The Week In Woke

Oh dear: The last employer I would have expected to issue a "Return to Office" order to its "workers" has just done so.

The DNC says that all of its Shiftless Layabouts and otherwise-unemployable Antifa Shock Troopers on its payroll must return to actual work, and, get this, the Shiftless Layabouts and Antifa soldiers don't like it one bit.

DNC Staffers Seethe at Full-Time Return to Office: 'A Flurry of Thumbs-Down Emojis and Other Online Expressions of Discontent'

Thumbs-down emojis? Oh dear, this is more serious than I thought.

Years after the COVID-19 pandemic ended, Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin on Wednesday ordered staffers to work in-person at the office, prompting anger from employees and accusations from the committee's union that the decision is "callous" and "shocking."

Immediately after "Martin explained that a full-time return to the office was necessary to ensure that information wasn't being siloed and that staff members would not miss out on time-sensitive decisions," employees began complaining, with remote workers sending "a flurry of thumbs-down emojis and other online expressions of discontent" on Zoom, the New York Times reported. Martin suggested that staff members who dislike the policy "should consider finding another job elsewhere," describing the move as a "'Band-Aid' that was overdue in being ripped off."

By the end of the day, the DNC employees' union, SEIU Local 500, blasted the decision, writing that "it was shocking to see the D.N.C. chair disregard staff's valid concerns on today's team call."

Shock is just outrage with raised eyebrows and an open mouth.

The "conservative" Supreme Court rejected a motion to review the lawless Obergefell case that invented a constitutional right to gay marriage and imposed it on the country without any actual political process.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a long-shot request that could have given the justices a chance to overturn the landmark decision recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

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The Supreme Court did not provide an explanation for rejecting the application.

The case was brought by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who refused to issue a gay couple a marriage license in 2015. Her appeal claims that the court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges was "egregiously wrong" and "deeply damaging."

That's the clerk who, if I remember right, refused to sign a marriage certificate because it was against her religious beliefs. The left demanded he be forced to abandon those beliefs. They could have just had a judge permit someone else in government to sign it, but that's not what they want. What they want is to make you comply.

The Court didn't necessarily reject the opportunity to review Obergefell because they support the decision. It's also possible that they didn't see this case as presenting a challenge to Obergefell "squarely," as they say -- Obergefell might be so ancillary to this woman's lawsuit that they didn't think the challenge was "fairly presented." Courts don't rule on major questions of constitutional law unless they're forced to, or unless they are liberals who really want to slap Trump with injunctions.

When I read that a "Texas DA" was letting a repeat child r*pist off with no jailtime, I assumed he was from Austin/Travis County.

Yup:

A Texas man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child will avoid prosecution on nine felony counts after striking a plea deal with a George Soros-backed Travis County prosecutor, according to a report.

Austin's ABC affiliate KVUE reported that Richard Leigh Bell, 37, was indicted on nine felony charges -- including one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and two counts of indecency with a child. Those charges were dropped as part of a plea deal that allowed Bell to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child, a third-degree felony.

Under the deal, Bell was sentenced to five years of deferred probation. He must register as a sex offender and is barred from contacting the victim, her family or any minors, KVUE reported. The plea included no jail time.

Outside the courtroom on Monday, the victim's father told KVUE he was blindsided by the decision and said prosecutors Efrain De La Fuente and Lorraine Garcia failed to include him in discussions about the plea.

Richard Leigh Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to a lesser felony after prosecutors dropped nine child sex abuse charges as part of a plea deal. (Rockbridge Regional Jail)

"I was outraged to find out that this was not only our first and last plea deal, but this was our deal whether I liked it or not," he said.

The father, who was not named to protect the victim's identity, said he had expected a prison sentence for Bell.

"I think any parent would expect somebody to rot in jail for doing something like this," he told KVUE. "As time went on, I expected a realistic plea deal to be years at least--long enough to serve some time in prison where you belong if you have successfully carried out pedophilic acts."

"Marginalized" and yet insanely entitled and imperious left-wing woman says you MAGA people are "racist" and even "fascist" if you do your job as a citizen and stop one of her cousins from committing a theft. Obviously she has a nosering and is so ugly that she will never know love, but you knew that.

Face-tattoo? Check. Nosering? Check. Insane entitlement? Check. Tasteless profanity? Check. Casual defense of criminality? Check. Unemployable and unf***able goth mutant thinks it's unfair that people have to take tests to get a drivers license and says that's why people drive without licenses. BTW, standard Modern America math skills on this one.

Yesterday I mentioned Seattle's new socialist mayor, who vowed she will not "allow" grocery stores to close. Apparently she intends to enslave the owners of grocery stores and force them to work against their will.

