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New York City chose Mamdani. Now we get to see full-blown socialism in action. | Opinion
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Does the energy behind Zohran Mamdani’s win signal how far left the Democratic Party is willing to go to redefine themselves after 2024?

Zohran Mamdani has been elected the next mayor of New York City, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, campaigned on policies like free child care, free buses and a rent freeze.
The mayor-elect plans to fund his proposals with an additional tax on those earning over $1 million a year.
Mamdani’s victory raises questions about the progressive direction of the Democratic Party.

Zohran Mamdani has pulled off a remarkable feat to become the next mayor of New York City.

I’ll give him credit for that.

Mamdani, 34, rose from relative obscurity as a state assemblyman to defeat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June. Cuomo, 67, decided to stay in the race, however, as an independent. For the second time, Mamdani beat the much more experienced politician.

What Mamdani lacks in credentials, he makes up for with charisma and youth, which clearly proved more appealing to the city’s voters – especially its younger ones.

It’s what he’s selling that I find alarming – and the fact that so many people bought it. Mamdani is a democratic socialist, and his policies are dangerous to this country’s ideals of free markets and individualism.
Someone’s going to have to pay for Zohran Mamdani’s free stuff

Just look at Mamdani’s wish list.

From the beginning, his campaign has focused on affordability and the high cost of living in the country’s most populous city. Mamdani’s plan includes everything from “free” childcare to “free” buses to a rent freeze. He also wants government-run grocery stores.

The problem with all this “free” stuff is that it isn’t, in fact, free. Someone is going to have to pay for it.

And as Democrats are wont to do, Mamdani is planning to sic an additional 2% tax on those who make more than $1 million a year. (Luckily, he can’t do this all on his own. He would need sign-off from the state legislature and governor.)

So it’s no surprise that wealthy New Yorkers did their best to keep Mamdani out of office. Super PACs supporting Cuomo raised more than $40 million, with a lot of that funding coming from billionaires like Bill Ackman and Barry Diller.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who has an estimated net worth of $250 million, said ahead of the election that he’d consider moving his company’s headquarters out of New York City if Mamdani won. Expect many more entrepreneurs and wealthy residents to leave New York City for more tax-friendly havens like Florida and Texas.

It’s much harder to pay for all these “free” programs when the evil rich people aren’t there to tax.
Does Mamdani’s win signal where the Democratic Party is headed?

Mamdani’s win also raises questions beyond the Big Apple and about the future of the Democratic Party. Does the energy behind his win signal how far left the party is willing to go?

It’s true that Cuomo brought a lot of baggage. The former governor resigned from office in 2021 amid a sexual harassment scandal. He also faced a lot of scrutiny for his COVID-19 policies related to nursing homes and the deaths of the elderly that followed.

So New Yorkers may have had enough of him.

There’s more to Mamdani’s victory than that, though. A growing coalition of progressive voters actively supports socialism.

A recent Axios-Generation Lab poll of U.S. college students found that 67% say they have a positive or neutral view of the word “socialism” – compared with only 40% who held the same view of the word “capitalism.”

Party differences predicted these views, with 47% of Democrats and 31% of independents reacting positively to socialism, while only 5% of Republicans did.

As Democrats seek to redefine themselves after the 2024 election losses, there’s growing pressure from rising stars like Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to embrace socialist ideas.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York (somewhat reluctantly) endorsed Mamdani ahead of the election, yet he has said that the mayor-elect doesn’t represent the future of the Democratic Party nationwide.

I’m not so sure.

Ingrid Jacques is a columnist at USA TODAY.

Rien de tel qu’un pasteur pédophile pour faire campagne en faveur de Donald Trump auprès des évangéliques.
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PAWHUSKA, OK — Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris pleaded guilty in an Oklahoma court on Oct. 2 to sex crimes against a girl that started in 1982 and continued for years.

Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child in an Osage County courtroom. He will serve six months in the Osage County jail and then be on probation for nine years and six months, according to a plea agreement outlined by Oklahoma Attorney General Getner Drummond in a news release.

He also must register as a sex offender and pay $270,000 in restitution to the victim, Cindy Clemishire, who in court called him “a pedophile, disguised as a preacher.” Morris did not apologize in court.

