THE MEDICAL WORLD SEEMS TO BE PUSHING BACK AT MEDICAL AI A LOT LATELY: Can medical AI lie? Large study maps how LLMs handle health misinformation.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? A cup (or 2 or 3) of coffee or tea a day helps keep dementia away.

JEFFERSON DAVIS, CALL YOUR OFFICE:

Sanctuary states aren't defending illegal immigrants out of empathy –

They're defending their congressional seats, and allowing a permanent underclass

Ironically, this is **exactly** why slave states fought to count slaves in the census

Literally exactly why. Read the… https://t.co/rqUsZWn8Uw pic.twitter.com/vM4BB8BNFv

— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) February 9, 2026

NO MAGIC BULLETS: AI no better than other methods for patients seeking medical advice, study shows. “Asking AI about medical symptoms does not help patients make better decisions about their health than other methods, such as a standard internet search, according to a new ​study published in Nature Medicine. The authors said the study was important as people were increasingly turning ‌to AI and chatbots for advice on their health, but without evidence that this was necessarily the best and safest approach.”

Well, my dad chose his prostate cancer treatment regimen using AskJeeves (remember that?) and it worked out fine.

ACADEMIA HAS REACHED THE F.O. PART OF THE EQUATION: Oklahoma governor ends tenure at most public universities.

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: University System of Georgia requires full syllabi transparency following Campus Reform article. “The policy change was announced in a Jan. 22 email to faculty, just one day after Campus Reform published an op-ed highlighting loopholes in existing guidelines. Under the new policy, professors across 26 of Georgia’s public institutions must post their full course syllabi online.”

I can’t imagine why anyone would resist that.

FACTS MATTER:

It's really not.

He knowingly overstayed his tourist visa.

He spent 20 years knowingly breaking the law, probably skirting taxes, and otherwise flouting the law.

Now he has to go home because he got caught.

Remind me again why I should feel bad for him?

— Hannibal Lecture (@AltKurtis) February 9, 2026

And the politics aren’t what some people think:

"Here's an attractive white guy they want to deport. That will outrage those white racists and demonstrate their hypocrisy."

*Send his pale potato-gobbling ass back on the next Aer Lingus flight*

"Wait, wut?" https://t.co/uaNjqoeJRn

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 10, 2026

THERE NEEDS TO BE A WAY TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES AND CAREERS WERE RUINED FOR BEING PREMATURELY, UNFASHIONABLY, CORRECT:

Anybody remember Richard Sander?

He was a law professor who proposed the “mismatch” theory of racial preferences in school admissions.

The theory basically claimed that racial preferences in admissions to elite schools actually HARMED those minority students who were admitted… pic.twitter.com/ow2OTTxJMN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 10, 2026

PRIVATEERS TAKE YOUR STATIONS! CDR Salamander: The Sanctioned/Stateless Tanker Nabbing Gives…if we are Willing to Take …the commerce raiding hint screaming from on high. “So, from the GUIK Gap to the Indian Ocean, the US Navy (and her USCG sidekick) are, in essence, conducting entry-level commerce raiding.”

Plus: “Be ready, because at least in the opening months of the next Great Pacific War, if we are smart and ready, we will be commerce raiding from Tierra del Fuego to Svalbard.”

I repeat: Privateers ahoy!

PROGRESS: Morning Greatness: Appeals Court Backs Noem Move to End TPS Protections for Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua.

IT’S ONLY “CONTROVERSIAL DOMESTICALLY” BECAUSE IT HURTS DEMOCRATS, WHO DEPEND ON ILLEGALS FOR VOTES:

“Controversial as it may be domestically, Trump’s stace on illegal immigration is unexceptional in the global context. Many other nations … pursue similar policies, and usually without anything close to the same level of controversy.”https://t.co/fTlv00ExDh

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) February 9, 2026

GOOD, THEY SHOULD BE CRUSHED: Weird How Voting Rights for 500K Illegals Can’t Buy You Love: Spanish Socialists Trounced in Regionals.

WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL: Bombshell New Docs Show Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006: ‘Thank Goodness You’re Stopping Him.’

SADLY BELIEVABLE: Mitch McConnell Might Try To Smother The SAVE Act To Spite Trump.

ROLL ON, COLUMBIA: She Was Dismissed From a Leadership Post at Harvard. Now She’s a Candidate for Columbia’s Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies. With Rosie Bsheer at the helm, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies brought speakers to campus who ‘appeared to justify’ October 7, according to Harvard’s anti-Semitism report. “A professor removed from her leadership post at Harvard University after bringing in a raft of anti-Israel guest speakers and panelists and few, if any, dissenting voices is among four finalists to become the Edward Said chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, internal communications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The end of college racial quotas is already making America more just. “What exactly is the mismatch now being unwound? Essentially, as colleges made having more black and Latino students a vital measure of their (supposed) virtue, they quietly adopted extreme admissions preferences in the name of fueling ‘campus diversity.'”

BUT OF COURSE:

Everything you need to know about the GENDER-SWAPPED "Burbs" remake:

Tom Hanks is now a black woman named "Samira."

Carrie Fisher is now a WHITE British man named "Rob."

Together they have a mixed-race baby SON who's there for apparently no reason…

…except to give Samira… pic.twitter.com/VbhcBTqRSG

— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) February 9, 2026

BOB GRABOYES: Why on Earth are door-to-door political canvassers a thing in the DC suburbs?

OLYMPIC PERSPECTIVE:

IMO, Barack Obama is the most destructive American ever to live.

Obama brought Frankfurt School style Marxism to life in the USA, created more division and hate between demographic groups than at any other time in the past 50 years, and purposely reignited racism at a time…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) February 9, 2026

DON’T MESS WITH SPACEX:

NEWS: The US labor board is abandoning a yearslong legal battle against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and signaling it will steer clear of future cases against the company. https://t.co/Y7KGBu6bT9

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) February 9, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Vapidity of Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends.

The idea that Epstein had a “client list” and ran some kind of international pedophile ring was always, I think, a myth. And this seems to be confirmed by the absence of any such evidence in the releases of Epstein documents to date. Although, to be fair, if Epstein supplied underage girls to anyone, Prince Andrew seems to be first on the suspect list.

So what do the Epstein documents show? The vapidity of the world’s supposed elite, I think. Epstein was a minor player in the world of finance, but he was regarded as an intellectual–a thinker!–with strong connections at both Harvard and MIT. Intellectuals like Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, were in his orbit, along with numerous members of the business elite.

James Marriott takes up this theme in the London Times: “Jeffrey Epstein circle’s ‘big ideas’ were vacuous guff.” . . .

You have to be good at something to make money, or to become a university president. But the idea that this something, whatever it may be, makes you a member of a global elite who should tell the rest of us how to live, is a malignant fantasy. We saw this in, among many other instances, the covid fiasco.

So it is entirely fitting that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump. Trump, more than anyone else in recent times, has been willing to expose the hollowness of the elite to which he once belonged.

Read the whole thing.

PEOPLE KEEP CLAIMING HE’S A PARASITE ON NASA, BUT THE NUMBERS SAY OTHERWISE: Elon Musk reveals NASA to make up just 5% of SpaceX revenue this year as IPO looms.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Time Crystal Made in a Lab Using Little More Than Styrofoam And Sound.

JUSTICE:

Judge: He's just a hurt black man

Suspect: I would do it again, b*tch https://t.co/1oRbSVASH0 pic.twitter.com/B3jt4d7uGo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 9, 2026