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97 votes
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US Postal Service chief Louis DeJoy steps down
21 votes -
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for snap election amid trade war with US
19 votes -
US Federal Communications Commission chair threatens to block mergers of media companies engaged in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
14 votes -
Why Maui still hasn’t recovered
6 votes -
Why I'm running for US Congress (Kat Abughazaleh)
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 24
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.
5 votes -
America is watching the rise of a dual state
24 votes -
What can a software engineer do to help the US?
The current political climate in the US sucks, and I want to do something about it. I'm a software engineer and I've been feeling lately that I need to apply my skills towards something more...
The current political climate in the US sucks, and I want to do something about it. I'm a software engineer and I've been feeling lately that I need to apply my skills towards something more important and impactful than building a product for a private company. Honestly, I like my current job for many reasons, and it's been mostly quite fulfilling up to this point, but every executive order by Trump feels like a step backwards and makes me less comfortable with not being involved in the opposition.
I'm looking for advice on what I can do to meaningfully contribute to progressive causes and resist the threat that this administration poses to our democracy and society. What kinds of organizations are doing the most in this area, and would be in need of a software engineer? How can building software help with this problem (if at all)?
For context, I live in Massachusetts, so while I feel proud of how my community and local government is pushing back against Trump, I'm also well-aware of how much worse things are, and will get, for people elsewhere.
28 votes -
Not Fox | Not News
9 votes -
Well this terrifies me: Steve Bannon preparing for a third Donald Trump US presidency
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 17
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.
14 votes -
US President Donald Trump revokes legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
41 votes -
San Francisco jails are packed for the first time in decades
21 votes -
How US neo-Nazism actually works - from a former neo-Nazi member
21 votes -
EU slams the door on US in colossal defense plan
36 votes -
Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever ousted its CEO for his progressive stance
37 votes -
Are we witnessing the takeover of a country right now?
Foreign money and tech billionaires have bought control of the US government, they're looting the system and weakening it, and then they're going to crash it so they can install a new system that...
Foreign money and tech billionaires have bought control of the US government, they're looting the system and weakening it, and then they're going to crash it so they can install a new system that they can better control.
Prove me wrong?
52 votes -
US Social Security to require millions to make claims in person rather than by phone
29 votes -
US President Donald Trump's lawyers assert unchecked authority over international waters in hearing related to deportation case
18 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 10
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.
23 votes -
For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream
9 votes -
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
52 votes -
Donald Trump administration aims to eliminate US Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific research arm
21 votes -
"Make America Healthy Again" is dead - there is nothing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can do at the US Department of Health to make up for what's happening at the Environmental Protection Agency
20 votes -
A federal judge rules the dismantling of USAID likely violated the Constitution and blocks Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts
37 votes -
Why Sweden needs the bomb – country best served by nuclear guarantee outside of traditional NATO reliance on US atomic umbrella
15 votes -
Texas arrests midwife and associates on charges of providing abortion (gifted link)
30 votes -
The revenue and distributional effects of US Internal Revenue Service funding as Donald Trump/Department of Government Efficiency promise large staff cuts
10 votes -
US President Donald Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act for the first time against Venezuelan criminal organization
43 votes -
The real reason US President Donald Trump submits to Vladimir Putin
10 votes -
American Library Association statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services
16 votes -
Proton CEO tweets support for Donald Trump's Department of Justice pick and the US Republican Party
69 votes -
European rearmament - the rearm Europe plan and the future of US weapon sales
10 votes -
US Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to vote yes on GOP spending bill
39 votes -
GOP government funding bill threatens to cut $1Billion from Washington DC local budget
12 votes -
Determination: Foreign affairs functions of the United States
14 votes -
Is US President Donald Trump planning to invade other countries?
There have been frequent and repeated comments by Trump about "annexing" or "absorbing" or taking over other sovereign countries. NY Times How 51st State talk became seen as deadly serious White...
There have been frequent and repeated comments by Trump about "annexing" or "absorbing" or taking over other sovereign countries.
NY Times How 51st State talk became seen as deadly serious
White House Asked US Military for Panama Options
CNBC - Trump on US Annexation of Greenland
I think anyone paying attention to this should be extremely alarmed, especially when you connect this to the purges that he is doing to the US military and other organizations that would limit the power of the president, and of course recent supreme court rulings about presidential power.
It appears like he's trying to get people used to a new colonialism. Maybe if he attacks Panama and there isn't much internal resistance, then he'll attack Greenland, and so on. Sure we can guess whether he is doing this to help Putin, or to normalize Putin's invasion. In any case just the discussion of these things harms the other countries, the reputation of the US, and world stability.
Frankly I think this stuff, and the attack on federal workers and social programs and social security, is an attempt to not only do these things, but to generate mass protests which will be used as an excuse for martial law and the removal of other rights, including future elections.
Here's another article, This is by David Frum about how we allow people to minimize Trump's actions at our peril: The MAGA-Strategy Spin Machine
I don't think it's possible to overreact to this. A functioning US Congress would remove him from office right away.
36 votes -
Pentagon tasked with providing ‘military options’ to ensure US access to Panama Canal, memo says
16 votes -
US judge orders Donald Trump administration to reinstate most fired probationary staff
23 votes -
An unexpected Donald Trump bump for the world's centrists
26 votes -
US Pentagon shocked by Donald Trump’s order to house migrants in Guantánamo Bay
23 votes -
How American comedy became a dystopian imperial hell world
8 votes -
US President Donald Trump prepares order dismantling the Education Department
62 votes -
Greenland’s center-right opposition wins closely watched election dominated by Donald Trump’s annexation threat
15 votes -
Court asked to intervene after email tells USAID workers to destroy classified documents
18 votes -
Puerto Rico is dying
26 votes -
Live updates on Ukraine-Russia-US talks in Saudi Arabia - Volodymyr Zelenskyy accepts US' thirty-day ceasefire proposal
14 votes -
Department of Agriculture fired the experts on invasive pests that can decimate crops in the US
31 votes -
US Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests
49 votes