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Like almost everything in US politics at the moment, one figure looms over Tuesday's vote.

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Jon Stewart’s future at “The Daily Show” had been one of the biggest questions looming over Paramount under its new owners.

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In Britain, displaced textile artisans engaged in industrial terrorism by destroying machinery such as looms in the Luddite Uprisings.

The looming court ruling, he added, is “an extra layer of uncertainty in an already uncertain moment.”

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But some of the quickest to respond to the looming cutoff have been communities and citizens mobilizing in every state.

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