David DePape, the suspect in an alleged assassination attempt against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, wrote a series of right-wing blog posts in recent weeks. "Many of the posts were filled with screeds against Jews, Black people, Democrats, the media and transgender people," notes The Washington Post. "In one post, written on Oct. 19, the author urged former President Donald J. Trump to choose Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, as his vice-presidential candidate in 2024," reports The New York Times. "In another," wrote The Los Angeles Times, "he called 'equity' a leftist dog whistle 'for the systematic oppression of white people' and 'diversity' a 'dog whistle for the genocide of the white race.'"

But the blog posts confirm my original reporting yesterday that DePape has been, for at least a decade, in the grip of a psychosis caused by mental illness and/or drug use. The Washington Post, to its credit, reports in the first paragraph that DePape's blog was filled with "delusional thoughts, including that an invisible fairy attacked an acquaintance and sometimes appeared to him in the form of a bird" and that, as each post loaded, "a reader briefly glimpses an image of a person wearing a giant inflatable unicorn costume." The New York Times acknowledged that, "mixed in with those posts were others about religion, the occult and images of fairies that the user said he had produced using an artificial intelligence imaging system," albeit not until the 22nd paragraph.