Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

May 13, 2026

THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC CALLED AND SAID CALIFORNIA MIGHT WANT TO DIAL BACK A NOTCH OR TWENTY:

Much more at Rufo’s Substack: Watching Porn on California’s Death Row. Under Gavin Newsom, state prisoners are turning taxpayer-funded tablets into personal sex machines.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

OCTOBER 7 BARBARISM BEYOND ALL IMAGINATION: NEW REPORT DETAILS HOW TERRORISTS PERFORMED ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE HORRORS — which some on the Left STILL cast doubt on.

Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.

Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive ‘grey and green’ of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.

Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had ‘deliberately and systematically’ defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.

The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.

A grotesque, medieval obsession with sexual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza.

At Kibbutz Be’eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.

While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts, today, as hard as it is, over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff ask that you do not look away.

But the New York Times does: When it comes to Oct. 7, the New York Times prefers baseless claims over actual reports — editorial. “It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views on the Middle East conflict, we should all be able to agree that dogs cannot be trained to rape human beings…[Nick] Kristof’s column was published and promoted prominently on the NYT’s website, even including a separately produced video clip, one day ahead of a monumental Israeli report into Hamas’s systematic sexual crimes on October 7, which over the past two-and-a-half years have been downplayed or outright denied by a multitude of human rights and women’s rights activists, organizations, and officials.”

UPDATE:

Much more here: The Last Public Editor. In 2017 the New York Times decided social media would be its watchdog. This week we found out what that means.

Posted at 12:55 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

DAVID STROM: Who Thinks Like This?

Karen Bass, when discussing the plight of homeless meth addicts doesn’t ask how to get them off drugs and off the streets, but rather how to provide them with replacement teeth so they can keep on doing meth, setting fires, and pooping in the streets as children walk by.

Who thinks like that? Why? Is that the first question you need to ask, or should you first address the fact that the homeless drug addicts are making parts of L.A. unlivable for people who pay the taxes to make fixing the teeth of homeless meth addicts even possible?

Spencer Pratt’s response to the insanity hits home. He just dropped another AI ad that focuses your attention on the insanity, right after the Los Angeles unions dropped one saying everybody should be proud of Bass.

Instead of doing the Republican thing of laying out detailed policy proposals and taking veiled shots at the failure of Democratic Party policies, Pratt goes for the jugular.

He asks the simple question: Do you want to live in squalor? In Los Angeles, of all places, which has every natural advantage, and one big disadvantage: Democrats.

The excuse for Obama having very little political experience before running for the White House is that his “lived experience” trumped (sorry) his political experience. But so does Pratt’s, thanks to Karen Bass’s incompetence:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

NEW DEFINITION OF FASCISM JUST DROPPED:

Old and busted: “Making the trains run on time.”

The new hotness? Making the fire engines run on time and having enough water in the reservoir to put out the Pacific Palisades fire.

As George Orwell wrote in 1944, “It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.”

Flashback: Fascism, Again. An explainer, of sorts.

UPDATE:

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: ‘It’s Hamas Propaganda:’ New York Times Writer Nicholas Kristof’s ‘Sexual Violence’ Column Caps a Career of Corrections, Retractions and Apologies Going Back 25 Years.

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So is the young person who wrote that last referenced tweet completely clueless about the history of the Times and the Pulitzer, or is he/she/them dropping a particularly sly member-berry? Pulitzer Committee Won’t Revoke Times Pulitzer.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on May 13th, 2026

May 12, 2026

DAVID HARSANYI: Nick Kristof’s grotesque journalistic malpractice.

Kristof’s most cartoonishly evil accusation contends that the Israelis use trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This hoax is the favorite of online antisemitic podcaster types. Not only has there never been a shred of evidence that this has happened, but it’s also probably “biologically and cognitively unfeasible” for humans to train dogs to rape people.

The dog rape claim originates with the EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, a pro-Hamas Qatari-based group. It was spread by, among other shady types, conspiracy theorist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former postdoctoral fellow at UCLA who was forced to leave the school after sexual-harassment allegations involving minors.

Palestinians have spent over 70 years pulling hoaxes on gullible Westerners to gain sympathy. Anyone who’s followed the Middle East situation for more than five minutes is aware that Israel’s enemies are constantly making up ludicrous claims about trained animals. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks, and pigs by its enemies. The only difference here is that a Western journalist was credulous or despicable enough to spread the conspiracy.

It’s probably no accident, incidentally, that Kristof ran his victim-blaming propaganda the week we got a 300-page report detailing first-hand testimony and verifiable evidence that rape was “systematic” and “integral” to the Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Another recent report finds Hamas using international aid to sexually exploit women, especially widows and divorcees.

