Pelosi, Cohen, Migrant Children: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/17/2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: The Horror Report Thousands
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Politico: British Politics Goes Over a Cliff
Reading Time: 5 minutes British politics is broken. It may not be fixable in time to solve the Brexit mess.
The U.K. wakes up Wednesday with a government unable to govern — in office, but without the numbers to fulfill its central purpose: a negotiated exit from the European Union.
A defeat of previously unimaginable proportions Tuesday — 432 to 202 — has left the country adrift, floating towards no deal, with no party or faction in parliament able to command a majority for any way of moving off the course it has set for itself. The only thing MPs can agree strongly on is a desire to avoid an economically damaging no deal, but they currently can’t settle on a mechanism for how to do so.
Faced with disaster, Theresa May has a plan but no strategy — the Churchillian maxim, “Keep Buggering On.”
This judge blocked Trump’s attempt to limit birth control access
Reading Time: < 1 minute A policy limiting access to birth control went into effect this week — but this federal judge blocked it the same day
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4 Times You Have Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain by Asking
Reading Time: 6 minutes Women are uniquely programmed to avoid asking for what they want for too many reasons to count. It’s vulnerable. Fear of rejection is a very real thing. People should just know what you want – why should you have to ask? Right??
Wrong.
You can’t get upset you didn’t get what you didn’t ask for.
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Brexit, El Chapo, NATO: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/16/2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: At the top of
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We Believe: The Best Men Can Be | Gillette (Short Film)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bullying. Harassment. Is this the best a man can get? It’s only by challenging ourselves to do more, that we can get closer to our best. To say the right thing, to act the right way. We are taking action at http://www.thebestmencanbe.org. Join us.
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CNN: 85 (and counting) very real direct effects of the partial government shutdown
Reading Time: 9 minutes (CNN)Here is a list from CNN reporting and other news outlets of the ways, large and small, that the partial government shutdown is affecting Americans nationwide.
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Steve King, The Interpreter, The Shutdown: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/15/2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: An interesting way to
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Should a Constitutionally Illegitimate Presidency be Annulled?
Reading Time: 4 minutes What the founders didn’t consider was the possibility that someone could move into the White House fraudulently. While impeachment would address Trumps High Crimes and Misdemeanors, possibly even including treason, it is not broad enough in its remedies to address the acts of an illegitimate presidency.
If the Special Councils report shows that Donald J. Trump conspired with a hostile foreign power to rig an illegitimate election, neither impeachment or prosecution goes far enough because the Trump presidency itself would be illegitimate, therefore all acts under his administration including appointments would also be illegitimate.
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THERE IS NOTHIN’ LIKE A WALL – Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Confluence Daily is the one place where
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