This One Insane Graph Explains The Lindsay Clancy Defender Dynamic
More than half of all leftist white women younger than 30 have been told by a medical provider that they have a mental health issue.More than half of all leftist white women younger than 30 have been told by a medical provider that they have a mental health issue.Hundreds of women rally outside courthouse to show support for woman accused of murdering her 3 children
The fate of a Massachusetts woman who allegedly killed her three children in 2023 is being decided at court, but outside the courthouse, hundreds of women rallied to show their support for the defendant.
Lindsay Clancy of Duxbury has allegedly admitted to killing the children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months old, but a jury is deciding whether she should be found guilty of murder or exonerated over mental illness related to postpartum depression.
'Any one of us who have dealt with mental health, anxiety, depression, postpartum — I think we just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair.'
The case has stirred a nationwide debate that led to the courthouse demonstration Thursday.
"I think that every one of us women believe that it could be any one of us," said Renee Kimball, who organized the event. "Any one of us who have dealt with mental health, anxiety, depression, postpartum — I think we just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair."
The defense has argued that Clancy tried to seek treatment for mental illness and experienced depression and anxiety in the weeks before she allegedly killed the children. Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, has also claimed that overmedication exacerbated Clancy's mental illness.
The prosecution is seeking a murder conviction on the basis that she allegedly intentionally killed the children and should be held criminally responsible.
The women supporting Clancy wore pink to advocate for better availability of treatment for postpartum depression.
"I think that it's been so in the dark," said Louise Saunders of Reading. "As women, we're told to smile, and you know, it's natural to be a mom, so if you aren't really into it and you can't do it well with a smile, then you're not doing it right."
WBUR reported that some of the supporters cheered Reddington as a "fighter for women's rights."
He seemed to lean in to the role when speaking to the news media.
"I think that it shines a light on this issue," Reddington said Thursday. "I mean, when a woman is going through what so many people do, and they go to a doctor, and the doctor says, you know, 'Here, take this pill, take that pill, take this pill,' and then they basically treat them for 15, 20 minutes and send them on their way. It's just not right."
They also cheered for Clancy when she arrived at the courthouse.
Reddington basically seems to be trying to persuade the jury to reject murder charges based on what is commonly known as an insanity defense.
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Dozens of the pink-clad Clancy fans tried to get into court proceedings on Thursday, but many were turned away.
Others have argued that the support for Clancy downplays the evil that women can commit and makes postpartum depression and misogyny a scapegoat.
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He wanted infamy. The judge gave him life.
Two years ago, high school freshman Colt Gray shot up Apalachee High School in Georgia, killing two teachers and two students and wounding nine others. School resource officers quickly ended the rampage, and Gray was taken into custody before the death toll climbed higher. His father, Colin Gray, who bought him the gun, was later convicted of manslaughter and second-degree murder.
Colin Gray's prosecution drew much of the attention because it was a rare case of a parent being held criminally responsible for a child's violence. But Colt Gray's own punishment deserves attention too: life imprisonment without parole.
Healing is harder when justice is denied.
Gray’s age, troubled home life, and prior experience of being bullied could have been invoked as reasons for leniency. Instead, the judge concluded that his crime and his motives justified the harshest sentence available for a juvenile offender.
That’s significant because justice is not merely a tool for rehabilitation or deterrence. It also concerns what is owed to victims and to the community after an irreparable wrong.
Gray murdered four innocent people without anything resembling a justification. I would have no moral objection to the death penalty in a case like this. Because he committed the murders as a minor, however, life without parole is the most severe punishment available.
Even that cannot restore what was taken. As the older brother of one victim put it: “The defendant's family will still get to see their son, talk to him, and know he is breathing. ... My mother (and) my father don't get that privilege. The only way to visit Christian now is by standing over his grave.”
Aristotle defined justice in terms of giving each person what he is properly owed. Whatever one makes of that formulation, it captures something modern criminal-justice debates often neglect: Punishment is not only about what might improve the offender. It is also about recognizing the gravity of the offense.
A sentence cannot bring the dead back. But a legal system that treats grave crimes with proportionate seriousness tells victims, families, and the broader community that what happened to them was not trivial and will not be waved away.
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Justice should also force us to confront the nature of the crime. As I wrote at the time, Gray displayed warning signs before he ever brought a gun to school. The lesson is not that every troubled teenager should be treated as a future murderer. It is that threats, fixation on mass killers, access to weapons, and other concrete warning signs should be taken seriously before tragedy makes hindsight easy.
The strongest objection to a sentence like this is that even terrible offenders, especially young ones, may be capable of change. That is a serious argument. But mercy and rehabilitation do not erase agency, nor do they undo the harm already done.
