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Becca<p>And women didn&#39;t get full suffrage until 1965, only 60 years ago.</p><p>America, very much a work in progress.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/July4th" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>July4th</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disenfranchisement</span></a></p>
Aaron Hasty<p>So my wife is considering changing her name back to her maiden name..I support this and think its crazy this is what she needs to do to ensure she can vote. </p><p>Its a pain and a hassle and is going to cost money we should be saving to afford luxuries like eggs for our family. </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/eggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggs</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/womenssuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenssuffrage</span></a></p>
Noah Rickert<p>I took a trip out to WV back in December and finally found time to edit some of the photos<br>These are from the Women's Suffrage Memorial </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginia</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memorial</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExploreWestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExploreWestVirginia</span></a></p>
IHC<p>📰 Fátima Mariano falou com a Agência Lusa sobre a luta das mulheres pelo direito ao voto em Portugal, começando pela "ousadia" de Carolina Beatriz Ângelo.</p><p><a href="https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-03-07-da-ousadia-de-1911-aos-50-anos-da-universalizacao-do-direito-das-mulheres-ao-voto-em-portugal-92136e6f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-03-07</span><span class="invisible">-da-ousadia-de-1911-aos-50-anos-da-universalizacao-do-direito-das-mulheres-ao-voto-em-portugal-92136e6f</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/HistoryOnTheMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOnTheMedia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PortugueseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortugueseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDasMulheres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDasMulheres</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/DireitoDeVoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DireitoDeVoto</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaDePortugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaDePortugal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaNaEsferaP%C3%BAblica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaNaEsferaPública</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaNasNot%C3%ADcias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaNasNotícias</span></a></p>
Angela Miller<p>Today's video for December is one taken from the pages of Robert DeBruce Trotter's Galloway Gossip. <br>I'll leave you to decide what you make of these Henpecked Husbands. <br><a href="https://youtu.be/SmGfVrL-zZE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/SmGfVrL-zZE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Galloway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galloway</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenssuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenssuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/victorians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victorians</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a></p>
Clare Harris 🍁<p>And there it is. 👇🏼</p><p>I gather many white women didn’t read the fine print, or believed the orange joker that he wasn’t associated with Project 2025. 🙄</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>project2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/womensrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womensrights</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/womenssuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenssuffrage</span></a></p><p><a href="https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/chri</span><span class="invisible">stian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/</span></a></p>
Candace Cunningham, Ph.D.<p>Three Black Suffragists Everyone Should Know About: 1. Ida B. Wells, 2. Mary Church Terrell, and 3. Nannie Helen Burroughs<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/blackhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/historylesson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historylesson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/womenshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/womenssuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenssuffrage</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LLHmfp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">tiktok.com/t/ZP8LLHmfp/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>"Votes for Women," Bertha Margaret Boyé, 1911. </p><p>There's not much information about Boyé (1883-1930) except that she was a California native who entered this as part of a competition to design a poster to help for the campaign for women's suffrage in California. The Art Nouveau/Arts and Crafts style is lovely, and that's the Golden Gate behind her, so it makes it a uniquely Californian image. And California gave women the vote in 1911, so the poster was successful.</p><p>This appears to be her only notable work; she died at the age of 47 in Europe, having gone there to continue her studies.</p><p>From the Arthur &amp; Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AmericanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomenArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenArtists</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomenInArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ArtNouveau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtNouveau</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ArtsAndCrafts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtsAndCrafts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a></p>
