April 23, 2026

OH, CANADA: Woke judge sentences man who throttled toddler to just six months in jail because he is of indigenous heritage and suffered ‘negative consequences of COLONIZATION.’ “‘While I acknowledge that there is no evidence that he or his immediate family were impacted by state actions such as residential schools, even the disassociation with one’s past and cultural heritage is a negative consequence of colonization,’ Golinsky wrote in her decision.”

Posted at 11:43 am by Stephen Green

THIS IS HOW A NATION KILLS ITSELF:

Posted at 11:27 am by Stephen Green

DISBARRED FOR GETTING IT RIGHT:

Posted at 10:56 am by Stephen Green

TRAPPED IN THE COLOR REVOLUTION:

Staffers at crosstown rival magazine New York entertain similar thoughts: What Fresh Hell Is This? New York Mag Lionizes Shoplifter and Gives Tips on How to Steal.

Here’s the excerpt from a New York Magazine article headlined, “Paying the Price for Shoplifting From Whole Foods:”

At Whole Foods, you are apparently being monitored by a swarm of security officers, some of whom wander the aisles in plain clothes, and the company’s surveillance tech is improving. When security officers catch you, they will take you to Whole Foods Jail. Sometimes with glee.

The Union Square Whole Foods jail is a windowless storage closet near the entrance, says Astrid, a photographer. She mostly remembers the wallpaper: “Layers and layers of grainy faces,” she tells Nora Deligter. “All the thieves that had come before me.”

A sculptor we’ll call Gina found herself in the Bowery Whole Foods Jail. She was late to an Alex G concert at Bowery Ballroom and had decided to slip into Whole Foods for a quick spicy-tuna-roll walk-and-dine. She had a system: Approach the item with confidence, grab it, then head upstairs to the dining area and surreptitiously place it into her bag. But this time, she headed straight for the exit. “A rookie mistake,” Gina says.

Gina remembers keeping her head bowed and her eyes low as she was escorted back to Whole Foods Jail. The windowless office was almost too bland to recall, she says, except for a rudimentary banner, that read: ALL SHOPLIFTERS ARE BANNED FROM WHOLE FOODS FOR LIFE. A few weeks later, Gina says her parents received a $90 ticket in the mail from the company.

David Strom replies, “Is this the new socialism? Why wait for the revolution when you can just decriminalize stealing, or take your chances of getting caught and running to the media with your sob story?”

Still though, could be worse: Assassination Culture.

Much as Columbine captured the American imagination like a smash hit horror movie, which triggered a memetic wave of copycat school shooters we have still, to this day, not escaped, Luigi dragged us to hell in the form of a new archetype for the American assassin. There is some precedent for assassination culture in American history. In the 1960s and 1970s we were very much in the grip of a memetic death loop, as both political assassinations and the assassination of men deemed political, from Martin Luther King Jr. to John Lennon, were an almost regular occurrence. But today, on the internet, news of political killings for causes considered “just” are not only disseminated throughout the media, but celebrated on the internet. I do think this is categorically new, and worse.

Late last year, I touched on these themes, with a focus on left-wing violence in particular, in a piece for The Atlantic called “Abundant Delusion.” There, my thesis was simply the “Abundance Democrats,” if earnest in their stated goals of both civic and technologic progress, were doomed to fail. The problem, I argued, was they framed the movement as explicitly a Democratic project. Not only was this frustrating, given the most prominent ideas inherent to “abundance” — from megaprojects in energy and terraforming earth to reforming the regulatory environment crippling progress — were co-opted from libertarians and centrist tech thinkers, it was somehow totally ignorant of the left-wing base. These people did not want a bullet train. They did seem to want pretty much every guy capable of building bullet trains to die.

A large and growing segment of the left, I argued, had become deeply, openly violent. I did not just rely on anecdotal evidence, vibes, or even mainstream reporting, though I did cite all of these things. There was data supporting the notion.

Two days later, as the abundance libs just about concluded their mocking condemnation of my piece, Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Upset, I wrote about — again — the reactions. Sharing grisly celebrations of Kirk’s gruesome murder was itself, I was told, dangerous. Frustrating as this was, I did attempt, in a follow-up, to thoughtfully parse this concern. Americans needed to reassert a very strong taboo against violence, I wrote. I hoped, at the time, if I could somehow convince the center-left to join me, there might be some way out of the cultural spiral. The center-left, including the massively influential ‘abundance lib’ Ezra Klein, has since taken to normalizingthe work of Hasan Piker, a socialist who has repeatedly called for the murder of his political enemies.