In Gray’s case, the record described an obsession with school shooters and a desire for notoriety. He was obsessed with school shooters. His home life may have been chaotic and his parents may have failed him badly. None of that means he lacked the capacity to understand that murdering classmates and teachers was wrong.
Judge Nicholas Primm made the point directly, saying the shooting “wasn’t done out of fear or anger” but “for the infamy of it.” As such, he doesn’t deserve another chance at living a “normal life.”
Gray may someday understand the evil of what he did. He may repent. He may even become, within prison, a radically different person. But none of those possibilities can make four murdered people less dead or obligate society to restore to him the freedom he deliberately took from others. Explanations are not the same as excuses.
This is where some accounts of restorative justice become inadequate. Restoration may have a place in criminal justice, especially where offenders can make meaningful amends. Murder imposes a limit on that logic because the central harm cannot be repaired.
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The same caution applies beyond this case. It is a mistake to assume that every young violent offender is beyond redemption. It is equally mistaken to assume that redemption, if it occurs, necessarily entitles an offender to release. Recidivism among released prisoners is a real problem, though rates vary substantially by offense, age, and time horizon. The point is not that mercy is impossible. It is that mercy must be ordered to justice, not substituted for it.
By holding offenders accountable, courts can give victims and their families something no therapy program can supply on its own: a public judgment that the crime was real, grave, and deserving of punishment.
Assuming Gray’s punishment sticks, the Apalachee High School community will still have a long road ahead. Students and faculty can honor those they lost, support one another, and take warning signs more seriously in the future. None of that requires pretending punishment itself is healing. But healing is harder when justice is denied.
In this case, justice prevailed.
Is this a new era of conservative filmmaking?
I was recently treated to a free screening of a new documentary called "Thank You for Sharing" (2026). This funny and engaging film is a much-needed investigation into the dubious intentions of the mental health industry.
It's also the first foray into feature-length filmmaking by upstart conservative press Passage Publishing. And Passage chose a novel way to get people to watch it.
You can see the lack of money on the screen. But you can also feel a sense of rebellion and scrappiness. A kind of upstart energy.
I hadn’t heard of "Thank You" until it popped up on my X feed. It would be available for one week, for free.
If the strategy sounds familiar, it may be because another low-budget, right-leaning film recently stumbled onto something similar — with spectacular results.
'Citizen Vigilante'
Last June, "Citizen Vigilante" was already making waves online, particularly in right-wing circles, when Elon Musk stepped in and dramatically expanded its audience.
The film had received a conventional release through independent distributor Quiver, including a very limited theatrical run in the United States. But the movie had little prospect of reaching much of the rest of the world. Germany had even refused to give it a rating, effectively "banning" it.
Then Musk contacted director Uwe Boll's team and, with their permission, made the entire movie available free on X for 48 hours.
The stunt worked. "Citizen Vigilante" climbed into the top 10 on video-on-demand platforms including Apple and Amazon, and Quiver subsequently acquired worldwide distribution rights, excluding a handful of territories.
"Citizen Vigilante" stars canceled Hollywood actor Armie Hammer as an American real estate heir living in Croatia who reinvents himself as a vigilante, hunting down rapists, bullies, and other criminals, many of them migrants.
From the start, the film generated huge amounts of controversy, its apparent anti-immigration politics constituting an almost unimaginable affront to the leftist entertainment industry.
Unfortunately, "Citizen Vigilante" is a terrible movie. The plot makes no sense, and the filmmaking is on par with Boll's famously schlocky, gore-filled B-grade films.
But its release remained a major cultural event. Mainstream media felt obligated to comment on the film and denounce its politics. This, in turn, forced Western progressives to defend their widely unpopular open-border policies.
The rise of the right-wing film
I’ve seen a bunch of right-wing films over the last year. They tend to fall into a couple of different categories.
There are the Christian-influenced films, like "Sound of Freedom" (2023) or "Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist" (2023).
In these films, a high level of sincerity is immediately evident. There’s a minimum of snark. People profess their love of God or Jesus unabashedly.
It takes a while to get used to genuine people of faith as characters in a movie. Hollywood generally mocks or criticizes such people. But once the surprise wears off, it’s quite refreshing.
Matt Walsh in a wig
Then there are the satirical films. Matt Walsh has made several of these. His best two are "What Is a Woman?" (2022) and "Am I a Racist?" (2024). Both were made on limited budgets.
But they both work. In "Am I a Racist?" Walsh dresses up in ridiculous getups, impersonating leftoid weirdos of various types.
It’s quite funny and effective. Though making fun of people like Robin DiAngelo isn’t that hard. But that’s the point.
