The Week In Woke

Trump signs an EO to push blue cities to clear the homeless off the streets.

The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to reverse precedents that limit state and local governments' ability to commit people on streets who are at risk to themselves or others, according to a White House fact sheet obtained by The Hill.

It also requires interagency work on grants for states to enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping, loitering and squatting, and to track sex offenders. And, it requires redirecting funds to ensure people sleeping on streets and causing public disorder, and suffering from serious mental illness or addiction, are moved to facilities like treatment centers.

Additionally, the order requires that discretionary grants for substance use prevention, treatment and recovery do not go toward funding "drug injection sites or illicit drug use," and it aims to stop sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from being housed with children and allows programs to house women and children exclusively.

Leftwing deplatforming-and-defamation organization Media Matters is on the verge of bankruptcy.

From Media Matters' ally The NYT:

The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party's biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump's Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.

The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization's fight to survive.

Feds charge "Medicaid Millionaire" with fraud.

Louisiana 'Medicaid millionaire' bought Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years Investigators say Taylor flaunted luxury lifestyle on social media while fraudulently receiving government benefits

Not so fast.

A Louisiana woman who purchased a Lamborghini while fraudulently obtaining Medicaid benefits is facing a fraud charge, authorities said this week.

Candace Taylor, 35, of Slidell, dubbed the "Medicaid millionaire" by the office of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, was arrested Monday. The state Bureau of Investigation began looking into Taylor after receiving a complaint from the Louisiana Health Department saying she underreported her income to qualify for Medicaid benefits.

"From 2021 through 2024, Ms. Taylor continued to transfer tens of thousands of dollars between her personal and business accounts, with personal inflows consistently exceeding the eligibility thresholds for Medicaid," the affidavit directly states.

Medicaid provides health insurance for low-income adults and children. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments. The federal government establishes parameters for states to follow. However, each state administers their Medicaid program differently.

Taylor initially applied for Medicaid in May 2019 under the alias Candace Sailor, listing a bi-weekly income of $1,900 and no dependents, authorities said. That application was denied.

Less than a year later, she re-applied under the same misspelled name, prosecutors said. She was allegedly inconsistent with the years she reported having a dependent.

Investigators eventually discovered she owned six different businesses that generated more than $9.5 million between January 2020 and December 2024, according to court documents.

More hospitals are dropping their "gender affirming" genital mutilation services.

The Trump administration is definitely on a roll. Last month the LA Children's hospital announced that it would be shutting down the largest gender-affirming care clinic in the United States, the Center for Transyouth Health and Development. Then a week ago Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC made a similar announcement. This week several more hospitals and medical groups have followed suit.

Sexton reports that Connecticut's Children's Medical Center and Yale New Haven Health have ended their barbaric butcheries, as well as the University of Chicago Medical Center.

And -- this is a big one, because it operates in eight states -- Kaiser Permamente.

Awww: Axios is sad that the FTC is investigating whether Children Mutilation Chop-Shops are making false claims about their experimental surgeries.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday launched an inquiry into whether health providers are failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or are making false claims about its benefits.

Why it matters: The action could help make the case for using unfair competition laws to crack down on health providers, by asserting gender-affirming care involves deceptive claims, legal analysts say.

Driving the news: The FTC solicited public comment through Sept. 26 from consumers who "may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about 'gender-affirming care,' especially as it relates to minors."

The move followed a public workshop the FTC held in early July to "gauge the harms consumers may be experiencing" surrounding gender-affirming care for minors that featured prominent critics of youth gender-affirming care.

The agency justified its involvement by saying its role is to assess whether medical professionals have violated parts of the FTC Act by failing to disclose risks connected with gender-affirming care or making false or unsubstantiated claims about its benefits or effectiveness.

Reality check: Gender-affirming care for minors is supported by major medical organizations including the American Medical Association.

LOL. "The leftwing organizations dominated and whip-sawed by the radical transgender cult says this is all great, and that's all you need to know."

No surprise: "Scientific" and medical publications prioritize woke political propaganda over actual science.

We began by conducting a keyword search of every article published in the JAMA Network--a group of 13 medical journals affiliated with the American Medical Association--between April 1 and May 31. The phrase "diversity, equity, and inclusion" appeared 56 times, more often than atherosclerosis (45) and osteoporosis (16). Another progressive-coded term, "inequity," showed up 99 times--more than asthma (75) or opioid use disorder (65).

All of these papers are left-leaning, according to AI analyses.

DEI-inspired scientific studies are often plagued by poor design: sampling bias, lack of proper control groups, leading survey questions, and circular reasoning. Researchers frequently treat incidental associations as proof of causation. These methodological flaws are baked into published papers, which then get cited, flaws and all, by others. Over time, some DEI-based studies acquire unwarranted credibility and authority.

Take Brad Greenwood and colleagues' research from 2020, which claimed that "newborn-physician racial concordance"--meaning the child and the doctor are the same race--"is associated with a significant improvement in mortality for Black infants." But the original authors failed to control for babies with very low birth weight. When Manhattan Institute researchers replicated the study, they found that racial concordance had no such effect. Nonetheless, the original study has received more than 800 citations, including 21 by articles within the JAMA Network.

Another study with similar left-wing premises has also made the rounds. Kelly Hoffman and colleagues claimed in a 2016 paper that "Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans." Their conclusion was based on a sample of 194 medical students and 28 residents, with no attending physicians included except for "10 experienced physicians," whose recommendations served as the benchmark against which sample participants' knowledge was evaluated.

In one of the paper's two case vignettes, these physicians identified narcotics as the appropriate pain management for kidney stones. Had they consulted the 7th edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual from 2012, however, those physicians would have known that NSAIDs are the "primary analgesic of choice" for that condition, not opiates. While this error calls into question the study's conclusions, the paper nevertheless has been cited over 3,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

Nepo baby and former celebrity Jamie Lee Curtis calls plastic surgery a "disfigurement."

Sounds like she's talking about her Freak Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan.

Jamie Lee Curtis is condemning Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery for "disfiguring" generations of women.

"The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers -- there's a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances," the "Freakier Friday" star said in a new interview with the Guardian.

"It is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want. I'm not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it's hard not to go, 'Oh, well that looks better.' But what's better? Better is fake."

To drive her point across even further, Curtis, 66, rocked a pair of oversized wax lips -- which she personally bought from Amazon -- to her accompanying photo shoot with the outlet.

"The wax lips is my statement against plastic surgery," she proclaimed. "I've been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who've disfigured themselves. The wax lips really sends it home."

Curtis then defended her use of the word "genocide," recalling its definition of the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. She said she uses it "specifically" because it's a "strong" word.

I don't mind her criticism of the cosmetic surgery industry. What has me scratching my head, though, is her unqualified support for experimental cosmetic surgeries to "affirm gender."

Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon is investigating five fake universities for prioritizing illegal aliens over actual US citizens.

Defund and decertify. We have too many fake universities pumping out uneducated students and giving them fake Participation Trophies of Learning as it is.

A drag queen brings a six-year-old dressed in drag to gyrate for the assembled perverts at a Belfast "pride" festival.

The New York Times paid real money to a feminist writer to put her primal scream on paper, in which she whines about a new syndrome callled "heterofatalism," which means something like, "Why do we femcels have to be straight women who want the penis? Men are awful and we should all be lesbians."

Hot comedienne Natasha Leggero:

Finally, someone who appreciates a good misgendering.

posted by Ace at 07:00 PM

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