The Week In Woke

The Bee:

This isn't a Week in Woke entry, really, but I'll post this here: Trump orders Bondi to declassify the entire Epstein grand jury record.

President Trump on Thursday directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the release of grand jury records in the Epstein case, saying "this SCAM...should end, right now!" Bondi said she'll ask the court Friday to unseal the transcripts.

Key Details:

Trump said on Truth Social he had asked AG Pam Bondi to release "any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony" tied to Epstein, pending court approval.
Bondi responded Thursday evening, posting, "President Trump -- we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts."
Trump's directive comes just hours after The Wall Street Journal published a report about a birthday card he allegedly wrote to Epstein--an allegation Trump has called "fake" and vowed to sue over.

Eric Schmitt reviews some of NPR's most deranged woke tweets.

The French newspaper Le Parisien reports on how awesome Trump is.

Just kidding, they're horrified. But this is awesome.

In New York, asylum seekers invited to court and then arrested after "trap" hearings

Masked and armed, they prowl courthouses in groups: US agents are arresting asylum seekers after "trap" hearings in New York, a sign that the Trump administration's anti-immigration campaign shows no sign of abating.

The US president has made the fight against illegal immigration a top priority, referring to an "invasion" of the United States by "criminals from abroad" and speaking extensively about immigrant deportations. But his mass deportation program has been thwarted or slowed by multiple court decisions, notably on the grounds that the targeted individuals should be able to assert their rights.

In recent months, Homeland Security agents have adopted the tactic of waiting, often with masks on, outside immigration courtrooms and arresting migrants as they leave.

On Wednesday and Thursday, in a New York courtroom, armed agents with shields, employed by various federal agencies, including the Immigration and Border Protection (ICE), prowled outside the courtrooms, carrying documents on the targeted migrants. Nearly a dozen migrants from different countries were arrested in just a few hours on the 12th floor of a federal building in lower Manhattan.

Brad Lander, the city's financial controller and a leading figure in the local Democratic Party branch, who was briefly arrested and handcuffed last month for "obstructing" agents on the scene, called the hearings a "trap." "These appear to be judicial hearings, but they are actually traps to encourage (migrants) to come to the scene," he said on Wednesday, noting several arrests, including that of a Paraguayan man whose asylum application was, he said, under review.

The police have been running this sort of trap operation, sending out notices to wanted fugitives that they're due some money from the government or whatever, for ages. There's nothing illegal about it, never has been.

Translated by Google with light edits. I tried to translate it but was too lazy.

Meanwhile, the French government is now literally telling its "citizens:" You have the right to free speech, but not the right to say things which are illegal.

As the poster says: It's like a Soviet joke.

Robert Spencer: A specter is haunting the Democrat Party. The specter of communism.

This time it's real, and undeniable. The Democrats have for years denied, with varying degrees of scorn or anger, that they are Communists, despite hating both free enterprise and borders, which are just the sorts of things you'd expect socialist internationalists to hate. Now, however, the deniability is no longer even close to plausible. As the Democrat candidates move ever farther to the left, it's clear: A spectre is haunting the Democrats. The spectre of Communism.

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Yet even as Marx and Engels claimed that they were unleashing a power that all the European elites were determined to destroy, they likewise immediately insisted that those elites were engaged in battle with an imaginary threat that they themselves had conjured up: "Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?"

That sounds quite similar to accusations Democrats have hurled at Republicans over the years: "How dare you question my patriotism," and all that. As the Democrats' policies grew progressively more anti-American, the gang of hacks, DEI hires, and grifters that once proudly styled itself as the Party of Jefferson and Jackson did everything it could to make people think pointing out that increasingly obvious fact was both ridiculous and offensive. And so, ever fewer people have dared to do so, even as it became even more obvious that hating America and having a taste for Marxism went with being a Democrat like arrogance and self-righteousness went with being Barack Obama.

Now, however, it's impossible to deny. The best and the brightest among young Democrats are all avowed socialists. The party would have chosen a socialist, Bernie Sanders, as its candidate for president in 2016 and likely also in 2020 if party top dogs hadn't stepped in and arranged for the candidacy of someone who was at least outwardly more mainstream.

