May 2, 2026

THAT’S THE ONLY KIND THEY PLAY THERE: Playing Dirty Pool at the International Criminal Court. The story is described as “a ball of snakes,” but that’s also a pretty good description of the ICC itself, along with most of the other international institutions and bureaucracies.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

JAMES TARANTO: The SPLC Is a Journalism Scandal.

Around the time the SPLC began the litigation campaign, it launched a project called Klanwatch to monitor and report on KKK activities. Klanwatch ultimately grew into “the broader-based Intelligence Project, which tracks extremists and produces the S.P.L.C.’s annual hate-group list,” Mr. Moser wrote.

According to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023 the field sources contributed information to at least three SPLC publications: Intelligence Report, “a magazine-like periodical”; Hatewatch, a blog; and Intelligence Project Dispatch, “a monthly online publication issued by the Hatewatch Staff.” This seems to have been the informants’ main function in recent decades. The SPLC’s principal activity has been gathering information and presenting it to the public in printed and online media. That is known as journalism.

Here’s what SPLC journalism looks like: The indictment alleges that “a high-level SPLC employee” used the documents F-9 stole from the National Alliance as the basis for a Hatewatch story. A former chairman of the same group, F-42, “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.” The center denounced F-42 as an extremist with one hand and paid him $140,000 with the other, according to the indictment.

To observe that the SPLC practices journalism isn’t to give it a seal of approval. To the contrary, it is to insist that the center’s work be judged by the ethical standards of journalism. In America at least, respectable journalists don’t pay sources for information—much less hire sources to obtain information illegally, as the SPLC allegedly did with F-9. We don’t deliberately deceive our readers, as the SPLC allegedly did by attributing F-9’s theft to F-39 and by publishing an exposé of F-42 that concealed the most interesting and pertinent fact about him—that he was on the SPLC payroll.

It’s also a financial scandal as well:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

LEFTISTS ARE GARBAGE (CONT’D):

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

BUT HONESTLY WE’RE NOT EITHER:  We are much more Brave New World than 1984.

It only looks like that if you look at the big media institutions captured by the left. OR other places captured by the left. No big surprise. Brave New World is the world of the left. Always was.

Posted at 4:32 am by Sarah Hoyt