Liberal media and the murder of Iryna Zarutska

 Axios Hits New Low, Bent That Iryna Zarutska's Murder Validates MAGA Crime Message – RedState

A Democratic Mayor's Disgraceful Reaction to an Avoidable Murder in Her City   . . . "An appalling reaction.  She failed to even mention the name of the actual victim, whose life was stolen from her, while lecturing people not to "demonize" homeless people like the killer.  No mention of his many previous arrests.  She said nothing in the way of specific steps to enhance crime prevention, but talked about "compassion" and "commitment" for the homeless population while pleading to "improve services" for them.  As we saw from Democrats in Tennessee and Minnesota in the immediate aftermaths of deadly school shootings by trans people who targeted Christian children, the instant impulse is to scold the public against blaming the murderers' identity groups." . . .  

If her killing does not disgust you, perhaps this will:  BLM Activist Suggests 'Black Vigilantes' Choke, Kill People in Response to Daniel Penny Acquittal  

Mainstream media turns a blind eye to vicious stabbing of young Ukrainian woman  . . . "Sadly she couldn’t survive the Democrats’ criminal justice system," [Charlie] Kirk added. "Yet you wouldn’t shut up or stop villainizing Daniel Penny, a hero, who probably stopped a murder just like [hers]. Why? Because he was a straight white American male and the perp was black. Shame on you. Genuinely."

Heritage: Axios: Worst Part About Gruesome N.C. Train Stabbing Is People Noticing ... "The problem with sharing horrific footage is that people might see it, share it, and start asking questions about how Democrat-run cities are being managed. People might start asking why suspect DeCarlos Brown Jr., who had previously been convicted of with armed robbery, breaking and entering, shoplifting, and felony larceny, was arrested 14 times." . .

A Woman Was Brutally Murdered and the Corporate Media Is Miffed You Noticed  . . . "In both cases, the media emphasized that it was a black victim and a white perpetrator."The answer to this double standard, of course, is that they wanted to spark a “national debate” about “systemic racism.” So, their coverage was wall to wall.

"Now that there’s a murder case that goes against their narrative on crime, they want nothing more than to ignore it, or grumble that alternative media is strong enough to break into a “national conversation” without their blessing." . . .

Media Blackout Regarding Charlotte Murder Is Pure Evil  . . . "The line "our media partners" is chilling here. What happened to a media/journalist class that speaks truth to power?

"The mayor's lengthy blah, blah, blah, comments about the killer's mental health struggles and homeless people were so off base they bordered on victim-shaming. Matt has more on that here. As his headline says, "The Democratic Party Is a Threat to Our Safety."

Third-World Corruption: The FireAid Scandal Exposes Democrats - and Republicans Need to Wise-Up

RedState  

"Just looking at the networks of a handful of these organizations begins to paint a clear picture of Gavin Newsom using his power and influence to redistribute money, which people believed was going to victims of the Palisades and Altadena fires, to the coffers of NGOs whose work is to bring out the vote for California Democrats."

"Questions and outrage have swirled around what happened to the estimated $100 million FireAid raised, which was advertised as going to help victims of the Palisades and Altadena fires. A look into just a handful of organizations that received the money exposes a network of wealthy NGOs, all connected to Democrat politicians like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. It’s not just that the $100 million of FireAid money got sucked into nonprofits and never reached victims of the fires; it’s darker than that. The powerful elite, elected to serve the people of California, sat back and let entire neighborhoods burn to the ground. They then swooped in and took hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to help those victims and funneled it right back into their political organizing machinery. The web of government money, public-private relationships, and NGOs gives a window into how California Democrats use public money to maintain their control over the state.

One of the most influential and well-connected organizations to receive a FireAid grant is the Latino Community Foundation (LCF). LCF describes its mission as “supporting Latino-led organizations and mobilizing political participation of Latinos in the state.” . . .

Axios Plants the Seeds to Help Media Excuse Non-Reporting of Ukrainian Woman’s Murder

 Legal Insurrection 

I can’t wait to see how the media will respond now that Axios has given them a way out.

 "Yes, we’ve entered the “Republicans pounce” phase concerning the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC.

 "They aren’t mad that a young woman with the rest of her life ahead

 of her is gone.  "They are mad that “MAGA influencers” noticed.

"Zarutska fled to America to escape the war. She wanted a new beginning.

"Axios has taken the lead for all other mainstream media to make excuses as to why hardly any of them have covered Zarutska’s murder.

The gruesome video of the fatal knife attack on Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte is drawing attention from MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases. https://t.co/OIj3FYfDLE . . .  Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message."From Axios:

"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.   pic.twitter.com/ynRSSfZxkf" .  

