There's no exclusion of politics from HN, and never haws been (since it was renamed from Startup News in 2007) other than a few days in 2016 when we tried a brief experiment with it and got quite decisive results.

At the same time, not all political stories are on topic. If anyone wants to read about how we draw that line, there are past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....