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5 votes
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Far from the spotlight, a Boeing partner feels the heat
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland
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Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
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Under shroud of secrecy, US weapons arrive in Yemen despite Congressional outrage
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Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
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SpaceX and Boeing still need a parachute that always works
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Bob Dylan - CBC Quest (1964)
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The Stanford Empire: The university is more than a prestigious place to get a degree, they're also Silicon Valley's largest land owner
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Discussion: Top 10 Stupidest Things US Fed Govt has done
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type. I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US...
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type.
I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US government has done, to undermine the ideals and principles that the United States was (at least nominally) founded on ... truth, justice, baseball and mom's apple pie - kinda stuff.
You can go back as far in history as you like (so Civil War, Dred Scott, things like that are absolutely open for consideration) ... but it has to be something that continues to significantly impact US govt, US society and/or the world, to this day ... something they have not remedied.
Off the top of my head, the main thing that comes to mind is the Citizens United case, which I believe has fundamentally broken the US political system (which was, previously, already seriously frayed). I'd also consider the non-consideration (by the Senate) of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination (by Obama), and the US (both the govt and the public) collective "whatever" to the news that Russia interfered in the 2016 US elections (and continues to do so, now joined by China and assorted others).
I may edit this to refine the idea. But the basic goal is to create a really high-level list of "First Things" the US needs to fix, to have any hope of returning to a state of democracy (okay, democratic republic), and/or normalcy.
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To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later
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The fisherman's secret
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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New Orleans has failed over the last decade to do urgently needed lead testing, and then buried a 2017 report that would have alerted the public to the lapse
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ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
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Zack de la Rocha interviewing Noam Chomsky (c. 2000)
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Norwegian police have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist as he was scheduled to address a far-right conference in Oslo
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Voyager 2 illuminates the boundary of interstellar space
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Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
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The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the President. There is no evidence anyone has ever won.
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California contemplates a dark and fiery future
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Pete Buttigieg’s climate vision: Local fixes for a planet in crisis
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
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Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to
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Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable
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The world’s best cheese? It’s blue and comes from Oregon
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NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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Police owe nothing to man whose home they blew up, appeals court says
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Lemon Demon - Pumpkin Pie (2005)
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NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
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All Them Witches - 1x1 (2019)
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My life as a minor league baseball clown
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure
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The dark side of the angel's share
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New bond lets investors turn a profit while helping California prevent fires
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Hawaii doesn’t want you anymore
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Mild High Club - Windowpane (2015)
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Welcome to “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana, where toxic air is about to get worse
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center
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Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
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The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (2006)
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Kiev - Willing Eyes (2019)
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Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
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Here's what we know the shadowy X-37B was up to during its record 780 days in space
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How to live like Jane Austen
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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Why your cell phone is silent: FCC says 874 sites are down in California. They lack backup power
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Andrew Yang was groomed for a high-paying job at an elite law firm. He lasted five months.
9 votes