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Morris was on Trump’s spiritual advisory board during the 2016 campaign and during the first term of his presidency. He did not have a role in the 2024 reelection effort.

USA TODAY - Stephen Colbert is out at CBS. Is all of late-night TV officially doomed ?
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Aux USA on ferme les émissions de comedy critiques pour préparer le soutien de Trump à une fusion de médias.

This certainly isn’t the future that Stephen Colbert had in mind for himself.

The host of CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” announced on July 17 that he only has one year left of monologues from New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater. And it’s not just him who’s leaving.

“This is all just going away,” the comedian, 61, told his appalled audience, explaining that he’s not being replaced, but the show will air its final episode in May 2026. “Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending ’The Late Show.’”

The news sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry, which has accepted late-night TV shows like “Late Show” and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as an immutable fact, not an optional part of the network lineup. The idea that a series as long-running and culturally ingrained as “Late Show,” an institution on the network since David Letterman defected from NBC to create it in 1993, could simply go away is as unfathomable as the idea of CBS itself going away.

Or is it? It’s 2025, not 1993, and late-night TV is becoming more expensive and less profitable every year, as ratings sink and costs go up. YouTube clips may be viral, but they don’t make up for the revenue lost as live viewership declines. It was always a question of when – not if – late-night TV would cease to exist in its traditional form. But nobody expected it to happen quite so soon.

This is the end of an era, a moment in Hollywood history that will be remembered: There was the time before Colbert was canceled and after. And it remains to be seen if any of his remaining late-night compatriots – Jimmys Fallon and Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart – will survive on the air in the years to come.
Why is CBS canceling ’The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’?

After Colbert’s jaw-dropping on-air announcement, viewers had only one question: Why? If you ask CBS’ parent company, Paramount, it’s simply about the math.

“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” Paramount and CBS executives said. “We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late-night television.”

“Other matters happening at Paramount” is the operative phrase in the statement, an oblique reference to the company’s current efforts to finalize an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval from the federal government. And Colbert is an outspoken critic of President Trump’s administration. Hardly a night goes by in which Colbert doesn’t use his “Late Show” stage to poke at the president.

And even his own parent company is not immune from Colbert’s ire. Just three days before he revealed the cancellation news, Colbert used his bully pulpit to sharply criticize Paramount for what he saw as capitulating to Trump, after CBS News settled a defamation lawsuit with the president for $16 million. Colbert called it a “big fat bribe,” an effort to smooth the way for the Skydance merger.

"As someone who has always been a proud employee of this network, I am offended,” he said. “And I don’t know if anything will ever repair my trust in this company. But just taking a stab at it, I’d say $16 million would help.”

Paramount also owns Comedy Central, which airs the equally anti-Trump “Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and other comedians. The company hasn’t said anything lately about the future of that political late-night series, which (along with “Late Show” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”) just received a 2025 Emmy nomination for best talk series.

The CEO of Paramount’s hopeful new owner Skydance is David Ellison, who happens to be the son of Larry Ellison, the billionaire chairman of Oracle who has hosted a fundraiser for President Trump on his property and donated to Republican-friendly super-PACs.
Is this the end of late night TV as we know it?

Critics and analysts are furiously debating whether the “Late Show” cancellation was truly a financial move or more politically motivated, but whatever the ultimate truth, it doesn’t affect the trajectory of the late-night genre: Colbert will be gone in 10 months, and the other dominoes could start to fall.

CBS recently ended its 12:30 a.m. series, comedy panel show “After Midnight,” after just over a year, when host Taylor Tomlinson decided to leave in favor of her standup career. NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” recently axed its live, in-studio band as a cost-cutting measure. “Tonight Show” went from five nights a week to four in 2024, joining the other late-night shows. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel routinely threatens to leave the grind of late-night behind. Conan O’Brien, who briefly inherited the “Tonight Show” throne, has moved from decades of traditional late night TV on NBC and later TBS to the low-fi world of podcasting. Samantha Bee’s TBS talk show was also canceled.

