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Yahoo
6 days ago
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From ‘Like a Girl' to ‘I'm Just a Girl': The dangerous conservative shift among young women
A young attendee wearing a 'MAGA' hat waits in line ahead of a Town Hall event Donald Trump at Macomb Community College on Sept. 27, 2024, in Warren, Michigan. Photo by Emily Elconin | Getty Images As a young girl growing up in the 2010s, my peers and I were brought up watching ad campaigns like the one from Always in 2014 called '#likeagirl'. It portrayed young girls and women pushing back against the narrative of women being weak and the advertisements showed examples of women's strength, education, and bravery. At just 10 years old, they made me feel like I could do or be anything. But fast forward a decade later, and I walk in my local mall to see trendy adult shirts with the saying 'I'm just a girl.' Peers around me in class refuse to do certain things, proclaiming, 'I am just a girl.' I can't help but wonder: Why are the women I grew up with, the same women (and men) who came of age surrounded by themes of women's empowerment, suddenly letting their womanhood be a topic to laugh at? SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Studies have shown women already are less likely to hold public office — not because they lose more, but because they doubt they're 'good enough,' a belief shaped by growing up in a patriarchal system. The 'Like a Girl' campaign represents that patriarchal system, the difference between how young girls and older women understood what the operative phrase meant. While young girls found it empowering, adult women recognized that it had been used to demean them their whole lives. Despite growing up in an era of girl-power campaigns and feminist rhetoric, young women today are becoming disengaged because progressive political outreach has failed to meet them where they are. Meanwhile, conservative politicians have coaxed them into a social conservative shift, taking advantage of younger generations who do not remember a time where we did not have a woman running for the presidency, the rights granted to all of us by Roe v. Wade or the #MeToo movement. This isn't just a feeling, but a fact. According to Tufts University's CIRCLE research center, young women turned out for Democrats 65% in 2020 with Joe Biden on the ticket, but only 58% for 2024 with Kamala Harris on their ballot. Weeks before the election, Turning Point Action hosted a Bring Your Own Ballot party with Donald Trump Jr. at Varsity Tavern on Mill Avenue in Tempe. Walking across the Arizona State University campus on Election Day expecting to see maroon and gold, I only saw a sea of red MAGA hats worn by students excited to vote, many for the first time. Arizona's upcoming 2026 election will place our statewide candidates up for re-election, the first line of defense we have between Arizonans and Donald Trump's policies. His administration, while having promised no federal abortion ban, has been getting an increasingly more amount of criticism on the issue. We can and must fight back. The grassroots organization Keep Arizona Blue is doing just that, texting hundreds of thousands of young voters, calling tens of thousands more, and hiring 16fellows across the state to make real peer-to-peer connections. Created and led by students, this type of organizing allows for a pulse on young people and effective outreach to them. Yelling out 'I am just a girl' and laughing with friends may seem funny at the moment, but it bolsters the mindset driving far-right policies like the SAVE Act, infringement on reproductive rights and elimination of the Gender Policy Council. Ultimately, those things may just be what turns that laughter about being a girl into action that protects girls and women. Candidates must do better at reaching out and listening to young people to better implement tangible policies they will feel the effects of in their day-to-day lives. If not, we will continue to see conservative extremists rise to power through an election decided by the size of a classroom. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
CNBC
07-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
CNBC Daily Open: Trump says the U.S. doesn't need a trade deal — the UK and India have made one without it
