Better in their words…

JEFF CHILDERS AUG 30, 2026

Good morning, loyal C&C supporters, it’s Sunday! Your bonus roundup includes: Washington Post’s accidentally terrific story about immigration enforcement under Trump 2.0; and I finally break my silence about the Lindsay Clancy story, because the whole thing looks like another psyop to me; jury continues deliberations; sympathizers get more unhinged; TikTok fills up with nonsense; lookalike cases get the bird; and some remarkable dots begin to appear.

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Two days ago, the Washington Post ran a profoundly illogical immigration story that I wish every black-piller would read. Here’s the headline as it appears, because it is such wonderful news:

WaPo’s entire argument can be summed up in one stupid logical fallacy that it was too chicken to say out loud: illegals who haven’t been convicted yet should be left alone because the threat of deportation makes them anxious.Go ahead and guffaw.

The article treats unconvicted migrants as harmless, innocent doves, ignoring things like their burden on the welfare system, illegal voting risks, economic harms to domestic wages or rents, and skewing of demographics that award too many congressmen to blue states. Nor does it mention a single other country’s immigration policy.

If, say, I was in Germany and had overstayed my visa, I’d be anxious, too. I doubt the German authorities would credit a euro on whether I’d been convicted of some crime or not. If they caught me, I’d expect an unpleasant interview and —schnell!— to be processed faster than a bratwurst during Oktoberfest.

But set the WaPo’s obvious inability to reason aside. The article was packedwith great news. It even made charts that I could paste straight into my list of Trump Administration Achievements. First, seven month into 2026, immigration arrests already beat all of 2025:

Thanks, WaPo! Next, it showed us that, except for a 3-month dip after the Minneapolis nonsense and during the handoff between Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin, deportation arrests have increased every single month —with July reaching the record peak— and now totaling over 500,000.

Finally, especially in states not historically known for immigration problems, arrests of garden-variety immigration offenders jumped by over 100% in some places. WaPo even gifted us a handy map:

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but most Americans —certainly those who voted for Trump in 2024— never expected that the focus on deporting criminally convicted aliens would last forever. Unlike the WaPo’s editors, we did not assume there was an infinite supply of convicted criminals who are also illegal aliens.

Thus, the fact that ICE is running out of low-hanging fruit is terrific news. The hardened criminals are almost gone. Now ICE can get back to doing the hard work of enforcing our immigration laws, just like every other country on Earth. I will add, without further comment, that the historic fall in crime rates tracks neatly with deportations.

There were two other terrific unintended qualities of the WaPo’s article. First, both it and its cherry-picked immigration experts have, apparently, conceded that at least some illegals should be aggressively removed. That’s progress.

Second, and more surprising, were the reader comments. About half included the usual “No Kings” hysteria about sending kids and grandmas back to Haiti. (Even though until last January they sang the praises of that benighted country. Liberal memories are short. I guess Haiti is an s-hole country after all.) But the other half of the comments defended the deportations, even after reading all WaPo’s heart-rending rhetoric about two immigration activists killed after assaulting ICE agents.

We are winning the argument. The deportations have overcome lawfare, liberal judges escorting illegals out the back door, NGOs, riots, corporate media propaganda, doxxing, and every other ridiculous obstacle Democrats could throw in front of them. This article unintentionally proved TAW.

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Until now, I’ve sat out this awful story. Friday, the New York Times reported, “Jury in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial to Resume Deliberations on Monday.” But just wait. This story isn’t what it appears to be.

In case you somehow managed to avoid the gruesome details, here is a clean capsule summary. On January 4, 2023, stay-at-home mom (with nanny) Lindsay Clancy, 36, a former nurse, sent her husband, Patrick, for takeout. While he was gone, she took their three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months— into the basement and strangled them with her exercise bands. She cut her wrists and neck and jumped out a second-floor window.

She survived, but is partially paralyzed— nobody has said whether the condition is permanent. She has not argued innocence, rather that she is not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. In the four months leading up to the murders, she managed to accumulate 32 prescriptions for 13 psychiatric drugs from five practitioners— without a diagnosis beyond generalized anxiety disorder.

