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The number of women in Trump's cabinet is shrinking
Gender Gap (Substack)
April 3, 2026
Meredith Conroy (political science) published an article about the dismissals of former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Conroy wrote: “There’s this saying that goes, ‘once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.’ By that logic, this may still be coincidence — but it’s a revealing one. With the ousting of Attorney General Pam Bondi this week, both of Trump’s fired cabinet members — Bondi and also former Sec. of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — are women. Does it matter that Bondi and Noem were the first to go?”
Entrepreneurship center set to celebrate a major milestone
IE Business Daily
April 6, 2026
The Randall W. Lewis Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino is getting ready to take a victory lap. On April 23, the organization that promotes start-up businesses and business expansion in the Inland Empire will hold a gala celebration at The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside. The Billion & Beyond Celebration will mark the center’s passing $1 billion in regional economic impact.
The center reached that milestone a year or so sooner than director Mike Stull thought it would.
“Not that I didn’t think we could reach that goal, but we knew we would have to work hard to get to it,” said Stull, who has overseen the center since 2002. “But we had a great fourth quarter last year, and that pushed us over $1 billion.”
Hate crimes against Latinos and Sikhs hit record high in 2025
Axios
April 9, 2026
Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, conducted an analysis of the latest FBI hate crime statistics for the California Association of Human Relations Organizations. Anti-Latino and anti-Sikh hate crimes in the U.S. soared to new records in 2025, even as overall hate crimes declined, according to preliminary FBI data. "Whoever is the target of a particular sticky type of stereotype, particularly a fear-inducing one, you'll see that particular group spike," said Levin.
The article was picked up by other news media worldwide, including India Today, “Hate crimes against Sikhs surged by 3,700% in US in last 10 years: Report,” on April 10, 2026.
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