republicans in Congress themselves are not that popular and Trump isn’t on the ballot. So you’ve got Dems all jacked up to … vote against Republicans, but what Republicans need to do is to deliver on the things they said they were going to do.”
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: How Much Was the Government LYING About the Illegal Immigrant Crime Wave?
MINNESOTA NOT-SO-NICE: Hoplophobic Harridans Plan to Protest Minnesota High School Clays Fundraiser This Weekend… Here’s What You Can Do.
You read that right. A bunch of teenagers who like to shoot clays for sport and are conducting a fundraiser for their club will likely face a passel of hoplophobic harridans and a sprinkling of hen-pecked beta males this weekend. These scolds think that’s the perfect venue to scream about “gun violence,” as if these kids are somehow the equivalent gang-bangers that turn cities like Minneapolis into war zones.
It’s odd that these gun-haters never pull these stunts in crime-ridden urban neighborhoods, isn’t it?
Nothing says “imminent threat to society” quite like a 16-year-old in safety glasses yelling “Pull!” before busting a clay bird. We’ve all seen the shocking videos of these clean-cut trap and skeet shooters looting convenience stores, robbing pedestrians or carjacking big city residents with their 12-gauge pump shotguns, right?
Let’s get real for a second. High school trap shooting is statistically one of the safest sports out there. Safer than football, wrestling, cheerleading and pretty much everything else including P.E. class. Zero school killing sprees have been carried out by a school trap team member. These kids are drilling discipline, focus, responsibility, and—gasp!—proper firearm safety under strict adult supervision. It’s a lifeline for some bookish types who’d otherwise warm the bench in other sports, giving nerds, quieter kids, and future engineers a place to shine, build confidence, and learn that tools aren’t toys. To say nothing for young people with disabilities.
But we can’t have that, can we? Because guns are icky. And scary. So instead of cheering on kids who are literally doing everything right, these lame lefties choose to harass teens and their families at a fundraiser to support their sport. Because nothing screams “protect the children” like intimidating actual children who are just trying to pay for ammo and targets.
So here’s the play for Minnesota gun owners and normal humans within driving distance: show up this Sunday.
Details at the link.
BUT ARE THEY SWEEPING ENOUGH? Trump’s NASA Chief Reveals Sweeping Changes to Lunar Program.
HARDBALL: Pentagon officials sent Anthropic best and final offer for military use of its AI amid dispute.
Pentagon officials on Wednesday night sent Anthropic their best and final offer in negotiations for use of the company’s artificial intelligence technology, just ahead of a government-imposed deadline, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
It was unclear whether the offer substantially changed what the government has been seeking from the AI startup, or whether the company had agreed.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set a deadline of Friday evening for the company to grant all lawful use for its AI technology or face the loss of its business with the U.S. military, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.
I guess Tuesday’s Pentagon meeting didn’t go very well.
JOANNE JACOBS: No need to listen, read, write or think: AI will do college for you.
Going to lectures, reading and writing aren’t necessary, reports Matthew Gault on 404. Companion claims to have developed an agentic AI tool called Einstein that will log into Canvas, a popular edtech platform, to complete assignments, participate in discussions and take tests with no input needed from the “student.”
I suspect it’s not real. The link to Einstein’s website doesn’t work for me, and I wonder if it’s a way to scare professors away from using edtech platforms that are susceptible to cheating. But, these days, who knows?
“Universities…by and large adopted a transactive model of education,” said Matthew Kirschenbaum, a University of Virginia professor, who’s written about the impact of artificial intelligence. “Students see their diploma as a credential” that will be “the springboard to economic stability and prosperity.”
If students are paying for the credential — not for learning — then why not have AI do the work?
That’s the real question, isn’t it?
I REMEMBER WHEN EVERYBODY LOVED A WINNER: Why Pick on American Hockey Players? The Left Jumps the Zamboni by Criticizing USA Men’s Gold Medal Team.
2027 PREVIEW? How China is masking drone flights in potential Taiwan rehearsal.
A large Chinese military drone has conducted regular flights over the South China Sea in recent months while transmitting false transponder signals that made it appear to be other aircraft, including a sanctioned Belarusian cargo plane and a British Typhoon fighter jet.
Military attaches and security analysts scrutinising the operations say the flights represent a step-change in China’s grey-zone tactics in the contested South China Sea and appear to be testing possible decoy capabilities in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Since August, at least 23 flights have been logged under the call sign YILO4200, a known long-endurance Chinese military drone, but the aircraft transmitted registration numbers of other aircraft, according to Reuters analysis of data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24.
The flight paths often head east from the Chinese province of Hainan towards the Philippines, near the disputed Paracel Islands, and down Vietnam’s coast, the flight analysis showed.
Here’s the reference (although there are countless versions of it, going back several years) from the headline: Why does 2027 Keep Coming up About the Chinese Military? “From the Davidson Window to other prognostications, the window of greatest possibility for war with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is generally seen as opening in 2027.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Pox on Everyone Who Keeps Hillary Clinton in the News. “It’s the Republicans who are foisting her upon us now, however and it’s all in another futile attempt to ‘get’ the Clintons. As I’ve written often, nailing the Clintons for anything is the Great White Whale for many conservatives. And as I have written even more often: it ain’t gonna happen. When Mr. and Mrs. C were first subpoenaed over the Epstein stuff last summer, I reminded everyone that they’ve been through this before and are very good at never getting any comeuppance.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report. “The agency announced today (Feb. 26) that Joel Montalbano and Dana Hutcherson will serve as acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) and acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), respectively. They will both take charge immediately.”