Retro Librarian<p>Happy Election Day - Please vote!<br>.<br>Women's Suffrage postcards.<br>.<br><a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/FallLeaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FallLeaves</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/RallyDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RallyDay</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/suffrageMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suffrageMovement</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/postcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postcard</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/vintagepostcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagepostcards</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/ephemera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ephemera</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/oldpostcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldpostcards</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/postcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postcard</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/electionday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electionday</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://worldkey.io/tags/Electionnight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electionnight</span></a></p>
Laloofah<p>Susan B. Anthony is the suffragist who gets the attention, but I most admire Dr. Alice Stokes Paul, Sojourner Truth, &amp; Lucretia Coffin Mott. They have my gratitude when I vote. I encourage learning about these remarkable women; this post focuses on Alice Paul, who died in 1977 (when I was in high school!) Learn about her at these websites: </p><p><a href="https://www.alicepaul.org/about-alice-paul/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">alicepaul.org/about-alice-paul/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/alice-paul" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">history.com/topics/womens-hist</span><span class="invisible">ory/alice-paul</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EqualRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EqualRights</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AlicePaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlicePaul</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SojournerTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SojournerTruth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LucretiaMott" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LucretiaMott</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a></p>
RiaResists<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@DebErupts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DebErupts</span></a></span> and it was a loooong, multi-nation FIGHT. Women were tortured &amp; humiliated repeatedly for our right to vote. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ERA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ERA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedomisntfree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedomisntfree</span></a></p>
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Graham Downs<p>Today in 1893, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> became the first country to grant all women the right to vote. </p><p>That's pretty cool. This is probably unfair of me, but New Zealand isn't really a country I normally associate with "firsts". Mind you, that's probably how most people would describe South Africa, and we have lots of firsts (first heart transplant, being the most significant I can think of right now).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a></p>
Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>Musical Interlude: A few years ago, jazz artiste Karrin Allyson released an interesting concept album, "Shoulder to Shoulder," a tribute to the centennial of women's suffrage. It featured modern versions of suffragist songs, and readings of speeches by different figures of the movement, including Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. While some feel it's a miss, I like it. Here's a track.</p><p>"She's Good Enough to Be Your Baby's Mother," performed by Karrin Allyson.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxF_afsWnZQ&amp;list=OLAK5uy_m8izGZLt_4f2utrlSRchWdzn7F3ESLado&amp;index=8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=HxF_afsWnZ</span><span class="invisible">Q&amp;list=OLAK5uy_m8izGZLt_4f2utrlSRchWdzn7F3ESLado&amp;index=8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MusicalInterlude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicalInterlude</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/KarrinAllyson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KarrinAllyson</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feminism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a></p>
Sky Dancing<p><strong>Happy Caturday!!</strong></p><p>I recently learned that cats were used by both sides during the battle for women’s suffrage. They were used on posters and postcards to supposedly dehumanize women fighting for the right to vote, but were also used in support of women’s suffrage.</p><p>From John’s Hopkins exibits: <a href="https://exhibits.library.jhu.edu/omeka-s/s/VotesAndPetticoats/page/the-suffrage-cat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Suffrage Cat</a></p><blockquote><p>The women’s suffrage movement was an exceptionally controversial topic in both the United States and England. Postcard manufacturers hired artists to create visually appealing postcards about&nbsp;women’s suffrage.&nbsp; A popular subject was the suffrage cat, which was used for both pro- and anti-suffrage messaging. In Victorian culture, the cat was often associated with the female sphere; the indoor cat represented the passive, ideal homemaker, and the outdoor cat was brazen, feral and fallen. Defining how the cat was intended to be viewed as a symbol in women’s suffrage postcards can be a challenge, as seen in some of the selections below.&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>At that link, you can see descriptive text about some of the images I’ve posted here.</p><p>From The National Park Service: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/womens-suffrage-and-the-cat.