I think the Republicans have made a major miscalculation. I think they believe the grievances of the MAGAt world will out perform the younger generation. But I think they are wrong. The gender issue has become one of the defining trends for young voters and the world in which they live. In spite of all the voter suppression and gendering, I think the young are going to turn out in large numbers, motivated by this and the Republicans insane anti-abortion efforts, and that will be very meaningful.
A trans rights protester. More millennials think misgendering should be illegal than legal, according to a new survey. Credit: Andy Buchanan / AFP / Getty
More millennials think referring to a transgender person by the wrong pronouns should be a criminal offense than think it should be legal, according to new polling conducted exclusively for Newsweek.
According to the survey by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 44 percent of those aged 25-34 think “referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense,” versus just 31 percent who disagree. The remainder “neither agree nor disagree” or “don’t know.”
This view remains popular for those aged 35-44, among whom 38 percent think misgendering should be illegal, whilst 35 percent disagree and 26 percent either don’t know or didn’t express an opinion.
The rights of transgender people, whose gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were given at birth, and the corresponding impact on women’s rights, has developed into a hot political issue across the United States. Republican-controlled states have passed a string of laws impacting transgender […]
Veronica Gillispie-Bell, OB-GYN Physician and Associate Professor for Ochsner Health in New Orleans. - The New York Times
Stephan:
The state of healthcare for women in America, particularly Black women, is appalling. I do not understand why this is not a bigger issue. Dr. Gillespie-Bell, an OB/GYN physician, lays it out accurately. My question is, why is this being tolerated? Why do we rank so poorly compared to other countries?
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The New York Times; Images by The New York Public Library, British Library / Unsplash; and PictureNet / Getty
After Tori Bowie, an elite athlete, died in May, the reality of the health risk to Black women posed by childbirth was once again in the spotlight. The maternal mortality rate for Black women in America is, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2.6 times that for white women.
Now a recently published study in the medical journal JAMA has revealed that the U.S. maternal mortality rate — already the highest among peer nations — has increased for all racial and ethnic groups. Maternal outcomes in the United States are a public health crisis, and they are only getting worse. We know the data. We need to focus on the solutions.
As a practicing OB-GYN and medical director of Louisiana’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, I understand not only the problem, but also the solutions. To ease the U.S. maternal health crisis, we must improve systems of […]
For 30 years now the Republicans have been trying to disembowel public education replacing it with profit making schools designed to indoctrinate children rather than educate them. This is another one of the culture war trends that is not getting anything like the discussion it should.
Los Angeles teachers join school support staff on strike on March 23, 2023. Credit: Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News / Getty
House Democrats warned that hundreds of thousands of teachers could lose their jobs if legislation advanced Friday by a Republican-controlled appropriations subcommittee becomes law.
The panel’s draft Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill for the coming fiscal year calls for nearly $64 billion in total cuts, a proposal that Democrats said “decimates support for children in K-12 elementary schools and early childhood education” and “abandons college students and low-income workers trying to improve their lives through higher education or job training.”
The nonprofit Committee for Education Funding noted that the Republican proposal would impact “virtually all” education programs, hitting teacher funding, student aid, and more. The bill, one of a dozen appropriations measures that Congress is looking to pass by the end of September, would bring Department of Education funding to below the 2006 level, according to the group.
Ron DeSantis has been a disaster for Florida. I am amazed that anyone in the state still supports this incompetent racist who has made it clear he is not interested in anything but his own self-promotion.
Early in the 20th century, engineers blew up waterfalls and rapids in Miami rivers to clear the way for a canal. Wildcats scattered and fish floated to the surface, paralyzed. As legend has it, at least one alligator’s body went flying in the explosion, gawked at by local dignitaries.
Dynamite and dredging were the tools chosen to drain the Everglades and tame the waters. What once belonged to the Tequesta Native Americans, amid a wealth of wildlife, became parking lots and hotels owned by white people. Today, many of those parking lots are submerged during storms and, in some areas, the hotels overlook waters toxicwith industrial and construction waste.
Florida is a bellwether for the rest of the nation; the surge water rise that besets Miami today will, soon enough, beset states ranging from California to New York. The state, of necessity, should be a leader in U.S. climate resiliency. But rather than acknowledge a crisis and build out a holistic approach to climate change, Florida, led by Governor […]
GABRIEL POPKIN, Science and Environmental Writer - Yale 360
Stephan:
This report is kind of a mixed bag, but it shows the Biden administration is at least trying to do something about America’s failing agricultural system. Not enough, as the article describes, but at least something, while the Red state Republicans are lost in the wilderness of their culture war.
The average age of farmers in this country is 57.5 with 34% over 65. They are literally aging out, and their children increasingly aren’t interested in that life. The farms are being bought up by large corporations, and foreigners, which most Americans are completely unaware of. These include China, with 194,179 acres, Venezuela with 28,058 acres, and Saudi Arabia with 18,586 acres. Then there is the growing water problem, particularly the seven states dependent on the Colorado River, and those also along the Mississippi River. And the heat, of course. I think in the coming decades food for the first time is going to become a serious problem in this country.
A farmer near Bowling Green, Ohio plants soybeans using a no-till drill. Untilled soil stores more carbon. Credit: J.D. Pooley / AP
A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a nascent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint.
This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects. These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. The first agreements have now been signed; the money is starting to flow.
The USDA estimates that the 141 funded projects will, collectively over the project’s five-year lifetime, eliminate or sequester the equivalent of 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, on par with removing more […]
