https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/09/black-man-stabs-white-ukrainian-refugee.html

…From the “Yikes” File—cross-filed with “Everybody Loves a Victim; Everybody Needs a Scapegoat”—we present: Cross-Cultural, Global Woke, Inc.

“The Evil Idea That Has Taken Over the Woke Right;
“The coming of ‘critical religion theory’”—
https://www.commentary.org/articles/josh-appel/conspiracist-woke-right-religion/
H/T Powerline blog.

See, they both doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it…

Right.
Um, uh, hold on a sec…

“Biden White House lawyers, DOJ were befuddled by autopen clemencies, emails show: ‘He doesn’t review the warrants’”—
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/biden-white-house-lawyers-doj-were-befuddled-by-autopen-clemencies-emails-show-he-doesnt-review-the-warrants/
H/T Powerline blog.

File under: Woopsies!

+ Bonus:
“Will I be arrested next, after Graham Linehan?”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/04/will-i-be-arrested-next-after-graham-linehan/

Therefore, young Millennial Brett Cooper breathlessly reacts and explains (in only 20 some minutes) that it was less about facts at all (DBP won), and much more about the permanent personal victimhood felt within this youngest generation.

I’m a VICTIM!….Ergo…Revolution? Or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rui89NKOB6E&t=1177s

The generational triumph of “feelings” over respect for facts and the pursuit of Truth is a dire verdict against “education” today. Ben Shapiro is ready to reply “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” But if facts aren’t even taught as the respectable standard for discourse, then emotionalism will reign free, and NYC will elect a communist Mayor soon.

(The full debate is up at YT and lasts 105 minutes.)

PostScript: About four years ago, I spent over a month in Seattle’s most famous Hostel, downtown next to the Pike Place Market.

I had spent most of the earlier part of 2021 remote working but living in a Hostel in New Zealand, next to two Auckland Universities. And no one there prepared me for my encounter with Clementine in Seattle — a 20-something woman who was confused and seeking a rudder in life after college.

Clem’s polder sister was a Marxist, working in a Women’s book store not far away.

When I asked what she most wanted to do….she replied, “why can’t I just move onto a piece of land and just live?” It was an impulse from her mother, a SoCal hippy living on a commune — before she met her husband and married.

So…Clem was longing for the commune life her mother had abandoned for marriage, then? Yes.

Her adult-child like impulses reminds me of the young “victims” seen in the debate with DBP.

The only thing missing in Clem was the aggrieved and entitled victimhood — which she lacked. But in the debate, they fully exhibit this.

How will these lost souls of GenZ be raised up? As children lacking ties — much less anchors — to a reality base?

The essay in which he presented it has an even more valuable treasure that I don’t see cited as much, the “wet streets cause rain” story. Those are just everywhere, all the time.

The basic format is, studies show that when it rains, the streets are wet, and experts advise that we can get more rain if we water the streets more. Some troglodytes are opposed to watering the streets more and clearly such people hate rain and wish to deprive others of it. Are you watering your streets enough? Take this quiz and find out. For more information on how you can water your water streets more…

Saw this just today with an article I was reading on myopia in children, that children with higher education levels have more myopia, especially children who read more than two books a week. The evidence is clear, don’t let your kids read or learn. They’ll be ignorant and illiterate but they will have perfect vision.

I was involved in an incident as a kid and later interviewed at age 13, by a reporter from Iowa’s largest newspaper. I recall how surprised I was that they got a few things wrong in the resulting article. The errors were nothing terribly important, but it was nonetheless clear that high accuracy was not a big concern for said reporter.

I had thought this might have been why you hadn’t, and I’m glad to see I was not the only one who thought the story was incomplete and could be wrong.

But I find it happens more often on left than right.

I do too, but I’m looking for it and expecting it more often on the Left. When it’s on the Right I frequently don’t catch on until much later, because I’m not expecting it as much.

I’ve tried conversing with my liberal friends–they’re not stupid, they just choose to believe things that the MSM feeds them, even though marginally adept critical thinking would lead them to the empirical evidence that they’re being told lies.

I’ve decided to treat them like the useful idiots they are.

@Niketas Choniates: From what I’ve seen, it’s more complicated and uncertain that the version you cite. Though it’s still clear Insty was premature, at least.