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College on April 29, 2025, at Warren, Michigan, U.S. After U.S. President Donald Trump shattered — or at least fractured — global trade relationships and supply chains, there are promising signs of reconstruction in recent days. Indeed, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday the country is "very close to some deals." On Tuesday, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met Trump at the White House, potentially resetting a bilateral relationship that has been strained since January. And Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng is scheduled to meet Bessent in Switzerland this week for trade talks. But enter the hurricane that is Trump, again. "We don't have to sign deals, they have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market. We don't want a piece of their market," Trump said during his meeting with Carney, contradicting top White House officials' claim for weeks that such deals are the administration's top priority. Markets fell after his comments. The growing protectionism of the U.S., ironically may help other countries forge closer economic ties with each other. The U.K. and India agreed on a bilateral trade agreement that will remove tariffs on most items within a decade. Meanwhile, ASEAN and China are set to meet on May 19 to negotiate improvements to a free-trade agreement, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday. They may be new bridges being built in the aftermath of Trump tariffs. But those connections could bypass the U.S. — which, according to Trump, does not need deals anyway. Officials from U.S. and China to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and trade representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week to discuss economic and trade matters, their offices announced Tuesday. Later in the day, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Vice Premier He Lifeng, Beijing's top official for China-U.S. economic and trade matters, will meet with Bessent in Switzerland, NBC News reported. The UK and India reach a trade agreement The United Kingdom and India struck a bilateral trade agreement Tuesday, under which a majority of goods traded between India and the U.K. will become "fully tariff-free within a decade," according to the British government. India will begin slashing tariffs on key U.K. exports such as whisky and automotives, while the U.K. will remove all tariffs on 99.1% of imports once the agreement comes into force, the Indian government said. Markets fall on Trump's trade comments U.S. stocks fell Tuesday after Trump gave belligerent comments on trade deals. The S&P 500 declined 0.77%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.95% and the Nasdaq Composite retreated 0.87%. Europe's regional Stoxx 600 index dropped 0.18%, ending its 10-day winning streak. Shares of Deliveroo rose 1.9% after the British food delivery company said it had agreed to a takeover offer from American rival DoorDash that values the company at £2.9 billion ($3.9 billion). AMD beats earnings estimates, warns of chip controls Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter that topped expectations and gave strong guidance for the current quarter. The forecast includes $800 billion in costs because of U.S. export limits on artificial intelligence chips. On a related note, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday that China's artificial intelligence market will likely reach about $50 billion in the next two to three years, and that missing out on it would be a "tremendous loss." India says it carried out strikes on Pakistan India early Wednesday said its armed forces had conducted strikes against Pakistan and what it calls Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, targeting "terrorist infrastructure." The operation follows a militant attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed last month and targeted nine sites, the statement said. [PRO] U.S. "not a good place to hide": JPMorgan U.S. exceptionalism — in which the American economy and financial market have outperformed those of other countries since the pandemic — might be a thing of the past. This time, the U.S. "is not a good place to hide" if global economic growth slows down, wrote JPMorgan strategist Mislav Matejka in a note on Tuesday. An empty container ship of COSCO Shipping sails to a container terminal in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Trump trade tariffs slump widens to 'nearly all U.S. exports,' supply chain data shows What began as a rapid drop in U.S. imports as shippers cut orders from manufacturing partners around the world has now extended into a nationwide export slump, with the U.S. agricultural sector and top farm products including soybeans, corn and beef taking the hardest hit. The latest trade data shows that a slide in U.S. exports to the world, and China in particular, that began in January now extends to most U.S. ports. The Port of Portland, Oregon, tops the list with a 51% decrease in exports, while the Port of Tacoma, Washington, a large agricultural export port, has seen a 28% decrease. The data is from trade tracker Vizion, which analyzed U.S. export container bookings for the five-week period before U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs began and the five weeks after the tariffs took effect.
