Sue Altman Spent Months Distancing Herself From Her Progressive Past. Then a Far-Left Group Spent $735,000 on Her Election Bid.

Democratic New Jersey congressional candidate Sue Altman claimed in September that she had "broken" with the Working Families Party on a range of issues—part of her effort to distance herself from her progressive past as a state chapter leader. But two weeks later, the far-left group began dumping more than $735,000 into the swing-district candidate's election bid.

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Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Gets Reparations Payments From White Friends

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), has received "reparations" payments from her white friends on Juneteenth most years since 2019, the Washington Free Beacon has found.

Both of Hirsi’s parents are Somali immigrants. Reparations advocates, meanwhile, typically push for payments to descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S., while Juneteenth commemorates the nation’s 1865 end of slavery.

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How To Raise an Anti-American

"This is not primarily an anti-capitalist book," journalist Kavin Senapathy (she/they) explains in the opening chapter of The Progressive Parent: Harnessing the Power of Science and Social Justice to Raise Awesome Kids. She's right in the sense that "their" book is not primarily about anything, least of all raising children. It is a rambling anti-American screed reflecting the myriad familiar grievances of progressive elites, steeped in the fatuous academic jargon of the overeducated. (Senapathy was raised and currently resides in the liberal college-town bubble of Madison, Wisconsin.)

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The Harris Mystique

What's Kamala Harris's secret? My theory is Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents were so happy to see Joe Biden off the ticket that they would have fallen in line behind anyone. Harris was savvy—and well-placed—to lock up the nomination before rivals entered the ring. She's been riding a wave of positive energy since July that has boosted her favorability, upped her game, and deluged her with fundraising. The energy is psychic: relief and excitement that Democrats have a chance to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House. The surprise, unbidden possibility of victory endowed Harris with a mystique. She's made the most of it.

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Kamala Harris Wants a Reparations Commission Like California's, Which Called To Decriminalize Public Urination

The reparations bill supported by Vice President Kamala Harris would set up an independent commission similar to the one in California that called for sweeping changes to the criminal code in addition to monetary payouts to black Americans.

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Chicago mayor creates reparations task force for 'historical wrongs committed against' black Chicagoans



Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) announced on Monday the creation of the city's reparations task force to correct the "historical wrongs committed against" black residents and has appropriated $500,000 in the 2024 budget for the task force's establishment.

In his executive order, Johnson pointed to other cities and states that have gone forward with some form of reparations for black people. The order also offers an official apology to black Chicagoans.

"As a Black man, and as the leader of a major U.S. city, I have a responsibility to set the tone on how we rectify decades of neglect. Today's Executive Order on the Black Reparations Agenda is a pledge to confront Chicago's legacy of inequity," Johnson wrote on X.

The money going toward the task force and its forthcoming recommendations comes at a time when Chicago's budget deficit is over $500 million.

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The task force will "support the strategy, implementation, and engagement of the Chicago Black Reparations Agenda." Within 90 days of the order being signed, the mayor's office will invite members of the Black Caucus to "co-design a framework and selection process for the Task Force, to include members of the community."

Within 12 months, the task force will provide a report that will lay out how to:

  • Create a city definition and framework for black reparations,
  • Design educational tools for city staff to learn about reparations,
  • Conduct a study of all policies that have harmed black Chicagoans "from the slavery era to the present day,"
  • Make a series of recommendations that will serve as appropriate remedies and restitution for past injustices and present harm consistent with international standards, and
  • Recommend appropriate ways to educate the Chicago public in the report.
The city's "chief equity officer" will be providing quarterly updates to Johnson's office.
The money going toward the task force and its forthcoming recommendations comes at a time when Chicago's budget deficit is over $500 million, according to NBC Chicago. The city has made the deficit gap worse by taking upon itself to care for the thousands of illegal immigrants who have come to the United States through the border crisis triggered by President Joe Biden's administration.
There is also the issue of the $45 million in pension costs.

Oakland Reparations Committee Wants $5 Million From Taxpayers—Just To Come Up With a Plan

A California Bay Area committee appointed to design racism reparations for black residents wants two years and $5 million just to write a plan.

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