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Reading Time: 5 minutes Whether you’re looking for a way to connect with Divine, hear from your higher self, increase your intuition, decrease stress, learn something new, improve your memory, experience more vivid dreams, or just add a dose of beauty into your life, tarot is a great idea!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Have conversations with the people in your life about this who may think visible drug use and mental health crises are because people are refusing help. The leading causes of homelessness aren’t drug addiction or mental illness. They are lack of affordable housing, unemployment, and poverty. Many houseless individuals are employed.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Pele is creating new
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Self-care and self-love are one in the same. There is no way around it. As much as we like to claim we love ourselves, if there isn’t action behind the words, the idea of self-love is just that, an idea.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes While most expected the Senate committee to yield different results than the House Committee did, the degree to which this report raises alarm is surprising. It doesn’t say “maybe” it happened. The Senate committee clearly states Russian meddling did happen. It’s impossible to calculate the impacts of that meddling. However, it’s also impossible to suggest that Russian influence didn’t factor into seating Donald Trump in the White House. The words “Illegitimate President” seem less inflammatory when the House Intelligence Committee and the Intelligence Community publicly acknowledge significant and sophisticated meddling by a foreign government.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Next time you decide to call the police, if you can, and your life is not in imminent danger, please pause. First fully assess the situation. Take a deep breath. Do you need to call the police? Or is it just your sense of pristine dignity that just got offended?
Just know that if it is a person of color that you are calling the cops about, you may have just lynched the person.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Sixty-two people were either killed or died of wounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday and Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians demonstrated across the occupied territory to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the Gaza Ministry of Health released the names of 59 Palestinians killed:
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: 2000 pages of interviews
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Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says. “I need each of you to tell every young woman you know to be comfortable with imperfection.”
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Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to let kids know they have a right to stand up and speak up. They’re entitled to express their viewpoints and they’re entitled to practice expressing them.
Knowing when it’s the right time to speak up and when it’s best to remain silent is a muscle worth exercising. But permanently shutting down is never ever recommended.
As parents and teachers, it’s our job to help kids feel more comfortable communicating with the challenging people in their lives. It begins with modeling the skills we want them to cultivate and continues with conversations when specific instances arise in their lives.
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