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Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring 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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February 13, 2020 Confluence

America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why.

Reading Time: 11 minutesThe 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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February 12, 2020 Confluence

CNN: Mysterious radio signal from space is repeating every 16 days

Reading Time: 3 minutesFast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space. Individual radio bursts emit once and don’t repeat. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times. And usually when they repeat, it’s sporadic or in a cluster, according to previous observations.

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February 10, 2020 Confluence

CNN/CBS: This man says he’s stockpiling billions of our photos

Reading Time: 7 minutesOver the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That’s startup, Clearview AI.
First came a front-page investigation in The New York Times, revealing Clearview has been working with law enforcement agencies to match photos of unknown faces to people’s online images. Next, cease-and-desist letters rolled in from tech giants Twitter, Google and Facebook. Lawmakers made inquiries and New Jersey enacted a statewide ban on law enforcement using Clearview while it looks into the software.

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February 7, 2020 Confluence

Vox: “We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

Reading Time: 8 minutes“Eighteen percent of the population controls 52 Senate seats,” Carville said. “We’ve got to be a majoritarian party. The urban core is not gonna get it done. What we need is power! Do you understand? That’s what this is about.”

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February 6, 2020 Confluence

Transcript of Trump’s post-impeachment speech

Reading Time: 28 minutesThe rambling, stream-of-consciousness, more-than-hourlong “speech” touched on the usual grievances: Russia, Mueller, witch hunts, impeachment. “It was all bullshit,” the president said in the East Room of the White House.

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February 5, 2020 Confluence

The Root: Trump Refused to Shake Nancy Pelosi’s Hand and Other Petty Moments From the State of the Union

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe State of the Union under the Trump administration has become a congressional version of the mythical Hater’s Ball. Everyone goes but everyone hates everybody. It’s basically a sorority step show without the stepping. There is more shade being thrown here than all of the Housewives series combined.

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February 4, 2020 Confluence

The Root: Here’s What Happened In Iowa Last Night and What We Know Now

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter a night of technical glitches, low turnout and campaigns decrying the caucus process, Iowans woke up this morning without knowing who won the highly contested Iowa caucuses.

So far the app used to report results is targeted as the main culprit. Shadow Inc, which built the app at the center of last night’s drama, is connected to ACRONYM, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that is lead by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign alumni, according to Huff Post.