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> Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1

FTA: “'The Taliban is closer than ever to achieving its vision of a society that completely erases women from public life,' UN women said in a press release on Monday."

And if gringos have their way, it will happen here.

UN News · Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks likeIn 2021, an Afghan woman could have run for president – although none did. Spool forward to 2025, they can’t even speak in public. There is an edict from the Taliban which labels public speaking by women a moral violation.  

"Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision."

abcnews.go.com/Politics/suprem

ABC News · Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage rulingBy Devin Dwyer