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Women’s Suffrage and the Cat</a></p><blockquote><p>In the 1800s and early 1900s, many women and men supported women’s suffrage (the right to vote). There were, however, people that opposed the idea. One of the prevailing beliefs was that voting power would diminish a woman’s role as caretaker of the family. Some women and men felt so strongly about this that they founded&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nps.gov/articles/anti-suffragism-in-the-united-states.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">anti-suffragist organizations.</a>&nbsp;Cartoonists also created advertisements and postcards supporting anti-suffragists. These ads often featured animals to make a point.</p><p>In popular mainstream culture at the time, women were associated with animals perceived as passive, like cats. Social norms dictated that middle class, white women should stay in the home. Men, however, were expected to occupy public spaces and partake in physical exercise. As a result, men were often associated with physically active animals like dogs. Anti-suffrage artists used these animals symbolically in their cartoons.</p><p>Cats were more often used in British anti-suffragist ads. Anti-suffrage organizations in Britain used cats to try to make the point that women were simple and delicate. The cartoons implied that women’s suffrage was just as absurd as cat suffrage because women (and cats) were incapable of voting.</p><p>Cats were also used symbolically in some American anti-suffrage ads. A number of American cartoons showed men at home with a cat, taking care of the children. The cat symbolized a loss of the man’s masculinity. Some people believed that if women participated in politics, men would be left at home to raise the children.</p><p>Suffragists took back the meaning of the cat in 1916. That April, suffragists Nell Richardson and Alice Burke started a cross-country road trip in a two-seater car they called “The Golden Flier.” Members of the press at the send-off ceremony in New York City reported that the car looked like “a little yellow ant scuttling off through the crowds of limousines and autotrucks which lined the streets” (New York Tribune, April 07, 1916).</p><p>Over the next several months, the women stopped in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, California, Washington and other states across the country to talk about the importance of women’s suffrage. During their trip, the women adopted a cat that became their unofficial mascot. They named him Saxon, after the manufacturer of the Golden Flier.</p><p>Over the next several months, the women spent long hours standing on street corners and in public parks making speeches about suffrage. Alice Burke commented that they were in the sun so often that they let their “noses blister and burn” and their “hair sizzle.” Burke and Richardson were not the only ones enduring the hot weather. Burke wrote in her diary:</p><p>The little black kitten is suffering as much as we are from the heat, but he keeps under a cover, and all we can see around the corner of it is a pink nose and a youthful whisker.” (New York Tribune, May 29, 1916)</p></blockquote><p>Now for some news. The mainstream media and some Democrats are still trying to get President Biden to end his campaign for a second term; but last night he gave a speech to an enthusiastic audience in Detroit that should begin to quiet the naysayers. I hope you were able to watch it, because it was impressive. Biden spoke extemporaneously for 35 minutes–no teleprompter and no notes. And the audience loved it. They chanted “Don’t you quit” and “We’ve got your back.” These people are the base of the Democratic Party, and they still love Joe Biden. Biden is also up 2 points on Trump in the latest polls, despite the massive efforts to bring him down.</p><p>Here’s the speech:</p><p><span class=""></span></p><p>It’s difficult to find honest reporting on the speech, because most in the press are still hoping to end Biden’s campaign. I really think some of these “journalists” really want Trump back in the White House because they think it will further their careers. Here’s just one example from Politico: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/democrats-biden-concerns-00167915" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Inside Biden’s sputtering campaign to restore Dems’ confidence.</a></p><blockquote><p class="">Three of Joe Biden’s senior aides entered a Senate Democratic lunch on Thursday armed with internal and external polls showing the presidential race still within the margin of error, hoping to keep this last bastion of support from abandoning his embattled campaign.</p><p class="">During a difficult and at times tearful meeting with Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Jen O’Malley Dillon, senators aired concerns about the president’s ability to serve for another four years, his path to defeat former President Donald Trump and the effect Biden’s poor polling might have on Democrats running down the ballot, according to five people familiar with the meeting who were granted anonymity to describe private discussions.</p> <p class="">But by the end of the lunch, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania had enough.</p><p class=""><span>“You have legacies, too,” Fetterman said, according to the people, asking what those legacies would become “if you fuck over a great president over a bad debate.”</span></p> <p class="">Then, the first-term senator called the question: Who was with him — committed to sticking with Biden as the party’s nominee?</p><p class="">No more than four people signaled that they were, according to four of the people familiar with the meeting. While not every Senate Democrat was in attendance and some had trickled out of the lunch already, Fetterman, Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois thought Biden should continue.</p><p class="">The paltry show of support for Biden behind closed doors revealed that for all the indecision about whether and how to confront Biden, elected Democrats’ confidence in the president had plunged to a ruinous low. While Senate Democrats have largely kept quiet publicly, Biden may have to plow ahead despite an overwhelming lack of confidence from his former Senate colleagues. The majority of the Democratic caucus left Thursday’s meeting just as, if not more, concerned about the path the party is on with Biden atop the ticket.