Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the MobJan 29
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment
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University Of California Uses High School Racial Composition For Admissions, Data Suggests
in 2020, california voters rejected affirmative action, but data suggests that ucsd is finding a way around that
Brandon Gorrell
Apr 3, 2023
University of California San Diego (UCSD) admissions data recently unearthed by Orange County-based parent Steve Miller on Twitter suggests that despite California’s ban on affirmative action, the university is using applicants’ graduating high schools’ racial composition as a determining factor in the admissions process.
Miller found that there seemed to be no correlation between the percentage of students at a school offered admission to UCSD and the high school’s average AP score, number of AP classes, or percentage of students exceeding California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASP) standards.
Death by Ballot Prop: How California Outsourced Legislation to the Mob
The Secret NIMBY Millionaire Behind California's Asset SeizureJan 27
robert reich, 4'11" champion of california's 'wealth tax,' has built a lucrative career collecting taxpayer dollars to peddle anticapitalist rhetoric (he's also secretly a nimby)
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Dispatch from Davos: The SXSW for GlobalismJan 26
a recap of this year’s annual gathering of the world economic forum: highlights, trump v. the bugmen, and is ‘sparkle beach ken’ the best political insult of all time?
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