The Week In Woke

Surprise! SNAP/EBT benefits are widely scammed and used by illegal aliens not entitled to them.

Across three-fifths of the United States, the Trump administration has found half a million people receiving SNAP benefits twice over and 5,000 dead people receiving them. In deep blue states, the fraud is probably much worse.

It is important to clarify that 20+ states out of the 50 did not comply with the federal government's request for information on SNAP beneficiaries, likely because they are trying to hide how many illegal aliens are illicitly receiving food stamps. So the horrifying numbers revealed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show, The Ingraham Angle, are actually incomplete, and will probably be much higher if the administration can make radical Democrat states provide the necessary data.

Rollins, having mentioned the blue states' incomplete SNAP data, stated that "of the 29 that complied, what we have found is staggering. Half a million people getting benefits two times under the same name, [likewise] 5,000 dead people." Those 5,000 cases are probably family members continuing to receive SNAP benefits instead of the deceased individuals. In any case, we are wasting huge amounts of taxpayer money on beneficiaries who have passed away and greedy double-dippers.

The secretary continued to list off food stamp recipient statistics: "80% [are] able-bodied Americans, meaning they can work, they don't have small children at home, they're not taking care of an elderly parent. They can work, and they choose not to work, of course, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer."

To balance out the able-bodied people getting food stamps, the Democrats have thoughtfully allowed dead people to receive food stamps too. It all works out somehow.

Billion dollar nepo baby Alex Soros is pushing his bizarre idea of what "democracy" is, and Data Republican explained to the public what Alex Sorors' not-so-hidden definition of democracy is.

Surprise! By "Democracy," Alex Soros means a small cadre of global techocratic elites imposing their will on a public that has been stripped of the right to vote.

DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican

Hello Alex,

You say your work is dedicated to strengthening democracy. I have one simple question for you.

In your 30th anniversary publication, you had an article from your longtime head of Open Society Fund-Serbia, Sonja Licht. She also happens to be one of the most decorated civilians in Europe and widely considered an expert in democracy:

🔹 Pro Merit Medal of the Council of Europe
🔹 Star of Italian Solidarity
🔹 French Legion of Honour

She has written and advised many democracy circles, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace among others.

In the article for Open Society, Licht openly discusses the problem of whether democracy can survive without trust in their leaders.

Her solution: "I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good--to whom the electorate, with their active involvement in public life, can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections... spearhead... our struggle to survive."

Read that again.

The idea of democracy as pushed by the head of one of your foundations is to literally stop "election results" and to have the public cede their trust to a technocratic elite.

End democracy to save democracy itself.

You cannot say that this is just a random musing of one employee. This is a woman who is highly regarded in democracy circles. This is a woman who ran one of your most prominent foundations during the fall of Milosevic. This is an article you platformed in your own thirtieth anniversary.

Now back to my question.

I am not going to ask a lame question like "what do you think democracy is?" -- I have spent over a thousand hours researching the topic for my book this year. I know what you think democracy is: it has nothing to do with elections and everything to do with ceding sovereignty to an unaccountable elite so you can implement your own twisted version of "equality" aka what most of us on the right call socialism.

Nor am I going to ask you if you disavow Sonja Licht. I know you won't and you never will. I know you agree with her secretly.

My question is:

Are you prepared for when your mask gets ripped off and everyone sees your version of "democracy" as the facade it is?

After criticism, the Trump Administration has slightly edited a report on "youth gender medicine." The new version of the report affirms that
"youth gender medicine" causes more harm than good.

Social scientist Lisa Littman put a target on her back seven years ago by documenting "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" in youth, prompting her to leave Brown University after the Ivy League school tried to discredit her research by implying her study was retracted rather than slightly revised.

Another publisher retracted a subsequent ROGD paper under threat of an academic boycott and a demand to fire the journal's editor, gender dysphoria research pioneer Kenneth Zucker, claiming it lacked "informed consent" for its use of opt-in survey data.

Now advocates for giving healthy children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to remove breasts and genitals have a fresh target: the newly identified authors of a "pediatric gender dysphoria" systematic review commissioned by the Trump administration, which concludes global evidence does not support such interventions.

The final report Wednesday made "fairly minor edits" to the original published this spring, gender medicine journalist Ben Ryan said in the New York Sun, documented in the 3-page errata now attached to the report.

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There's also a new 241-page supplement with peer reviews of the report recruited by the Department of Health and Human Services, most prominently by the American Psychiatric Association, and authors' replies to each.

HHS emphasized that the American Academy of Pediatrics and Endocrine Society -- strong supporters of so-called gender-affirming care for minors -- turned down its invitations.

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The American Medical Association and AAP "peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday, using the same confrontational tone as when his agency released the original.

"They betrayed their oath to first do no harm" and "inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people," which is "malpractice," he also said.

