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The Federal Government has announced a $17.6 billion economic stimulus package in a bid to keep Australians in jobs as the economy takes a hit from the spread of coronavirus
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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"Can Biden beat Trump?"
What the polls say about a Biden v Trump matchup (The polls say yeah so... yeah. Admittedly this is a repeat of 2016 and Ukraine will basically be the same thing as Clinton's emails and nothing is...
What the polls say about a Biden v Trump matchup
(The polls say yeah so... yeah. Admittedly this is a repeat of 2016 and Ukraine will basically be the same thing as Clinton's emails and nothing is truly guaranteed.)Can Biden beat Trump? The truth is he's just as risky as Bernie
(Neither of them is a guaranteed win. If there was a safe choice, it wasn't one of these 2.)Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings around him. (No. And not because of his record or gaffes, but because he is an establishment politician and Ukraine will leave the same impression on Biden as Clinton's emails. Are you people insane? Have you forgotten 2016?)
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Democratic National Committee nixes audience for Phoenix debate over coronavirus concerns
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Andrew Yang endorses Joe Biden
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Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders, is the true Scandinavian – Sanders totally misunderstands what's behind Denmark's safety net
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It took five hours for Russian lawmakers to propose, consider, and adopt legislation that could keep Putin in office for another 16 years
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Buttigieg: 'Time for rethinking what campaigning looks like' amid coronavirus
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UK Chief Medical Officer answers coronavirus questions from MPs
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Rupert Murdoch actually tried to stop Trump, and he won't try to again
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Living without a living wage: At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist
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Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman signals new purge with ‘treason’ arrests
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Fixing the debates: A better way to interrupt?
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Over the past year, 34-year-old pastor Mark Lee Dickson has convinced twelve towns in Texas to pass ordinances banning abortion. For women in those towns, fear and confusion reigns.
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The atlas of redistricting/gerrymandering by 538
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After launching its feminist foreign policy, Sweden is now pushing for a feminist trade policy and wants the initiative to be on the agenda at the upcoming WTO summit
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Official: White House didn't want to tell seniors not to fly
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"We Didn't Start The Fire" parody - Sherry Vine
I just saw this parody of "We Didn't Start The Fire" on Reddit. It might be a parody song, but it's also a potted history of LGBT activism in the USA for the past 60 years. We Didn't Start The...
I just saw this parody of "We Didn't Start The Fire" on Reddit. It might be a parody song, but it's also a potted history of LGBT activism in the USA for the past 60 years.
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How Fox News gets other cable news channels to push their stories
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The Democrats do terribly in state elections and it really matters
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What if the court saw other rights as generously as gun rights?
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What is the Senate filibuster and what would it take to remove it?
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EARN IT act is a direct attack on end-to-end encryption
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Andrew Yang’s new US non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
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Other countries are testing patients for coronavirus by the tens of thousands. Why the U.S. is so far behind
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Amy Klobuchar looked great on paper. What went wrong?
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Book Recommendation: Anti-Social by Andrew Marantz
I just finished Andrew Marantz's Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, and I think it's a book that would interest a lot of the people on...
I just finished Andrew Marantz's Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, and I think it's a book that would interest a lot of the people on this site. Marantz is a journalist for the New Yorker who embedded himself with alt-right influencers and social media companies. This book is a compilation of all of those stories; part memoir, part retelling, part observation, part commentary.
Despite its title, the book is not a one-dimensional hit piece. I actually strongly dislike the title as I feel it's a bit too barbed for a book that's rooted in extensive, thoughtful contemplation. The author is honest, open-minded, and critical. I hate the word "balanced" for all of the baggage it brings to the table, but it really feels like the best word to use, especially as an antonym for "unbalanced". He deftly handles a lot of different subjects here. He doesn't shy away from giving criticism where its due, but he's also not quick to judge, trying to understand the broader picture first before casting any judgments about it.
I mention it here because I think it has a lot of relevance to Tildes as a site, as well as the type of people that have congregated here. It covers a lot of ground of direct interest to Tildes: the role of social media platforms to police speech and ideology; how the structure of social media creates influence; how bad faith actors can manipulate systems; how noxious ideologies continue to appeal and propagate. I also know that Tildes trends toward the left, and as someone far on that side myself, I appreciated this book for giving me what I feel was a fair and thoughtful window into the lives of certain high-profile people on the right. It's easy to think of them as a monolith, but I was surprised by the differences between all of his various character portraits. Marantz never loses the individual humanity of his subjects, even when some of them are abjectly abhorrent people.
I should mention that the book is very US-centric, as that was where he focused his journalistic efforts. As such, readers outside the US might not appreciate it as much, but I still think a lot of what he shares is relevant no matter where you are located since we all share space together online.
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Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg says EU legislation to tackle climate change is a surrender
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Joe Biden outperformed because he won US voters who decide late
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Elizabeth Warren is ending her US presidential campaign
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The normalization of far-right populism in Europe
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Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
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Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses
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Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
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Bloomberg drops out of presidential race, endorses Biden
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Super Tuesday: who did you end up voting for and why?
I'm curious how other people think about this.
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Live election results: Super Tuesday 2020
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
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The 2020 endorsement primary
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Putin introduces constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage and mentioning God
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QAnon now has its own super PAC, established by the owner of 8chan
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Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
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Public Enemy fires Flavor Flav after Bernie Sanders rally spat
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Progressives' foreign policy dillemma
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Which US presidential candidate do you think has the best foreign policy?
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best. Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates'...
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best.
Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates' policies seems useless since, after all, Congress makes the laws. We are likely to see either stalemate or centrist legislation regardless.
Maybe I should decide based on foreign policy instead? Most people don't do that but I don't see why not. Any recommendations for interesting articles to read?
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A Tennessee-based Democratic National Committee member backing an effort to use superdelegates to select the party’s presidential nominee is also a Republican donor and health care lobbyist
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Thousands march on the fifth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's death, to protest Putin's "constitutional coup"
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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