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Today at Ms. | November 14, 2023 |
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With Today at Ms.—a daily newsletter from the team here at Ms. magazine—our top stories are delivered straight to your inbox every afternoon, so you’ll be informed and ready to fight back. |
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrives for a meeting with House Republicans on Nov. 7, 2023, to discuss the possibility of a budget continuing resolution as the Nov. 17 government shutdown deadline looms. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) |
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BY MORGAN CARMEN | The government might shut down this week (again). At the same time, House Republicans are trying to abolish the Women’s Bureau; cut the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; slash maternal and child health support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); eliminate funding for Title X family planning; *and* reverse the FDA decision on the abortion pill mifepristone. (Click here to read more) |
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A volunteer in Salerno, Italy, helps a woman to disembark from the Medecins Sans Frontieres NGO’s ship Geo Barents, docked with 258 migrants on board (26 of whom are unaccompanied minors) from Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Pakistan. (Antonio Balasco / Kontrolab / LightRocket via Getty Images) |
BY JILL FILIPOVIC | The world is not confined to Israel and Palestine, and it should be possible to give that conflict the attention and outrage it deserves—which is a lot—while not treating other people as trivial or disposable because they happen to live in places that are not as geopolitically relevant to U.S. interests, or are not as psychologically or biologically tied to as many Americans and Europeans, or are not as connected to the American and European telling of history.
It does not have to be this way. We do not have to turn our eyes away.
(Click here to read more) |
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A firefighter keeps watch as the Thomas wildfire burns near Carpinteria, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2017. The fire destroyed hundreds of homes and prompted massive mandatory evacuations. (Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto via Getty Images) |
BY DANIELLE ARIGONI | As climate change fuels ever-deadlier disasters, it may seem that no one is immune to the wildfires, storms and heat waves that plague our baking planet. While this may be true, some are more threatened than others, and older women are among those most at risk.
Older adults represent a significantly disproportionate share of deaths associated with climate-fueled disasters. (Click here to read more) |
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In Episode 1: “Terror," Roberts argues that the family policing system is designed to terrorize Black families. Child protective services equate poverty with neglect, using it as a justification to invade homes and threaten to take children away from majority low-income, Black families.
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