Author Archive: Stephen Green

KASH PATEL, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Why Won’t the FBI Correct Its Flawed Data on Who Stops Active Shooters?

In 2022, the FBI reported that only 11 of the 252 active shooter incidents it identified for the period 2014-2021, or 4.4%, were stopped by an armed citizen. However, an analysis by my organization identified a total of 281 active shooter incidents during that same period and found that 41 of them – or 14.6% – were stopped by an armed citizen.

Academic articles dating back to 2015 have flagged similar problems, and even the researchers who collected data for the FBI admitted that “our data are imperfect.”

The FBI report compiled for the Biden administration for 2023 and 2024 contains worse errors.

Of course.

AMERICA’S REBELLIOUS YOUTH UPDATE:

THEY’RE JUST DOING THE SEX OFFENSES AMERICANS WON’T: ‘Worst of the worst’: ICE nabs aliens with convictions for incest, rape, child sex offenses.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday touted the arrest of 15 illegal aliens it dubbed the “worst of the worst” as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown.

“While Americans enjoyed their weekends, DHS law enforcement officers continued to arrest and remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens including violent child predators, gang members, drug traffickers, robbers, rapists, and reckless drunk drivers,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Our officers continue to risk their lives and work without pay because of the Democrats’ government shutdown. We will not let political games or violence against law enforcement slow us down from making American safe again.”

Topping the list this week was Pedro Castro-Castro of Guatemala, who boasted convictions for burglary, shoplifting, rape, and incest with a minor.

ICE also arrested Bonifacio Mendez of Mexico, who was previously convicted for dealing child pornography.

Fiacro Huerta-Tobon of Mexico was previously convicted of indecency with child contact.

More at the link — and Lefties are willing to commit violence to keep these people in the country.

WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM:

MELTDOWN: Bari Weiss Names CBS News Chief, Progs Lose Their… You Know

You know what Bluesky is, right? Pronounced “brewski” to reflect its Soviet roots (not really… but kinda really), Bluesky is the social media platform where good-hearted progressives fled to escape all the hate on Elon Musk’s X, and where they could wish death upon their political rivals in peace.

Seriously.

I only mention Bluesky because today I set up an account there — I haven’t posted yet, because I will almost certainly have my account suspended within hours or minutes of being honest — after The Spectator’s Stephen L. “Redsteeze” Miller encouraged people this morning to log in and do a search for Bari Weiss, and witness the murderous meltdowns.

Hang on. I have to back out a bit wider.

Much more at the link.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACED TOOK A XANAX ABOUT AN HOUR AGO:

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Labour secretly sabotaged China spy trial.

Labour secretly sabotaged the trial of two alleged spies by refusing to brand China an “enemy”, The Telegraph can disclose.

Prosecutors dropped charges last month against Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, who were accused of passing information about the Government’s foreign policy to a high-ranking member of the Chinese government.

At the time, Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman said that it was “extremely disappointing” that the two men would not face trial, adding that the charges were “gravely concerning”.

But The Telegraph can now reveal that the case collapsed because ministers withdrew a star witness who had been tasked with testifying that China was an “enemy” of the UK.

Does Starmer actually believe in Labour’s anti-British agenda, or is his government merely on Beijing and Qatar’s payrolls?

VDH WELCOMES YOU TO Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland.

Left-wing protesters are swarming ICE headquarters in Portland to violently oppose all deportations, even those of known criminals and those who have already exhausted efforts to remain here illegally.

Why? The Democratic Party apparat knows that the public wants both secure borders and deportations of illegal aliens. Indeed, in part, it lost an election by its open-borders advocacy.

But Democrat officials feel that if street thugs like Antifa can surround and besiege ICE facilities in Portland, Oregon, then deportations will stop. Then, a de facto amnesty will follow for millions who entered the U.S. illegally—and will soon become Democratic constituents.

As a result, they do not fully enforce the law when thugs attack federal law enforcement. Antifa and its spin-off groups favor the night, when they try to block all entries and exits of ICE vehicles and personnel, and can commit their violence with greater anonymity.

