April 22, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Did George Clooney Help Fund KKK, Unite the Right? “How much of that Clooney cash allegedly went into the pockets of the worst of the worst, like the KKK? More importantly, will any news outlet press him for answers?”

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 3:43 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SCORE YET ANOTHER WIN FOR THOMAS SOWELL:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

EXACTLY:

Posted at 3:06 pm by Stephen Green

SLOW LEARNER/BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Mark Cuban is moving on from Kamala Harris.

When asked at POLITICO’s Health Care Summit Tuesday whether he wants to see the former vice president run for the nation’s top job again, Cuban quickly responded, “No.”

“Don’t remember, don’t care,” he said when asked to recall her health care message during her short-lived 2024 presidential campaign. “Those days are gone.”

Harris signaled earlier this month she’s seriously considering entering the 2028 Democratic field.

“Listen, I might, I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention in New York.

Cuban, a Harris surrogate during the last campaign cycle, said he’s not trying to promote a specific candidate now.

“I’m trying to change how fucked up this health care industry is right now, and that’s all I care about,” he said.

Cuban said he’d be open to supporting a Republican who shared his reform goals and praised President Donald Trump and his health department’s efforts to lower drug prices and speed drug trials.

“They’re trying to make it easier for folks like us,” he said.

Us?

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

THANKS, FELLAS:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Alex Jones Worried People Will Start To Think Stories Reported By Infowars Are Fake.

Following an announcement that Infowars would soon be converted into a satirical news outlet, American media personality Alex Jones, known for his fringe conspiracy theories related to the Sandy Hook school shooting and homosexual frogs, expressed concern that people would start to think the stories reported by Infowars are fake.

According to Jones, Infowars had been at the forefront of every major story since its founding in 1999. Its writers, he said, were not afraid to report on news that other media companies won’t touch, like government-controlled weather weapons, juice boxes that turn kids gay, and Hillary Clinton eating babies. However, if the site is turned into a parody of itself, Jones feared readers won’t know what to believe.

“THOSE LITERAL VAMPIRE POTBELLY GOBLINS DON’T CARE ABOUT JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY,” he said during a live broadcast of The Alex Jones Show. “THEY WANT TO TURN THE NEWS GAY.”

Although, to be fair:

In 2026, it’s Alex’s world:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

ISN’T THIS HOW “CAPRICORN ONE” GOT STARTED?

Posted at 2:06 pm by Stephen Green

HORSESHOE THEORY: Young Democrats Are Now More Hostile Toward Israel Than Iran or China.

[I]f you want to find a country that younger Democrats really feel negatively about . . . look to the world’s lone Jewish state.

Among younger Democrats, when asked about Israel, “negative” scored 45 percentage points net; only Russia scored worse among this demographic, and even that was only 15 percentage points worse. Remember on Iran, among young Democrats, “negative” scored 40 percentage points net.

Young Democrats feeling negatively about Israel has been well-reported. But young Democrats feeling more negatively about Israel than Iran or China has not. Remember, the Iranian regime and its loyalists still use “Death to America!” about as frequently as commas.

Younger Democrats’ intense hostility to Israel was a serious outlier compared to other demographics; among older Democrats, “negative” scored 19 percentage points net. Israel is now a partisan issue; among younger Republicans asked about Israel, “positive” scored 11 percentage points net, and among older Republicans, “positive” scored 65 percentage points net.

Related: Left Melts for Tucker: M-SNOW’s Alex Wagner Says His Trump Remorse ‘Feels Genuine.’

Ahh, the good times Tucker and Al Sharpton would have together on air. (Much like the good times Sharpton and Joe Scarborough share these days: Oops! Joe Scarborough’s Past Ideas About Al Sharpton, Racism, Come Back to Bite Him.)

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TALKING POINTS ISSUED: The Democrat Lie About the SPLC Indictment Has Been Formed, and Now They’re Running With It.

You’d hope in the face of such disturbing allegations, including the possibility that the SPLC paid for criminal activity to take place, that Democrats would at least keep their mouths shut while this played out. But no, they’ve quickly, in conjunction with a compliant press, formulated a lie and are running with it. Instead of admitting what the indictment (which was returned by a grand jury) actually says, they are claiming the SPLC was just innocently paying “informants.”

I guess I’m going to have to explain this like I’m talking to a four-year-old, but the SPLC is not a law enforcement agency. The fact that the DOJ pays and uses informants to investigate crimes is not, in fact, relevant at all to what happened here. Yet, you’ve got Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY-10), ABC News, USA Today, the AP, and many others all running with this line that these were just payments to “informants.”

How exactly is allegedly paying someone who helped organize transportation to a neo-nazi rally just paying an “informant? What were they informing on? To who? About what? For what reason? That doesn’t even make any sense. The SPLC can’t indict anyone. They have no jurisdiction to investigate criminal activity, nor would they need “informants” to be able to say the Ku Klux Klan is bad.

Related: Jim Geraghty explores “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.

The defense, put forth by the likes of MSNOW contributor and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, is that “the use of paid informants was essential to the intelligence the Center was gathering on the groups they were members of, including intelligence that was shared with the FBI.”

But how do we know that?  Yes, the bureau did say on its old website that “the FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems,” and it listed the SPLC as one of those organizations. But based on all available evidence, FBI didn’t ask, or hire, the SPLC to go around recruiting informants. The FBI has its own undercover agents and its own funds for recruiting informants. The SPLC decided, on its own, that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to these members of hate groups was worth it.

Exit questions:

Tweet concludes, “There’s no explanatory narrative that makes this stuff look good.”

Exactly. Which is why, beyond the modified limited hangout above, an omertà has been issued for the network news broadcasts: Omission: The Networks Fall Silent on the Indictment of the SPLC.

And as far as print media:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll