September 8, 2025
BRITAIN IS A WOKE SELF PARODY.
The new Banksy unveiled an hour ago outside the Royal Courts of Justice has been covered up.
The efforts haven’t stopped people coming along to have a look. #Banksy pic.twitter.com/7rpqznGjtu
— Claire Boad (@ClaireBoad) September 8, 2025
The Western ruling class really has descended into utter garbage.
1619 PROJECT CREATOR ON ZARUTSKA STABBING:
The Gray Lady is too busy working out its own “Republicans Pounce” angle before it can actually report this news to its readers:
So why does the Times appear to be paralyzed? “This incident really does combine all the kryptonite elements into one:”
PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS: Where Were You the Day Hezbollah Got Their Na-Nas Blown Off?
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Substance use during pregnancy can harm a fetus, experts warn.
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
UK judge wishes convicted al-Qaeda terrorist who killed 52 in London bus bombings "all the best" as he prepares to walk free in Britain
Sir Robert Jay sympathised with al-Qaeda terrorist Haroon Aswat, who will be released from the hospital without ankle tag monitoring because of… pic.twitter.com/wuGxWHZvVQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 8, 2025
IF ONLY IT WERE A JOKE.
Old joke: two social workers walking down the road come across a man who has clearly been viciously assaulted: he is bruised, bleeding, and lying unconscious in a ditch. One of the social workers looks at the other and says: "We have to find whoever did this. He needs help!" https://t.co/rE8R3OZiKH
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 8, 2025
Related:
Preposterous statement from the @NC_Governor. The problem isn't that cops didn't arrest the guy. He was arrested over two dozen times! The problem is that liberal prosecutors, judges, and legislators like you refused to keep him locked up. https://t.co/ISP8zOcCEm
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) September 8, 2025
FA, MEET FO: Joliet Mom With an Infant Puts and End to a Serial Criminal’s Career. “Don’t mess with a mama bear. That’s a lesson that one of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s early parolees learned the hard way in Joliet. Serial bad guy Shelby Hurd has had a long history of burglaries and other criminal activity. After an early release thanks to ‘good credits’ he went right back to his old ways. Fortunately for America, during his latest burglary, he brought a screwdriver to a gunfight with a mom who knew how to handle her pistola.”
WEIGHING IN:
TRUMP ON IRYNA ZARUTSKA: “When you have horrible kiIIings, you have to take horrible actions.”
Democrat cities have been crime ridden for decades… and it’s time to fix that now.pic.twitter.com/JHlSyTsaca
— 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 (@DeepBlueCrypto) September 8, 2025
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This incident really does combine all the kryptonite elements into one: the city hasn't had an (R) mayor in sixteen years, currently has a murder and assault rate much higher than the national average, the perpetrator is a black American male with a history of mental illness and… https://t.co/uSGYTsjIHn
— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) September 8, 2025
#WINNING:
🚨 In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/s1KMwyZW2D
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2025
LOL:
Washington Post is not much better. pic.twitter.com/xveVihViyu
— Cornell77 (@BlindJoeDef) September 8, 2025
HARRY METCALFE AND JEREMY CLARKSON: Is Jaguar’s rebrand clever or a disaster, and when was peak car? (Video.)
NOW OUT: From Doug Casey and Matt Smith, The Preparation: How To Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous. #CommissionEarned This looks like a good companion guide for guys to my forthcoming book on men, dating and marriage.
YOU HATE TO SEE IT: An MSNBC Anchor Just Torched the Latest Anti-Trump Hoax.
Or maybe not.
AXIOS GOES INTO FULL REPUBLICANS POUNCE MODE TO TUT-TUT ZARUTSKA MURDER: Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message.
MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.
- Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.
The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.
- The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.
Driving the news: President Trump, asked about the Charlotte video by a reporter Sunday, said he wanted to find out more about the stabbing before commenting.
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“I’ll know all about it by tomorrow morning,” Trump said.
