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41 votes
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of July 13
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act, scientists say
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What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
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You can make millions selling masks to the government in three easy steps
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Hawaii grapples with Great Depression-level unemployment as tourism plummets
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New York's hungry rats torment outdoor diners after lockdown famine
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"All the hospitals are full": In Houston, overwhelmed ICUs leave COVID-19 patients waiting in emergency rooms
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
10 votes -
US President Trump commutes sentence of longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone
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Farmers and animal rights activists are coming together to fight big factory farms
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Less than 2% of Kentucky farms are Black-owned. This company is trying to change that.
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You are now leaving FantasyLand: The losses will be taken by somebody
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The US Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid
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The Midnight - Monsters (2020)
On Youtube. Official multilink (Spotify, Bandcamp, ...). Track list 1991 (intro) (00:27) America Online (05:49) Dance With Somebody (04:17) Seventeen (04:02) Dream Away (03:39) The Search for Ecco...
- On Youtube.
- Official multilink (Spotify, Bandcamp, ...).
Track list
- 1991 (intro) (00:27)
- America Online (05:49)
- Dance With Somebody (04:17)
- Seventeen (04:02)
- Dream Away (03:39)
- The Search for Ecco (04:04)
- Prom Night (05:02)
- Fire In The Sky (04:09)
- Monsters (ft. Jupiter Winter) (03:17)
- Helvetica (05:16)
- Brooklyn (04:14)
- Deep Blue (03:57)
- Night Skies (03:04)
- City Dreams (interlude) (02:17)
- Last Train (04:22)
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Spacecraft from three different countries are scheduled to launch for Mars in July, with arrival next February
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TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US
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Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
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There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
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Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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US Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
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I was arrested, jailed and assaulted by a guard. My ‘crime’? Being a journalist in Trump’s America
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When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
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Stanford cuts eleven sports from their varsity program
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Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy
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In 2008, everyone thought the recession was bad. But in 2020, many Americans’ views depend on their party
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The most recent iteration of a widespread government imposter scam has bilked thousands of Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars
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Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
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Searchable database of the 661,218 companies who received over $150,000 in forgivable SBA PPP loans
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Kanye West says he’s done with Trump—opens up about White House bid, damaging Biden and everything in between
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Harvard, MIT sue US immigration authorities over new rule for foreign students
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Videos of police killings are numbing us to the spectacle of Black death
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Mary Trump’s book accuses the US President of embracing "cheating as a way of life"
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So you think you know the banjo?
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Xerox PARC is fifty
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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“Representation matters!”: Adam Perez on the empowering feeling of seeing yourself in an image
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Walmart+, an Amazon Prime competitor, launches in July
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How "The Wing", a women-focused, co-working space collective and club is now reeling from allegations of racism, exclusivity and abuses of power
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Nearly 1,000 inmates will be removed from San Quentin prison after its infection rate has gotten so bad it's been dubbed 'the Chernobyl of COVID'
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Deutsche Bank will pay $150 million to settle claims that it repeatedly overlooked suspicious transactions by Jeffrey Epstein
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The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained
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Eugene, a town of 170,000 in Oregon, replaced some cops with medics and mental health workers. It's worked for over thirty years
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ICE announces modifications to international student policies amid coronavirus pandemic
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How Starship Troopers aligns with our moment of American defeat
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Somerville, Massachusetts, recognizes polyamorous domestic partnerships
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of July 6
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Study finds hydroxychloroquine may have boosted survival, but other researchers have doubts
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2020 US presidential election simulator
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People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise
7 votes