Social media is erupting over a viral video of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey showing off his awkward dance moves while attending the Black Entrepreneur State Fair, with the clip quickly spreading across X as users call the dance a "cringe" performance. The clip, posted on TikTok last week, shows Frey moving his hips and shoulders to hip-hop music while wearing sunglasses and interacting with an emcee on the dance floor , prompting a wave of mockery from conservative commentators. "Why are they always like this? This is almost worse than when he pretended the Somali food he was choking down his throat was delicious. He’s a walking humiliation ritual," said conservative commentator Benny Johnson . "What an embarrassment," said one user. SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS WITH MOCKERY AS DEM SENATE CANDIDATE'S PEP TALK GOES VIRAL: 'IS THIS FOR REAL?' "I’d honestly prefer that he defund the police," joked commentator Emily Jashinsky . "One of the wo...
Bernie-backed California House candidate called DEI a ‘social justice-driven duty,’ embraced activist role
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A Bernie Sanders -backed California congressional candidate who touts his career as an educator has used the classroom and academia to push diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and activist groups, according to his own writings and reports on his work with students. Randy Villegas is taking on Republican Rep. David Valadao in California’s 22nd Congressional District in a high-stakes Central Valley showdown that could help determine control of the House . Democrats have made the seat a top pickup target as the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the district a "toss-up" and gives the district a razor-thin D+1 partisan lean. Villegas, a political science professor at College of the Sequoias and Visalia school board trustee, co-authored a 2022 academic paper arguing that DEI is central to the mission of community college educators and describing it as a "social justice-driven duty." The paper, titled "A Commitment to Teaching, Learning, and Stude...