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35 votes
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New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link)
20 votes -
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
62 votes -
Key moments from landmark US Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump’s immunity claims
33 votes -
The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration – English-speaking countries generally do better at both attracting and integrating talent
11 votes -
UK asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda
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Critical psychiatry and the political backlash against disabilities: a closer look at James Davies
10 votes -
American non-compete clauses could become a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling
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Arizona grand jury indicts eleven Republicans who falsely declared Donald Trump won the state in 2020
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22
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...
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Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
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Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain
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CO-VIDS: The Ghandi trap
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HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
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Donald Trump trials - Megathread - US Federal Jan 6 case with Special Counsel Jack Smith
Court of Appeals disclosed congressmember Scott Perry's texts re Trump, then removed them
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China is battening down for the gathering storm over Taiwan
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How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
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Iran's missile strike on Israel - The attack, defence & Israel's counter-strike
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Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations
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Fellow Canadians, what's on your mind this week?
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things. The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with...
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things.
The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with the expectation that cities build higher density dwellings is... Something they should have done mid mandate?
Is there even time to implement this stuff? Are we getting close to the point where we've spent too much?
Second is a quote from a compilation of personal accounts from travellers into this country's north in the 1800s. Farley Mowat assembled the stories and wrote the forward for "Tundra" in the 1960s and says the following
"Until 50 or 60 years ago, the Arctic was a living reality to North Americans of every walk of life. It had become real because men of their own kind were daring it's remote fastness in search of pure adventure", unprotected by the vast mechanical shields that we now demand whenever we step out of our air conditioned sanctuaries".
He goes on to talk about how -- most of all -- easily heated dwellings and running water had a softening effect on people, and that (basically) we fear and avoid Canada's climate far more than our forebearers did.
Wondering what people's thoughts on this are.
From what you learned from grandparents or earlier generations about spending time outside, would you agree that the comforts of home are just too damned seductive?
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Ronald Reagan-era emergency health care law is the next abortion flashpoint at the US Supreme Court
18 votes -
The persistence of the Venezuelan migrant and refugee crisis (2023)
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Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
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European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
24 votes -
US House approves $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (gifted link)
41 votes -
San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change
18 votes -
US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store
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Residents in southern Illinois county to vote on non-binding referendum to separate state from Cook County
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Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis
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Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation after landmark decision from Department of Interior
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 15
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...
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 -
Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people
11 votes -
Man sets himself on fire near courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial (gifted link)
41 votes -
Indiana now has a religious right to abortion
28 votes -
Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate.
27 votes -
Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up – decade-old idea for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign
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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
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California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
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Israeli missiles hit site in Iran
21 votes -
All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
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NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
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Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
34 votes -
Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
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Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
10 votes -
An honest assessment of American rural white resentment is long overdue
32 votes -
Saudi Arabia and UAE refused to open airspace to Israeli and US aircraft during Iran attack
9 votes -
2020 election lawsuits continue... Smartmatic settles OANN defamation case: Here’s where Dominion and Smartmatic’s other lawsuits stand now
10 votes -
Russian honeytraps useless against French spies … their wives already know: Documentary on French secret agent culture
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Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
37 votes -
UK MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
13 votes