All the while, Democrats insisted their socialism was nothing to be worried about, but was of an extremely cuddly variety. One of the foremost among the party's up-and-coming new socialists, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Swizzle Stick), maintains that what she has in mind isn't the bad old socialism of the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot's Democratic Kampuchea and the rest, but a type involving more unicorns and moonbeams. "So when millennials talk about concepts like democratic socialism," she explained, "we're not talking about these kinds of 'Red Scare' bogeyman." Yeah, tell all the victims of Stalin and Mao that it was just a "scare." Those hysterical right-wingers were having the vapors over nothing.

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The Communists are clearly the future of the Democrat Party.

Well, the future, yes, and also the past and the present.

In Spain, "far right racist" groups started up trouble. Again.

And when I say these groups "started up trouble," I mean of course that roving gangs of immigrant invaders beat the living shit out of an old Spanish man for no reason and the actual citizenry of Spain got a bit bothered about it.

The disgusting state socialist media outlet the BBC:

Fourteen people arrested after anti-migrant riots in southern Spain

Just after "anti-migrant riots," huh? Was there no precipitating event before that?

A total of 14 people have been arrested and extra police have been deployed after an attack on a pensioner sparked anti-migrant unrest in a small town in southern Spain.

Ohhhh! So there was a precipitating incident.

By the way, for days the BBC denied that the vicious thugs were migrants, despite widespread local testimony that it was the Beloved Newcomers who had beaten this man nearly to death.

Three people of North African origin have been detained on suspicion of attacking the 68-year-old man in Torre Pacheco last Wednesday.

The unrest began after a video circulated on social media, inflaming the town of 40,000 people which is home to a large immigrant population.

The pensioner and police later said the video was unrelated to the incident but social media calls to find and attack the perpetrators multiplied quickly.

By Friday groups armed with batons could be seen roaming the streets of Torre Pacheco.

One far-right group called "Deport Them Now" called for attacks on people of North African origin. Further messages on social media have called for renewed attacks on immigrants over three days this week.

A leading member of the extremist group was detained in the north-eastern town of Mataró on suspicion of spreading hate speech.

The 68-year-old victim of last Wednesday's attack, named locally as Domingo Tomás Domínguez, told Spanish media he was thrown to the ground and hit while taking his morning walk.

A photo circulating on social media showed his face bearing extensive bruising.

That is a foul lie. The man did not show "extensive bruising."

One of the man's eyes was blood-red from being punched and the other eye was black. I don't mean he had a black ring around the orbit of his eye, like a normal shiner, I mean his eyeball itself was completely black because it had been filled with blood after the attack. And that blood then went black.

I'm not going to embed the photo because it's upsetting but click here to see it.

"Extensive bruising." Filthy liars.

In Germany, nine underaged girls were sexually molested by Maryland Men, by which I mean Syrian terrorist migrants." The Christian Democratic Union mayor of the town said that global warming was really to blame, because it made the Syrian Newcomers irritable and therefore filled with the desire to rape children.

"You're not doomed yet, but..."

ICE raided a Home Depot for illegals.

California actually cooperated with ICE and turned over a criminal illegal alien being released from prison. It's unclear if this is Newsom easing off his insurrection, of if the facts about this criminal are so bad -- he killed children while drunk-driving -- that it would be politically toxic, and perhaps criminally chargeable, to help him escape.

Trump issued a new order: If "protesters" attack ICE agents during a raid, pause the raid to arrest the "protesters."

And here's how that looks in practice:

World of Woke With @Justine_Brooke

The leftist media venerate criminals like saints while these "righteous" savages terrorize our streets. pic.twitter.com/EXs4Yy7BJy

— MRCTV (@mrctv) July 15, 2025

HOLY SMOKES.

A Louisiana Subway owner, “Chandrakant Patel,” was arrested by feds for immigration fraud after getting “hundreds” of Indian nationals visas in a decade long scheme.

Patel would pay police officers $5,000 a pop to create fake reports of armed robbery in order for… pic.twitter.com/lR6hbRuS73

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 17, 2025

Zohran Mamdani on abolishing prisons and jail: "What purpose do they serve, besides making people feel good?" pic.twitter.com/KYgD1nRP8U

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2025

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