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A Trump adviser told Axios: “This is exactly what he’s talking about, and it’s going to be an issue he’s going to highlight. This is not just about North Carolina. Other campaigns will deal with this.”
As Glenn wrote on his Substack last night, “Since the number one rule for the legacy media is ‘thou shalt not support anything Trump does,’ naturally the Zarutska murder can’t be covered. And it won’t be, unless they can find — or manufacture — some alternative angle that will make Trump look bad. So far, they’ve come up a dry hole. So nothing.”
And that’s why Axios started off Monday by blaming the video of Zarutska’s murder, and Republicans’ response to it. It’s adjacent to their fellow leftists originally demanding omnipresent police body cams, and then being shocked that almost invariably, they show the police responding competently to violent crimes being committed:
As Matt Walsh notes, “It’s interesting that police shootings are the one kind of story where it’s less likely to be a national story if there is a video of it. What does that tell you?”
WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE:
Wikipedia is already trying to erase it pic.twitter.com/QK8OFpKn2b
— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) September 7, 2025
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: ‘Toxic Empathy’ and the End of the Progressive Project.
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:
🇬🇧 New work by street artist Banksy has appeared on the wall of the Royal Courts of Justice in London – showing a judge attacking a protester, lying on the ground, with a gavel. pic.twitter.com/kJKFycVrZY
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 8, 2025
I’VE WAITED FOR THIS MOMENT SINCE I BOUGHT MY FIRST CONDO IN THE LAST CENTURY: A property tax revolt is spreading — with help from key conservatives.
For decades, property taxes have underwritten the basic functions of local government — schools, parks, roads, police and fire departments, trash collection. But as home values have surged, tax bills have ballooned in tandem, fueling what David Schleicher, a Yale professor of local government, described as a “property tax revolt” shaking cities and states alike.
“This is a really big trend that is below the radar because it doesn’t involve President Trump,” Schleicher said. “But it doesn’t need fireworks to announce itself. It’s already changing our relationship with government and how schools work and property markets.”
The frustration is cutting across partisan lines. Last year, voters in nine states approved referendums to cap or curb rising assessments, from tying bills to inflation in Georgia to New Mexico and Colorado expanding tax exemptions for veterans who own homes there. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Texas, Indiana, New Jersey, New York and elsewhere have approved tens of billions of dollars in property tax relief over the past 18 months.
To some, though, such measures fall short. Grassroots campaigns in Michigan and Ohio are now gathering signatures for ballot initiatives that would abolish property taxes altogether. In Texas, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison has proposed a state constitutional amendment to end them there by 2031.
“Never-ending property taxes are unethical, immoral and incompatible with private property rights,” Harrison said, “and need to be thrown to the ash heap of history.”
Whose property is it, anyway?
THE ORCS ARE COMING FOR RFK JR: That tumultuous Senate Finance Committee hearing last week in which HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. was subjected to an unprecedented series of insults, misrepresentations, outright lies, and character assassination is just the opening of Sauron’s massive assault. The goal is to do whatever is necessary to either persuade President Donald Trump to fire Kennedy, or to render Kennedy so bloodied and distracted that he resigns.
THIS MIGHT BE GOOD, BUT MIGHT BE A LEFTY TROJAN HORSE: At 6 colleges, admissions now consider how students discuss divisive topics.
I don’t know which, but past experience tells me how to bet.
ATTENTION INSTAPUNDIT FANS!!!: On Monday, November 17, 2025, the one and only Glenn Reynolds will be at the University of San Diego School of Law to deliver a public lecture. The title of Glenn’s lecture will be “Our Ruling Class Monoculture, the Judiciary’s Class War, and the Great Realignment.” At 5:30 p.m., just prior to the lecture, there will be a reception for Glenn. The lecture starts at 6:15 p.m. The lecture and reception are free, but registration is required.
Glenn’s lecture is brought to you by a gift from the late Joan E. Bowes, a lovely lady whose generosity is much appreciated.
This will be fun.
