The Week in Woke

Elizabeth Warren is all-in on the communist Hamas supporter Zohran Mamdani.

Fox News @FoxNews

Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor.

REPORTER: "Democratic socialism--is this what the party should look like?"

WARREN: "Yes, you bet!"

Bear in mind that for 70 years, the Democrat Party has denied that they were socialists. Now they're endorsing socialists without apologizing for all their previous lying. This was always what they wanted: Socialism.

And communism.

The old Democrat Party claimed, "We're not socialists, we're just liberals."

The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."

Well you lied last time. Why should we believe you now?

Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey

I gift you with the dumbest thing you'll read today.

Where is the evidence that masculinity is crippling society? I can't with how dumb this is.

From a journalistic perspective, there is no evidence that masculinity is crippling society. There is more evidence, in fact, that calling all men toxic for being masculine is crippling society.

But they just print it like it's true.

ALSO, the "trans" movement is the most adherent to "traditional gender roles." The movement thinks lipstick and a hairstyle makes a person a woman. The movement thinks if a man likes "feminine things" (???) he must be a woman, penis be damned.

I mean the whole thing...

Deport him now.

Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to "justify" the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview -- with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration's case seeking to kick him out of the country.

New York and national officials condemned Khalil for his statements seemingly sympathizing with Hamas' rationale for the cowardly assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage in Gaza.

"Mahmoud Khalil must be immediately deported," Upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post.

The Republican congresswoman has long lambasted Khalil, a green card holder, for his role in fomenting virulent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University.

"He is a chief pro-Hamas terrorist agitator who contributed to the antisemitic encampments at Columbia, the rioting and violent takeover of Hamilton Hall, and the harassment and physical assault of Jewish students," she said.

"Naturalized citizenship is an earned privilege of our nation, and he has not earned it. The government should continue taking every lawful step necessary to remove this enemy from the United States," Brooklyn Assemblyman Kalman Yeger seethed.

Speaking with New York Times journalist Ezra Klein on his podcast this week, Khalil, 30, called Oct. 7 a "desperate" moment which Palestinians "had to reach" in order to have their voices heard.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment," he said, when asked about the attack by the terror group -- which is still holding 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom just about 20 are believed to still be alive.

UPenn loses another big donor over its embrace of Middle Eastern shithole Nazism.

Donor Stephen Levin is no longer making donations toward his $15 million pledge for naming rights to the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Although he yanked his support in November 2023, it is coming to light this week with the student newspaper article.

"Penn has quietly removed the name of 1967 College graduate Stephen Levin from the behavioral sciences building he previously endowed after the longtime University donor halted his contributions over the administration's handling of antisemitism on campus," the newspaper reported Wednesday.

According to a letter obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Levin had told former President Liz Magill: "Today Penn is far from the University I attended, along with my father and two of my sons."

"Furthermore, I want my name removed from the building and no longer want to be associated with Penn. Penn is an embarrassment not only to the Jewish community but also has lost its luster as a superb Ivy league school."

Please hire these people. They're the best and brightest.

The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.

The decision, detailed in the college's course catalogue, reflects a broader trend among social work programs to adopt inclusive language.

The York College program chose "to create an anti-racism learning environment by adopting alternative terminology in the place of the word 'field,'" its catalogue states.

"The decision was made by the MSW Team due to the term's association with a painful historical era that inflicted significant harm on Black Americans/African Americans during their enslavement in America," it adds.

Hardball, finally: Florida's top educational official recommends clawing back the salaries from school board officials who expelled a father from a meeting for raising justified concerns.

The Florida commissioner of education is recommending a local school district lose funding totaling the salaries of all its board members following the board's treatment of a father who spoke up at a July 31 meeting.

As reported by Corey DeAngelis on X, Parent Jeremy Clepper (pictured) took his turn during public comment to criticize Alachua County Public Schools Board Chair Sarah Rockwell for her social media comments celebrating the recent death of pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan.

Hogan, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, died a week ago from a heart attack.

Upon learning of Hogan's passing, Rockwell wrote on Facebook "Oh, did Hulk die? I didn't even know. One less MAGA in the world."

In response to a comment, Rockwell added Hogan "worked with the McMahons to union bust professional wrestling. he's never been a good guy. I feel absolutely nothing about his death."

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During his time at the mic, Clepper told Rockwell her comments had "cheered for the death of MAGA" and he mocked her apology: "Aren't you a highly educated woman that knows the exact meaning behind her words?"

Clepper concluded by telling the board chair she "should step down," and that she's a "disgusting, vile human being."

A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting. While he was being escorted out, another board member noted the district's attorney had requested that Clepper not be removed.

But by that time it appeared Clepper was already on his way out of the room.

Many in attendance at the meeting (who were wearing face masks, including Rockwell) were in favor of ejecting Clepper. One can be heard saying "He needs to go," while local "social justice activist" Faye Williams (pictured) screamed over and over "Get out!" and called Clepper a "white supremacist."

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The commissioner noted since the Alachua Board "failed to ensure free expression of all viewpoints during public comment" he found "probable cause" that state law was violated. As such, Kamoutsas recommended the Florida State Board of Education "withhold from the [Alachua] district an amount equal to the salaries of all board members."

Okay, so it's the district, not the actual school board fascists, losing the amount of the fascists' salaries. It's something, I guess. (I'd say we're punishing the kids rather than the officials but you know most school funding is just wasted anyway.)

An MIT professor says she (of course it's a she) spends one third of all of her working hours fighting "Trump terrorism."

