June 9, 2026

GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH: Sudanese migrant arrested after ‘attempted beheading’ in Belfast.

A Sudanese man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a knifeman appeared to try to behead a man in Belfast.

The suspect has been taken into custody after the victim suffered “significant injuries” to his face, neck and back in what police called a brutal attack.

The injured man, a resident of the area in his 40s, is being treated in hospital, where his condition is described as serious.

Footage shared on social media – which is too graphic to publish – appears to show the knifeman, in his 30s, pinning the man to the ground before repeatedly stabbing him in the head.

The video shows three apparently local men intervening, one hitting the attacker with a wooden hurling stick as others kick him to try to force him to release his victim.

Police revealed the suspect had been granted leave to remain after crossing the border from Dublin.

Asst Chief Constable Ryan Henderson, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), told a press conference: “My understanding is that the individual was given leave to remain in Northern Ireland, but I know that colleagues in the Home Office will be confirming the exact details of the status in the coming days and hours.”

There is “no information” to suggest the attack was terror-related, the police chief added.

Well, I’m really glad it wasn’t a terror-related attempted beheading.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

R.I.P. GORDON WOOD:

He debunks the 1619 Project here. The woke was so strong then that he had to go to the World Socialist Website to find someone who’d run it.

Posted at 12:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I’D HATE TO SEE HER GO; SHE RUNS A TIGHT SHIP: Susie Wiles on reported White House departure: ‘I am not going anywhere.’

“After an accomplishment filled week by President Trump, I have the pleasure of reading a piece of Friday fiction, courtesy of the Daily Mail,” Wiles wrote on social platform X.

“To be crystal clear, I am not going anywhere. I am honored and proud to serve President Trump, proud of our team and remain fully committed to advancing his agenda on behalf of the American people.

The Daily Mail, citing five sources, reported Friday that Wiles was preparing to leave the administration after the November elections. The longtime GOP operative ran Trump’s successful 2024 campaign and is the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff.

The Daily Mail, eh?

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN (COLORADO EDITION):

It’s difficult to imagine a reason not to investigate improper payments except for being in on the action.

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

I’VE SEEN THE VIDEO, AND IT ISN’T EASY TO WATCH…:

…but if it “radicalizes” just one more Briton into rejecting his country’s cultural destruction, then it’s worth it.

Visegrád 24 posted it here.

Posted at 10:54 am by Stephen Green

FORGET IT, JAKE:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

STILL FURIOUS ABOUT THIS:

Posted at 9:52 am by Stephen Green

ATTENTION LOYAL INSTAPUNDIT READERS:  If you have a X/Twitter account, please help me out by liking and retweeting this post.  It’s my last chance to convince the California state senators on the committee considering the bill that would gut Proposition 209 that the public will be against it.

We are fighting an uphill battle at this point.  But hope springs eternal.  The only upside is that I managed to convince the senators that putting this referendum on the 2026 ballot would be ill-advised, because we’ll only be halfway through the Trump Administration and the Trump Administration could respond with a thorough Title VI compliance investigation.  As a result, they amended the bill to put the referendum on the 2028 ballot instead.  That at least will give me the opportunity to take care of the various things wrong with house before diving back into this.

I am resigned to the reality that I will be fighting to preserve California’s Prop 209 and its various clones in other states for the rest of my life.

Posted at 9:47 am by Gail Heriot

REMOVE STARMER AND HIS GOVERNMENT:

UPDATE:

Posted at 9:46 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Penn Station slashing suspect was free despite eerily similar 2022 attack.

The homeless madman who allegedly slashed five people with a double-edged knife in Penn Station carried out an eerily similar attack in New Jersey just four years ago, The Post has learned.

But despite the victim being grievously injured in that 2022 Newark stabbing, Hector Deleon, 51, was given just two years of probation as a sentence, court records show.

The victim in that heinous attack, a man who wasn’t publicly identified, landed in the trauma ward, where he received nine stitches to close the knife wound on the left side of his neck, a criminal complaint from February 2022 shows.

Still, Deleon doesn’t appear to have spent any significant time behind bars before Sunday evening — when he allegedly went on a random rampage in the busy Midtown commuter hub, according to law-enforcement sources and witnesses.

The mentally ill don’t belong on the streets.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Scott Pelley’s Podcast Tears Made My Schadenfreude Cup Runneth Over. “Pelley is such an arrogant piece of garbage that he probably thought that he was untouchable and wouldn’t be fired. He must have had amnesia regarding Dan Rather. He also must not have appreciated the resolve that the new sheriff in town at CBS News has.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE: Once on the Brink, U.S. Steel’s Oldest Plant Is Getting a Big Renovation.

Tokyo-based Nippon Steel, which bought U.S. Steel last year in a controversial deal, said it expects to spend $2 billion to $2.5 billion at Mon Valley Works over the next three years to replace the equipment that rolls steel. The investment is more than double Nippon Steel’s original cost estimate for the project.

Replacing the current 88-year-old hot-strip mill at Mon Valley will lead to more domestically produced steel. The work is expected to generate as many as 6,000 jobs and up to $1.7 billion in economic activity for Pennsylvania, company executives said.

“The Mon Valley project will go a long way to make people feel like there’s a future here,” U.S. Steel Chief Executive David Burritt said in an interview. “We’ve got great partners with Nippon Steel. These investments would not have been able to happen without it.”
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Burritt said U.S. Steel on its own couldn’t afford the costly upgrades and maintenance needed at Mon Valley, which consists of three plants in separate towns south of Pittsburgh.

In early 2025, then President Biden blocked the sale to the Japanese company over potential national-security risks. President Trump resurrected the deal and approved it on the condition that Nippon Steel increased its investments in U.S. Steel’s existing plants to $11 billion.

The White House also gets a veto over “plant closings, the transfer of production out of the country and other operational changes,” which in theory should prevent the industry from getting re-hollowed out.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green