A 2023 Pew Research survey found that about 80% of women married to men in the U.S. take their husband’s last name. Under the SAVE Act, if their voter registration name differs from the name on their birth certificate or passport, they may need to show additional documents.

If the SAVE Act were to become law, Bedekovics said married women who have changed their names should obtain certified copies of all marriage certificates, locate their birth certificates, and keep any change-of-name documentation on hand for any updates to their voter registration.

LGBTQ community sounds alarm bells over Vance

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In addition to a history of anti-LGBTQ statements, the Ohio Republican is the primary sponsor of at least two pieces of federal legislation threatening to sharply roll back transgender rights, including one proposal that aims to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors nationwide.

That bill, the Senate version of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would charge health care providers who violate it with a Class C felony, punishable by more than a decade in prison. It would also prevent institutions of higher education from providing instruction about gender-affirming care and cut funding for health plans that cover treatment.

Transgender kids rarely get gender-affirming surgeries — in fact, cisgender children are much more likely to get them, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Neoreactionaries

‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo

July 17, 2023July 17, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For over 10 years, millions of emails associated with the US military have been getting sent to Mali, a West African country allied with Russia, due to a typo, according to a report from the Financial Times. Instead of appending the military’s .MIL domain to their recipient’s email address, people frequently type .ML, the country identifier for Mali, by mistake.
‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo

TSA is testing facial recognition at more airports, raising privacy concerns

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BALTIMORE (AP) — A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen. The screen flashes “Photo Complete” and the person walks through — all without having to hand over their identification to the TSA officer sitting behind the screen.
TSA is testing facial recognition at more airports, raising privacy concerns

[12-2022] TSA Quietly Deploying Facial Recognition Scanners At Major US Airports

US threatened WWII vets over Victory Day parade – envoy

May 8, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

American veterans were reportedly told their passports would be canceled if they traveled to Russia.
US threatened WWII vets over Victory Day parade – envoy

White House officials know Israel is an apartheid state, but they can’t say so

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Beltway scholar Mark Lynch says even the White House understands Israel practices apartheid, even if it won’t say so publicly, because Palestinian intellectuals have led the way in shifting the foreign policy establishment.
White House officials know Israel is an apartheid state, but they can’t say so

Peter Thiel, Major U.S. Political Donor, Is Said to Pursue Maltese Citizenship

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Obtaining citizenship in Malta would provide another passport for Mr. Thiel, who is one of the largest individual donors for the U.S. midterm elections.
Peter Thiel, Major U.S. Political Donor, Is Said to Pursue Maltese Citizenship

Russian Allegations of Rampant Nazism in Europe

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)3 Comments

by Gilbert Doctorow

A couple of weeks before Vladimir Putin announced his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, he met in the Kremlin with Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz. At their joint press conference following the meeting, Putin mentioned in passing that Ukraine is controlled today by neo-Nazis. This remark was famously ridiculed by Scholz as “laughable,” thereby earning for him the Kremlin’s utter contempt. German-Russian relations have undergone a sharp deterioration ever since, with Germany gradually stepping up its supplies of cutting-edge lethal weaponry to Kiev and Russia, in its internal political discussions, placing Germany alongside the United States and Britain as de facto ‘co-belligerents’ which may be subjected to Russian missile attacks if the war escalates further.
Russian Allegations of Rampant Nazism in Europe