3 Stories You Should Read 01/09/2020: Biden, Sanders, Iran
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Get the story straight
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The Root: The President of the United States Just Publicly Went Out Like a Bitch. And That’s Fine by Us
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most important point of the president’s ramblings was that no Americans were killed in Tuesday’s bombings. The president believes this was intentional and it doesn’t matter to me as long as more people didn’t die behind his bullshit. What would be amazing now, would be if the president stopped talking like he “keeps that fire on him” and starts acting like the bitch that he is.
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ON GETTING WHAT WE WANT
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen 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.
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3 Stories You Should Read 1/08/2020: Dianne Feinstein, Iran, Harry and Meghan
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Lighter news Harry and
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Huffington Post: Trump Announces New Iran Sanctions
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough 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.
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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).
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Mansplaining convention coming to Orlando promises to ‘Make Women Great Again’
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt 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.
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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.”
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3 Stories You Should Read: 1/7/2020: Qassem Soleimani, Bernie Sanders, McConnell
Reading Time: 2 minutesConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the category of: Wag the dog It
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We’re not as helpless as we might be feeling right now
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou 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.
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