Billie Eilish, who referred to the United States as “stolen land” at the Grammys, lives in a $14 million mansion on land claimed by the Tongva tribe.
“As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land,” the tribe told the Daily Mail. “Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when Public Figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”
Eilish on Sunday won the Song of the Year Grammy for “Wildflower,” a sonically unremarkable number with trite lyrics that won critical acclaim by switching “him” and “he” to “her” and “she” in the downbeat, love-lost lament.
She told those assembled on Sunday, “No one is illegal on stolen land. It’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting, and speaking up, and protesting, and our voices really do matter, and the people matter, and f*** ICE is all I want to say.”
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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.
