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Live Longer and Prosper More, in Blue States

Striking new research, published this month in Science Daily, shows that people who lived in Democratic states and counties had an 11% reduction in mortality over a twenty year period from 2000 to 2019 (pre-COVID). Significantly, the study controlled for factors like race, age, exercise and pre-existing health conditions. According to NPR’s Allison Aubrey, “the …

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Barr: Trump is Lying or is Disconnected From Reality

In explosive testimony before the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th 2021, top officials from Trump’s inner circle made it clear that Trump knew he was lying about voter fraud in the 2020 election, or, was ‘disconnected from reality.’ In the first two hearings, the committee demonstrated beyond any …

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New Poll: Maybe Floridians Aren’t (Totally) Crazy After All?

After four years of crafting policies aimed at addressing the Fox News headline of the moment, it seems that Floridians are finally starting to see through their glass-jawed Governor. In new likely-voter polling released this week by FiveThirtyEight, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Governor since 2018, trails probable challenger Charlie Crist by 2 percentage points.  Primary Details …

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To the surprise of no one, Trump endorses another bigot

Weighing in Thursday on a crowded Arizona Senate primary, Former President Trump once again endorsed the most unapologetically racist candidate in the field. Blake Masters has made headlines for everything from comparing having to disclose his campaign donors to kristallnacht, to claiming that the fault for gun violence in this country belongs to “Black people, …

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In Aftermath of Massacres, More GOP Hypocrisy and Deceit

The GOP must be betting their voters have a pretty short memory. Because a single news cycle, maybe two, tops, seems to be about the modern GOP’s attention span for discussing gun violence.  Which, actually, sort of makes sense.  What if Republicans actually acted on their “solutions?” Imagine a world in which GOP leaders like …

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