The masked rioters assault anyone in their way. They count on exemption from punishment for committing violence against federal officers through the goodwill or indifference of kindred local and state officials who hate the Trump administration more than they respect the law. An Orwellian scenario follows in which federal officers are attacked by Antifa, which in turn counts on the non-intervention of local police.

Summed up: the city of Portland’s armed officers are in a de facto proxy war with their federal counterparts—in our version of something out of 1860, on the eve of a real civil war.

Insurrection, straight up — and do read the whole thing.

LIKE RATS FLEEING A SHIP THAT’S FINALLY STARTING TO RIGHT ITSELF:

That’s just one data point, but keep your eyes open for others.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Build-A-Bear Employee Allegedly Refuses To Name Stuffed Animal After Charlie Kirk At Teen’s Request.

“She just didn’t agree with it. She didn’t support it and she told me, ‘We’re not doing this,’ folded it up in a force and threw it away,” McCormick said.

The teen gave her payment card to her friend Kailie Lang and left the register. “It definitely made us all very uncomfortable,” Lang said.

Amber McCormick, the teen’s mother, spent 45 minutes on the phone with Build-A-Bear’s corporate office. The company first offered a $20 gift card, then called back days later with an apology, the mother said.

Build-A-Bear acknowledged the incident shouldn’t have happened and promised to retrain staff in Seattle and nationwide to keep politics out of the workplace.

Unless the apology came from the employee who refused the request, it’s meaningless.

SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: YouTube Continues Throttling Shooting News Weekly’s Videos.

Apparently we’ve violated the “Content that facilitates the sale of certain regulated goods, like firearms, ammunition, or prohibited firearm accessories” restriction.

To be absolutely clear, we are NOT “facilitating the sale” of any of these things. …Unless YouTube simply considers a positive review or any mild comment like saying something is a “good value” or stating the product’s MSRP or recommending the product is somehow “facilitating” its sale. I don’t believe that’s precisely what’s going on here, it’s just YouTube’s justification for the continuing the censorship of SNW’s videos (and other similar content creators).

In all cases I submitted an appeal, which is supposed to trigger a manual review. YouTube set expectations that an appeals review is likely to take up to 72 hours. In all cases our appeal was rejected within an hour — usually just a few minutes — and the content remained removed from any form of visibility on YouTube and/or deleted entirely from our library.

“There’s always Rumble,” except that hardly anybody watches Rumble.

MAID IN CANADA: Euthanasia Organ Harvesting ‘Surges.’ “It’s been my sad duty to write about MAID several times in the last three years, as the state euthanasia program slides down the slippery slope from ‘It’s just for the nearly dead’ to ‘Soylent Green is people.'”

JUST DEMOCRATS DOING DEMOCRAT THINGS:

CHANGE: Washington Post Goes On Firing Spree, Reportedly Terminates Over A Dozen Employees. “The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher — a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices — was among those terminated.”

Update:

Change might actually be taking hold.

YES: Jeff Bezos agrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman: We’re in an AI bubble. But Amazon’s founder says the benefits will be ‘gigantic.’

The similarity between this bubble and the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s worries investors and comes with high financial risks. But Bezos said the difference in nature of the current AI bubble should provide investors some solace.

“This is a kind of industrial bubble, as opposed to financial bubbles,” he said at Italian Tech Week on Friday.

Ultimately, industrial bubbles can be positive, Bezos added, pointing out that the biotech and pharmaceutical bubble in the 1990s led to the development of life-saving drugs—though in the process, many public companies that IPO’d during the boom went bankrupt or were acquired at a fraction of their starting value by the end. The cumulative net losses to public biotech companies’ bottom lines piled up to more than $40 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2004.

But, Bezos said industrial bubbles are “not nearly as bad” as other bubbles.

“It can even be good, because when the dust settles and you see who are the winners, societies benefit from those investors,” Bezos said. “That is what is going to happen here too. This is real, the benefits to society from AI are going to be gigantic.”

The inevitable shakeout will be brutal, but the survivors will be the next Amazon or Google.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE Is Real America. “In this part of the world, we are acutely aware of the problems associated with a porous border. New Yorkers talk about illegal alien restaurant workers; we deal with the Sinaloa Cartel.”