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Kaleem Caire is running for mayor of Madison
It’s already a crowded field! “I’m running!” educator Kaleem Caire told The Werkes. “Will announce on September 15 and am inviting everyone who wants to be there for it. … It’s time!” Kaleem founded One City Schools in 2014 as an independent school chartered by the University of Wisconsin Office of Educational Opportunity after the…
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Madison ain’t seen nothing yet!
“History has shown what that can be.” — Madison’s mayor. At some point, the WI Division of Criminal Investigation will release its report on the shooting death of a black man, Corey Ruiz, by a white Madison police officer. Could be today, could be later this year. This state agency will have had weeks to…
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Pray for Madison
Why are Madison’s leaders silent? After taking over Madison’s seat of government over the weekend, guerrillas engaged in the Corey Ruiz intifada are locked and loaded with tendentious questions for Mayor Satya, Police Chief Patterson, and other city managers at tonight’s special (and we think, unprecedented) Council meeting. → It’s live-streamed on the City Channel,…
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Who do alders grill the hardest?
Mayor Satya or the police monitor? What does it tell you that applicants aspiring for appointment to the vacant District One aldermanic seat here in Madison WI must prove their Woke bonafides before they can join the club? Five candidates are vying to fill out the term of the departed John Duncan. The City’s nominating…
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Rename that school!
After a black woman! With considerably less anticipation than a shipwrecked husband on his honeymoon night, the Head Groundskeeper awaits the renaming of three more public schools Monday 08-24-26 here in Woke City, Wisconsin. Renaming public schools is the latest Woke Madison fetish, now that the city has overcome its sense of white fragility to…
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The ‘chaotic and violent end’ of our WI State Fair
What does it say about Milwaukeeand our public schools? Scores of teenagers fighting and terrorizing fair goers shut down the Wisconsin State Fair, home of cream puffs and 4-H projects, Sunday 08-16-26. Bystander videos are lighting up social media with images of screaming young people confronted by police on horseback and foot patrols using tasers.…
Blaska Policy Werkes
Hong’s “campaign rally was pure crack for disaffected leftist millennials. The emcee introduced every speech by appealing to “ladies, gentlemen, and friends beyond the binary.” — Helen Lewis in The Atlantic <br>
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Defending Woke
Where else but in The Nation:
“No, Woke 1 Was Not Crazy. AOC and others are laughing off 2020 as a wild, isolated moment. None of that is true.
“You know what I’m talking about: racial awareness training, pronouns, reading books like White Fragility, land acknowledgements. …
Police abolition is the big boogeyman for a lot of the people who see Woke 1 as crazy.”
Monona Police Chief Chaney defends pursuit
Our expectations in Monona are pretty straightforward.
Don’t burglarize homes or businesses in Monona.
Don’t commit violent crimes in Monona.
Don’t drive recklessly through Monona.
And when a Monona police officer lawfully directs you to stop, STOP.
We have a community that supports its police department, holds us accountable when we need to be held accountable and gives us credit when we earn it.
Today’s Laff Riot!
Look on the bright side! Thanksgiving won’t be canceled this year after all!