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DEMOCRACY: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Backs Effort to Ignore the Will of the People on Barring Men From Female Sports

The state of Washington voted last week to bar biological men from competing in female sports. The measure won in 36 out of 39 counties, so it was a very decisive win.

And yet Katie Wilson, the mayor of Seattle, is now siding with leftists who want to override the measure, completely ignoring the will of the people. These are the same people who are always talking about their sacred devotion to democracy.

When things don’t go their way, suddenly democracy doesn’t matter.

FOX News reports:

Seattle mayor backs effort to block girls’ sports initiative that passed in 36 of Washington’s 39 counties

The statement was 148 words. Not one of those words was “girls.”

Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said that she was going to back the Seattle School Board’s unanimous vote to pursue legal action against Initiative 638 — which would enforce separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports in Washington state.

Voters passed the measure by a 13-point margin last week, and it won in 36 of the Evergreen State’s 39 counties. But after deliberating behind closed doors Monday, the Seattle School Board voted publicly to authorize potential legal action against the measure without hearing public testimony. And the mayor fully approves…

Remember, Seattle was one of the epicenters of the “No Kings” movement, where tens of thousands rallied against a president they accused of disregarding the will of the people. Yet when Washington voters overwhelmingly supported a measure Wilson opposes, she had no problem backing an effort to overturn it. Apparently, the will of the people is only worth defending when the people vote the right way.

Capping off Wilson’s statement was a paragraph of political platitudes so empty it would make even a seasoned politician blush. She wants to build a Seattle “where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves,” and “create inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.”

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Follow The Nonprofit Money Behind Push For “Anti-Fascist Economics” Getting Boosted On Financial Times

The Financial Times gave a so-called “economist” a platform to rebrand democracy or democratic socialism with a spicy new term: “anti-fascist economics.”

Isabella Weber, director of the nonprofit Essential Economics gGmbH, sat down with FT’s Martin Sandbu to discuss anti-fascist economics.

Weber explained:

“So at its core, it argues that fascism finds a fertile ground when there is large-scale economic insecurity and high levels of corporate concentration and private power in the economy.

So an anti-fascist economics is one that puts a floor under people’s livelihoods and a ceiling on the concentration of private and corporate wealth.”

Let’s translate all that fancy academic talk:

  • “A floor under people’s livelihoods” suggests a safety net, minimum wages, or guaranteed access to essential services.
  • “A ceiling on the concentration of private and corporate wealth” may suggest progressive taxation, wealth taxes, or antitrust measures. A cap on personal wealth would be more radical but not out of the question.

Weber’s views go well beyond bolstering the West’s failing welfare state. She now wants big government to reshape the economy in how essentials are produced and supplied, including building public housing.

The question that emerges is: who exactly decides what counts as essential, what constitutes an acceptable profit, and when an emergency intervention ends?

Of course not the free market, but unelected left-wing bureaucrats and their friends whose economic understanding of the real world is limited and usually seen around the world with disastrous endings.

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Follow The Money: Florida Subpoenas DSA Over Cuban, Chinese Cash Days After Socialist Election Sweep

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday issued an investigative subpoena to the Democratic Socialists of America, saying his office is examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support “from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China,” and whether its fundraising from Florida donors has been “fully transparent and lawful.”

In a video announcing the probe, Uthmeier said the subpoena was issued under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the state’s laws on the solicitation of funds. It covers “recent DSA delegations to Cuba, where national leaders and national political committee members met with Cuban government officials, as well as a delegation to China,” he said, along with travel fund solicitations that “sought tens of thousands of dollars to cover costs for those trips and related activities involving Florida chapters.”

Uthmeier’s office has not alleged that DSA actually took foreign money, and he said the subpoena “seeks the documents needed to determine compliance.” The law he is leaning on is SB 700, signed in May 2025, which bars charities and fundraisers soliciting in Florida from accepting contributions from people tied to “foreign countries of concern,” a list that includes Cuba and China. Knowing and willful violations carry criminal penalties, according to a Holland & Knight summary of the law. “We will not allow foreign adversaries to influence Florida through the back door of nonprofit fundraising,” Uthmeier said.

A national DSA spokesperson told the Florida Phoenix that the group is “aware of the situation” and has “no comment at this time.”

The subpoena landed a week after DSA-backed Democrat Ashley Herrmann ousted Republican incumbent Danny Alvarez in state House District 69 in Hillsborough County, which Creative Loafing called the first Democratic Socialist elected in Florida.

