Elizabeth Warren: Herstory
Reading Time: 6 minutes It relates to race.
Really?
Yes, it does.
But Elizabeth Warren is a white woman, duh?
Yes, and it relates to race.
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Politico: How to watch Super Tuesday like a pro
Reading Time: 12 minutes There are more states voting on Super Tuesday, and more delegates at stake, than on any other primary day in 2020 — roughly one-third of all Democratic delegates will get parceled out.
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These urban gardens in Mexico were designed to save hummingbird species at risk of extinction
Reading Time: < 1 minute Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. These urban gardens in Mexico were designed
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VOX: WHO raises Covid-19 alert to highest level after cases found in nearly 50 countries
Reading Time: 5 minutes “We are on the highest level of alert or highest level of risk assessment in terms of spread and in terms of impact,” said Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program. The agency isn’t trying to incite panic, he added. “This is a reality check for every government on the planet: Wake up, get ready, this virus may be on its way and you need to be ready. You have a duty to your citizens, you have a duty to the world to be ready.”
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Vox: Getting an abortion in “the most pro-life state in America”
Reading Time: 18 minutes Even before they sit down, though, patients are confronted with reminders that this place is under threat. A sign on the door reads “internal and external security surveillance: 24 hours a day.” Another, nearby, asks patients not to speak to protesters. Then there is the ominous poster on the waiting room wall: “The coastline of Louisiana is not eroding nearly as fast as a woman’s right to determine her own outcome.”
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Vox: Elizabeth Warren Exists
Reading Time: 5 minutes There is a smarter, even-tempered, non-oligarch candidate who has never stopped, frisk, ignored or incarcerated a black body.
Yes, Virginia, there is an Elizabeth Warren.
She exists.
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This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to restore the confidence of Black youth through photography
Reading Time: < 1 minute This dad’s love for his daughter launched a movement to empower and restore the confidence of Black youth across the country through photography
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Politico: Sex, Lies and Prenups: Donald Trump’s Timeless Wisdom on Love
Reading Time: 14 minutes “The divorce from Ivana taught him a great lesson,” the late Liz Smith, the longtime gossip columnist, told the makers of the documentary, Trump: An American Dream. “He proved then he couldn’t have his reputation destroyed. He learned he could ultimately get away with anything.”
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Vox: Trump Forgot He Lied, Now Admits He Sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to Dig Up Dirt on Bidens
Reading Time: 3 minutes During a podcast appearance Thursday with former journalist-turned-Fox News anchor Geraldo Rivera—a man whose mustache looks like a fat caterpillar going through cardiac arrest walked on his face and died over his lip—Trump now readily admits that he sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine.
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America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.
Reading Time: 11 minutes The system is rigged. It was rigged from the outset, quite intentionally, to favor small states. Under current political coalitions, that’s become an enormous advantage for Republicans. The country’s framers obviously could not have known that they were creating a system that would give Donald Trump’s party an unfair advantage over Hillary Clinton’s party more than two centuries later. But they did create a system that favors small states over large states.
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