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Denmark approves stripping IS fighters of citizenship – bill was fast-tracked amid concerns imprisoned IS fighters may escape during a Turkish offensive
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What Andrew Yang means
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Trump is using his Ukraine playbook against the senate
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House overwhelmingly approves contentious new copyright bill
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You can't rehabilitate George W. Bush
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
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What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
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Canada election: Justin Trudeau's Liberals win but lose majority
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US envoy testifies that release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election
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Andrew Yang's plan to tackle climate change
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Andrew Yang at the CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall
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In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
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A new high-powered super PAC is going to spend millions to back Andrew Yang
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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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Hillary Clinton accuses Tulsi Gabbard of being Russian asset
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Do Nazis deserve electricity?
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow...
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow politicians to (somewhat?) violate its own rules about threats and harrassment. Blizzard banned a star video game player for speaking out about the Hong Kong protests.
I'm on Mastodon, and while it's faded from the headlines a bit, the Gab-war still rages there, with the Tusky-v-Fediverse debate over apps blocking domains, and instances blocking other instances over their support for yet other instances.
Yada.
I'm thinking a lot these days about the "slippery slope". Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Github/lab, etc ... these are all business(-like) entities, privately controlled, which are nonetheless approaching the status of public infrastructure ... at least, sort of.
PG&E intentionally shut off power to millions of Californians last week, to prevent hypothetical fires. You see where I'm going with this.
When/As smart capabilities for power grid, ISP, etc emerge, do racists, white supremacists, get Internet? Electricity? Hospital/Ambulance service? Where is that line?
Is reverse discrimination appropriate? "We don't rent to racists..."?
Not sure what I'm expecting here. Just starting the thread, see where it goes.
ETA: A really interesting, thoughtful 2-minute excerpt from a Rogan podcast
Edit #2: The Hacker News thread that prompted me to start this thread.
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US President Donald Trump’s legal immunity has a countdown clock
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Democratic Debate #2 Thread (Night 2)
welcome to debate #2, night 2. with night one out of the way, and the expectations set by our first night of candidates, we turn to a much more diverse, much more ideologically separated group of...
welcome to debate #2, night 2. with night one out of the way, and the expectations set by our first night of candidates, we turn to a much more diverse, much more ideologically separated group of candidates ranging from asian-american technocrat andrew yang to moderate-progressives african-americans in booker and harris, and from berniecrat-type tulsi gabbard to solidly moderate joe biden. it seems likely that we'll see more fireworks today than we did last night, especially given CNN's adversarial lines of questioning in the first night. as always, here are all the details you'd ever need, and probably then some:
i recommend you sort by newest first (or order posted) instead of the default since this thread will likely be semi-active and covering a live event.
How to Watch:
The debate each night will start at 8 p.m. ET and last two hours.
TV broadcast: CNN
Free online stream: CNN.com, CNN apps
Additional coverage: CBS News, NBC NewsThe Candidates:
The second Democratic presidential debate: July 30-31, 2019
~ Night 1 (Tuesday, July 30): Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, author Marianne Williamson, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock. ~
Night 2 (Wednesday, July 31): Former Vice President Joe Biden, California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, business leader Andrew Yang, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet.The Rules:
A candidate "who consistently interrupts" on Tuesday and Wednesday nights will be penalized by having his or her time reduced.
Campaign representatives have also been told there will be no "lightning round"-type questions requiring a show of hands or one word responses.
The debate will be moderated by Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper. Each of the 10 candidates each night will be allowed to make brief opening and closing statements, the network said.The Analysis:
NPR has 5 questions for this debate:
- Will there be any distinctions drawn between Sanders and Warren?
- Will some of the air be taken out of Sanders' sails because Biden isn't onstage?
- How is race raised?
- Who breaks out?
- Without hand-raising, will we get answers that are as clear?
other pre-debate analysis pieces that may be pertinent to you:
Aftermath of Night One:
- POLITICO: It’s a center-left party after all
- the Atlantic: Elizabeth Warren’s Big Night
- NPR: Sanders And Warren Stand Together: Takeaways From Tuesday's Democratic Debate
- NBC News: The Warren-Sanders wing comes up short
- NPR: 'Impossible Promises' Vs. 'Small Ideas.' Moderates And Progressives Clash At Debate
- the Atlantic: Democratic Moderates Fade Into the Background
- Buzzfeed: Mayor Pete Has A Plan To Address Systemic Inequality For Black Americans. He Was Barely Able To Talk About It In The Debate.
- Vox: Is it me or is Marianne Williamson making a lot of sense?
- Vox: 3 winners and 4 losers from the first night of the July Democratic debates
- the Guardian: Who won the Democrats' debate? Our panelists' verdict
Expectations for Night Two:
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The Political Orphanage - Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann
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FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism
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Muddy America: Color balancing the election map
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US President Donald Trump wrote Turkish President Erdoğan a letter warning him not to be "a tough guy" or "a fool" as his forces launched their attack on northern Syria
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'Meltdown': Trump-Pelosi feud intensifies after Dem walkout
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Democratic Debate #4 - October 15 2019
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website: It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The...
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website:
It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The debate will also stream live on the following Facebook Pages: CNN, CNN International, CNN Politics, CNN Replay, AC360 and Erin Burnett OutFront.
In addition, the debate will be available across mobile devices via CNN's and New York Times' apps for iOS and Android, via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast and Android TV, SiriusXM Channels 116, 454 and 795, the Westwood One Radio Network and National Public Radio. You can also ask Amazon's Alexa to play the debate, and the voice-controlled assistant will play the audio of the debate.
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Rep. Pressley announces new caucus on mass transit
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
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Elizabeth Warren faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston
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What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long
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Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
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Vietnam bans Dreamworks' "Abominable" over South China Sea map showing Chinese claim to the region
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We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Denmark will fast-track legislation to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
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Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
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Land without bread: The Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside
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‘A Civil Rights Issue’: Groups Hope Courts Will Toss Out Canada's First-Past-the-Post Voting System
Article: https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/25/First-Past-The-Post-Civil-Rights-Issue/ (April 2019) Press release (October 9th, 2019) about the court filing: Court challenge against Canada’s unfair...
Article: https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/25/First-Past-The-Post-Civil-Rights-Issue/ (April 2019)
Press release (October 9th, 2019) about the court filing: Court challenge against Canada’s unfair voting system to be filed today
Tweet confirming the filing: https://twitter.com/Challenge4FV/status/1181992387394113536
(Sorry about the weird format but I couldn't find a recent news article and I wanted to provide more info than just the press release.)
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
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‘We fear Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city’: An interview with Martin Lee, grandfather of democracy
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Poles at the polls: Five things to know
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One of forty-three allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump
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Exclusive: Official who heard call says Trump got 'rolled' by Turkey and 'has no spine'
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President Trump's lawyers said the President and his administration won't cooperate in an ongoing impeachment inquiry
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Denmark's ghettos – How one of Europe's most open countries took a hard line on immigration
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In their own words: Behind Americans’ views of ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’
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Norway decides against participation in NATO missile defence system
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Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible
23 votes