Reading Time: 7 minutes Insurance companies do exert ultimate authority. Loss of insurance can end a department. In recent years, cities in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tenessee, Louisiana, and elsewhere in California have had to disband their police departments after losing coverage. Lawsuits are the ultimate tool for forcing cultural changes in law enforcement agencies.
May 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes COVID-19 may have begun as a physical health crisis, but like their parents, children, teens and college students (or young adults) are likely to experience stress and anxiety caused by disruptions to school, work and life. For parents of teens and young adults in these unprecedented times, these tips may help create a sense of comfort and security that boost their children’s mental health.
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Politico: Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 6 minutes Any attempt to go after the tech companies through regulations could face serious obstacles, however. The president’s own regulators have shown little appetite in the past for taking on scrutiny of tweets and Facebook posts, and federal courts have ruled as recently as Wednesday morning that social media companies are private entities with the legal right to police content on their sites.
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3 Stories You Should Read 5/28/2020: Reopening, George Floyd, Rush Limbaugh
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Stop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
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Guest Editorial: Confidence in Boris Johnson is steadily dropping. Cummings has to go.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes Confidence in Boris Johnson is steadily dropping. If he hopes to salvage his own position,
Cummings has to go. The fact that he hasn’t already hints at some behind the scenes shenanigans
to mischief manage, or at the very least avert revelation of skeletons in the closet. There have
been lies, more lies and then gaslighting upon gaslighting by our leaders. Whatever happens
today, this story is far from over. - News
3 Stories You Should Read 5/27/2020: Hong Kong, Footballers, Climate Policy
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes 24-30 May 2020 By: Janette Dalgliesh – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women…
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Thank you for your apology Joe Biden. You took personal responsibility. I accept it for myself.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes If you choose not to vote, then you are the privileged of the privileged because you are not thinking of the consequences of your non vote on lives like mine. It’s just that simple. Only the privileged whose lives are not affected by anything that has happened over the last 3 1/2 years can justify not voting.