Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Friday, June 5, 2026

Pete Hegseth removes all women and some Black service members from navy promotion list

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, stripped nine navy officers including women and Black service members from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male, overwhelmingly white slate of 22 advancing as nominees to become one-star admirals...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/pete-hegseth-navy-promotion-list


 

Thursday, May 28, 2026

For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: Women : NPR

"It has completely infected the white supremacist realm," Beirich said. "Misogyny is as important, I would argue, as racism or neo-Nazi-ism now to people that traffic in these kinds of ideas and live in these cultures."

 "It is an ideology that is heavily invested in the idea of 'cultural degeneracy' and what are the sources of it," said Elliot Chandler, CFO and researcher at Revontulet, a Norway-based company that does online threat monitoring. "And historically, femininity and the excessive expression of femininity is a core aspect of degeneracy. That is the classic 'This is what the Nazis think' way of approaching it." 

 This panic over the "feminization" of society also plays a role in the extreme hostility toward LGBTQ+ people, and to inclusive agendas, said DiBranco…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835586/san-diego-mosque-anti-women


Stop trying to use the Bible to control women’s bodies #maklelan3308

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/20GijPdxt0o

 

Friday, May 22, 2026

House rejects Smithsonian women’s history museum bill after partisan split - Live Updates - POLITICO

New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States” and prohibited the institution from seeking to “identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/21/congress/house-smithsonian-womens-museum-00932675


 

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Michigan group spotlights Black Maternal Health Week and the risks Black women face giving birth

Danielle Atkinson, the executive director of the public policy-focused group Mothering Justice, pointed to federal data that show Black women are 3-4 times more likely than their white counterparts to die of childbirth-related complications — a disparity that persists even when factoring in things like education and income level. 

“It really speaks to the barriers, the economic barriers, the racial issues in our healthcare system and society, and how they have an effect on the lives of our people who are birthing,” Atkinson said...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-04-12/michigan-group-spotlights-black-maternal-health-week-and-the-risks-black-women-face-giving-birth


 

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Hegseth stopped promotions of Black and female soldiers : NPR

According to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly, Hegseth made the highly unusual move of interfering in the regular promotion process, as first reported in the New York Times. A second U.S. official also not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Hegseth has been weeding out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible... 

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5763863/hegseth-soldiers-promotions 


 








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