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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 -
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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 -
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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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‘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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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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No One Elected Woke CEOs
Woke corporate CEOs seem to think they know better than voters what’s best for the country. These titans are throwing their companies’ clout and cash behind activists pushing gender-fluidity lessons for kindergarteners and other extreme political causes. Expect this corporate activism to backfire. Corporations should be serving their customers, not trying to override the democratic…Betsy McCaughey -
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When ‘Emperors’ Preach Woke Investments, Much Can Go Wrong for Rest of Us
The misappropriation of the economic freedom of millions of mom-and-pop investors by BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink has unintended consequences. “We have a new bunch of emperors, and they’re the people who vote the shares in the index funds,” Charlie Munger, business partner of philanthropist Warren Buffett and a big proponent of index fund investing,…Patrick Tyrrell -
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6 Examples of Woke Pork Projects in Omnibus Spending Bill
When congressional leaders rolled out the 2,700-page, $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill this week, they made sure to lard it up with plenty of pork. Such so-called earmarks were banned by conservatives a decade ago after high-profile cases of corruption were exposed, sending members of Congress and lobbyists to prison, and after clear examples of…Matthew Dickerson -
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Hijacking Christianity: Why ‘Wokeness Is Anti-Gospel’
At the start of the Cold War, a young Foreign Service officer named George Kennan wrote a lengthy description of the mindset of the Soviet leadership to explain their “uncooperative behavior.” His insights eventually became famous as “The Long Telegram,” and it was critical to helping American leadership understand the worldview that drove the Soviets,…Katharine Gorka