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Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Why the Pro-Life Movement Smuggles in Property Rights (Cross Examiner and Jim Barrows on AXP on YouTube)
Why are women viewed by religions as mere incubators in their logical frameworks? Gohan in TX presents a pro-life argument but admits he would kill someone to protect a DVD. The hosts expose the absurdity of valuing property over human life while protecting zygotes.
Monday, February 23, 2026
Molly Jong-Fast on Another Week in Trump’s America (Al Franken podcast on YouTube)
Our good friend and host of The Fast Politics Podcast, Molly Jong-Fast, returns to the show! Molly’s recent writing in the New York Times has covered the Epstein files and why only a fraction of them have been made public. We tackle the Prince Andrew arrest, Howard Lutnick's lies, and the DOJ’s blatant attempt to scrub the files that have been made public.
We also get into the SAVE Act and how this is just another attempt by Republicans to subvert democracy. Republican Senators know that the midterms spell trouble for them, so suppressing votes is their best strategy. Will the GOP blow up the filibuster? Does John Thune care more about democracy than Mike Johnson?
Plus, we get Molly's thoughts on the latest CBS vs. Stephen Colbert saga, Trump's EPA destroying climate progress, ICE crackdowns around the country, and MUCH more.
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We also get into the SAVE Act and how this is just another attempt by Republicans to subvert democracy. Republican Senators know that the midterms spell trouble for them, so suppressing votes is their best strategy. Will the GOP blow up the filibuster? Does John Thune care more about democracy than Mike Johnson?
Plus, we get Molly's thoughts on the latest CBS vs. Stephen Colbert saga, Trump's EPA destroying climate progress, ICE crackdowns around the country, and MUCH more.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2025
History Minute (060): Black women were also heroes in the Civil War.
Zinn observes the following:
Black women aided in the war.
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t
— or —
find it at Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377
Black women aided in the war.
- Sojourner Truth, an ex-slave activist in the women’s rights movement, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, recruited black troops for the Union army.
- Harriet Tubman led black and white troops in raids on plantation, one of which freed 750 enslaved persons.
- Black women moved with their soldier husbands, and they and their children endured many of the same hardships of war as the soldiers themselves did.
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t
— or —
find it at Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377
Monday, October 6, 2025
Israel, Palestine, Liberty, and the Left (with Jasmin Faulk) (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist podcast)
Jasmin Faulk is an ex-Muslim human rights activist with an insider's perspective on Islam, the war on women, and the often awkward perspectives of the West.
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Sunday, August 24, 2025
This Candidate for Office Opposes Women in Office (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #597)
— Federal judge blocks Texas law forcing the Ten Commandments in schools from taking full effect. (1:50)
— He’s a priest. She was a 17-year-old dancer. He paid her to stay quiet. She refused. (31:13)
— Christian pastors in Kentucky urge theft of LGBTQ books from Shelbyville public library. (43:55)
— Faith, power, and abuse: The scandal rocking Truett McConnell University. (1:01:25)
— Mylie Biggs, who believes women shouldn’t run for office, is running for office. (1:24:35)
— Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick demands citizens stand for Christian prayers—or else. (1:37:12)
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— He’s a priest. She was a 17-year-old dancer. He paid her to stay quiet. She refused. (31:13)
— Christian pastors in Kentucky urge theft of LGBTQ books from Shelbyville public library. (43:55)
— Faith, power, and abuse: The scandal rocking Truett McConnell University. (1:01:25)
— Mylie Biggs, who believes women shouldn’t run for office, is running for office. (1:24:35)
— Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick demands citizens stand for Christian prayers—or else. (1:37:12)
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Sunday, August 10, 2025
Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote | Trump administration | The Guardian
Another pastor interview by CNN for its segment, Toby Sumpter, said: "In my ideal society, we would vote as households. I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household."…
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Pete Hegseth's Alarming Ties Get WORSE As Christian Nationalist Leader Truth surfaces
Donald Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gets exposed for his alarming ties to disturbing Christian Nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has repeatedly torn down women and claimed they should have less rights, to add to Hegseth's list of extremist affiliations. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, the ruling didn't just eliminate the federal right to abortion; it also ushered in "a generational change in the way that people approach sex," journalist Carter Sherman says.
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
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Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
In the recordings, Hegeth rails against "cultural Marxism", feminism, "critical race theory", and even democracy itself, which he says "our founders blatantly rejected as being completely dangerous"…
Elsewhere in the recordings, Hegseth expresses agreement with the principle of sphere sovereignty, which, in CR doctrine, envisions a subordination of "civil government" to Old Testament law, capital punishment for infringements of that law such as homosexuality, and rigidly patriarchal families and …
Controversies have arisen from his apparent defense of slavery…
Wilson's teachings include that "wives need to be led with a firm hand", that "Christians do not set aside the death penalty for homosexual sin", that "all the nations of man are to be brought into submission to Christ", and that in a Christian nation, non-Christian religions would be banned from the public square.
