How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Simone Biles wins a record 8th US Gymnastics title a full decade after her first
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In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived.
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Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars in San Francisco
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Viktor Hovland wins PGA Tour's season-ending FedEx Cup title at East Lake
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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
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Pahrump Nevada library considers controversial policy of moving children’s books to the adult section based on content
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‘Rebel canning’ is having a moment, whether or not it should
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Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan
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Seymour Hersh article - The inspector of Abu Ghraib
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
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US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood 'red flags', on her WGA meetings, AI and why the agency's keeping an eye on entertainment
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Cruelty of chance: The Cerritos mid-air collision and the crash of Aeroméxico flight 498
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Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions
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Cruise autonomous car reportedly swerves in backhoe's way, is busted in San Francisco intersection
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How a Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter
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‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ not going forward at Disney+ as part of content cost-cutting and strategy shift; being shopped by Paramount TV Studios
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Louisiana residents told to ‘get out now’ in face of sweeping wildfire
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Best and worst US states to drive in
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My secret to dating in San Francisco is a spreadsheet
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How Joe Burrow mastered the art of the easy play
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New book argues stock buybacks are a mode of predatory value extraction leading to income inequity, employment instability, productive fragility
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Interview: Tom Moulton, father of the Disco Mix (1976)
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How the Air Force Academy makes 10,000 meals a day for 4,000 cadets | Boot Camp
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Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
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North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples
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NVIDIA announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
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“Going shopping” is dead: How stores sucked the fun out of an American pastime
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Learning how to garden a forest - discussion of methods to prevent wildfire
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Tourist Club - Fibs (2020)
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Oklahoma family completes quest to noodle catfish in every legal state
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Why streaming services are pushing subscribers to ad tiers
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Risk of death related to pregnancy and childbirth more than doubled between 1999 and 2019 in the US, new study finds
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Apollo sued over $570m tax payout to top US executives. Pension fund says windfall for private equity titans is unjustified.
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Early California woman mystery writer: the life and times of Lange Lewis
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The US approves Revolution Wind, its fourth major offshore wind farm
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Unauthorized BART film sells out San Francisco theater
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Tesla reportedly asked US highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes
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Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 21
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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One win, 17,000 defeats - life as a Washington General
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Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson will race for Andretti Global in the 2024 IndyCar season
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US Federal Emergency Management Agency funds run short - Vermont lawmakers lobby for emergency funding for flood damaged state
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‘Barbie’ squashing ‘Super Mario Bros Movie’ as top-grossing 2023 film at domestic box office
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The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves
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How Japan's maglev train works
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Permanent US injunction and $650,000 civil penalty imposed on Experian Consumer Services for allegedly sending commercial emails
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Maryland reports first locally acquired malaria case in forty years
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How wealthy "super emitters" in the US are disproportionately driving the climate crisis — while blaming you
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Why Bill Watterson vanished
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