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Category Archives: Women’s Rights
The Dissenting Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer stood up for women. The other six justices voted to turn back women’s rights to the 1950s,but they will not stop there. The Witch Hunts of the 21st Century are just beginning. … Continue reading
TCS: For All the Women of No Importance
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ We … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Poetry, The Coffee Shop, Women's Rights
Tagged Afghan Women, Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy, Emily Drumate, Etel Adnan, Landays of Pashtun Women, Nazik Al-Malaika, TCS - For All the Women of No Importance
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Professional sports have been defined by its media, pay its participants and let students remain so.
By ann summers Brackets and rankings help set betting odds, and should those revenues get taxed also to benefit the participants besides the bettors. But in terms of the collegiate sports industry, it shouldn’t be about pie-slicing envy, … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity, Corruption, Labor Movement, Media, Politics, Society, Sociology, Sports, Television, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Tagged Media, NCAA, Sports
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TCS: When Men Alone Decided What Was HISTORY
Good Morning! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, The Coffee Shop, Women's Rights
Tagged “Keep the Damned Women Out”, Gloria Steinem, Ivy League, Linda Greenhouse, Nancy Weiss-Malkiel, TCS, When Men Alone Decided What Was HISTORY
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Tomorrow will be ‘A Day Without A Woman’
A Day Without a Woman Tomorrow, across America, many women will be on strike, to protest “The War on Women” – the anti-women’s rights agenda of the White House, and the Republican majorities in Congress and many state houses.
TCS: Women Do Get Weary
Good Morning! ___________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Ghosts of GOP scandals past … and the inevitable misdirections
By ann summers They want us to believe LTG Flynn is the whole story. He’s surely not. Hearings are needed. â Jason Kander (@JasonKander) February 14, 2017 For weeks, POTUS allowed total access to American intel for a man he … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Canada, Celebrity, Corruption, Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidents, Propaganda, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, United States, Venezuela, War on "Terror", War on Drugs, Women's Rights
Tagged Canada, Conspiracy Theories, disinformation, Donald Trump, flynn, Ivanka, Media, Politics, Russia, strategy of tension, Venezuela, Women's Rights
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Vive l’impeachment… Steve Bannon is Batman villain Lobster Thermidor
By ann summers “Another perspective of Danton emerges from the work of Lamartine, who called Danton a man “devoid of honor, principles, and morality” who found only excitement and a chance for distinction during the French Revolution. He was merely … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, alternative facts, Celebrity, Congress, Corruption, Government, History, Immigrants, Immigration, Jurisprudence, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Racism, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Society, Terrorism, Terrorists, United States, War on "Terror", Women's Rights
Tagged bannon, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, impeachment, Media, Politics
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what is to be done, now and for the next four years of resistance
By ann summers This Theda Skocpol article is worth adding to the discourse since it addresses the issues most important for the coming resistance to Orange GazBag, a.k.a. Prezident Kozyr. Mooby the Golden Calf is a fictional children’s television … Continue reading
Dear Democratic Party, W.T.F. really … W.T.F. — were you in denial about the possibility of this defeat.
By ann summers President Ham Sandwich defeats a highly qualified woman in the US 2016 POTUS election. Many voters decided that voting against something was so much more important than the possibilities of voting for something. Now expect years and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, Media, News, Political Science, Presidential Elections, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Tagged Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Journalism, Media, Politics, television
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