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  • It suggests democracy was the issue when hamas murdered Fatah members.

    Hamas would not have been in a position to exert that power if they did not have the majority control they got from winning the election. It's like when the Nazis came to power from elections they started murdering their opponents with nobody to stop them.

  • News @kbin.social

    Wake Co. woman stuck with $30,000 surgery bill junk insurance wouldn't cover

    Politics @kbin.social

    The House GOP Didn’t Just Reject Jim Jordan, They Made Him Squirm

    News @kbin.social

    Suzanne Somers, 'Three's Company' and 'Step by Step' Actress, Dead at 76

  • A 13-year-old Texas boy has been found “the equivalent of guilty” in the murder of a Sonic restaurant worker with an AR-style rifle after the child’s uncle got into a fight with the employee, according to authorities.

    The boy was arrested on May 13 after police received calls about a shooting at the Sonic Drive-In in Keene, Tex., about 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The boy, who was 12 at the time of the shooting, was found “delinquent,” which is the equivalent to guilty in juvenile court, of a murder charge on Oct. 5. The boy, who is from Fort Worth but hasn’t been publicly identified because of his age, was convicted after nearly seven hours of deliberation, the sheriff’s office announced Sunday.

    The boy is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, the sheriff’s office said. A juvenile convicted of murder in Texas could face up to 40 years in prison, according to state attorneys.

    Police say the incident unfolded when the boy’s uncle, Angel Gomez, started urinating in the parking lot of the Sonic on the night of May 13. Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old Sonic employee, confronted Gomez, 20, for “being disorderly in the parking lot,” and the argument between them got physical, according to the Keene Police Department.

    Then, Gomez’s nephew, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, retrieved an AR-style .22 rifle and shot Davis at least six times, according to police.

    “A confrontation between two adults became physical at which point the 12-year-old boy got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots, striking the victim,” the sheriff’s office said on Sunday.

    Davis was airlifted to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    By the time police arrived at about 9:40 p.m., the boy, Gomez and the boy’s aunt had fled the scene, according to the sheriff’s office. Gomez later returned to the scene of the crime and was arrested, the Keene Police Department said in a news release. Authorities found the boy in Rio Vista, Tex., about 13 miles south of the Sonic in Keene, and took him into custody.

    Gomez is also charged with murder. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney, and court records were not available to determine the status of his case. If he’s convicted, Gomez could face a sentence of five to 99 years in prison.

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    Texas boy, 13, convicted for killing Sonic worker with AR-style rifle

  • These events are symptoms of the deeper malaise in America’s dysfunctional health-care system. The country spends about $4.3trn a year on keeping citizens in good nick. That is equivalent to 17% of gdp, twice as much as the average in other rich economies. And yet American adults live shorter lives and American infants die more often than in similarly affluent places. Pharmaceutical firms and hospitals attract much of the public ire for the inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to a small number of middlemen who extract far bigger rents from the system’s complexity.

    Over the past decade these firms have quietly increased their presence in America’s vast health-care industry. They do not make drugs and have not, until recently, treated patients. They are the intermediaries—insurers, pharmacies, drug distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers (pbms)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the nine biggest middlemen—call them big health—equated to around 45% of America’s health-care bill, up from 25% in 2013. Big health accounts for eight of the top 25 companies by revenue in the s&p 500 index of America’s leading stocks, compared with four for big tech and none for big pharma.

  • News @kbin.social

    Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?

  • Hey Alexa, only conservatives love to be lied to. All the rest of us dislike being lied to, and we think that the people who love to be lied to are the dumbest of the dumb. And an AI that lies is a useless piece of garbage.

  • News @kbin.social

    Rudy Giuliani’s Lawyers Keep Ditching Him

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    Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food ‘Once or Twice a Week’

    News @kbin.social

    Doctors and insurers clash over US law that protects against surprise billing

    Politics @kbin.social

    Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case

    News @kbin.social

    Trump and sons rage after judge delivers "the corporate death penalty for the Trump Organization"

    Politics @kbin.social

    Analysis | On Fox News, GOP impeachment leaders spread false claims with impunity

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    Hospitals are dropping Medicare Advantage left and right

    News @kbin.social

    Long COVID has affected nearly 7% of American adults, CDC survey data finds

    Politics @kbin.social

    Trump's 'corporate death penalty' explained: veteran Manhattan fraud prosecutors describe what's next

    Politics @kbin.social

    Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers while building real estate empire

    Politics @kbin.social

    Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison

  • If the community is on kbin that the kbin mod removes the spam. If the community is on lemmy instance than mod on lemmy instance removes spam.

    Isn't that how it works? The mod on the community instances removes the spam and then it gets removed on all sites right?

    Likewise, mods on lemmy and kbin might lock comments on a post that’s getting toxic, but that lock doesn’t carry over to kbin, and they can’t do anything about it.

    Wouldn't a lock on a thread on that community's site prevent any new comments from coming back to that site over the fediverse?

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml

    Retirement plan derailed: Will you be among the 40% forced to stop working earlier than expected?

    News @kbin.social

    With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways

    Politics @kbin.social

    Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis turns on ‘malignant narcissist’ ex-president

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    A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine.