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5 votes
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Not just for soldiers: Civilians with PTSD struggle to find effective therapy
8 votes -
Google suspends some business with Huawei due to sanctions - future Huawei devices will be unable to access Play Store as well as Google apps including Gmail and YouTube
23 votes -
My video went viral. Here's why
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What OS do you use and what are your favourite programs?
I saw back in January that a lot of you were on Linux, I guess I should've expected that considering it's ~comp but I'm curious how the trend is going. But to spice things up a little bit more,...
I saw back in January that a lot of you were on Linux, I guess I should've expected that considering it's ~comp but I'm curious how the trend is going. But to spice things up a little bit more, tell us about you favourite programs, any hidden gems?
I personally run a fairly standard Fedora 30 install running gnome and some flatpaks. I'd say my favourite programs are
Well, I've been trying to fight the electron uprising while still using a modern and open source IDE and well, I think it works great and looks pretty good too.
Dino.im (Using the Flatpak PR) :
It's light, supports XMPP and looks relatively modern, what more could you ask?
It's not really a program and just really a skin for Firefox but I really like it. It integrates pretty neatly with the rest of the desktop. Can't wait for the Gnome 3.32 changes to come in though since it kinda clashes with the new theme.
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Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
14 votes -
Opera Reborn 3: No modern browser is perfect, but this may be as close as it gets
14 votes -
Is the EU democratic? Does your vote matter?
16 votes -
Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
8 votes -
Where's the sauce?
So, I was looking for soy sauce the other day and my grocery store has created a whole new "ethnic" section. This section was near the entrance so I went there first to look for the soy sauce. It...
So, I was looking for soy sauce the other day and my grocery store has created a whole new "ethnic" section. This section was near the entrance so I went there first to look for the soy sauce. It wasn't there. It was with the other condiments like BBQ sauce. Cool. Then I wanted oyster sauce and that wasn't near the soy and BBQ sauce, but back in the ethnic section...
So just wondering, where do you expect to find this sort of thing - ethnic and ethnic that's considered mainstream? (I also found tea in like five different places...)
8 votes -
The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
9 votes -
As Cyberpunk 2077 development intensifies, CD Projekt Red pledges to be 'more humane' to its workers
20 votes -
Earle Sweatshirt doesn't exist
4 votes -
Mozilla Firefox Preview, new Firefox browser, is available on Google Play
18 votes -
Intel tried to bribe reseachers to downplay the severity of MDS vulnerability
19 votes -
What are your top three favorite games of all time?
Why? What do they have over others you've played? Do you ever think they'll be replaced/surpassed?
29 votes -
Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra (Hatred Will Prevail) (2019)
8 votes -
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
18 votes -
Why Chinatown is so delicious, and why it might not be so forever
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Hierarchical tags: How they're used and working toward a community standard [Draft part 1]
among the things i have been working on for the past day and change is documentation of the novel uses of hierarchical tags on tildes, how they vary by group (or in the cases here, across most or...
among the things i have been working on for the past day and change is documentation of the novel uses of hierarchical tags on tildes, how they vary by group (or in the cases here, across most or all of the site), and how we might best begin to standardize, introduce, or deprecate them going forward so we're on the same page and end up with tags that aren't a giant, unfriendly, user-unintuitive mess.
obviously, though, this is something that should probably include community input since the community generally determines the tags used in the first place; therefore, this is your chance to check my work, suggest additions, removals, etc. to this draft and in the end, hopefully help craft a standard of hierarchical tagging that's simpler, more intuitive, and more consistent for everybody on the website to use so we can reduce future meta discussions on this and make tags better overall.
this will be done in chunks for convenience purposes (your sake and mine). therefore, if you would be so kind as to try and limit your suggestions to the pertinent tags, that would be most helpful.
Mostly group non-specific tags
There are also a number of tags which are more general and occur or can occur in several or all groups on the website. Some of the more common conventions of hierarchical tags that are generally not group-specific are:
economics.
and similar tagsThe
economics
tag can occur in several groups, most often ~science, ~news, and ~misc. While it can take hierarchical tags, standaloneeconomics
is usually fine. Nonetheless, with specific branches of economics like microeconomics and macroeconomics, hierarchical tags should probably be used (thuseconomics.micro
,economics.macro
,economics.applied
, and so on). Examples of this in action (and further specification under this scheme) are:economics.trade
(economics and trade)economics.micro.urban
(urban microeconomics)economics.policy.employment
(economic policy with respect to employment)
However, when placed in ~science, the standard is always
socialsciences.economics
overeconomics.
to align with the standards of tagging in that group, thussocialsciences.economics.trade
instead ofeconomics.trade
. Given thateconomics.
in this case is itself a hierarchical tag, it may be pertinent to break off the last hierarchical tag into its own tag where it would lead to three consecutive hierarchical tags, like so:socialsciences.economics.micro
andurban areas
socialsciences.economics.policy
andemployment
law.
The
law
tag takes a very large number of modifiers and can be used in just about every group due to the fact that law generally transcends the current set of groups Tildes has. Historically, topics related to law have been tagged in the[modifier] law
format (i.e.medical law
,copyright law
,us law
, and so on); however, this has generally been phased out by the community in favor of using hierarchical tags for the modifiers. Therefore, with respect to pre-existing tags, constructions likemedical law
should be deprecated in favor oflaw.medical
. In addition, the following tags which do exist should be converted accordingly:medical law
(convert tolaw.medical
)international law
(convert tolaw.international
)labor law
(convert tolaw.labor
)employment law
(convert tolaw.employment
)antidiscrimination laws
(convert tolaw.antidiscrimination
)copyright law
(convert tolaw.copyright
)maritime law
(convert tolaw.maritime
)environmental law
(convert tolaw.environmental
)gun laws
(convert tolaw.guns
)
All single modifier tags should follow a pattern like this. In other words, if you were going to tag something as "abortion law", you should do
law.abortion
instead ofabortion law
. Currently well established tags following this format are:law.citizenship
,law.international
,law.labor
,law.marriage
, andlaw.juvenile
.The following tags with location tags in them (and similar tags like them) should be converted slightly differently from the above tags. Instead of being rolled directly, the locator tag (or what would be the locator tag) should be broken out from the tag, and the tag that is left should have its modifier turned into a hierarchical tag if possible. Thus:
usa federal laws
is converted tolaw.federal
andusa
. (To elaborate in this case, theusa
is separated, leavingfederal laws
which can be converted intolaw.federal
)us law
is similarly converted tolaw
andusa
european law
is converted tolaw
andeuropean union
However, this should generally not be done with tags which refer to specific laws. For example
religious neutrality law
,blue laws
andsafe haven law
are tags which should not be converted to use hierarchical tags because it makes little sense to do so.There are also two specific tags which should generally not be rolled, which are
martial law
andlaw enforcement
. Martial law is mostly used to refer to a specific state of affairs rather than an actual subset of law, so it makes little sense for this to be grouped into thelaw
tag, while law enforcement is not really law in the sense being tagged here and is also covered by other tags likepolicing
; usinglaw.enforcement
for this purpose would also be ambiguous, since it more likely would refer to enforcement of legal doctrine.The use of the
sharia law
tag is ambiguous. Since sharia is de jure a form of law, it would make sense to roll it like the other examples so that the tag islaw.sharia
; however the two uses of it on Tildes aresharia law
and there is currently no real consensus on whether or not to roll it in this manner.
nsfw.
,trigger.
,tw.
,cw.
and similar tagsnsfw.
,trigger.
,tw
, andcw.
are all universal tags that have been used in one form or another to separate out content which might be objectionable and which are still useful for these purposes. Although all four have been used, the community has largely settled on a standard of usingtrigger.
overtw.
andcw.
with potentially triggering content primarily for reasons of clarity (thetrigger.
tag also been put forward by Deimos previously as a way of handing potentially triggering and objectionable content).nsfw.
is also sometimes used, but this is less frequent and usually carries a different implication thantrigger.
does.As mentioned above, if you are using intending to use a tag of this sort, the preferred option in almost all cases is
trigger.
overtw.
orcw.
