Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire
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2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
A thread you can easily ignore As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things...
A thread you can easily ignore
As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things because it is a smaller item, please feel free to post here.
Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)
20 votes -
As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place
7 votes -
US ICE officers 'used torture to make Africans sign own deportation orders'
10 votes -
Growing number of unexpected arrivals in Arctic waters around Greenland – shrinking sea ice has fast-tracked a race among powers for control over resources and waterways
5 votes -
The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation
13 votes -
Police are cutting ties with domestic violence programs that support Black Lives Matter
15 votes -
As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses
5 votes -
Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout California worry elections officials
29 votes -
Trump will undergo televised medical evaluation on Friday night, Fox News announces
18 votes -
FBI busts militia 'plot' to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
38 votes -
Presidential debate: Trump refuses to take part in virtual TV event
19 votes -
US President Donald Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relief until after Election Day
26 votes -
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
13 votes -
John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and is facing extradition
22 votes -
Breonna Taylor US Grand Jury recording released
10 votes -
Unredacted FBI document sheds new light on white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement
15 votes -
Data leak reveals Donald Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
38 votes -
Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes with eye on election
16 votes -
Trump campaign is reportedly plotting an election coup to “bypass” a Biden win
28 votes -
DeJoy tells judge mail-sorting machines can’t be reassembled
11 votes -
Judge says 2020 census must continue for another month
13 votes -
Louisville grand jury indicts one of three officers in fatal Breonna Taylor police shooting
18 votes -
Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
9 votes -
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris
17 votes -
College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era
5 votes -
US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality, dies at 87
76 votes -
Emails reveal how Rochester police covered up video of Daniel Prude's suffocation
11 votes -
With violent crime on the rise, Minneapolis City Council asks: Where are the police?
5 votes -
ACLU sues Palo Alto over ‘unconstitutional’ restrictions at residents-only park
9 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of September 7
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.
8 votes -
In Georgia’s chaotic primary, as many as 1,000 voters may have cast ballots by mail and in person, secretary of state says
9 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 31
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.
9 votes -
A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer
10 votes -
Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with sexually assaulting four women
8 votes -
Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud related to "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding campaign
35 votes -
That US Air Force B-52 flying over the Black Sea was bait for the Russians
11 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 24
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.
11 votes -
Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county
10 votes -
Republicans win two US House special elections
9 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 17
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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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 10
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.
8 votes -
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his US Vice President
47 votes -
Head of Iowa Postal Workers Union says that mail sorting machines are being removed from post offices in the state, hindering ability to process mail
38 votes -
New postmaster general overhauls USPS leadership amid probe into mail delays
18 votes -
Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 3
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.
9 votes -
US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
9 votes -
Census cuts all counting efforts short by a month
15 votes -
Leaked police bodycam video shows new details of George Floyd's fatal arrest
14 votes -
Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
31 votes