The Week In Woke

Blue states are hemorrhaging population and even worse, trillions in dollars of wealth they need to steal to fund their communist pipe-dreams.

Blue states have bled $2 trillion in wealth to red states in the last decade -- and New York leads the pack.New York had the biggest fall in cumulative adjusted gross income (AGI) -- losing $660 billion between 2012 and 2023.

California came next with $503 billion in the same time period.

In contrast, Florida gained $1.3 trillion, and Texas gained $371 billion between 2012 and 2023.

It comes as billionaire bigwigs are beginning their Big Apple exodus as a result of Mayor Mamdani's wealth-bashing agenda.

Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin and Marc Rowan both announced recently that they will move jobs out of New York in response to Mamdani's calls to "tax the rich."

From Ed Morrissey, Steve Jobs' Useless Widow's Vanity Project The Atlantic says that Democrats must reduce the toxicity of their brand by denouncing racist preferences, but will not.

Racial preferences in college admissions have long been deeply unpopular, and three years ago, the Supreme Court declared them unlawful, in a sweeping ruling that portended doom for other race-conscious policies to promote diversity or remedy past discrimination. Some research indicates that, in the aftermath of the civil-rights era, the achievement gap between rich and poor students now dwarfs the gap between white and Black students. Even so, well-intentioned blue-state Democrats keep pushing for race-based affirmative action, to their own political detriment, rather than supporting a much fairer policy of providing a leg up to economically disadvantaged people of all races.

In February, the California State Assembly passed, by a 54--14 vote, a measure seeking to place on the November ballot a change in the state constitution to allow racial preferences in K--12 education and in higher-education scholarships. (The state Senate has not yet acted on the measure.) In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page Racial Equity Plan last month that said, "New York's history has been one of colonization, exploitation and racial oppression"; among other measures, the plan reaffirms the city's intent to steer contracts to minority-owned businesses. Late last year, Democratic supermajorities in the Maryland House and Senate overrode Governor Wes Moore's veto of legislation to study reparations for the descendants of enslaved people.

In huge swaths of the country, the Democratic brand has become anathema. The party will struggle to recapture the White House and reclaim the Senate unless it can persuade some red-state voters to take a fresh look at it. One obvious move would be for the Democrats, who have hemorrhaged working-class voters, to abandon their stubborn support for politically radioactive racial preferences. Significantly more Americans believe that economically disadvantaged people of any race deserve special consideration in admissions and employment decisions, and such efforts do not run afoul of laws against racial discrimination. Nevertheless, many Democrats cannot bring themselves to accept the Supreme Court's ruling--or the public's attitude--even when doing so would help their prospects immensely.

Blue cities built dozens of monuments to obese drug addict George Floyd of the Sacred Cardiac Myopathy, but putting up a single mural honoring the slain immigrant Iryna Zarutska is too "divisive" to let stand.

A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska -- the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train -- is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island.

On Tuesday, a construction crew was seen near the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, working to remove the partly finished mural. The mural, which was painted on canvas, was lowered to the ground, folded up and taken away, WJAR-TV reported.

Artist Ian Gaudreau confirmed the news that the artwork was going to be removed after local outrage.

"A lot of people voiced their frustrations, and voices were heard, and the work is coming down as a reaction to that," Gaudreau told WJAR-TV Monday.

The mural's removal came as residents and elected officials complained about the artwork. The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is "divisive and does not represent Providence."

"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.

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Chairman of the Narragansett Republican Party Anthony D'Ellena created a petition in an effort to keep the mural of Zarutska in Providence.

"This is exactly what Democrats do -- they try to erase the memory of their victims and they don't fix their soft-on-crime policies," D'Ellena told WPRI-TV. "They erase the evidence, so no one sees the deadly price of their policies."

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Records from the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction show Brown has a prior criminal history, including convictions for larceny, breaking and entering and armed robbery.

"Iryna was riding home on the train when a deranged monster, who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no-cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body," President Trump said.

Don't worry: They have a new killer they're going to have to bury the evidence about.

They always have a new killer.

This guy has been let out of jail repeatedly. The last time, he attacked a liberal woman, who refused to press charges because she couldn't bear to see a "black man in jail."

So now she's accessory to the murder this lunatic thug committed.

Savanah Hernandez
@Savsays

May 11
WTF: So apparently this criminal, Rhamell Burke, attacked a young woman on the subway and chased her until she found police who could help her.

She then DECLINED to press charges because she "didn't want to put another black man in jail".

5 weeks later, Burke shoves a 76-year-old retired teacher down a flight of stairs, killing him.

And it gets WORSE because apparently NYPD officers had sent Burke to the Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation earlier that day and within FIVE HOURS of his release, he went on to kill 76-year-old, Ross Falzone, while still wearing his hospital PSYCHIATRIC BRACELET.

Burke had also already been arrested four times prior for assault, burglary and resisting arrest.

Yet another horrific death that could have been prevented if NYC had enacted basic law and order and put this man in prison where he belonged...

Another accessory to murder:

Sad! Woke hag Leslie Stahl feels "blindsided" that Bari Weiss pushed her aside for a Bibi Netanyahu interview and assigned it to some other liberal.

CBS News boss Bari Weiss blindsided "60 Minutes" legend Lesley Stahl by handing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first major US broadcast interview since the Iran war to Major Garrett -- a CBS News veteran who isn't part of the iconic show's correspondent roster, according to a report.

The decision stunned staffers because Stahl, the longtime "60 Minutes" star, had spent months trying to land the Netanyahu sit-down, according to the Status newsletter. She was bypassed in favor of Garrett -- a respected Washington journalist who is currently chief White House correspondent at CBS News.

The move marked the second time in recent months that Weiss reportedly secured a marquee interview for "60 Minutes" only to hand the assignment to Garrett instead of one of the program's own correspondents.

In March, Weiss tapped Garrett to interview Secretary of War Pete Hegseth -- then instructed that the high-profile sit-down air on "60 Minutes" despite Garrett not being one of the program's correspondents, according to Status.

According to Status, tensions erupted after Weiss personally booked Netanyahu for the interview and once again assigned Garrett to conduct it rather than Stahl or another "60 Minutes" correspondent.

The move reportedly sparked frustration among correspondents and producers, who viewed Netanyahu as having effectively gone around the traditional "60 Minutes" team with Weiss' assistance.

Some staffers believed Netanyahu preferred Garrett because he was viewed as a more agreeable interviewer, according to the report.

He's no prize himself. But I assume Stahl is worse.

Below: Badly Aging Skank Anita Sarkesian femsplains why she refuses to debate any of her claims with anyone who disagrees with her.

She claims it's very easy for people to argue for the status quo, whereas it's very very hard for leftwing morons like her to argue for "social justice" positions.

You see, we can just "say three words" and win the day, but they are forced to explain complex ideas to push their POV.

Complex ideas like "you're racist," "you need to be faaaaiir," "you hate women," etc.