The Week In Woke

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Sean Davis @seanmdav

Standing athwart history, yelling, "Leave the gay pederast predator alone!"

Impossible to parody.

The lefties won! Abrego-Garcia will be shipped back to America.

Where he will be tried for being the kingpin of a major human trafficking operation.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday.

For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, where he was mistakenly deported in mid-March, in a situation that one federal judge warned could present an "incipient crisis" between the two branches.

Abrego Garcia has been indicted on two criminal counts in the in the Middle District of Tennessee: conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain.

The indictment unsealed Friday afternoon accuses Abrego Garcia and others of partaking in a conspiracy in recent years in which they "knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 members and associates."

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states cannot discriminate against charities just because they're religious in nature.

Seems obvious, but again, something that was in doubt.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group in a case centered on unemployment tax credits for religious institutions -- delivering a victory for faith-based institutions, who argued that the state's decision had violated the religious clauses under the First Amendment.

In a unanimous opinion, the justices agreed that the state had engaged in an "unnecessary entanglement" in attempting to define whether religious groups should be entitled to an otherwise-available tax exemption based on the state's criteria for religious behavior.

"When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, writing for the majority.

"Because Wisconsin has transgressed that principle without the tailoring necessary to survive such scrutiny, the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."

This one is so easy that even Sotomayor gets it.

Some FBI agents objected to the FBI memo targeting Catholics, accurately noting that this memo seemed to be confabulated purely to please the vicious race-Marxist demagogues of the Southern Poverty "Law" Center.

The FBI rushed to rescind the document after a whistleblower leaked it in February 2023. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July 2023 that the memo came from "a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems." Yet Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has claimed Wray may have lied under oath because multiple FBI offices were involved in creating the memo.

Grassley announced Tuesday that he found evidence that the memo had been disseminated to at least 1,000 FBI staff.

"Is anyone really asking for a product like this?" an FBI employee in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote in a February 2023 email responding to the memo. "Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC..."

An FBI employee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, responded, "And yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is ... problematic."

In addition to these emails, Grassley found the FBI produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used the term "radical traditionalist Catholic" and relied on the SPLC.

Left-wing groups are actually rallying to support the assassin that shot two people in the back merely for being Jewish.

Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez

Soros-funded operatives, a Democratic Socialists of America caucus, and an anti-Israel student group among signatories of letter endorsing murders

A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House "Squad" members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to "free" Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats.

Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez's shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum "fully justified," "eminently defensible," and "morally righteous." It also urges readers to "give pause to the zionists" and "GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA," a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests.

Another signatory is the Liberation Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)--"Squad" members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Greg Casar (D., Texas) are members of DSA, the largest socialist group in the country. Franklin, who serves as treasurer of the Black Voters Matter Action PAC, a Democratic group that received $2.4 million from Soros and the Soros-funded Democracy PAC, signed the letter and promoted it on his Twitter page. So did the Brandeis Jewish Bund, a self-described "Anti-Zionist" group at Brandeis University, a school founded by Jewish Americans to address anti-Semitism in the American education system. Another signee, Bronx Anti War, was cofounded by Janet Goodman-Clarke, a member of the Soros-funded Jewish Voice for Peace.

While many of the groups backing Rodriguez are not well known beyond radical activist circles, their ties to prominent Democratic lawmakers, donors, and organizations reflect the extent to which anti-Semitism has infiltrated the party. Ocasio-Cortez, for example, held a virtual event with DSA's New York chapter in December. She has not addressed the Liberation Caucus's signing of the pro-Rodriguez letter.

More grooming in schools as students are asked to consider becoming gay as part of a class assignment.

Florida high school students were drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, and told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by The Daily Wire.

During a course for high school children in Miami-Dade County, students were assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as: "What do you think caused your heterosexuality?"; "Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?"; and, "Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?"
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Parents were shocked to learn that a professor made their children answer questions like this as part of a Miami-Dade College course being offered to high schoolers. The course, called "Preparing for Student Success," was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and offered in Miami-Dade County, an area that has turned red in recent years.

"It's not normal. I mean imagine if a person, anyone, goes close to your son and asks him these questions, I'd call the police," a concerned mother whose son was enrolled in the class told The Daily Wire. "It's perversion. Why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls? It's absolutely sick. It's sick."

Other questions posed to the children included, "To whom have you disclosed your straight tendencies?" and "Why do you insist on showing off your heterosexuality?" The questionnaire ended by asking students what their reaction to it was and "about the assumptions you hold about what others are like."

From John Sexton: The New York Times' "conservative" David Brooks warns the Democrats that they're in more trouble than they know.

I have a lot of Democratic friends who are extremely disappointed with their party leaders. They tell me that the Democratic Party is currently rudderless, weak, passive, lacking a compelling message. I try to be polite, but I want to tell them: "The problem is not the party leaders. The problem is you. You don't understand how big a shift we're in the middle of. You think the Democrats can solve their problems with a new message and a new leader. But the Democrats' challenge is that they have to adapt to a new historical era. That's not something done by working politicians who are focused on fund-raising and the next election. That's only accomplished by visionaries and people willing to shift their entire worldview. That's up to you, my friends, not Chuck Schumer."

