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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 29

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This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

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  1. skybrian
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    Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia (The Guardian)

    Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia (The Guardian)

    Reade recently considered testifying before US House Republicans seeking to use committees to attack Biden and his family.

    The decision to defect to Russia, she told Sputnik, “was very difficult. I’m not an impulsive person. I really take my time and sort of analyse data points.

    “And from what I could see based on the cases and based on what was happening and sort of the push for them to not want me to testify, I felt that while [the 2024] election is gearing up and there’s so much at stake, I’m almost better off here and just being safe. My dream is to live in both places, but it may be that I only live in this place and that’s OK.”

    3 votes
  2. moocow1452
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    There is no such thing as "Too Online": A piece by Justin Robert Young putting forward that Desantis' Twitter Spaces rollout was actually pretty successful because there is no longer a mass media...

    There is no such thing as "Too Online": A piece by Justin Robert Young putting forward that Desantis' Twitter Spaces rollout was actually pretty successful because there is no longer a mass media consensus, building a base out of large niches is good, and in a post-Trump primary, chatter is power.

    2 votes
  3. unkz
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House Possible evidence that Trump really did know that he couldn’t declassify documents using...

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House

    Possible evidence that Trump really did know that he couldn’t declassify documents using his mind alone, and also that he may have another classified document that wasn’t returned.

    2 votes