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Our Nation Failed Iryna
Our Nation Failed Iryna
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I try to play it down the middle and be a centrist most of the time—I really do. I can admit that it feels like conservatives have outrage over nearly everything nowadays, and it can feel excessive.
Every time conservatives blow up over something like Cracker Barrel making slight changes to its logo—an idea I’ll admit I’ve https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/cracker-barrels-board-should-fire?utm_source=publication-search
—we risk becoming the very party that is outraged by everything. It’s the old adage in action: “when you point one finger forward, three point back at you.”
But even bearing that in mind, there are some situations that make me truly livid in a way a logo change at Cracker Barrel never could. What transpired over the last few days with the death of Iryna Zarutska, and the media’s astounding lack of coverage on it, is one such instance.
By now most people know the story. On August 22, 2025, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte light rail train by 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a homeless man with a long criminal record including more than 10 arrests. She died at the scene, and the grotesque act was caught on surveillance video for the whole world to see.
Today, the story is more becoming about the media’s lack of coverage of the incident. No major mainstream media outlet reported on the horrific incident.
After a decade of lecturing the American public about injustice, an innocent woman dies as a direct result of progressive policy and all of a sudden, the “activists” in the media for some reason don’t have a single word to say about it.
The very party that is obsessed with immigration and the mainstream media machine that perpetuates their propaganda accordingly, somehow can’t muster up a coherent opinion about a migrant being senselessly murdered? Why could that be?
Where are all the “journalists” with the Ukrainian flags in their profiles? Where are all the women’s rights advocates screaming about how this is the patriarchy’s fault?
Where the f*ck is…well, everybody?
The fact that not a single major news outlet covered this gruesome murder—with the exception of Axios, which ran a piece that instead focused on surveillance cameras instead of the crime itself—is outrageous.
Even people on the left should have trouble doing the mental gymnastics necessary to justify ignoring this take. But at this point, who knows?
Regardless, the bad news is that the legacy mainstream media has been fully exposed as a corrupt cesspool with a deeply progressive agenda, catering to the Democratic Party and whoever is paying for ad space.
The good news is that this latest shining example of just how anti-American and disgusting the media has become may finally force the free market—and the country itself—to acknowledge it and demand real, long-lasting change.
Last week, a story broke that CBS was considering hiring Bari Weiss for a metric f*ckton of cash — up to $200 million is the number that is being reported.
This could represent the first of many recruitments of journalists who defected from the legacy model to go out on their own. I’ve often praised outlets like Substack for offering a democratized model that pays real journalists what they’re worth and provides a release valve for reporters still interested in the truth.
What this CBS rumor shows is that, whether by free market capitalist force or common sense, these age-old institutions are realizing that https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/our-nation-failed-iryna
and journalists with integrity.
Journalists like Bari Weiss, Seymour Hersh, Catherine Herridge, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and many others who were abandoned by the legacy model are on the cusp of again being recognized for their actual value as truth-tellers. Their willingness to step away from tradition, once seen as a risk, now looks like proof of their integrity. Ironically, these are the very people the legacy media will be forced to turn back to when they realize their audiences want — and will pay for.
This trend accelerated during the election campaign season when the media ran cover for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Trust—even among centrists and Democrats—was lost. Now, the lack of coverage of this latest murder, an incident that would have been front-page news everywhere if the races were reversed, has likely eroded what little integrity the media still had.
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This is one of those rare cases where outrage over the lack of coverage will surpass the coverage itself, and rightly so. The fact that Brown had been arrested and released more than a dozen times before committing this horrific, videotaped crime lays bare the consequences of regressive Democratic policies. Judges and magistrates so incompetent as to allow this man back on the streets should be investigated, if not charged, for gross negligence that cost an innocent woman her life.
It’s unthinkable to look for a silver lining in such a barbaric act, but I truly believe that if Iryna Zarutska’s tragic death becomes enough of a worldwide story, she could be remembered as the turning point where the American media was finally held accountable and forced back toward true journalism. That would be a sense of justice that our legal system obviously failed in a massive way to provide.
