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    1. What new laws go into effect on Jan 1 in your area?

      I don't know how common this is but in Illinois, USA a lot of our new laws signed each year have an effective start date of Jan 1 of the next year. I thought it might be interesting to share some...

      I don't know how common this is but in Illinois, USA a lot of our new laws signed each year have an effective start date of Jan 1 of the next year. I thought it might be interesting to share some new laws going into effect in your state and country, if not on Jan 1 specifically then in the coming year.

      (Apologies, the tags aren't pre-populating anything useful so I'll leave this to the pro-taggers.)

      Edit: fixed my parentheses

      16 votes
    2. US election results (other than presidential) thread

      A place to collect articles about what happened in all the other contests. Edit: please post what the election results were (with a link to the article) at top level and then we can discuss them...

      A place to collect articles about what happened in all the other contests.

      Edit: please post what the election results were (with a link to the article) at top level and then we can discuss them underneath it.

      34 votes
    3. Girlfriend and I bought plan B at Costco yesterday, pharmacist said they'd already sold more than 100 since the election

      We live in Texas, so abortion is already illegal here. We ordered a plan C pill as soon as Roe v Wade was overturned back in 2022 and just ordered another yesterday, as well. We also went to...

      We live in Texas, so abortion is already illegal here. We ordered a plan C pill as soon as Roe v Wade was overturned back in 2022 and just ordered another yesterday, as well. We also went to Costco to get some plan B, just in case, and the pharmacist literally said they'd sold over 100. It's so crazy to me that Trump can win with policies as unpopular as abortion bans, ugh. I worry for my girlfriend and women and LGBTQ+ people across the US, but especially in red states like here.

      47 votes