April 22, 2026

ISN’T THIS HOW “CAPRICORN ONE” GOT STARTED?

Posted at 2:06 pm by Stephen Green

HORSESHOE THEORY: Young Democrats Are Now More Hostile Toward Israel Than Iran or China.

[I]f you want to find a country that younger Democrats really feel negatively about . . . look to the world’s lone Jewish state.

Among younger Democrats, when asked about Israel, “negative” scored 45 percentage points net; only Russia scored worse among this demographic, and even that was only 15 percentage points worse. Remember on Iran, among young Democrats, “negative” scored 40 percentage points net.

Young Democrats feeling negatively about Israel has been well-reported. But young Democrats feeling more negatively about Israel than Iran or China has not. Remember, the Iranian regime and its loyalists still use “Death to America!” about as frequently as commas.

Younger Democrats’ intense hostility to Israel was a serious outlier compared to other demographics; among older Democrats, “negative” scored 19 percentage points net. Israel is now a partisan issue; among younger Republicans asked about Israel, “positive” scored 11 percentage points net, and among older Republicans, “positive” scored 65 percentage points net.

Related: Left Melts for Tucker: M-SNOW’s Alex Wagner Says His Trump Remorse ‘Feels Genuine.’

Ahh, the good times Tucker and Al Sharpton would have together on air. (Much like the good times Sharpton and Joe Scarborough share these days: Oops! Joe Scarborough’s Past Ideas About Al Sharpton, Racism, Come Back to Bite Him.)

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TALKING POINTS ISSUED: The Democrat Lie About the SPLC Indictment Has Been Formed, and Now They’re Running With It.

You’d hope in the face of such disturbing allegations, including the possibility that the SPLC paid for criminal activity to take place, that Democrats would at least keep their mouths shut while this played out. But no, they’ve quickly, in conjunction with a compliant press, formulated a lie and are running with it. Instead of admitting what the indictment (which was returned by a grand jury) actually says, they are claiming the SPLC was just innocently paying “informants.”

I guess I’m going to have to explain this like I’m talking to a four-year-old, but the SPLC is not a law enforcement agency. The fact that the DOJ pays and uses informants to investigate crimes is not, in fact, relevant at all to what happened here. Yet, you’ve got Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY-10), ABC News, USA Today, the AP, and many others all running with this line that these were just payments to “informants.”

How exactly is allegedly paying someone who helped organize transportation to a neo-nazi rally just paying an “informant? What were they informing on? To who? About what? For what reason? That doesn’t even make any sense. The SPLC can’t indict anyone. They have no jurisdiction to investigate criminal activity, nor would they need “informants” to be able to say the Ku Klux Klan is bad.

Related: Jim Geraghty explores “How Your Tax-Deductible Donation Went to the Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the ‘Sadistic Souls:’”

Now, call me crazy, but I think that if you’re a member of the “Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club,” you’re not a good person. I mean, it’s right there in the name. By the way, guess what the logo of the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club is? If you guessed the same SS Totenkopf that was tattooed on the chest of Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, you are correct! (“Are we the baddies?”)

I don’t know about you, but I would be extremely wary about ever putting any of my money or my organization’s money into the hands of anyone who was an active member of these groups.

As you may have noticed, these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.

The defense, put forth by the likes of MSNOW contributor and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, is that “the use of paid informants was essential to the intelligence the Center was gathering on the groups they were members of, including intelligence that was shared with the FBI.”

But how do we know that?  Yes, the bureau did say on its old website that “the FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems,” and it listed the SPLC as one of those organizations. But based on all available evidence, FBI didn’t ask, or hire, the SPLC to go around recruiting informants. The FBI has its own undercover agents and its own funds for recruiting informants. The SPLC decided, on its own, that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to these members of hate groups was worth it.

Exit questions:

Tweet concludes, “There’s no explanatory narrative that makes this stuff look good.”

Exactly. Which is why, beyond the modified limited hangout above, an omertà has been issued for the network news broadcasts: Omission: The Networks Fall Silent on the Indictment of the SPLC.

And as far as print media:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

METAPHOR ALERT:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

NARRATIVES DON’T MAINTAIN THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

SPLC FUNDED ‘UNITE THE RIGHT’ RALLY THAT SPAWNED ‘FINE PEOPLE’ HOAX:

We already knew that the “fine people” hoax was based on the lie that Trump called white supremacists “fine people,” instead of, as he did, condemning them. But until yesterday, we didn’t know that the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and whose protest led to the death of one person were bused there on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s dime, and were organized to be there by an SPLC “informer.”

The SPLC is one of the most powerful NGOs in the country. They have had the power to direct the federal government to go after groups and people. They had their grips on the censorship industry. They tell social media companies who should be silenced and who should be promoted. Local law enforcement listens to them. The media treats their “hate map” as gospel.

Yesterday’s news also likely clears up this mystery:

And it also dramatically shifts this detail as well: So, the Premise Behind Biden’s 2020 Run Was Built on a Lie Paid for By the SPLC?

As Roger Kimball wrote when Jussie Smollett’s story broke in 2019, “The less hate there is in the United States, the more hate crimes must be manufactured in order to keep the Fraternal Order of Victims afloat.”

UPDATE:

Heh, indeed.™

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

ATTENTION, JOHN THUNE: Nearly 70% support SAVE America Act to require voter ID. “Overall, 68% of registered voters supported the bill, while 32% opposed it in the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll. Support was split by party, with 90% of Republicans backing the measure while 55% of Democrats opposed it. A further 66% of independents supported the plan.”

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

MAYBE NOT ALL LEFTIST ACTIVISM IS ASTROTURF, BUT IT’S THE WAY TO BET:

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

GOOD LORD: COVID scientist accused of using ChatGPT in alleged poisoning plot against rival.

Investigators said 41-year-old Makoto Kuroda felt slighted after his friend received a promotion, and Kuroda felt he started treating him differently. It ended with Kuroda allegedly tainting his former friend’s water bottle with numerous toxic chemicals and handing his co-worker a note that said “I did it” in Japanese.

Kuroda admitted to using chloroform, paraformaldehyde (PFA), and Trizol to poison his co-worker’s water bottle and shoes, according to a Dane County Court criminal complaint.

A research scientist for IRI, Kuroda had published multiple papers on the Ebola virus and SARS CoV-2, better known as COVID-19. In his position, he handled and had access to a wide variety of toxic chemicals.

In the days leading up to his alleged contamination, Kuroda reportedly used ChatGPT to “find the harmful amount of PFA and Trizol for both humans and animals,” according to a police report cited in the complaint.

The alleged victim, identified in the document only as TM, was once a close friend to Kuroda, but their relationship had deteriorated.

From there, the story gets weird.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

THE PARAMETERS OF MODERN WARFARE ARE MIND-BLOWING:

Full story here.

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green