Clancy’s lawyers argued that all five providers missed bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and postpartum psychosis, and that on the night of the murders, she heard a man’s voice ordering her to kill her children and then herself.

“This young lady is not guilty of the killing of her children,” the lead attorney told the jury, “because she was suffering from a disease and defect.”

The finer details are truly horrific and not important to this report.

Massachusetts is one of the few states that retains a long-discredited, lowinsanity standard. The Plymouth County jury of 9 women and 3 men has deliberated for two days and will resume on Monday.

🔥 This year, for some reason, Clancy’s case became a cause célebre, mostly with liberal white women. Etsy is brimming with “I believe Lindsay” t-shirts and her GoFundMe has raised over $1 million. Crowds of angry ladies dressed in pink protested outside the courthouse during the trial carrying signs saying “You’re a good mom” and “standing with Lindsay.” When offered, the wide range of explanations for their sympathy is, well, largely incoherent.

Some supporters blame the medical system for “lousy medical care” that mistreats or minimizes women. Candace Owens said the doctors should be on trial, not Lindsay. Others have well-developed theories about how Patrickmurdered the kids and then framed Lindsay (though she’s never argued that). Others say “all mothers can snap” and have filled TikTok with selfie videos captioned “Me too, Lindsay,” holding their infants and crying, or throwing ice cubes against the wall in the kitchen or bathroom in a rage. (Don’t ask me.)

There’s one common thread: sympathizers focus only on Lindsay and never mention the children.

The backlash has been equally passionate. Some critics ask how women can be expected to hold any important jobs if hormones can make them snap any minute. Others wonder whether Clancy —a former labor-and-delivery nurse— can have actually failed to get good medical care or whether the four months of appointments and prescriptions were always part of her alibi plan. Still others are astonished that demonic violence can possibly be compared to relatable motherhood.

“What we’re watching unfold around this case,” wrote Monica Sobchak in the Spectator, “is social-media-induced insanity taking hold of otherwise normal women.” Renee Kimball, one of the organizers of the courthouse rallies, said, “I think that every one of us women believes that could be any one of us; we just know any one of us could be sitting in that chair.”

Fortunately, deciding what to do with Lindsay Clancy is the jury’s job, not mine. That’s how our system works. I tend to disagree that a ‘not guilty’ verdict will make some broader point or identify some civilizational fracture, because none of us saw and heard exactly what the jury did at trial.

But it all makes me wonder: What does the support for Lindsay say about our moment? What is it about this case that has captured so many media cycles and the full attention of the social media complex?

🔥 The horrific truth is that this kind of thing is not particularly rare. American parents kill roughly 500 children a year. Naomi Schaefer Riley counted 2,282 child-maltreatment deaths involving the biological mother just between 2022 and 2026. As horrifying as it is, mothers killing children is not a story. I’m not the only one who noticed. Three days ago, USA Today reported, “25 years ago, Andrea Yates killed her 5 kids. The world had a very different reaction.”

That was twenty years ago. Lest you be tempted to think “times have changed,” here are three examples, all within the last year. First, unreported in the media, from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s press release dated May 20, 2026:

Erin Merdy, 34, of Coney Island, Brooklyn, got 20 years to life for drowning her three kids – who were three months old, four years old, and seven years old – in the ocean near their home in Coney Island. Four months ago. No TikToks. No GoFundMe. No rallies.

Next, as reported by CBS in October of last year:

It’s a live case. Her trial continues. An article dated this June, 2026, said prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty, and the defense was still litigating pretrial matters.

No ice cubes thrown against the wall. No t-shirts saying “I stand with Oninda Romelus.”

Finally, lest you be tempted to conclude there is some racial distinction here, you’d be mistaken. Our third example (there are more) is from this month,and the murder-mom’s lawyer even leaned into Lindsay Clancy’s case— but nobody showed up at the courthouse. Headline from WRAL North Carolina,August 20:

Murder mom Andrea Faust, 41 —a former dental hygienist— looks a lot like Lindsay, both physically and in her case’s details:

My lawyer brain couldn’t help but notice that Andrea’s attorney Nicole Galinsky, who supplied the above quote, made a fatal mistake. She said, “up until the very second they decided to kill them.” Decided. Insane people don’t make decisions. Oops. But never mind.