American movie
Then there are patriotic movies, like "Young Washington" (2026) and "Reagan" (2024), in which Dennis Quaid plays the 40th president. .
"Reagan" wasn’t a perfect film, but it was fun to review Ronald Reagan’s long and extraordinary life. I teared up at the end, remembering the grace and humility — even in his final days — of one of our greatest presidents.
Dinesh D’Souza’s docu-drama "Death of a Nation" (2018) was well intentioned and strongly pro-American, but suffered from a lack of funding.
D’Souza has made a whole series of these low-budget patriotic films. He began making them way back before the first Trump administration. So kudos to him for blazing a trail.
MAGA by mistake
Then there is "The Apprentice" (2024), which depicted President Trump’s youth and rise as a businessman. This was not intended as a right-wing film, but I suspect more Trump supporters saw it than detractors.
I found the film interesting, even as it shamelessly attempted to smear Trump in the most mean-spirited ways. Ultimately, it made Trump seem shrewd and sympathetic, despite the bad intentions of the filmmakers.
Rumors of war
A similar film was "Civil War" (2024), by mainstream director Alex Garland. The story seemed inspired by the heated election-fraud discourse after the 2020 election. People thought we might actually have a civil war!
Right-wing viewers appreciated the realism of the film. Garland created a “low-intensity” war scenario, where some people are actively fighting and other people are going about their lives.
In the end, Garland sold out to the left, revealing a blubbering, cowardly Trump-clone dictator to be the cause of the conflict.
Still, the movie was intelligently done and possibly prophetic and thus was a hit with young conservatives.
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Grit > $
Most of the right-wing movies listed above were clearly made without Hollywood-level financing. You can see the lack of money on the screen.
But you can also feel a sense of rebellion and scrappiness. A kind of upstart energy. These are the underdog films of their time.
When I watched the opening scenes of "Sound of Freedom" — a great film by any measure — and I saw the lack of slickness, the lack of pampered movie stars, the lack of smarmy leftism, I got excited.
This is what I want from movies: passion, effort, resourcefulness, and most of all filmmakers who believe in what they are doing.
My eating disorder got questions. My gender identity got answers.
As the buzz of summer winds down, back-to-school season offers families a fresh start. Kids return to routines and extracurriculars. Moms like me return to schedules, snacks, playdates, forms, and the peculiar relief of getting everyone back on a calendar.
Before we get buried in backpacks and lunch boxes, though, parents need to brace for something harder: our children's mental health.
Our children need adults willing to talk with them, challenge them when necessary, and remain present when the conversation gets uncomfortable.
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation described Oregon as an epicenter of pediatric gender medicine, with diagnoses of gender dysphoria and use of cross-sex hormones among minors rising sharply in recent years. Oregon has only about 1% of the nation’s teenagers, yet its clinics reportedly accounted for roughly 7% of gender-related mastectomies performed on teenage girls from 2019 through 2023.
Those numbers are shocking. But behind every one is a child. I was one of those children not very long ago.
When I was 16, I found Tumblr communities full of girls who sounded just like me. They were uncomfortable in their bodies. They struggled with anxiety, depression, isolation, and the feeling that they did not fit. Their stories felt eerily familiar. We fed off one another's pain until many of us came to believe that being transgender explained it — and that changing our bodies might cure our mental distress.
I was already battling anorexia. I hated myself and hated the body I saw in the mirror. That is why the contrast in how adults treated my two forms of distress still haunts me.
When I told doctors and therapists that I was starving myself because I saw myself as overweight, they did not affirm that perception. They treated it as something to question and work through. But when I said my breasts made me uncomfortable, my gender distress was not challenged in the same way. I was told that transition could be the answer. No questions, no pushback.
Looking back, I was not born in the wrong body. I was a hurting teenager looking for belonging, certainty, and an explanation for my pain.
The reality is that adolescence itself is full of unstable explanations. Teenagers are awkward, lonely, impulsive, anxious, obsessive, and desperate to belong. They compare themselves with peers, test identities, reject identities, and search for language that makes their discomfort intelligible. Sometimes the first explanation that feels coherent is not the right one.
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Across the country — consider states such as New Mexico, where schools have adopted policies accommodating students' asserted gender identities — vulnerable children can encounter adults who treat social transition as an appropriate response before parents even understand what is happening.
That should terrify parents, especially when gender distress appears alongside trauma, autism, depression, eating disorders, or a simple discomfort with narrow stereotypes about what girls and boys are supposed to be. Those possibilities should be explored, not hurried past.
