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Reading Time: 3 minutes After a night of technical glitches, low turnout and campaigns decrying the caucus process, Iowans woke up this morning without knowing who won the highly contested Iowa caucuses.

So far the app used to report results is targeted as the main culprit. Shadow Inc, which built the app at the center of last night’s drama, is connected to ACRONYM, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that is lead by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign alumni, according to Huff Post.

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February 4, 2020 Confluence

Resistance – An Immigrant Story

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January 24, 2020 Confluence

Raw Story: Involuntary Celibates are an ‘emerging domestic terrorism threat’: Texas warns of an ‘Incel Rebellion’

Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Source: Raw Story Misogynistic men who identify as

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January 24, 2020 Confluence

The Root: Here’s How Many People Police Killed in 2019…We Think

Reading Time: 5 minutes For the second year in a row, The Root partnered with D. Brian Burghart, the founder of Fatal Encounters—the site whose goal is to create an “impartial, comprehensive, and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement”—to see how many people police killed last year.

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January 23, 2020 Confluence

Politico: Impeachment – Ongoing coverage and updates

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here are some of the key moments from Trump’s trial.

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January 15, 2020 Confluence

Vox: 9 questions about Trump’s impeachment trial you were too embarrassed to ask

Reading Time: 13 minutes One hundred senators will soon convene to make the solemn decision about whether impeached President Donald Trump should be removed from office for having committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

At least, that’s the theory.

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January 14, 2020 Confluence

The Root: Trump Retweets Photoshopped Image of Nancy Pelosi in a Hijab Because a Muslim Is Obviously More Dangerous Than a Degenerate Wannabe Dictator

Reading Time: 2 minutes On Monday morning, the white supremacist of the highest order and the Whitest House thought it would be funny to retweet a Photoshopped image of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wearing traditional Muslim garb and standing in front of an Iranian flag.

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January 14, 2020 Confluence

Huffpo: How To Stop Boys From Becoming ‘Me Too’ Perpetrators

Reading Time: 4 minutes One answer is to talk to men ― directly, deliberately, honestly ― about gendered violence when they are still boys, according to Elizabeth Miller, the director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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January 8, 2020 Confluence

The Root: The President of the United States Just Publicly Went Out Like a Bitch. And That’s Fine by Us

Reading Time: 2 minutes The most important point of the president’s ramblings was that no Americans were killed in Tuesday’s bombings. The president believes this was intentional and it doesn’t matter to me as long as more people didn’t die behind his bullshit. What would be amazing now, would be if the president stopped talking like he “keeps that fire on him” and starts acting like the bitch that he is.

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January 7, 2020 Confluence

Soleimani attack: What does international law say?

Reading Time: 5 minutes “In the Soleimani case, the US is claiming it acted in self-defence to prevent imminent attacks, a category of action which, if in fact true, is generally seen as being permissible under the UN Charter,” says Dapo Akande, professor of public international law at Oxford University and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).