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Reading Time: < 1 minute “Christ is the center of my life,” Sen. Cory Booker says during a CNN town hall, discussing how his faith impacts his political views. “I believe in that radical love of all people. I believe that the Bible talks more about poverty, about greeting the stranger, about being there for the convicted, far more than it talks about the kind of toxic stuff you often hear the President spewing out there.”
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Trump campaign’s contact with the Russians was immoral, unethical, and unpatriotic. And yes, it was corrupt. Whether it was a crime was Mueller’s decision, and we all respect that.
But none of it was okay. And the day we think it is will be the day we will look back and say, that was the day America lost its way.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes JUNE 8, 2018: William Barr sends an unsolicited memo to the DOJ berating the Special Counsel investigation and asserting that a sitting President cannot obstruct justice.
NOV 7, 2018: Trump ousts Sessions
DEC 7, 2018: Nominates Barr
FEB 14, 2019: Barr confirmed
MAR 24, 2019: Barr dismisses Mueller report, says Trump is innocent of obstruction
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Reading Time: 7 minutes We do not need to centre men in every conversation we have. Women and girls are valid entities, independent from men.
We need to get to a point where we can talk about women’s issues and get the same level of respect we get when we talk about men’s issues.
Until then, your ‘Whataboutery’ is unwelcome here.
Reading Time: 5 minutes As the words of our President have become a part of the manifesto of a crazed killer on the opposite side of our planet, we need to start taking the responsibility of what’s happening here much more seriously because this is not normal. House Speaker Pelosi was recently quoted as saying although Trump is not fit to be president she also didn’t think he’s worth the impeachment process. Those words make no sense to me.
I’ll tell you who else might question that logic: The people of Christchurch New Zealand who are in the process of burying their dead. Trump is more than an inconvenience. He is beyond the pale of unfit to lead. He is dangerous to himself and others and we cannot normalize that. If we do, we won’t recognize ourselves when this is over.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Our work as climate activists arises from the recognition that acts have consequences, and consequences come with responsibilities, and we are responsible for the fate of this earth, for all living things now and in the future we are choosing with our actions– or inactions – in the present. But also from the recognition that ecological connectedness contains a deep beauty tantamount to love. Our goal as climate activists is to protect life. Those children and youth standing up for the future in Christchurch and in more than 1,700 other cities around the world were already the answer we needed.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Elizabeth Warren wants to get rid of the
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rosario Dawson confirmed that she’s dating Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and that she thinks he’s “brilliant and kind and caring.”
In an interview with TMZ at the Washington area’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday, the 39-year-old actress said she was in a relationship with the 49-year-old Booker and that she’s so “grateful” to be with him.
“I am just grateful to be with someone that I respect and love and admire so much who is so brilliant and kind and caring and loving,” she told the outlet.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The right-wing attack on two New Zealand mosques Friday, which left nearly 50 dead and dozens wounded, seemed specifically designed to go viral. In the wake of the shooting, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were left scrambling to stop the spread of a 17-minute video of the attack, recorded by the 28-year-old Australian gunman, that was live-streamed and shared across all three platforms. Tech giants have faced versions of this same struggle before, having repeatedly failed to tamp down on conspiracy theories after other large-scale tragedies. But the Christchurch video, and companies’ efforts to contain it, has intensified scrutiny of the platforms’ handling of offensive and dangerous content—particularly when the perpetrator is Web-savvy.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute I couldn’t bear to go outside for this one as I’m simply too wracked with grief after the startling revelations surrounding the highest levels of our country’s educational system (and also Full House).
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