This is the very system and country Zarutska believed in enough to make her home, risking everything to be here. The least we can do is honor the trust she placed in us by demanding change, speaking loudly about the justice system and media that failed her, and working to ensure this never happens again. And while there’s more than enough outrage to go around – and in this case truly justified – it’s the hope for change that brings me to honor Iryna in this piece today.
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Musk: "Interesting Idea" On Buying Media Outlets To Force Truth Narratives Amid MSM Refugee Stabbing Blackout
Musk: "Interesting Idea" On Buying Media Outlets To Force Truth Narratives Amid MSM Refugee Stabbing Blackout
From the Democratic Party's failed criminal justice reforms to the unhinged left's imploding corporate media empire, the failures are on full display again with the deadly stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina by a mentally unstable career criminal released back onto the streets by a progressive judge.
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Then came the coverage ... or lack thereof. Not a peep from the MSM over the weekend. Their silence revealed how the fake news matrix tried to bury this killing, fearing it would spark backlash ahead of the Midterms.
Hi https://twitter.com/NPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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The sequence of events:
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As of Saturday:
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"No one commits narrative crimes like the NY Times. They are the best," Elon Musk wrote on X on Sunday.
Musk continued, "As recent events have shown all too clearly, you can't trust the legacy (fka mainstream) news at all. They lie relentlessly or simply ignore major stories that don't fit their collectively decided narrative."
X is the news, in realtime and fact checkable. The rest has lost its reputation. https://t.co/jtlht9spm0
— Engineering Ai (@EngineeringInsd) https://twitter.com/EngineeringInsd/status/1964703916786057563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
X user Wall Street Apes posed a question to Musk: "Elon Musk should buy a couple of the biggest mainstream media networks and just have them tell the truth If we had a real Republican Congress they would Restore the Smith Mundt Act."
Musk replied, "Interesting idea." Now the question lingers: what will he do next?
Interesting idea
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1964798863635816720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
, where Musk agreed to "wind down" political activity, be interpreted as political work if he were to buy a newspaper?
Just remember: the MSM blackout of this story is part of a larger information war against the American people.
The good news? Alternative media is on the rise, fracturing the MSM media matrix and exposing their lies and bullshit. From the Hunter Biden laptop, to Biden's mental decline, to the Covid "seafood market" narrative - truth has always been buried until independent voices forced it out. Our truth mission depends on readers like you.
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Venezuela Preparing For 'Armed Struggle' In Case Of US Attack: Maduro
Venezuela Preparing For 'Armed Struggle' In Case Of US Attack: Maduro
Venezuela is preparing for armed struggle in the scenario it comes under attack by the United States, or its sovereignty is threatened, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned soon after President Trump escalated the Pentagon's force posture in the southern Caribbean.
"If Venezuela were attacked in any way, it would move into a stage of planned and organized armed struggle by all its people against aggression, whether local, regional, or national, in defense of peace, territorial integrity, sovereignty, and our people," Maduro had https://en.mehrnews.com/news/236156/Venezuela-starts-preparing-for-Armed-Struggle
Friday. On Sunday, tens of thousands of more troops were mobilized.
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President Trump soon after warned that if Venezuelan jets keep buzzing US warships in regional waters, then they would be shot out of the sky (if deemed a threat to American vessels).
Maduro has confirmed initiation of militia training to involve citizens in the country's national defense efforts - a 'popular mobilization' of sorts. Interestingly, in a televised statement he featured a visual diagram, outlining the current levels of operational readiness within the nation's defense forces, stating that currently a "yellow phase" of integrated defense is active.
The Maduro government on Sunday called up additional troops to deploy in border regions amid the US deployments off https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/venezuela-boost-troops-tackle-drug-trafficking-us-strengthens-military-caribbean-2025-09-08/
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered more troops in the Guajira region of Zulia state and the Paraguana peninsula in Falcon, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said, adding that the area constituted "a drug trafficking route".
The military's presence on the island of Nueva Esparta and in the states of Sucre and Delta Amacuro will also be expanded. Some 25,000 troops are set to be deployed, up from the 10,000 which have been deployed in the states of Zulia and Tachira that border Colombia, he said.