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Democrat Doublespeak: A Dangerous Deception

The term “newspeak” comes from George Orwell’s 1984, a novel that highlighted a tyrannical regime’s intentional use of ambiguous speech to prevent people from being able to think critically, until they are brainwashed into believing that 2+2=5.

Was that merely the far-fetched idea of a novel? Not remotely, when you have brainwashed ideas like Brooklyn College professor Laurie Rubel thinking math “reeks of white supremacy,” and Seattle Public School’s “re-humanizing math” curriculum stating, “Who gets to say an answer is right?”

But from Orwell’s newspeakers, the modern left has branched out.

“What is really important in the world of doublespeak [emphasis added] is the ability to lie, whether knowingly or unconsciously, and to get away with it; and the ability to use lies and choose and shape facts, blocking out those that don’t fit an agenda or program,” according to Edward Herman in his book, “Beyond Hypocrisy.”

Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, stated the concepts of doublespeak a bit more succinctly when he said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” for that is how it works.

The Democrat party members have become masters at such manipulation, psychologically influencing their audiences as they push their socialist agenda. A classic example is Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), who at a recent rally for More Perfect University, a progressive campus organization, used doublespeak to support “trans rights” and men in women’s sports. AOC explained, “What’s so important for everyone to understand is that the moment you try to compromise the rights of a trans person in America, you compromise the rights of every citizen in America.” Illogical nonsense!

What a ridiculous false statement for which AOC received “massive, auditorium-wide applause.” AOC states that if you are against men competing in girls’ sports and stealing their trophies and scholarships, if you are against men injuring women in women’s sports, if you are against men in women’s dressing rooms, if you are against men in women’s showers, if you want to protect your daughter from being forced to have a male roommate in college, then you are compromising the rights of every citizen in America.

Then AOC continued saying,

Our basic rights shouldn’t have to matter. [Rights] don’t matter who you are, what you do. You have those rights guaranteed by being an American citizen. Point blank. Period.

Again, AOC’s remarks brought thunderous applause, yet her statement is another untrue word salad of nonsensical doublespeak.

The basic rights to which AOC is speaking are our inalienable (God-given) rights, recognized by the U.S. Constitution; yet these rights do not allow for men to have access to women’s spaces. AOC is a Democrat Socialist and the godless Democrat Socialist of America platform clearly states its plan to destroy the U.S. Constitution, abolish the presidency, abolish the Supreme Court, claiming to replace it with “A Real Democracy.” It is going to be “doublethink” in itself; how can a Democrat Socialist take the oath of office and swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution he plans to destroy?

Now are you ready for AOC’s crowning doublespeak? AOC exclaimed, “I support the rights of trans women because I’m a girl’s girl.” Horse-poo!

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Surprise! Muslim elected to American state legislature demands intern applicants be MUSLIM!

Social media has labeled the actions of a newly elected Democrat Colorado state legislator as clearly illegal and called for an investigation immediately.

This after Iman Jodeh, newly elected in the midterms and preparing to take her office in January, posted an opening for an internship that requires the applicants to be Muslim.

Or North African.

Colorado, of course, already is an extremist state, having Democrat control of the governor’s office, both houses of the legislature and the state Supreme Court, which exhibited its blatant partisanship by trying to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot.

There, too, Phil Weiser, who is to be governor in a few months, is demanding that he has the authority to change ballot issues on which citizens voted, and approved.

They deal with banning “gender” body mutilations on children and requiring boys to be on boys athletic teams, and not in girls locker rooms.

He is insisting they’ll have to be fixed, so he’ll be working on changing what the voters actually approved.

A report on Jodeh’s agenda at the Daily Caller said she “announced a paid internship at the state capitol with qualifications requiring that candidates identify as Muslim or descend from predominantly Muslim regions of the world.”

Jodeh posted, “”Gain first-hand experience at the Colorado Capitol in Sen. Jodeh and Rep. Zokaie’s offices!”

The first requirement is applicants must “Identify as a Muslim and/or as Middle Eastern, North African, or South Asian.”

It is being offered under the “Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian (MENASA) & Muslim Joint Legislative Caucus.”

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits hiring or firing based on national origin and religion, among other immutable characteristics. Colorado state law also prohibits discrimination against employees based on protected classes such as religion and national origin.

