UW medical resources opened to all races following a lawsuit

January 28th, 2025

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January 28, 2025

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January 28th, 2025

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UW medical resources opened to all races following a lawsuit

Our take: The University of Washington, after a lawsuit by a group of doctors who want to keep identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice, has changed the name of their racially segregated “White Physicians Directory” to “MD Connections Directory” and opened the resource to all races.

Hang on a second. We stand corrected. UW did in fact rename the directory after a lawsuit. But it turns out it was not originally the “White Physicians Directory”, but rather the “BIPOC Physicians Directory”. Our mistake.

OK - obviously we were being satirical. But we only did that to show what a joke it is to racially segregate any professional organization meant to further people’s careers. Yet for years, many saw nothing wrong with making a resource that was only available to non-white physicians.

Indeed, the school’s BIPOC resource stated it was “a directory where BIPOC students could easily talk to physicians with identities similar to their own to find advice and answers to their questions,” according to its webpage.

BIPOC includes those who are “Black/African Diaspora, Native American/Indigenous, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Asian, Latine/Latinx, Middle Eastern, and North African,” according to the directory.

Now that the country seems to be coming out of its multi-year stupor, we look forward to everyone having equal opportunities for the careers that they want regardless of the color of their skin, whether they stand or sit to pee, or who they choose to sleep with. Hopefully our little joke at the beginning of this commentary underscores how ridiculous this approach was to begin with.

COURTESY: MSN

Immigration enforcement was off to a fast start in the early days of Trump administration

Our take: As promised, the Trump Administration hit the ground running, making good on the promise to immediately start finding and deporting the most dangerous illegal immigrants currently in the country. Not only did they start on day 1, but they are embedding members of the news and media with the agents performing the operations.

Phil McGraw, known better as “Dr. Phil, originally of Oprah fame, was with a crew in Chicago as they performed their duties. He had access to both film and report the activities, which we think is a very good thing. If these operations are legitimate and targeted as officials promised they would be, there should be no issue with observers on the scene.

McGraw, who spoke at a Trump campaign event in October, said in a post on X on Sunday that ICE aimed to pick 270 “high-value targets,” indicating it was a targeted operation, and defended the approach. “They’re not sweeping neighborhoods like people are trying to imply,” he said.

The 2 senators from Illinois had interesting comments regarding the raids. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth issued a joint statement saying Trump’s mass deportation effort would go far beyond deporting criminals and sweep in veterans, essential workers, and other non-criminals.

“We should focus on deporting those who pose a danger to our country,” they said. “And we should give the rest a chance to earn legal status.”

If only we had a group of people in the government responsible for making laws who could address the changes we need to the immigration system. Wait, that group does exist already. They are the US Congress, of which both Durbin and Duckworth are members.

Maybe they should spend a little less time telling people, “Trans women are real women,” and make some changes to the laws that would address these things. But maybe we are just misogynist, transphobic jerks. OK—we are definitely jerks sometimes, but we are right as rain about these senators.

COURTESY: REUTERS

Illegal alien voted in 6 elections in Florida

Our take: If we told you a scummy illegal immigrant, after being deported once, lied about their immigration status in order to get back into the country and stay in the US for over 2 decades and vote in our elections, your first response might be to call us a racist and tell us we don’t know what we are talking about.

Unfortunately for you, we would then tell you the illegal immigrant we are talking about is an English national who took advantage of our lax immigration vetting process and did exactly what we just described.

A British national living in Miami Beach has been arrested for illegally voting six times in U.S. elections while falsely claiming American citizenship, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

James Ross Wightman, 65, faces multiple charges after authorities discovered he had been voting in local and national elections despite being previously deported from the United States in 1989.

Oopsie. I guess that whole song and dance about our processes to guarantee free and fair elections free from voter fraud may not have been as accurate as they wanted us to think they were.

Sure, this is one isolated incident. But what assurances do we have that the same people that missed something this egregious are capable of rooting out fraud on a larger scale? We can answer our own question—we have very little assurance. When we think something isn’t right, we should always continue to ask questions and push back when we get platitudes and canned statements for answers instead of real talk.

COURTESY: NEWSWEEK

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