BRENDAN O’NEILL: Henry Nowak and the savagery of state wokeness.

The case of Henry Nowak has shocked the nation. He was a Polish-Briton in his first year at university. During a night out in Southampton in England in December last year, he had a fatal encounter with a Sikh man named Vickrum Digwa. Some kind of altercation took place. Digwa then stabbed Nowak five times with his kirpan, the ceremonial curved sword that Sikhs carry. Nowak was gored in his chest, his face and his legs. He scrambled over a fence, leaving a blood trail in his wake. ‘I’m dying’, local residents heard him say. He was right.

As savage as the knifing was, it was what happened next that has shaken Britain’s soul. Digwa’s mother arrived and spirited away the murder weapon – it was later found hidden in the family home with 20 other Sikh swords and knives. Digwa then accused Nowak of having racially abused him. He said Nowak used a racist slur against him, punched him and knocked off his turban. These were ‘wicked lies’, the court heard during his murder trial. Yet there was a group of people on the scene of this atrocity who believed Digwa’s vile libels against the youth he had just fatally lacerated: the police.

The police’s behaviour that night defies all logic and humanity. They bowed to Digwa’s defamatory slurs and arrested and handcuffed young Henry. The Telegraph’s report captures the barbarism of the police’s credulous ineptitude that grim evening: ‘As the teenager lay there, unable to breathe as his lungs filled with blood, begging officers for help, they ignored his pleas and placed him under arrest. He died less than an hour later.’ If anything will cause decent Britons to lose faith in the police, it’s this: the haunting vision of a boy being manhandled by the state as he drowned in his own blood.

As Bertold Brecht asked, “Would it not in that case be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”

The British government exists to eliminate the English

That’s it

That’s the truth https://t.co/pASePZnLND

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 2, 2026

MORE OF THIS PLEASE: “HHS Probes Complaint of Racial Preferences in Biden-Era Health Training Grants.“

BUBBLE OR NOT? Anthropic Joins the IPO Stampede — Profits Still Optional. “But then there’s the sharpest business analyst I know of, Stratechery’s Ben Thompson, who argued earlier this year that AI’s ‘economic imperatives are going to be impossible to resist, and will fuel demand for even more compute over time, further supporting the case that this is no bubble.'”

CANADA NEEDS A REAL RECKONING FOR THE ‘MASS GRAVES’ HOAX:

So far, The Globe and Mail is the only media outlet that has owned up to its role in perpetrating what amounted to a blood libel against the Catholic Church. In 2024, I wrote about how no human remains had ever been exhumed from the sites of the purported mass graves, despite millions of dollars spent looking for them. Two years later, that’s still the case.

Read the whole thing.

OUT: THE VOICES IN MY HEAD. IN: THE VOICE ON MY SCREEN. Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders.

The civil lawsuit comes after Florida opened an unrelated criminal probe into OpenAI, following a ChatGPT-linked mass shooting where two people were killed at Florida State University. In statements, OpenAI has insisted that ChatGPT isn’t responsible for the FSU shooting, merely providing factual information, but Uthmeier does not seem to agree. In his complaint, Uthmeier noted that Florida has now been blindsided by two violent events where suspects used ChatGPT to assist in planning.

“Horrifically, ChatGPT has aided and abetted in more than one multiple murder in the State of Florida,” Uthmeier’s complaint said. “The 2026 deaths of University of South Florida graduate students Nahida Bristy and Zamil Limon were also plotted using ChatGPT, which advised Hisham Abugharbieh on how to dispose of bodies, change VIN numbers on a car, and whether cars were checked at the crime scene.”

Uthmeier then went on to list all the ways ChatGPT has allegedly fueled violence. In 2025, ChatGPT was blamed for encouraging several users to commit suicide, including teenager Adam Raine and a 56-year-old bodybuilder who murdered his mother based on a ChatGPT-hallucinated conspiracy.

More recently, in February, a man with mental health struggles killed his wife and attacked his mother “after talking with ChatGPT several hours a day and coming to believe robots were taking over the world, ” Uthmeier said. And a small mining town in Canada was shocked by a school shooting that claimed nine lives the same month. Altman later apologized for not alerting law enforcement about the shooter’s ChatGPT logs, which some believe could have averted the shooting.

Developing…

ANOTHER WIN FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: Seattle Public Library hosted the first of what was expected to be a regular series of training sessions at branch facilities, entitled the People’s Hard Reduction Alliance workshops.

One attendee just happened to be independent journo Jonathan Choe, dutifully reported the details of the session, including the fact free Narcan was being made available with easy access by children. End of workshops.

DEFUND THE NGOS, AND RESTRICT NONPROFIT STATUS TO GROUPS HELPING THE NEEDY:

They're talking about how there's been no word from the "admins" about further mobilization.

We have undeniable proof that NGOs are calling the shots from top-down.

We know they were responsible for BLM and Summer of Love v1 too. These NGOs and their funders need to be sued…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 2, 2026

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: ICE Keeps Finding the Criminals Democrats Pretend Don’t Exist.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: NORTHYARD Men’s Athletic Running Shorts. #CommissionEarned

SLIPPING RIGHT DOWN THE SLOPE:

Canada going boldly forward with coercive state-facilitated death as a cost-saving measure is among the many developments of the 21st century I did not see coming.

Combined with ruinous economic policy and strategic choices, plus replacement migration, it's like Canada is… https://t.co/IdHwLCGIOT

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 2, 2026

UPDATE/CORRECTION: Hat tip to the ever-sharp Eugene Volokh for this one, but the study’s authors seem to be “two anti-euthanasia academics hypothesizing such a model, and using it as a reductio ad absurdum to argue against Canada’s voluntary euthanasia programs.”

Well done, fellas — the abstract had me.

CRINGEY WEIRDO IS PUTTING IT NICELY: The Talafreakco Menace. “In case you hadn’t noticed, James Talarico is an cringey weirdo who is deeply out of step with the state he wants to represent. So here’s a roundup.”

There’s a lot to round up.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 1, 2026

WHY ARE UNIVERSITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF LAWBREAKING? Bradley U. offers illegal program for black, LQBTQ students, complaint alleges.

POSITIONS SO MAINSTREAM, THEY HAVE TO BE MEMORY-HOLED:

If Democrats told you what they really believed, they’d never get elected. https://t.co/THGTZDc4MW

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) June 2, 2026

THE CAMPUS LEFT BUILT A CONFORMITY MACHINE. Higher ed is supposed to test assumptions, not run students and faculty through DEI statements, cancellation campaigns, self-censorship, and ideological pressure until they learn to stay quiet.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Iran Ends Negotiations With U.S., Doubling Down on Terrorism – Trump Responds.

KEEP UP YOUR HAIR: Nizoral Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with 1% Ketoconazole. #CommissionEarned

WHY ARE UNIVERSITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Student senate at NYC university votes to strip funding and recognition from Hillel.

MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: RFK Jr. announces largest autism fraud bust in history.

Kennedy highlighted that the original cost of the Early Intervention Development Program was a mere $38.1 million in 2020, but that it had ballooned to $442 million in 2026, with much of that increase stemming from fraud.

“Today’s arrests represent the largest autism fraud bust in American history,” he said. “This was an organized theft that exploited the most vulnerable, deceived families, stole taxpayer dollars meant to help children with autism access legitimate care and support.”

“Investigators uncovered brazen schemes that billed taxpayers for nonexistent services, fraudulent diagnoses, and fake care while criminals enriched themselves at public expense,” he added.

The bust came as part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to crack down on public fraud across the nation.

Just get the feds out of “helping” in state and local matters. That much money in one place always invites fraud, and except when Trump 47 is around, seemingly zero supervision.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS RESTING COMFORTABLY:

Anti-ICE agitator who allegedly bit officers during Delaney Hall protest was previously accused of distributing child porn https://t.co/PYe4JAZX9C pic.twitter.com/UfDzRe8RY7

— New York Post (@nypost) June 1, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Primary Day in California — Raise a Glass to the Underdogs. “That Karen Bass is still in this race is probably the only sign we need that Los Angeles is irredeemable. Her first term in office is completely devoid of anything that she can point to as a success. It doesn’t matter, of course, because she’s the first female mayor of the nation’s second most populous city. The Democrats are still all-in on diversity. Their politicians just need to check boxes, not be competent.”

SO NOW HE TELLS US: Sen. Murphy: Biden Should Have Left Race Earlier.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Sunday that Democrats must acknowledge mistakes made during the 2024 presidential election cycle, including former President Joe Biden’s decision to remain in the race, arguing that partisan loyalty can sometimes prevent political parties from confronting their own failures.

“I think Democrats do have to be honest about the mistakes that we made in 2024,” Murphy said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

“Obviously, in retrospect, Joe Biden should have stepped away from that race. We should have had an open contest.”

Maybe Biden stayed in because he listened to… Sen. Chris Murphy: Sen. Chris Murphy on ‘Face the Nation,’ Feb. 11, 2024. “There are literally thousands of people alive in this nation today. Because Joe Biden is incredibly competent, and he’s incredibly effective. And this partisan- and this partisan hit job.”

The only thing that changed between February and Biden dropping out in July was a debate performance that removed any doubt about Biden’s accelerating senescence, even for people who hadn’t been paying attention.

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Democrats Made A Living Hell Out Of The City Of Angels.

KURT SCHLICHTER SKIPS AHEAD A CHAPTER: The Autopsy of the Democrat Disaster of 2026.

DON SURBER: Democrats don’t know American men.. “Adolf Platner. Six Genders Talarico. Tampon Tim. The first two are Democrat Senate candidates while Walz was the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2024. Democrats aimed these weirdos at collecting the XY vote. They have the combined testosterone of my 5-year-old grandson. The more Democrats try to run candidates to lure American men into voting for them, . . . the more they show how little they know about the U.S. Male.”