Vox: Immigration makes America great
Reading Time: 15 minutes Source: Vox – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. By Matthew Yglesias The Trump administration
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7 reasons why I don’t support police checking victims’ mobile phones in sexual violence cases
Reading Time: 8 minutes I have a good mind to just write the words:
BECAUSE IT IS VICTIM BLAMING
And then end the blog, to be honest with you.
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What Mueller Said
Reading Time: < 1 minute Call your Representative and demand they support impeachment proceedings now: https://bit.ly/Need2Impeach
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Vanity Fair: Marianne Williamson Explains her Magical Thinking
Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is the one place where everything comes together. The one-stop for daily news for women.
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Huffpo: Trump’s Art Of Distraction
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being.
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Huffpo: Boris Johnson and Donald Trump Are Peak White Male Privilege
Reading Time: 5 minutes Expectations are so low in Johnson’s case that, when he was mayor of London, people were “pleasantly surprised” when the city didn’t crumble under his leadership, according to the Times. It’s like when Trump reads a speech off the teleprompter and is hailed for being presidential.
Still, Johnson and Trump are extreme examples of what male privilege lets guys get away with, Lawless said.
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Politico: Actually, Robert Mueller Was Awesome
Reading Time: 6 minutes The hesitation you saw in Mueller before he answered questions was the face of a man who was choosing his words carefully. He played it safe, like a football team running out the clock. His constant desire to double-check his report and to refer members of Congress to the report itself was motivated by a desire to ensure that each word of his testimony was accurate. He had no incentive to hurry, knowing it would be hard for members to challenge him in a five-minute time span if he took his time.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to reframe violence in the city
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘We have to treat this epidemic of violence that we’re seeing as a public health crisis.’ — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to reframe violence in the city so officials can get to the real root of the problem and fix it (via NowThis Politics)
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‘You don’t think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern?’
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘You don’t think that having 10,000 officers in a violent, racist group sharing rape memes of members of Congress points to any concern?’ — AOC pressed the DHS sec after he denied a culture of dehumanization within Border Patrol
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Vox: The Trump racism spin cycle
Reading Time: 8 minutes Trump is forcing conservatives to confront the real reason their base hates Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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