Discovering the scope of women's subjugation in every aspect of life—at home, in the workplace, in public spaces, in the media—was a gamechanger. Despite the region's progressive reputation, Alexandra notices that almost everything in San Francisco is named after men. She begins researching the lives of influential women who were relatively unknown or overlooked by history and KQED's Rebel Girls series is born in 2018.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
➡️ In our latest cover feature, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis talks to The Advocate about leaving the CDC under the Trump administration and calling out RFK Jr. "I feel bad for my people who are inside the CDC," he says. "The CDC is now a weapon. That is why I left. The weaponization of public health is happening, and I am not crying wolf."
A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say. According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
In a 25-page sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday, Corado's lawyer, Pleasant S. Brodnax III, asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden to impose a time-served sentence rather than incarceration, citing her lack of prior criminal history, decades of LGBTQ+ advocacy, and what the filing describes as the uniquely severe and dangerous conditions transgender women now face in federal custody, under the Trump administration.
There are many reasons to do so, but the most obvious is that it cuts against the school's tradition of trying to be on the right side of history. It was a joint effort with George Washington Law to keep abductors off their campus. There's good praxis in recognizing that things don't immediately go full tilt fascist overnight - you make a few appeals to diversity
A student-led coalition has gathered more than 2,600 signatures from law students, legal academics, and law student organizations across 109 law schools calling on Congress to pass the Federal Officer Accountability Act. As the Department of Homeland Security disappears suspected migrants without due process, arbitrarily harasses citizens, and point blank kills innocent people on camera, a shocked public has learned what lawyers have talked about for years: the government has stacked the immunity deck to functionally shield law enforcement from accountability.
If there is something about protecting women' in the title, for example, then it's probably actually about controlling women or bullying transgender people. The same is true of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) Act, which would change the way US citizens register to vote. The purpose of the bill doesn't seem to be to safeguard democracy but to help destroy it through stealth disenfranchisement.
And on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement that "there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation." The statement, first reported by CNN, did not elaborate on how the department had reached a conclusion that no investigation was warranted. Federal officials have said that the officer acted in self-defense and that the driver of the Honda was engaging in "an act of domestic terrorism" when she pulled forward toward him.