Some interesting scenes coming from the Venezuelan coast:
TERROR: Maduro is forcing Venezuelan fisherman to accompany TdA Fentanyl traffickers along their routes serving as human shields. Maduro’s Bolivarian Militia is a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. https://t.co/PKnXDoduiX
— @amuse (@amuse) https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1964953696317628447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And so it seems Maduro is making an effort to convince Washington that he has the narco-trafficking situation in and around Venezuela fully under control.
Importantly, Trump has rejected accusations that the US is plotting regime change in Caracas. "We're not talking about that," he told reporters Friday when asked about this scenario.
The US has justified its recent actions, which included last week's military strike on an allegedly drug-laden boat that killed eleven people, by saying that Maduro is in league with the cartels.
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has called Maduro "effectively a kingpin of a drug narco state" and that because of this he "should be worried."
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'Critically Uneducated': Russia, China Mock EU's Kaja Kallas After Bizarre Commentary
'Critically Uneducated': Russia, China Mock EU's Kaja Kallas After Bizarre Commentary
European foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is being widely mocked after a clip of her latest remarks on Russia and China went viral starting last week.
While speaking at an event hosted by the EU Institute for Security Studies, Kallas presented some strange analysis claiming that Russians are strong in social sciences but weak in tech, and that the Chinese are the reverse. The comments lacked explanation or nuance, and came off as utterly simplistic and based merely on overly broad stereotypes in her mind.
"Chinese are very good at technology but they are not that good in social sciences," Kallas said. "The Russians… are not good at technology at all, but super good in social sciences."
Kaja Kallas: “Chinese = good at tech, bad at social sciences. Russians = bad at tech, brilliant at social sciences.”
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— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) https://twitter.com/KevorkAlmassian/status/1964282530330218668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
She's also being called out for her reflections on the Soviet Union and China in World War 2. Her comments were a response to President Xi's massive military parade in Beijing.
Kallas, who is from Estonia, of course very much hates Russia and so does not want to give credit to Moscow's immense role in WWII against the Nazis. She dismissed the Russians and China's role in defeating the axis powers.
She had said the following which has additionally angered both countries:
I was at the ASEAN summit, and something seemed interesting to me. Russia turned to China and said: "We, Russia and China, fought together in The Second World War, we won the Second World War, we defeated Nazism together.
And I thought, "Okay, this is something new. If you know a little history, then a lot of questions immediately arise in your head. But you know, today people read and remember history less and less, so, unfortunately, many people believe in such narratives."
This is extraordinarily embarrassing: https://t.co/Kl3Uttf90I
Kaja Kallas, the EU Foreign Policy head, doesn't even seem to be aware that Russia and China were among the winners of WW2.
Immensely ironically, she dismisses it as "something new" and propaganda for people who…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1963593204902789568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
On Sunday the Russian foreign ministry blasted her analysis, calling Kallas "critically uneducated". Specifically on her labeling Russian and Chinese societies, the FM spokesperson said--
“On the same note, China would not be able to govern a billion citizens without being strong in social sciences,” Zakharova wrote. “Kallas is critically uneducated.”
China's foreign ministry has also responded, saying, "The statement made by the relevant EU official is full of ideological bias and lacks basic historical common sense, and blatantly stokes rivalry and confrontation. This is disrespectful to the history of WW2 and undermines the EU's own interests. It's preposterous and irresponsible."
One China commentator, Arnaud Bertrand, https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1963830953874542731
: "It takes a lot for China to officially call a senior foreign leader an idiot but that's what they essentially just did."
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Banksy-kunstwerk met rechter die demonstrant aanvalt meteen afgedekt
Op een Britse rechtsgebouw in Londen is vanochtend een nieuw https://www.instagram.com/p/DOVoHlVDMIU/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
van de bekende straatkunstenaar Banksy verschenen. Hij plaatste een foto van het kunstwerk op Instagram. Het is een afbeelding van een rechter die met een voorzittershamer een demonstrant aanvalt die op de grond ligt.
