3 Stories You Should Read 7/01/2020: Lauren Boebert, Trumpism, Hong Kong
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Preview?? Protests break out
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Vox: Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists
Reading Time: 7 minutes “UNFORTUNATELY, SO MANY TIMES PEOPLE OF COLOR HEAR THE TERM ‘PEOPLE OF COLOR’ FROM OTHER WHITE PEOPLE THAT THEY THINK WHITE PEOPLE CREATED IT, INSTEAD OF UNDERSTANDING THAT WE SELF-MADE OURSELVES”
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Vox: Why locusts are descending on East Africa
Reading Time: < 1 minute A small locust swarm can eat more food than 35,000 people. But some swarms in the area have grown to more than 2,000 times that size
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Aljazeera: Trump administration steers coronavirus aid to private schools
Reading Time: 4 minutes DeVos previously vowed to pursue a federal rule on the issue after some states said they would ignore her guidance. Indiana’s education chief said the guidance was no more than a recommendation and decided to divide the funding “according to Congressional intent and a plain reading of the law”.
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3 Stories You Should Read 6-30-2020: Fauci, G4 flu, Breonna Taylor
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Buckle up Anthony Fauci
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Desire Is the Voice of the Soul
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is great power in mindful cultivation of desire. How do you feel about embodying that much power? How do you dance with desire?
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Have you ever wondered what the world would look like when a superpower goes down?
Reading Time: 3 minutes his democracy is not going to save itself. The chaos and the forces at work trying to tear it apart are powerful.
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Mic: Police unions are spending millions to avoid change
Reading Time: 3 minutes Police unions are uniquely powerful, as Rafi Schwartz explained for Mic, which makes them a daunting hurdle on the path to reform. They are able to lobby mayors, city council members, county commissioners, and members of police oversight boards to define their own terms of employment and standards of police practice.
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3 Stories You Should Read 06/25/2020: Democracy, ‘apocalyptic’ surges, Kevin Piner
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Ugly Truth-telling Fired Wilmington
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This is Eclipse – Making it happen
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every day she leaves her house, by herself, and takes the bus downtown to the dog park where she spends a couple of hours getting exercise and making friends, and then she takes the bus back home again. She even has her own bus pass attached to the collar.
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