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Polling 101: What happened to the polls in 2016 — and what you should know about them in 2020
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Dear Dad, please don’t vote for Donald Trump this time
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Are you a foreigner interested in what will happen in Chile on Sunday? Read here…
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How US President Donald Trump ruined political comedy
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
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The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else
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Voting
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How prepared are these seven battlegrounds for the election? A readiness report
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Vote safely: How to find a trustworthy election ballot drop-off location
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Behind in polls, Republicans see a silver lining in voter registrations
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Inside the Republican plot for permanent minority rule
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Trump & Biden 2020 US Presidential Town Halls Discussion Thread
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Watch Trump's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for one hour.
Watch Biden's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for an hour and a half
More information from CNN.
In case you're wondering why there are two separate town halls happening instead of Debate #2 tonight, @3d12 has the recap here.
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One year since the Turkish invasion of Rojava: An interview with Tekoşîna Anarşîst
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Evangelicals are surprised and angered by Brazilian President Bolsonaro's Supreme Court pick, Kassio Nunes
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Do your bumper stickers reveal too much about your family?
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Protests and power
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The story of how Rinaldo Nazzaro built The Base, a neo-Nazi terror organization—and how it all came apart
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Discussion Thread
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (This was originally scheduled to be held at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame withdrew, saying the fact that it would have to limit student attendance and volunteer opportunities because of the pandemic erased the reason to host a debate at the university.)
Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements. Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
- the Trump and Biden records
- the Supreme Court
- the coronavirus pandemic
- the economy
- race and violence in cities
- the integrity of the election
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Notes about Nagorno-Karabakh by Martin Sonneborn, EU parlamentarian and satirist
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The United States is not entitled to lead the world
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Is the UK moving towards government by decree?
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FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast
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How the Beirut explosion was a government failure
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Politics is an American industry
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On the rudeness of mobs
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Need help raising funds for a friend
@ admin: Sorry if it's not allowed to post these kinds of things, feel free to remove it. I'm normally not someone who would post this kind of stuff to places like this or other sites, as it's...
@ admin: Sorry if it's not allowed to post these kinds of things, feel free to remove it.
I'm normally not someone who would post this kind of stuff to places like this or other sites, as it's probably kind of annoying, but l'm honestly starting to get super worried.
A close friend recently broke her leg & thanks to the fucked up US healthcare system she's got a $1800 bill due on the 11th of October. I set up a fundraiser to try and help, which raised $500 so far, but that's just not enough.
I'm really worried for her (mental) wellbeing & l am desperately trying to scrape together what l can to help. l think if the bill isn't paid, it wouldn't take long for her to end up homeless, or worse.l don't like asking this, but would anyone be able to either donate or share the tweet? Any amount helps.
l would genuinely appreciate it a lot if you could, and l understand if you can't.
https://twitter.com/asoftbird/status/1294762351242235904?s=21
Edit: it's in the tweet, but l should mention she's trans and disabled; becoming homeless already is pretty bad, but given the other circumstances l'm honestly not sure if she'll survive that.
I have donated her $600 already which is as much as l can miss, l don't know what to do about the bit that's still missing.10 votes -
Vincenzo Ravina will perform an interactive virtual magic show for you for $15!
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Who gets to vote in Florida?
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Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
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We don’t know how to warn you any harder. America is dying.
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Europe's young not so woke? Generational divisions in European countries seem less pronounced and young people seem to be less consistently aligned with the left than expected
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Kludgeocracy in America
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The truth about voting by mail and election fraud | Real Law Review
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‘Freedom’ means something different to liberals and conservatives
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For election administrators in the US, death threats have become part of the job
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Getting from November to January: Wargaming shows that, short of a landslide victory for Joe Biden in the upcoming elections, we may be headed for a severe constitutional crisis
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Progressive groups are getting more selective in targeting incumbents. Is it working?
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One IT guy’s spreadsheet-fueled race to restore voting rights
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The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
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Inside the Boogaloo: America’s extremely online extremists
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I was a postal service regulator for eighteen years. Don’t panic
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Stop panicking about the post office; but do fund them ASAP
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FiveThirtyEight 2020 election forecast
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The unraveling of America
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Democracy maybe?
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Many Americans are convinced crime is rising in the US. Even if they're wrong, their fear is making everyone else less safe
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Alex Jones tells his listeners to get ready to die in fight against the New World Order
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Biden goes big without sounding like it
20 votes