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Today at Ms. | June 22, 2023
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Experts Say Catherine Kassenoff’s Family Court Case Should Alarm America [[link removed]]
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BY AMY POLACKO | Dr. Bandy Lee—who warned the country about Donald Trump—calls the family court system another threat to our democracy.
Lee had been in touch with Catherine Kassenoff, the New York mother and attorney ended her life through assisted suicide over Memorial Day Weekend because she couldn’t fight for custody of her daughters any longer. “What family courts have enabled is the ability of abusers—through the accusation that the other parent is alienating them from their children—to reverse the victim and offender,” Lee said. “It is an abuser’s dream come true to be labeled the good one and to accuse their victims of their own guilt and own crimes—and also to call the healthy person mentally ill.”
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Keeping Score: Supreme Court Preserves Indian Child Welfare Act and Voting Rights Act; School Book Bans Increase 28%; U.S. Support for Abortion Remains High [[link removed]]
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BY SOPHIE DORF-KAMIENNY | In every issue of Ms. , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup.
This week: The Supreme Court ruled to protect tribal members’ right to raise their children; AMA issues policy condemning use of BMI; Trump indicted on federal charges for mishandling documents; Southern Baptist Convention cracks down on women pastors; book bans increased 28% in public schools last fall; childcare costs in the U.S. are causing family members to sacrifice their jobs; and more.
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How AI Puts Elections at Risk—And the Needed Safeguards [[link removed]]
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CEO of OpenAI Samuel Altman testifies at a hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2023. (Aaron Schwartz / Xinhua via Getty Images)
BY MEKELA PANDITHARATNE and NOAH GIANSIRACUSA | Next year will bring the first national campaign season in which widely accessible AI tools allow users to synthesize audio in anyone’s voice, generate photo-realistic images of anybody doing nearly anything, and power social media bot accounts with near human-level conversational abilities—and do so on a vast scale and with a reduced or negligible investment of money and time.
Voters need some level of transparency to promote safe AI use when it comes to elections.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on
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In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by Ann Grundy to celebrate Juneteenth—which comes at a fraught moment in U.S. history. In 2023, Juneteenth comes with vestiges of the past, as book bans targeting queer, Black and Indigenous authors sweep the nation. Dr. Goodwin and Grundy remind us that these bans aren’t just attacks on critical race theory or women’s studies. They’re attacks on democracy and the First Amendment itself.
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