In a discussion of sexuality, Wilson once wrote: "The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party", adding: "A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/trump-pete-hegseth-extremism
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Researchers report stunning surge of misogyny in schools after the election | PBS News
"In just a 24-hour period after Election Day, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue tracked a 4600 percent increase in mentions of the terms, "Your body, my choice" and "Get back in the kitchen" on the social media platform X. One post by far right activist Nick Fuentes has been viewed nearly 100 million times. But the misogyny is not just online..."
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
“Reigning In the Beast: Male Sexuality” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast; It’s in the Code Ep 121)
Conservative, high-control American religion conceives of only two genders (male and female), and understands human sexuality as inherently heteronormative—women are sexually drawn to men, and men are sexually drawn to women.
But within this overarching understanding, men and women are perceived as expressing radically different sexualities. Within this world, how is male sexuality understood? What are its defining features? And what are the dangers that come with this way of perceiving male sexuality?
Take a listen as Dan offers his thoughts on these and other issues in this week’s episode.
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Sunday, September 8, 2024
“Smiling Wives” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast; It’s in the Code Ep 112)
A church suggested, in their church bulletin, that people would encounter “smiling wives” at their church. What could that possibly mean? Why advertise that in your church bulletin? And if it seems distinctly cringy, why is that? Check this week’s episode to find out!
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Saturday, June 15, 2024
Friday, May 31, 2024
Opinion | Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement - The New York Times
The upshot, polling suggests, is that men are becoming grumpier and more resentful of women's success, and more drawn to conservative authoritarian populists, from Donald Trump to misogynist internet personalities like Andrew Tate.
The Glocalities survey concluded that around the world the "radical right increasingly finds fertile ground among young men, which is already impacting elections." Representative Matt Gaetz suggested that it doesn't matter if Republicans antagonize female voters because they can be replaced by male voters...
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Republican Women Are Divided on Abortion as Bans Spread - The New York Times
Over the past year, abortion as an issue has quickly become tied with health, medicine, safety and security, on top of bodily autonomy, Ms. Undem said. A majority of Republican women also now cite "women's rights" as an "extremely or very important issue" in their vote, up from 31 percent, a phrase Ms. Undem says is closely associated with abortion rights.
"Becoming pregnant has become an even scarier prospect than it already was," she said. "Everyone knows someone who has had a complication in pregnancy, so this issue is far-reaching."…
Monday, March 4, 2024
Bishop fired by Pope Francis blesses MAGA Christian Nationalism at CPAC (Conspirituality podcast)
Brad Onishi of Straight White American Jesus sits down with Matthew to analyze the debut of “America’s Bishop,” Joseph Strickland, on the CPAC stage, where he blessed MAGA Christian Nationalism with his purple finery and endless torrent of anti-choice bafflegab.
Strickland—removed as Archbishop of Tyler, Texas in November by the ultra-woke Pope Francis—has hit the influencer circuit to firm up the sometimes-precarious Evangelical-Catholic alliance on the backs of women. His aw-shucks “humility” and East Texas drawl offers this reactionary movement genteel cover for its aggressive fever dreams. He is, as Onishi puts it, the Catholic Ned Flanders who conspires with Mr. Burns at night.
Strickland—removed as Archbishop of Tyler, Texas in November by the ultra-woke Pope Francis—has hit the influencer circuit to firm up the sometimes-precarious Evangelical-Catholic alliance on the backs of women. His aw-shucks “humility” and East Texas drawl offers this reactionary movement genteel cover for its aggressive fever dreams. He is, as Onishi puts it, the Catholic Ned Flanders who conspires with Mr. Burns at night.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Biden is betting big on abortion rights. A look at his record to protect access
Trump could, Summers suggested, legally label certain forms of hormonal birth control – such as IUDS – as abortifacients, suggesting that they cause abortions. (Medical experts widely believe that they do not.) The US supreme court has previously supported a similar move. In a 2014 decision, issued when the court's makeup was far less conservative, the justices ruled that a corporation did not have to cover certain forms of birth control for employees because the corporation's religious owners believed them to be abortifacients.
"The bottom line here is that advocates sounded the alarm for years that Roe was at significant risk of being overturned. And we were dismissed by many as catastrophizing the whole thing," Summers said. "And look where we are."
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