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    Buenos Aires Bans Woke Spanish in Schools
    In yet another blow to the radical left’s attempts to mangle the language of Cervantes, the capital of one of South America’s largest countries has said schools can no longer teach bastardized, woke Spanish.  Buenos Aires City Hall recently announced it was banning the use of so-called inclusive Spanish in the city’s schools. According to…
    Douglas Blair
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    What Medicare Patients Should Know About Biden’s Woke ‘Anti-Racism’ Rule
    Your Medicare doctor better get to Woke School. The federal government wants her to take time away from patient care and create an “equity plan” to root out supposed “systemic racism” that allegedly pervades American health care and creates disparities in health outcomes between racial and ethnic minorities and the general population. Pursuant to final…
    Robert Moffit
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    Like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais Feels the Woke Heat 
    Editor’s note: This article contains quotes from Ricky Gervais’ new special that include adult language.  Move over Dave Chappelle, it’s Ricky Gervais’ turn to face his struggle session with the Twitter harpies.   The English comedian is facing blowback for his new Netflix comedy special where, among other topics, he pokes fun at transgender and LGBT…
    Douglas Blair
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    Here’s How to Hold Woke Capital Accountable
    If one was to create a test to evaluate how corporate America treats freedom of speech and religious liberty, how well do you think they would do? A pair of organizations just released such a test and, perhaps to no one’s surprise, the corporations didn’t do well. If assigned by letter grade, most companies received…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Netflix Cracks Down on Employee Activism. Is Woke Capital in Retreat?
    Not everything that goes woke goes broke. But if you’re going broke, you better ditch the woke. That’s what’s going on at Netflix, the online subscription streaming service that’s fallen on hard times. Netflix announced that it lost over 200,000 subscribers in the first three months of the year and expects to lose millions more…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    What Happens When Big Businesses Go Woke
    Women who want to appear to be men now can buy “compression tops” at Target to hide their breasts. Starbucks, among other companies, will pay travel costs for employees to have an abortion if they live in a state that restricts the procedure. And Disney says it’s outraged that kindergarteners can’t be taught gender ideology…
    Virginia Allen | Lauren Evans
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    What to Do If You’re a Conservative at a Woke Company
    Companies like Disney and Nike have become more woke and frequently make the news for their radical political positions. Employees of these companies frequently push the larger business to move even further left, and take even more woke positions. But what happens if someone is an employee of a woke company and isn’t woke themselves?…
    Douglas Blair
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    Doctor Reveals How Woke Activists Have Infiltrated Medicine
    Woke activists have infiltrated nearly every institution of American life. From academia to Hollywood, the radical left has successfully marched its way to power. Most dangerously, the left has infiltrated an institution where people’s very lives are at stake: health care. Woke health care “just goes against medical ethics,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb says. “The tradition…
    Douglas Blair
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    California Could Lead Charge in Fight Against Woke Education
    Just a few short years ago, local school boards were the sleepiest of sleepy government backwaters, with news coverage typically assigned to the unfortunate rookie at the local paper or TV station. Recent events involving COVID-19 school closings, critical race theory, gender identity indoctrination, and the draconian arrest of a Loudoun County, Virginia, parent just…
    Greg Karraker | Celeste Fiehler
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    Florida Textbook Publishers Surrender to DeSantis, Scrub Woke Content
    Textbook publishers are surrendering to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ demands that math instructional materials get in line with state standards, allowing more books to be added to the approved list, according to the Florida Department of Education. “Publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content allowing the department of education…
    Kendall Tietz
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    Radical Left Targets Video Games as Hotbeds of Right-Wing Extremism 
    Gamers, beware, the left is coming for you.   A new report from Axios exclaims that “far-right extremists are a growing presence in gaming” and that “the industry’s hidden metrics, lackluster content moderation and head-in-the-sand attitudes get in the way of assessing and combatting the problem.”  Axios cited a 2019 report from the notoriously partisan Anti-Defamation…
    Douglas Blair
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    ‘This Should Not Be Controversial’: Georgia Governor Signs Bills to Banish Wokeness From Schools
    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed seven education bills into law Thursday taking aim at wokeness in schools, including legislation that limits discussions about race in classrooms and transgender students’ ability to compete in women’s sports. The bills included Georgia’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, or HB 1178, which “provides greater transparency to parents and legal guardians regarding what…
    Kendall Tietz
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    In Name of ‘Consumer Protection,’ Government Forces Financial Institutions to Go Woke
    The crises of recent years tend to erase from memory those that preceded them. One, as you may recall, was the financial collapse of 2008—a collapse deemed by many as the worst since the Great Depression. That collapse swept into power a government like the one we have now: the White House and both houses…
    Star Parker
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    Kids’ Books in the Woke Era
    Bookstores now sell only certain kinds of children’s books. “Go into Barnes & Noble,” says Bethany Mandel in my new video, “and you will be met with a wall of biographies. Probably 27 different books about former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Great. A ton about Kamala Harris. Great.” But where are the biographies…
    John Stossel
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    Are Law Schools Now Woke Factories?
    Students at three recent college events threatened violence against conservative speakers, along with the student groups that invited them to speak on campus.  This may be commonplace today, but what makes this hostility so much more shocking is that it occurred at colleges once considered eminent law schools: Georgetown University Law Center, Hastings College of…
    Richard M. Reinsch II
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    Oreos Gone Woke: Is Nothing Off Limits to LGBT Left?
    “Milk’s favorite cookie” wants you to know it’s OK to be gay—again. I’m sure you’ve wondered, as you’ve dipped your delicious, cream-filled cookie (Double Stuf, please!) into a nice, cold glass of milk: What is Oreo’s policy about coming out? Wonder no more. Not even a Birthday Cake Oreo—or my kids’ favorite, the Fudge Covered…
    Nicole Russell
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    Woke Disney Hates America. It Wasn’t Always This Way.
    Leftists across the country reacted with abject horror after progressive juggernaut Disney announced last week it would expand Disney+ operations to several Middle Eastern and African countries that criminalize homosexuality.   A day before, the company released a statement on its Twitter account excoriating Florida for passing a piece of parental rights legislation, maligned in the…
    Douglas Blair
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    Cancel Culture Is Helping Marxists Achieve Their Revolution in the West Without the Bloodshed
    Cancel culture is sometimes mistaken as the central problem in the life of the West. This happens, I have noticed, more among our U.K. cousins than stateside. Cancel culture, however, is merely a tool, the enforcement mechanism with which the woke left retains the cultural territory it has conquered. The central problem facing citizens of…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Hollywood Face-Slaps Conservatives
    Goodness! What a night. During the live broadcast of the Academy Awards, actor Will Smith walked up to the stage and face-slapped comedian Chris Rock. When Smith returned to his seat, he unleashed a profanity-laced tirade—muted by the show’s producer—at Rock. What did Rock do to warrant the attack? He told a joke about Smith’s…
    Larry Elder
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    A New Way to Fight Woke Corporations
    This week, the Walt Disney Co., which has approximately 200,000 employees spanning the globe, decided to radically reshape its politics in response to a tiny contingent of radical activists. According to The Wall Street Journal, Disney CEO Bob Chapek had steadfastly refused to embroil his company in the politics of the various states and countries…
    Ben Shapiro
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