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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 proves creation—not exploitation—is what produces outsized success. Meanwhile, SFUSD just voted 6-1 to adopt an ethnic studies curriculum validated by a rigged review process, with litigation already filed the same night. Together with federal data projecting California will lose nearly a million public school students by 2031, the stakes around who controls education—and who gets rewarded for excellence—have never been higher in this state.

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
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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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