May 4, 2026

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY WERE:  NYC hospital mob was defending illegal migrant with alleged violent, drug past.

The protesters damaged several ICE vehicles and assaulted ICE officers, resulting in minor injuries to the officers,” the DHS representative said. “Assaulting law enforcement is a felony and crime.”

The protesters arrested included out-of-state agitators from as far off as Wisconsin and New Hampshire.

Posted at 2:01 am by Sarah Hoyt

THIS IS MESSED UP:  A high school senior in Philadelphia made a video series asking fellow seniors to read a simple sentence written in english and they’re incapable of completing the simple task. If you go to his IG (handle on right side of the video) you’ll see he makes tons of seemingly humorous videos like this but this one went viral for obvious reasons and now the school is saying he may not be allowed to graduate from the charter school due to the videos. The school seems completely fine with students not being able to read but they’re not okay with the public seeing that they can’t read.

Posted at 1:01 am by Sarah Hoyt

May 3, 2026

I GUESS NOT:

Posted at 10:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DEMENTIA STARTS EARLY? The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Reveal.

“In long-term studies where people have had their cognitive ability tracked across their whole lives, one of the most important factors explaining someone’s cognitive ability at age 70 is their cognitive ability when they were 11,” the study authors explained.

“That is, older adults with poorer cognitive skills have often had these lower skills since childhood, rather than the differences being solely due to a faster decline in older age.”

They used to call it “second childhood” for a reason. Honestly, though, I don’t think the findings in the story are as strong as the headline.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH:

Posted at 7:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds

GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Who Is Nithya Raman, Dubbed The ‘Next Mamdani,’ Gaining Ground In LA Mayor Race?

Why Is She Being Called The ‘Next Mamdani?’

Her rise has also drawn comparisons to progressive figures in American politics, particularly New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Like Mamdani, Raman is associated with the Democratic Socialists of America and has built her political base through grassroots organising rather than traditional party networks. Both leaders have emerged through volunteer-driven campaigns centred on housing, inequality and urban governance.

If this quote is true (and if it isn’t, it will be damning for Pratt’s campaign), perhaps this has something to do with the comparison as well:

Posted at 7:03 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE:

In 2014 Mark Steyn wrote:

ISIS are fast-track Nazis. No messing about with a few property restrictions and intermarriage laws as a little light warm-up: They’re only in the business of “final solutions”, and they start on Day One and don’t quit until the last Christian and Yazidi is dead or fled. As I’ve often remarked about today’s exhaustively cleansed Maghreb, Levant and Araby, Islam is king on a field of corpses. But pikers like the Muslim Brotherhood, the Baathists, the House of Saud take their time. ISIS are shooting for the Guinness Book of Records.

However, unlike the original Nazis, who sought to keep their atrocities as hidden as possible, ISIS loved social media. A 2023 post by consulting firm Booz Allen noted that “It’s no secret that the Islamic State’s skillful use of social media has played a central role in its rise and continuing success:” 

The terrorist group can reportedly generate as many as 200,000 tweets and disseminate an average of 38 unique propaganda events each day.

Still, it’s not the volume of ISIS messages but their rapid spread and powerful impact that makes ISIS such a dangerous force. In the hands of ISIS propagandists, social media has dramatically increased the group’s reach and influence.

Gruesome videos of ISIS atrocities spread fear and intimidate its enemies into submission, while news and events are quickly promulgated with ISIS’s own interpretation and message. Through its adept use of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and other social media, ISIS not only draws a continuous stream of new recruits to its regional strongholds, but it now inspires followers to commit terrorist acts in the Western nations where they live.

Clearly, social media is pushing the boundaries of information operations and the concept of the traditional battlespace. While ISIS and other U.S. adversaries are exploiting social media as a reliable force multiplier, the United States and its allies are actively exploring new and innovative ways to use new media as an effective tool of influence.

In contrast though, as John Cleese responded to Hamk’s tweet, “There is a tendency for some media to describe reports of divisive behaviour as themselves divisive No. They are pointing out divisiveness that ALREADY exists The original divisiveness can only be addressed when it is acknowledged NOT by hushing it up.”

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

REMINDER:

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds