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3 weeks ago

Does Trump want to annex Canada?

Politico

Trudeau, who traveled to Florida with a small delegation days after Trump threatened across-the-board tariffs on imports from Canada, used his face-time with the incoming president to warn that the measure would punish the Canadian economy. Fox News sources claimed that’s when Trump floated the idea of statehood for Canada, “which caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously.” …

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Election results 2024: Democrats are forgetting what's actually going to happen when Trump takes office.

Slate

The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea that the party has lost working-class men—especially white and Latino men who don’t have college degrees—because of the way its candidates look and talk. There was even a primary news cycle—damaging at the time, but perhaps we’ll soon see Democrats’ …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

This one Trump policy could have blown election he should be 'running away with': analyst

Raw Story

Republicans only have former President Donald Trump to blame for a presidential election they should be primed to win but could easily lose, wrote New York Times analyst Matt Yglesias Monday. "The question of why, exactly, voters so hate inflation — which increases wages and prices symmetrically — has long puzzled economists," he wrote. Yglesias suspects a big part of …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Election: Media organizations endorse Kamala Harris. Should we care?

Slate

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, David, John, and Emily talk about media endorsements of political candidates. See Matthew Yglesias for Slow Boring: Media organizations are blowing their endorsements; Editorial Board for The New York Times: The Only Patriotic Choice for President and Katie Robertson and Nicholas Fandos: The New York Times Will Stop Endorsing Candidates in New York …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Did Joe Biden promise to be a one-term president in 2020? Well ...

Slate

It all started, as the most exciting moments in Western thought tend to do, with a provocative but well-argued column in Slate. Raw Story’s Matthew Chapman called the idea that Biden had committed to serving only one term a “myth,” and Semafor’s Dave Weigel quoted Chapman while bringing up the Mandela effect, which is so named for people who swear …

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1 year, 1 month ago

"Unvarnished antisemitism": Musk says conspiracy that motivated mass shooting is "the actual truth"

Salon

Elon Musk on Wednesday declared on X/Twitter that a paid X Premium user's peddling of an antisemitic conspiracy theory attacking Jewish people was the "actual truth," media watchdog Media Matters for America reports. Why dont you say it to our faces…” The conspiracy theory the Musk-endorsed tweet spews — that Jewish populations are pushing "hatred against whites" and supporting "hordes …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Twitter Confirms Censorship Of Content To Remain Operational During Turkey Elections

ABP News

Twitter has officially acknowledged that it implemented content restrictions in Turkey ahead of the country's recent presidential election. It stated, "In order to comply with legal procedures and ensure that Twitter remains accessible to the people of Turkey, we have taken steps to limit access to certain content within Turkey today." We were in negotiation with the Turkish Government throughout …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Turkey Election | Twitter censors content ahead of presidential election

The Hindu

Twitter has confirmed that it censored content in Turkey ahead of the country’s presidential election. The verified Twitter Global Government Affairs account said, “In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today.” The account said that the rest of the …

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Does Trump want to annex Canada?

Election results 2024: Democrats are forgetting what's actually going to happen when Trump takes office.

This one Trump policy could have blown election he should be 'running away with': analyst

Election: Media organizations endorse Kamala Harris. Should we care?

Did Joe Biden promise to be a one-term president in 2020? Well ...

"Unvarnished antisemitism": Musk says conspiracy that motivated mass shooting is "the actual truth"

Twitter Confirms Censorship Of Content To Remain Operational During Turkey Elections

Turkey Election | Twitter censors content ahead of presidential election