The Week in Woke

The Bee:

The only thing better than Experts are Diversity Experts.

'Latinx' leader who served as Oregon policy advisor was illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes

BTW, this is an American outlet, the Washington Examiner. Are we now adopting the British punctuation standard of using single quotation marks -- ' ' -- for quotes, instead of the double quotation marks -- " " -- America has used for a long time?

Just let me know. I don't care either way, I just want to know what we're doing here.

An illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called "Latinx" community leader.

Now we're back to the double quotes. What is even going on.

Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminally convicted Venezuelan national who had overstayed his visa, according to U.S. immigration authorities, served in several committee roles advising the state of Oregon on policy areas such as behavioral health, "health equity," and healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status.

Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and "educator," he was on Oregon's Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status.

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On the Oregon government website, the board's community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is "currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history."

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Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state's health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system.

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Garcia's membership bio says he uses "they/them" pronouns and represents "indigenous populations in South America from a culturally humble level, as well as Spanish-speaking BIPOC communities in Central America."

Outstanding. Give yourselves all a big raise.

The "British Man" who stabbed 10 people on a train slashed a man's face to ribbons months before and the police said "ah you rascal, get out of here you scamp."

Police are to reopen a case in which a taxi passenger's face was slashed by a knife-wielding stranger - after witnesses said they were convinced the attacker was the same man held for the Huntingdon train rampage.

Ricky Butcher needed 15 stitches to a slash wound to his face after being attacked at random in September by a man he now believes could have been accused train attacker Anthony Williams.

If confirmed, this would increase growing speculation that last weekend's train rampage might have been prevented.

The attack happened just over a month before the train attack on Saturday night in which ten people were stabbed, some critically.

Mr Butcher was set upon seemingly at random as he waited for a minicab home after a night out in Peterborough on September 27.

But to Mr Butcher's astonishment it was just two days after the terrifying attack that he received an SMS from Cambridgeshire Police - the same force now holding Williams - saying they were closing the case as there was insufficient evidence to make an arrest likely.

They were too busy arresting people for mean but accurate tweets about migrant rape to investigate this run-of-the-mill Diversity Knife Attack.

JaimeJessop @Janine511484078

I'm losing count of the number of serious knife incidents Williams was involved in prior to Huntingdon, where police failed to act on each occasion. Taken together, involving the same suspect, who police must have been aware of, this is VERY SUSPICIOUS. They ignored EVERY warning

Ollyp3 @ollyp3

I've lost count. Armed with a knife in a barber shop twice. In a town once (at least), stabbed on the DLR. Stabbed on this reported occasion. So many chances to avoid what happened. Practically rubbing his knife with intent to use it under police noses! Zero arrest. Bonkers

Alert the police. I've found two terrorists, commenting on the news.

The Best and the Brightest continue to impress:

Princeton University is launching a new anthropology course on "Gender, Reproduction, and Genocide" in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israel-Hamas war on par with the Holocaust. The for-credit, graded course is being taught by a "noted Palestinian feminist" who has made provably false claims that Hamas did not kill babies or rape women on Oct. 7, and also called for an end to the Jewish state.

"Drawing on decolonial, Indigenous, and feminist thought, we examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures, and community survival," the course description reads. "Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony, and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence, while situating Gaza within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide against Black and Indigenous populations."

She must be fun:

al @ceaseium

sex with a man under the hetero-patriarchy will always be disgusting and humiliating for a woman. we're socially programmed to romanticize sex, to worship the phallus, but none of that romance stands to any meaning when men, your husbands and boyfriends, see you as a sex object

Ketanji Brown-Jackson, the low-IQ underprepared Mean Girl of the Supreme Court.

To negotiate in good faith or go scorched earth?

That appears to be the key question plaguing the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal justices as they strategize on how best to lose in key cases that come before the bench, according to a new report.

Published Friday by New York Times lacky Jodi Kantor, the extensive exposé features claims from anonymous confidants and associates of the justices about an alleged ongoing dispute among the court's Democrat appointees. This friction, according to these unnamed individuals, centers on the justices' differing views on how to effectively navigate the court's current makeup and dominating originalist jurisprudence.

In one camp are Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, both of whom have sought to establish cordial relationships with their Republican-appointed colleagues. The article specifically homes in on Kagan, and how she has strategically sought to find areas of compromise with her conservative colleagues -- namely, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett -- to try and narrow the scope of a ruling (or, on rare occasions, produce a left-wing "victory") in any given case.

In the other camp is the Supreme Court's newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson. According to the sources who spoke with the Times, it is Jackson's public remarks and penchant for using antagonistic language in her dissents that are purportedly irking Kagan.

"Admirers of Justice Kagan say she is prudent to show restraint, displaying her frustration only in flashes. Justice Jackson's outspokenness could risk those votes, or further erode faith in a court that may yet stand up to Mr. Trump, they say," the report reads.

