‘…America has been steadily dropping on the widely cited Freedom in the World ranking of countries by how democratic they are. The US has fallen from the company of large, Western European countries to end up today alongside Ghana and Mongolia.’
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2021/12/19 Bigger jails stand as monuments to Indiana’s failures as incarceration rate keeps climbing
Indiana’s jails are largely filled with people arrested on relatively minor charges and often related to drugs, mental illness, the inability to afford bail or a failure to follow rules of probation.
2021/12/17 Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says
Deaths could have been reduced by up to 40% or 320,000 unnecessary deaths, all to massage the ego of a narcissist.
2021/12/11 Over 70 feared dead as 22 reported tornadoes rip through South, Midwest
“This has been the most devastating tornado event in our state’s history,” Beshear said during a Saturday morning press briefing. “For those that have seen it, what it’s done here in Graves County and elsewhere, it is indescribable.” “This will be, I believe, the deadliest tornado system to ever run through Kentucky,” he added
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2021/12/10 Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Should Serve 5 Years, Feds Say
Robert Scott Palmer was arrested 12 days after he was identified in a HuffPost story and pleaded guilty in October.
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2021/12/07 Yes, debt collectors can now contact you on social media. No, they can’t post that you owe money.
The number one reason people have unpaid debt: Medical Bills
2021/12/03 Congress averts shutdown after party leaders resolve GOP standoff over vaccine mandate
Every single Indiana Republican in the U.S. House voted to keep Americans – including our nation’s servicemembers – from a paycheck during the holiday season. The Indiana Republican Party‘s extreme partisanship is literally harming the future of Hoosier families.
2021/12/05 Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame
A horrifying look at the deadly cost of misinformation and political polarization:
2021/12/06 Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom
“We have no idea why employees are disgruntled and unhappy with the current labor conditions in the US marketplace”
The current US marketplace:
2021/11/24 Jobless claims plunge to 199K, lowest level since 1969
New weekly claims for jobless aid plunged to the lowest level in more than 50 years last week, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department.
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