“From 2000 to 2014, a total of 4,508 inmates committed suicide. 47% were by inmates being held for nonviolent offenses. The median time served in jail for all suicides was nine days.“ washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
“An inmate awaiting trial is nearly five times as likely to kill himself or herself than someone on the outside. Most jails don’t even conduct reviews after suicides.”
Reagan > Murdoch 1/ Roy Cohn introduced Rupert Murdoch to Reagan to get his support for Murdoch's growing media empire. Reagan's FCC head Mark S. Fowler led the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. consortiumnews.com/wp-content/upl…
2/ Fowler also relaxed media ownership rules to extend TV licenses from 3 to 5 years and increase the number of AM, FM and television stations a broadcaster can own from seven to 12. pbs.org/moyers/moyerso… reaganlibrary.gov/archives/topic…
3/ These changes and others allowed Murdoch to expand in the U.S. and by the middle of Reagan's second term, Fox Broadcasting Company opened w/ 79 affiliate stations that reached 80% of homes in America. britannica.com/topic/Fox-Broa…
👏👍Keep’em coming!
“Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska…” news.yahoo.com/former-top-fbi…
Great news. We gotta root these ppl out. One by one. So happy to see this.
“McGonigal is charged with violating U.S. sanctions by trying to get Deripaska off the sanctions list.”
167/ “The proposal includes permanently banning mask requirements throughout FL, prohibiting vaccine and mask requirements in schools, prohibiting Covid passports in the state and prohibiting employers from hiring or firing based on Covid vaccines…” theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…
168/ “Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a yr after diagnosis…rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19…” nature.com/articles/d4158…
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“Trump acknowledged the ‘deadly’ nature of the coronavirus earlier this year in a series of recorded interviews with The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, even as Trump publicly sought to dismiss the disease’s threat to Americans.”
Sept. 9, 2020 politico.com/news/2020/09/0…
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“What we saw—rather than a cooperative global strategy (to fight covid) —was basically each country on its own. National leaders deciding…the strategy & the fates of their countries in an incredibly haphazard way.” washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09…
154/ “…the Trump WH and its allies repeatedly “bullied” CDC staff, tried to rewrite their publications and threatened their jobs in an attempt to align the CDC with the more optimistic view of the pandemic espoused by Trump…”