Sunday, August 2, 2026

Before Mamdani... There was John Reed

 John Reed was one of the foremost left-wing leaders during America’s early 20th-century Progressive Era and had much in common with today’s Democratic Socialists.

John Silas “Jack” Reed was a Zohran Mamdani of his era. Both rose in left-wing American politics in their late twenties and early thirties, embraced socialism, and framed politics through class struggle and oppressor/oppressed themes. Both believed America’s political and capitalist systems had to be radically transformed -- or dismantled -- for working-class liberation. Were he alive today, Reed would likely see eye to eye with the NYC mayor.

Reed and his contemporary comrades might view today’s street demonstrators and DSA as their progeny -- the great, great-grandchildren of their own cadre of anarcho-socialist rabblerousers. They would be impressed with the “black bloc” street takeover approach Antifa and aligned groups have used, fomenting revolutionary change through performative street demonstrations, defacing monuments, and clashing with police. They would have been pleasantly stunned by the reach and effectiveness of social media to organize and spread revolutionary propaganda. They would have viewed ICE with the same contempt they held for the Secret Service, who jailed and deported many of them for espousing the overthrow of the U.S. government.

Jack Reed’s life was greatly romanticized even during his own time. In an introduction to a collection of his writings, he is characterized as “[an] adventurer, playboy, Bohemian, lover, radical, anti-war activist, revolutionary agitator.” Indeed, Reed can be looked upon as a godfather of modern American radical socialism, whose views and fervent activism would be embraced by today’s DSA. Class distinctions and conflict (today add in race and gender identity) defined everything. It was an authoritarian ideology that imposed greater controls over private property, as Mamdani has proposed with rent freezes and policies to remove property owners from controlling what they own. As Mamdani once revealingly opined, such policies might even lead to “seizing the means of production,” a Marxist concept found in the Communist Manifesto and Capital that Jack Reed knew well.


Before Mamdani... There was John Reed - American Thinker

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Why I Changed My Mind About Marijuana

Liz reflects on how Alex Berenson’s research and book on the harms of marijuana changed her perspective on cannabis.



Monday, July 27, 2026

Anthony Fauci basks in media attention in unearthed diary entries: 'I am the most famous'

 Dr. Anthony Fauci raised eyebrows over the weekend for his recently released pandemic-era diary entries, some of which included reflections on his own newfound fame, his interactions with influential media figures and a picture of a prayer necklace featuring himself as a saint.

Released Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ahead of Fauci's scheduled testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week, the thousands of pages of diary entries recounted Fauci's daily reflections as he interacted with political leaders and became the public face of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

"I have said for years that Anthony Fauci cared more about his own image than the truth, and now his own diary proves it," Paul posted to X on Monday afternoon.

Various entries show Fauci appeared to bask in the media attention and widespread adulation he was receiving during the early days of the pandemic.

"The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person [sic] in the world," Fauci wrote in his diary on May 21, 2020, noting there had been a "very flattering" front-page article about him in The Washington Post.

"Press is going wild with me," he wrote on March 22, 2020. "Front page in Washington Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic."

"I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is tsalking [sic] about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from different, but not conflicting standpoints."

On May 23, 2020, Fauci suggested that President Donald Trump and the White House were growing jealous of the attention he was receiving.

"Apparently the WH is very upset that I am being profiled and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm. Very stressful!!" he wrote.

In other entries, Fauci also mentioned his interactions with various celebrities who fawned over him, such as Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts and Steph Curry. In February 2021, he took note that comedian Kate McKinnon played him on "Saturday Night Live," and included a photo from X of a prayer necklace that depicted him as a saint and read: "Doctor Fauci, Patron Saint of Public Health."

Fauci also made note of the many fans he was amassing, highlighting an article headlined "Fauci socks, Fauci doughnuts, Fauci fan art: The coronavirus expert attracts a cult following."

The diary also revealed Fauci was highly attentive to media coverage of himself and exhibited unusually close relationships with left-leaning media figures such as CNN anchor Jake Tapper, whose Washington, D.C., home he visited for dinner.

Fauci wrote that Tapper had reached out to him privately to ensure that an interview he had done with CNN had not caused friction with the White House. When The Atlantic's Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci was "humiliated" when Tapper canceled an interview, he wrote: "F— you, Peter."

After Fauci's clash with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in 2021, CNN's Dana Bash texted him that he was "a better man" and relayed Wolf Blitzer's joke that no one would blame Fauci for telling Jordan to "go f— yourself." She later shared a Vanity Fair headline mocking Jordan.

