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2 votes
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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 votes -
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
9 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
George W Bush approval rating polled at 90% by Gallup, the highest presidential approval rating ever recorded in US history (September 24th, 2001)
8 votes -
Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, detained in China almost three years, now on plane home. Chinese tech executive Meng Wangzhou left Canada earlier Friday evening.
15 votes -
A doctor who defied Texas' abortion law is sued, launching a legality test of the ban
20 votes -
Canadian Election 2021
CBC Coverage - CBC Poll Tracker Elections Canada CTV (live updates) Edit: CBC have projected a Liberal win. Seat Changes (Projected): Liberal: +1 Conservative: –2 Bloc Québécois: +2 New Democrat:...
CBC Coverage - CBC Poll Tracker
Edit: CBC have projected a Liberal win.
Seat Changes (Projected):
Liberal: +1
Conservative: –2
Bloc Québécois: +2
New Democrat: +1
Green: –1
People's Party: 0
Other: –121 votes -
Google, Apple remove Alexei Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
13 votes -
Fossil fuel firms sue governments across the world for £13bn/$18bn as climate policies threaten profits
10 votes -
Vihreä liitto become first party in the Finnish Parliament to call for legalisation of cannabis – initiative approved at party conference by narrowest possible majority 183-181
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 13
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6 votes -
President Biden's COVID-19 plan - Includes a requirement for all employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly
31 votes -
Norwegians head to the polls on Sept. 13 in a parliamentary election that has centered on the issue of whether saving the planet is worth stopping the fossil fuel gravy train
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 6
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7 votes -
China's media cracks down on 'effeminate' styles
8 votes -
China’s regulators said to slow their approval of new online games, as Beijing’s campaign against gaming addiction heats up
6 votes -
Danish government has presented a proposal to get foreigners and people with immigrant backgrounds to work thirty-seven hours a week in exchange for welfare benefits
7 votes -
Questions about Próspera, answered
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 30
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7 votes -
With climate change emerging as a primary issue in this month's Norwegian parliamentary election, there are signs people are questioning the country's reliance on crude oil
6 votes -
Inderkum High School teacher to be fired after allegedly indoctrinating students with "antifa" ideals
6 votes -
China cuts amount of time minors can spend playing online video games to three hours a week, with an hour extra during holidays
19 votes -
After data is posted on conspiracy site, Colorado county's voting machines are banned
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 23
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9 votes -
Savvy punditry isn’t smart
8 votes -
He taught a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay. Then he was fired.
12 votes -
Modern Luddism and the battle for your soul
11 votes -
Democracy should be sentimentalist not rationalist
6 votes -
The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: The appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies
5 votes -
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2?
5 votes -
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
15 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 16
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8 votes -
California Gubernatorial Election
So I’m curious if there are any other Californians here looking at the ballot for the recall of Governor Newsom and scratching their heads like me. A group of Trump supporters got up enough votes...
So I’m curious if there are any other Californians here looking at the ballot for the recall of Governor Newsom and scratching their heads like me. A group of Trump supporters got up enough votes to hold a recall of the governor, and we have to vote in the next few weeks. The ballots arrived this week and there are 2 votes we have to make: 1) Should we recall the governor? And 2) Which of these 46 (not joking!) people should replace him. Unfortunately, of the 46 possible replacements, I’ve heard of 2 of them: Caitlyn Jenner and Angelyne. Neither appear to have any relevant experience. (I’ll give Ms. Jenner the benefit of the doubt that she’d at least give a voice to an underserved portion of the population, though.)
This opinion piece from the LA Times makes the point that if the recall succeeds, there are no viable Democratic candidates despite the state leaning Democrat by a 2 to 1 margin. (
Furthermore, I can’t find any place that even has statements from each of the candidates like our elections usually do.Found it!)I don’t know how likely the recall is to succeed, so it may be a non-issue, but I’m a little concerned that there could be some dumb situation where not enough people take it seriously and only people who are pissed that they have to wear masks vote and we end up with some far right talk show host as our governor for the next year and a half or more. Anyone else have a strategy here?
22 votes -
For an ecological realpolitik
6 votes -
Sheldon Wolin, on his coined 'inverted totalitarianism' and the motivations of citizens under it
3 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 9
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7 votes -
How life improved since 1990
14 votes -
Tips for political debate, part 2
2 votes -
Tips for political debate
4 votes -
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
14 votes -
UK Government accused of 'burying' conversion therapy report
7 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 2
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6 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 26
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8 votes -
Peace...? (1814)
5 votes -
The MAGA-targeted “Freedom Phone” has a breathtaking amount of red flags
15 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 19
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5 votes -
The prison and detention camps built for Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China have enough room to detain over one million people
18 votes -
Norway says cyber attack on parliament carried out from China – attack had utilised a security hole in Microsoft's Exchange software
10 votes -
The racist history of austerity politics in America
5 votes