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13 votes
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Haiti braces for unrest as a defiant President refuses to step down
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 1
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16 votes -
Inger Støjberg quits the Venstre party ahead of her impeachment trial – she is accused of unlawfully ordering the separation of asylum-seeking couples arriving from Syria
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Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
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Parler CEO John Matze says he was terminated by the company's board, which is controlled by investor Rebekah Mercer
8 votes -
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny setenced to prison for 3½ years for violating the terms of his probation while he was recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning
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Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control
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The QAnon timeline: Four years, five thousand drops and countless failed prophecies
16 votes -
Alexei Navalny protests: Moscow in lockdown as thousands are arrested
15 votes -
Denmark sermons law could stifle free worship, warns Church of England bishop – Robert Innes says proposed translation law could affect religious freedoms across Europe
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C.O.F.F.I.N - White Dog (2018)
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 25
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15 votes -
2020 US Congress insider trading scandal
7 votes -
Near-total abortion ban takes effect in Poland amid protests
11 votes -
Federal officials have misused a fund intended for vaccine research to pay for unrelated expenses since at least 2010, the US Office of Special Counsel has alleged
7 votes -
The frustration of hoping and not getting
4 votes -
Why is Big Tech policing speech? Because the government isn't: Deplatforming President Trump showed that the First Amendment is broken - but not in the way his supporters think.
12 votes -
GoodRx? More like BadRx
4 votes -
Fixing the police will take more funding, not less
9 votes -
No one knows how much the government can borrow
14 votes -
Joe Biden to nominate transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary
17 votes -
Political Disney World
8 votes -
Vladimir Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe.
21 votes -
Michigan county commissioner pulls gun out during virtual meeting when resident asked board to denounce Proud Boys
21 votes -
In Tunisia, some wonder if the revolution was worth it: Tunisians are putting their hard-won right to criticize the government to good use. They just wish there was less to protest.
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 23
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9 votes -
Aleksei Navalny protests: Live updates as mass rallies sweep across Russia
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 22
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10 votes -
Coors Light’s Ice Cold, on immigration
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US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating US Federal law and the Labor Department walked away
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 21
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11 votes -
Democrats need to reimagine their role. They cannot merely defend the political system. They must rebuild it.
15 votes -
The rise and fall of Roe v. Wade
Part 1 (55 minutes): The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe...
Part 1 (55 minutes):
The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe v. Wade. They also discuss how Roe was weaponized by the conservative legal movement to rally against an interpretation of the Constitution that allows for flexibility in favor of a far more rigid approach.
Part 2 (61 minutes):
In the second part of a two-episode series on abortion rights, the hosts discuss Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case in which the Supreme Court made it easier for states to restrict abortion access so long as abortion regulations don’t create an “undue burden.” The vague standard set lawmakers on a new path of attacking abortion access and fueled anti-abortion groups’ efforts to spread stigma and misinformation, setting up Roe v. Wade for a death by a thousand cuts.
(it's impossible to link to podcasts in a simple or easy way...if anyone has a better way of doing this I'm all ears...)
5-4 (pronounced "five to four", as in the vote total of a closely-divided court case from 9 justices) is one of my favorite podcasts. It's lawyers dissecting Supreme Court cases in a way that is very understandable to non-lawyers, from an explicitly and unabashedly left-wing perspective.
This is an extremely informative primer on the entire arc of abortion rights in the US, from the actual case everyone has heard of (Roe v Wade in the 1970s) to the case in the 1990s that actually superseded Roe and a case from last year that was seen as a victory because it upheld a previous case but it also contained a poison pill that significantly weakened that precedent.
8 votes -
US President Joe Biden's first executive order will require masks on federal property
19 votes -
TrackBiden: The first 100 days
22 votes -
US President Donald Trump revokes rule preventing White House staff from lobbying
11 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 20
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23 votes -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'
15 votes -
What Parler saw during the attack on the Capitol: Curated videos, arranged on a timeline
23 votes -
Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman on her career-defining US address and paying homage to Maya Angelou
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 19
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 18
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18 votes -
Stupid times call for stupid jokes
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Alexei Navalny: Poisoned Russian opposition leader held after flying home
22 votes -
US President Joe Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 17
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Let's talk about communism and the left
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty. I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the...
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty.
I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the average american, our free health care system is communism. Even some brazilians think it's bad, which baffles me because it helps a lot of people, myself included. Everyone who needs cancer treatment go through it, it's one of the best in the world (for this particular disease at least) and affordable private health care plans won't cover expensive cancer treatment here.
People here often talk about communism being bad, but what really is communism?
I grabbed the Communist Manifesto and Why Marx Was Right to read, but did not start yet since i have to finish the book i'm currently reading.
I never tried to understand these things because they are all over the place and it's a little boring to me, so i'll ask some basic questions here before i go further in this endeavour.
Please, try to answer without anger and pointing fingers. Because every time i read about these topic online, there is fight and everyone says different things and accusations runs rampant.
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What exactly is communism in layman terms? Because for me it's all over the place. Everything that seems to care about people is put into the communist basket, but a lot of people call it a dictatorship. ELI5.
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Why almost every average citizen (americans and brazilians at least) says it's bad?
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My best friend is a school teacher and is a marxist. He says Joe Biden is still a terrible choice, but the only alternative to Trump and he is not a communist at all, but i keep hearing people call him a commie. WTF is he? If possible, ELI5 what he is and what he stands for.
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Why there is right x left and no place for something in between? Is there a need to everything be one side or another to work? There is no middle ground in politics? Grabbing aspects from the left and from the right and co-existing in the same government is a problem?
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A lot of people really think letting companies run wild and free is good. That the market will regulate itself. I think this is naive, because even now they do some really shady stuff. Just look at Nestle.
Why people say that and is there some truth to this that i can't see? Is regulating companies a communist thing? -
People say that communism didn't work when implemented and the other side says that it was not really communism. What is the truth here? It didn't work? if not, why it didn't? If it was not true communism, what it was and why it was not true communism?
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Is there a country that is communist today?
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What books about the left and the right i should read? Nothing too dense.
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 16
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13 votes