Here's an update: She only won that race because of a sudden dump of ballots arriving, get this, after the actual election.

Democratic mayoral candidate Katie Wilson, a self-professed socialist, has unseated incumbent Democratic Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, multiple outlets projected eight days after polls closed.

Wilson, an activist who has been widely compared to socialist Democratic New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, received 50.2% of votes compared to Harrell's 49.5%, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) on Wednesday. While Wilson was initially behind in the vote count, late ballot dumps that broke in her favor were enough to put the leftist challenger over the finish line.

The sitting mayor led in early returns, prompting DDHQ to initially call the race for him on Nov. 6 -- while there were still about 100,000 votes left to count. DDHQ retracted the call just one day later. King County Elections told the DDHQ website that there were tens of thousands fewer ballots left to count than there actually were.

Washington is one of eight states that uses universal mail-in voting. The state does not require voter ID to cast ballots by mail.

Champion of the marginalized Jasmine Ratchet gives huge amounts of her money to charities such as Limos for Peace, the Four Star Hotel Foundation and the Tony Resort Fund.

The Tony Resort Fund -- Money for Tony Resorts.

Just this year, Crockett expended $75,000 -- almost $10,000 higher than the average annual U.S. salary -- on luxuries like limos, resorts, and personal security. Fox News obtained Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings detailing Crockett's reckless and lavish spending.

Crockett is the congresswoman who is voting against the deal to end the shutdown, who referred to ICE amidst mounting anti-law enforcement violence as "slave patrols," and called a rape/murder victim of an illegal alien a "random dead person." She screamed about Trump's ballroom, called to defund police, and asserted Republicans are restricting healthcare (by which she means no Obamacare for illegals). And like AOC, who wore a pricey "Tax the Rich" dress to a very expensive and exclusive event, Crockett never practices what she preaches. You see, we are not supposed to have law enforcement protection, steady jobs, or reasonable taxes -- she's too busy paying for her security and indulgent lifestyle off our money.

Fox found Crockett booked herself luxury hotels and transportation services in cities that included Martha's Vineyard, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Notably, the expenses reviewed by Fox do not seem to indicate any significant expenditures in her home district, which includes Dallas. She couldn't even bother to help out a few local businesses with her extravagant spending.

Altogether, Fox found $25,748.87 for hotels and limos in her campaign spending this year.

In case you missed it, far-left radio host and AWFL White Woman Stephanie Miller made a great and gross spectacle of kissing Jasmine Ratchet's feet.

At the Free Press, but excerpted at PJ Media: Many "college students" can no longer do the simplest grade-school math.

Students who are not ready for UC San Diego's regular math classes are placed in a remedial class that was created in 2016 and meant to serve about 1 percent of the incoming class. This fall, about 8.5 percent of incoming students wound up in the remedial math class, which focuses on elementary- and middle-school math subjects, according to the report. Another 3.3 percent of the incoming students were placed in a class that covers high-school math topics such as algebra and geometry.

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Officials at UC San Diego also blamed grade inflation and the expansion of admissions from 'under-resourced high schools,' writes Nau. Schools are terrified of failing anyone. Not only is it expensive to pay for a student to repeat a grade, but the school opens itself up to legal action from an angry parent. Letting the child slide to the next grade is so much easier.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as "The Nation's Report Card," found in 2025 that just 22% of students were proficient in math and 35% were proficient in reading. "The percentage of eighth graders who have 'below basic' reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam's three-decade history -- 33 percent," reported the New York Times.

The saddest and scariest thought I have is the one I have when I hear HB-1 defenders saying we have to import foreign workers, American graduates are simply not equipped for the workforce. The thought I have is: I'm beginning to think they're not lying.

Who's responsible for this state of affairs? We may never know the true culprits.

Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing

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While studying at one of the "top" higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as "ideologically violent" for arguing in favor of standardized testing.

This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.

His book "Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher," written under the pen name "Yellow Heights," raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.

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Yellow Heights describes himself as a "former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher." He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two. He writes under a penname and requested anonymity due to concerns about political and job discrimination due to his views.

"This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions," according to the book's Amazon page.

Before the Ohio government banned DEI hirng, Ohio "colleges" went into Berserker Mode hiring DEI dum-dums.

Now the schools are positively choked with incompetent know-nothings.

In 2021, at the height of the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, Ohio State University's then-president Kristina Johnson announced a bold initiative: the university would hire 50 professors whose scholarship addressed "social equity and racial disparities" and seek to recruit "100 underrepresented and BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color] hires in all fields of scholarship."