Fauci's diary entries end in December 2022 as his reputation was waning with large swaths of the public, with his final entry reading: "It is clear (I have not been reporting it every day) that the far, extreme right and Qanon literally hate me."

Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who subpoenaed him to testify this week, highlighted other selections from Fauci's diary in an X thread, arguing that the private writings of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases often differed from his public statements.

Regarding the origins of COVID-19 and discussions of the lab leak hypothesis, Paul highlighted an entry from Jan. 26, 2020, that showed the wet market theory was privately already discounted very early in the pandemic when Fauci wrote, "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."

Paul's X account has routinely trolled Fauci, with his pinned tweet as of Monday depicting Fauci's famous 2020 "InStyle" cover photo that showed him decked out in sunglasses and star-studded socks by the pool.

"See you in 2 days," Paul wrote Monday along with the photo.


Anthony Fauci basks in media attention in unearthed diary entries | Politics

Sunday, July 26, 2026

The 'Red Jihad': How far-left and jihadist extremism are merging

 For nearly a quarter century, Western counterterrorism was built around the jihadist threat. That focus was understandable. September 11 changed the world, and the rise of al-Qaeda and ISIS forced the United States and its allies to build intelligence, law enforcement, and military systems capable of stopping large-scale attacks.

At the recent international conference on political terrorism, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the threat environment has changed. Rubio argued that the West developed a dangerous blind spot toward far-Left terrorism. Bessent stated that “old ideological boundaries are now giving way to new operational alliances,” especially between international Marxism and radical Islamic movements that may not share the same ultimate vision but do share the same immediate enemy: free and self-governing societies.

That convergence is what I call the “Red Jihad.”

The Red Jihad is not a single organization. It is a cross-ideological threat coalition made up of actors who may identify as Marxist, anarchist, Islamist, Satanist, neo-Nazi or something even more obscure. They do not need to agree on what should replace the West. They only need to agree that the existing Western social order should be destabilized and ultimately destroyed.

This is why our current debate over “nihilistic violent extremism” is so important.

The FBI describes nihilistic violent extremists as individuals who engage in criminal conduct in furtherance of political, social or religious goals that grow out of hatred for society and a desire to bring about its collapse through chaos, destruction and social instability. These actors are often young, highly networked online and involved in communities such as 764, the Order of Nine Angles, Maniacs Murder Cult and related ecosystems.

Some researchers insist that these networks have no real ideology. They say the violence is merely “violence for violence’s sake,” driven by misanthropy, online status, notoriety, or sadism.

In my opinion, that description is woefully incomplete.

Belonging, notoriety and social status may explain why an individual joins a network. They do not tell us what the network teaches, rewards or seeks to accomplish. A young person may enter ISIS seeking purpose or brotherhood, yet no serious analyst would conclude that ISIS therefore has no ideology. A recruit may join a revolutionary movement for excitement or identity, but that does not erase the movement’s larger goals.


The 'Red Jihad': How far-left and jihadist extremism are merging

Saturday, July 25, 2026

After 10 years of covering the trans madness, here's what I learned

 Sometimes you just have to write what you know and document what you've seen, heard, and metabolized to remind yourself that, no, you haven't gone crazy. 

Perhaps by spelling it all out and publishing it, the masses might begin to grasp the breadth and scope of a problem they’ve been led to believe is an overblown, remote issue. Tenacious journalist that I am, I'll provide ample receipts proving that the exact opposite is true.

Allow me to show you what life in the trans trench has been like for the past decade, with a combination of personal story and indisputable, brute facts. This is the tip of the iceberg, a mere fraction of the filth.

Probably eight years ago, I remember seeing for the first time a series of images that are burned into my memory. They say a picture says a thousand words, but in the trans trench, they are the beginning of a kind of trauma — the jarring introduction to a bestial type of Hell you never knew existed. Writing in Corinth with a front-row seat to all kinds of debauchery, the Apostle Paul noted in Romans 1 how wicked people “invent new ways of doing evil” (Romans 1:30). The trans scourge is that. On steroids, literally.

The first image I saw was a blue-haired, bare-chested girl who looked like she might be all of 14 years old. Scars were where her breasts used to be. She had the most tormented, vacant eyes.

It took me aback, and I gasped repeatedly. I stood up from my desk and walked away, feeling as though I'd been violated at a deep level, like a sledgehammer to the gut. I told a friend that it felt like I had involuntarily looked at sexually violent fetish porn featuring a minor child. That friend replied, “Brandon, that is exactly what you saw.”

