January 2020 – Page 4 – Confluence Daily

January 8, 2020 Confluence

ON GETTING WHAT WE WANT

Reading Time: 3 minutes When we feel like we need to compete for our place, say in our career or with relationships or any of the things we think we need to make us happy, we can get single-minded. We can push and compare and tear ourselves and others apart over and over until we have nothing left but fear and isolation. Because even if you do get to the top or are considered “the best,” nothing really changes. Your mind just looks for the next thing it thinks it needs to find security.

News

January 8, 2020 Confluence

3 Stories You Should Read 1/08/2020: Dianne Feinstein, Iran, Harry and Meghan

Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Lighter news Harry and

News

January 8, 2020 Confluence

Huffington Post: Trump Announces New Iran Sanctions

Reading Time: 2 minutes Although both Trump and Iranian officials appeared to not push for further ramping up of the conflict following Iran’s strike on Iraqi military facilities on Tuesday, neither has there been a dramatic deescalation in the dispute. Trump tweeted that “all is well” after the attack and proclaimed that the U.S. has the most powerful military in the world. There are over 5,000 U.S. troops deployed in Iraq as part of the operation against the Islamic State militant group.

Informed

January 7, 2020 Confluence

Soleimani attack: What does international law say?

Reading Time: 5 minutes “In the Soleimani case, the US is claiming it acted in self-defence to prevent imminent attacks, a category of action which, if in fact true, is generally seen as being permissible under the UN Charter,” says Dapo Akande, professor of public international law at Oxford University and co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC).

Informed

January 7, 2020 Confluence

Mansplaining convention coming to Orlando promises to ‘Make Women Great Again’

Reading Time: 3 minutes At the 22 Convention, the story of feminist liberation is reversed, revealed to be a narrative of propaganda that’s “led millions of women down a path of endless heartbreak, dead-end relationships.” Other people, like actual women, might say feminism has opened their eyes to the treachery that is a life consumed by winning the favor of idiot men.

Engage

January 7, 2020 Confluence

Podcast: ‘Why We Can’t Sleep’ Documents The Unique Pressures On Gen X Women

Reading Time: 3 minutes “Being middle-aged in America right now as a middle-class American woman is different than it was for our mothers and grandmothers,” she says, “and for a lot of women — not for all of them, but for a lot of them — it is incredibly hard.”

News

January 7, 2020 Confluence

3 Stories You Should Read: 1/7/2020: Qassem Soleimani, Bernie Sanders, McConnell

Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Wag the dog It

Engage

January 3, 2020 Confluence

We’re not as helpless as we might be feeling right now

Reading Time: 4 minutes You can get involved in climate change activism and take some of the load off the kids who are tackling it with wildly beautiful levels of courage and determination.

Engage

January 3, 2020 Confluence

Rape survivors in New York have just 5 years to take legal action

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rape survivors in New York have just 5 years to take legal action before the statute of limitations sets in — this lawyer is fighting to change that

In partnership with Time’s Up

Thrive

January 3, 2020 Confluence

Winter Skin Care 101

Reading Time: 3 minutes Cold weather can take a real toll on your skin. Dry skin can lead to discomfort and, if neglected, can affect your skin’s elasticity and trigger outbreaks of irritated skin.