#democratic-values
#democratic-values
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Right-wing politics
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 days agoEverything that is wrong with politics is summed up in the recent assassination attempt on Trump - LGBTQ Nation
Political violence has become more common due to Donald Trump's rhetoric, which has embraced and even encouraged such behavior among his supporters.
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoDear allies of America, please don't confuse our president for us | Robert Reich
Trump's unilateral military actions alienated traditional U.S. allies who refused participation, revealing a distinction between Trump's isolation and broader American values aligned with democratic nations and international institutions.
NYC LGBT
fromwww.amny.com
1 month agoAppellate Division, Second Department honors Greek judge's philotimo' in first-ever Hellenic Heritage day | amNewYork
The Appellate Division, Second Department in Brooklyn Heights held its first Hellenic Heritage Day celebration, honoring Greek judges and lawyers while celebrating the Greek concept of philotimo—a love of honor and service to something greater than oneself.
France news
fromThe Local France
1 month agoREVEALED: What makes the French proud?
French people take greatest pride in their history of ideas, particularly the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the French Revolution's democratic legacy, rather than physical heritage or cultural stereotypes.
fromBoston.com
3 months agoWu evokes American Revolution as she is sworn in for second term
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was sworn in for her second term Monday, taking the stage inside Boston Symphony Hall to tout her administration's accomplishments over the past four years and to lay the groundwork for the next four. On the precipice of the nation's 250th anniversary, Wu delivered an inaugural address steeped in the history of the American Revolution. She framed the city's current work as a continuation of that original fight, casting Boston as a beacon of social connection in an era of isolation and as a bastion of democratic values under a federal government that sullies them.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
5 months agoAI CEOs are promising all-powerful superintelligence. Government insiders have thoughts
AI promises breakthroughs in medicine, science, and human-level intelligence while governments lag adoption and critics warn of unreliability and threats to democratic values.
fromThe New Yorker
6 months agoWhy Trump Tore Down the East Wing
We are creatures of symbols, and our architecture tells us who we are. John Ruskin, the greatest of architectural critics, observed that a nation writes its history in many books, but that the book of its buildings is the most enduring. The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower's lattice of iron-these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can.
US politics
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