  The gruesome video of the fatal knife attack on Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte is drawing attention from MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases. https://t.co/OIj3FYfDLE

  — Axios (@axios) September 8, 2025

As Muslims advance their openly-stated goal of colonizing Texas, they are already making sharia-compliant demands

 BareNakedIslam  “Ban alcohol-consumption. Ban sales of lottery tickets. Ban pork products from stores and restaurants.”

• TEXAS Governor Greg Abbott is right to oppose a proposed sharia-controlled MUSLIMS-ONLY community near Dallas
• Muslims in America discuss how they will bypass U.S. housing discrimination laws to ensure that no non-Muslims will ever live in their city
• In the ‘liberal” city of Houston, Texas, Muslims are allowed to hold rallies calling for the murder of all Jews
• TEXAS: Ex-Muslims kicked out of a Starbucks and threatened with arrest if they return just for wearing a shirt that says “I am an Ex-Muslim”
• Reeling from last week’s Muslim slaughter of five U.S. Servicemen in Tennessee, outraged Texas residents step up opposition to Muslim cemetery

This isn’t the first ‘Sharia-adherent’ residential and commercial complex operating in Texas, but it will represent a massive new ‘Muslims Only” No Go Zone just outside Dallas

HAMAS leader says he doesn’t want to waste his time killing Jews in Israel

"Instead, he wants to kill every last Jew in the world. After all, a dead Jew in Israel is only worth about 5 shekels (29 cents). Time to strap on your suicide belts to ensure mass casualties."

Horrid video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s slaughter on Charlotte train is met with deafening silence from Dem leaders, media

 NY Post

"Liberal media and politicians have been accused of staying silent on the savage murder of a young Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train — after a career criminal with no fewer than 14 arrests was charged with her murder.

"Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death on a light rail train in Charlotte, with horrifying surveillance footage showing the moment the unsuspecting young woman was brutally attacked.

"Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, is allegedly shown pulling out a pocket knife and getting out of his seat behind Zarutska before the video cuts just as he prepares to plunge the blade into her, footage shared by police shows.

"Zarutska is totally unaware of the killer behind her, fiddling with her phone as Brown allegedly unfolds the knife and prepares to attack.

"After the killing, the attacker can be seen wandering through the Lynx Blue Line train — dripping blood across the floor as he carries the weapon.

"Bystanders barely seem to notice that a young woman has just been knifed to death right behind them." . . .

                                          He calmly leaves the train trailing her blood. TD

. . . "But in the wake of the monstrous killing, which took place on Aug. 22, mainstream outlets and politicians have largely stayed silent.

"Charlotte’s Democratic mayor (Mayor Vi Lyles pictured, right) even thanked publications that chose to keep the video from the public."  

"Former DOGE secretary Elon Musk called out what he said was a lack of coverage of the killing by mainstream media, resharing a post counting how many articles the outlets had written about the stabbing, along with the comment, “Zero.”The alleged murder of a white woman by a black man also drew many responses from the far right.At the same time, those who knew Zarutska have spoken of their horror that a young woman who escaped the war in her country in 2022 could have met such a sickening end in the US."

(More at the link above.) How will Joy Reid and MSNBC/ NOW cover this?   Here: MSNBC top stories as of 9/8, 2025 at 11:30 CDT; Nothing on stabbing  

GoFundMe pulls horrific fundraisers for ex-con Decarlos Brown Jr. accused of murdering Ukrainian refugee on train.... Liberal media and politicians have been accused of staying silent on the savage murder of a young Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train — after a career criminal with no fewer than 14 arrests was charged with her murder.

Horrifying. Career Felon Murders Young Woman on Video and Mayor Blames ‘Homelessness and Mental Illness’ – RedState

Liberal media accused of covering up Ukrainian girl's brutal murder in Dem-led city as video explodes online - UK Daily Mail;  "Horrific footage of a career criminal stabbing a Ukrainian refugee from behind on a North Carolina train has prompted a national uproar - but you won't find it on any liberal media websites." (Emphases in original) 

RedState Weekly Briefing: Exposing Loons, Leftists, Leakers, and Liars

 RedState  "Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing  — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. What do you suppose caught people's attention in this latest whirlwind week? Grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger if you're so inclined), and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication — here we go!" ...

Branco toon added by TD

#1 - Ben Shapiro's Wild CNN Appearance Exposes the Psychosis of the Left — by Bonchie   "Kasparian starting her commentary with "I totally reject," only for her to totally reject reality, is about what you'd expect. I understand that she hates Israel and loves Middle Eastern terrorists, and don't kid yourself, that's undergirding all of what she says there, but that doesn't mean she's entitled to her own statistical facts. "

#2 - Classified Navy SEAL Mission Leaked to Damage President Trump Harms National Security Instead — by streiff   "The real target here is President Trump. The NYT story starts with the premise, "The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission." . . .