. For all intents and purposes,tw.
andcw.
should be considered mothballed and previous uses of them should probably be converted intotrigger.
at some point (particularly the duplicatestw.death
,tw.suicide
, andtw.selfharm
).The main established tags under the
trigger.
banner are:trigger.death
trigger.selfharm
trigger.suicide
trigger.sexual violence
trigger.rape
trigger.assault
trigger.child abuse
trigger.transphobia
trigger.homophobia
(not used yet, but presumably applicable due totrigger.transphobia
's existence)
These are self explanatory for the most part, and cover most bases; however, if you feel that a particular topic is likely to be triggering for some people, it would be courteous to tag it accordingly in line the above tags. (Do also note that all of these tags can be and often are applied as standalone tags instead of being grouped under
trigger.
due to the fact thattrigger.
has waxed and waned in popularity over Tildes's existence.)If you are intending to post graphic content, or content which has the potential of exposing people to graphic content (broadly construed) and want to tag it accordingly,
nsfw.
is generally preferable overtrigger.
.nsfw.
is quite rare, but one example of it in action is thensfw.racism
tag on Ignore The Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Manifesto: Pay Attention To 8chan’s /pol/ Board due to the exceptionally racist content screencapped as a part of the submitted article.nsfw.sex
is also seen on Do Police Know How To Handle Abuse Within Kinky Relationships? due to the explicitly sexual nature of the article's subject, but this is more of a courteous measure than a necessary one--a qualifiednsfw
tag is generally not necessary, and if one is a moderator will most likely add it after the fact.
hurricanes.
,cyclones.
, andtyphoons.
Tropical cyclone news generally fits into several places, most often ~news, ~enviro, or ~science. Generally, the standard for tagging tropical cyclones, whether they are hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, or other similar storms is to use the applicable term for the storm in question, and then use a hierarchical tag for the storm's name. Actual examples of this are:
typhoons.yutu
for the Pacific typhoon basin's Typhoon Yutuhurricanes.michael
for the Atlantic basin's Hurricane Michaelcyclones.idai
for the South-West Indian basin's Cyclone Idai
This is relatively straightforward, and covers the nomenclature of all existing basins. However, some basins have not been represented on Tildes thus far, so here are the two cases where standards overlap for reference:
- the Pacific hurricane basin and the South Atlantic basin would both be represented by the same standard as the Atlantic basin (thus,
hurricanes.patricia
for the Pacific Hurricane Patricia andhurricanes.catarina
for the South Atlantic Hurricane Catarina) - the Australian, North Indian, and South Pacific basins would be represented by the South-West Indian basin's standard (thus,
cyclones.tracy
for Australian Cyclone Tracy,cyclones.fani
for North Indian Cyclone Fani, andcyclones.gita
for South Pacific Cyclone Gita).
For convenience purposes, storms which are named but have not hit hurricane status should probably still be referred to with the corresponding cyclonic storm tag for their basin, even though they have not formally reached hurricane, cyclone, or typhoon status.
If there is no name to refer to (i.e. a name has not been designated for the storm), a hierarchical tag should probably not be applied at all, since that would get messy and likely necessitate updates. With storms that have only nicknames or lack a name under the nomenclature since they predate cyclone naming (for example, the 1938 New England Hurricane) there's really no best way to do things, however, using a truncation of the nickname may be the most preferable option (for example:
hurricanes.1938 new england
).36 votes -
The end of our first campaign
Ive been playing D&D for the last year with life and stuff happening it's taken us a full year to finish the campaign, something that should not have taken as long as it did but honestly it's been...
Ive been playing D&D for the last year with life and stuff happening it's taken us a full year to finish the campaign, something that should not have taken as long as it did but honestly it's been an absolute blast. I've met new friends, gotten to know a co-worker better and picked up a new hobby (mini painting) our DM has gone all out over the last few months, he started off by making 3D maps for us to play on he made tiny little styrofoam blocks and made house's, towers and all that fun stuff.
The biggest thing be did was have a map printed, he was going to draw it all out on a king single bed sheet, got five minutes into drawing it and his wife asked "can't you find someplace to have that printed?" and this is what he came up with when we got together again.
This thing is ridiculous in size. I've thrown in a few other photos from the night and have a small adult and cat for scale.
21 votes -
Rainbow Railroad: The organization saving LGBT citizens from hostile governments
9 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
16 votes -
Where's masculinity headed? Men's groups and therapists are talking.
