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February 13, 2020 Confluence

WaPo: Trump’s words, bullied kids, scarred schools

Reading Time: 11 minutes Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.

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February 12, 2020 Confluence

Huffpo: White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, ADL Says

Reading Time: 3 minutes Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.

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February 11, 2020 Confluence

WaPo: Trump’s latest rally stunts are designed to get you to surrender

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the end, many of President Trump’s ugliest degradations — the nonstop lying, the constant efforts to undermine faith in our political system, the relentless delegitimization of the opposition — often seem to converge in some sense on a single, overarching goal:

To get you to give up.

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February 7, 2020 Confluence

None of us know the best way forward, but I know we are (mostly) all trying to figure it out.

Reading Time: 5 minutes None of us know the best way forward, but I know we are (mostly) all trying to figure it out.

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February 6, 2020 Confluence

I cannot BELIEVE what Nancy Pelosi did at the State of the Union y’all.

Reading Time: < 1 minute I cannot BELIEVE what Nancy Pelosi did at the State of the Union y’all.

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February 5, 2020 Confluence

The Other OTHER Iowa Caucus Fail

Reading Time: 6 minutes Republicans are good at activating voter resentment. They’re not good at dissipating that resentment by actually serving voters and their needs. Outside of voters’ needs to stay angry. That anger keeps Republicans and their wealthy friends in office.

It doesn’t change lives and communities for the better.

We can.

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January 23, 2020 Confluence

Olay Launches Make Space for Women Super Bowl Campaign

Reading Time: < 1 minute This space-themed Olay commercial supports girls in STEM 🚀

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January 17, 2020 Confluence

Instead of asking for civility how about we ask for justice

Reading Time: 2 minutes We like to pretend as if “excuse me, sir, could you kindly remove your foot from my neck” is how corrupt, racist, sexist systems are overturned.

And by we I mean those of us conditioned to operate and function in and hold up a white supremacist system.

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January 15, 2020 Confluence

Pat Mitchell: Dangerous times call for dangerous women

Reading Time: < 1 minute Pat Mitchell has nothing left to prove and much less to lose — she’s become a “dangerous woman.” Not dangerous as in feared, she says, but fearless: a force to be reckoned with. In this powerful call to action, Mitchell invites all women, men and allies to join her in embracing the risks necessary to create a world where safety, respect and truth burn brighter than the darkness of our current times.

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January 15, 2020 Confluence

The Adopt-A-Moderate-Republican-Senator Program

Reading Time: 2 minutes Get in on the Adopt-A-Moderate-Republican Senator Program today! (Or the AAMRSP as we in the know call it.) Share YOUR senator here, so we can collect all 7 (ish), for which you’ll get a set of nail clippers—and perhaps, your democracy. 💪🏼