</p> </blockquote><p>Of course, the naysayers are always anonymous. Fuck them! Use you name or STFU.</p><p>Here’s another take from Sahil Kapur at NBC News: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-blasts-project-2025-michigan-ties-trump-effort-regain-footing-rcna161640" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Biden blasts Project 2025 in Michigan and ties it to Trump in effort to regain footing.</a></p><blockquote><p class="">DETROIT — President Joe Biden tore into the “right-wing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-what-know-rcna161338" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Project 2025</a>” and made it a central theme of his speech at a rally Friday in battleground Michigan as he seeks to put a lid on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-call-biden-step-aside-tracking-updates-reactions-rcna160699" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Democratic calls</a>&nbsp;that he withdraw from the presidential race.</p><p class="">“Folks, Project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and on our personal freedom that’s ever been proposed in the history of this country,” Biden told the crowd, adding that the initiative “is run and paid for by Trump people” and is “a blueprint for a second Trump.”</p><p class=""><span>Biden, rousing the crowd with a more energetic performance than usual, said it would unleash a “nightmare” on the country if his Republican rival is elected and implements it. “Another four years of Donald Trump is deadly serious. Project 2025 is deadly serious,” Biden said, describing it as a threat to American values</span></p><p class=""><span>When he took the stage, Biden was greeted to chants of “Don’t you quit!” and “We got your back!” The president told them there’s “a lot of speculation lately” about whether he’ll stay in the race.</span></p><p>“I am running, and we’re going to win!” he said….</p><p class="">Biden is zeroing in on Project 2025 as a mechanism to unify the Democratic Party as it splinters over his future in the race, following a shocking debate performance that some in the party see as politically fatal to his re-election prospects. Numerous voters at the rally stood by him and voiced displeasure with the Democrats calling on him to step aside. And it was clear the right-wing document has caught on across within the Democratic Party as a rallying cry for those eager to keep Trump out of the White House.</p><p class="">A Biden aide said the president’s campaign plans to continue focusing on Project 2025 at next week’s GOP convention.</p></blockquote><p>Kapur asked voters about Project 2025:</p><blockquote><p class="">Before Biden’s remarks at the Detroit rally, the first seven Michigan voters NBC News spoke to were all aware of Project 2025 — and had strong opinions on it.</p><p class="">“It’s horrific. It would totally dismantle our democracy, fill the whole government with loyalists to Trump,” said Deanna Zapico, of Royal Oak. “It would be like Hitler in 1933. There wouldn’t be an election in a long time. That’s my fear.”</p><p class="">“I’m sharing it with everybody,” Zapico said.</p><p class="">Deborah Fuertes, of Brighton, summed it up in one word: “Scary.”</p><p class="">“This is an existential threat,” she said.Trump’s “name’s all over that thing,” said Angela Heard, a sales manager based in Grosse Pointe Woods. “If we don’t get our s— together we’re gonna be like ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’”</p></blockquote><p>Here’s an indication that Project 2025 could be getting the attention people who don’t generally follow politics closely–People magazine published an in-depth article on the Trump plan. Kyler Alvord writes: <a href="https://people.com/what-is-project-2025-inside-far-right-plan-trump-presidency-8622964" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word ‘Gender’ to Public Education.</a></p><blockquote><p>A sweeping proposal for how&nbsp;<a href="https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;should handle a second term in office has sparked concern for its implications on the role of federal government and its calls to eliminate a number of basic human rights.</p><p class="">The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, more commonly known as Project 2025, released a&nbsp;<a href="https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">900-page manifesto</a>&nbsp;last year titled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” The policy guidebook — compiled by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation in partnership with more than 100 other conservative organizations — lays out a far-right, Christian nationalist vision for America that would corrode the separation of church and state, replace nonpartisan government employees with Trump loyalists and bolster the president’s authority over independent agencies.</p><p class="">Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, a rumored candidate for Trump’s chief of staff in a second term, promoted his group’s extreme positions during a&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/RealAmVoice/status/1808140114079441108" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">July interview</a>, saying, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”</p> <p></p><p class="">Down with the tomcats</p> <p class="">Shortly after Roberts’ controversial interview, Trump attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, saying on Truth Social that he knows “nothing” about it and has “no idea who is behind it,” before adding that he disagrees with some of its propositions.</p><p class=""><span>While Project 2025 is not formally a part of Trump’s campaign platform, it has been led and supported by several influential people in his orbit. The project’s top leaders all worked in Trump’s White House and a number of the manifesto’s contributors also served in the Trump administration, including but not limited to former Housing and Urban Development Secretary </span><a href="https://people.com/celebrity/ben-carson-fabricated-west-point-story-his-most-controversial-quotes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ben Carson</a><span>&nbsp;and imprisoned former trade adviser&nbsp;</span><a href="https://people.com/politics/house-votes-to-hold-trump-allies-peter-navarro-and-dan-scavino-in-contempt-of-congress/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Peter Navarro</a><span>.