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D.C.’s Crime Problem Is a Democracy Problem

D.C.’s Crime Problem Is a Democracy ProblemMatthew Graves is not shy about promoting his success in prosecuting those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. By his count, Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has charged more than 1,358 individuals, spread across nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for assaulting police, destroying federal property, and other crimes. He issues a press release for most cases, and he held a rare news conference this past January to tout his achievements.But Graves’s record of bringing violent criminals to justice on the streets of D.C. has put him on the defensive. Alone among U.S. attorneys nationwide, Graves, appointed by the president and accountable to the U.S. attorney general, is responsible for overseeing both federal and local crime in his city. In 2022, prosecutors under Graves pressed charges on a record-low 33 percent of arrests in the District….


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What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With Disabilities

What Trump Supporters Think When He Mocks People With DisabilitiesLast weekend, I stood among thousands of Donald Trump supporters in a windy airfield, watching them watch their candidate. I traveled to the former president’s event just outside Dayton, Ohio, because I couldn’t stop thinking about something that had happened one week earlier, at his rally in Georgia: Trump had broken into an imitation of President Joe Biden’s lifelong stutter, and the crowd had cackled.Mocking Biden is not the worst thing Trump has ever done. Biden is a grown man, and the most public of figures. He does not need to be babied by other politicians or members of the media. Trump disrespects all manner of people, but he had notably avoided mocking Biden’s stutter throughout the 2020 campaign. No more.[Read: Trump finds another line to cross]This is bigger than Biden, though. Stuttering is a genetic neurological disorder—one that can be…


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It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem

It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation ProblemIf you don’t trust social media, you should know you’re not alone. Most people surveyed around the world feel the same—in fact, they’ve been saying so for a decade. There is clearly a problem with misinformation and hazardous speech on platforms such as Facebook and X. And before the end of its term this year, the Supreme Court may redefine how that problem is treated.Over the past few weeks, the Court has heard arguments in three cases that deal with controlling political speech and misinformation online. In the first two, heard last month, lawmakers in Texas and Florida claim that platforms such as Facebook are selectively removing political content that its moderators deem harmful or otherwise against their terms of service; tech companies have argued that they have the right to curate what their users see. Meanwhile, some policy makers…


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Maddow on the unlikely institution holding Trump’s coup plotters to account

Maddow on the unlikely institution holding Trump’s coup plotters to accountRachel Maddow joins Chris Hayes to discuss Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman potentially facing accountability for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the role of civil society in upholding democracy, and more.  ….. Read More.MSNBC – The Latest | U.S. and World NewsThu, March 28, 202411 hours ago


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Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales

Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail salesRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase.The development did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told reporters he didn’t think the minimum wage bill was needed and had repeatedly said he was uninterested in setting up retail marijuana sales.VIRGINIA GOVERNOR VETOES DOZENS OF GUN CONTROL BILLS THWARTING DEMOCRAT LEGISLATORSIn 2021, Virginia became the first Southern state to legalize marijuana, adopting a policy change that allowed adults age 21 and up to possess and cultivate the drug. But the state didn’t set up retail sales at the time and still hasn’t, due to shifts in partisan…


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Health care is ‘overwhelmingly complex’ for older adults, experts say: ‘Ever-increasing hurdle...

Health care is ‘overwhelmingly complex’ for older adults, experts say: ‘Ever-increasing hurdle…Adults tend to need more medical care as they age, but coordinating that care can be stressful and strenuous for seniors.Getting in-person care and treatment can require “substantial time, effort and cost” for older adults and their partners or caregivers, according to a new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.Led by Ishani Ganguli, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, researchers looked at data from 6,619 adults aged 65 and older, who responded to the 2019 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data, to get an idea of the number of days spent receiving medical care.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HELPS PREDICT SENIORS’ LONG-TERM CARE NEEDS: ‘CRITICAL NEXT STEPS’During that year, the older adults had an average of 17.3 “ambulatory contact days,” which consisted of visits to a primary care doctor or specialty doctor — or a test, imaging procedure…


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