How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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US tariff war risks sinking world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is disappearing in Hollywood. Was it ever really here?
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National US sports anti-trans ban bill dies
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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease.
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The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death
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Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding
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Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are?
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Billed as promoting European products rather than boycotting US ones, Danish supermarket chain Salling Group has a special label for goods from Europe during March
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Why Thomas Jefferson meticulously monitored the weather wherever he went
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Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption
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Planned foreign-owned data centres in Finland will bring minimal economic benefit, according to Jukka Manner, professor of networking technology at Aalto University
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Canada-US cross-border surveillance negotiations raise constitutional and human rights whirlwind under US CLOUD Act
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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on 'soft' fascism, AI and the effects of shamelessness in public life
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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American demand for weight-loss drugs is supercharging Denmark's economy and transforming a small Danish community into an unlikely boomtown
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The birth and glory of Swedish computers
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Apple stops offering end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage in the UK due to government spying demands
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Has Iceland found the antidote to toxic ‘girlboss’ feminism – concept of ‘konur eru konum bestar’ is everywhere, including the female-led coalition government
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The terrorist propaganda to Reddit pipeline
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Sweden's Supreme Court rules that climate activist Greta Thunberg's legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible
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Fact-check: Five claims about thorium made by Andrew Yang
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Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts
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I came to Tildes to get away from the endless political talk of reddit. Is there any way to unsubscribe from the political threads here? Most of them seem to be posted in ~misc, but there's other...
I came to Tildes to get away from the endless political talk of reddit. Is there any way to unsubscribe from the political threads here? Most of them seem to be posted in ~misc, but there's other content there too.
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Under Donald Trump, US government scientists told they need clearance to meet with Canadian counterparts
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As global leaders, Canada and Norway's co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand
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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
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In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers
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National Stonewall Monument has had all references to trans people erased
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance – the hidden message
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US voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong.
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Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' for US users
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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Three simple principles of trade policy
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Top American banks have left the net zero climate alliance
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UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
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Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration
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Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan offers bleak assessment of year ahead for motor industry – shares his views on tariffs and the development of electric vehicle sales
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US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools
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In the US, multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
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Interview with economist James Galbraith about new book, economic theory, climate change, sanctions and more
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Ryanair pulls out of two Danish airports blaming harmful tax – airline says passenger tax will make country's regional airports hopelessly uncompetitive compared to others in EU
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Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow's shadow fleet
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The full story of the US Federal Aviation Administration's hiring scandal
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Valiant Comics on the feasibility of a $4.99 issue
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Norway's environment minister has ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”
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