Will new 'Agatha All Along' series reverse Marvel’s downward trend?



Marvel’s surrender to wokeness has all but ruined the franchise. Longtime comic book fans have fled for hills when their favorite MCU characters have been gender-bent, race-bent, or altered to be more socially acceptable.

However, Disney+ will soon debut a new series called “Agatha All Along,” which follows Agatha Harkness, the villain from Marvel Studios’ "WandaVision.”

Could “Agatha” reverse Marvel’s downward spiral?

Lauren Chen, Blaze Media’s cinema critic, discusses the upcoming series.

Disney's NEXT FLOP: 'Agatha' Trailer Breakdownwww.youtube.com

Although the series won’t drop until September, the trailer alone has Lauren fearing that the show will be yet another money pit.

First, she doesn’t think the series will generate enough interest.

“It's not like this was a particularly popular character in the comics and even in ‘WandaVision,’ the show that introduced her,” she says.

Further, according to rumors Lauren is privy to, “the reason they're giving Agatha her own series is not just because she's potentially another girlboss character they can exploit, but also because they are hoping to resurrect Scarlet Witch in the MCU.”

Even the show's producers seem wary about the series, given that it was announced in 2021 but is premiering three years later.

“It definitely seems like the prolonged production period was due, at least in part, to uncertainty on behalf of the show's creators,” says Lauren, adding that the series “has had four different names at different points in time” – names that “had already been announced to the public,” further solidifying the theory that there’s an air of doubt surrounding the show.

MCU fans are also skeptical about the series appearing to be “more horror-centric” than other MCU shows, but Lauren would enjoy a darker series “if Disney could pull it off.”

As for the series’ wokeness meter, rumors have suggested that “they may make Agatha herself gay or at the very least bisexual,” says Lauren, referencing a Bounding into Comics article.

“I think we should expect this show to be completely lockstep in line with the M-She-U as of late,” she predicts. “I personally cannot wait to see how much of a flop [‘Agatha All Along’] ends up being.”

For all its faults, Lauren does see a couple of bright spots for the show.

“It doesn’t look cheap,” she says.

And Aubrey Plaza stars in it, but Lauren doubts that “she's going to be enough to save this series.”

To hear more about “Agatha All Along,” watch the clip above.

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Tema Okun, a white Oberlin College graduate from North Carolina, has spent the last three decades suggesting that Western civilization and its distinguishing features are racist. According to the greying leftist, objectivity, binary thinking, and individuality are "characteristics of white supremacy culture."

The Gaza ceasefire advocate's feverish accusations, first published in 1999, have been reprinted countless times and promoted by once-serious institutions and universities across the country.

Conservative radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH has obtained possible evidence that Seattle Public Schools is now subjecting English students to Okun's racist ravings.

Okun racializes quality and competence

Okun, plagued by apparent feelings of inadequacy and "exasperation," attempted in the late 1990s to draft a list of "characteristics of white supremacy culture" she perceived to be "prevalent in our culture and institutions."

The leftist determined that various effective beliefs, behaviors, and modes of thinking — including objectivity, a sense of right and wrong, and individuality — were "damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking."

A sense of urgency is supposedly racist, for example, because it "makes it difficult to take time to be inclusive, encourage democratic and / or thoughtful decision-making, to think long-term, to consider consequences." Even worse, a sense of urgency "frequently results in sacrificing potential allies for quick or highly visible results."

Paternalism, by which Okun apparently meant decisive leadership, is a characteristic of white supremacy because "those with power think they are capable of making decisions for and in the interests of those without power."

"Either/or thinking" is racist because it is "closely linked to perfectionism," "results in trying to simplify complex things," and "creates conflict and increases sense of urgency."

Okun also figures individualism to be a characteristic of white supremacy because it promotes a "desire for individual recognition and credit" and "creates a lack of accountability, as the organization values those who can get things done on their own without needing supervision or guidance."

Objectivity is another such white supremacist characteristic because it requires people to think in a logical fashion and allegedly corresponds with "the belief that emotions are inherently destructive, irrational, and should not play a role in decision-making or group process."

Okun notes on her blog that "white supremacy culture is inextricably linked to all the other oppressions - capitalism, sexism, class and gender oppression, ableism, ageism, Christian hegemony - these and more are all interconnected and intersected and stirred together in a toxic brew[.] ... This brew is a cancer, a disease, an addiction, an infliction and it infects everything with and without our awareness."

The madness continues to spread

Seattle Public Schools has made no secret of its identitarian leanings, noting in its 2019-2024 strategic plan that it is focused on "ensuring racial equity in our educational system, unapologetically address[ing] the needs of students of color who are further from educational justice, and work[ing] to undo the legacies of racism in our educational system."

To this end, SPS appears to be singularly focused on helping one group of students.

"By focusing on students of color who are furthest from educational justice, especially African American males, we will make the greatest progress toward our collective vision," says the strategic plan. "We believe that an intentional focus on African American males will ultimately benefit every student."

Accommodation of black male students apparently entails divorcing them from desirable traits and convincing them that such traits are racist.

A concerned father told Rantz that students in a class on world literature and composition were given a handout with definitions of the "9 characteristics of white supremacy" as part of "Black Lives Matter at School Week," which previously ran from late January to early February.

