...or he's going to wind up being fed apple sauce on a long spoon through the bars of his cell: "Tucker's Insane Equivalence: Cop-Assaulting Driver Now Equals Assassinated Charlie Kirk?"
H/T: Friend and commenter Gregory (btw, Gregory has some fun stuff up about PM Albanese on his blog, The mind is an unexplored country)
Tahmineh Dehbozorgi, a lawyer based in D.C., provides a very inciteful analysis of the ignorance of the western chattering classes concerning what appears to be a genuine popular revolution in Iran, destroying their perception of Islam to boot.
The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the… https://t.co/4G0UEvL0YO
— Tahmineh Dehbozorgi (@DeTahmineh) January 9, 2026
One part I particularly wanted to emphasize:
Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.
This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework.
Not all of them, of course, not even most of them (I hope), but too many - including this lachrymose character in Portland: "Far-Left Portland Police Chief CRIES Over Two Tren de Aragua Gang Members Who Were Shot After They Tried to Run Over Border Patrol Agents".
Update Of course, these lefty lawmen aren't all crybabies - or even men. There's also this brash Karen playing the part of the typical black female stereotype from 1970s sitcoms: "Philadelphia Sheriff Calls ICE ‘Fake, Wannabe’ Cops Violating the Legal and ‘Moral Law’".
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal — employing hipster slang and evoking a call-and-response chant — on Friday called federal immigration agents “fake, wannabe” law enforcement and claimed their actions violate both “legal law” and “moral law.”
Update II Haw! The Philadelphia Police Commissioner reminded the sheriff who's actually in charge of law enforcement in the city (spoiler: it ain't her): Philly Police Commissioner Issues a DEVASTATING Response to Woke Sheriff Who Threatened to Arrest ICE Agents and Warned Them “You Don’t Want This Smoke!”.
Turtles will fool you.
Old time job descriptions.
Islamic radicalization has gotten so bad in the UK that the United Arab Emirates doesn't want its college-age young people studying there: "Emirates Blocking Citizens From Studying at British Universities Over Campus Islamism Fears"
Theoretical physicist and educator Richard Feynman talks about the speed of light. I had to watch it twice, but I think I halfway get this one.
