3 Stories You Should Read 5/13/2020: St. Peters, Isreal, Democrats
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Keeping count This New
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LA Times: L.A. County ‘with all certainty’ will keep stay-at-home orders in place through July
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere has a big push in recent weeks to reopen the state’s economy, which has been hurt by the stay-at-home orders. Gov. Gavin Newsom last week announced new protocols for retail stores and some workplaces to reopen.
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Vox: Why white men in America are refusing to wear masks
Reading Time: 9 minutesSince the pandemic began, the issue of wearing masks has further exposed America’s racial and gender prejudices.
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The New Yorker: What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic
Reading Time: 13 minutesA radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another?
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3 Stories You Should Read 05/12/2020: Trump, Fauci, Russia
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Haters gonna hate Trump
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Energy Levels, Conscious Creation, and Conspiracy Theories
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you draw a circle with another circle around it and an even larger circle around that one, the inner circle would be your sphere of control (the things you actually have control over), the next circle represents your sphere of influence and the largest circle would represent your circle of concern (right now I tend to think of that large circle as the whole globe).
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How You Can Help Find a Solution to COVID-19
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe human immune system holds important clues about how people naturally detect and defend against disease. For COVID-19, many people have been able to defeat the virus because of their natural defense systems. Now researchers are working to learn from these survivors’ immune systems to inform the development of new tests.
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Vox: The agonizing story of Tara Reade
Reading Time: 12 minutesReade’s latest allegation is far more serious and comes in a far more fraught political context. The story that both she and her corroborating witnesses are telling has changed dramatically. This leaves me — all of us — in an agonizing place. I’ve written many articles through the Me Too era. It’s unrealistic to demand “perfect” victims. And, like most who come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct or assault, Reade has suffered for speaking out. In several exchanges this year and last year, she’s shown me disturbing messages she’s received online.
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3 Stories You Should Read 5-8-2020: Food insecurity, Viral mutations, Reopening and Unemployment Benefits
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know In the category of: Follow the money Governors
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The only non-negotiable is to erase white supremacist culture
Reading Time: 3 minutesDon’t just talk to your kids about the killing of a 24-year-old innocent Black man in Brunswick County, Georgia. Talk to them about what white supremacist culture is and how you have inherited it and you probably all have some blindspots to it. Talk about how it shows up in your home and how you are now, as a family, committed to eradicating it because it only produces victims. You are a victim of it because it limits you to being a violent, oppressive, entitled conspirator to the system.
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