Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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A man using an AR-15-style weapon shot and killed five people Friday, including an 8-year-old — an angry response to the neighbors’ request that he stop shooting in his yard while their baby was trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday. The gunman then fled, prompting an ongoing manhunt.
Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 38, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post.
Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said.
The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said.
Oropeza frequently shot the rifle in his yard, Capers said, and allegedly became angry when the neighbors said their baby was trying to sleep around or after 11 p.m. Authorities saw video footage of Oropeza walking up to the victims’ front door before going inside.
Law enforcement officers responded to the Cleveland home after a report of “harassment” about 11:30 p.m. Friday, Capers told reporters early Saturday morning.
The adults were declared dead at the scene, and the 8-year-old died at a hospital, according to the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office. The people in the house were family members, Capers said.
Three children survived the shooting. Two of the women who were killed were found lying on top of the young children in a bedroom, “trying to protect them,” Capers told The Post by phone from the scene.
https://wapo.st/428gxFD
Authorities charged Francisco Oropeza, 38, with five counts of murder and were searching for him Saturday morning, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told The Washington Post.
Ten people were in the home during the shooting. Three women, a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed, Capers said.
The suspect was the victims’ neighbor and went to their home Friday night after they asked him to stop shooting an AR-15-style rifle in his front yard because of the noise, Capers said.
Oropeza frequently shot the rifle in his yard, Capers said, and allegedly became angry when the neighbors said their baby was trying to sleep around or after 11 p.m. Authorities saw video footage of Oropeza walking up to the victims’ front door before going inside.
Law enforcement officers responded to the Cleveland home after a report of “harassment” about 11:30 p.m. Friday, Capers told reporters early Saturday morning.
The adults were declared dead at the scene, and the 8-year-old died at a hospital, according to the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office. The people in the house were family members, Capers said.
Three children survived the shooting. Two of the women who were killed were found lying on top of the young children in a bedroom, “trying to protect them,” Capers told The Post by phone from the scene.
https://wapo.st/428gxFD
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nsacpi
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Can I have the list of 10 states with the highest rate of violent crime
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Sure, here are the 10 states with the highest rate of violent crime in the United States in 2022:
Alaska (837.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
New Mexico (778.3 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Louisiana (639.4 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Colorado (609.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
South Carolina (597.3 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Arkansas (589.9 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Oklahoma (587 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Washington (575.9 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Tennessee (565.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Missouri (560.5 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
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Sure, here are the 10 states with the highest rate of violent crime in the United States in 2022:
Alaska (837.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
New Mexico (778.3 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Louisiana (639.4 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Colorado (609.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
South Carolina (597.3 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Arkansas (589.9 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Oklahoma (587 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Washington (575.9 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Tennessee (565.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
Missouri (560.5 violent crimes per 100,000 people)
nsacpi
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which states have the highest rates of anxiety and depression
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the states with the highest rates of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the first half of December 2021 are:
West Virginia (39.9%)
Louisiana (38.7%)
Oklahoma (38.3%)
Alaska (37.8%)
Kentucky (36.7%)
Nevada (36.3%)
Oregon (35.6%)
New Mexico (34.6%)
Arkansas (34.4%)
Washington (33.6%)
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the states with the highest rates of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the first half of December 2021 are:
West Virginia (39.9%)
Louisiana (38.7%)
Oklahoma (38.3%)
Alaska (37.8%)
Kentucky (36.7%)
Nevada (36.3%)
Oregon (35.6%)
New Mexico (34.6%)
Arkansas (34.4%)
Washington (33.6%)
goldfly
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republicans try to talk **** about a couple big cities and avert their gaze on what Republican policies have kept Mississippi and West Virginia in for a century lol
This is where they act like the platforms haven’t switched too lol
This is where they act like the platforms haven’t switched too lol
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nsacpi
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As part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a subsidiary organization called U.N. Women released a report last year looking at global trends toward gender equality. By nearly every available metric — from access to clean water and a path out of poverty to feeling safe while walking alone in the dark — the report’s authors found that women’s push for parity is losing ground. At the current rate of progress, U.N. Women projects that it will take another 286 years — nine generations — for women to achieve legally protected equality.
Reading Monica Potts’s expansive first book, “The Forgotten Girls,” got me thinking about this grim scenario. The central question for Potts is why the life expectancy of America’s least educated white women has recently been shrinking. Many women are dying from what researchers call “diseases of despair”: suicide, drunken driving, overdoses. Using her rural hometown, Clinton, Ark., as a focal point, Potts drills down into the lives of women for whom such indicators are realities.
She found that their lives were playing out in the same dismal ways the research portended: a teenage bride who, years into an abusive marriage, crashes her car while fleeing her husband; a 14-year-old who goes into labor just days after she learns she is pregnant.
