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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service

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Weekly half-hour radio program by and about women around the world. Series producer, Frieda Werden Listen to recent shows here: https://wingsradio.org/wordpress/ This Bluesky profile collects links from a wide range of sources

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Are non-stick pans safe? This chef says it’s time to switch to cast iron | The Current

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 18h

Bernie Sanders gets to the podium at 2 hours 15 minutes. In 25 minutes, indicts DT's crimes against democracy, the cowardice of GOP in Congress and the excessive greed of billionaires. Say Dems had to refuse to accept many many millions of Americans losing healthcare. Calls on GOP to negotiate now.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 19h

Next, Leah Greenberg, Indivisible (a national movement). Starts 2 hours, :03 minutes

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 19h

Followed by Keya Chatterjee of Free DC. [The District of Columbia does not have even one voting member of Congress representing their interests! They have a non-voting representative in the House - for more than 702,00 people. More than Vermont or Wyoming]

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 19h

A little farther along, Nee Nee Taylor, activist with Harriet's Wildest Dreams, an organization demanding DC statehood. She starts at 1 hour 47 minutes. Very cogent on the discrimination against DC in voting rights being based on its black population.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 19h

Who is followed by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 20h

He is followed by Ai-Jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 20h

She is followed by Bill Nye, giving one of the best and most coherent speeches of the rally.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 20h

No Kings Day rally in Washington DC. A highlight. Scroll ahead to 1 hour 12 minutes to hear Afeni Evans, community organizer with the Fair Budget Coalition in DC: www.facebook.com/reel/7992999...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 21h

Gender bias in Artificial Intelligence - 2 screenshots of what turned up from something called Copilot Search.

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 21h

She had to suffer being honoured afterwards by Mussolini!

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 22h

1926 winner of the Nobel prize for literature.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1926

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 was awarded to Grazia Deledda "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy ...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 22h

Liat spent 54 days in captivity, and her husband was killed. She came out and immediately said, ‘I don’t want a single person in Gaza to be harmed or killed in retribution for what happened to my family.’ variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’

Israeli hostage survivor Liat Beinin Atzili, subject of the documentary 'Holding Liat,' talks about the recent hostage releases.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 31

Let them eat cake.

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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is sending $40 BILLION to his buddy in Argentina, but he can't find a penny to help hardworking Americans afford their health care.

So much for America first.

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

A transgender woman and amateur fencer is suing fencing tournament organizers and rule-makers including the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, in a New Jersey state complaint that they blocked her from competing due to her gender identity in violation of New York's anti-discrimination laws. Law360

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Human Sexual Polymorphism and Predicted Ranges of Morphological Variation in Human Skeletal Sex Indicators
Claudia Marie Astorino
First published: 09 October 2025 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

This article is from anthropology

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US: A former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer who was found guilty of firing shots into the home of Breonna Taylor must remain in federal prison, after a district court judge refused to free him on bond pending his appeal of his three-year prison sentence. [via Law360]

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Parents Fight State Storage Of Babies' DNA
US health departments draw small blood samples from newborns' heels to test for metabolic and genetic disorders. A mom heard New Jersey police allegedly used the DNA in criminal investigations. Suit claims parental right to refuse these blood draws. Law360

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

Londa Schiebinger, who shares links, notes an excerpt from the chapter "Women in Technology-Questions for Austrian Women's Policy" (B Ratzer) that quotes her:
“Fix the (number of) women, Fix the institutions, Fix the knowledge” (Schiebinger, 2008)

WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

Preview of the new book Equality in progress: From positive action to diversity and inclusion - edited by Angela Wroblewski, Angelika Schmidt
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Equality in progress

The volume addresses current challenges for gender equality policy and the necessary further development of gender equality policy concepts in order to effectively engage with exclusion mechanisms. Th...

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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service @wingsradio.bsky.social · 1d

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228 NGOs from 40 countries in support of UN report recommending the abolition of surrogacy - Declaration of Casablanca for the universal abolition of surrogacy - Home / Accueil

[French and Spanish translations below] Joint statement in support of UN report recommending the abolition of surrogacy (download HERE) New York, 3 October 2025 The undersigned organizations, represen...

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