The second image I saw was when I heard from someone who'd undergone a radial forearm phalloplasty and regretted it. She sent me a picture of her gutted forearm, the harvested tissue from which was used to make a fake penis. Another gut-punch.

Some weeks later, I stumbled upon Miami-based Irish gender surgeon Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher's Instagram account — some of us refer to her as the “butcher of Louth.” This surgeon was posing next to young people she'd operated on, including a girl who had previous self-harm scars. Around that same time, I remember seeing Canadian gender surgeon Giancarlo McEvenue posing with a Santa hat, holding up two medical waste buckets labeled “breast tissue.” I subsequently saw footage of him speaking at a Johnson & Johnson–sponsored discussion, boasting of his sordid profession. Calling this unmitigated depravity is the understatement of the century.

I also remember interviewing a regretful de-trans man who was castrated, and he told me how he ended up ejaculating blood. I was glad this interview was on the phone and not on a Zoom call because he would have seen me fall out of my chair.

Everyone has their own journey of falling down the gender rabbit hole, and when you find yourself in this particular trench, you soon start meeting all sorts of shocked and disoriented people, astonished that this is real life. It’s a freight train of unimaginable nightmares hurtling down the tracks at a high velocity, bulldozing people right and left.

Those of us who've been doing the hard work exposing the madness against an impenetrable mainstream media blockade can all tell you what it's like to learn about all the horrors, only to be gaslit with flat denials like “that's not happening.” Then you show concrete proof, and it becomes “well, it's only a few people,” and then maybe “why are you so obsessed with this small, strange issue?” The whole world is under a reality-denying spell, shrouded in pink and blue flags, and people are programmed with dismissive talking points if anyone suggests that something’s wrong. 

We, the trans (and queer) trench dwellers, have seen pedophilic elements of this movement in silicone pediatric penis packers — vile products aimed at girls as young as 4 so that they can “pack” their underwear to give the appearance of a male bulge. 

If that wasn't ghastly enough, we found out how academics and others in internet chat forums were behind the strategic rebranding of “gender identity disorder” to “gender dysphoria” at meetings of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Thanks to the intrepid reporting of Reduxx, which spent several months investigating the Eunuch Archive, we learned that men on that site swap castration-themed written pornography involving the sexual torture of children whose puberty has been stunted. One user on that foul site described watching a trans surgery on a male as “arousing” to watch. These men say “eunuch” is a kind of “gender-diverse” person, by the way, and it's actually listed in WPATH’s official guidelines

The trench dwellers also know about the 2016 Dutch medical report that was part of the linchpin study underlying gender surgeries on youth. An 18-year-old in that study had been on puberty blockers, so his genitals hadn't matured, and surgeons used part of his bowel tissue to fashion a simulacrum of a female sex organ — a laparoscopic intestinal vaginoplasty. Complications followed: E. coli bacteria from his intestine spread through his body, and he died of sepsis. When this came to light, more people started paying attention, especially since Elon Musk had purchased Twitter by then, and photos of the man's maimed genital area were able to circulate freely online.

We’ve seen pink-haired queer surgeon Blair Peters speak in a podcast interview about using the peritoneum in similarly grotesque surgeries he does on minor boys. We’ve watched Democrat politicians walk out of the room when U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Florida) tried to show footage of that Peters interview during a House hearing. 

We've seen Jazz Jennings’ face contorted in excruciating pain after “bottom surgery,” and we later learned how his postoperative wound split open. We've seen a young woman with cerebral palsy bearing chest scars from “top surgery,” while croaking out sounds and flailing about in a wheelchair. 

Just when we think it can’t get worse — it always does — we stumble upon the story of Scarlet Blake, a transgender-identifying man who livestreamed himself killing a cat by skinning it and putting the animal in a blender. Blake murdered a human being a few months later, but the mass media broadly reported that he, the perpetrator, is a “woman.”   

We've seen all the boundary-breaking madness of garish drag queens reading to children in libraries. We can’t seem to forget this particular pervert that some of us call “rainbow monkey dildo man.

We've seen the 11-year-old “drag kid” performer “Desmond Is Amazing” dance in a gay nightclub while patrons threw dollar bills at him. Elle Magazine platformed another young drag performer, an 8-year-old boy from Canada whose stage name is “Lactatia.”

