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Today at Ms. | March 6, 2025
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Could Shape the State’s Future on Abortion, Voting and Workers’ Rights [[link removed]]
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By Olivia Mccabe | The nonpartisan effort to produce voter guides, Guides.vote, recently released its Wisconsin Supreme Court race guide, providing a cheat sheet leading up to the April 1 election. The high-profile race tasks voters with deciding between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel to fill the open seat on the court.
The election is crucial in determining whether the court retains its 4-3 liberal majority or shifts to conservative control.
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Women’s History Month: Five Groundbreaking Researchers Who Mapped the Ocean Floor, Tested Atomic Theories, Vanquished Malaria and More [[link removed]]
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By Maggie Villiger | Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might not be familiar but whose stories are worth knowing:
* Marie Tharp revolutionized oceanography by mapping the seafloor, uncovering a rift valley that helped prove plate tectonic theory.
* Margaret Morse Nice transformed ornithology with her empathetic study of song sparrows, pioneering methods still used today.
* Tu Youyou led groundbreaking research in Maoist China, extracting artemisinin from traditional medicine, which became a lifesaving malaria treatment.
* Emmy Noether, a mathematical genius praised by Einstein, overcame systemic barriers to make foundational contributions to theoretical physics.
* Chien-Shiung Wu, an atomic physicist, played a critical role in the Manhattan Project and experimentally disproved a long-standing nuclear theory … though her male colleagues received the Nobel Prize for the discovery.
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Fired for the Fun of It: My Experience With Trump’s Mass Termination of Federal Employees [[link removed]]
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By Mary Giovagnoli | From day one, the Trump administration has launched a strategic campaign to intimidate federal workers and the people they serve. From my perspective working as the ombudsman for unaccompanied children, a senior career position within the HHS, I observed a pattern quickly emerging: The president would issue an executive order, which was then “implemented” through an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memo directing agencies to carry out the order, followed by daily meetings that mysteriously popped up on our calendars with little rhyme or reason.
Ultimately, demeaning and demoralizing a workforce to score political points is unpresidential. Civil servants don’t deserve this—and neither does the public.
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In the fourth episode of The Z Factor, host Anoushka Chander is joined by Ashwin Ramaswami to dive into how we deal with political loss. Anoushka and Ashwin discuss his campaign’s strategy to use technology to reach people, how he engages with young men disillusioned with politics, and what Democrats can change about their messaging going forward. Ashwin also shares how his Indian-American upbringing influenced his political service work.
We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today!
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