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Hello.

Welcome to the Young Turks.

I'm your host, Anna Kasparian, and ladies and gentlemen, I believe

we're about to have our finest hour. Okay, I'm so looking forward to the first hour today.

It's going to be a little different, a little different. Yes, we're going to cover the big

news stories of the day as we usually do. But there are some stories

involving a particular form of grift that I have been trying to raise awareness about. This is a

grift that unfortunately has infected democratic institutions in particular. And it really, really needs to be called out because

it's infuriating to see where money that's specifically raised for, you know, charity or money

that has been granted to charitable foundations to do good things out in the world.

When you find out that that money is really just used to pad the

pockets of the individuals running these nonprofits, you'll understand where the fury comes from.

So we're going to get into that later on in the first hour of the show. We're also going to

talk about equity and grading. What does that mean? And why do I hate it? It has a great label,

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