In a column at Commentary titled “The End of Our Illusions,” Seth Mandel adds:

We want Kristof and his defenders to be like us. But they are not like us—and they punish us for our good faith.

Serious allegations—and there are few allegations more serious than the ones being alleged here—deserve heaps of evidence and careful scrutiny. The report delivered by the Israeli commission is a model of such investigation. The Times’s rumor mill is the opposite.

There is another reason the timing is important. The Times’s evidence-free allegations against Israelis dulled outrage about the evidence-packed report of sexual violence perpetrated by Gazans against Israelis. The only beneficiaries of this timing are the Hamas foot soldiers who raped and tortured innocent civilians. Only the very worst people in the world have gained.

And there’s another reason we want to believe that Israel’s critics are morally intact. Plenty of them are. Those are probably the ones we don’t hear from. Unfortunately, the ones we keep hearing from don’t believe this conflict has anything to do with where Palestinians live but rather that Israelis live at all.

Exit quote: “We’re going to have to learn to treat the rumor-mongers differently than those who possess a shred of honesty, decency, and good faith. We’re going to have to draw a line and be wholly unsentimental about who belongs on which side of it.”

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

‘BE NICE TO ME:’ Dem CA Gov Hopeful Xavier Becerra Begs Reporter for Friendly Treatment, Exposes Entitlement.

Xavier Becerra was in the Biden Administration as the DHS Secretary. He was terrible at the job and did not keep the ‘homeland’ safe, in the least. Democrats fail up, so now he is running for the job of top executive in California.

He sat down for a news interview and before they started, he wanted to be sure the journalist knew he expected a friendly interview and not a ‘gotcha’ interview. How does he expect to run a huge state when he’s afraid of a news interview? What a wimp!

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

ESCHEW ALL MODALITIES OF COCKSUREDNESS:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

RICK BEATO: Watch This NYT “Music Critic” Embarrass Himself…AGAIN (Video).

In which Beato stumbles into Michael Crichton’s Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

Of course, it’s worth noting that the Timesmen trashing conventional songwriters and the tradition of songwriting are both writing and appearing in their video for entirely performative reasons:

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

THE AI FILMMAKER OUTRUNNING HOLLYWOOD:

Hollywood’s been going insane over AI for the past three years, starting back when the tech was barely capable of generating Will Smith eating spaghetti. SAG-AFTRA went on strike for over 100 days in 2023, and contract negotiations are stalled again; the union’s pushing to make synthetic performers “as expensive as humans” and floating ideas like a “Tilly tax” on AI generated characters (it’s named after Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress”). James Cameron, no Luddite by any stretch of the imagination, called AI-generated performances “horrifying.” Luca Guadagnino (of Call Me by Your Name fame) said AI actors mark “the end of the industry as we know it.”

But [Charles] Curran isn’t “horrified.” He’s excited.

And, unlike the “slop artists” Hollywood fearmongers envision taking their jobs, he’s devoted to the craft.

“I’m a really ferocious film watcher,” Curran says. “I watch over 300, sometimes 400 films a year. I have a film school background and I love cinema. I just genuinely do.”

He’s made movies for 20 years. After film school at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Curran worked in commercial filmmaking, producing movies for Nike, Google, and the World Economic Forum. He released a feature film, See Know Evil, in 2018.

“The people who are the best at storytelling should be the ones with the best tools to tell their story,” he says — not the people who happen to live in LA and know the right people. It’s ironic that Hollywood — supposedly home to culture’s visionaries — struggles to accept AI’s white pill, as Curran sees it.

“If you look at someone like Jia Zhangke in China, who’s an incredible filmmaker, probably one of the most important of the 21st century, he has no qualms about [AI filmmaking],” Curran explains. “He just kind of says, ‘Cinema’s always been a technology-driven art….’”

Curran concedes that AI video isn’t perfect. “It’s just very difficult to keep consistent characters, environments, and geometry without it changing shot to shot.” But the models are improving; these are solvable problems.

They sure are; Curran is the man creating the recent banging videos in support of the Spencer Pratt campaign:

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

GREAT MOMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTALISM: Lambo Fury as Green councilor proudly posts footage of himself driving gas guzzling Lamborghini days after his election — despite his party’s ‘war on motorists.’

A Green councillor has proudly posted footage of himself driving a Lamborghini just days after he was elected – despite his party’s ‘war on motorists’.

Mohammad Baghdadi Khan uploaded the video of him at the wheel of the gas-guzzling supercar alongside footage of him winning his seat last week in the Halliwell ward of Bolton, Greater Manchester.