14 votes -
Malaysia could lose last male Sumatran rhino
5 votes -
249 babies born with syphilis in Thailand this year: Public Health Ministry
4 votes -
Water democracy: Farmers in New Mexico band together to protect scarce water resources from developments that could end their way of life
6 votes -
The Terror
4 votes -
Social media are ruining political discourse
11 votes -
How the Green New Deal can deliver land justice
4 votes -
Silver King, Owen Hart, and the tragic legacy of real death in a fake sport
3 votes -
DREVM - Death Of A Cult (2019)
3 votes -
This week's album and EP releases
Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up through Friday. Of course, there's no way to be completely comprehensive with this and I avoided including things where information...
Here's a list of a things that came out in this past week, up through Friday. Of course, there's no way to be completely comprehensive with this and I avoided including things where information was too lacking, so feel free to mention anything that isn't on here that you think is worth mentioning. Beyond that, if you have any thoughts of any of these albums, it would be great to hear them :)
Artist Title Genre(s) Song Link A.C.E. Under Cover EP K-Pop Song.link Alex Lahey The Best of Luck Club Power Pop Song.link American Sharks 11:11 Stoner Rock Song.link Antony Carle The Moment Electropop Song.link Big Big Train Grand Tour Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog Song.link Bow Wow Greenlight 6 Pop Rap Soundcloud Brad Mehldau Finding Gabriel Jazz Fusion, Third Stream Song.link Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Dance-Pop, Synthpop Song.link The Cash Box Kings Hail To The Kings! Blues Song.link Cat Princess Forbidden Items Art Pop, Indie Pop Song.link Chevy Woods New 90's Trap Rap, Pop Rap Song.link Com Truise Persuasion System Synthwave, Chillwave Song.link Conrad Sewell LIFE Singer/Songwriter Song.link Crooked Colours Langata Dance, Indie Pop Song.link Curren$y & Statik Selektah Gran Turismo Southern Hip Hop Song.link Dâm-Funk STFU II Synth Funk Song.link Digga D Double Tap Diaries UK Drill, UK Hip Hop Song.link DJ Khaled Father of Asahd Pop Rap Song.link DUCKWRTH The Falling Man Pop Rap Song.link Fauvely This Is What The Living Do EP Indie Pop Song.link Frenship Vacation Electropop Song.link FRENSHIP Vacation Electropop, Indie Pop Song.link Full of Hell Weeping Choir Deathgrind, Noise Song.link Ghostemane Opium Grunge, Acoustic Rock Song.link Glassing Spotted Horse Post-Hardcore, Atmospheric Black Metal Song.link Greg Antista & The Lonely Streets Shake, Stomp And Stumble Pop Punk Song.link The Head and the Heart Living Mirage Folk Pop, Indie Folk Song.link The Heavy Sons Funk Rock Song.link Injury Reserve Injury Reserve Experimental Hip Hop Song.link Institute Readjusting The Locks Post-Punk Song.link Interpol A Fine Mess EP Post-Punk Revival, Indie Rock Song.link Jimmie Vaughan Baby, Please Come Home Blues Rock Song.link Joey Fatts Chipper Jones Vol. 4 West Coast Hip Hop Song.link Kota the Friend FOTO East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap Song.link Kurt Travis There's A Place I Want To Take You Indie Pop Song.link Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent Piano Rock Song.link Lucette Deluxe Hotel Room Singer/Songwriter Song.link Maluma 11:11 Latin Pop, Reggaeton Song.link Megan Thee Stallion Fever Trap Rap Song.link Minor Poet The Good News EP Indie Pop Song.link The National I Am Easy To Find Indie Rock, Chamber Pop Song.link NIKI wanna take this downtown EP Alternative R&B Song.link Noseholes Ant And End Post-Punk Song.link Olden Yolk Living Theatre Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Folk Song.link Operators Radiant Dawn Synthpop Song.link Psychic Graveyard Loud As Laughter Noise Rock Song.link Rammstein Rammstein Industrial Metal Song.link Rich Aucoin Release Indie Pop Song.link Sam Cohen The Future's Still Ringing In My Ears Psychedelic Pop, Indie Pop Song.link Seba Kaapstad Thina Neo Soul Song.link Second Still Violet Phase Coldwave Bandcamp Slow Pulp Big Day EP Dream Pop, Indie Pop Song.link slowthai Nothing Great About Britain UK Hip Hop, Grime Song.link 2 Son Step Fossilillies Indie Pop, Indie Rock Song.link Theo Croker Star People Nation Jazz Fusion Song.link Tyler, The Creator IGOR Neo-Soul, Alternative R&B Song.link Verdigrls Small Moves EP Indie Pop, Dream Pop Song.link Whitesnake Flesh & Blood Hard Rock Song.link Winner We EP K-Pop Song.link Wu-Tang Clan Of Mics and Men (Music from the Showtime Documentary Series) East Coast Hip Hop Song.link WVNDER Nothing Stays Emo-Pop Song.link Zr. King Musically & Morally Bankrupt Alternative Rock Song.link