Since joining the high court, Jackson has regularly employed aggressive (and quite frankly, embarrassing) rhetoric to trash her conservative-leaning colleagues. In one particular case involving the Trump administration before the court's emergency docket earlier this year, for example, the Biden appointee authored a lone dissenting opinion all but accusing the Republican appointees of abandoning all proper jurisprudence in order to bend over backward for the government.

"This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist," Jackson wrote. "Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins."

The hostile opinion seemingly demonstrates the failures of Sotomayor and Kagan to avoid causing any unneeded friction between the conservative and liberal factions. According to the Times, the two Obama appointees attempted to "advise and coordinate with Justice Jackson" on the tone of her opinions at the outset of her SCOTUS career, in an apparent effort to help sustain their bid to court Barrett, "whose vote they desperately needed."

Although Jackson "sometimes deferred, softening or withdrawing opinions," the Times reported, "she also felt compelled to express frank disagreement even if it caused friction."

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What's become glaringly apparent, as further indicated by the Times' story, is that Jackson has completely forgone (assuming she considered it at all) the Kagan approach of building bridges instead of burning them. Rather than forge professional, working relationships and write to convince her colleagues to come around to her side of the argument, she's opted to pen left-wing "girl boss" fiction for her legacy media fanbase.

That Thing That Never Happens somehow -- get this -- happened again.

Reelected Kansas Mayor Faces Charges Of Voting As Noncitizen

When registering to vote, the only proof of citizenship is checkmark on a postcard, indicating yes or no, "Are you a U.S. citizen?"

The day after Coldwater, Kansas, Mayor ​Joe Ceballos was reelected to a second four-year term this week, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed election fraud charges against him. Ceballos, 54, is not a U.S. citizen, but he is not in the country illegally; "he is a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Mexico," Kobach said.

"In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen. We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times," Kobach said in a statement.

Ceballos faces three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury. The charges are "nonperson felonies" that could cost Ceballos more than five years in prison. He is alleged to have voted at least in the 2022 and 2023 general elections and the 2024 primary election, although he has apparently been registered to vote since 1990.

He was not charged for holding office, although it is a problem.

"Kansas law at KSA 15-209 requires a city officer to be a qualified elector. And being a qualified elector requires that person to be a United States citizen," Kobach said during a press conference. "It is not a criminal offense to be in violation of that law, but it is worth noting."

I know what you're thinking, Racists, and you're wrong.

Actually I don't know what your Racist minds are thinking, but I'm sure, whatever it is, it's wrong.

The Sierra Club has destroyed itself, claims the Daily Mail. It abandoned its foundational mission of agitating about the environment in favor of DEI, DEI, DEI.

Longtime members of the iconic Sierra Club warn the environmental group is imploding after woke infighting destroyed its focus on nature, driving away members and donors.

The once-powerful group, founded in 1892, had long been a giant of American environmentalism, making its name through causes including establishing Earth Day.

But in the last six years the club has lost 60 percent of its membership and is reportedly facing a $40 million projected budget deficit despite several rounds of staff layoffs.

Insiders said issues began during Donald Trump's first term in office a decade ago as the as the group positioned itself in opposition to his rollbacks on environmental laws.

The position attracted a flurry of new members and saw the organization flush with $2 million in donations in just two weeks.

However problems reportedly arose as leaders looked to capitalize on its influence by expanding the club into an umbrella activist group, crusading on progressive issues ranging from racial justice, gay rights and immigration.

Insiders told the New York Times that they were issued an 'equity language guide' and found themselves being scolded for not prioritizing equity and diversity.

'One of the staff said, "That's fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?"' she recalled.

Earlier this year the Sierra Club fired its first black executive director, Ben Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, after the group hired him in 2022 to reverse its declining membership and donations.

According to the Times, his tenure was marked by 'accusations of sexual harassment, bullying, and overspending', and insiders said the organization spread itself too thin across an array of woke causes.

Jealous told Politico after he was fired that he felt he was subjected to discrimination and a 'campaign' against him, and before he was ousted he said he 'raised concerns about racial discrimination and retaliation I saw in the Sierra Club.'

The censors went quickly to work at Sierra Club, banning words:

Outstanding. The very highest level of competency:

James Esses @JamesEsses

In June, a BBC teleprompter instructed presenter, Martine Croxall, to say 'pregnant people'.

She, bravely, corrected this term by saying 'women'.

Today, the BBC has announced that she broke the rules because of her "facial expression".

Our national broadcaster is a disgrace.

Video here.

Michelle Obama is doing Michelle Obama things again, like claiming she was oppressed by her taxpayer-funded hair and make-up team, and that she showed the world that...

Well, you'll see.

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