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5 votes
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 3
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6 votes -
Sweden and Finland have moved to relax strict laws that govern the sale of alcohol, while preserving wider state monopolies
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Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Assessment Map: June 2024 edition
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Mexico elects first female president − but will that improve the lot of country’s women?
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Joe Biden Environmental Protection Agency issues $900 million to US schools for clean-energy buses
21 votes -
California legislature rejects governor’s proposed cuts to active transportation, intercity rail
21 votes -
Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with state of Arizona. It now goes to US Congress.
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Controversial Donald Trump movie ‘The Apprentice’ made a splash in Cannes. Is Hollywood too scared to release it?
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In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 27
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9 votes -
US concerned about Ukraine strikes on Russian nuclear radar stations
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A socialist critique of Kohei Saito’s “start from scratch” degrowth communism
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Celebrities like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift might soon be able to hide their private jet flights from online sleuths
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Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
21 votes -
Electric bikes are about to get more expensive in the US
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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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
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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
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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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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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Finland's national carrier Finnair will resume Estonia flights in June after GPS interference prevented landings
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Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
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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 -
US Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
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US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
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Patriarchy according to the Barbie movie
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The last remaining privately owned land on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, "with significant environmental, scientific and economic importance" is on sale, for €300 million
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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 -
MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
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Florida is the first state to ban lab grown meat - Ron DeSantis
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New Environmental Protection Agency regulation requires coal plants in the US 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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How (and why) the right stole Christianity
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The reckless policies that helped fill our US streets with ridiculously large cars
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How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
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Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law
8 votes -
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
9 votes -
Critical psychiatry and the political backlash against disabilities: a closer look at James Davies
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22
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6 votes