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Should we use a megathread for US election news as we get closer to Nov 3?
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be...
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be contested, lawsuits filed, etc in the days and weeks after Nov 3.
With that in mind, do we want to proactively put up a weekly (maybe daily for the actual week of) megathread to consolidate some of it?
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Michigan Attorney General will no longer enforce governor’s executive orders after court ruling
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Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
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Tracker for coronavirus test results from officials in the US government and presidential campaigns
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History of US political parties (part 1)
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The non-voter
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What academics can do now to prevent a coup later
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Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
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Sensory overload and annals of lying
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President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
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Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
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Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
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Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris
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Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
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The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish
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Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
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The FBI, the second Red scare, and the folk singer who cooperated
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With violent crime on the rise, Minneapolis City Council asks: Where are the police?
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The country’s most important climate election is happening in Texas
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How to think about the deficit by James Tobin
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Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
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LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement
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People who live near the most toxic sites in America say they saw a level of attention they hadn't seen in decades under Donald Trump
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When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
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Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
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Joe Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
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United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House
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California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
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Republicans win two US House special elections
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The 2020 Democratic National Convention has concluded. What are your thoughts on it?
Share your thoughts and feelings on how the convention went, and what you think it means for the remainder of the race. Did it change how you plan on voting or participating in the election? Who...
Share your thoughts and feelings on how the convention went, and what you think it means for the remainder of the race. Did it change how you plan on voting or participating in the election? Who were the stand out speakers that you would like to share with others? Will you be watching the Republican National Convention? What were the biggest stories to come out as a result of the convention?
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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America is following disastrous Trump advice to slow down testing
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Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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The Trump Pandemic: A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans
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US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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Everything, um, unusual about Kodak’s Trump-assisted pivot to pharmaceuticals
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Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
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Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with coronavirus
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
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How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
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