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Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?

Was Jeffrey Epstein a spy? The Epstein-is-a-spy parlor game has been going on for years. There are plenty of reasons to believe that he could have been an intelligence asset, but the House Oversight Committee report reaches no such conclusions.

There are legitimate questions about how this guy could move through the world with such impunity without government cover. The Committee plumbed ideas about how Epstein got acceptance and cover from legitimate business and elite society big shots, and did, in fact, ask if his advantages came from intelligence ties.

The Oversight Committee, looking into the government’s treatment of the pervert’s activities, found suspicious, though inconclusive, insights into this question. Spoiler alert: The Oversight Committee Report found massive problems with the government investigations into Epstein, as I reported in Epstein Report: Victim NDAs Blocked Justice, While Dems Just Wanted to Get Trump.

But what of the espionage ties?

Who else could possess passports with aliases for different countries — including Saudi Arabia — in his possession? That sounds like spycraft, doesn’t it?

Who has a girlfriend/accomplice whose dad was a suspected Mossad agent? Was Ghislaine Maxwell an intelligence asset?

Who was besties with the former head of Israeli intelligence and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak? Epstein.

Some of the suspicions about Epstein’s ties to intelligence came directly from reporting about Alexander Acosta, the former head of the Department of Justice’s South Florida U.S. Attorneys’ Office. Acosta allegedly said that Epstein “’belonged to intelligence’ — though Acosta denied ever making this statement during his transcribed interview with the Committee.”

These are tantalizing issues which are not conclusively answered in the House Oversight Committee majority report (there’s no minority report yet) about the government’s handling of the Epstein case. But they do offer some details from recycled media reports found in the footnotes.

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Trump Concedes Deportation Policy Was ‘Too Tough’ in First Post-Midterms Interview

President Donald Trump said his administration’s immigration policies “both helped and hurt” Republicans, following a monumental loss for his party in November’s midterm elections.

In a post-election interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes with Ross Douthat, Trump described his immigration strategy as “too tough.”

“I think it both helped and hurt,” Trump told Douthat on Sunday. “I think I got an A+ for closing up the border, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation . . . there is a large part of the country that thinks they should be put out, and there’s a large part of the country that thinks that they should be allowed to stay.”

The president also said, going forward, one issue he is willing to work with Democrats on is immigration, following Democrats’ gaining control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterms.

In discussing the possibility of an immigration deal with Democrats, Trump acknowledged the removal of illegal immigrants who had been in the country for years and held jobs. He floated the idea that those who have established themselves in the U.S. could be allowed to stay under some new form of legal status, calling a compromise of this type “doable” with Democrats.

Trump said people in the Democratic Party have already “called [him]” to say they would be interested in working with the administration to make a deal like this possible for these types of illegal immigrants.

“In some cases [these illegal immigrants are] paying taxes,” the president said. “There’s a large group of people that think they should be allowed to stay. . . . When you go into a hotel and you have a woman who has worked there as a maid, a cleaner, a waitress, a lot of good jobs. And all of a sudden they are being taken out of the country, it’s tough.”

The president conceded that many people on the “pretty far right” still support deporting every illegal immigrant in the U.S.

The Trump administration has long touted its aggressive deportation strategy, particularly through a pointed media campaign and hype videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers deporting illegal immigrants in the U.S.

Since the president took office, more than 605,000 people have been deported, with another almost 2 million more self-deporting, according to the administration’s numbers. For the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. is experiencing a net loss in migration.

Upon initiating widespread deportations across the U.S., thousands of Americans began protesting ICE, especially following ICE’s deployment to sanctuary cities. These protests, and the related violence, increased the controversy of the entire operation.

During the 2024 presidential race, 41 percent of Americans said immigration was an “extremely important” issue, while today the number is 31 percent, according to Gallup.

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SOUR GRAPES: Florida Loser Angie Nixon Blames Her Loss on Lack of Funding From Democrat Leadership and Racism

Angie Nixon of Florida was not part of the blue wave election last week and she is clearly not happy about it.

She ran to the Don Lemon podcast to complain about the lack of funding support she received from Democrat leadership. She also blamed racism, because of course she did.

