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24 votes
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California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that would allow employees to possibly relax
23 votes -
UT Austin lays off around sixty staffers to comply with Texas DEI ban
22 votes -
Megathread - Updates on the Donald Trump trial regarding classified documents
Things are starting to happen in this case also.
23 votes -
Phoenix passes historic ordinance giving outdoor workers protection from extreme heat
28 votes -
Norway to increase number of conscripted soldiers from 9,000 to 13,500 – Russia's attack on Ukraine has given northern European countries an impetus to beef up their militaries
10 votes -
The rise and fall of the trad wife: Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”
39 votes -
Half of senior staffers in US Congress are so fed up that they may quit
26 votes -
California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
31 votes -
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
28 votes -
San Francisco city leaders look to bring back emergency sirens by end of 2024
8 votes -
America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
40 votes -
Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires
15 votes -
Plans for regulator illustrate inherently political nature of football
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"Debunking Davos and the global elite": The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting
18 votes -
Some NATO countries ‘don’t understand urgency of stopping Russia,’ says Swedish FM
16 votes -
Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
19 votes -
Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use
72 votes -
Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can’t agree what marriage is for.
38 votes -
Finland's proposed labour reforms risk doing more harm than good
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 25
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.
5 votes -
Do artifacts have politics? (1980)
6 votes -
Why ban books when you can ban book awards?: Suburban Illinois district cancels youth chosen Caudill Awards
30 votes -
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history.
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 18
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.
11 votes -
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, investors took the dispute to a World Bank arbitration court
13 votes -
US Speaker Mike Johnson touts GOP wins on migrant detention in funding deal
9 votes -
US bill proposing legal immunity for pesticide manufacturers advances. - Bayer is a sponsor
39 votes -
Israel is a strategic liability for the United States. The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering US interests across the globe.
33 votes -
A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
8 votes -
US astronomers fight to save X-ray telescope as NASA dishes out budget cuts
14 votes -
It’s no longer the economy, stupid. America’s hyper-partisan voters express economic sentiments that mirror their politics — this is not true in Europe.
25 votes -
Jacob’s Dream - MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius
3 votes -
The creeping politicization of the US Military
17 votes -
Populist parties’ divisions jeopardise chances of setting EU agenda
6 votes -
The left is smeared as the angry mob again and again. In reality, it is the target of political violence.
32 votes -
NASA’s x-ray telescope faces a long goodbye
12 votes -
Joe Biden administration announces rules aimed at expanding US electric vehicles
22 votes -
US President Joe Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health
23 votes -
Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview)
29 votes -
How does Paris stay Paris? By pouring billions into public housing.
17 votes -
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
27 votes -
Donald Trump's lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million US civil fraud judgment
64 votes -
US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor slams appeals court and scolds fellow justices for ‘sowing chaos’ by allowing Texas to arrest and deport illegal crossers
23 votes -
Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approve another law giving government more power to curb dissent
20 votes -
Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
13 votes -
California, USA must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report says
16 votes -
A new archive of modern American political history
2 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t serve in its armed forces. That’s getting harder than ever to justify and threatens Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
39 votes -
US libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and seek new state laws in fight with publishers
46 votes -
How foreign policy became a campaign issue for the 2024 US presidential election
7 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
Brazil's military leaders told police Jair Bolsonaro involved in a plan to reverse 2022 election result
16 votes -
US Government removes sanctions on Zimbabwe, imposes sanctions on Zimbabwe's president
8 votes -
Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds
15 votes -
US courts change policy to prevent judge shopping on issues that would impact entire states, regions or the nation as a whole
34 votes -
YouTube blocks access to CBC's The Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand
50 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
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Donald Trump trials - Georgia election interference state court case - Megathread
Texts, documents hint at convicted witness bail bond business owner Scott Hall's wide ties to Coffee County breach, Trump allies ahead of trial Hall played a part in various post-election events,...
Texts, documents hint at convicted witness bail bond business owner Scott Hall's wide ties to Coffee County breach, Trump allies ahead of trial
Hall played a part in various post-election events, and he's taken a plea deal. He will testify in the Georgia 2020 election trials.
Hall's alleged involvement following the 2020 election reaches beyond the small south Georgia county. This includes personal relationships with those close to the former president.
Several media outlets, including CNN, have reported that Hall is related to David Bossie, chairman of the conservative group Citizens United who briefly led the former president's post-election legal challenges. Bossie's name appears in the Fulton indictment.
In late November 2020, David Shafer introduced Hall to a group of individuals including Robert Sinners, a current spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State's office who then worked for Trump's campaign. In the email, Shafer said Hall was "looking into the election" on behalf of the former president at Bossie's request.
This is described in Act 4 in the indictment, though Sinners is referred to as "unindicted co-conspirator Individual 4" by Fulton prosecutors. Sinners has since disavowed the post-2020 election activities that took place in Georgia.
Hall may also know about the letter former Justice Department official Jeffery Clark wanted to send that alleged the agency "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia."
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 11
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.
4 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
7 votes -
US President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address
49 votes -
Oregon decriminalized drugs. Voters now regret it.
32 votes -
Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time
13 votes -
European Commission accused of ‘bankrolling dictators’ by MEPs after Tunisia deal
4 votes -
A state by state review of how easy or difficult it is to enforce open records laws in the US reveals many obstacles
7 votes -
‘Way too much news’: US conservatives face a fragmented media map
25 votes -
India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims
28 votes -
Trans person infilitrates CPAC - Part 2
6 votes -
Haiti’s leader to resign as gangs run rampant through country engulfed in crisis
16 votes -
Revealed: US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order, Claremont Institute officials closely involved with Society for American Civic Renewal
21 votes -
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably
25 votes -
Denmark's tough laws on begging hit Roma women with few other options – the Roma minority are heavily discriminated against across Europe
21 votes -
Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t.
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 4
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.
11 votes -
Is private equity actually worth it?
18 votes -
Argentina president Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown. Scientists protest.
18 votes -
Democrats go on offense as IVF leaves Republicans vulnerable
25 votes -
American politics is undergoing a racial realignment – Democrats are rapidly losing non-white voters as the forces that ensured their support weaken
31 votes -
The mystery social media account schooling US Congress on how to do its job
39 votes -
Jordan Klepper presses Nikki Haley supporters: Donald Trump or Joe Biden in 2024 US Presidential election?
14 votes -
Analysis: Donald Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030
11 votes -
How Turkey moved east – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the rise of an Anatolian foreign policy
5 votes -
On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot
3 votes -
The Houthis are very, very, pleased
24 votes -
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alexei Navalny's final letter
14 votes -
Sweden officially joins NATO, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
36 votes -
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
12 votes -
Russia is burning up its future
21 votes -
The problem with California Prop 1
8 votes -
Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
14 votes -
What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west.
9 votes -
Creation of a European Environment Authority -- Thoughts / Opinions?
11 votes -
The psychopolitics of trauma
9 votes -
Olof Dreijer on the Knife, Swedish nationalism and dancefloor activism
4 votes -
Supreme Court rules Donald Trump can remain on Colorado ballot (gifted link)
46 votes -
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says
19 votes