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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
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    Bluefalcon
    2d ago 100%

    John Oliver did 4 stories on them. I highly recommend watching them. Youtube has them all for free.

    One town in West Virginia was prescribed something crazy like a thousand per person (my number could be way off but it was a massive red flag for the feds).

    Edit: The Sackler family is the owners behind it.

    https://theweek.com/john-oliver/1003495/john-oliver-rages-against-the-sackler-family-and-their-bulls-t-looming

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  • Ted Cruz really could lose
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    Bluefalcon
    2d ago 94%

    Schilling, a registered Republican from Collier County, helped to expose the $1.7 billion Medicare fraud at Columbia/HCA that brought down several executives and forced Scott's resignation from the mammoth hospital chain he built.

    Florida: "Elect that man running that company!"

    Old people can be dumb as fuck.

    https://www.tampabay.com/hca-whistleblower-revives-claim-that-scott-knew-of-fraud/2200916/

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  • Republicans appeal a Georgia judge’s ruling that invalidates seven election rules
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    Bluefalcon
    3d ago 85%

    Polling is very easy to manipulate. Cherry picking a region to reflect your out look. Requesting voluntary participation usually leads to hardcore people or people fucking with you. Most Americans won't answer truthfully if you knock on their door or call them about a poll. Hell I had canvassers come to my place to see if I would listen to a Democratic pitch. I said no even though I voted Democrat.

    Take one statistics class and you will see it is a very pseudoscience process.

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  • Republicans appeal a Georgia judge’s ruling that invalidates seven election rules
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    Bluefalcon
    3d ago 100%

    Right now she's not even winning so.. it's either she loses out right or it's in the hands of the sc.

    Polls are the easiest thing to manipulate and I see you are big into them. We are seeing bigger than expected turnouts in a lot of the early voting. We also know women vote in higher numbers then men. So we will wait and see how it shakes out.

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    Mark Robinson, NC GOP nominee for governor, called himself a ‘black NAZI!,’ supported slavery in past comments made on porn forum
    www.cnn.com

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22299674

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    The next generation of Buffetts is poised to become one of the biggest forces in philanthropy
    apnews.com

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22143953 > Have to avoid paying taxes anyway possible.

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    apnews.com

    Fucking heart breaking that we are still watching this shit unfold. Playing musical chairs with bombing locations need to stop. Those directing the bombings need to be charged. Peace isn't enough anymore, the Palestinians need protection.

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    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-puts-housing-center-economic-pitch-us-voters-2024-08-26/

    > U.S. home prices have risen 50% in the last five years and rents have risen 35%, according to real estate firm Zillow. > "I keep hearing about the suburban woman doesn't like Trump," he said at a campaign event in Howell, Michigan last week. "I keep the suburbs safe. I stopped low-income towers from rising right alongside of their house, and I'm keeping the illegal aliens away from the suburbs." > At an Aug. 16 campaign stop in North Carolina, Harris called for building 3 million more housing units in four years, on top of the 1 million or so built annually by the private sector, through a new tax credit for developers who build homes aimed at first-time homebuyers and a $25,000 tax credit for those buyers. 1. Trump's remarks are reminiscent of how red lining was pushed. Same language. John Oliver did a great piece on it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0J49_9lwc 2. Harris's plan is estimated to cost tax payers a lot long term. However, that is what investments in our future will look like. > The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group, estimates those policies would cost at least $200 billion over 10 years.

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    Biden designates 1908 Springfield race riot site as national monument
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    www.404media.co

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/18541226 > > Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. Namely, that generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.

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    www.404media.co

    > Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. Namely, that generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.

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    Crews battle South Hill fertilizer warehouse fire in sweltering heat
    www.wral.com
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    This would be a quick way to see of it's racist, close minded, or just straight bs. Ex1- You want women to kill babies, boy! Ex2- You want to feed the homeless, boy!

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    Trump gag order partially lifted in hush money case
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    > "Until sentence is imposed, all individuals covered by Paragraph (b)" -- referring to members of the court staff, the district attorney's staff and their families -- "must continue to perform their lawful duties free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm," Merchan wrote in the ruling. > And although he struck the portion of the gag order pertaining to jurors, Merchan wrote that it would be his "strong preference" to extend those protections because there remains "ample evidence to justify continued concern for the jurors." Someone help make sense of this. Why would you lift the gag order off jurors but not yourself?

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