Overnight, Ohio's flagship university became one of the country's leading DEI champions. Today, it's still dealing with the consequences. Newly acquired records provide an inside look at the initiative and how it shaped the university's research agenda. In one hiring cycle, 60 percent of new faculty roles in the arts and humanities focused on race, social justice, or diversity.

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Job listings show the extent of Ohio State's commitment to DEI. At about the same time the university sought to hire a scholar of "indigenous knowledges," the anthropology department advertised a position for an archaeologist who emphasized "decolonization, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, and/or Indigenous ontologies." The philosophy department called for a professor of "philosophy of race" to explore the "metaphysics of race" and "epistemological significance of race or racism."

Who was recruited for the DEI-focused roles? Other documents list the candidates, revealing hiring practices both overtly ideological and, at times, comical.

One of those documents, a search committee's recruitment report, described the finalists for a role as scholar who researches the "intersections of race, science and technology studies (STS), and public health." In the report, the search committee emphasized that diversity, equity, and inclusion would be paramount considerations as it made the new hire. The committee's finalists showed what they had in mind. The report observed that one of those candidates "examines the racialization of fatness and its linkages to histories of health, nation, and empire." Another explores how "NASA's Mars Exploration Program rovers represent 'autonomous colonial laboratories.'"

The search committee touted these candidates' progressive bona fides--and their demographic characteristics. One candidate, the committee noted, was "a disabled scholar and queer woman of color." Another "interrogate[s] how fatphobia and ableism are institutionalized in public infrastructure through race science, gender oppression, and legacies of colonialism." That candidate "identifies as 'a first generation, fat, queer scholar of color.'"

Again, that terrible thought: What if immigration enthusiasts are telling the truth when they say Americans are just too stupid to work? What if we're already caught in the Idiocracy doom-spiral?

An Outkick reporter tried to cover a Michigan women's vollyball team that is tearing up the competition thanks to a Male Cheater. The reporter was "harassed and stalked" by LOVE IS LOVE transgender extremists.

Including the school's principal.

The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) on Monday was "still gathering information" about an incident that took place during a girls' high school volleyball match involving an OutKick reporter.

OutKick's Dan Zaksheske detailed the harassment he faced while covering Ann Arbor Skyline High School's win over Dexter on Thursday night. Ann Arbor Skyline has had success during the fall season thanks to a transgender athlete who competes on the team.

Zaksheske wrote on Thursday night that he was shadowed by Ann Arbor Skyline principal Casey Elmore throughout the game and harassed and stalked by supporters. He called Ann Arbor Police and asked to send an officer just in case. The officer showed up to the match as it was ending.

Fox News Digital reached out to Ann Arbor Public Schools for comment.

"I really felt like this was a complete and utter failure by both the MHSAA and Ann Arbor Public Schools," Zaksheske told Fox News Digital. "For the principal to watch someone be harassed on her campus, on her property, and to not only allow it to continue, but in some instances almost seem to be encouraging more of it, I don't know how she can justify herself as an educator allowing that kind of thing to go on."

The school issued a BS statement claiming it was "gathering facts" about the incident but, get this, they're lying. They haven't even contacted the reporter who was "stalked."

Kimmerly didn't immediately respond to a question about details of the investigation, including whether officials spoke to Zaksheske or other people who were mentioned in the report.

Zaksheske said he hasn't been contacted by the MHSAA as part of its inquiry into last week's incident.

The stalking here is more serious than I think it seems, because a government official is doing it, and apparently is sanctioned in this behavior by the state itself.

Repeatedly screaming in someone's ear is no joke. It's actually an assault.

The T-shirt this smug Pseudomale Karen is wearing is, I think -- based on a quick google search for possibilities -- "May You Have the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man." So you know what you're dealing with here.

Incredible: She has infinite grievances, and they just keep getting more and more trivial.

Oh my God, when I go to Nobu they don't even have the particular species of whitefish that affirms my African heritage, the oppression is so great I can hardly bear to eat the waygu-wrapped toro tuna...

Seattle's new mayor, who is even more woke and more communist than the last one, declares she will not "allow" grocery stores to close.

I guess she means she intends to reintroduce slavery.

Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September.

Wilson said during her mayoral run that corporate grocery chains should not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it and expressed support for a "public option," meaning that government-run grocery stores would be established. Her proposal emerged at a time when Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had promised to establish government-run grocery stores throughout the city.

"Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores that will leave behind food deserts," Wilson said. "Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural, corporations create them when they abandon our communities."

The Bee: Tucker Carlson is... TIMECRANK.

posted by Ace at 05:10 PM

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