I no longer have any illusions we can significantly shift our country out of assassination culture. At this point, we can only try to be more aware — not only of assassination culture itself, but of the people either tacitly or explicitly encouraging it.

Just hours after what appears to have been a second attempt on Sam Altman’s life, the SF Standard, the Chronicle, and the Onion all shared photos of his home. The Chronicle reported its location. Incredibly, they did this not only as lunatics celebrated online, but as popular influencers made actual cases for further political violence (a lengthy thread here, from the Manhattan Institute’s Stu Smith).

Finally, at another niche Manhattan publication, it’s all the assassination prØn that’s fit to print:

UPDATE:

Posted at 10:55 am by Ed Driscoll

RIDE THE SOUTHERN POVERTY MOBIUS LOOP! Clueless Columnist Asks If It’s Now a Crime to Expose White Supremacist Groups.

I’m all for exposing white supremacist groups, and those who are bankrolling them:

From yesterday: How Your Tax-Deductible Donation Went to the Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the ‘Sadistic Souls.’

Now, call me crazy, but I think that if you’re a member of the “Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club,” you’re not a good person. I mean, it’s right there in the name. By the way, guess what the logo of the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club is? If you guessed the same SS Totenkopf that was tattooed on the chest of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, you are correct! (“Are we the baddies?”)

I don’t know about you, but I would be extremely wary about ever putting any of my money or my organization’s money into the hands of anyone who was an active member of these groups.

As you may have noticed, these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.

And speaking of the Southern Poverty Möbius Loop: SPLC paid to fuel Ku Klux Klan’s hate, then raised money to put it out.

UPDATE:

Posted at 10:37 am by Ed Driscoll

PERSPECTIVE:

More: “Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn’t a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.”

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

WHITE GUILT CAUSES FAR MORE DAMAGE THAN WHITE SUPREMACY, PARTLY BECAUSE THERE’S SO MUCH MORE OF IT:

Exit quote: “White guilt is the machine behind all of it. And white guilt thrives because far too many of us are too chickenshit to call it what it is.”

Related thoughts from Kira Davis:

Posted at 9:54 am by Stephen Green

BLUE STATE BLUES: ZEV Technologies Leaving the Hostile Washington Business Climate for Gun-Friendly Utah. “The latest company to read the room and decide that their business is no longer valued or wanted where they’re currently located is ZEV Technologies. The maker of high end GLOCK platform pistols — among other firearms — has been located in Cenralia, Washington. But as creeping California hoplophobia made its way up the west coast, it’s become clear in recent years that the Evergreen State is no longer a conducive atmosphere in which to do business as a gun maker.”

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

PRIORITIES:

Posted at 9:23 am by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 9:19 am by Glenn Reynolds

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Whaddya Know — Republicans Can Play Legal Hardball Too. “What’s rich about this is that the Democrats immediately began whining about an ‘activist judge.’ Their entire strategy to fight anything that President Trump and his administration do is built around activist judges; without them, the party is nothing. They haven’t had the greatest luck with them so far, mostly because their activist judges tend to overreach and/or ignore the law. Let’s hope this one is based on stronger legal grounds and sticks. If not, bye-bye Virginia.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

I THOUGHT THEY HAD TO GET SWORN IN BEFORE ENGAGING IN THIS LEVEL OF CORRUPTION: Prediction market Kalshi suspends 3 congressional candidates for betting on their own races.

The candidates, named in regulatory filings as Ezekiel Enriquez in Texas, Matt Klein in Minnesota, and Mark Moran in Virginia, wagered on the outcomes of their elections in violation of the platform’s rules.

Enriquez and Klein both wagered on the outcomes of their races, the platform said. But Moran, who ran as a Democrat in Virginia’s primary for U.S. Senate, also placed bets on himself under the event contract, “Who will run for public office this year?” before subsequently announcing his candidacy, according to the platform.

“Moran qualified as a direct decision maker for this contract and had direct influence on the outcome of the underlying event,” the filing states. Moran later also wagered on the outcome of his race, Kalshi said.

They’ll fit right in.

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

I FEEL YOUR PAIN:

Posted at 8:21 am by Stephen Green