</span></p><p class="">Equally damaging to Trump’s claim that he is unfamiliar with Project 2025 is that he worked closely with the Heritage Foundation when he was first elected president. He was provided a similar “Mandate for Leadership” back in 2016, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/us/politics/heritage-foundation-agenda-trump-conservatives.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">enacted nearly two-thirds of the group’s proposals</a>&nbsp;within his first year in office.</p><p class="">The Heritage Foundation also reportedly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/06/politics/donald-trump-heritage-foundation-transition/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">played a behind-the-scenes role</a>&nbsp;on Trump’s presidential transition team and had a significant hand in staffing the administration.</p></blockquote><p>Alvord also addressed Project 2025’s goal of eliminating the wall between church and state.</p><blockquote><p class="">Project 2025 establishes a framework for guiding the federal government through a biblical lens. Across nearly 1,000 pages, the mandate pushes an unpopular interpretation of the Christian agenda that would target reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ people and people of color by effectively erasing mention of all related terms, protections and troublesome historical accounts.</p><p class="">Though the mandate accuses the “woke” left of infringing on people’s religious freedoms, its policies are rooted in a singular, extremist view of how society should function based on its authors’ own Christian nationalist values. It repeatedly calls for the punishment, even imprisonment, of people who do not conform to the think tank’s platform.</p><p class="">The proposed policies in Project 2025’s mandate stem from four stated goals. In its words: restoring the family as the centerpiece of American life, dismantling the administrative state, defending the nation’s sovereignty and securing God-given individual rights.</p><p class="">Through a holistic approach to restructuring the government, it would seek to give Trump heightened authority to enact his backers’ platform in every city and state — often encouraging the president to creatively subvert congressional approval.</p></blockquote><p>Read the rest at People Magazine. It’s very detailed.</p><p>Speaking of Christian nationalism, ProPublica has an investigative article on a shadowy organization of rich people working to influence the 2024 election. Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey: <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country.</a>&nbsp; The subhead reads: “The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it may be violating the law.”</p><blockquote><p>A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.</p><p><span>These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.</span></p> <p></p><p class="">1908</p> <p>ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.</p><p>“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”</p><p>Ziklag’s 2024 agenda reads like the work of a political organization. It plans to pour money into mobilizing voters in Arizona who are “sympathetic to Republicans” in order to secure “10,640 additional unique votes” — almost the exact margin of President Joe Biden’s win there in 2020. The group also intends to use controversial AI software to enable mass challenges to the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of voters in competitive states.</p><p>In a recording of a 2023 internal strategy discussion, a Ziklag official stressed that the objective was the same in other swing states. “The goal is to win,” the official said. “If 75,000 people wins the White House, then how do we get 150,000 people so we make sure we win?”</p><p>According to the Ziklag files, the group has divided its 2024 activities into three different operations targeting voters in battleground states: Checkmate, focused on funding so-called election integrity groups; Steeplechase, concentrated on using churches and pastors to get out the vote; and Watchtower, aimed at galvanizing voters around the issues of “parental rights” and opposition to transgender rights and policies supporting health care for trans people.</p><p>In a member briefing video, one of Ziklag’s spiritual advisers outlined a plan to “deliver swing states” by using an anti-transgender message to motivate conservative voters who are exhausted with Trump.</p><p>But Ziklag is not a political organization: It is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity, the same legal designation as the United Way or Boys and Girls Club. Such organizations do not have to publicly disclose their funders, and donations are tax deductible. In exchange, they are “absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/the-restriction-of-political-campaign-intervention-by-section-501c3-tax-exempt-organizations" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">according to the IRS</a>.</p></blockquote><p>Read the whole thing at ProPublica.</p><p>In other news, you probably heard that Mark Zuckerberg has bowed down to Trump. Raw Story: <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-facebook-2668737622/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="">‘So the despotic threats worked?’: Outrage as Facebook lifts limits on Trump’s accounts.</span></a></p><blockquote><p>Critics shredded Meta’s decision to ease restrictions placed on former President Donald Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts.</p><p>Axios reported Friday the social media titan planned to&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/07/12/trump-meta-facebook-instagram-account-restrictions-election" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">soon roll back</a>&nbsp;limits it placed on Trump’s accounts as it aimed to allow for more parity leading up to the Nov. 5 election. The tech giant said a minor violation could lead to his accounts being suspended up to two years or restricted.