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69 votes
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US President Joe Biden’s victory was just what tech wanted. Now what?
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Joe Biden is the next President of the United States
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984 Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA. Update...
Race called by Decision Desk HQ at 08:50 AM EST: https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1324710866516905984
Other sources will follow as there is no path back for Donald Trump to win PA.
Update #1: Called by Business Insider
Update #2: Called by Vox (thanks @dubteedub)
Update #3: The Economist is coming as close as they can to calling it (explanation: https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1324860925745229824)
Update #4: The AP, NBC, CNN and ABC News have called the race. It's over.
Update #5: New York Times, BBC
Update #6: Meanwhile in Trump's fantasy land
Update #7: Fox News has called it as well.72 votes -
Florida votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
21 votes -
Donald Trump gives remarks regarding the US election results
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2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 25th)
A thread you can easily ignore A new week a new thread 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...
A thread you can easily ignore
A new week a new thread
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)
Thank goodness this is almost over
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How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
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Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse explains his diagnosis and cure for the political polarization ailing America
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Borat 2 exposes a racist, sexist, but still ultimately inspiring America
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Donald Trump vs Joe Biden | Epic Rap Battles Of History
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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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“Would you be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Donald Trump?” - excerpt from Shelter in Place
6 votes -
Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
7 votes -
Vote! (For Joe Biden (Who Sucks!))
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez highlights (Among Us)
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What Prop. 22’s defeat would mean for Uber and Lyft — and drivers
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Federalist 51 - The structure of the US Government must furnish the proper checks and balances between the different departments
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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
11 votes -
Last exit from autocracy
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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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Why the Philly cheesesteak can swing a presidential election
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Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
18 votes -
Additional steps Twitter is taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
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Presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event
19 votes -
US Presdient Donald Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using fetal cells obtained through abortion
18 votes -
US President Donald Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relief until after Election Day
26 votes -
US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
18 votes -
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
13 votes -
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for coronavirus
85 votes -
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?
18 votes -
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"
3 votes -
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris
17 votes -
Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
17 votes -
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish
11 votes -
Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
14 votes -
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?
5 votes -
The country’s most important climate election is happening in Texas
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How to think about the deficit by James Tobin
6 votes