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8 votes
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
22 votes -
Joe Biden administration commits $3.4 billion in funding to San Francisco Caltrain extension
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Today is the UK courts decision day on Julian Assange's extradition to the US
30 votes -
Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 20
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9 votes -
How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
9 votes -
Ireland, Norway, and Spain to recognise Palestinian state
36 votes -
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
17 votes -
The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
3 votes -
Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
18 votes -
Taiwan, on China’s doorstep, is dealing with TikTok its own way
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 13
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7 votes -
US President Joe Biden raises tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports: EVs, solar panels, batteries and more
23 votes -
Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
18 votes -
Donald Trump hush money trial: What criminal charges does he face?
16 votes -
For proponents of "vote for the lesser of two evils", what is your endgame?
If I understand folks with that PoV correctly: if you are a democrat or typically vote democrat, you generally think that republicans are a danger to democracy, bad for the lives of minorities,...
If I understand folks with that PoV correctly:
if you are a democrat or typically vote democrat, you generally think that republicans are a danger to democracy, bad for the lives of minorities, and the disadvantaged/LGBT+, etc.
If you are a republican or typically vote republican, you generally think that democrats are a danger to democracy, divide the country with identity politics, etc.
(obviously I am making sweeping generalizations of both camps off the top of my head but hopefully the point comes across)But, I don't get what your endgame is. Like, you make it seem like if the other party wins, the country is screwed. but you can't possibly think that the country will forever vote for your party for President, right? So you think America is destined to go downhill depending on how many years the opposing party is in power?
America flips between red and blue. So the other party is bound to win at least once a decade imo. and yet I hear how democracy is more at stake now than it's ever been if "the other party wins". So I don't get the long-term viability of "lesser of 2 evils" approach.
Since I doubt America will become less angry and divisive anytime soon thanks to yallls 24 hour news networks and the social media companies that make more money the more Americans are mad at each other.
Then again, I am by no means an expert so where am I wrong or have I misunderstood something?
13 votes -
Patriarchy according to the Barbie movie
9 votes -
Undocumented workers played a larger and more dangerous role in delivering the Olympic Games than the Emmanuel Macron administration acknowledges
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 6
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9 votes -
California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
39 votes -
The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
8 votes -
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
19 votes -
MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
14 votes -
Florida is the first state to ban lab grown meat - Ron DeSantis
37 votes -
Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
16 votes -
George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist
12 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 29
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3 votes -
How (and why) the right stole Christianity
22 votes -
How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
30 votes -
Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law
8 votes -
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
9 votes -
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
69 votes -
Key moments from landmark US Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump’s immunity claims
35 votes -
Critical psychiatry and the political backlash against disabilities: a closer look at James Davies
11 votes -
American non-compete clauses could become a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22
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6 votes -
Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
15 votes -
HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
10 votes -
How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
7 votes -
Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations
14 votes -
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
8 votes -
European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
25 votes -
San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change
18 votes -
US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 15
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8 votes -
Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people
12 votes -
Man sets himself on fire near US courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial
41 votes -
Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up – decade-old idea for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign
5 votes