Sounds like MIT should claw back one third of her salary then, doesn't it?

When Professor Catherine D'Ignazio isn't running the "Data + Feminism" lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing "reproductive justice hackathons" she is fighting Donald Trump's "state terrorism."

LOL. So much communist cant.

The urban studies professor, and "data feminism" scholar, recently explained "how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism" in an essay for Academe Blog.

"What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to 'send a message' --to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior," Professor D'Ignazio (pictured) explains.

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"The Trump administration's strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear," the professor wrote. "This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project."

Even "left- and center-leaning" publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said.

It's no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting "state terrorism."

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"Surviving state terrorism will not be easy," however. "During this period, we must remember that the current project is an elaborate exercise in political theater designed to spread fear, isolation, and division."

"Acts of radical care, everyday courage, and collective action are the most effective antidote to state terrorism."

Wesley Yang @wesyang

The media celebrated a 17-year old female mathematical prodigy while actively suppressing the fact in the initial report that the girl is actually a boy. It's not hard to do the intersectional math and figure out why the story wasn't framed as a triumph of "transgender inclusion." A weird confluence of different interests at play, among them the fact that 1.) a contagion of trans-identification is ripping through the male nerd population and 2.) STEM and tech are "solving" their gender problems with a burgeoning new cohort of these male nerds who "identify" as a women

1.) We want there to be an inspiring female math prodigy
2.) We have one! But he's a boy.
3.) But trans girls are girls, right? No?
4.) No they aren't.
5.) OK, just leave it out.

Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the worm" are how societies pass wisdom from mouth to ear. What aphorisms people use tell you about their cultural values.

Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo find that aphorisms that encourage individuality, responsibility, and tolerance for others' thoughts are no longer being used by the young. In fact, some young people say they've never heard of these formerly-common aphorisms like "It's a free country."

In May, we surveyed 1,122 American adults about common expressions related to free speech and intellectual pluralism. And while the results show some promising potential trends, they also illustrate ways our cultural climate isn't as free speech-friendly as it could be.

Before we go further, a quick pedantic point: It can be argued that many of the sayings in question aren't technically idioms, which are defined as common phrases or expressions that carry symbolic rather than literal meanings -- e.g., "raining cats and dogs," "break the ice," or "by the skin of my teeth." And while we love being pedantic, let's agree to use a looser definition of the term, which can be interchangeable with "expression," "phrase," or "saying," for the sake of this piece.

Um, the word you're searching for is "aphorism."

Do people not know what words mean any longer?

But let's continue:

The FIRE/NORC 2025 Idioms Survey, which was conducted through NORC's AmeriSpeak panel, focused mainly on participants' familiarity with and usage of the following expressions:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

"It's a free country."

"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion."

"Walk a mile in someone else's shoes."

"To each their own."

"Different strokes for different folks."

"Who am I to judge?"

"Address the argument, not the person."

The good news is, recognition of the vast majority of these idioms was generally very high across all participants, ranging from 76 to 85%.

In fact, only 6% of surveyed participants said they hadn't heard any of these expressions before.

But that's the percentage who hadn't heard of all of the aphorisms. More people haven't heard of particular ones.

Given that these particular sayings tend to communicate perspectives that are in favor of "small-D" democratic values like free speech, epistemic humility, and intellectual pluralism, it's a very good thing that people are familiar with them.

The bad news is that, while recognition was high across the board, participants reported both hearing and using these phrases at low numbers.

For each of the selected idioms, 30% of participants or fewer said they heard them used "fairly" or "very" often, and at most only 21% reported using them "fairly" or "very" often themselves.

Even the most well-known phrases still achieved low double-digit results on the survey questions. For example, there are few sayings that would be more helpful for the promotion of free speech culture than "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," and we'd love for it to be more prevalent in our culture. Unfortunately, only 28% of participants reported hearing this expression either "fairly" or "very" often, and only 21% reported using it at those same levels.

A bet everyone routinely hears about the progressive stack and deplatforming Nazis and fascists and authoritarians, though.

Stanky hoe-ass American women are now getting, get this, tattoos of hair in their armpits so that they always appear hairy and smelly even if they shave.

To be honest, I don't imagine this is a super-popular trend. In fact it might just be this one stanky hoe-ass.

But it's still something that this particular stanky hoe-ass wants to show off on social media and be praised for.

I guess she's trying to Defeat the Male Gaze but I gotta tell you, honey, you're working too hard. God took care of that for ya.

It's totally the children's choice, right? Sex and the City "star" Cynthia Nixon: "My kid is trans, my sister's kids are trans, every kid I know is trans and proud."

Woke "history teacher" wants her kids to know that when Brown People practiced child sacrifice, it was a good, Mostly Peaceful type of child sacrifice, because they just wanted their heathen gods to deliver a good crop and also the children who had their hearts pulled out of their still-heaving chests "volunteered" to be executed.

These teachers are all so intelligent, educated, competent, and mentally healthy that I can't believe we're able to keep them on as teachers for only $100,000 per year, insane benefits and retirement packages, and a work year consisting of just over 180 days out of 365. Surely they could make so much more money as aerospace engineers and mathematicians specializing in higher-dimensional topography.

Noted Stock Market Wizard Nancy Pelosi: "We're are hoping we can have gender-affirming care for our trans kids."

Prime Time #99 Alex Stein drops some transgender truth bombs in the Texas Senate.

How far are you willing to go to do what must be done?

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