March 28, 2026

SPITTING IMAGES: Back in 2007, Glenn wrote about the left’s efforts to memory hole their predecessors’ spitting on American soldiers after they returned home to America from Vietnam in the late ’60s and early 1970s: Jason Van Steenwyk looks at efforts to erase history.

UPDATE: In the comments, a reference to Bob Greene’s The Homecoming, which is described this way by Library Journal:

“Were you ever spat upon when you returned home to the United States?” asked syndicated columnist Greene of the Vietnam veterans among his readership. He received over 1000 letters in reply, many recounting specific details of just such a painfully remembered incident. Evidently this recollection of “hippies” (as they are often called in the letters) spitting on combat veterans has become one of the war’s most unpleasant, enduring images.

This would seem to pose problems for the new crowd of spitting-denialists, though they will no doubt manage to maintain their unbelief.

Today’s leftists melting down upon seeing ICE agents in airports also poses problems for the spitting denialists, if there are any still left: ICE Agents at This Airport Had the Perfect Reaction to Lefty Screeching About ‘Fascist Foot Soldiers.’

One leftist was so angry at seeing ICE at the baggage carousel that he (checks notes) smashed his own sunglasses and iPhone in response:

As for the rest of us:

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll

PEOPLE ARE HARD TO PLEASE, AND THE INFLUENCER CROWD LIVES TO COMPLAIN, AND LIVES BY COMPLAINING:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:27 am by Stephen Green

THE CORBYNIZATION OF LEFTIST BRITISH POLITICS CONTINUES APACE: Green activists called Jews ‘abominations’ in leaked WhatsApp chat.

Green Party activists described Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet” in anti-Semitic WhatsApp messages, The Telegraph can reveal.

One member of the Greens for Palestine group, a Left-wing faction in the Green Party, said Jews “murder, bomb and starve” children.

Another claimed the arson attack on four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in Golders Green, north London, on Monday had been a “false flag” operation, suggesting it could have been carried out by Jewish people.

A Green council candidate shared posts on social media, making the same claim.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said its lawyers were investigating the activists’ remarks. It said views expressed in the Greens for Palestine group chat were “straight out of Nazi Germany”.

Labour urged Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader, to take action against those involved, saying the growing evidence of anti-Semitism within the party was “deeply troubling”. The Conservatives said the language was “utterly appalling”.

Meanwhile in the Colonies: Rise of the leftist groypers.

Last month, Ana Kasparian, executive producer of the progressive YouTube channel The Young Turks (6.5 million subs), tweeted out “Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it.” Ana, like many other chronically online leftists, has been making increasingly obsessive anti-Israel content since October 7. So obsessive, in fact, that it led Jillian Michaels, a co-host of Ana’s panel show Her Take, to storm off set in the middle of production saying “I don’t know how every show ends up being about ‘how do we bash Israel?’ This is not for me, I am not interested in this.”

“MAGA communist” influencer Jackson Hinkle likes to use the same phrase as Kasparian with his millions of followers. Examples include, “Goyim, do not complain. You must die for Israel,” “Now goyim, it’s time to die for Israel,” and “Goyim, don’t ask questions.” This is copied in even harsher languages by the “American Communist party,” a political formation that seems to be less a real party than a social media grift.

There are multiple factors driving the groyperfication of the online left. But it can’t be denied that there is increasing acceptance of anti-Semitic tropes by a subset of leftists and influencers. Nick Fuentes and his digital army of fans, “the Groypers,” have revamped anti-Semitic tropes for the digital era. Now, online leftists are using that same rhetoric.

Of course, left-wing anti-Semitism goes back decades: Stalin carried out Jewish purges and Brezhnev had vast quantities of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion printed in Arabic and distributed throughout the region to counter Israel.

And then there was that ideology that attempted to spread socialism nationally, and in a surprisingly environmentally-friendly way: Rupert Darwall on the Alarming Roots of Environmentalism.

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

TIME TO BUILD SOME NEW FIREBOATS:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

THEY SHOULD ALL BE DEAD:

Posted at 7:37 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE IVY EXILE: The Decline and Fall of the Information State (For Now).

In the waning weeks of his administration, Obama conspired with senior Democrats to kneecap the Trump administration before it even entered office, and Obama personally ordered a bogus intelligence community assessment to advance the false narrative that Trump was working for the Russians. That it wasn’t true didn’t mean that control of both the social and legacy media echo chambers couldn’t generate enough hype to make it feel true to many millions for many years. “Russiagate was not a tragedy but a crime against the country,” Siegel writes. “Disinformation was both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up, a weapon that doubled as a disguise … By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning tools of war against American citizens.”

And yet that effrontery sowed the seeds of the regime’s downfall. Supercharging paranoia and undermining Americans’ shared sense of reality ultimately only undermined elite technocrats’ credibility and legitimacy. The dirty tricks only ensured the populists’ return. Trump wasted no time smashing the centralized information apparatus when he returned to office, but the technological capacity for control advances day by day, along with the temptation to use it. Siegel leaves readers with a warning: “From the rubble of the old information state, the outline of a new one takes shape.”

Well, good.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

WATCHING THE VEGAN SAUSAGE GET MADE: Public Health Officials Lied, Hypocrisy Ruled, Trust Died: Brutal X Thread Conor Friedersdorf Walked Into.

Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer for The Atlantic. He’s very perplexed and came to X in hope of some answers. He got them although it is probably not what he expected.

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Flashback: At the Apex of the Pivot.

Evergreen:

 

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY:

Posted at 7:06 am by Glenn Reynolds

FLASHBACK:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

March 27, 2026

“EVERYONE KNOWS THIS.” Ilhan Omar married her brother. “In February 2009, the future Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married a man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. It was her first legal marriage. The marriage ceremony was conducted by a Christian ministesr. There is no dispute about these facts, which are recounted by the Post. All available evidence points to Elmi being Omar’s biological brother. No evidence points away from this fact.”

Posted at 10:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

EVERYONE WHO’S READ A COMIC BOOK KNOWS RADIATION GIVES YOU SUPER POWERS: Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability. I mean it’s just science.

Though a colleague at UT who researches arachnids and was bitten by a radioactive spider at Oak Ridge told me that she was very disappointed not to develop the ability to walk on walls.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I TOO HAVE SUSPECTED FOR A LONG TIME THAT STARMER ISN’T JUST COWARDLY, BUT COMPLICIT:

Posted at 7:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT’S AMUSING IS THAT THIS ENTHUSIASM FOR BARBARIC SAVAGERY COMES FROM THE FINEST UNIVERSITIES IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD. The barbaric savages are just copying it.

It’s also revealing that the savages are reduced to using First World creations like AI video to produce their propaganda from whatever basement they’re hiding in.

And maybe those fine universities aren’t so fine.

Posted at 6:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LOL, MAMDANI IS SUDDENLY ANTI-TERRORISM:

But it’s really just an excuse to go after the Jews.

Posted at 5:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds