August 5, 2026

BRITISH MAN ARRESTED AFTER DRESSING AS GRIM REAPER, BRANDISHING BLADE, STARING DOWN FROM HOSPITAL ROOF:

This man is a legend.

Come on, he was just checking in on his future clients!

Well, 26-year-old Welshman Leon Gillespie was brandishing a blade, so there’s that. And I suppose he did seem to be dressed as the Angel of Death (though he says it was simply a “crow costume”).

I also suppose he perched himself atop Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire, long blade in hand, making noises down toward visitors and staff as if to say “you’re next.”

Welshman apparently jealous of Florida man:

 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN VOTER OUTREACH: Hasan Piker torches Democratic voters: ‘You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***.’

Left-wing commentator Hasan Piker blasted critics of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed, accusing them of Islamophobia and urging the party to unite behind the victorious Michigan candidate.

“Like everyone being like ‘Abdul has a f*** ton of work to do mending bridges.’ Here’s the f***ing take nuke for you, okay? You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***, okay? You literally called the dude a f***ing terrorist for months on end, and, like, called him a sexist, misogynist, terrorist, bad candidate, fake doctor, when he has, like, two f***ing degrees,” Piker said during his live stream on Twitch Tuesday.

To be fair, leftist voters do seem to love being told how awful they are. In 2013, Ta-Nehisi Coates took to the New York Times to denounce their core readership: ‘The Good, Racist People’ of Manhattan.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE: Government School Zero Tolerance Stupidity Marches On…This Time in Georgia. “Reports have recently surfaced that a Georgia six-year-old was suspended last spring after reportedly biting his sandwich into an ‘L shape’ and pointing it at another student. The student ‘was previously suspended for pointing a bottle of water at another student and making gun noises and also punished for drawing a pilgrim shooting a turkey … .'”

The school should be razed and its administrators sent to teach woodshop in a prison.

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MARK PENN: Socialist Mamdani sold a tax on billionaires. Regular homeowners could pay the price.

Because the Department of Finance’s initial roll sent notices to 960,000 property entries, primary residents are now forced to navigate bureaucratic hurdles to prove their exemption. The statute had a little-noticed provision that co-ops and condos qualify for the tax if the NYC Department of Finance computers identify their assessed value over $1 million. Presto chango — hundreds of thousands of New York homeowners were caught up in the initial mailing. And the surcharge on non-primary residences can reach up to 5% or more of market value annually.

So now add $50,000 a year in costs to a million-dollar non-primary condo. What are those owners going to do? Hit the sell, sell, sell button. Imposing steep surcharges on secondary condo owners could chill the broader housing market, reduce demand from out-of-town buyers and ultimately drag down property values across the board. In the end, local homeowners will pay the price through diminished equity. It’s simple economics.

The ’90s Clintonistas like Penn and James Carville are more or less in a panic about the commie takeover of the party they helped drag toward the DLC center.

But that was a long time ago, and Obama’s Red Diaper Brigades are taking over.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

ESSENCE OF EVIL: In China, the authorities grab Uyghurs and take their usable organs. They die, but somebody else favored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gets a new lease on life. Here in the West, we do the same thing, but shroud it in an antiseptic appearance.

Wesley Smith, writing in Science & Culture, explains:

“Hastened death and organ-harvesting have already been conjoined in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (In the latter two countries, some cases have involved mentally ill patients.)

“The practice has been supported in prominent medical journals. It is not alarmism to note that the idea is gaining ever wider acceptance among the medical and bioethics intelligentsia.

“But killing and then harvesting doesn’t go far enough for some mainstream bioethicists. Where euthanasia is legal, they don’t see why organ procurement can’t also be the means of death for patients who want to donate. In other words, don’t just kill and then harvest; harvest to kill.”

 

 

Posted at 3:00 pm by Mark Tapscott

ALL IN THE FAMILY: NY police bigwig was getaway driver for goon son in gangland shooting. “Jennifer Lackard, a deputy police commissioner with the Mount Vernon Police Department, was arrested at her home Tuesday morning, along with her son, Chase Lackard, 20, after the young man allegedly shot at a group of rivals near the Bronx Criminal Court on June 29 at 11:57 p.m, police said.”

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

JASON GUMP: Cambridge investigating Jason Arday after Telegraph revealed his false book claims.

Prof Arday repeatedly claimed that he was the author of a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse, which was said to explore stereotypes about black masculinity.

The book was listed in his biography description in published essays as well as promotional material for speaking events, and was attributed to the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house.

In reality, it never made it to the shelves and was abandoned by the publisher several years ago.

The revelation raises questions over his employment at the University of Cambridge. To apply for a professorship at Cambridge, applicants need to submit an extensive portfolio of work, which includes a complete bibliography of essays, journals and book chapters.

Jesus College, where Prof Arday is a fellow, has also launched its own process alongside the university’s investigation.

A college spokesman said: “Parallel to the University of Cambridge’s investigation into Prof Arday, Jesus College is launching its own process.

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The universities of Glasgow and Ohio State have denied claims by Prof Arday that he had been a visiting professor at their institutions.

It can also be revealed by The Telegraph that Prof Arday has incorrectly claimed to be a visiting professor at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. On the Cambridge Faculty of Education page, he claims to be a visiting professor at the university, in the city of Gqeberha, formerly Port Elizabeth.

However, a university spokesman said Prof Arday had “no formal affiliation” with the institution and had served as an adjunct professor on a fixed-term association that ended in November 2025.

Adjunct professors are usually part-time and hold more junior positions than visiting professors.

Related: “Arday will be gone in one way or another. And he (who never knew better because of his enablers) will be abandoned, left to fend for himself, and he and his family will suffer badly as a result…Those who paid the price for trying to expose him, or those who lost out on opportunities because he got advanced instead, or those parents of non-verbal kids who were given false hope, they will never get back what they’ve lost. Their suffering and disappointment will be forgotten and neglected, Kevin Yam tweets, adding, “The press and social media will forget about this and move onto the next big thing.”

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHEN YOU SEE IT ALL IN ONE LIST, YOU FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE LENGTH AND DEPTH OF JASON ARDAY’S LONG CON:

The scrolling required is not insignificant.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTOPHER RUFO: The Typhus Rats of Los Angeles.

In 2018, it was clear that L.A. had a serious problem. For much of the early 2000s, the county recorded just a handful of flea-borne typhus cases each year; in 2009, for example, it saw just nine. But in 2018, L.A. battled multiple localized typhus outbreaks, marking a watershed moment for public health officials in the county.

The outbreaks started in the summer. Between July and September, the county identified nine typhus cases linked to downtown. All of them required hospitalization, and six of the nine sufferers had either been homeless or lived in transitional housing. In October, public health officials noted an additional outbreak in the Willowbrook neighborhood, near Compton. By year’s end, L.A. had seen 109 cases of typhus countywide—a record high.

The concern wasn’t just that cases were on the rise, but also where they were being discovered. In the past, the county might have seen occasional, geographically dispersed infections. Now, it was dealing with multiple clusters in dense, urban environments. A document we obtained via public-records requests shows that officials believed “rats and rat fleas” were “contributing to infection” in the county’s cities.

The situation that year was so bad that the city government couldn’t even keep its own employees safe. At the time, Elizabeth Greenwood was a deputy city attorney. One day at work, Greenwood said her shin began to hurt. When she inspected her leg, she noticed some small insect bites but thought nothing of it. Within weeks, Greenwood was reportedly “gravely ill” and suffering from a severe headache, dizziness so bad she couldn’t walk to the restroom unattended, and a 102-degree fever. “It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck,” Greenwood said.

Eventually, Greenwood would be diagnosed with typhus. She blamed the city for her contracting the disease, claiming that its failure to clean up garbage and human feces outside City Hall East had “recklessly endanger[ed] the public.” After Greenwood went public with her story, Los Angeles officials admitted that City Hall was infested with vermin. “The rotting trash and the raw sewage is the soup that grows typhus,” Greenwood said.

Documents we obtained via a public-records request show that Greenwood wasn’t the only municipal employee complaining about rats around that time. In 2020, Raul Cabrera, the LAFD captain for Station 6, wrote an email to a city employee complaining that his fire station was being overrun by rats from a homeless encampment.

A homeless encampment, you say?

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

JOANNE JACOBS: From Jonah to Job, the Bible belongs in public schools.

You can’t really get Moby Dick (or Pinocchio) if you’ve never heard of Jonah and the Whale, writes Adam Kirsch in The Atlantic. You won’t understand why Harriet Tubman was called “Moses,” if you’re not familiar with the Exodus story. Bible stories belong in public school classrooms, he argues. Americans who don’t know about David and Goliath, Job, the parting of the Red Sea, the Sermon on the Mount and the Good Samaritan will not be prepared to understand America’s history or literature.

The new required-reading list in Texas has angered many liberals, who see it as “an attack on civil liberties and cultural diversity,” Kirsch writes. The state school board has framed the Bible stories as part of a “common literary canon,” not as religious instruction, but many are unpersuaded. A Dallas Morning News editorial called for including the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita, he writes.

Whether or not you’re a believer, the Bible is a foundational text of Western Civilization. The Quran isn’t, to say the very least.

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

AS HEADS IS TAILS: New York deputy police commissioner fired after attempted murder arrest. Mount Vernon official is accused of driving getaway car after son allegedly opened fire outside Bronx court.

A New York state police department fired its deputy commissioner on Tuesday after she allegedly acted as a getaway driver for her son in what is being investigated as an attempted murder.

The city of Mount Vernon said in an Instagram post that it had terminated Jennifer Lackard, deputy police commissioner for safety, for conduct “unrelated to her duties”.

Lackard, 49, and her 20-year-old son Chase were arrested in an early morning raid on Tuesday at their home in New York City’s Bronx borough, according to the New York Daily News, citing “police sources”.

The newspaper said the pair were charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, gun possession, conspiracy and reckless endangerment, in connection with shots that were fired at a group of people outside Bronx criminal court on 29 June.

Chase Lackard was the alleged gunman, according to the Daily News – and jumped into a car that was driven from the scene at speed by his mother.

The new Netflix remake of Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot sounds lit:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM:

Posted at 1:34 pm by Stephen Green

BRENDAN O’NEILL: The overwhelming migrant blitz on Spain shatters globalist fiction and proves our leaders have abandoned sovereign borders.

The whole world can see there are virtually no women and children in those mobs. The whole world knows Morocco is not ravaged by war or hunger.

From now on, every utterance of “asylum-seeker” should invoke noisy, angry skepticism.

The Ceuta crisis also confirms that the moral cowardice of the modern state is like a red rag to hostile actors.

It is undeniable that Pedro Sánchez’s lunatic granting of asylum to illegal immigrants this year emboldened these Moroccan men to pour into soft-touch Spain.

In January, Sánchez bypassed parliament and issued a royal decree to regularize virtually all “undocumented migrants” on Spanish territory.

Almost 1.2 million illegal arrivals applied for this status, granting them the right to reside in Spain, to work there and to enjoy unfettered access to healthcare and education.

Sánchez’s monarchical creation of close to a million neo-“Spaniards” was an act of lethal folly.

In throwing open residency rights and access to public services, he stripped Spanishness itself of meaning.

Anyone, from anywhere, can have what you have — that, at root, was the imperious diktat.

And he shone a massive green light to outsiders to try their luck with his spineless regime.

Hence, Ceuta — 50,000 North Africans accepting his witless, brainless invitation to come and take the piss out of Spain.

In the past, invading forces did a much better job of planning out their logistics:

But in 2026, why bother, when the locals will provide that for you?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll