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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    https://religionnews.com/2025/05/12/episcopal-church-ends-refugee-resettlement-citing-moral-opposition-to-resettling-white-afrikaners/ Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government (RNS) — 'In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial...
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/12/keir-starmer-defends-plans-to-curb-net-migration Keir Starmer has defended his plans to curb net migration after an angry backlash from MPs, businesses and industry to a speech in which he said the UK risked becoming an “island of strangers”...
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    Politics GOP slouches into the crazy to be born as MAGA ~ GENERAL

    https://gizmodo.com/alex-jones-shares-fake-photo-of-pro-ukraine-leaders-with-cocaine-on-train-2000601049
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    Politics Unsafe for foreigners (or well anyone) to travel to US catchall thread

    German green card holder held by ICE for two months over a 2015 misdemeanor marijuana charge that was dismissed nearly a decade ago. https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-germany-free-after-two-months-ice-detention-2070446
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    Politics Unsafe for foreigners (or well anyone) to travel to US catchall thread

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/conference-us-travel-1.7531255 After U.S. President Donald Trump took office, sociologist Travers — who goes by one name — nixed plans to attend the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference in Seattle this November. Travers, a full...
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    Politics Public Health News | Measles outbreak, RFK Etc

    when you don't believe in germ theory, bacteria cease to exist. It's like peekaboo with an infant....
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    Politics Unsafe for foreigners (or well anyone) to travel to US catchall thread

    US Citizen in this case. https://www.usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-detained-at-the-border-and-questioned-for-hours-over-politics-trump-immigration Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon...
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    Kier Starmer bending over backwards to appeal to the far-right, because they are sooooooo likely to reward him. I swear he has been the biggest give to the revitalization of the Tory party from their self-immolation. You think Harris reached too much to the center; Starmer has been leaping over...
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-fires-head-of-us-copyright-office-2000600749 Earlier this week, the US Copyright Office issued a massive report in part expressing support for content creators and raising concerns about how artificial intelligence systems utilize copyrighted material in...
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/12/kurdish-militants-pkk-to-disarm-turkey-abdullah-ocalan
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    And you'll never guess what is taking so long for the other Air Force 1 to be completed. I am sure the one he is getting from Qatar will be completed before the one that was ordered in <checks notes> Trump's first term.
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    TV Streaming series to talk about.

    Yeah it is pretty much mellow absurdism.
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-13

    https://www.cleveland.com/community/2025/05/man-checks-out-100-books-from-beachwood-library-then-posts-on-social-media-video-of-those-books-burning.html
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    Politics Tariffs Catch-All

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened...
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    Off-Topic Aviation Crashes and other FAA News

    THIRD outage. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/11/us/another-equipment-outage-impacts-newark-airport Another air traffic control equipment outage caused the FAA to implement a ground stop for Newark Liberty International Airport bound flights Sunday morning. The ground stop, which means...
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