#3 - Brainwashed Leftist Is Offered 1-Way Ticket to Communist Country of Her Choice—the Result Is Fabulous — by Becky Noble   . . . "Bet-David then lays a hard truth on her, saying, "If you lived in North Korea, you wouldn't be able to do what you are doing right now. You wouldn't have a voice."

#4 - Ilhan Omar Challenges People to Dig Into Her Financial Records, Immediately Regrets It   . . . "I'm not sure how it works in Somalia, but in America, that's not how marriage works. Omar is obviously privy to the cash her husband, Tim Mynett, brings in, given the lifestyle she and her crazed daughter live. Here's the thing, though. One of his company's biggest benefactors is Omar's campaign.

#5 -  Monumental Media Malpractice: CBS Deceptively Edits Sec. Kristi Noem Interview   — by Ward Clark   "Sometimes, the legacy media's bias is so open, so shameless, that it's jaw-dropping. ' . . .Case in point: Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, on Sunday, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation," and they did an absolutely shameless edit of her statement about the illegal alien, Kilmar Abrego Garcia."

 This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.

Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to… pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 31, 2025

Chicago: a picture of how Democrats govern

Chicago: morally and economically bankrupt  

"Chicago has many bills coming due and no money, certainly not from Illinois, which is facing a $3.2 billion dollar deficit. Brandon Johnson is as popular as a festering boil, yet Chicagoans keep electing festering boils." 

Broc Smith

Whose side is the left on?    "It’s infuriating to listen to leftists’ rhetoric, where they defend vicious drug cartels, illegal aliens, and rising crime in American cities.  By doubling down on policies that embolden lawlessness and threaten communities, they’re prioritizing political expediency over public safety.  The Democrats went from owning the slaves, starting the Civil War, forming the KKK, and passing Jim Crow laws to claiming they are “for the little guy.”  Now they’re casting the members of the party specifically founded to fight slavery as oppressors." . . .

The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes  

"The left also went gaga over the wealthy, aristocratic, and supposedly charming young Luigi Mangione, the assassin of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Not since the terrorist and mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev adorned the cover of Rolling Stone has the left so romanticized a stone-cold psychopath."

Victor Davis Hanson: . . . "Why does the left make martyrs out of monsters?

"One, in postmodern America, there are too many victims for too few victimizers. So to distinguish the one from the many requires all the more psychodramas and grammar-school dramatics. Violence and claims of racism add to the hero’s mystique.

"Two, the heroes are mere pawns in a larger game of “social justice” in which both useful idiots and ruthless criminals alike can advance the cause." . . .

Schoolgirls told they can escape undressing with boys in their locker rooms by admitting they are mentally ill

 Eric Utter

 "But do you really want the likes of Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Randi Weingarten to be in charge of your child’s education and safety, with no parental checks and balances?"

"In Temecula, California, junior and senior high school girls will henceforth have a choice between letting biological males hang around in their bath and locker rooms … and proclaiming themselves to be mentally ill.

"You read that correctly. The only way these girls will be able to avoid sharing bathrooms and locker rooms with their male counterparts will be for their parents to fill out a “Mental Health Accommodation Request Form.”

"The form reads in part:

I am requesting a mental health accommodation on behalf of my child. This request is made in accordance with federal and state laws, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and California Education Codes. Please describe the mental health condition and the nature of the accommodation being requested (e.g., diagnosed anxiety, PTSD, etc.): If available, please attach supporting documentation (e.g., medical diagnosis, 504 Plan, counseling records, etc.) 

So, a young girl must be suffering from a “disability” if she doesn’t want males to watch her undress, use the bathroom, or shower?

As a parent, I would have anxiety if adults in charge of my daughter’s school wanted to force her to share a bathroom and a locker room with boys.

And the “authorities”-- whether at that school or in the government -- who made this so would have PTSD shortly after meeting with me.

Just sayin’.

What’s next, will “authorities” soon “allow” us to decline to submit to an experimental mRNA injection if we sign a document testifying that we’re insane?

This is sounding kind of Soviet, where dissidents were classified as mentally ill and locked up.

Where will this end?

Are we sure we’re winning the War With Woke?

How a Church Fought Back Against a Liberal Takeover — And Won

The American Spectator  

"When a church allows humans to usurp the authority rightfully belonging to the Bible, it becomes vulnerable to the prevailing social causes of the day. Evidence of this is as close as the nearest Protestant mainline church."

"Rarely if ever in American religious history has a Christian church body been able to repulse a concerted attempt by professional theologians to lead that church into the darkness of theological liberalism.