</p><p>The move comes more than a year after he was reinstated to the platforms but with limits such as suspensions and advertising restrictions for violating company rules.</p><p>Stunned social media critics blasted the decision.</p><p>“So the&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://x.com/JenBaty/status/1811854077145559293" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">despotic threats worked</a>?” asked @JenBaty, pointing to Trump’s threat on Truth Social that the “<a class="" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112756256184111025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ZUCKERBUCKS</a>&nbsp;(sic),” a reference to Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, “will be sent to prison for long periods of time.”</p><p><a class="" href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump</a>&nbsp;has previously said Zuckerberg “cheated” in the 2020 election.</p><p>“Why isn’t he being prosecuted?” he wrote last year. “The Democrats only know how to cheat. America isn’t going to take it much longer!”</p></blockquote><p>A few stories on the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week:</p><p>AP:&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/milwaukee-republican-national-convention-biden-trump-3a6c8b391ff4d0ba54332347c95e767c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Deeply Democratic Milwaukee wrestles with hosting Trump and the Republican National Convention.</a></p><blockquote><p>Milwaukee loves its Miller Beer,&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/brewers-bob-uecker-bc9e03b3757d7aceefb614c79bca3814" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Brewers baseball</a></span>&nbsp;and “&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/henry-winkler-fonz-memoir-8ae9fc6d184cb5bf3aa3b98fbb85d183" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bronze Fonz</a></span>&nbsp;” statue.</p><p>The deepest blue city in&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-republican-donald-trump-2020-election-46463044d8c07f1660673c9f5b299eff" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">swing state Wisconsin</a></span>, Milwaukee also loves Democrats.</p><p>So it can be hard for some to swallow that&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/convention-sites-2024-election-midwest-5f5a553e9b9e4f427fe1ef72209bc191" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Milwaukee is playing host</a></span>&nbsp;to former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention this coming week while rival Chicago, the larger city just 90 miles to the south,&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-replacement-democratic-ballot-dnc-rules-7aa836b0ae642a68eec86cc0bebd3772" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">welcomes President Joe Biden</a></span>&nbsp;and Democrats in August.</p><p>It didn’t help smooth things over with wary Democrats after Trump&nbsp;<span class=""><a class="" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-milwaukee-horrible-city-gop-convention-niomination-604fe33acb5606e9db1cbf3f966507e3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">used the word “horrible”</a></span>&nbsp;when talking about Milwaukee just a month before the convention that begins Monday.</p><p>Adding to the angst, Milwaukee was supposed to host the Democratic National Convention in 2020, but it didn’t happen due to COVID. Owners of local restaurants, bars and venues say the number of reservations that were promised during the RNC aren’t materializing. And protesters complained the city was trying to keep them too far away from the convention site to have an impact.</p><p>“I wish I was out of town for it,” Jake Schneider, 29, said as he passed by the city’s statue of Fonzie, the character played by Henry Winkler in the 1970s sitcom “Happy Days” that was set in Milwaukee. “I’m not super happy that it’s the Republican Party coming to town.” [….]</p><p>Ryan Clancy, a self-described democratic socialist who is a state representative and serves on the Milwaukee County Board, puts it more bluntly: “It is shameful that we rolled out the red carpet for the RNC.”</p></blockquote><p>Yahoo News: <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-national-convention-speakers-big-name-gop-politicians-businessmen-and-a-few-celebrities-to-endorse-trump-in-milwaukee-193435828.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Republican National Convention speakers: Big-name GOP politicians, businessmen and a few celebrities to endorse Trump in Milwaukee.</a></p><blockquote><p>Former President Donald Trump will be officially renominated next week to be the Republican Party’s standard-bearer for the third presidential election in a row as he seeks to return to the Oval Office.</p><p>GOP delegates from around the country will gather in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, with much of the country following along through the primetime speeches each night.</p><p>These speeches have historically allowed presidential candidates to unify discord from aggressive primary campaigns, and the conventions offer a high-profile platform to sway undecided voters.</p><p>While an official list of speakers hasn’t yet been announced, here are some of the people who’ve reportedly been tapped to demonstrate their support for Trump on stage next week.</p></blockquote><p>The list includes Donald Trump, Jr., Ron DeSantis, Sean O’Brien (Teamsters president), David Sacks (Elon Musk’s pal), Kari Lake, Elise Stefanik, and more. She’s not listed, but I heard that Margery Taylor Green will also speak.</p><p>Politico: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/trump-rnc-legal-risks-00167950" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The unusual legal risk Trump will have to navigate at the RNC</a>.&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p class="">Donald Trump will be rubbing elbows in Milwaukee with a crowd that may include dozens of witnesses and alleged co-conspirators in his criminal cases — people he has sworn not to communicate with about details of the charges against him.