Required reading from around the web of the best, most interesting, or most though provoking things we’ve read:
Hamill: Young Republicans Dumped At A ‘Random’ Gas Station By Anti-Trump Uber Driver Speak Out
“It ain’t easy being a conservative these days. New reports are popping up every week about conservatives being denied service at restaurants and now even from a ride-sharing company solely because of their political beliefs.
Six Republican campaign volunteers have a similar story. They say they were kicked out of an Uber on Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina, as their driver told them ‘welcome to the resistance.'”
San Francisco to Consider Tax on Companies to Help Homeless
“San Francisco voters will decide in November whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services, an issue that set off a battle in another West Coast city struggling with income inequality. The city elections department verified Monday that supporters had collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot. It would raise about $300 million a year — doubling what San Francisco spends on homelessness.”
Valdimirov: Cal Poly admins plot to reduce white enrollment
“The internal document boasts that the percentage of white students fell from 63% in 2011 to 55% in 2017, but declares that ‘there is still much work to do’ to make the student body reflect ‘the demographics of California.'”