CYBERSECURITY: New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises.
The hardware manufacturers face yet another challenge: The client isolation mechanisms vary from maker to maker. With no industry-wide standard, these one-off solutions are splintered and may not receive the concerted security attention that formal protocols are given.
So how bad is AirSnitch, really?
With a basic understanding of AirSnitch, the next step is to put it into historical context and assess how big a threat it poses in the real world. In some respects, it resembles the 2007 PTW attack (named for its creators Andrei Pyshkin, Erik Tews, and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann) that completely and immediately broke WEP, leaving Wi-Fi users everywhere with no means to protect themselves against nearby adversaries. For now, client isolation is similarly defeated—almost completely and overnight—with no immediate remedy available.
At the same time, the bar for waging WEP attacks was significantly lower, since it was available to anyone within range of an AP. AirSnitch, by contrast, requires that the attacker already have some sort of access to the Wi-Fi network. For many people, that may mean steering clear of public Wi-Fi networks altogether.
If the network is properly secured—meaning it’s protected by a strong password that’s known only to authorized users — AirSnitch may not be of much value to an attacker. The nuance here is that even if an attacker doesn’t have access to a specific SSID, they may still use AirSnitch if they have access to other SSIDs or BSSIDs that use the same AP or other connecting infrastructure.
What a mess.
I keep my home network as protected as possible — which might not be enough — and quit using anybody else’s WiFi years ago, and just rely on 5G and tethering when needed.
February 26, 2026
WOW: Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win. “In a stunning twist, Netflix is declining to raise its bid for Warner Bros., positioning David Ellison’s Paramount as the winner in the battle for the fabled studio.”
WATERGATE WAS A THREAT TO OUR REPUBLIC BECAUSE REASONS, BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Joe Biden’s FBI spying on Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Susie Wiles — and even listening to her phone calls with her lawyer! — makes Watergate look like jaywalking.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 26, 2026
Related:
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Secretary Noem just revealed @ElonMusk helped find that a few DHS staffers installed SPYWARE on her phone and computer, as well as on the devices of of other political hires
These people need to be JAILED! There HAVE to be consequences, or they’ll keep doing it!… pic.twitter.com/tjhnZyPnEP
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2026
More to come, I’m certain.
SPACE: SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule heads for home after historic ISS-boosting mission.
The robotic Dragon departed on schedule today at 12:05 p.m. EST (1705 GMT), ending a roughly six-month orbital stay during which it demonstrated a novel ISS-boosting capability.
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“During its time docked to the station, Dragon performed six reboosts — five in 2025 and a final maneuver on Jan. 23 — before preparations for its departure began,” they added.Such reboosts have historically been done by Russia’s Progress freighter. It’s unclear, however, if Russia will remain an ISS partner through the lifetime of the orbiting lab, which is expected to be deorbited in late 2030.
If Russia leaves the consortium early, other reboosting methods will be needed. Dragon just showed it can handle the job, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft has done so as well.
It’s a shame what’s become of Russia’s space program, but those wounds are self-inflicted.
THERE GOES MY “LIBERTARIAN” GOVERNOR AGAIN: Gov. Polis eyes taxpayer refunds as budget wound band-aid.
While the most obvious and effective way to address the state’s budget would be to tackle Medicaid’s perverse incentives that drive bloated costs, there is no shortage of creative ways the legislature can try to dig deeper into Colorado taxpayers’ pockets.
One proposal, as suggested by Polis’ office, is to reduce the amount of over-collected revenue refunded to Coloradans under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) in fiscal years 2026-27 and 2027-28, thereby increasing General Fund revenue by approximately $296.1 million across both budget years.
They argue that the state government is entitled to recoup some of the TABOR refunds paid in FY2025-26 because of the immediate state revenue losses caused by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
While Polis’ office is apparently confident in the legality of this reasoning, JBC analysts remain unconvinced, saying the scheme poses significant legal risk and that if the state were to lose the legal battle, it could be required to make substantial repayments to Colorado taxpayers, with interest, potentially exacerbating the state’s structural budget issues.
Per capita state spending has risen more than 25% in inflation-adjusted terms since Polis took office, and what’s left of the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR) is the only thing slowing that down.
Colorado didn’t seem to be suffering from a lack of government all those per capita dollars ago, I can’t think of anything that’s gotten better, particularly in education — and the roads certainly seem to be worse.
Heckuva job, Jared.
WE’RE NOW IN THE PRE-EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Things Are So Bad, This Hospital Now Screens for Childhood Illiteracy.
MINNESOTA NOT-SO-NICE: Flailing DFL Reboots an Expansive Gun Control Agenda Including Sweeping New Bans. “The bills, HF 3434, SF 3681, HF 3433, HF 3402 and HF 3407, have only received first readings and committee referrals but the breadth of the package signals antigun Democrats in the Land of 10,000 Lakes intend to restore Gov. Tim Waltz’s stalled gun control push from last fall and drive it into a session-long pressure campaign.”