Notes:
Bow Wow - Greenlight 6 || no song.link yet, soundcloud link instead
DUCKWRTH - The Falling Man || linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
DJ Khaled - Father of Asahd | linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
Ghostemane - Opium || says single but is EP
Megan Thee Stallion - Fever || linked no "parental advisory" version (so NSFW warning)
Second Still - Violet Phase || no song.link yet, bandcamp link instead
slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain || two versions on song.link with different links, included both9 votes -
Dinosaur diplomacy: Andrew Carnegie thought fossils could save Europe from World War I
5 votes -
Nothing but the truth: The legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
5 votes -
What's something you were completely wrong about?
Maybe you mislearned a fact in elementary school. Maybe you misjudged someone's character. Maybe you took a risk thinking it would pay off and it backfired. Maybe you made the complete wrong call,...
Maybe you mislearned a fact in elementary school. Maybe you misjudged someone's character. Maybe you took a risk thinking it would pay off and it backfired. Maybe you made the complete wrong call, maybe at the wrong time, and maybe for the wrong reasons. We've all made mistakes, errors, and slip ups. We've all had to learn some things the hard way. And we've all had beliefs we were certain of flip, change, or decay--either over time or in a single, often difficult moment.
So, with all that in mind:
- What's something you were completely wrong about?
- How did you find out you were wrong?
- What was it like to confront that?
- Were there any repercussions?
- Has that experience changed your outlook now?
- Can other people learn from your situation from the outside, or does the new understanding come from the experience itself?
- Are you better off because of it, or did it cause some harm?
18 votes -
Australia election results discussion
Figured tildes could use a discussion thread on this topic.
17 votes -
'It would destroy it': New international airport for Machu Picchu sparks outrage
12 votes -
Finally, US child data privacy could get much-needed reform in new bill
6 votes -
Saigen Complex - Recipe for an Anime Song (37 songs, 4 chords, 5 minutes)
5 votes -
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defied years of opinion polls and public expectation to lead the Coalition to a shock election victory
14 votes -
Game of Thrones petition: 500,000 demand series eight remake
29 votes -
Powered by the people: A genuine populist is running for West Virginia governor
9 votes -
I regret my role at Facebook, but I’m keeping the money
6 votes -
Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Elon Musk’s Boring Company
11 votes -
The real life landscapes of Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
6 votes -
Palm Fires - Synthetic Reproduction (EP) (2019)
3 votes -
‘Fairbnb’ wants to be the unproblematic alternative to Airbnb
8 votes -
What creative projects are you working on? (May 2019 edition)
we now return to you a regular schedule since now it's on sync with the months. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital,...
we now return to you a regular schedule since now it's on sync with the months. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital, physical, work related, passion project, whatever. pretty straightforward, i think.
november thread • february thread • march thread • april thread
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This Week in Election Night, 2020 (Week 8)
week eight graces us with a particularly large edition of This Week in Election Night, 2020. a lot of candidates have been in the news, for good reasons and bad, and there's a bunch of stuff to go...
week eight graces us with a particularly large edition of This Week in Election Night, 2020. a lot of candidates have been in the news, for good reasons and bad, and there's a bunch of stuff to go through. no opinion pieces this week, since i didn't end up compiling any particularly good ones and this is going to be pretty long already.
the usual note: common sense should be able to generally dictate what does and does not get posted in this thread. if it's big news or feels like big news, probably make it its own post instead of lobbing it in here. like the other weekly threads, this one is going to try to focus on things that are still discussion worthy, but wouldn't necessarily make good/unique/non-repetitive discussion starters as their own posts.
