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Reading Time: < 1 minute Amy Viela, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Paula Jean Swearengin: A new documentary from Netflix traces the journey that four women took to the 2018 elections.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Most people aren’t going to read the nearly 500-page report. Republicans have already seized on Barr’s words — and on the lack of criminal charges in a document that was never going to contain criminal charges — to claim total vindication for Trump. The president’s manifest disloyalty to the country in trying to halt an investigation into a foreign attack on an American election is, to the right, of no account. Nor are the counterintelligence implications of Mueller’s findings, which aren’t part of the report. In the eyes of the president’s supporters, his campaign did not participate in the criminal conspiracy that helped elect him, so no more needs to be said.
The reaction to the report shows that between the minority of Americans who support Trump and the majority who do not, there may no longer be even the possibility of a shared sense of reality or national purpose. Even as exemplary a figure as Mueller cannot change that.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes ABC News has confirmed that Joe Biden will announce he’s entering the 2020 race Thursday morning in a video. This will be the beginning of Biden’s third run for the presidency and he enters the crowded Democratic field in the top spot in several polls despite the recent #metoo related PR issues that have plagued his soon to be campaign for weeks.
Biden brings a long career in public service to his presidential bid, which began in 1972 when he was elected to the Senate in Delaware. Biden served in the Senate for nearly 40 years, where he served as chair of the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees, before becoming vice president in 2009. All of this makes him one of the most experienced candidates ever to run for the office of President. However, that kind of history in the public eye brings with it years of things to criticize.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The leader of a militia group who’s been detaining migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border allegedly told the FBI his militia was training to assassinate former President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democratic donor George Soros. Larry Hopkins, head of the United Constitutional Patriots, is charged with possession a firearm as a felon and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Hopkins appeared before a federal judge Monday.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Empathy matters Schools
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In case you have some friends that still don’t understand systemic racism 😉 (via act.tv)
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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the U.S., police brutality is a known problem: all-too-numerous headlines in recent years have detailed the deaths of Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, and Mike Brown, among many others. But recent research suggests that police kill around three people per day in the U.S., and those people are disproportionately black men. Those findings, though, still fail to account for other violence and verbal and physical abuse people face at the hands of police.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is holding a press conference now in the aftermath of the Mueller report release. Attorney General William Barr spoke to the press about the report this morning, hours before it was made available to Congress and the public, but after the White House counsel’s office had been briefed by the Department of Justice, according to the New York Times. Schiff has invited Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his committee. ‘After a two year investigation,’ Schiff tweeted today, ‘the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.’
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Reading Time: 3 minutes So often we want permission to do, be or have something and when we do not get permission (or assume that we will not) we settle for something else. We betray our own soul in an effort to keep from disappointing someone else.
There is no shame in wanting to meet someone else’s expectations. We all do it, it feels good to have someone express that they are happy with our work, or pleased with something we’ve done, or approving of some choice we’ve made. Most of us have had a desire to be acknowledged and validated practically from the time we were born.
But when we meet other people’s expectations at the expense of fulfilling our own dreams and desires we are not truly free. We can become trapped in a web of needing approval and permission.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: “I’m fucked”. ‘I’m Fucked,’
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