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37 votes
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA meltdown
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New federal charges filed in United States District Court allege Donald Trump and an aide tried to delete Mar-a-Lago security video
37 votes -
US trade group asks VP Mike Pence to ‘seriously consider' invoking 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump
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The West is losing Muslim Liberals – Indifference to Palestinian suffering in Gaza is alienating moderates across the Islamic world and tarnishing the appeal of liberal democratic values
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House Republicans are helping Vladimir Putin – Their cynicism over Ukraine weakens America and makes the world less safe
36 votes -
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
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Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.
36 votes -
US quietly slips out of Afghanistan in dead of night
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Reality has endorsed Bernie Sanders: His policy proposals are especially apt now, when the coronavirus crisis is revealing an economy organized around production for the sake of profit, not need
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Trumpist US policy document Project 2025 cowritten by anti social security economist Stephen Moore
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Europe’s coming reckoning on immigration – large-scale immigration is the only thing that can prevent Europe from becoming an empty amusement park
35 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump denounces Ron DeSantis abortion ban as “a terrible mistake”
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Former US President Donald Trump will find that Special Counsel Jack Smith has dealt with the likes of him—and worse—before
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Joe Biden’s chances of US re-election are better than they appear
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Donald Trump trials - Georgia election interference state court case - Megathread
Texts, documents hint at convicted witness bail bond business owner Scott Hall's wide ties to Coffee County breach, Trump allies ahead of trial Hall played a part in various post-election events,...
Texts, documents hint at convicted witness bail bond business owner Scott Hall's wide ties to Coffee County breach, Trump allies ahead of trial
Hall played a part in various post-election events, and he's taken a plea deal. He will testify in the Georgia 2020 election trials.
Hall's alleged involvement following the 2020 election reaches beyond the small south Georgia county. This includes personal relationships with those close to the former president.
Several media outlets, including CNN, have reported that Hall is related to David Bossie, chairman of the conservative group Citizens United who briefly led the former president's post-election legal challenges. Bossie's name appears in the Fulton indictment.
In late November 2020, David Shafer introduced Hall to a group of individuals including Robert Sinners, a current spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State's office who then worked for Trump's campaign. In the email, Shafer said Hall was "looking into the election" on behalf of the former president at Bossie's request.
This is described in Act 4 in the indictment, though Sinners is referred to as "unindicted co-conspirator Individual 4" by Fulton prosecutors. Sinners has since disavowed the post-2020 election activities that took place in Georgia.
Hall may also know about the letter former Justice Department official Jeffery Clark wanted to send that alleged the agency "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia."
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What we know about the Washington State man arrested near Barack Obama’s home with hundreds of rounds of ammo
34 votes -
I see no choice but to resign from this Death Star as it begins to explode
34 votes -
The movement to skip the electoral college is about to pass a major milestone
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When a US citizen heard he was on his own country's drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution
34 votes -
Israel is a strategic liability for the United States. The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering US interests across the globe.
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‘If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war’: Zelenskyy asks Congress to help Ukraine
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Opinion - Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of ‘bear arms’
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We need to speak honestly about the GOP’s evolution into a conspiracy cult
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Police pulled fake ‘Antifa’ list from neo-Nazi site and used it to target random people who’d signed an anti-Trump petition
33 votes -
An honest assessment of American rural white resentment is long overdue
32 votes -
The left is smeared as the angry mob again and again. In reality, it is the target of political violence.
32 votes -
I’m going to war for Israel. Palestinians are not my enemy.
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Alabama is defying the US Supreme Court on voting rights
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Canada bet big on immigration. Now it’s hitting the brakes.
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Do US voters care about policy even a little?
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American politics is undergoing a racial realignment – Democrats are rapidly losing non-white voters as the forces that ensured their support weaken
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In praise of mass immigration
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Donald Trump trials - Megathread - US Federal Jan 6 case with Special Counsel Jack Smith
Court of Appeals disclosed congressmember Scott Perry's texts re Trump, then removed them
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Third racism scandal hits Finland's government in space of a month – Wille Rydman used racial slurs in private messages according to Helsingin Sanomat
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (US House of Congress hearings)
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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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Is the Helsinki meeting the tipping point for US politicians?
From what I've seen, it has had a universally bad reaction. From D. From R. From every news network out there. Is this the tipping point?
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Outrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican
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Israel’s apologists are showing they couldn’t care less about Palestinian lives
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Former US President Donald Trump acknowledges he was told 2020 election lies were false in wide-ranging interview
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The latest dangerous conspiracy theory: That conspiracy theory research is part of a big conspiracy
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2020 US Presidential Election Results - Discussion Thread
This will be a noisy thread. Please use the ignore feature if you do not want to see it in your feed. This is a continuation of the original thread from election day, which was here. These threads...
This will be a noisy thread. Please use the ignore feature if you do not want to see it in your feed.
This is a continuation of the original thread from election day, which was here.
These threads are intended as more conversational spaces to process the day and results. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.
There is also a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events.
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FiveThirtyEight Senate forecast
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Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
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Chinese police are making threatening video calls to dissidents abroad, telling them not to criticise Xi Jinping
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PSA: Disinformation and the over-representation of false flag events on social media.
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on...
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on these articles especially fan the flames on the subjects of homophobia, racism, and sexism. While the articles themselves are still noteworthy and deserving of attention, the amount of attention that they've been receiving has been disproportionately high (especially when considering how fairly unknown the individuals involved are) and the discourse on those articles particularly divisive.
On top of that, there are clear disinformation campaigns going on to attack current Democratic presidential candidates in the U.S. It seems pretty clear that we're having a repeat of the last presidential election, with outside parties stoking the flames of discrimination and disinformation on social media in order to further ideological divisions, and the consumers of that media readily falling for it.
I would caution readers to be mindful of the shifting representation of historically controversial or contentious topics moving forward. Even if the articles themselves are solidly factual, take note of how frequently you're seeing these articles, whether or not they're known to be contentious topics, and how they're affecting online discourse.
In short: make sure that you can still smell bullshit even when it's dressed up in pretty little facts.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says prosecution of Donald Trump shows US political system is 'rotten'
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We selected 10,000 American neighborhoods at random. If we dropped you into one of them, could you guess how most people there voted?
29 votes -
Is this a coup?
29 votes