Het kunstwerk meteen bijna onmiddellijk bedekt, schrijft de Britse krant https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/08/court-staff-cover-up-banksy-image-of-judge-beating-a-protester
Volgens ooggetuigen werd het kunstwerk in de ochtend afgeschermd door beveiligingsmedewerkers van de rechtbank.
Later kwamen andere medewerkers met zwarte zeilen om het kunstwerk te bedekken. Ondertussen probeerde men passanten ervan te weerhouden foto's te maken van de afbeelding, aldus de krant.
Mogelijk verwijst het kunstwerk naar het verbod op de actiegroep Palestine Action, hoewel het werk daar niet expliciet naar verwijst. Afgelopen zaterdag alleen al werden in Londen bijna 900 demonstranten opgepakt, die openlijk de actiegroep steunden.
Leden van Palestine Action drongen in juni binnen bij een Britse luchtmachtbasis in Oxfordshire. Uit protest tegen het Britse standpunt over het geweld in Gaza besmeurden ze er twee vliegtuigen met rode verf.
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schade. Palestine Action werd daarom kort daarna door de Britse regering op een terreurlijst geplaatst. Aanhangers van de groep kunnen sindsdien worden opgepakt voor het steunen van een terreurorganisatie. Het omhooghouden van een bord met de tekst "Ik ben tegen genocide. Ik steun Palestine Action" is daarvoor al voldoende.
VK-correspondent Fleur Launspach
"Hiermee slaat Banksy precies de spijker op de kop. In Londen speelt zich namelijk al weken iets bijna absurds af: honderden demonstranten zijn opgepakt alleen omdat ze een bord met een tekst vasthouden.
De organisatie Palestine Action heeft zelf ook wel door hoe surrealistisch én dramatisch de arrestaties eruitzien en moedigt mensen juist aan om massaal mee te doen. Daaronder bevinden zich opvallend veel 60-plussers en gepensioneerden. Hier wordt zelfs aan het begin van het weekend gegrapt: "Daar gaan we weer: roll out the pensioners!"
De meeste demonstranten worden alleen door de politie geregistreerd en weer vrijgelaten zolang ze maar niet terugkeren naar het protest. Maar sommigen worden wél vervolgd, onder de terrorismewet, en die straffen kunnen hoog uitvallen. Dat zorgt voor een ongemakkelijk debat in het VK: zelfs parlementariërs die in de zomer instemden met de wetswijziging waardoor Palestine Action op de terreurlijst belandde, krabben zich nu achter de oren bij het zien van dit soort massale arrestaties.
Die onrust en absurditeit heeft Banksy met één simpele afbeelding weten te vangen in een werk dat - tot teleurstelling van velen - meteen weer is weggehaald."
Ook zeven Nederlanders werden opgepakt, melde de Nederlandse tak van actiegroep https://extinctionrebellion.nl/nederlanders-opgepakt-bij-demonstratie-londen-vast-op-verdenking-van-terrorisme/
. Ook zij hadden borden bij zich met daarop de gewraakte tekst.
Aanhangers van Palestine Action zien het kunstwerk als een steunbetuiging. "Ik vind het walgelijk dat ze het kunstwerk bedekken", zegt een voorbijganger die bij een van de protesten was tegen The Guardian. "Ze zijn duidelijk bang voor de reactie."
Palestine Action is in hoger beroep gegaan tegen het besluit om de groep op de terreurlijst te plaatsen, de hoorzitting staat voor 25 september gepland. Het verbod op de actiegroep is volgens onder meer https://www.amnesty.nl/actueel/uk-banning-palestine-action-a-disturbing-legal-overreach-by-uk-government-amnesty-international-uk-chief-executive-warns
een aanval op fundamentele vrijheden van meningsuiting en het demonstratierecht.
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Americans Sour On Capitalism As Democrats Go All-In On Socialism: Survey
Americans Sour On Capitalism As Democrats Go All-In On Socialism: Survey
A new Gallup survey reveals that Americans' positive perception of capitalism has slipped to 54%, the lowest level since the poll began in 2010 and down from 60% in 2021. Meanwhile, views of socialism remain steady at around 39%, though partisan divides are widening, with two-thirds of Democrats viewing socialism favorably.