It can’t possibly be that people disagree with her ideas, or don’t believe she has the right skills for the job.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

ANGIE NIXON (D-FL), FORMER SENATE CANDIDATE: It is so wrong and disrespectful for people to not invest in black leadership. Like we, there were no, you know, I’m just going to say there were no black flip seats on the Senate side, like none. If [Mississippi Senator-elect] Scott Colom could have gotten a million more dollars early on, we would not be waiting right now for him to quote unquote win. We know he’s going to win.

If [Louisiana Senate candidate] Jamie Davis would have gotten 50, 500,000 to a million dollars, like in September, he would have won outright.

And so again, I don’t think, I think people want our labor. I think people want our labor. They don’t want our leadership. And we need to have a real long, hard conversation about how we show up, how we continue to time after time at the time show up for the party. And they don’t like in leadership, they don’t show up for our leadership.

I even, I even think about like, people are saying that I like statewide, I came in last as far as statewide, but that is because, you know, there’s racism within the Republican Party and there’s racism within the Democratic Party.

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Democratic Wave or Imperial Rebrand?: Time Will Tell

As a citizen and scholar, whose research, advocacy and moral framework have been dedicated to seeking justice and peace for the people of Palestine, Iran, Yemen and across West Asia, I find little cause for celebration in the recent Democratic Party midterm victories.

Political reveling makes sense if you trust the winning party offers a significant departure from the horrors of the status quo.

Applauding the Democratic Party means ignoring the ashes of Gaza, the massacre at Minab in southern Iran, and the violent legacy of 80 years of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy in the region.

When analyzing the unified bipartisan consensus that has governed U.S. policy in West Asia for decades, the apparent divide is exposed as mere illusion.  For those committed to international law, human rights and decolonization, a Democratic victory does not guarantee political reformation.  It is more likely to represent adaptation—a cosmetic shift in the stewardship of American empire.

Historical evidence demands a rejection of the conventional false binary political narrative that has framed U.S. elections:  the dichotomy between a unilateralist, militaristic Republican Party in opposition to a diplomacy oriented, human rights focused Democratic Party.  With regard to West Asia, both parties operate within a doctrine of institutional hegemony, military interventionism and colonial dominance.

While Republicans pursue aggression through overt unilateralism and unfiltered bellicose rhetoric, Democrats have executed similar policies behind a veneer of rules-based internationalism and institutional diplomacy.  The end result remains the same for the people in Gaza, Tehran, Beirut or San’a – structural violence, economic strangulation and military destruction.

The catastrophic legacy overshadowing Democratic leadership, past and present, makes it difficult for me to foresee, in the party’s electoral success, any departure from a foreign policy dictated by entrenched institutional systems.

The Biden-Harris administration did not simply miscalculate diplomacy; it actively embraced and underwrote what international legal bodies, human rights organizations and scholars worldwide have characterized as genocide in Gaza.

Most Democrats in Congress fast-tracked the shipment of munitions to Israel to carry out its devastating war on Gaza, rather than opposing it.

It is important to remember that it was Democratic leaders and representatives who stayed silent when:

  • President Joe Biden signed off on billions of dollars in unconditional military aid, transferring heavy weapons, artillery shells and precision-guided bombs to the Israeli regime that killed countless Palestinians and decimated civilian infrastructure across the Gaza Strip.
  • Democratic leaders repeatedly deployed the veto at the UN Security Council, neutralizing international legal mechanisms designed to enforce ceasefires and hold war criminals accountable.
  • The administration and party establishment sought to vilify and suppress student activists, scholars and dissenting citizens who demanded an end to American complicity in the destruction of Palestinian life.

A party that has, without conditions, armed, funded and morally shielded and enabled conduct that violates the baseline of human dignity cannot legitimately claim the mantle of progressivism, peace and democracy.

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Reuters Ravaged After Labeling Poland’s Independence Celebration A “Far-Right March”

Poland’s annual independence march drew an estimated 250,000 people on November 11, according to local officials, commemorating the country’s independence in 1918 after 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.

Organizers told AFP News that the independence day march had a substantially larger turnout.

“There are surely over half a million Poles,” said Rafal Buca, a spokesperson for the event’s organizers.

Conservative-nationalist President Karol Nawrocki attended the celebration amid a political crisis sparked by globalist-controlled Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s efforts to reshape the judiciary, which has been described by right-wing politicians have described as an attempted judicial coup.

Reuters was quick to label the independence march as a “far-right march,” which drew instant criticism on X, raising a very alarming question that outlets like that are not about reporting the news but propaganda operations to shape narratives of the globalist elite class.

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