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14 votes
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Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of peace plan to pause fighting and release hostages
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Law banning child sex offenders from homeschooling stalled after nine child sex offenders testify against it
14 votes -
Vladimir Putin has called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country's biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016
34 votes -
The costs of war
6 votes -
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones
16 votes -
Burbank Airport resumes flights after hours with no air traffic controllers amid government shutdown
14 votes -
Donald Trump administration intervenes to secure woman’s rescue from Gaza
7 votes -
How some veterans exploit $193 billion US Department of Veterans Affairs program, due to lax controls
6 votes -
Myanmar activists to sue Norway's Telenor for handing data to military – claimants say government used data to track and target activists in the wake of 2021 coup
6 votes -
House of South Carolina judge criticized by Donald Trump Administration burns down
39 votes -
As the thirty-something leader of Finland, Sanna Marin pursued an ambitious policy agenda. The press focussed on her nights out and how she paid for breakfast.
18 votes -
Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Donald Trump appointees are supersizing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
30 votes -
Calling all part-time pacifists
10 votes -
Gen-Z protests are spreading globally. What's driving this youth-led movement?
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Fire at South Korean government building causes nationwide outages
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 29
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...
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.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
15 votes -
Outrage over American Eagle's 'great jeans' ad was a conservative media creation
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Gaza aid Global Sumud Flotilla: more than a dozen vessels intercepted by Israeli forces; Greta Thunberg arrested – live
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French military boards Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of launching drones that closed Denmark airports
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Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the cost of civility-theater liberalism
26 votes -
White House in a bind as soybean sales to China plummet to zero
42 votes -
How I escaped MAGA. Critical thinking woke me up.
47 votes -
New Mexico is a democratic party controlled possible source for further information about Jeffrey Epstein crimes
8 votes -
Jane Fonda leads hundreds in the US entertainment industry to re-launch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech - it's been eighty years
13 votes -
Donald Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to US-sponsored Gaza peace proposal
15 votes -
Donald Trump suggests using ‘dangerous’ US cities as ‘training grounds’ for military
46 votes -
‘Total internet blackout’ in Afghanistan sparks panic after Taliban vowed to stamp out immoral activities
12 votes -
US Supreme Court upended the constitutional separation of powers on Friday afternoon with a brief order allowing Donald Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress
32 votes -
Drones seen over Danish military bases in latest air disruption
25 votes -
US President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 labels common beliefs as terrorism “indicators”
58 votes -
US President Donald Trump shares seemingly AI video amplifying 'medbed' conspiracy theory
25 votes -
Moldova’s pro-EU ruling party is leading polls in election fraught with Russian interference claims
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Russia-NATO confrontation - drones over Poland and MiGs over the Baltic
11 votes -
US House Democrats release latest Jeffrey Epstein documents with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 22
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...
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.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
15 votes -
Last boys at the beginning of history
6 votes -
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in US President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies
54 votes -
War and military news September 25-26
There is some alarming news, I didn't want to post every headline and flood Tildes, so I'm making this post. If anyone feels any are important enough to post one separately, do feel free. Hegseth...
There is some alarming news, I didn't want to post every headline and flood Tildes, so I'm making this post. If anyone feels any are important enough to post one separately, do feel free.
- Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
- Hungarian drones breach Ukraine's airspace, Zelensky says
- Boat strikes, warships and Venezuela rhetoric raise questions about Trump’s goals
- Chinese drone experts worked with sanctioned Russian arms maker, sources say
- Germany considers offensive space capabilities as Russia tracks its military satellites
- Trump says he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank
- Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing
- North Korea is close to having an ICBM that can hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon, South Korean leader says
I check in on https://www.newsminimalist.com/ sometimes, I might have it bookmarked from here originally, but anyways, most of this news is from there
15 votes -
US Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett explains why she won’t explain her recusals
26 votes -
Former FBI director James Comey indicted for making false statement to US Congress and obstruction of justice
6 votes -
Sweden recognised Palestine eleven years ago – more than a decade on, here is what France and other Western states who have recently followed suit can learn from Sweden's experience
15 votes -
Denmark airport closed due to drones, two days after incursions in Copenhagen and Oslo
19 votes -
US President Donald Trump says he now believes Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia with NATO’s help
40 votes -
Americans are crazy for shrimp. Much of it came from India — until now.
12 votes -
Russia's involvement in drone sightings [that closed Copenhagen airport for four hours] cannot be ruled out, Danish PM says: "the most severe attack on Danish infrastructure so far"
14 votes -
“Am I now in exile?”
26 votes -
United Kingdom, Australia and Canada officially recognize a Palestinian state
66 votes -
Rhode Island’s ‘Taylor Swift Tax’ on vacation homes of the wealthy is influencing second home tax policy in other US states
20 votes -
Why US farmers voted for Donald Trump
24 votes