Hundreds of women showed up outside Plymouth Superior Court this week wearing pink. Some held their own babies. They cheered as Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer walked past.
Clancy does not deny what she did. On January 24, 2023, she sent her husband Patrick out of their Duxbury, Massachusetts home to pick up takeout and medicine. While he was gone she took 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan to the basement. She wrapped exercise bands around their necks and pulled until their bodies went limp. Then she cut herself and jumped from a second-story window. She is paralyzed from the waist down. The two older children were dead that night. The baby lasted three days.
Her defense says postpartum psychosis and a stack of psychiatric medications mean she cannot be held criminally responsible. Prosecutors say she planned it. A jury will sort the legal question. That is not what is happening in the parking lot.
Bethany Mandel asked the only question that matters. How did the woman who killed three children become a more compelling victim than the children themselves?
The Crowd Chose the Killer
The women outside the courthouse have no psychosis defense. They brought their own kids to a rally for a mother who strangled hers. Online it is worse. TikTok is full of “Same, Lindsay” videos. Women rock their toddlers on camera, quote Clancy’s diary entries about being overwhelmed, and caption it as if they just discovered a sister. A Facebook group called We Are Lindsay Clancy collected thousands.
A GoFundMe for Clancy’s parents has pulled in more than $830,000, with donors from around the world sending love and calling her a wonderful mom. Fox News reported the total climbing fast while the trial was still in its fourth week. Some of the same voices insist Patrick Clancy actually killed the children and framed his wife. Astrology was cited as evidence.
Josh Slocum at The Blaze called it what it is. A society-wide problem of women identifying with evil, sympathizing with it, and paying for it. No one does this for a man who annihilates his family. Chris Watts did not get a pink rally and a million-dollar fundraiser.
Agency Until It Is Inconvenient
Clancy had help. Multiple doctors. Both sets of grandparents. A nanny. Daycare. Her husband took months of paternity leave and then worked from home so he could be there. On the day she killed them she asked him to leave. That is not a woman abandoned by “the system.” That is a woman who created the window she needed.
Women have spent decades demanding to be treated as full moral actors. Capable of running companies, commanding troops, and being judged by the same standard as men. Confronted with one of the most horrific acts a mother can commit, the standard evaporates. Suddenly agency is optional. The system did it. The meds did it. The voices did it. Anything except the woman who pulled the bands tight.
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
The three children cannot post. They cannot trend. They cannot organize a vigil. The last thing they saw was the person charged with protecting them taking their lives. Cora, Dawson, and Callan have receded into the background while an online community obsesses over the suffering of the woman who ended them.
Compassion for mental illness is not the same thing as turning a child killer into a folk hero. The women holding babies and making heart hands at her lawyer are not showing mercy. They are showing that something in the culture has come unglued. The children are dead. Their mother has a movement. That is the story.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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