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8 votes
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Why Section 230 'reform' effectively means Section 230 repeal
7 votes -
This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg
3 votes -
I left poverty after writing 'Maid.' But poverty never left me
6 votes -
David Shor is telling US Democrats what they don’t want to hear
8 votes -
What is chess hustling and how much do chess hustlers make?
6 votes -
The American Aristotle
2 votes -
Pure nostalgia: The oral history of ‘That Thing You Do!’
2 votes -
Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost nothing happened to the adults in charge.
13 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 4
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7 votes -
Magdalena Bay - Secrets (Your Fire) (2021)
3 votes -
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
27 votes -
Hollywood crews vote to authorize a strike for better pay and working conditions
33 votes -
In dry California, some buy units that make water from air
5 votes -
What’s driving the huge US rent spike?
11 votes -
Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
12 votes -
Bob Iger’s long goodbye
1 vote -
Hollywood battle lines emerge in simmering vaccine war
6 votes -
Searching for Mr. X - For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
4 votes -
US civil engineers bent the rules to give New Orleans extra protection from hurricanes
9 votes -
A case study in NIMBY entitlement: The former mayor of Beverly Hills is so mad about duplexes
12 votes -
Covid, in retreat
13 votes -
Jony Ive on what he misses most about Steve Jobs
4 votes -
When I ran for US President, it messed with my head
13 votes -
The NYT's partisan tale about COVID and the unvaccinated is rife with sloppy data analysis
2 votes -
Massive oil spill sends crude onto Orange County, CA beaches
6 votes -
George Washington and the first mass US military inoculation
6 votes -
US phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline
18 votes -
Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 27
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6 votes -
Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?
10 votes -
A letter from a jailed Line 3 water protector
7 votes -
Disney and Scarlett Johansson resolve bitter ‘Black Widow’ profits lawsuit
7 votes -
An unprecedented California program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable
11 votes -
Why is every young person in America watching ‘The Sopranos’?
19 votes -
War - Low Rider (1975)
3 votes -
Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
3 votes -
Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
3 votes -
The Mustard Museum: Passion for a condiment
5 votes -
Inside America’s broken supply chain
4 votes -
Is there really a US truck driver shortage?
15 votes -
Activision Blizzard settles with federal employment agency for $18 Million
14 votes -
10-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi is America's newest Chess Master
4 votes -
Two disbarred lawyers sued a Texas doctor who performed an abortion. Flustered ‘pro-lifers’ are backpedaling
12 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 20
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This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
8 votes -
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 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 -
US President Joe Biden condemns Border Patrol treatment of Haitian migrants, vows agents will face consequences
4 votes