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10 votes
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 14
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.
13 votes -
Billions in election bets are raising the stakes in the US presidential race
28 votes -
Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
18 votes -
Donald Trump US tariffs would increase laptop prices by $350+, other electronics by as much as 40%
51 votes -
The University of Michigan doubled down on D.E.I. What went wrong?
18 votes -
Migrant deportations to increase, says EU chief Ursula Von der Leyen
7 votes -
Race Science Inc. | Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company
15 votes -
Georgia voter cancellation site
33 votes -
West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts
21 votes -
Ukraine to receive aging Abrams tanks in latest Australian military aid package
19 votes -
Big Tech markets its snake oil as progressivism
17 votes -
Donald Trump wants the US military used against Americans who don't support him
59 votes -
The insidious legal theory behind the US abortion rights rollback
33 votes -
Donald Trump and the Joe Biden White House both say the United States should have a sovereign wealth fund – Norway, home to the world's largest, may offer a few lessons
21 votes -
Canada expels top India diplomats, links them to murder of Sikh leader
30 votes -
What Facebook has done to us
20 votes -
These five tumultuous years in Montreal shaped Kamala Harris
20 votes -
Kremlin denies meddling in Moldova’s upcoming election
9 votes -
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores
17 votes -
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
27 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 7
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.
16 votes -
Iceland on track for snap election as government falls – disagreements on issues including foreign policy and asylum seekers, says Bjarni Benediktsson
5 votes -
Filipino authorities are using Facebook to target young activists
8 votes -
Slow change can be radical change
6 votes -
X overtakes WeChat in spreading Chinese disinformation about the 2024 US presidential elections
37 votes -
What "misinformation" is actually usually about
13 votes -
German government plans to reform adoption law, allowing unmarried couples to adopt and a child to have two mothers
31 votes -
Geothermal power in the North Bay
9 votes -
Florida threatens TV executive with jail time for airing ad in support of abortion rights
35 votes -
Takeaways from AP's report on affordable housing disappearing across the US
37 votes -
Cards Against Humanity pays you to give a shit
64 votes -
How come the Mormon, Republican state of Utah is so queer?
5 votes -
BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected
17 votes -
Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida with 155 MPH winds
42 votes -
Germany rushes to expand biometric surveillance
19 votes -
Continuing crackdown on churches and NGOs moves Nicaragua further from democracy to authoritarianism
8 votes -
Look at this photo of Ursula von der Leyen’s new team – and tell me the EU doesn’t have a diversity problem
16 votes -
USA folks, don't forget to register to vote
87 votes -
‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores
32 votes -
Kyiv will not extend gas transit deal, Ukraine tells Slovakia
10 votes -
Sweden to issue another update of a Cold War-era civil emergency advice booklet later this month – new version adapted to better reflect today's security policy reality
8 votes -
The rise of the right-wing tattletale
11 votes -
Russia is changing its nuclear doctrine - atomic coercion, Ukraine and the nuclear threshold
18 votes -
A year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, four Americans are still being held hostage
11 votes -
A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark's Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic into Danish
19 votes -
Swedish government accused of trying to ‘outlaw poverty’ over begging ban – critics say proposal may not be lawful and would not tackle root cause of vulnerability
36 votes -
More people than ever are trying to hack the US government--and they love it
11 votes -
Where environmentalists went wrong / It’s time for “effective environmentalism"
27 votes