Everyday Resistance: Practical Ways to Push Back Against Tyranny
Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. By: Lisa M. Hayes Resisting tyranny doesn’t always
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From Greenland to Mexico: Trump’s Polarizing Territorial Aspirations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. By: Lisa M. Hayes As Donald Trump prepares
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CNN: Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
Reading Time: 5 minutes The series of interactions between the President and Rosen and Donoghue began in mid-December with an Oval Office meeting, included several phone calls and continued through January 3.
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Vox: Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?
Reading Time: 8 minutes I occasionally hear Trump described as the “Teflon president.” Many liberals are agog at how many scandals, disasters, and offensive comments Trump has survived. It can seem like nothing sticks to him.
But Trump isn’t Teflon. It’s simply that whatever will stick to him has already stuck to him. Absorbing this much damage and provoking this much loathing has not been a successful strategy. Stable poll numbers in the low-40s are hardly a political triumph.
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Michael Cohen launches Anti-Trump Ad During the RNC
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.
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“They are dying. That’s true. It is what it is.” Trump’s Axios interview was a disaster.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump’s difficulty with push-back is often concealed when he answers questions beside a loud helicopter or in the friendly confines of Sean Hannity’s show. But the Swan interview, which came out just two weeks after Trump’s similarly disastrous performance on Chris Wallace’s show, highlighted the degree to which Trump is unable to defend his record in the face of even mildly challenging questions.
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Vanity Fair: “We Need Them to F–king Do Something” Former Pandemic Officials Call Trump’s COVID-19 Response a National Disaster
Reading Time: 6 minutes “I don’t think people realize that the whole country remains as vulnerable as it did on day one,” said a former official who served in the Trump administration.
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Politico: Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor
Reading Time: 6 minutes Any attempt to go after the tech companies through regulations could face serious obstacles, however. The president’s own regulators have shown little appetite in the past for taking on scrutiny of tweets and Facebook posts, and federal courts have ruled as recently as Wednesday morning that social media companies are private entities with the legal right to police content on their sites.
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Vox: Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump
Reading Time: 3 minutes While Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.
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Vox: We don’t have a president, or a plan
Reading Time: 6 minutes It is shocking. More than 60 days after President Trump declared a national emergency over the novel coronavirus, there is still no clear national plan for what comes next.
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