The film featuring the Lamborghini Huracán Spyder – which cost up to £270,000 – appears to have been taken during a wedding in 2023 when a fleet of supercars ferried guests to the venue.

He also posted footage of himself driving what seems to be his regular car – a Mercedes with personalised number plates – which he used while campaigning.

He boasted if elected he would be ‘standing up for the people, the community, fighting for what’s right’.

In his campaign pledges, also posted online, Mr Khan – known as Baggy Khan – promised to work for ‘greener spaces’ and supported taxes for ‘billionaires not workers’.

His decision to flaunt his cars was branded an ‘absolute joke’ and ‘hypocrisy’ by many, given his party’s motoring policies.

I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.

Related: The Greens: the new nasty party.

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH: Jones “failed to change templates..because this one is still going to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The incompetence is mind blowing:” 

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on May 12th, 2026

May 11, 2026

FINALLY: A real WKRP radio comes to Cincinnati, decades after the sitcom about a fictional station.

CINCINNATI (AP) — WKRP isn’t dead — as of Monday, it’s living on the air in Cincinnati.

The call letters from the fictional radio station featured in a CBS sitcom were adopted by a trio of real “adult hits” stations in time for Monday’s morning drive, and co-owner Jeff Ziesmann described listeners as “stoked.”

“Our phones have been mobbed this morning, as I’m sure you can imagine,” Ziesmann said.

Three stations in Cincinnati, northern Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio, simulcast the station’s programming and listeners are now hearing them all identified as WKRP. They will continue to follow the format — music from the ‘60s to the ’80s, with an emphasis on the 1970s — they’ve had under “The Oasis” brand.

The owners obtained the call letters by making a donation to a North Carolina nonprofit whose low-power radio station had them since 2014. Ziesmann said a full-power station like his can use the same call letters because WKRP-LP in Raleigh is considered a separate class of station under federal regulations.

What sorts of promotions will they be running on Thanksgiving?

 

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Arcadia CA mayor Eileen Wang admits acting as foreign agent for China in plea deal.

The mayor of Arcadia admitted to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China in a federal plea deal unsealed on Monday.

Eileen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People’s Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on US soil between 2020 and 2022. She was elected to Arcadia City Council in November 2022. The city is within LA County.

LA’s top federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said this is not the first time China has been caught trying try to exert its influence in the United states.

“Ms. Wang is just the latest to act as an agent for the PRC and it should terrify Americans that she was able to rise to the highest levels of local office in her city,” Essayli said. “I expect her to resign quickly if she hasn’t already.”

As Mark Judge wrote in 2024, Remember those corny anti-communist movies from the 1950s? They were right. “Starting in the 1960s with the rise of the New Left, it became sport for cool people and liberals to mock movies such as I Was a Communist for the FBI or My Son John. The excesses of Sen. Joe McCarthy had made red hunting suspect, even shameful. Yet McCarthy was more often right than wrong. There were communists in the government, and in Hollywood, who wanted to destroy America. In 2024, however, with the far Left not only alive after the collapse of the Soviet Union but thriving in Washington, these films from the 1950s seem prescient — and deadly serious rather than goofy.”

Posted at 5:33 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026

THAT’S THE CHICAGO WAY:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026

HAPPY BLACK HELICOPTER DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE:

Posted at 4:44 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: If you want to sum up the European immigration crisis in one question, this is how to do it. “Sometimes, someone comes along and just casually reframes an entire bitter, long-running debate in just a handful of words. Like this:”

“This is one of the things that European policymakers never stop to ask themselves when they import thousands upon thousands of male ‘refugees’ into various developed European countries.”

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026

ALEX BERENSON: A huge win in Berenson v Biden.

Today, the Trump Administration and I settled the federal government’s role in Berenson v Biden, my lawsuit against Biden Administration and Pfizer officials for violating my Constitutional rights and forcing Twitter to ban me in summer 2021.

After three hard-fought years, this settlement marks a massive win in my fight to hold the government and Pfizer accountable for their conspiracy to silence me. I could not have done it without your support. (Or Elon Musk’s.)

The agreement includes a six-figure payment and a statement “the Government did in fact violate the First Amendment by exerting substantial coercive pressure on social media companies such as Twitter to suppress disfavored speech like Plaintiff’s.”

James Lawrence, my (very able) lawyer, and I believe this settlement marks the first time any individual American has received a cash payment to resolve a lawsuit over government coercion of social media companies.

More importantly, the government’s admission may prove crucial as my suit moves ahead against its remaining defendants, Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb and chairman Dr. Albert Bourla.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on May 11th, 2026
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