Week 1 thread • Week 2 thread • Week 3 thread • Week 4 thread • Week 5 thread • Week 6 thread • Week 7 thread
News
General Stuff
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from NBC News: As Biden predicts a shorter race, rivals dig in for long fight. we begin with a prediction by biden, and disputes by everybody else, basically. this could honestly go either way, and it's really contingent on what happens on super tuesday in 2020. so many states vote on that day (13 states, falling on march 3) and they represent such a large share of delegates (almost half of them in total) that if anybody takes super tuesday decisively they're pretty much a lock for being the favorite at the convention--however, if super tuesday isn't decisive, it could very well come down to the wire.
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from the Guardian: California: why the cash cow state will take center stage in the 2020 race. in that vein, the biggest crown jewel of the super tuesday states will by far be california, having something obscene like 500 delegates. any candidate which decisively carries california is setting themselves up well for the convention (and incidentally in this respect harris has an inherent advantage since it's her homestate), so expect candidates to really target this state as we get closer to primary day and try and build a ground game there for the future.
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from Fast Company: Black women are the key to victory in 2020. Stop ignoring them. i said in the last thread that this was unlikely to go away, and unsurprisingly it remains an issue. see also last week's Women of color want 2020 Democrats to work for their vote and week 6's Black female voters to Democrats: 'You won't win the White House without us'.
Joe Biden
- from Reuters: Exclusive: Presidential hopeful Biden looking for ‘middle ground’ climate policy. we begin on a high note, with joe biden deciding... well... this: "Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is crafting a climate change policy he hopes will appeal to both environmentalists and the blue-collar voters who elected Donald Trump, according to two sources, carving out a middle ground approach that will likely face heavy resistance from green activists." as far as details, this appears to be the most we have so far:
The backbone of the policy will likely include the United States re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement and preserving U.S. regulations on emissions and vehicle fuel efficiency that Trump has sought to undo...
The second source, a former energy department official advising Biden’s campaign who asked not to be named, said the policy could also be supportive of nuclear energy and fossil fuel options like natural gas and carbon capture technology, which limit emissions from coal plants and other industrial facilities.- from VICE: A Biden Presidency Would Be a 'Death Sentence,' Climate Activists Warn. to put it lightly, biden's plan is getting fucking obliterated by climate activists. activists are unsurprisingly worried that biden, by trying to seek a middle ground, is basically just going to bring us into hellworld--a likely prospect, honestly, just going off what we have. VICE also expounds on just how unhelpful and non-specific biden's climate policy is so far with this detail:
Biden’s campaign website contains only three sentences about the greatest crisis ever to face humankind, and these are located midway down a secondary page. “We must turbocharge our efforts to address climate change and ensure that every American has access to clean drinking water, clean air, and an environment free from pollutants,” the site reads.
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from Mother Jones: The Planet Is Heading to Catastrophe and Joe Biden Apparently Wants to Take the “Middle Ground”. Mother Jones also has some other reporting which expounds on the amazing fact that biden somehow was the first person to really introduce climate change into the political arena, and yet his policy on it is borderline regressive nowadays. not the best look, although i doubt it'll change votes
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from POLITICO: Bernie Sanders: Biden’s reported climate plan ‘will doom future generations’. if you thought this criticism stopped at voters though, you'd be wrong, because sanders is just as unimpressed with this plan, and i'd imagine he is not the only candidate like this. this is probably about as strong of a rebuke as you'll ever see this early on: “There is no ‘middle ground’ when it comes to climate policy,” Sanders tweeted Friday. “If we don't commit to fully transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels, we will doom future generations.”
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from POLITICO: Florida takes shape as Joe Biden’s firewall. on a lighter note for biden, he is--for now anyways--the solid frontrunning candidate. florida in particular looks like a key state for him to win, which would be good news for him since it'll give him an advantage in the later half of the primaries (it will, in 2020, be one of the last large states to vote on account of not being a super tuesday state). given its demography, if he's on track to lose in this state, don't count on him realistically winning the primary.
Bernie Sanders
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from Roll Call: Bernie 2020 becomes first unionized presidential campaign in history. bernie sanders made history earlier this year by having his staff unionize (tildes discussion), and this seems to have finally been completely formalized this week. will this be a forebearer of a future presidential standard? i dunno, but it doesn't look like anybody else is going to pick up the idea this cycle, at least as things currently are, so probably not.
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from Pacific Standard: Bernie Sanders Says His Campaign's New Sexual Misconduct Policy Is the 'Gold Standard'. this was an issue in sanders's last presidential campaign (and it's also increasingly a campaign issue in general), so unsurprisingly sanders has rolled out a sexual misconduct policy this time around. this article mostly focuses on dos and don'ts, i should note; the original reporting here was done by the guardian o'er yonder and you can find the actual document for the campaign here.
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[LONGFORM] How Can Dems Win Back Rural America? Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Agree on the Answer. this is both a sanders and a warren piece, focusing mostly on their commonalities in agricultural policy. this has been a theme for the both of them early on; sanders has a very comprehensive set of proposals; of course so does warren. this article also goes into the general background of the issues they're trying to tackle.
Elizabeth Warren
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[LONGFORM] from TIME: 'I Have a Plan for That.' Elizabeth Warren Is Betting That Americans Are Ready for Her Big Ideas. i don't have a whole lot to say here. we have a tildes discussion on this piece, as it was posted earlier this week, so i would encourage you to post there if you have thoughts on this one like i did.
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from POLITICO: Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country. warren's been hustling around a bit in the past week and change, even stopping over in rural west virginia on friday to talk about the opioid crisis and other socioeconomic factors which have been massively fucking over the region. pitstops like these presumably aren't going to be swinging things blue in west virginia again anytime soon, but as the article notes: "...Warren was here to try to send a message that she’s serious about tackling the problems of remote communities like this one." also, in case you're curious, you can find her policy on the opioid crisis here.
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from Reuters: Democrat Warren confronts 2020 electability question head-on in Ohio. she was also over in ohio this weekend, where she barnstormed on similar issues of tackling income inequality and the likes of that.
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from Slate: Warren Has Earned Her Wonk Reputation. this article from Slate is mostly an overview of the many, many policies that elizabeth warren has proposed just over the course of the campaign so far. it's a lot! the article does note that currently she seems to lack detailed policies on many of the big issues prioritized by democratic voters, but we're still pretty early in the campaign so i assume she'll roll those out in the future.
Kamala Harris
- from NBC News: Kamala Harris blows past Democratic rivals in fundraising in communities of color. kamala harris has been relatively quiet on the media for the past bit, but she's making headlines this week for her fundraising. she seems to be the significant frontrunner among minority communities as far as that goes. NBC finds that:
Harris pulled in at least $1 million from ZIP codes where most residents are not white, about two-and-a-half times the total of former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas, who was second to Harris, raising more than $408,000 from the same set of neighborhoods, the analysis showed. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was third, about $1,400 behind O'Rourke, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was fourth, with at least $391,000.
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from CNN: Kamala Harris eyes black voters, women in campaign tour to win over Midwest. aside from fundraising, harris spend most of last week swinging through the midwest barnstorming in minority communities; her current angle seems to mostly run through women and minorities, and while she's doing relatively poorly in polling, people do seem to have interest in her campaign. CNN's most recent polling found "...Harris at 5% but leading the field at 23% among those polled when asked which candidate they'd most like to hear more about."
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from Reuters: Kamala Harris stood up to big banks, with mixed results for consumers in crisis. one of harris's signature points on which she's been campaigning is, in Reuters's words, "the $20 billion relief settlement she secured as California attorney general for homeowners hit hard by the foreclosure crisis"; this article proceeds to pour a bit of cold water on how this played out in practice, though, as harris's actions didn't prevent significant damage to many people's livelihoods.
Amy Klobuchar
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from The Guardian: 'Iowa slingshot': Amy Klobuchar plots midwest route to victory in 2020. klobuchar has also been pretty quiet (and been polling quite badly), but she's also gotten some attention this week. as this article talks about, her path to the presidency has always been basically the same: win over midwestern voters which democrats have been collapsing with since obama cleaned house in 2008. she has the electoral history to back this up: despite relatively close races up-ballot being pretty regular in minnesota since 2000, klobuchar has regularly destroyed her republican opponents statewide and won otherwise-republican-voting white people.
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from Politico: Klobuchar says she isn't worried that older white men are leading the 2020 race. she's also pretty optimistic about her chances. she notes that her campaign is still in the early stages and that despite the dominance of white men, there's still harris and warren in the top-eight, which suggests that she too could have capital as her campaign continues.
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from the Huffington Post: Amy Klobuchar On Female Presidential Candidates: ‘Discount Them At Your Own Peril’. and of course, she notes that discounting female candidates is something to be done at your own peril--female candidates have been particularly successful in recent electoral cycles.
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from Reuters: Klobuchar pitches pragmatism as she seeks to carve identity in Democratic presidential field. klobuchar's main ideological approach so far has been to be the "pragmatic" female candidate, advocating for a more incremental tackling of the issues instead of sweeping progressivism as advocated by people like warren. no signs of this changing, although she does openly consider herself to be a progressive in the same vein as people like warren and sanders.
Pete Buttigieg
- from POLITICO: Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California. california has been a state targeted by just about every candidate so far, but the one with probably the biggest impact relative to how they poll has been buttigieg, who is putting a lot of people who might otherwise be donating to or endorsing harris in an interesting position with where they're going to place their support. LA mayor eric garcetti, who appeared at an event with buttigieg on thursday, might summarize this best:
“We have a lot of people who are very candidate curious,” Garcetti notes. “Kamala has a ton of love up and down the state, but people might say, ‘That doesn’t mean I’m not going to shop around … Maybe I’ll keep her as my senator and go with somebody else as president.’”
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from CBS News: Could Pete Buttigieg make history in LGBTQ-friendly Nevada?. buttigieg is also, obviously, hoping to make history with his candidacy, and he's been making overtures toward LGBT organizations accordingly. on saturday he was a headliner at the human rights campaign gala in nevada--nevada it should also be noted has a pretty large LGBT population, which is likely to help him significantly in the state.
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from NBC News: Buttigieg is the only top 2020 candidate not offering staffers health care yet. however, buttigieg hasn't had all good headlines this week. NBC news highlighted his campaign's failure to offer healthcare to staffers, an ignominious feat for him and something which stands in contrast to the rhetoric he's espoused on the campaign trail so far. NBC reports:
Buttigieg’s campaign currently has 49 workers, but has been staffing up rapidly, and plans to hit the 50 mark imminently.
“Crossing this threshold will put us in a position to get a good multi-state group plan, which we are currently negotiating,” said Buttigieg press secretary Chris Meagher.
In the meantime, the campaign is giving salaried staffers a $400 monthly stipend to buy health care themselves. That’s just enough for a single adult with no children to cover a “silver plan” through the Obamacare exchanges, according to national cost data analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation.Everybody Else
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from Buzzfeed News: Beto O’Rourke Has Hired The “Unsung Hero” Of Obama’s First Campaign. beto o'rourke scalped jeff berman, one of obama's most important staffers, which seems like pretty good news for him given that his campaign has been a bit of a mess with staffing in the past few weeks. berman was integral to obama's first presidential campaign, and was also on clinton's staff in 2016.
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[LONGFORM] from The Guardian: The astonishing disappearing act of Beto O’Rourke. of course, o'rourke is still in a great deal of trouble, having slid back into middling popularity with the democratic base, and this piece by The Guardian goes into detail both on his past, his current, and what he's hoping will be his future.
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from the Huffington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand Vows To Only Nominate Judges Who Uphold Roe v. Wade. despite only polling at like, 2%, gillibrand is still pushing the resistance angle. in contrast to donald, she is pledging to only nominate pro-choice judges.
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from CBS News: Cory Booker unveils "Justice Academy" to recruit, teach volunteers. cory booker meanwhile is kicking up his campaign organizing, setting up training camps for volunteers and all that fun stuff. the purpose of these: "Volunteers ... will learn community organizing techniques to engage supporters around a wide array of Booker's main campaign issues, including criminal justice reform, gun violence prevention, and health care."
anyways, feel free to as always contribute other interesting articles you stumble across, or comment on some of the ones up there.
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