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17 votes
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 8
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14 votes -
‘Fuck your feelings’ never applies to White men
14 votes -
Denmark has committed to spending 1.5 billion Danish crowns on defence in the Arctic, utilising long-range drones to survey the area
8 votes -
Coup d'etat aerobics
2 votes -
UK government accused of re-igniting culture war over gender neutral bathrooms
13 votes -
Haiti braces for unrest as a defiant President refuses to step down
8 votes -
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
5 votes -
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
4 votes -
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
21 votes -
Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi detained as military seizes control
15 votes -
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
13 votes -
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.
10 votes -
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
23 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 22
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10 votes -
Coors Light’s Ice Cold, on immigration
4 votes -
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
8 votes -
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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15 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 18
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18 votes -
Stupid times call for stupid jokes
4 votes