We are far from the days of Johnny Carson as America’s father figure lulling us to sleep each night, or even of Letterman and Jay Leno trading barbs and competing for millions of viewers at 11:35 p.m. There was a time when late-night TV was our pop-culture North Star, and the hosts were tastemakers and star-makers. Now the genre is well known as a a difficult financial sell and viewed mostly by older viewers who are less appealing to advertisers. YouTube clips can garner a few hundred thousand views, sure, but even the one-time viral video king Fallon doesn’t get tens of millions of hits anymore. Generation Z and millennials are increasingly turning to short-form video platforms like TikTok. The monologue, two guests and a band format is stilted, unyielding and increasingly a marker of the past.

If Colbert can’t survive this landscape, it’s not clear if anyone can. According to LateNighter.com, citing Nielsen ratings, “Late Show” was leading the pack in ratings so far in 2025. The show wins the 11:35 pm hour with an average of 2.417 million viewers for the three months ended in June. Kimmel and Fallon were far behind in that metric, averaging 1.77 million and 1.19 million, respectively, although Kimmel is replaced by guest hosts during the summer.
What’s next for Stephen Colbert?

Colbert rose to fame on “The Daily Show” in the 2000s, playing a right-wing conservative character as satire that he kept going on spinoff “The Colbert Report” for nearly a decade, from 2005-14. He took over “Late Show” in 2015 after Letterman’s retirement from the program in a much ballyhooed transition that coincided with other shifts in late night, including Fallon’s 2014 takeover “Tonight” from Jay Leno.

With a different pair of eyeglasses and stripped of his faux persona, the world met the real Colbert for the first time, and he quickly developed a comfortable routine. Political punchlines dominated his nightly monologues, with openly anti-Trump sentiments for the duration of the president’s first term and the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections. His standup is followed by the traditional easygoing celebrity interviews and musical performances. With his political-comedy chops, Colbert hosted more politicians, newscasters and thinkers than Fallon ever has on his gimmick-and-game-happy “Tonight.” On July 17, Colbert welcomed Senator Adam Schiff, the California Democrat. But in spite of his penchant for political barbs, many of Colbert’s segments are surprisingly soft and heartfelt, whether he’s nerding out over “The Lord of the Rings,” "Severance" and “Star Wars” or sharing the stage with wife Evelyn in one of her frequent cameos.

There were no indicators that Colbert was ready to slow down on “Late Show.” His appearances are routinely energetic and whip-smart; no fatigue has crept into his comedy, and there was no reason to believe that he couldn’t have kept doing “Late Show” for another decade.

Of course, CBS had other ideas. Now he’s soon to be a comedian without a stage, the town crier without a box on which to stand and shout. But it’s unlikely he’ll remain idle after he takes his final bow. His options are likely to be multifold, from podcasting like O’Brien to a streaming or cable series like Stewart or Letterman, although streamers have not yet successfully cracked the talk-show format, and anything with Colbert will likely come with a hefty salary. His former “Daily Show” colleague John Oliver has found great success on HBO with Emmy-winning “Last Week Tonight.” Or Colbert could come up with something all his own. Nobody had done anything like “Report” before he tried it.

But Colbert isn’t making any plans yet, at least not publicly. He’s still mourning what he’s about to lose.

“I’m so grateful (to CBS) for giving me this chair,” he told viewers. “It is a fantastic job. I wish somebody else was getting it. It’s a job I’m looking forward to doing with this usual gang of idiots for another 10 months. It’s going to be fun. Y’all ready?”

Ready or not, the next 10 months will usher in a new era in TV. But hopefully we won’t stop hearing Colbert’s opinions about it and everything else. His voice is too funny, too smart and too important to go quietly into the night.

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Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan
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Trump administration officials directed law enforcement nationwide to pursue suspected gang members into their homes, in some cases without any sort of warrant, according to a copy of the directive exclusively obtained by USA TODAY.

The directive, issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi March 14, provides the first public view of the specific implementation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act invoked to deport migrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

[…]

Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead counsel in the challenges to uses of the Alien Enemies Act, said the DOJ directives run counter to the constitution’s protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

“The administration’s unprecedented use of a wartime authority during peacetime was bad enough," Gelernt said. "Now we find out the Justice Department was authorizing officers to ignore the most bedrock principle of the Fourth Amendment by authorizing officers to enter homes without a judicial warrant."