Newsweek
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Trump Saying US Did Far More Than Allies To Win WWII Sparks Backlash
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. President Donald Trump has drawn criticism after claiming on Truth Social that the United States did "far more" than its allies to secure victory in World War II. "Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II," Trump wrote in a Friday morning post, as reported by Newsweek. Newsweek contacted the British, French and Russian defense ministries for comment via email on Friday. "I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I," Trump posted. "We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance... We are going to start celebrating our victories again!" President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College on April 29, 2025, in Warren, Michigan, to highlight accomplishments during his first 100 days in office. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College on April 29, 2025, in Warren, Michigan, to highlight accomplishments during his first 100 days in It Matters The remarks quickly drew criticism from many who called the comments dismissive of the sacrifices made by other Allied nations as the United Kingdom, Soviet Union (now Russia), Canada, France and others suffered immense losses and played critical roles across multiple fronts. What To Know While historians agree the U.S. was decisive, particularly through industrial support, D-Day and the Pacific campaign, many emphasize that WWII was won through coordination, shared sacrifice and a multinational alliance. Britain's air defense in the Battle of Britain (1940) and the resistance movements in occupied Europe, played key roles before American forces landed in Europe in 1943. The U.S. joined the war officially on December 8, 1941, after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Congress declared war on Germany shortly after, on December 11. The war in Europe ended with Germany's surrender in May 1945, while the Pacific front ended in August 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet Union suffered an estimated 24 million casualties, including civilians and military personnel, while bearing the brunt of Nazi Germany's eastern campaign. Britain, which stood alone against the Axis powers for a year before U.S. entry, lost about 450,700 people in the war. France suffered more than 567,000 casualties. U.S. losses are estimated at 418,500, according to the National WWII Museum. What People Are Saying Podcast host Keith Olbermann in a viral post on X, formerly Twitter, on Trump framing May 8 as a uniquely American Victory Day: "We won World War II on August 15, 1945 when the Japanese surrendered. Trump is a complete moron." American University Kyiv professor Roman Sheremeta, on X, about Trump's inconsistency, recalling a previous comment in which Trump suggested that Russia defeated Hitler: "Trump doesn't know history — because Russia didn't defeat Hitler. It was the joint effort of the Allied forces." David Frum of The Atlantic observed the irony of Trump adopting the Russian custom of celebrating Victory Day in May, on X: "Trump follows the Russian practice, not the American." What Happens Next Trump's post received more than 14,000 likes on Truth Social, with supporters applauding its patriotic tone. But critics warned that such rhetoric could strain diplomatic ties and oversimplify a complex global conflict. This is not the first time Trump's comments about history or alliances have caused controversy. During his time in office, he has frequently clashed with NATO leaders and accused allies of failing to meet defense spending commitments.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump uses WA kidnapping case to justify Alien Enemies Act deportations
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Macomb Community College on April 29, 2025 at Warren, Michigan. Trump held the rally to highlight his accomplishments during his first 100 days in office, including closing the border, job creation and the economy. (Photo by) Celebrating his 100th day in office Tuesday, President Donald Trump invoked a recent brutal kidnapping case in western Washington to justify his rush to deport Venezuelan immigrants. The day after Trump's inauguration in January, three men abducted a 58-year-old woman outside her Burien apartment, robbing and shooting her before leaving her for dead along Interstate 90 in Kittitas County, prosecutors allege. Authorities say the men drilled into the woman's hand with a power drill to get her to reveal her bank card PIN and phone passcode. King County prosecutors have charged two of the suspects, as of Wednesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the two men so far charged in the case, who are both Venezuelan citizens, have 'alleged ties to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.' ICE has lodged immigration detainers on them so federal immigration agents can take custody if King County releases them, a spokesperson confirmed. But under state law and county code, the jail can't release inmates to federal immigration authorities without a warrant. This case, along with another in Chicago, provided Trump's rationale Tuesday for using a 1798 law to deport non-citizens without due process. 'That's why we've invoked the Alien Enemies Act to expel every foreign terrorist from our soil as quickly as possible,' Trump said to cheers at his Michigan rally. 