Previous generations of girls were told, directly and indirectly, that happiness required becoming impossibly thin. Today, some distressed girls encounter a different promise: Maybe the body itself is the problem. The common thread is not merely social media or “woke” politics. It is vulnerability.
That’s why therapy should help a young person untangle difficult emotions, not merely supply a label for them. “Why do you feel this way?” and “What name and pronouns would you like me to use?” are not interchangeable questions. One opens an inquiry. The other can foreclose it.
As another school year begins, parents should remember that adolescence has always been messy. Teenagers feel awkward and lonely. They try things, fail at things, discover new passions, abandon old ones, experiment with style and music, and slowly begin to understand who they are. That process can continue well beyond high school.
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Our children do not need adults who immediately affirm every explanation they discover online. They need adults willing to talk with them, challenge them when necessary, and remain present when the conversation gets uncomfortable.
Use the dinner table. Talk about your own failures and insecurities. Tell them what helped and what you wish you had understood sooner. Get them outside. A scraped knee from the monkey bars is often healthier than another four hours alone with an algorithm.
Most of all, do not surrender the hard conversations to strangers, schools, influencers, or online communities. Do not let someone else take the reins of your child's life while you are still trying to figure out what happened.
The best back-to-school supply we can give our kids is not another lesson in identity. It is the reassurance that they do not have to change their bodies, their appearance, or every uncomfortable feeling in order to belong.
1- and 3-year-old girls found in home with 2 dead bodies, police say — and a livestream adds to the mystery
Pennsylvania police are trying to unravel the mysterious circumstances that led to two very young girls being found on Monday in a home with two dead bodies.
The bodies in the Wilkinsburg residence belonged to 42-year-old Lamont Dunlap and 31-year-old Lamara Baldwin, according to police.
One neighbor said she contacted police to report drug use at the house after seeing several people going in and out.
The two adults were last seen on Friday, leading investigators to believe that the 1-year-old and 3-year-old girls had been living in the home with the bodies for several days.
There were no signs of trauma to either body, and a medical examiner has yet to determine their causes of death.
But a brief livestream video may provide some insight into the bizarre incident.
"I'm just tired of being lied to. Never told the truth," Baldwin said in the three-minute video as she held her 1-year-old and cried.
"I don't know how much more I can take," she added in the video recorded Friday.
Her sister said only that Baldwin had a kind heart and would do anything for her children. Baldwin had posted other videos discussing her mental health and personal problems.
Neighbors said Baldwin was not in a relationship with Dunlap, and the children did not belong to him. One neighbor said she contacted police to report drug use at the house after seeing several people going in and out.
"You never really seen them out here too much, you know, just in passing by maybe. That's about it," said Maurice Pryor, a neighbor from across the street from the home.
Neighbors also expressed concern for the well-being of the children, who were turned over to the custody of the Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth, and Families.
"They were in the house the whole weekend by themselves with dead bodies. I thought that was terrible," Pryor said. "That was just terrible."
Wilkinsburg is a borough of about 14,300 residents in the western part of the state.
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Greasy mime charged with harassing park workers faints in court
Mimes, at their best, are the most honest way of representing the absurdity of man — saying everything without a word, exaggerating every gesture until the absurdity can't be missed.
A Massachusetts mime just stripped that idea bare, literally.
One woman alone reported more than 50 encounters that escalated over roughly two months.
Known around Boston's suburbs for roaming public spaces in a black-and-white mime costume, Hernan Villagran Lux, 29, of Framingham, was arrested Sunday evening by Massachusetts State Police troopers who recognized him near the Cochituate Rail Trail — a popular site for boating, hiking, fishing, and swimming — and found he had an active warrant, according to a State Police spokesperson.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office says Lux is facing criminal harassment charges after three female state park employees said he terrorized them for months.
Lux frequently posts videos of himself in the full getup on his Facebook and Instagram pages — suit, top hat, cane, face powdered a stark white. Other posts show him wearing only underwear in outdoor settings; his captions are in Spanish.
The attorney’s office says the three women, all employees of the Department of Conservation and Preservation, knew Lux by name and appearance, and one woman alone reported more than 50 encounters that escalated over roughly two months.
According to Boston 25 News, Framingham District Court Supervisor Andrew Mange said the women described an “extensive number of contacts” involving him staring at them and smiling in a way they found "really unnerving and frankly terrifying."
Mange also told the court that the women said the encounters had grown increasingly brazen — including one instance in which Lux allegedly "stripped down to his underwear, slathered cooking oil all over his body, and began working out right by their staff area."
As bizarre as the case may sound, the arraignment hearing took yet another unusual turn. As the allegations were read aloud by Mange, Lux fainted on the stand and had to be treated in court.
