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2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
A thread you can easily ignore As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things...
A thread you can easily ignore
As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things because it is a smaller item, please feel free to post here.
Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)
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How US President Donald Trump ruined political comedy
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Sanna Marin, Finland's fearless prime minister, is challenging sexism in politics
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Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
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Major League Rugby faces a pandemic, and corrosive politics
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Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Watch on YouTube
Other viewing optionsDebate starts ~90 minutes from the time of this posting.
Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
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Pro-democracy protests in Thailand, in pictures
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Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!))
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The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else
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Greta Thunberg has accused MEPs of surrendering on the climate and environment by voting in favour of a watered-down reform of the EU's common agricultural policy
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir kept calm under pressure as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake interrupted her live interview with the Washington Post
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Voting
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Inside Foxconn's empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
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How prepared are these seven battlegrounds for the election? A readiness report
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Thai police crack down on protesters, PM refuses to resign
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The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation
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Vote safely: How to find a trustworthy election ballot drop-off location
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Behind in polls, Republicans see a silver lining in voter registrations
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Danish mayor Frank Jensen quits amid sexual harassment allegations – Social Democrat has apologized for his behaviour, saying he did not want to stand in the way of progress
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Jair Bolsonaro's Brazilian regime incentivizes landlords to burn off forests; anarchist fire brigades pick up the slack
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Just give poor people money
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New Zealand now has the gayest Parliament in the world
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
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Jacinda Ardern leads New Zealand Labour Party to historically high re-election, projected to win 49% of votes and 64/120 seats
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Federalist 51 - The structure of the Government must furnish the proper checks and balances between the different departments
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Inside the Republican plot for permanent minority rule
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Trump & Biden 2020 US Presidential Town Halls Discussion Thread
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Watch Trump's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for one hour.
Watch Biden's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for an hour and a half
More information from CNN.
In case you're wondering why there are two separate town halls happening instead of Debate #2 tonight, @3d12 has the recap here.
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Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story
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YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory
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One year since the Turkish invasion of Rojava: An interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst
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What happens to abortion access in the US if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
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Sweden will increase military spending by around 40% in the next five years and double the number of people conscripted into the army amid growing tensions with Russia
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The dollars and sense of free college - Georgetown University analysis of Biden's free college plan finds that it pays for itself within a decade
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What retiree phone-bankers taught me about loving work
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Norway has blamed Russia for a cyberattack on the email system in the parliament in August – Moscow has rejected the claim, calling it a serious and wilful provocation
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Last exit from autocracy
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A libertarian walks into a bear: The utopian plot to liberate an American town (and some bears)
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Details emerge of new right-wing coup plot in Bolivia
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As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses
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What are we so afraid of? – Tony Green, on dismissing, denying, contracting and spreading the coronavirus
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Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail
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Evangelicals are surprised and angered by Brazilian President Bolsonaro's Supreme Court pick, Kassio Nunes
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Why the Philly cheesesteak can swing a presidential election
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Norway grants asylum to man claiming persecution by Polish government – Rafał Gaweł's prison sentence for fraud was retaliation by rightwing regime, Norway says
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Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout California worry elections officials
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What are some good resources for California voters?
Most California voters received their ballots this week, and as usual there are a bunch of propositions to vote on that we’ve barely heard of because nearly all election discussion is about...
Most California voters received their ballots this week, and as usual there are a bunch of propositions to vote on that we’ve barely heard of because nearly all election discussion is about national issues. So, what are you using to study up?
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Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
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Can a good person support President Trump?
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