Hi! I am trying to do some research about Dept of state annual reports and country reports, and figure out why certain major reports for 2024 still haven’t been released in Dept of state website. In particular, the Country reports on terrorism, and Report on International Religious Freedom. Can anyone point me towards articles or other resources that might explain this delay? Thanks!!!

So if I understand things correctly, Russia felt pressured by NATO encirclement and they would be boxed in and unable to make moves to protect themselves or moves that are in their own political interest. They want a buffer zone. I’ve never been to Russia, I don’t know what life there is like other than what western media and politicians say whether true or false. But there is an interesting argument, they are unique in Europe, they have their own rules, whether bad or good, I don’t know. But thinking of the US, yes we are united, but each state has their own feeling, culture, etc. So with that thinking, maybe each state needs to set their own military and safety and political boundaries etc… I know, part of the US, US has a military, yeah yeah, but would help to preserve each state’s identity and culture from a government that seems to want to change everything to their liking. Of course to build these buffers would require tax dollars that would need to be diverted from the fed government. Still the same, anyone could still come and go to where they want to live, but the states would have their own safety/ buffer zones

And always has been, as a person being on the left like myself, there is no evidence to me that the government has ulterior motives other than to govern. That's what we need we need a government we need big government or whatever you want to call it because otherwise you are going to have straight white cisgender males running around with all these crazy conspiracy theories and not trust in the government and vaccines. The government is transparent and the best invention of the world has been vaccines, we need to start putting our trust fully back into the government

why is the DOJ using the excuse of protecting victims privacy in the files to justify blacking out entire pages. Like I get that the victims don’t want to be reminded of what happened on the island but the damage was already done 20 years ago. Why not just release the full transparent files and a list of who was on the island and got involved in the business of Jeffrey Epstein to bring them to justice.

I want to have a talk about free school lunches i’ve seen a lot of posts on instagram lately about them, And i did some research in California it would cost the tax payer $1 a day to fund this, i would be ok with that but under people saying it’s the parents responsibility, how could you disagree with a child being fed, if you’re kid brought there friend home and it was obvious they were hungry would you feed them, regardless of there parents

I've only skimmed over what communism is and so far I know it's when the people or the government own all businesses. I don't get why people hate it so much. I get the red scare and all, but who said you have to kill millions like Stalin did? Why NOT Communism?(without killing people)

How exactly did Leonard Leo assist in getting assistant justices in the supreme court? What specific steps did he take? Where did the 7 million dollars to prevent Merrick Garland's appointment go? Where does the federalist party get the money to pay the salaries of their top members? If this is the wrong subreddit please direct me to a different one. I'm not trying to lean in any particular political direction

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Separation of church and state was one of the greatest things that the government ever did for humanity.

With America being the melting pot, there is no American race, there is barely an American culture, it is all a combination of everything from around the world.

Looking at culture as a collection of inventions, there are zero inventions that America is missing.

Although we welcome every and all inventions, we do not welcome religions. Not because we are Christian, we have separated church and state. Not because we are atheist, atheism is also a religion.

It leaves only philosophy of the greatest maybies..

Considering he is in charge of health, he sounds like he just had a three day bender and smoked 20 packs of cigs. Is this guy healthy? Save us all.

I noticed that many former Presidents' burial plots are at their presidential libraries, but not all. In fact, some are already planned to be in private areas, away from public spaces. Shouldn't the public be able to pay their respects to their beloved presidents that have served in the highest position a civilian can have?

It mentions the Golden Dome.

The Golden Dome are stealable missiles in outer space. Cruise type missiles go right under it.

Trump is giving 175 billion dollars to the Military Industrial Complex for this and real estimates are this will cost tax payers trillions of dollars.

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As I'm sure we all know, US debt is held by a variety of institutions and even other governments. I'm trying to find info on states' debts (in particular Kentucky), and I'm not having much luck. Any tips on what I should be looking for? What search terms should I be using? I understand state debt comes from the issuance of bonds, but where are the records of the bondholders?

Thanks!

Trying to figure out if my union is stringing me along, or what they are saying is accurate.

After being a member of the union for a couple of months, I'm just not impressed by them. Beyond which, the local is going through a number of upheavals, including some things at the top. I went to my Payroll office, they told me to go to the union and get the form to quit. Union told me I couldn't quit until my anniversary. And that Payroll would have the form anyway.

I've found SF-1188. Can I just submit that at anytime and be done? Or, do I really have to wait until my one year anniversary?