
"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
- New TNJ edition alert: Ready or not, here comes the fight over premixed cockails (TN Journal)
- Teachers would get $60K minimum salary under bill in Congress making grants to states (TN Lookout)
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- Democrats in Congress condemn Biden administration expansion of Title 42 (TN Lookout)
- National Dems give New Hampshire, Georgia more time to change 2024 primary dates (TN Lookout)
- Fair criticism does not equal incivility (TN Lookout)
- GOP senators sent message to interim correction commissioner on Community Corrections (TN Lookout)
- Juvenile justice recommendations from legislature lean heavily on institutions (TN Lookout)
- Health commissioner declines to answer reporters’ questions on HIV funds (TN Lookout)
- Environmental activist Pearson wins race to succeed the late Rep. Barbara Cooper (TN Journal)
- Read Gov. Bill Lee’s remarks on the occasion of his second inaugural (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: Party executive panels could face cuts, Lee readies roads push (TN Journal)
- Here are the Senate committee assignments for the upcoming session (TN Journal)
- Find your local House member’s committee assignments (TN Journal)
- New TNJ edition alert: GOP flexes on Nashville, new House rules to limit speechifying on floor (TN Journal)
- Sexton announces steps to make amendment language more transparent (TN Journal)
Science and stuff
- Prairie voles can find partners just fine without the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin (Science News Daily)
- Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping (Science News Daily)
- It’s possible to reach net-zero carbon emissions. Here’s how (Science News Daily)
- Birds that dive may be at greater risk of extinction (Science News Daily)
- Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic (Science News Daily)
- These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields (Science News Daily)
- Procrastination may harm your health. Here’s what you can do (Science News Daily)
- Lots of Tatooine-like planets around binary stars may be habitable (Science News Daily)
- A bird with a T. rex head may help reveal how dinosaurs became birds (Science News Daily)
- Some young sea spiders can regrow their rear ends (Science News Daily)
Discussing
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