Los Angeles Officials Made the Horrific Fires So Much Worse | The New Republic
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Los Angeles authorities have evacuated some 30,000 people as of Wednesday, as flames tear through the Pacific Palisades, threatening more than 10,000 homes. And even though the fires are literally in its own backyard, Los Angeles hasn’t exactly prioritized its ability to respond to the fiery devastation.

The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office.

Exactly why the fire department was deprioritized amid escalating wildfire seasons is unclear, but the unfortunate budget decision comes at a time when state firefighting reserves are also facing the heat. Depending on the year, low-wage incarcerated inmates compose somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the firefighters with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection—but their ranks within the reserve have been drained by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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Why maternal mortality rate surged by 40% when deaths are preventable
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Maternal death rates surged by nearly 40% during the second year of the pandemic, widening disparities as Black women again faced alarmingly high, disproportionate rates, a new federal analysis shows.

In 2021, there were about 33 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births – a 38% increase from the year before, according to the report released Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Experts say COVID-19 likely contributed to the increases, but that the sobering rates continue to reveal deep flaws in health systems, such as structural racism, implicit bias and communities losing access to care.

“A roughly 40% increase in preventable deaths compared to a year prior is stunning news,” Dr. Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement to USA TODAY.

The rates “send a resounding message” that maternal health and evidence-based efforts to eliminate racial inequities must remain at the forefront of public health priorities, Hoskins said.

Woman’s grocery list for husband goes viral and sparks conversation about men’s ’strategic incompetence’
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The grocery list was beautiful, meticulous, a combination of text and photos painstakingly organized. Each item featured a cut-out photograph, so there could be no mistaking it for a similar item, and included accompanying lines for quantity, aisle and price. The list came with a hand-drawn map of the store. Perfect, some education experts say, for a child working on gaining independence during their first time grocery shopping.

Except this list wasn’t for a child. It was posted by a woman on the social media platform TikTok with the onscreen text, “When I have to send my husband to the store.”

Some people thought the video was a joke, and while it may have been intended as hyperbole, many users on the platform cited it as an example of what gender experts call “strategic incompetence,” a tactic used by men – sometimes consciously, sometimes not – to avoid equitable division of family work. It is also referred to as “weaponized incompetence” or “performative incompetence,” in which men pretend they are unable to perform certain tasks so women will do them instead.

On TikTok, the term #weaponizedincompetence has 3.5 million views.

“Incompetence has its rewards. It allows men to justify the gender-based distribution of domestic labor,” said Francine M. Deutsch, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College and author of “Creating Equality at Home: How 25 couples around the world share housework and childcare.”

Men in heterosexual relationships who fake incompetence at home or blame their poor performance on women’s unreasonable standards (ones sociologists say women have been socialized to maintain in order to be viewed as “good mothers” and “good wives”), harm women by placing the disproportionate burden of family work on their shoulders.

According to the Pew Research Center:

74% of mothers say they do more to manage their children’s schedules and activities than their spouse. Only 3% say their husband or partner does more.
59% say they do more household chores than their spouse, with 6% saying their spouse does more.
Just 39% of fathers say they were doing a “very good job” raising their children, compared with 51% of mothers.

“There’s this assumption that women have the skills needed to complete childcare and housework, which means that we then stereotype men as having fewer skills or greater incompetence in this arena, but the reality is that no one is born knowing how to get a stubborn stain out of a shirt in the laundry or to scrub a pot effectively,” said Caitlyn Collins, a sociology professor at Washington University. “We learn how to do this. We are socialized from a very young age into learning what men and women can and should be responsible for.”
Ruining the laundry, ignoring the children

More than two decades ago, Deutsch interviewed hundreds of couples for her book, “Halving it All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works,” and found men employed many strategies of resistance to avoid participating equally at home. They included strategic incompetence, passive resistance – where men sit back while women repeatedly ask, nag and cajole – and praise, which may be sincere, but which Deutsch said also has the “insidious effect of keeping the work within women’s domain.”

’No’: The one word women need to be saying more often

Deutsch said one husband she interviewed told her, “It would be a struggle for me to do the laundry. I don’t do it as well as Robin. I think she’s better with that sort of peasant stuff of life.”

