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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm here with my producer, Mike.

Mike, I am so excited to run down the news with you because we have so many good updates in this episode.

Yeah, it's been a busy week, so let's get into it, Bridget.

And here's what you might have missed this week on the internet. But first, if you feel like our audio was a little bit off, it is not because one of us has made an error that we will bring up

until the day we die. It's because I'm traveling and I am not recording in my normal studio,

so hopefully it's not too bad. So back in June, when the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action,

we told you about the conservative activist named Edward Blum and the group, group might be a little bit of a

misnomer because it's literally just him. It is a group of one called the American Alliance for Equal

Rights, which really curtails progress in the United States by filing lawsuits. Dude is not even a

lawyer. I think I described him as a professional hater in the last episode that we did about affirmative action.

So Blum was behind the legal challenge to affirmative action, both the one led by that white woman who did not get into University of Texas and the most recent challenge on behalf of both white and Asian students that led to the consideration of race in college admissions being struck

down as unconstitutional. His legal challenges also led to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

Well, high on those big wins, my man, Edward Blum, is back. After gutting affirmative action,

his next move is suing a black venture capital firm called

Fearless Fund because he alleges the Fearless Fund is practicing unlawful racial discrimination.

His claim states that the firm is violating Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866,

a U.S. law barring racial bias in private contracts by making only black

women eligible in a grant competition. So basically, Fearless Fund was launched in 2019 by three

prominent black women, actress Keisha Knight Pullman, yes, that Keisha Knight Pullman, who you

might recall as Rudy Huxtable from The Cosby Show,

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