politics

Tonight is the Michigan primary and unlike previous primaries where we were specifically paying attention to the REPUBLICAN side, this one has an interest on the DEMOCRATIC side as well!...

I couldn't find any specific information. Lots of articles and people talking about him being in the closest or not. Nothing specific though, at least not that I could find. Just, he is unmarried and childless....

Let's say we wanted to petition the government for a redress of our grievances. What would be on the list?...

Welcome to a WEIRD week in Politics!...

I've edited the title of this article. I still believe that the UK govt. is planning for war and that the talking up of war by the Guardian defense editor, Dan Sabbagh, is an indicator of this....

1st Primary of the season (Iowa was a Caucus, not a primary... different creature)....

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was the charismatic leader of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He directed the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, which attracted scrutiny by a wary, divided nation, but his leadership and the resulting Supreme Court ruling against bus...

I'm putting this up early since it's likely I won't have time tomorrow....

Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly....

A recent post collected some comments by moderator Yobuckstopshere which were reported for being Covid misinformation. Further, comments calling out the misinformation were being removed....

As user @Salamendacious points out in their post:...

The LW admins have requested that communities remove any posts that include the entire article....

There were a large number of duplicates posted today, first on the death of Diane Feinstein and again on the plea deal of one of the defendants in the Trump Georgia case....

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/us/politics/trump-documents-carlos-de-oliveira-charged.html...

Hello and welcome!...