Informed

Reading Time: 5 minutes The “grown-ups” never accomplished much.
As of this week, the wheels seem to be coming off the Trump bus. But that’s only a reminder of the many times before when the wheels seemed to be coming off the bus.

Reading Time: < 1 minute “The Trump campaign released a Uncle Sam-style 2020 campaign advertisement on Monday that urged the President’s supporters to call a 1-800 number and leave a ‘thank you’ message for President Trump. ‘I need you to call the number on your screen and deliver a ‘thank you’ to President Trump,’ Campaign manager Brad Parscale said, pointing his finger at viewers, while touting a ‘booming economy,’ ‘historic low unemployment’ and Trump’s foreign policy efforts, overlaid with video of factory workers, the American flag, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Trump’s campaign rallies.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Children are the most marginalized population on the planet. That may sound like a shocking statement, but we fail them, over and over again. And they depend on us adults. They come in the world defenseless and completely dependent on us and we abandon them. We control them and tell them what to do. We indoctrinate them and if they do not follow our wishes, we punish them. They cannot vote. We do not allow them to have a say so. We spend all our energy indoctrinating them into how we want them to be. As much as we revere youth in this country, we do not revere childishness or children.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Something is brewing underneath Yellowstone National Park, and it has the ability to destoy all life on Earth. Or does it?

Reading Time: 4 minutes The fact that Mr. Trump is a sitting president should not derail a process that applies to all Americans, regardless of stature or station. He would still have the post-indictment relief available to all citizens, including the ability to challenge the constitutionality of the indictment. Some also argue that indicting the president would critically impair his ability to lead the country. But this is a White House already engulfed in chaos and daily distractions. And if the House were to initiate impeachment proceedings, it is hard to see how that process would be any less distracting than a criminal indictment.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.   Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen spoke