Reading Time: 2 minutes BREAKUPS ALMOST ALWAYS TURN OUT TO BE THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED.
The reality of it is, almost everyone one of us will go through a breakup, probably many of them. Very few of us spend our lives with our first love. It’s an inevitable part of life.
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Vox: What’s actually happening at the US-Mexico border, explained
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 12 minutes The Trump administration likes to cite statistics from areas where barriers have already been built, followed by a drop in apprehensions of unauthorized immigrants.
That’s how it’s supposed to work — because the wall was designed to get them to go somewhere else.
The purpose of physical barriers is what border agents call “funneling” — pushing people to cross where they can be more easily apprehended by Border Patrol.
That funneling can be helpful to ensure that Border Patrol agents catch as many people as possible, or to focus them on tracking more sophisticated criminal efforts.
But that doesn’t mean that you can reduce the overall number of people coming into the US by building as much wall as possible.
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Marie Forleo: How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome and Stop Feeling Like a Fraud
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: < 1 minute Impostor syndrome (i.e. feeling like a fraud) affects a whopping 70% of us, according to research. It hurts our happiness, our emotional and mental health, as well as our bank balances, careers and the impact we were born to make
Reading Time: < 1 minute As the partial shutdown drags into week three, President Trump and congressional Democrats dig in as each side refuses to budge over the battle to fund a border wall.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Finally, there is the hope — naïve though it may seem — that some Republicans will choose to act on principle. There now exists a small club of former Trump administration officials who were widely respected before joining the administration and whom Trump has sullied, to greater or lesser degrees. It includes Rex Tillerson, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster and Jim Mattis. Imagine if one of them gave a television interview and told the truth about Trump. Doing so would be a service to their country at a time of national need. It would be an illustration of duty.
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The Root: 11 Thoughts About Surviving R. Kelly Now That I’ve Had a Chance to Process It All
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 6 minutes Like what I can only presume was the vast majority of black America, I spent a significant portion of the past weekend either watching the dream hampton produced/directed Lifetime docuseries, Surviving R. Kelly or talking about it. The discussions dominated social media and actual face-to-face interactions with people. Nothing in recent memory did such a thorough job, or had the space to lay out such a bulletproof case as to why one Robert Sylvester Kelly ain’t shit.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Glenn Close delivered a powerful speech empowering women after her surprise victory over Lady Gaga in the Best Actress In a Motion Picture category.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cliff Notes Version – You Don’t Have To Be Happy To Feel Good. You Can Feel Good By Leveraging And Noticing Your Sensory Experiences To Feel Pleasure.
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Forbes: There Is No Crisis At The Border – And DHS Stats Prove It
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes Due to a combination of changed demographics and improved economic conditions, the era of large-scale illegal migration by Mexicans to the U.S. – the reason cited for building a wall – is over. Today, in a phenomenon that began in the past five years, most of the people apprehended at the border are from Central America and reflect primarily the violent conditions in those countries.