'We're just not taking this crap anymore. We can't,' he continued. Last month, Trump formally invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used law that allows the president to bypass immigration courts to deport people from a 'hostile nation or government.' The president can use the statute in times of war or an 'invasion' of the United States. In his March 15 executive order, Trump argued Tren de Aragua members 'unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.' The American Civil Liberties Union quickly challenged the order. In response, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., barred deportation of Venezuelans on Alien Enemies Act grounds. The judge also ordered the Trump administration to turn around planes already en route to a prison in El Salvador. The White House didn't follow that order. The U.S. Supreme Court also got involved earlier this month, pausing the Trump administration's planned deportation of immigrants subject to the Alien Enemies Act. The ACLU is now asking a judge to force the administration to return more than 130 people still held in El Salvador after deportation. On Tuesday, the president didn't stop at immigrants from Venezuela: 'They come in from Africa. The Congo, they've emptied out their prisons into our country. But they come from Africa, Asia, South America. They come from all over bad parts of Europe.' The two men charged in the Burien case remained in King County custody Wednesday with bail set at $1 million, as they await trial on attempted murder, kidnapping and robbery charges. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Straits Times
30-04-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Trump struggles to explain weak economic data as he reaches 100-day mark
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to mark his 100th day in office, at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, U.S., April 29, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday counseled patience, cast blame and claimed victory in the face of a first-quarter U.S. economic contraction and tariffs that have taken a bite out of his popularity, saying a resurgence was around the corner. The U.S. Commerce Department's advance gross domestic product data on Wednesday pointed to the first quarterly decline in three years as businesses imported a flood of goods to avoid higher costs from Trump's pending tariffs. Some economists pointed to robust consumer spending and private investment as a sign that growth could soon rebound. Trump and his aides struggled to coalesce around a message about the GDP number, simultaneously saying it was bad because of Biden administration policies but also good because of Trump's efforts. "You probably saw some numbers today, and I have to start off by saying that's Biden," Trump said to reporters, without elaborating as he referred to his Democratic predecessor. He then said the figure was due to "distortions" from imports, inventories and government spending, components that figure into the GDP calculation. He also celebrated a surge in business investment that some economists attribute to tariff-related spending. "We had numbers that, despite what we were handed, we turned them around and we were getting them really turned around," Trump said during a two-hour-long Cabinet meeting broadcast live. Earlier, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said, "This was the best negative print, as they say in the trade, the GDP - that I've ever seen in my life. It really should be very positive news for America." Navarro also discounted the GDP number, saying it declined because businesses were buying goods from abroad to get ahead of tariffs, an idea that clashed with Trump's claim on social media that tariffs played no role in declining stock markets. The varying explanations came as Trump crossed the symbolic milestone of 100 days in office and polls showed rising public discontent over the Republican's handling of the economy. A Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Sunday showed 42% of respondents approve of Trump's performance in office, and 53% disapprove. The approval rate stood at 47% in the hours after his January 20 inauguration. The share of respondents who approve of Trump's economic stewardship declined a percentage point to 36% from the prior week, the lowest level in his current term or in his 2017-2021 presidency, while disapproval rose 5 points to 56%. RECESSION FEARS Fears of a recession have surged in recent weeks as Trump has launched a global trade war, hiking tariffs so high that economists warn trade with some countries - notably China - could grind nearly to a halt. The moves have shaken investors and companies. Some private sector economists laid the first-quarter downturn on Trump's plate, not former President Joe Biden's, as gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of about 2.9% per quarter on average over the second half of Biden's presidency. And some see the stage now set for a recession. "This isn't going to reverse because of the internal properties of the economy," said Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist with consulting firm RSM US LLP. "This is all policy induced, so unless the tariffs are walked back rapidly, it's just simply going to be too late to avoid an economic downturn." He added: "We'll be talking about a recession starting around midyear." Democrats were quick to seize on the economic uncertainty and lay blame squarely on Trump. "This is not Joe Biden's economy, Donald, it is your economy," U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday, standing alongside fellow Democratic lawmakers. "It is the Trump economy, it is a failed economy and the American people know it." On Wednesday, Trump on social media blamed sliding stock markets on Biden but later said he was taking neither credit nor "discredit" for market performance. During the lengthy Cabinet meeting, several of Trump's aides took turns praising Trump's economic policies. "American families are finding their financial footing again," said U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, adding that Trump was going to make the country an artificial intelligence and manufacturing superpower. Bessent also said the country was experiencing lower mortgage rates, food costs and energy prices. Benchmark 30-year mortgage rates are roughly the same as when Trump won the election in November, while food prices are rising at a 3% annualized rate and energy prices are falling by the same rate, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
