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Today at Ms. | August 14, 2025
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From Alligator Alcatraz to National Guard Patrols: What Is the Cost of the Trump Administration’s Cruelty? [[link removed]]
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By Rickey Gard Diamond | Reserve forces of the U.S. Army, 800 National Guardsmen, and for some reason, 120 FBI agents, are being newly assigned by El Presidente to patrol our national capital—citing crime as his motive, though it’s dropped by a third in recent (Biden) years. He’s already done this in Los Angeles for the last 60 days and predicts other cities are on his list: Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, New York City—all places that just happen to vote blue.
Early on, the Pentagon testified it would spend about $134 million for the LA deployment, which sounds like a low-ball figure to anyone who’s recently shopped for groceries to feed 5,000 hungry young men three meals a day. And now, California’s governor is asking for the total cost to taxpayers of this “unlawful” deployment—because whether it’s political theater or not, we’re the ones footing the bill.
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Explainer: No, Contraceptives Don’t Cause Abortion [[link removed]]
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By United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) | Misinformation about contraception is deadly.
Just ask Evaline Chepkemol, a mother of three in Kenya’s rural Narok County—a place with one of the country’s highest maternal death rates. Chepkemol has encountered many women in her community who are fearful of contraceptives.
“They have the belief that if you insert the family planning [device], you either lose the children or will never give birth again,” she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. “They were saying that when you put in family planning, you will never give birth to any child because the children will disappear,” she explained.
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A Trump Cabinet Member Endorsed a Pastor Who Wants the 19th Amendment Repealed, and the Danger Is Growing [[link removed]]
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By Emma Cieslik | Once a fringe warning, the threat to women’s right to vote is now out in the open—and in the halls of power.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video on Aug. 7 with the endorsement “All of Christ for All of Life,” in which a far-right conservative pastor, Doug Wilson, co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), argued that women should not have the right to vote.
As Wilson told the Associated Press, “He was, in effect, reposting it and saying, ‘Amen,’ at some level.”
But a deeper dive into CREC reveals troubling gender politics where women cannot hold church leadership positions and married women are expected to submit to their husbands.
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Trump has been in office for 200 days. In those 200 days, important institutions core to democracy have been dismantled. But we’ve also seen a coordinated effort to resist him, with millions across the country taking to the streets again and again to protest on behalf of the rights of their neighbors, their families, and themselves. Attorneys and advocates are also stepping up, demanding courts to defend our rights. Two hundred days in, what have we learned—and what’s the playbook for the next four years?
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