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Fascism is coming for all of us, and the ONLY WAY TO STOP IT IS TO UNDERSTAND RACISM COMPROMISES THE FUTURE FOR EVERYONE.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Women will have to save our democracy because men aren’t going to do it.
Women will have to dismantle both racism and the patriarchy because men aren’t going to do it.
How do we know that?
Because it isn’t fucking done, and it isn’t going to get done while we behave like fragile flowers in a vase on a shelf with an expiration date. We have been the women behind the men fighting for their way of life too long.- EditorEngage
I’m shouty about this because it’s not about saving fetuses, it’s about controlling women.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes There should be no shame placed upon a woman who decides to have an abortion – regardless of her actions that led to being pregnant (sidestepping pregnancy resulting from rape/incest here as we don’t place as much blame or judgment on women in these instances, but yet there’s still some disgustingly enough).
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Trae Crowder: My final plea to people who still aren’t motivated to get their vote on.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: < 1 minute My final plea to those who still aren’t motivated to get their vote on. Two weeks y’all!
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have to take responsibility for what we have created, what we have allowed, what we allow to continue. We can’t pretend we don’t know Kyle Rittenhouse. We’ve all known a Kyle Rittenhouse whether we want to admit it or not.
We have a profoundly serious problem with our boys. Many of them are not ok.- Engage
Vox: Republicans claim Democrats want to defund the police. Biden’s plan calls for more police.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes From beginning to end, the Republican speakers at last night’s convention painted a vivid picture of a Democratic Party policy vision that doesn’t exist, claiming Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading his party in demanding police budgets be drained like a cold bathtub.
Reading Time: < 1 minute American Bridge PAC has released an anti-Trump ad starring Michael Cohen and says that it will air during the RNC 2020 tonight. In it Cohen pulls no punches, as is to be expected.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Biden/Harris is our ticket. This ticket just happens to include decades of experience and one of the most liberal democrats in politics today. The Biden/Harris ticket will quite likely not only lead to the first woman of color vice-president but ultimately the first Madam President.
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Full Episode: “Remembering John Lewis” | Oprah’s Master Class | Oprah Winfrey Network
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: < 1 minute Before he was a U.S. Congressman, John Lewis (1940-2020) was one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement. In this episode of “Oprah’s Master Class” the late American hero reflects on his life of activism and his friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and offers wisdom for the ongoing fight for justice and equality.
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The Root: Post-Traumatic Blackness Disorder – The Mental Toll of Surviving Racism
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 7 minutes “About one in four Black Americans will experience an anxiety disorder at some point,” write Dr. Jessica R. Graham-LoPresti, Dr.Tahirah Abdullah, Dr. Lindsey M. West and Amber Calloway, four black female mental health researchers, who called the condition “racial battle fatigue”