Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/12

[SVPete]

BBC Beatdown: The Shocking Shaming of Iran's Ambassador

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/03/11/bbc-beatdown-the-shockingly-good-shaming-of-iranian-ambassador-n3812732

And by "shocking," I mean in a good way. It's been so long since we've seen real journalism and the actual speaking of truth to power that it's almost difficult to process.

BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg sat down with Iran's ambassador to the UK to discuss the war as well as what preceded it, as Ali Mousavi learned to his surprise and displeasure. Kuenssberg started off by noting that "your country is under attack," but almost immediately pressed Mousavi to explain the massacre of civilian protesters. Mousavi seemed initially stunned by the question, attempted to deflect the blame to economic sanctions and "foreign aggressors," but Kuenssberg was having none of that (transcript mine):

Other than some of their fictional content that IS presented as fiction, I'm not a fan of the Beeb, but this presenter (a rather honest job title, BTW) showed greater moral courage than PM Starmer (IMO, those B-1 crews should "bomb" 10 Downing Street. With the contents of their planes' toilet tanks).

[SVPete]

First Grader’s ‘Any Life’ Message Sparks Major First Amendment Ruling

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/11/first-amendment-and-first-grade-9th-circuit-rules-on-student-speech/

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.”

The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. She shared the drawing with a friend.

The school principal told her the drawing was inappropriate and punished her, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented the family in the case. The principal forced her to apologize, banned her from giving drawings to classmates, and excluded her from recess for two weeks.

The parents, who didn’t find out about the punishment until a year later, sued the Capistrano Unified School District in San Juan Capistrano, California.

“Today’s ruling affirms what should be obvious: Students don’t lose their constitutional rights just because they’re young,” Caleb Trotter, senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a public statement Tuesday.

PLF has been, for several decades, a nemesis for the tyrannical California Coastal Commission. This case will give Progs another reason to hate the PLF.

This school principal knew that the student acted within her free speech rights, but the principal believed the student and her parents could not afford to do anything about it. @#$% like this has been perpetrated by PS educrats and teachers for decades. It is not ignorance of the law, it's arrogance and defiance of students' and parents' rights.