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Facing a $91M Budget Deficit, Alameda County Passes Reparations Plan

July 24, 2026 6:00 amJuly 24, 2026 6:01 am

Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass a reparations plan in the county. “For centuries, Black residents of Alameda County have endured economic exclusion, housing discrimination, educational inequities, criminal injustice, and systemic harm that continues to ripple across...

DOJ Finds UC San Diego Medical School Unlawfully Discriminated on the Basis of Race in Admissions

July 20, 2026 4:45 pmJuly 21, 2026 2:11 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced Monday that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (San Diego Med) violated federal civil rights law by using race as a factor in its admissions decisions. The finding,...

The New Caste System: California’s LGBTBE Program Rewards Identity Over Merit

June 20, 2026 6:40 amJune 20, 2026 11:29 pm

I arrived in California in 1990, when the government was functioning and the mood was upbeat. Thirty-five years later I’m still here, watching Sacramento systematically dismantle the institutional infrastructure that made the state worth staying in. The latest example is...

Pacific Legal Settles Lawsuit Over UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Race-Based Internship Program

June 19, 2026 6:30 amJune 19, 2026 8:14 am

The UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital had a longstanding high school internship program called CHAMPS that tried to make whites into chumps. In a blatant violation of Proposition 209 and federal civil rights laws, the program for minorities interested in healthcare...

UC STEM Professors Demand SAT/ACT Return After Failed Equity Experiment

June 1, 2026 2:36 pmJuly 1, 2026 11:21 am

More than 800 University of California faculty members, including a majority of mathematics department chairs across the UC system, have signed an open letter (see below) to the UC Board of Regents, UC Office of the President, Academic Senate leadership,...

ACA 7 Aims to Authorize Race Discrimination in K-12 Gifted Programs & College Financial Aid

February 17, 2026 5:30 amFebruary 17, 2026 5:31 am

In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which amended the California Constitution to ban racial preferences and race-based affirmative action. However, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next 20 years scheming on other ways to circumvent the law....

San Francisco Reparations: Will Mayor Lurie Veto this Unconstitutional and Illegitimate Scheme?

December 24, 2025 2:03 pmDecember 24, 2025 2:03 pm

After last week’s near unanimous approval by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors (our 11-member City Council) to establish a “fund” to accept and distribute so-called Reparations to qualified city recipients, will Mayor Daniel Lurie veto it? In July 2023, San...