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Reading Time: 4 minutes Few topics in the turbulent world of American politics elicit a more passionate response than abortion. The abortion topic is a prominent point of contention for the Republican Party as the country prepares for the 2024 presidential election. The country is still in shock at the Supreme Court’s historic decision to reverse Roe v. Wade, which has had a significant and lasting impact on the electoral environment.

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July 13, 2023 Confluence

A Storm in a Teacup: White Women and the Tipping Point of Democracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes For years on end, Black and brown folks have risked their lives for freedoms that others sip casually with their morning lattes. Now it’s high time the white folks, who can protest without the fear of catching a bullet, roll up their sleeves and get busy.

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June 21, 2023 Confluence

The Post-Roe Era: Why Women Are Shifting Focus from Dating to Living Their Lives in Peace Without Men

Reading Time: 7 minutes The shifting attitudes towards marriage or long-term romantic relationships with men among single women reflect a deeper societal reckoning with the unequal power dynamics and potential loss of agency that can be associated with traditional relationships. Women don’t want old white men regulating their bodies.

The larger question is do they want anything to do with men at all? The jury is out on that question. That is not great news for men who want sex, companionship, marriage, or anything else from women.

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February 15, 2023 Confluence

We have to start examining our spirituality because many of us are camping out on a slippery alt-right slope.

Reading Time: 4 minutes We can see how traditional Christianity has become a tool for alt-right political manipulation. The blueprint for the new-age to Nazi pipeline is exactly the same.

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January 31, 2023 Confluence

What Happened to Tyre Nichols In Not As Uncommon As We Want to Think It Is

Reading Time: 2 minutes The media narrative about Tyre Nichols’s murder is that the black cops who killed him were renegade, wild, murdering men with badges. The party line in this story is so uncommon because these cops are unusually bad.

This story is not uncommon.
These cops are not unusually bad.
This happens every day in the U.S.

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August 12, 2022 Confluence

Food for Thought on Karma

Reading Time: < 1 minute The current director is Christopher A. Wray, who assumed the role on August 2, 2017, after being confirmed by the United States Senate, taking over from Acting Director Andrew McCabe after the dismissal of former Director James Comey by President Donald Trump.

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August 10, 2022 Confluence

There is a reason the poster child of a mass shooter is an angry white man who spent his childhood in Sunday school.

Reading Time: 2 minutes When you are taught faith is the ultimate test of God and that critical thinking is the road straight to hell, not only do you fail to develop critical thinking skills, but you also will discourage critical thinking in your children. You have to.

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June 30, 2022 Confluence

An Open Letter to My White Sisters About our Role in Losing Roe v. Wade

Reading Time: 6 minutes The fight for our rights and freedom is not going to be convenient.
The revolution is not going to be comfortable.
We have to decide right now if we want to be free.

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May 6, 2022 Confluence

Fighting for abortion rights IS fighting for democracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes I know you are afraid of these things because we wouldn’t be spending our energy on outrage if we weren’t terrified.
We would, instead, be prepping for a war we know we’d win.
Women cannot lose if they decide to fight until all the old white men are out of office or in the ground.
We hold all the cards.
Every single one of them.

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April 6, 2022 Confluence

Thoughts on white woman’s safety and protecting black women

Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know By: Lisa M. Hayes Several years ago, I