
"This correlation between early death and heavily Republican voting patterns may be one of the biggest stories of the decade."
Republicans have destroyed rural healthcare in Tennessee, all for nothing more than a political stunt to "own the Libs". Don't wear masks, don't get vaccinated, stop Medicare expansion...Let's face it, Republicans want us dead!
Much has been written in recent years about the demographic collapse Russia is experiencing. In 2021, that nation lost nearly one million in population, following many years of decrease, a pattern that began in the 1980s. Russia's population is now smaller than Bangladesh and its per-capita income lower than that of the Maldives. Male life expectancy has also fallen below that of Bangladesh, a nation with a relatively recent history of dire poverty and famine. In 2022, with Russia confronting combat deaths, economic sanctions and the exodus of at least 900,000 people, most of them young and educated, the demographic decline may have accelerated into free-fall.
Russia's case is considered singular in the developed world, yet there are swaths of rural America that are beginning to replicate it. Owsley County, Kentucky, has a life expectancy similar to that of Russia; from 1980 to 2014, the county's cancer death rate increased by 45.6 percent, the largest increase in the nation. In 2020, Donald Trump received 88 percent of the Owsley County vote. ...
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Eco warriors and politics
- U.S. Senate confirms a military nominee, the first since Tuberville blockade began (TN Lookout)
- State revenue falls amid tax holidays, business break (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee leads nation in arresting and punishing pregnant women (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: Autopsy report (TN Lookout)
- Keep arbitration an option for older Americans (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee State University’s Glover urges state to pony up $2.1 billion (TN Lookout)
- States urged by Biden administration to rectify underfunding of land-grant HBCUs (TN Lookout)
- Election map: 2023 Nashville mayor race looks like 2020 Presidential election (TN Lookout)
- Lee launches $20M family grant program (TN Journal)
- Feds indict five former Memphis police officers in Tyre Nichols killing (TN Journal)
- Tarwater sworn into Tennessee Supreme Court (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: A special session post-mortem, another RNC snub, and Gloria hopes to take on Marsha (TN Journal)
- Gloria Johnson announces U.S. Senate campaign (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: Another House fracas, Kelsey wants bail, and a Sundquist obit (TN Journal)
- House turmoil focus of special session coverage (TN Journal)
- Special session in the headlines (TN Journal)
Science and stuff
- How brain implants are treating depression (Science News Daily)
- Today’s depression treatments don’t help everyone (Science News Daily)
- The science behind deep brain stimulation for depression (Science News Daily)
- What’s it like to live with deep brain stimulation for depression? (Science News Daily)
- There’s a stigma around brain implants and other depression treatments (Science News Daily)
- What’s the future of deep brain stimulation for depression? (Science News Daily)
- How drones are helping scientists find meteorites (Science News Daily)
- Interlocking logs may be evidence of the oldest known wooden structure (Science News Daily)
- Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19 (Science News Daily)
- 50 years ago, the quest for superheavy elements was just getting started (Science News Daily)
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