He pleaded not guilty, and the judge ordered a mental health evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospital. Lux is due back in court on August 6.
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'Mindfulness' meditation is no match for the power of prayer — and science can prove it
Growing up in our house, prayer was non-negotiable. Before meals, before bed, and before tests. My mother prayed before she turned the ignition. Every single time. Backing out of the driveway to grab milk? A petition went up. Driving less than a mile to church? Another one. I rolled my eyes the way Hamlet brooded, often and at length.
I figured Mom was a soft touch for superstition. A nice lady with a nervous habit dressed up as theology. Turns out the habit was sound — and the theology even sounder.
You are not emptying the mind. If anything, you are spilling the contents before a higher power who already knew what was in there.
A recent study published in Religion, Brain & Behavior by researchers in Ireland looked at 628 middle-aged adults from the Midlife in the United States project, a long-running national study that has tracked the health of thousands of Americans since 1995.
They put participants through a standardized stress test and measured what their hearts and blood pressure did under pressure. They found that people who scored higher on private religious practices showed lower systolic blood pressure reactivity to the stressor.
Essentially, when life throws a curveball, the praying person's heart absorbs the hit.
Religious but not spiritual
The researchers separated two things most people lump together: private religious practices (prayer, Scripture reading, devotion at home) and what they called daily spiritual experiences (a general sense of the sacred, feelings of connectedness, vague "spiritual" vibes). Only the first category, the one with actual prayer in it, produced the cardiovascular benefit.
This matters because the modern wellness industry has spent two decades trying to sell Americans on a defanged, deracinated version of spiritual practice. Meditation retreats. Mindfulness courses. Breath-work seminars at $400 a weekend. All of it positioned as the secular, sophisticated alternative to what your grandmother was doing for free with a worn King James Bible.
But prayer and meditation are not the same animal. The wellness industry would like you to believe they are interchangeable, two flavors of the same practice, both leading to lower cortisol and better sleep. That is a lie.
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Empty promise
Meditation, in its popular Western form, is largely about emptying the mind. You sit, you breathe, you observe your thoughts like passing strangers you owe nothing to, you achieve a kind of inner stillness.
The goal is detachment. You are training yourself to step back from your own mental chatter and watch it from a distance. The self is the subject, the object, and the audience all at once. If it works, you feel calmer. If it doesn't, you feel like you spent 20 minutes wondering if you turned off the stove
Prayer is the opposite. Prayer is a conversation. There is a Person on the other end of the line, and that Person is listening. You are addressing someone, asking, thanking, confessing, repenting, interceding for your sister’s job interview. You are not emptying the mind. If anything, you are spilling the contents before a higher power who already knew what was in there.
Meditation looks inward. Prayer looks up. Meditation is a monologue performed for an audience of one, who is also the performer. Prayer is a dialogue with the Creator of the universe. Meditation assumes the cosmos is indifferent and that the best you can do is make peace with that.
One assumes you are a bundle of neurons talking to itself. The other assumes you are a soul talking to its Maker.
That difference is the whole game.
Praying together, staying together
And the benefits extend well beyond the cardiac. A 2016 systematic review examined a dozen randomized trials and found prayer reduced anxiety in mothers of children with cancer, helped chemotherapy patients cope, and improved spiritual well-being across the board.
Then there is collective prayer, which deserves its own paragraph. Something happens when believers gather and pray together that doesn’t happen alone in your kitchen.
A hospital-based study published in ScienceDirect documented measurable benefits among patients and staff at an outpatient clinic that began every workday with group prayer. The faithful have known this for 2,000 years. Fears that felt enormous at three in the morning shrink to a manageable size when spoken aloud in the presence of people who love you and a God who loves you more.
Burdens get distributed. A timid believer hears a confident prayer spoken aloud and realizes that confidence is available, not reserved. A confident believer hears someone else struggle to find words and remembers that brokenness is not a disqualification. The result is a kind of mutual restocking.
Kneeling and dealing
Which brings me to the deeper point. America is in a mental health crisis. Antidepressant prescriptions keep climbing. In 2023, loneliness was declared a public health emergency by the surgeon general himself. Suicide rates among the youth are at generational highs.
Pundits offer theories that include smartphones, social media, economic precarity, and polarization. All are real, but all are partial. The fuller explanation is the one your pastor has been preaching for years. You cannot evict God from a culture and expect the building to stand. A nation that traded the sanctuary for the self-help aisle was always going to drown in despair. There is a God-shaped hole in the modern Western psyche; stuffing it with meditation apps and microdoses is like trying to plug a dam with Kleenex.
Prayer is older than the problem. Prayer is bigger than the diagnosis. The studies show it, and Christians know it.
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