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6 votes
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Shipping carriers rejected tons of US agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China instead
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As US shopping habits change, ports and cargo carriers struggle to keep pace
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Political Disney World
8 votes -
Fixing the police will take more funding, not less
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 25
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15 votes -
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others criminally charged in Flint Water Crisis
29 votes -
Forever chemicals are widespread in US drinking water
17 votes -
New non-toxic "green" propellant successfully demonstrated on NASA mission, now ready to replace hydrazine onboard spacecraft
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Tacoma police officer drives SUV into group of pedestrians
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The woman who read Hank Aaron’s hate mail: In 1973, the baseball legend got 900,000 letters. It was Carla Koplin Cohn’s job to report the threats to the FBI.
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Why? - Alopecia (2008)
6 votes -
No one knows how much the government can borrow
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Beer company Natty Light is the unlikely force behind the 'Da Vinci of Debt', now on view in Grand Central Station
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Larry King, legendary talk show host, dies at 87
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 23
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9 votes -
Michigan county commissioner pulls gun out during virtual meeting when resident asked board to denounce Proud Boys
21 votes -
SpaceX’s record-setting rideshare mission Transporter-1, with 143 satellites onboard, is a challenge for space traffic control
4 votes -
Coors Light’s Ice Cold, on immigration
4 votes -
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
All a gig-economy pioneer had to do was “politely disagree” it was violating Federal law and the Labor Department walked away
8 votes -
Baseball great Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
8 votes -
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 22
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10 votes -
Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
7 votes -
Democrats need to reimagine their role. They cannot merely defend the political system. They must rebuild it.
15 votes -
Efforts are under way to designate the site of a 60,000 year old submerged forest off the Alabama coast a marine sanctuary
11 votes -
TrackBiden: The first 100 days
22 votes -
Richard Feynman and the bomb
8 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 21
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11 votes -
The rise and fall of Roe v. Wade
Part 1 (55 minutes): The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe...
Part 1 (55 minutes):
The hosts take on one of the Supreme Court’s most famous decisions, Roe v. Wade. In this first episode of a two-part series, they look at the legal and factual origins of Roe v. Wade. They also discuss how Roe was weaponized by the conservative legal movement to rally against an interpretation of the Constitution that allows for flexibility in favor of a far more rigid approach.
Part 2 (61 minutes):
In the second part of a two-episode series on abortion rights, the hosts discuss Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case in which the Supreme Court made it easier for states to restrict abortion access so long as abortion regulations don’t create an “undue burden.” The vague standard set lawmakers on a new path of attacking abortion access and fueled anti-abortion groups’ efforts to spread stigma and misinformation, setting up Roe v. Wade for a death by a thousand cuts.
(it's impossible to link to podcasts in a simple or easy way...if anyone has a better way of doing this I'm all ears...)
5-4 (pronounced "five to four", as in the vote total of a closely-divided court case from 9 justices) is one of my favorite podcasts. It's lawyers dissecting Supreme Court cases in a way that is very understandable to non-lawyers, from an explicitly and unabashedly left-wing perspective.
This is an extremely informative primer on the entire arc of abortion rights in the US, from the actual case everyone has heard of (Roe v Wade in the 1970s) to the case in the 1990s that actually superseded Roe and a case from last year that was seen as a victory because it upheld a previous case but it also contained a poison pill that significantly weakened that precedent.
8 votes -
One in eight California households is past due on their water bill, and the total debt is over $1 billion
11 votes -
How the most hyped US oil merger in a decade went bust
4 votes -
Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman on her career-defining address and paying homage to Maya Angelou
10 votes -
US President Joe Biden's first executive order will require masks on federal property
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For the first time in NFL history, a woman will officiate at the Super Bowl
6 votes -
US President Donald Trump revokes rule preventing White House staff from lobbying
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 20
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23 votes -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'
15 votes -
Joe Biden to nominate transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary
17 votes -
Stupid times call for stupid jokes
4 votes -
Annika Sörenstam defends accepting award from Donald Trump – Swede received medal for freedom the day after US Capitol riot
6 votes -
How Israel built a nuclear program right under the Americans' noses
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 19
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15 votes -
What Parler saw during the attack on the Capitol: Curated videos, arranged on a timeline
23 votes -
Umphrey's McGee - Zonkey (2016)
5 votes -
The "whitewashing" of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again
8 votes -
400,000: The invisible deaths of Covid-19
10 votes -
Finding a foothold for Nordic skiing in rural Alaska
5 votes -
Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 18
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18 votes