The authors' findings discredit "pediatric sex-rejecting procedures" and affirm the Make America Healthy Again Commission's findings, that "unnecessary procedures and long-term health risks such as infertility are the byproduct of the overmedicalization of children," HHS said.

"Sex-rejecting procedures" appear to have been first suggested as a replacement for "gender-affirming," and as an alternative to HHS's proposed "sex-trait modification," just a week after the original report's release, coined by the Ethics and Public Policy Center. It's also used on the assistant secretary for health's "priorities" page.

"Sex-rejecting procedures" is better than the Orewellian lie "gender-affirming."

The Washington Post editorial board commended the final report, albeit under the cagey headline "What we still don't know about pediatric medical transition."

The Post is slowly going non-woke.

While the evidence of harm is also "sparse," the authors emphasized this "may reflect the relatively short period of time since the widespread adoption of the medical/surgical treatment model; the failure of existing studies to systematically track and report harms; and publication bias."

And cowardly academics falsifying their findings to appease the trans terrorists.

From David Strom: As the UK begins to actually regulate and investigate Sex-Rejecting Procedures, trans maniacs are moving to online-only "consultations" and sales of artificial hormones.

Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter

Helen Webberley, whose GenderGP service is notorious in the U.K. for flouting bans on pediatric gender-transition treatment by shipping blockers and hormones to British minors from abroad, is rolling out her telemedicine services in the United States, starting in 12 months.

Stella O'Malley
@stellaomalley3

For anyone wondering why Helen Webberley is suddenly everywhere, it is because she is expanding her dreadful mercenary hormone-peddling service for vulnerable, autistic, same sex attracted young people into the US. She knows this is where the profits are $$$$$

Vanessa Sivadge
@V_Sivadge

Meet Helen Webberley, founder of GenderGP:

* In 2018, she was fined for running an unregistered clinic.

* In 2022, a medical tribunal found she had failed to fully discuss fertility risks and provide proper follow up to patients.

* In 2024, she surrendered her UK medical license after facing allegations of serious misconduct.

Nothing to see here, just your average gender provider with an alarming past.

I guess this is actually technically a woman, but I don't know why this pyrsyn would even need Sex-Rejecting Procedures. Because she looks like a dude.

A taxpayer-funded public library in PA is celebrating "Transgender Awareness Week" by, of course, pushing pro-trans propaganda on children.

As these activists admit themselves: they target children, and almost never adults, because children's minds are highly impressionable and easily changed.

Last week I reported (well, I linked) a Sixth Circuit opinion stating that schools cannot force students to use fake pronouns. The Court ruled that the school may not use its power and authority to "skew" a necessary and legitimate debate on a political issue by imposing a fake resolution to that debate on students.

Via Greg Foreman, woke activists are boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' about the ruling. The first gay whiner he features lisps that you are using "supremacy" -- note he doesn't say "white supremacy," because he is white himself, and that would be ridiculous -- to "abuse queer people." He also uses a term I hear more and more from the woke -- you are abusing "authentic humans," strongly implying that queer/minority folx are "authentic humans" and you are not authentically human yourself.

Huh. And yet they whine about "dehumanization" every three seconds.

CBS "News" sad story: A gay FBI agent who displayed his Pride flag at work in defiance of FBI rules says he's been unjustly fired, and CBS "News" agrees!

The Pride flag should replace the American flag! Gays must have special privileges or it's homophobic!

David Maltinsky, a 16-year FBI employee who was weeks away from being elevated to the position of agent, filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired because he had a Pride flag draped near his desk. "I knew I was on a list," he told CBS News' @MacFarlaneNews. "There was fear after the administration came in that they were going to start looking at all of our personnel files, where some of us did self-identify our sexual orientation, some people did identify as trans. So there was fear early on that DOGE was going to collect this and they were going to curate a list and get rid of 'the undesirables.'"

The more excitable readers may find this too disturbing to read, so caution: What you are about to read may be shocking.

But get this: The black female House member accused of stealing $5 million of FEMA covid funds for self-enrichment says that she's only being targeted because she's -- get this -- black and female.

Plot twist!

Let us all take a four minute meditation break to recover from that.

To aid you with your meditation, here's a ChillWave classic.

The Gaza fascists came for Van Jones at an environmental conference, accusing him of supporting "genocide" against terrorists, I mean Gazans.

Note how the left's security deals with left-wing disruptors. Perhaps we should take a lesson from them and emulate their aggressive tactics.

Irmak
@Irmak7425560771
Translated from Turkish

GREETINGS TO THOSE WHOSE CONSCIENCES ARE NOT DEAD OR EXTINGUISHED!

"Activists calling out to Jones, 'You can't feed children in Denver while babies in Gaza are dying of hunger!'", "May you be cursed for selling your soul", "How much money did you take to stand on the wrong side of history?"

lol