The English students were apparently told that "Worship of the Written Word" — one of Okun's proposed characteristics of white supremacy — entails "honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies. An erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other."

An updated and textual definition of Okun's white supremacy characteristic, circulated by the University of Michigan, indicates that the worship of the written word is especially problematic because it corresponds with an "inability or refusal to acknowledge information that is shared through stories, embodied knowing, intuition and the wide range of ways that we individually and collectively learn and know."

The other eight characteristics named on the handout, all lifted from Okun's decades-old article, are as follows: objectivity; individualism; right to comfort; perfectionism; denial and defensiveness; paternalism; either/or and the binary; and fear.

The list is "incoherent and cannot stand any sort of reasoned analysis," added the father. "How is a 15-year-old kid supposed to object in class when 'denial and defensiveness' is itself a characteristic of white supremacy? This is truly educational malpractice."

KTTH indicated that SPS declined to provide comment.

"I feel bad for any students who actually internalize stuff like this, as it is setting them up for failure," the father, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told Rantz. "My problem with this curriculum is that this is supposed to be a writing and literature class, and lessons like these do nothing to help my kid become a better writer."

"I'm sure Lincoln administration will point to the high ELA proficiency scores, but the high proportion of HCC [highly capable] kids (40% of the student body) is a big factor," added the concerned dad. "With so many smart, hardworking kids (white supremacists) it's easy to support these luxury beliefs, but system-wide, only 63% of kids are proficient in English. Is this really the best use of class time?"

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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's taxpayer-funded staff repeatedly pressured schools and libraries to buy her books: Report



Justice Sonia Sotomayor appears to have fallen victim to the kind of scrutiny the liberal media usually reserves only for conservatives on the Supreme Court.

The Associated Press revealed Tuesday that Sotomayor's taxpayer-funded court staff have repeatedly pressured public institutions that have hosted the Bronx native to buy her books.

For instance, in 2019, when peddling her children's book "Just Ask!," library and community college officials in Portland, Oregon, desperate to host Sotomayor, reportedly labored to satisfy her various requests, significantly spiking the cost of hosting the Obama nominee in the process. Notwithstanding their logistical gymnastics, they later learned from an aide for the justice that they hadn't bought nearly enough copies of the book.

The aide, Anh Le, reportedly told Multnomah County Library, "For an event with 1,000 people and they have to have a copy of Just Ask to get into line, 250 books is definitely not enough."

Documents obtained by the AP revealed the Portland episode was anything but anomalous.

Before planned appearances at the University of California, Davis law school, at the University of Wisconsin, and at Clemson University in South Carolina, Sotomayor's staff again figuratively twisted arms and filled them with costly and unsolicited signed books.

Michigan State University had to shell out $100,000 just so that copies of the justice's memoir, "My Beloved World," could be peddled to incoming freshmen.

The AP indicated that whereas there is a cap on how much Sotomayor can make on outside yearly pay — extra to her salary of $285,400 — there is no limit on how much she can raise hocking books.

Sotomayor secured a $3.1 million advance on her 2014 memoir alone and has pulled in at least $400,000 since 2019 from sales of her kids' books.

The Wall Street Journal indicated that she is hardly the only one on the Supreme Court swimming in book money, as Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Clarence Thomas have similarly published books or have books on the way. However, according to the AP, the liberal justice is exceptional in at least this: "None of the justices has as forcefully leveraged publicly sponsored travel to boost book sales as has Sotomayor."

The Supreme Court is bereft of a formal code of conduct, meaning Sotomayor's staff can squeeze schools to promote her side-hustle ad nauseam.

Critics have suggested that while not technically an offense, the practice is nevertheless problematic.

Kedri Payne, a former deputy chief counsel at the Office of Congressional Ethics and current general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, told the AP, "This is one of the most basic tenets of ethics laws that protects taxpayer dollars from misuse. ... The problem at the Supreme Court is there's no one there to say whether this is wrong."

While Sotomayor and her staffers can continue holding her prospective presence ransom for book sales, members of Congress couldn't follow suit, having been prohibited under ethics rules from using government resources for personal gain.

Michael Luttig, formerly a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, suggested the practice could prove compromising, at the very least for the court's reputation.

"I have never believed that Supreme Court justices should write books to supplement their judicial income," said Luttig. "The potential for promotion of the individual justices over the Court at the reputational expense of the Court as an institution, as well as the appearance of such, is unavoidable."

The Supreme Court told the AP in a statement, "Chambers staff assist the Justices in complying with judicial ethics guidance for such visits, including guidance relating to judges’ publications. For example, judicial ethics guidance suggests that a judge may sign copies of his or her work, which may also be available for sale, but there should be no requirement or suggestion that attendees are required to purchase books in order to attend."

However, according to the court, "When [Sotomayor] is invited to participate in a book program, Chambers staff recommends the number of books based on the size of the audience so as not o disappoint attendees who may anticipate books being available at an event, and they will put colleges or universities in touch with the Justice's publisher when asked to do so."

Mike Davis of the Article III Project, a group that opposes attacks on judicial independence, claimed in a statement, "Justice Sotomayor is a good person who appears to have made a mistake by having her staff sell her books, including what appears as pressure on schools and libraries to buy a minimum number of her books before her speaking engagements."

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