</p><p class="">Avoiding them may not be possible for the former president during the four-day convention, creating an unusual dynamic, and a potential legal liability for Trump, against the backdrop of a national nominating convention.</p> <p></p><p class="">1911</p> <p class="">“If I were a Trump attorney, my biggest fear might be that Trump finds himself in close quarters with a defendant and starts running his mouth off,” said Anthony Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University.</p><p class=""><span>Several false electors for Trump in 2020 who were charged with crimes in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia are expected to be at the Republican National Convention. In addition, many of Trump’s former White House aides who testified to grand juries in Washington and Florida are likely to be on hand. Though the roster of speakers hasn’t been publicly shared, there’s a high likelihood that others embroiled in Trump’s alleged crimes — a long list of GOP officials and activists — will also be there.</span></p> <p class="">The situation is, like many things associated with Trump, unprecedented, and it’s hard to gauge the likelihood that an interaction in a crowded convention hall could become legally perilous for the former president. But it’s not zero, according to legal experts.</p><p class="">“I imagine the tight scripted nature of the convention will help isolate Trump from that danger,” Kreis said. “But you also never know.”</p><p class="">General attacks on the prosecutions he’s facing in Washington, Florida and Georgia — familiar themes in Trump rallies and speeches — or superficial encounters with people involved in his cases are unlikely to raise prosecutors’ eyebrows. But legal experts say there are lines Trump could cross if he mentions codefendants or witnesses by name or has more substantive interactions with them. And even general remarks, whether scripted or extemporaneous, could present risks if they could be interpreted as pressure on witnesses against cooperation or an attempt to influence their future testimony.</p> </blockquote> <p>Those are my recommended reads for today. 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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Suffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Suffs</span></a> Is Getting a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Broadway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Broadway</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Cast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Album" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Album</span></a>. </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musical</span></a>, which explores the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movement</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/victories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victories</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/failures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>failures</span></a>, officially <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/opened" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opened</span></a> April 18 at the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MusicBoxTheatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicBoxTheatre</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entertainment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheArts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theatre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Representation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://playbill.com/article/suffs-is-getting-a-broadway-cast-album" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">playbill.com/article/suffs-is-</span><span class="invisible">getting-a-broadway-cast-album</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 15, 1879: President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court. That same year, Belva Lockwood, a women’s rights and suffrage activist, became the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BelvaLockwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BelvaLockwood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/attorney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attorney</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>November 5, 1872 - Susan B. Anthony and a few other women in Rochester, New York, voted in the presidential election, all of them for the first time.<br>Anthony wrote later that day to her fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “If only now—all the women would work to this end of enforcing the existing constitution—supremacy of national law over state law—what strides we might make . . . .”<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SusanBAnthony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SusanBAnthony</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a><br>1/2</p>
Miro Collas<p>Sophia Duleep Singh: Indian princess who fought for women to vote in UK - BBC News <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66220501" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-</span><span class="invisible">66220501</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WomensSuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensSuffrage</span></a></p>
The Victorian Commons<p>Died <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 1903 Henry Liddell, 2nd Earl of Ravensworth, who was Conservative MP for Northumberland South, 1852-78. He was among the MPs who voted in the minority for John Stuart Mill’s women’s suffrage amendment, 20 May 1867: <a href="https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/the-only-really-important-public-service-i-performed-john-stuart-mills-womens-suffrage-amendment-20-may-1867/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">victoriancommons.wordpress.com</span><span class="invisible">/2017/05/19/the-only-really-important-public-service-i-performed-john-stuart-mills-womens-suffrage-amendment-20-may-1867/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/19thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>19thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/womenssuffrage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenssuffrage</span></a></p>