Strategic incompetence can look like a man ruining the laundry, leaving grease on the dishes or ignoring the children. It can sound like a husband who says, “I’m just not very good in the kitchen,” or that his daughter’s shirt buttons are too tiny to fasten himself.

Collins said she once interviewed a successful working mom in Washington, D.C., married to a man who also worked full-time. The woman told Collins one night she asked her husband to take steak out of the freezer to thaw so she could cook it when she got home. He didn’t.

“She said ’Caity, I’m embarrassed to say this out loud, but my husband works from home. He’s home all day long, and he could have taken the meat out of the freezer at any point in the day while I’m out at the office, so I can come home and cook, and he couldn’t even do that.’ She was embarrassed to tell me this because her husband was a very, very successful white-collar professional in D.C.” Collins said. “These are smart, capable men, and they weren’t really successful in helping their partners feel less stressed at home.”
The problem with saying, ’but men were never taught’

Deutsch said some of her detractors argue incompetence is not a strategy. It’s simply that men weren’t taught how to perform these tasks.

“If you think about it for five minutes, you’ll realize that’s ridiculous,” she said. “Many women today, my husband and I, neither of us had ever held a newborn baby before our child was born. We both were novices.”

Deutsch said she once interviewed a machinist who couldn’t figure out how to do the laundry. She’s talked to men who are employed in high-level management who did not contribute to the overall management of their homes.

Analysis: What your mom actually needs

“It’s one of the most intractable gendered things. And the men constantly said to me things like, ’She’s just more organized than I am.’ Well, some of these men were managers at work,” she said. “It’s not an issue of competence. It’s motivation. If you want to learn how to cook, do the laundry, take care of children, manage the household chores, certainly most men are capable of doing this.”
Why women are sometimes unwilling to let go of the work

Deutsch said some men are likely consciously manipulative, while others have simply learned there are benefits to doing less. And many women continue to do the lion’s share of managing their homes, Collins said, because they have been socialized to believe it is their responsibility.

“It makes sense that women are unwilling to just let these tasks drop completely, like the laundry, changing diapers, helping with homework, scheduling doctor’s appointments,” Collins said. “Women aren’t really willing to let those things fall by the wayside and so they step in when their partners fumble to do the work, but there is no safety net for them when they don’t do those tasks.”

That feeling you can’t name?: It’s called emotional exhaustion

A woman who runs her household well is viewed as a “good woman,” which is why so many women have high standards for family work. It’s an authentic pressure but can have a backfire effect, leading to what gender experts call “maternal gate-keeping,” when some women prevent partners from helping because they don’t think they can complete the tasks as well.

There are times, Deutsch said, when women must relax standards in order to achieve equity at home. Men also can’t blame their lack of participation on those standards, especially because some are non-negotiable.

“Some standards are really important,” Deutsch said. “If the kid’s in the swimming pool, somebody has got to be watching them.”
’It’s a lot of work to try and be equal’

Getting men to participate equally at home is its own kind of labor, in some ways more daunting than household tasks.

“It’s a lot of work to try and be equal,” Collins said.

Collins says the popularity of these videos on TikTok shows women have found an outlet for expressing frustration with their partners. They have also captivated an audience that’s encouraged them to demand better.

“We do not teach women to express anger or rage at all in their lives and certainly not in the context of their families and in their relationships. We socialize women to put up with a lot that isn’t acceptable,” Collins said. “What you’re seeing on TikTok is a way women have found to express themselves with a veiled, kind of loving humor. But what you’re also seeing is people saying, ’that’s pretty messed up. You can expect more.’”

Deutsch said some men won’t change. Other men can and will. But developing more empathy for their spouses may not be the right catalyst. Some degree of appreciation is likely already there, and the increased help a husband provides a burnt-out spouse at her wit’s end is not likely to last. For work to be shared at home, men need to believe equality matters. Women need to recognize they deserve it.

“Equality is more straightforward than helping,” Deutsch said. “Helping is very ambiguous. How much help is required? When you commit to equality, it’s not ambiguous. It’s very clear what equality is. Maybe you’ll negotiate about a particular thing, but it’s a principle that you can always look to and ask, ’are we equal now?’”

