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Move Over, Sydney Sweeney

On the topic of eugenics, we should be talking about the forced removal of houseless people in DC

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G. Samantha Rosenthal
Aug 22, 2025
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An interesting thing happened at Washington, DC’s main train hall on Wednesday. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gathered inside a Shake Shack (yes, they really did) to gave a press conference in support of the ongoing military occupation of our nation’s capital.

As protesters overpowered them with chants of “From DC to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime!” the three men attempted to speak over the demonstrators, hurling barbs back at them. Miller called the protesters “stupid white hippies,” and Vance termed them “a bunch of old, primarily white people… [who have] never felt danger in their entire lives.”

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This rhetorical spin—that those opposed to the military occupation of DC are privileged, elderly, white folks, which is …

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