February 2020 – Page 3 – Confluence Daily

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February 14, 2020 Janette Dalgliesh

Astrology: relax, nothing is under control

Reading Time: 6 minutes When we can embrace uncertainty and confusion, we open magical doorways into new worlds. This week, Neptune is activated and it’s time for dreaming, rethinking, increased altruism and mapping out possibilities. Relax: nothing is under control!

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February 13, 2020 Confluence

WaPo: Trump’s words, bullied kids, scarred schools

Reading Time: 11 minutes Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.

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February 13, 2020 Confluence

SENATE VOTES TO RESTRICT TRUMP

Reading Time: < 1 minute SENATE VOTES TO RESTRICT TRUMP: Senators of both parties came together to pass the Iran War Powers Resolution, limiting Trump’s power to use military force in Iran. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) who introduced the resolution speaks to the press, along with Senate Minority Leader chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other lawmakers.

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February 13, 2020 Confluence

America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.

Reading Time: 11 minutes The system is rigged. It was rigged from the outset, quite intentionally, to favor small states. Under current political coalitions, that’s become an enormous advantage for Republicans. The country’s framers obviously could not have known that they were creating a system that would give Donald Trump’s party an unfair advantage over Hillary Clinton’s party more than two centuries later. But they did create a system that favors small states over large states.

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February 13, 2020 Confluence

3 Stories You Should Read 2/13/2020: Border Wall, Bill Barr, Hope Hicks

Reading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Realocation Trump Plans

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February 12, 2020 Confluence

Huffpo: White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says

Reading Time: 3 minutes Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.

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February 12, 2020 Confluence

Marriage doesn’t have to be the place where desire goes to die

Reading Time: 4 minutes Marriage doesn’t have to be be the place where desire goes to die.

Married women, withholding and controlling sex is hurting you, not just him.

It’s denying yourself of his medicine.

Informed

February 12, 2020 Confluence

CNN: Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days

Reading Time: 3 minutes Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times. And usually when they repeat, it’s sporadic or in a cluster, according to previous observations.