"But that was what happened fifty years ago when theologically conservative laity and pastors rescued the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod from such a fate. In 1974, 90 percent of the faculty (forty-five out of fifty professors) at the denomination’s foremost seminary, Concordia Seminary, and approximately 80 percent of the students walked off the St. Louis campus and into “exile” to start their own theologically liberal institution. Eventually, the group took about two hundred of the church body’s six thousand congregations with them, thus forming the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

"It is a story with all the drama one would expect from a modern church splintering in plain sight. It featured tempestuous church conventions, rebellious student convocations, pompous faculty orations, protests and press conferences, and all the militant accouterments — black armbands and the like — one would expect of a winner-take-all showdown in the tumultuous 1970s. It ended with a theatrical exodus event that included a mock funeral for the seminary, boarded-up arches and gateways, the planting of memorial crosses on campus grounds, defiant speeches, and a triumphal march away from the campus into self-imposed exile.

The Theological Tempest

"In a time when churches split over positions on sexual proclivities or thinly disguised political issues, if there is a silver lining to this particular ecclesiastical fissure, it is that, in a bizarre way, it is refreshing to see a church body fracturing over what the church should be about in the first place, that is, theology — or, more specifically, biblical interpretation.

"That’s how this squabble started. It stemmed from the adoption of a hermeneutical method called historical criticism by certain members of the faculty of Concordia Seminary.

"Historical criticism is a product of the Enlightenment, the age when science and reason were in ascendancy. It focuses on biblical hermeneutics, treating God’s written Word as though it is to be interpreted as a merely human document that is in principle no different from any other piece of ancient writing. By rejecting the notion of divine inspiration, historical criticism undermines the Bible’s authority, denies its miracles, and dismisses its historical accounts.

"This method is a cornerstone of liberal theology and is widely utilized in the hermeneutical practices of mainline Protestants, including Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists, and liberal Baptists and Lutherans. The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod had avoided its taint until, in the early 1960s, reports began to filter through pastoral and lay ranks that certain professors at the seminary had embraced this interpretive method. Some professors were giving speeches and publishing papers asserting a troubling notion: that the Scriptures are not God’s written Word verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit but, rather, are self-contradictory.

What is a Gettysburg Witness Tree?

A Gettysburg Witness Tree is a still-living tree that is old enough to have been alive at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and can be said to have "witnessed" the fighting that swirled around it during those hot summer days of July 1-3, 1863.

"Peter Lukacs has unearthed a ground-breaking way to experience Gettysburg − through the living trees that bore silent witness to this famous Civil War battle of 1863. With his field guides, you can step into history that has been hiding in plain site for over a century!"

Map of Gettysburg Witness Trees.   "Please note: I am updating all the maps, adding newly discovered witness trees, and uploading numerous new then-and-now comparisons, all to make this website as comprehensive as possible!"

Two Vintage Photos of West Confederate Avenue

"Here we feature two very special early 20th century photographs. Thanks to these two photographs, multiple witness trees have been identified, trees which otherwise would have no known extant evidence to prove their witness tree status."

"Douglas Murray WARNS Something Horrifying is Going Down in Britain..."

The most honest and professional voice in the western world today, Douglas Murray.    

"He’s such a great man shares the truth,about the wickedness of Hamas and their cohorts.

"We don’t want this in our countries. "I’m worried as an Australian.

"Seeing what’s happening in Europe and Britain is frightening."

Rabbi Dovid Vigler

Fake Experts Accuse Israel of Genocide; Turns out anyone can join the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

 Legal Insurrection   

"That world leading experts declaring genocide in Gaza was too perfect of a headline for the media zeitgeist to miss. And of course, the declaration was a hatchet job."

"A month ago, I wrote about the top eight Gaza War hoaxes. The granddaddy of them all is the Israel is committing a genocide hoax—because all libels are pointing to this indictment.

"It’s nonsense of course—there is no credible evidence of massacres or intent to slaughter as required by the Genocide Convention, only minimal, for urban warfare, collateral damage. The genocide case against Israel brought before ICC fell apart. Yet unfortunately until Israel wins the war on the ground and takes itself out of the headlines, blood libels will be flooding the media.

"The latest one is the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) vote to declare that Israel is guilty of the willful annihilation of the Gaza population. The NGO’s statement was immediately transformed into headlines on Al Jazeera and ideologically aligned western outlets, including BBC, BBC UK, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, ABC Australia, PBS, Newsweek, Time and the Washington Post among others." [I might suggest CNN and MSNBC/NOW] . . .

(During my school years in the early 1950s, Zeitgeist pictured the world as wiped out by atomic warfare and many stories involved the hero living in the wreckage of destroyed civilization. TD)

. . . "Hamas’ October 7 attack constitutes genocide under  international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed—the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence, and mutilations—satisfy the actus reus requirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews is evident through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack.

"What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusation against the victims." . . . (Emphases mine; TD)