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Disney tests optional facial recognition entry to Magic Kingdom
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Disney is testing a new way for visitors to enter the Magic Kingdom – through facial recognition. The test, launched Tuesday, is optional and will be conducted from March 23 to April 23. The technology captures an image of a guest’s face and converts it into a unique number, which is associated with the form of admission used for park entry. Children under 18 must be in the presence of their parents or guardian and have consent before participating. Visitors can enter the park through a (...)

#Disney #algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #facial #reconnaissance #enfants #masque #

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Death of Florida doctor following COVID-19 vaccine under investigation
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Dr. Gregory Michael, 56, an OB-GYN at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, died after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke apparently resulting from a lack of platelets.

Miami medical examiners are investigating his death, the Florida Department of Health said in a statement.

“The CDC and FDA are responsible for reviewing #COVID-19 vaccine safety data and presenting that information for federal recommendations on vaccine administration,” communications director Jason Mahon said in an email. “The state will continue to provide all available information to the CDC as they lead this investigation.”

In a Facebook post, Michael’s wife, Heidi Neckelmann, said he sought emergency care three days after the shot because he had dots on his skin that indicated internal bleeding.

The condition she said led to his stroke, called thrombocytopenia, results from a lower-than-normal number of platelets, which help the blood clot.

In extremely rare cases, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has been linked to thrombocytopenia in young children, according to a 2003 study. The condition can also be caused by cancer, anemia, heavy drinking, viruses, some genetic conditions, toxic chemicals and medications such as diuretics and the rarely used antibiotic chloramphenicol.

#Pfizer, which along with its partner #BioNTech made the vaccine the man received, said in a statement it is aware of the death.

“We are actively investigating this case, but we don’t believe at this time that there is any direct connection to the vaccine,” the statement said.

Instagram to fix anti-spam system blocking #BlackLivesMatter posts
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By now you’ve probably noticed that your Instagram timeline is flooded with black squares. But if you tried posting one – or anything – with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, you may be blocked. An anti-spam system on Instagram has been “incorrectly” displaying an “action blocked” message to some users, preventing them from posting images using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. "We’re aware that some people are incorrectly running into ’action blocked’ messages when using the hashtag (...)

#TikTok #Facebook #Instagram #algorithme #activisme #censure #modération #BlackLivesMatter

#Covid-19 #migration #Trump #US #migrants
Undocumented immigrants, fearful of Trump administration, could be hit hard by coronavirus

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A 600 percent increase in opioid antidote price cost taxpayers more than $142 million
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As the nation struggled with the rising number of opioid deaths, a private drug company increased the price of an overdose antidote more than 600 percent, a Senate subcommittee says in a new report.

The increase has cost the federal Medicare and Medicaid health programs more than $142 million since 2014, according the Homeland Security permanent subcommittee on investigations.

Richmond, Virginia-based Kaleo increased the price of its auto-injectable overdose-reversal drug EVZIO from $575 to $4,100, the subcommittee reported.

The company also changed its sales strategy and encouraged doctors to complete paperwork identifying it as a medically necessary drug, allowing them to bypass potentially cheaper generic versions of naloxone, the subcommittee reported.

Border Patrol agent questions two U.S. citizens for speaking Spanish in Montana gas station

Two U.S. citizens at a northern Montana gas station were questioned by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer for speaking Spanish.

Ana Suda told multiple news outlets she and her friend Mimi Hernandez were about pay for eggs and milk at a convenience store gas station on Wednesday in Havre, Mont., about 35 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, when a Border Patrol officer asked for her identification.

Suda recorded the encounter, where the agent says the two were brought outside for questioning because they were "speaking Spanish in the store, in a state where it’s predominantly English-speaking.”

“I was so embarrassed … being outside in the gas station, and everybody’s looking at you like you’re doing something wrong. I don’t think speaking Spanish is something criminal, you know?” Suda told The Washington Post. “My friend, she started crying. She didn’t stop crying in the truck. And I told her, we are not doing anything wrong.”

Suda told Montana TV station KRTV they were not allowed to leave the gas station for about 35 minutes.

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