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Paul Graham is pushing back on AOC's claim that billionaires can't earn their wealth, arguing his two decades evaluating founders at Y Combinator prove that building things people want—not exploitation—is what creates extreme wealth. Meanwhile, Sacramento is trying to gut Proposition 209's K-12 protections through ACA-7, which would allow race-based admissions to gifted programs, even as SFUSD rubber-stamps an ethnic studies curriculum through a rigged review process. With California projected to lose nearly a million public school students by 2031, the fight over who gets into what classrooms—and how those classrooms are run—has never had higher stakes.

Blanket Visa Bans Punish America's Best Immigrants
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Blanket Visa Bans Punish America's Best Immigrants

A family that literally fights crime in their SF neighborhood can't get grandma a visitor visa to meet her newborn grandson.

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Ro Khanna's 96% Problem
Federal Politicians Asset Seizure Taxes

Ro Khanna's 96% Problem

When nearly all your campaign cash comes from outside your district, who are you really representing?

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UC Regents Knew SAT Ban Was Wrong—Voted for It Anyway
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UC Regents Knew SAT Ban Was Wrong—Voted for It Anyway

Archival footage reveals the 2020 board meeting where Regents admitted they were ignoring faculty data to appease one woman.

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UC's SAT Ban Created a Math Illiteracy Crisis
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UC's SAT Ban Created a Math Illiteracy Crisis

One in 12 UCSD freshmen can't do middle school math—and 25% of them had perfect 4.0 GPAs in high school.

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