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Today at Ms. | July 3, 2025 |
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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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(Advance Native Political Leadership) |
By Mica Standing Soldier | On June 25-26, 1876, a pivotal moment in Native history unfolded along the banks of the Little Bighorn River in present-day Montana: Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors stood against Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army to defend their way of life. Today—nearly 150 years later—their same spirit of resistance and determination lives on … in legislative chambers, courtrooms and school board meetings. And while the battlegrounds may have changed, the stakes remain.
(This essay is part of a collection presented by Ms. and the Groundswell Fund.)
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By Rickey Gard Diamond | Recent headlines warn of a national budget bill that cuts Medicaid and food stamps, enabling billionaires to escape fair taxes.
The bill’s 1,000-plus pages contain another dangerous threat: freeing still-experimental AI from regulation, essentially turning Americans into lab rats in a billionaire-bro tryout without guardrails.
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(Sergio Flores / Getty Images) |
By Carmen Rios | Aimee Allison founded She the People to empower more of us to envision an America redefined and inspired by women of color. As its president, she launches and spearheads efforts to demonstrate the political power of women as color and advance racial, economic, and gender justice.
As part of the first episode of the new Ms. Studios podcast Looking Back, Moving Forward, Allison talked to Ms. about her vision for a feminist future, rewriting the American story, and what it will take for us to build a better democracy.
“We stand for something extremely powerful, and we have a legacy of women who came before us that are going to actually show us the way forward.” (Click here to read more) |
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Welcome to Speaking Freely: a First Amendment Podcast with Stephen Rohde. In this new series, First Amendment expert Stephen Rohde, who has litigated and written about freedom of expression for decades, will explore some of the most controversial free speech and free press cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court—looking at hot-button issues like hate speech, defamation, incitement, social media, obscenity, flag burning, espionage, and academic freedom. We hope you'll listen, subscribe, rate and review today! |
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