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Wesleyan University, an elite liberal arts college in Connecticut, has decided to end legacy admissions. The announcement came weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. Legacy admissions have been a point of contention within higher education systems for decades. After the Supreme Court ruled that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s use of race-based admissions processes were unconstitutional, conversations resurfaced about legacy admissions as favoring white, wealthy applicants. Few highly selective colleges and universities have already dropped legacy admi...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), a progressive House member, has been removed from her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee by the House Republicans. The motion’s success, enabled by the Republican Party’s slim victory in the U.S. House of Representatives during November’s midterm elections, was approved almost entirely on party lines. Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) was the only defector, choosing to vote present instead of going along with his party. Omar is a Somali-born immigrant and Muslim-American woman, and she along with several of her Democratic allies in Congress has claimed that ...
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) slammed Rep. Clay Higgins(R-Louisiana) on Thursday after Higgins referred to lawyer and clean energy advocate Raya Salter as a “young lady” and ” boo.” “In the four years that I’ve sat on this committee, I have never seen members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, disrespect a witness in the way that I have seen them disrespect you today. I do not care what party they are in. I’ve never seen anything like that,” she said. “For the gentleman of Louisiana and the comfort he felt in yelling at you like that, there’s more than one way to get a point acr...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) said she wanted “to deck” a man who harassed her, calling her his “favorite big-booty Latina,” as she walked up the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday. She commented on the incident on Twitter shortly after it happened posting a photo of the heckler’s face on Twitter to condemn him for his actions. She also called out the officer who watched the incident happen without stepping in. She later deleted the initial post saying, “I posted about a deeply disgusting incident that happened today on the Capitol steps, but took it down bc it’s clearly someone se...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) called for her Republican colleagues in the House to be “expelled” if they sought pardons from former President Donald Trump. “They were willing to commit crimes in order to illegally seize power,” Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “No person of any power, of any seat, of any party, should be willing to do that in order to undermine our democracy.” It came out last week in the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack’s public hearings that at least five lawmakers contacted the Trump administration about pard...
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Sen. Ben Sasse‘s (R-Nebraska) Thursday speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institue issued a strong message to his own party. “In the 2016 presidential campaign, you had two candidates with wildly different solution sets, but their fundamental diagnosis was really the same,” he said. “The system’s rigged, you’re getting screwed, you’re a victim, the country is going down the tubes, you’re victims.” “The left wants a powerful, nameless but supposedly benevolent bureaucracy. The right wants a strongman daddy figure, but the loudest of them all agree on one thing: America, the...
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Several House Democrats are calling on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign after texts between his wife Ginni Thomas and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadowssurfaced in the House select committee’s probe of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. In the text exchanges from the days and weeks following the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas appeared to urge Meadows to do what he could to overturn the election results. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-New York) argued that if Thomas did not resign, there may be grounds to impeach him. “Clarence Thomas should resign,” she wrote in a tw...
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has publicly criticized Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) after he announced on Sunday that he would not support President Joe Biden‘s social safety net bill known as the Build Back Better Act. On Sunday, after months of negotiations, Manchin announced that he would not provide his support for the bill. His vote was necessary for the bill to succeed in the divided Senate, and his rejection has dashed the hopes of Democrats who wished to pass the legislation before the end of the year. The Build Back Better Act had already undergone major revisions at...
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More than two dozen Democrats in the House of Representatives led by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) announced on Wednesday that they will hold a vote this Friday to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) after he posted a crudely edited video on Twitter depicting him murdering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and President Joe Biden. “For a Member of Congress to post a manipulated video on his social media accounts depicting himself killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden is a clear cut case for censure. For that Member to post such a video on hi...
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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) is facing criticism for posting an edited clip from the popular anime Attack on Titan, changing the scene to show him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and attacking President Joe Biden. Gosar posted the clip Sunday night with the caption “any anime fans out there?” The tweet has since been flagged by Twitter for violating its guidelines on hateful conduct, limiting how people can interact or share the tweet. Attack on Titan focuses on the last remaining humans on Earth attempting to survive constant attacks from monsters known as the titans. The cl...
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