Equal Rights for All PAC submits its opposition letter to CA Senate Education Committee on #ACA7: " ... It was a total shock to us that our State Legislature was at it again to try to repeal Prop. 209 via ACA 7. We must voice our grave concern with you, since 54 Assembly Members voted yes to pass the bill to the State Senate. Perhaps these elected officials feel insulated from their constituents or feel so invisible that they can liberally legislate racial preferences. At any rate, we sincerely hope you would be different, putting common sense and reason above party ideology..." erfapac.com/letter-to-ca-sen… All senators from EC here: @senatorsrp @SenOchoaBogh @Cabaldon4CA @SenatorChoi @SenDaveCortese @SenEloiseReyes #NoACA7 #Stop #ACA7 #Protect209 @tobeequal @GailHeriot @SteveMillerOC @CA4equalrights @wu_wenyuan @ECalifornians @garrytan @garryslist @Twolfrecovery @RealBruceLou

"Current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors." Over 280 University of California STEM faculty have signed an open letter calling on the Board of Regents to reinstate standardized testing in admissions:

Many blame the UC Regents for banning the use of the SAT in admissions. I watched the full board meeting in the archives. The truth is many Regents supported keeping the SAT, but they were pressured away from doing so by then-UC President Janet Napolitano.

Golden rice is a no-brainer: a publicly funded, non-proprietary genetically modified crop that combats vitamin A deficiency, a major cause of childhood blindness and mortality - yet it's opposed by many Western environmental groups and NGOs. 24 years ago, in The Blank Slate, I decried this primitive essentialist and tribal thinking. I'm sad to learn that this mindless opposition persists today. goldenrice.org/

For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12