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Reading Time: 10 minutes America’s kids are watching.
They’ve seen the killing of George Floyd and other scenes of police violence against black people play across their TV screens again and again, as Kelly Glass reports at Vox. They see the thousands of people in the streets every day protesting that violence — sometimes, the kids are part of the protests.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes You do not need to control other people’s behavior to stay healthy. Good thing, because right now controlling other people is the one thing that none of us have any control over, and of course feeling powerless and vulnerable creates more fear which feeds the cycle that suppress your immune system and actually does put you at more risk.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sure, love is always the answer. However, anyone who believes love is passive doesn’t really understand love.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Life goes on This
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Insurance companies do exert ultimate authority. Loss of insurance can end a department. In recent years, cities in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tenessee, Louisiana, and elsewhere in California have had to disband their police departments after losing coverage. Lawsuits are the ultimate tool for forcing cultural changes in law enforcement agencies.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes COVID-19 may have begun as a physical health crisis, but like their parents, children, teens and college students (or young adults) are likely to experience stress and anxiety caused by disruptions to school, work and life. For parents of teens and young adults in these unprecedented times, these tips may help create a sense of comfort and security that boost their children’s mental health.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Any attempt to go after the tech companies through regulations could face serious obstacles, however. The president’s own regulators have shown little appetite in the past for taking on scrutiny of tweets and Facebook posts, and federal courts have ruled as recently as Wednesday morning that social media companies are private entities with the legal right to police content on their sites.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Let it burn Parts
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes While Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
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