Feminine Leadership, Elizabeth Warren, and “That’s What Girls Do”
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Cornelia Powell – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. The issue of “competency” once again
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VOX: The WHO just declared the coronavirus a pandemic. Here’s what that means.
Reading Time: 6 minutes “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that Covid-19 can be characterized by “pandemic,” Tedros said, going on to argue that the designation did not mean the situation was hopeless: “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”
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Politico: ‘My phone’s been blowing up’: CPAC attendees rip the group’s virus messaging
Reading Time: 7 minutes In his own appearance at the conference a day later, Trump made similar comments about Democrats, but defended his handling of the crisis, saying his administration “has taken the most aggressive action in modern history to control our borders and protect Americans from the coronavirus.”
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Elizabeth Warren: Herstory
Reading Time: 6 minutes It relates to race.
Really?
Yes, it does.
But Elizabeth Warren is a white woman, duh?
Yes, and it relates to race.
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Politico: How to watch Super Tuesday like a pro
Reading Time: 12 minutes There are more states voting on Super Tuesday, and more delegates at stake, than on any other primary day in 2020 — roughly one-third of all Democratic delegates will get parceled out.
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These urban gardens in Mexico were designed to save hummingbird species at risk of extinction
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. These urban gardens in Mexico were designed
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VOX: WHO raises Covid-19 alert to highest level after cases found in nearly 50 countries
Reading Time: 5 minutes “We are on the highest level of alert or highest level of risk assessment in terms of spread and in terms of impact,” said Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program. The agency isn’t trying to incite panic, he added. “This is a reality check for every government on the planet: Wake up, get ready, this virus may be on its way and you need to be ready. You have a duty to your citizens, you have a duty to the world to be ready.”
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Vox: Getting an abortion in “the most pro-life state in America”
Reading Time: 18 minutes Even before they sit down, though, patients are confronted with reminders that this place is under threat. A sign on the door reads “internal and external security surveillance: 24 hours a day.” Another, nearby, asks patients not to speak to protesters. Then there is the ominous poster on the waiting room wall: “The coastline of Louisiana is not eroding nearly as fast as a woman’s right to determine her own outcome.”
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Vox: Elizabeth Warren Exists
Reading Time: 5 minutes There is a smarter, even-tempered, non-oligarch candidate who has never stopped, frisk, ignored or incarcerated a black body.
Yes, Virginia, there is an Elizabeth Warren.
She exists.
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This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to restore the confidence of Black youth through photography
Reading Time: < 1 minute This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to empower and restore the confidence of Black youth across the country through photography
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