@XavierBecerra California very own wasteful tax spending is to be blamed for not being trusted by the federal government.
We dont want to give more drugs to homeless and we certainly dont want to fund a high speed train to nowhere that nobody will ever ride.
Angel Reese claiming she “never had Barbie dolls growing up because they didn’t look like her” is a powerful story.
It is also historically dishonest.
Christie, Barbie's Black friend, entered Barbie’s world in 1968.
The first official Black Barbie arrived in 1980.
American Girl introduced Addy Walker in 1993.
And in 1998, four years before Reese was born, Mattel was already selling Black basketball-playing Barbie dolls in authentic NBA uniforms.
By the time Angel Reese was old enough to walk through a toy aisle, Black dolls had already existed for decades... with different skin tones, hairstyles, careers, fashion lines and athletic identities.
Maybe none of the available dolls felt personally meaningful to her.
But that is very different from suggesting they did not exist.
They did.
Long before Angel Reese was born.
This is another example of a personal anecdote being repackaged into a sweeping cultural grievance that falls apart the moment anyone checks the timeline.
The irony is almost perfect:
A Black basketball Barbie existed before Angel Reese did.
Pete Buttigieg: "If we had a more reasonable rate of taxation on capital gains and corporate income, and made it harder to pass along inherited wealth..." We can have fast trains here in the United States.
How is that project doing in California Pete?
After we cut off federal funding for High-Speed Rail, the state filed a lawsuit to try to get it back. That lawsuit has now been dropped. The state had to admit it missed the deadline to buy the actual trains.
There are still no trains, no tracks, no passengers.
@bencole_488@BaseballQuotes1 Top prospects were just traded for Skubal.
Skubal is considered a rental and will become a free agent at the end of the year.
The league has been run this way for many many years.
Dodgers going for a three-peat and traded their talent from that farm system.