Activity tagged "US politics"

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[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response.

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“Kamala Harris's election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are”.

Nesrine Malik in The Guardian. Published September 30, 2025.

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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“Considering Trump's AI Plan and the Future It Portends”.

Justin Hendrix in Tech Policy Press. Published July 24, 2025.

A podcast discussion with the AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West, Data and Society's Maia Woluchem, and Athena for All's Ryan Gerety.

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“California's newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted”.

Benj Edwards in Ars Technica. Published September 30, 2025.

After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.

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“UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn.”

s. baum in Erin In The Morning. Published September 28, 2025.

Democrats: There is no "middle ground" on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.

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anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

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Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.

A person uses their phone to place a bet on a Polymarket market on the NYC mayoral race

Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.

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Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

The attack continues further down in the Kirk article’s lead paragraphs, where editors said Kirk was controversial due to his "opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020."

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CHARLIE KIRK

The framing ensures that anyone searching for Kirk after his murder is met with a narrative designed to discredit him.

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In the New York Times: There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.

Republicans in Congress, White continued,
would be horrified if any other president, particularly a Democratic one, was profiting from the office of the presidency in the way that Trump is, but they are so terrified of him that they haven’t said a word about it.
And the crypto lobby and its hundreds of millions in campaign donations, has produced a truly shameful situation among Democrats who have either sold out to the crypto lobby, or who are so afraid of opposition when it comes time for re-election that they’re keeping their mouths shut. We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.

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Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat

A blue vending machine with branding that reads “Crypto is like a bar of chocolate” in the foreground, with the Capitol building behind

Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector

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