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This comes as the next generation of Democratic politicians grows more radical than ever, calling for a socialist reconstruction of America, with some of these unhinged politicians openly embracing Marxism.
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Democrats and independents have grown increasingly skeptical of capitalism. For the first time, fewer than half of Democrats (42%) view the economic system that has allowed America to become a superpower as favorable. Republicans' views remain unchanged, with three-quarters holding a favorable opinion.
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Not surprisingly, two-thirds of Democrats view socialism favorably, up from 50% in 2010.
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This reflects an alarming shift within the party as it embraces far-left progressive policies, with an increasing number of Democratic leaders openly leaning toward Marxism. Republicans, by contrast, remain broadly skeptical of socialism, mindful of the lessons from the fall of the Berlin Wall decades ago.
Democrats socialism = communism https://t.co/4hXrr5GZpj
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One thing voters agree on: positive views of mega corporations continue to slide over a multi-decade period to a record low.
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Sixty percent of Republicans, 36% of independents, and 17% of Democrats view mega corporations positively.
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"Americans overall continue to be skeptical of socialism, but Democrats are the exception," Gallup wrote in the report, adding, "Since 2016, more Democrats have held positive views of socialism than of capitalism, with the gap expanding to 24 points today."
Gallup noted, "Democrats' more positive views of socialism occur at a time when many high-profile Democratic officials — most notably, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — have identified themselves as Democratic socialists and advocated policies calling for a significantly expanded government role in economic matters."
The takeaway from the new survey confirms our reporting: Democrats have gone off the deep end. Rather than returning to the center of the political aisle, they've chosen to double and even triple down on all things woke and now openly embrace socialism. Some in the party are even cheerleading Marxism while calling for the collapse of capitalism and America.
US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder https://t.co/rCOU2SKplG
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This type of revolutionary behavior by Democrats is not tolerated by President Trump, who campaigned against socialism in 2024, often declaring that "America will never be a socialist country."
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White House Deputy Chief Of Staff: 'Massive Scandal' Uncovered In D.C. Crime Stats
White House Deputy Chief Of Staff: 'Massive Scandal' Uncovered In D.C. Crime Stats
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is warning that an https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/justice-department-to-investigate-whether-dc-police-manipulated-crime-data/3977022/
into whether Washington D.C. officials manipulated crime statistics is in the process of uncovering a “massive scandal.”
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At an Oval Office press conference, Miller told reporters that when the results of the investigation are finally that, “It will stun you,” adding, “Even though D.C. had the worst crime in America–honestly measured–it dramatically understated how bad it was.”
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Miller said that DOJ investigators have uncovered evidence that crime data was manipulated to the point that some murders and homicides were falsely reported as accidents.
The White House Deputy Chief of Staff also assured reporters that the full extent of the manipulation “will be uncovered and it will all be brought to light.”
Miller told reporters that he’s had the opportunity to visit with police officers in the city who tell him that members of the public are going up to them and thanking them for finally being able to enjoy their parks and “walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged.”
Stephen Miller: DC officials were covering up crime stats and even classifying m*rders as accidents. How many other Democrat-led cities have falsified crime data to this gross extent? https://t.co/Lk6CVl7B62
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, in a letter, that his committee is “investigating disturbing allegations that DC crime data is inaccurate and intentionally manipulated.”
Comer told Smith that a whistleblower “with direct knowledge of internal MPD operations and crime data discussions” told his committee that “crime statistics were allegedly manipulated on a widespread basis and at the direction of senior MPD officials.”
In his letter to Smith, Comer notes, “The whistleblower stated this manipulation is accomplished by supervisors — with only a cursory understanding of the facts and circumstances of the crime — ignoring the judgement of patrol officers who actually interviewed witnesses and collected evidence by recommending reduced charges.”
MPD District 3 Commander Michael Pulliam, https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/
to have been under investigation for allegedly manipulating crime statistics for his district, although Comer told Smith in his letter that, “Unfortunately, this practice does not appear to be isolated, nor is it a recent development.”
MPD data had shown violent crime decreases across all seven police districts, although D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said MPD leadership only found anomalies in data reporting in one district.
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