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The Republicans have adjusted to the shift in the zeitgeist more effectively than the Democrats. Trump tells a clear story: The elites are screwing America. He took a free trade party and made it a protectionist party, an internationalist party and made it an isolationist party...

Trump has taken the atmosphere of alienation, magnified it with his own apocalypticism, and, assaulting institutions across society, has created a revolutionary government. More this term than last, he is shifting the conditions in which we live.

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The Democrats' first core challenge is that we live in an age that is hostile to institutions and Democrats dominate the institutions -- the universities, the media, Hollywood, the foundations, the teachers unions, the Civil Service, etc. The second is that we live in an age in which a caste divide has opened up between the educated elite and everybody else, and Democrats are the party of the highly educated...

For today's Democrats that means this: If people rightly distrust establishment institutions and you are the party of the establishment institutions, then you have to be the party of thoroughgoing reform. You have to say that Trump is taking a blowtorch to institutions, and we are for effectively changing institutions.

Naming Imane Khelif as having XY chromosomes inflicted "irreparable psychological damage" on him, lefties whine.

Algerian boxing bosses have issued a furious response to boxing's new world governing body for a "violation" of Imane Khelif's rights to medical confidentiality.

A statement released by World Boxing last week, naming Khelif while outlining its new policy of gender testing, has "created psychological damage to our athlete" according to the Algerian Boxing Federation.

In a letter the Federation President said the "consequences are immeasurable."

He added that the statement had internationally harmed "our national sports movement" and that Khelif was not given "the right to defend herself" nor did World Boxing "hear from the doctors specialising in endocrinology who follow her."

What about the damage this biological man inflicted on the women he punched in the face?

The UK is now a caliphate, writes Spiked Online.

It's a verdict that would make the Ayatollah smile. Today, in nominally liberal Britain, a man has been found guilty of a crime after he dared to burn a Koran in public. Hamit Coskun, a Turkish-born asylum seeker, has been convicted of a 'religiously aggravated public-order offence' over his -- quite literally -- incendiary protest outside of the Turkish consulate in London in February, against what he sees as the Islamist turn of Erdogan's Turkey. If nothing else, Coskun's stunt has exposed the Islamist-apologist turn of our own United Kingdom.

On paper, Coskun has been convicted of 'disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress', motivated by 'hostility towards members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam', contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Public Order Act 1986. But we all know what that word salad really means in practice, regardless of the judge's many assurances to the contrary. Coskun has been convicted, and fined £240, for blasphemy. All by a supposedly secular court.

The judgement, handed down by district judge John McGarva, is an elaborate exercise in victim-blaming. Coskun was assaulted at the scene by two men -- first by a passerby armed with a knife, then by a delivery rider who kicked Coskun while he was on the floor. Remarkably, this is used as proof of his guilt. 'That the conduct was disorderly is no better illustrated than by the fact that it led to serious public disorder involving him being assaulted by two different people', says McGarva. Thank God he wasn't also wearing a short skirt, eh?

Similar intellectual acrobatics were required to prove that Coskun was motivated by a hatred of Muslims. He claims his beef is with the religion, not its followers. But McGarva was having none of it, citing Coskun's belief that 'Islam is an ideology which encourages its followers to violence, paedophilia, and a disregard for the rights of non-believers'. Whether or not this is an accurate or fair reflection of the faith, as practised by Muslims around the world, is totally irrelevant. The judge decided there was no difference between Coskun's dislike of what he means by Islam and hatred of Muslims. So he hates Muslims because he hates Islam. I'm no legal scholar, but that strikes me as a rather circular argument.

In a free society, you should be free to hate whoever and whatever you like, of course. Indeed, this ruling is another grim reminder of the subjective, authoritarian mess you find yourself in when you invite the state to police what is and isn't hateful -- whether that's racial, religious or whatever. Someone has to decide. And in this case it has been decided by a legalistic cretin who is totally blasé about ushering in medieval blasphemy prohibitions, albeit dressed up in hate-speech lingo.
Enjoying spiked?

Britain may have abolished its blasphemy law in 2008, more than three decades after the last blasphemy trial went to court. But it has returned, zombie-like, through public-order and communications offences....

Brace yourselves for more. Not least as Coskun -- who either has balls of steel or is nursing a death wish -- has said he intends to go on a Koran-burning tour of some of the UK's other great cities.

Man doesn't understand why he has been excluded from a women's book club.

The Democrats' push to fund fake influencers who can sell the Democrats' gay agenda to straight men is going great.

I've got my own suggestion for the Democrats: New York City's hottest Speaking to American Men influencer is Stefon.

Democrats just don't understand why normal people are running for them.

The first gay Congresswoman from Vermont insists that no illegal aliens be deported, stating that without illegal aliens, "we're not going to have anyone around to wipe our asses."

No, seriously, this Very Special Privileged Pyrsyn says this.

I know you think I'm a liar but you're the liar!

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