The point is, for some reason, nobody’s standing with Andrea. They’re all busy holding vigils for Lindsay Clancy. Lindsay got Court TV, 23 days of live testimony, the Times, Rolling Stone, Slate twice, PBS, NPR, a Boston Globe medication timeline, 25 Etsy shirts. Faust’s “eerily similar” case got three Raleigh affiliates and one WRAL story whose headline needed Clancy’s name in it to justify running.

So what gives?

🔥 The New York Times said the Clancy case “defies traditional politics.” It has a point. Lindsay Clancy sympathizers include a few conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, who co-founded the Daily Wire, Fox News’ Tomi Lahren, and covid doc Mary Talley Bowden.

But the pro-Clancy cohort is mostly liberal white women, a trend that wasn’t missed on X. To give you an example how crazy things have gotten, Salem’s witches have come out for Clancy, as have all kinds of kooky occultists.

Conservatives on her side are MAHA types who think the antidepressants made her psychotic, often citing Secretary Kennedy’s May 6 action plan, which includes “curbing psychiatric overprescribing.”

I don’t know what the difference is. But, to be honest, the whole thing looks like a psyop to me. Corporate media chose Lindsay Clancy and created an icon.

Clancy killed her kids on January 24, 2023. Within 48 hours, it was national wire news on the facts alone: three children, a labor-and-delivery nurse, a leap from a window, Duxbury. Northeastern had a “what is postpartum psychosis” explainer up on January 26, and Fox was interviewing Andrea Yates’s lawyer that same week.

Two days after that, national news blanketed Patrick Clancy’s “forgiveness letter.” The media drumbeat continued. By October 2024, twenty months before jury selection, the New Yorker ran Eren Orbey’s “A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife’s Unfathomable Act,” built on Patrick. “I wasn’t married to a monster,” he told the media, “I was married to someone who got sick.”

Coincidentally, days after the Clancy story broke, the ‘Mind the Gap Coalition’ filed a Democrat-sponsored decriminalization bill on Beacon Hill, S1171, which would mandate a perinatal mental-health evaluation within 48 hours of any charge against a new mother, route diagnosed cases out of criminal court into treatment, and make postpartum illness a mitigating factor in murder. (It died in the Democrat Judiciary Committee, but they are back, refiling their bill this session.) NBC Boston, May, 2023:

From my quick morning research, Mind the Gap is well-financed through a multiyear grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation’s Perinatal Health Initiative. The group is also unusually well connected in Massachusetts politics. Its 2025 coalition letter to a Massachusetts legislative committee was signed by a broad cross-section of institutions, including: Boston Children’s Hospital, Mass General Brigham, UMass Chan Medical School’s Lifeline for Moms Program, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, March of Dimes Boston, and more.

Could the Mind the Gap Democrats have seized on Lindsay’s case and activated their media connections to help pass their decriminalization bill? We’ve seen that Democrats —especially their women— are easily activated, always standing by to leap on the latest bandwagon, whether it’s Masks, Jabs, Black Lives Matter, or Slava Ukraine. Did a political group with help from corporate media break the brains of hundreds or thousands of American women and trick them into rallying for murder moms? Trick them again, I mean.

Conservatives are not immune to the psyops. Ben Shapiro pushed the jabs. Just saying. (I love Ben. Otherwise, that is.)

I’m not here to tell you what to think. I’m just trying to connect the dots. The rest is up to you. As for me, I’m keeping a healthy distance from all the social media fireworks over the Lindsay Clancy story, which looks totally fake and made up to me. At least, I will keep my distance until the sympathizers explain why Andrea Faust doesn’t count or start saying the names of Lindsay Clancy’s three kids. So.

Have a blessed Sunday! Tune back in tomorrow morning, for even more deep probing essential news and caffeinated commentary.