Speaking of lactation, we’ve watched the disturbing capture of groups like La Leche League and the Centers for Disease Control endorse the feculent phenomenon of “chestfeeding” — trans-identifying males pretending to breastfeed babies. The NHS Trust in the UK even claimed that the drug-induced, hormone-addled discharge that such men secrete was as good as mother’s milk. In 2017, one such man who "chestfed" his daughter wrote in the Seattle alt newspaper The Stranger that the experience was sexually charged and that he “got off” on it, insisting readers not judge him. Yes, it’s as revolting as it sounds; they are using infants like prostitutes to satisfy their sick, twisted fetish. 

We've seen the FOIA'd progress report document showing how Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy altered a research protocol, lowering the age from 13 to 8 for the cross-sex hormone cohort inclusion criteria in an NIH-funded grant. 

We've watched in horror as a psychopathic man who savagely murdered a lesbian couple and their teen son was transferred into a women's prison, made easy by a state law that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020. We've heard bone-chilling stories of violent male offenders being housed with women elsewhere, too. We've seen a judge who nearly received a lifetime federal appointment — thank you, Senator Ossoff, for voting no — who had urged, against the recommendation of the Bureau of Prisons, that a man who had sexually abused a nine-year-old boy and distributed child sexual abuse material be incarcerated with women. All because of the magic word “trans.”


What I learned after 10 years of covering the trans madness

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Men are using mail-ordered abortion pills to poison women. Why won't DOJ act?

 Look at the evidence.

In his address to the nation on election integrity, President Donald Trump declassified compelling evidence that America’s elections are vulnerable to manipulation, from noncitizens voting to foreign interference. The president argued that the evidence demands action by Congress to protect one of the most sacred rights of American citizens, the right to vote.

The principle applies elsewhere. When the evidence is clear, it demands action.

Compelling evidence of a different kind was presented this past week during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche. More proof was presented that unborn babies are losing their lives through the abortion drug mifepristone, and increasingly, the drug is being obtained through the mail by men who secretly administer it to the mothers of their unborn children.

Alabama Senator Katie Britt (R) recounted the story of Jona Affholder. After Jona refused to abort her baby, her boyfriend, Hassan-James Abbas, an Ohio medical resident, allegedly used his ex-wife’s identifying information to obtain abortion pills online to poison Jona and kill their unborn child. As Senator Britt observed, “Her story is one of many.”

The evidence supports Britt’s claim.

Last month, Army Captain Brandon Jones-Adams was convicted of secretly placing mifepristone into the drink of a junior enlisted soldier he had impregnated, causing the death of their unborn child.

These are not isolated crimes. They expose the deadly consequences of policies making abortion drugs easier to obtain through the mail with fewer safeguards and less accountability.

Why was this evidence presented during the Attorney General’s confirmation hearing? Because the Department of Justice has the authority to reverse one of the key policies making this possible.

Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, the Biden administration sought to undermine the decision by expanding access to chemical abortion. It relaxed the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), removing the long-standing requirement for in-person dispensing and medical oversight.

But another obstacle remained: the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal law prohibiting the use of our mail system to send articles intended for abortion. Rather than enforce that law, the Biden Justice Department issued an opinion concluding that abortion drugs could be mailed unless the sender specifically intended an illegal abortion. In effect, the government said, “Presume lawful use and ask no questions.”

That DOJ opinion remains in effect today under the Trump administration. Unlike the FDA’s REMS policy, which is being challenged in court, the Justice Department can withdraw and replace that opinion without waiting for Congress or the courts.

The evidence also shows these cases are part of a much larger trend. Since Dobbs, abortions have increased by roughly 20% nationwide, with the abortion pill now accounting for approximately 65%.

The evidence demands action. If evidence of election vulnerabilities justifies action to protect the right to vote, then evidence that existing federal law is being ignored to the detriment of women, unborn children, and the laws of nearly half the states demands action as well. President Trump should direct the Department of Justice to review the Comstock Act, withdraw the Biden policy, and enforce the law as Congress enacted it.

If safeguarding the right to vote is fundamental, and it is, safeguarding the right to life is foundational.


The evidence is clear: Enforce the Comstock Act on abortion pills

Monday, July 20, 2026

State Dept: Cuba Set ‘Infiltrating American Universities as a Top Priority,’ Fueling Campus Unrest

 The State Department published an extensive report on Monday detailing how the Communist Party of Cuba has invested over half a century in the infiltration and destruction of American politics, accusing the communists of setting the infiltration of campuses as a “priority.”


State Dept: Cuba Set 'Infiltrating American Universities as a Top Priority,' Fueling Campus Unrest

Before Mamdani... There was John Reed

  John Reed was one of the foremost left-wing leaders during America’s early 20th-century Progressive Era and had much in common with today’...