Astrology: the Scorpio party!
Reading Time: 8 minutes By: Janette Dalgliesh – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Are you excited for the Scorpio
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Month: October 2019
Huffpo: She Was Sex Trafficked At 14 — Then Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
Reading Time: 14 minutes There is little precise data on domestic sex trafficking, because victims are hard to identify and there is no standardized system for tracking them. But there are hundreds of thousands of human trafficking victims in the U.S., according to Polaris, an anti-trafficking organization, and studies show that most sex trafficking survivors in this country are U.S.-born women and girls of color who are first exploited as minors. In Texas — which, along with California and Florida, is one of the top three states for sex trafficking cases — there are almost 79,000 victims under 25, according to a 2017 study by the University of Texas at Austin.
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/22/2019: Kaleb James Cole, Emoluments Clause, Harvey Weinstein
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Follow the money??? The
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CNN: The guardrails are off the Trump presidency
Reading Time: 5 minutes Another indication of Trump’s determination to subvert the conventions and guardrails that have governed the presidency for generations.
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It was time for me and my body to be friends.
Reading Time: 6 minutes I stood in the corner of that locker bay, soft warm tears coursing down my face.
I used the a corner of the tiny towel to dab my eyes and took the deepest breath of my adult life.
Not just any breath.
The kind of bottom-of-your-lungs blasting gulp that I last took as a newborn, freshly emerged and just as naked.
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Vox: Impeachment is too important to leave to Congress — it’s going to take mass mobilization
Reading Time: 6 minutes Mass popular resistance helped check Trump before and has been instrumental to removing corrupt leaders abroad. If Democrats are serious about the threat they say Trump poses, they need to encourage its return.
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/18/2019: Ovidio Guzmán López, Sondland, Elijah Cummings
Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: The succession plan Who
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Astrology: choose your focus
Reading Time: 5 minutes When in doubt, focus on how you want to feel, and activate that in whatever way you can right now.
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CNN: Nancy Pelosi says Donald Trump is melting down. There’s lots of evidence she’s right
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is the nuclear reactor here. He is, by nature, unstable. But through a series of measures — mostly cooling rods — his energies are channeled as effectively as possible. Still, instability remains. And the second the methods to keep the him mostly in check malfunction, the temperature begins to spike. And spike. And at some point, the temperature reaches a place where there are no solutions that can avoid disaster.
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Pelosi Speaks Amid Trump ‘Meltdown’ Tensions | NowThis
Reading Time: < 1 minute PELOSI PRESSER: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers her weekly press conference on the heels of a tense meeting with President Trump about Syria on Wednesday. After the meeting, Pelosi claimed Trump had a ‘meltdown’ and she fears for his health.
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