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TAMMY BALDWIN, the Senator-Elect from Wisconsin, will become the first openly gay person ever elected to Senate.
MAZIE HIRONO, the Senator-Elect from Hawaii, will become the first Asian-American woman in Senate.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH, the Representative-Elect for Illinois, will become the first disabled female veteran elected to the House of Reps. (she lost both her legs in the Iraq War).
Tonight is one for the history books.
That is a powerful image.
48 years after this photo was taken, the 19th Amendment was ratified.
Rachel Maddow shares a clip from an Al Jazeera documentary featuring an Ohio State Legislator who is advocating extreme anti-abortion legislation.
Missouri Senate candidate: “Legitmiate” rape victims can’t get pregnant
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Missouri Rep. Todd Akin said in a Sunday interview. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin, who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, then claimed that even if these biological mechanisms don’t work, the perpetrator, not the child, should be punished. Kind of tough to defend that.
We don’t even. Akin, you may remember, was a co-sponsor of the House GOP’s plan to redefine rape.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Donate to Senator Claire McCaskill’s campaign here. Keep Rep. Todd Akin far-the-fuck away from Missouri’s senate.
These Are the First Female Saudi Arabian Olympians in History
[Images: Reuters]
History.
This is how Obama wins.
He recaptures the family values flag from the religious right, and forces Mitt Romney into a conversation that alienates either the wingnut Republican base or all women. Boom. Election won.
That’s my President!
Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died. She was 82.
The recipient of such literary awards as the Yale Young Poets prize, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Dorothea Tanning Award given by the Academy of American Poets, Rich died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz of complications from long-term rheumatoid arthritis, said a son, Pablo Conrad.
She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged.
Just learned about Adrienne Rich’s passing. The world has lost an incredible woman today.
Gender equity in publishing bylines: we has it. Your turn, New Yorker (andHarper’s, the New Republic, the Atlantic …)
Well done, MJ.
