As we celebrate the closing of #WomensHistoryMonth, we must ask:

How do the civil rights of women in the U.S. today compare with the period before the election of Trump in 2016?

Listen to Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa who I interviewed in 2020 on @sree’s global Covid show.

“In Nazi Germany, the same tactics were used against the Jews because if you dehumanize somebody, then anything is possible.”

#WomenToFollow
1x Women and the fight against fascism:

#WomenToFollow Summit speaker @AndreaChalupa, @gaslitnation:

“For all the women who are speaking and attending, the future is female…

Our progress has never been more urgent…the fight against fascism is the fight of our times…the fight of democracy versus fascism.”

cc: @MoniqueCamarra @OlgaNYC1211 @epodcaster

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Rags to riches? Yes.

A short 🧵 on @JQT_web3vc's story of becoming a millionaire by age 25 or 26.

After the Fall of Saigon, Jenny Q. Ta’s mother wanted to escape. She exchanged her only valuable possession, her wedding ring, for 3 spots on a boat of 30.

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1x In distress, the boat was rescued by a cargo ship.
Ta lived a few years in Hong Kong before she immigrated with her mother & brother to live w/ an uncle in California’s Central Valley.

“We were on welfare. I had second-hand clothes,” Ta says.

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Susan S. Richardson, new CEO of D.C.-based Center for Public Integrity, has spent most of her career covering local news, poverty, & communities of color. “It's important nationally to learn from local communities (how) to build bridges...” My #WomentoFollow thread (12th ed). /1 Statehouse coverage in the nation “has pretty much been decimated,” says Richardson, speaking of the huge job losses in newspapers. @Publicl, the 30-year-old investigative journalism nonprofit, has focused on national politics but has expanded coverage in other areas. /2