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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.
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[Link] Senator forced to backtrack after saying Republicans will repeal Obamacare
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson said Republicans should try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they take back power – then retreated, under fire from the Biden administration.
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[Link] Free Community College in the US Is Officially Dead
Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com
The Biden administration’s more than $45 billion plan to offer free community college to Americans is officially dead. The lofty promise from the president’s 2020 campaign, would have provided eligible students with the option to go to college for at least two years without any cost to them.
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[Link] While Americans mark Thanksgiving, Republicans panned over Harris attack
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
An attack on Kamala Harris for buying expensive French cookware rebounded on the Republican party over Thanksgiving, moving social media users to compare the vice-president’s culinary outlay with the cost to taxpayers of Donald Trump’s four years in power.
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[Link] Republicans’ vilification of Trump critics is ‘ruining’ the US, says governor
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Republican party’s vilification of members of Congress who have criticized Donald Trump or supported bipartisan legislation is “ruining America”, New Hampshire’s governor, Chris Sununu, said on Sunday, adding another tacit voice to the small but growing internal opposition to the former
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[Link] Biden Administration Intervenes In Donald Trump's Silly Lawsuit Against Twitter To Defend Section 230
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
As you'll recall, a few months ago, former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube claiming that his own government violated the 1st Amendment... because those three private companies kicked him off their services for violating their policies.
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[Link] Can Reaganism Rise Again?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore.
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[Link] Democrats Are Getting Crushed in the ‘Vibes War’
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theatlantic.com
To explain the Democrats’ poor performance in state and local elections Tuesday, various commentators have made very specific claims: It was mostly about critical race theory, or mostly about Terry McAuliffe’s flaws as a candidate for Virginia governor, or mostly about suburban white women votin
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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] Jen Psaki, White House press secretary to Joe Biden, tests positive for Covid
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, said on Sunday she had tested positive for Covid-19. Psaki, 42, did not travel with Biden to Rome, for the G20 summit, from where the president was due to travel on to Glasgow for the Cop26 climate talks.
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[Link] Sure Looks Like Democrats Are Killing Paid Family Leave to Please Joe Manchin
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Democrats have been toiling to push through their own New Deal—a massive social spending bill covering climate, health, and child care—and secure President Joe Biden’s legacy.
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[Link] The U.S. Wants to Turn Both Coasts Into Massive OffshorWindfarms
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration is planning a rapid buildout of offshore wind turbines along the U.S. coastline.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] America Has Slightly Reduced Its Nuclear Arsenal
Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Biden administration revealed how many nukes America has on Tuesday, abandoning a Trump-era policy of nuclear secrecy. Between its active and stored nukes, the U.S. is sitting on 3,750 world-ending weapons as of the last official count in September 2020.
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[Link] DoJ vows to protect women seeking abortions in Texas after radical state ban
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
US attorney general Merrick Garland announced on Monday that the federal government will take action to protect those in Texas trying to obtain an abortion in the wake of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US taking effect last week.
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[Link] Biden sets himself apart by placing Afghanistan blame at predecessors’ feet
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Victory speeches are easy; conceding defeat is much harder. On Tuesday, Joe Biden tacitly blamed his predecessors for the failure of America’s longest war but implied that, against all odds, one winner had emerged: him.
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[Link] The Unexpected Places the Taliban Got Rich From Before Taking Over Afghanistan
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The extremist group made a staggering $1.6 billion last year, a key factor that helped them gain control of Afghanistan at lightning speed. On the streets of Kabul after the Taliban takeover, Afghans were running from one empty ATM to the next. Prices soared, the U.S. froze $9.
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[Link] Nosedive in UK-US relations is another casualty of Afghanistan’s fall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
So much for the special relationship. As the Afghanistan crisis has unfolded, it has precipitated a high-speed deterioration in Anglo-American relations.
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[Link] Biden Assured Allies in June U.S. Would Ensure Kabul’s Stability
Read: 22/8/2021 www.bloomberg.com
President Joe Biden told key allies in June that he would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan to ensure they could continue to operate in the capital following the main U.S.
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[Link] U.S. Government Politely Asks for Volunteers To Help Process Afghan Refugees
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
As shocking images of Afghans desperately clinging to airplanes destined for the U.S. and other allied countries played out on cable news, the Biden administration was scrambling to figure out what to do with the thousands of refugees expecting to come stateside.
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[Link] Swift Taliban takeover proves US and UK analysis badly wrong
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Joe Biden could not have been clearer: a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable”, the US president said on 8 July.
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[Link] The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size
Read: 8/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesOpinion ColumnistOn Tuesday, the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States sat for its third public meeting.
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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.
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[Link] Nancy Pelosi’s Surprise Flip on Student Debt Cancellation Came After Urging From Billionaire Power Couple
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The drive to persuade President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition.
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[Link] The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Two competing amendments to the Senate’s infrastructure bill may shape the future of cryptocurrency in the United States as senators fight over who must be subject to new tax reporting requirements.
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[Link] Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.
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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.
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