Then there is Darci, Potts’s closest childhood friend. The book opens with Potts, now an adult home for the holidays, collecting a drunken Darci from a disheveled trailer on a Christmas Eve morning. Darci borrows $20 from her current boyfriend, apologizing to Potts for her frazzled state. Darci’s poverty is that of hand-me-downs and empty refrigerators, of a place where “meth was always around. It was easier to get than alcohol.”
As children, Potts and Darci dreamed of a better future, which they imagined taking place in Fresno, Calif., because it “had an exciting, bold name.” Partway through middle school, however, their friendship begins to falter. Darci goes “boy crazy” and, in high school, experiments with pot and crystal meth. Potts graduates and escapes to college at Bryn Mawr, then New York City and, eventually, Washington, D.C. On visits home, people ask if she fears living in big cities. Her answer is haunting: “The worst things that had ever happened to me or to Darci had happened here, just a few miles from where we were born.”
In Clinton, one misstep can derail an entire life. Darci’s life is upended when, despite her good grades, she is informed late in her senior year of high school that she’s missed too many days to graduate. She immediately spirals out of control: early pregnancy, an abusive relationship, drugs, addiction, multiple rehabs, jail and homelessness.
Potts blames a variety of systemic failings for Darci’s fate: gender violence, poor health care, a depressed rural economy and rampant underemployment. But she is at her most persuasive when she describes how religious fundamentalism — nearly every family she knew growing up attended church — marginalizes women, filtering into local policy in such a way that it becomes “less a personal belief system than a tool for social control.”
In Clinton, like other rural Southern small towns, Christianity permeates every aspect of life, from prayers before high school football games to church leaders, invariably men, holding local government positions — as mayors, sheriffs, quorum court justices and school board members. Even those who don’t share evangelical beliefs, like Potts’s family, are forced to live by an authority informed by a worldview that “set girls up to be of service to everyone and in charge of nothing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/...tEfMJgr&giftCopy=3_Independent&smid=url-share
Reading Monica Potts’s expansive first book, “The Forgotten Girls,” got me thinking about this grim scenario. The central question for Potts is why the life expectancy of America’s least educated white women has recently been shrinking. Many women are dying from what researchers call “diseases of despair”: suicide, drunken driving, overdoses. Using her rural hometown, Clinton, Ark., as a focal point, Potts drills down into the lives of women for whom such indicators are realities.
She found that their lives were playing out in the same dismal ways the research portended: a teenage bride who, years into an abusive marriage, crashes her car while fleeing her husband; a 14-year-old who goes into labor just days after she learns she is pregnant.
Then there is Darci, Potts’s closest childhood friend. The book opens with Potts, now an adult home for the holidays, collecting a drunken Darci from a disheveled trailer on a Christmas Eve morning. Darci borrows $20 from her current boyfriend, apologizing to Potts for her frazzled state. Darci’s poverty is that of hand-me-downs and empty refrigerators, of a place where “meth was always around. It was easier to get than alcohol.”
As children, Potts and Darci dreamed of a better future, which they imagined taking place in Fresno, Calif., because it “had an exciting, bold name.” Partway through middle school, however, their friendship begins to falter. Darci goes “boy crazy” and, in high school, experiments with pot and crystal meth. Potts graduates and escapes to college at Bryn Mawr, then New York City and, eventually, Washington, D.C. On visits home, people ask if she fears living in big cities. Her answer is haunting: “The worst things that had ever happened to me or to Darci had happened here, just a few miles from where we were born.”
In Clinton, one misstep can derail an entire life. Darci’s life is upended when, despite her good grades, she is informed late in her senior year of high school that she’s missed too many days to graduate. She immediately spirals out of control: early pregnancy, an abusive relationship, drugs, addiction, multiple rehabs, jail and homelessness.
Potts blames a variety of systemic failings for Darci’s fate: gender violence, poor health care, a depressed rural economy and rampant underemployment. But she is at her most persuasive when she describes how religious fundamentalism — nearly every family she knew growing up attended church — marginalizes women, filtering into local policy in such a way that it becomes “less a personal belief system than a tool for social control.”
In Clinton, like other rural Southern small towns, Christianity permeates every aspect of life, from prayers before high school football games to church leaders, invariably men, holding local government positions — as mayors, sheriffs, quorum court justices and school board members. Even those who don’t share evangelical beliefs, like Potts’s family, are forced to live by an authority informed by a worldview that “set girls up to be of service to everyone and in charge of nothing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/...tEfMJgr&giftCopy=3_Independent&smid=url-share
nsacpi
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which states lead in alcoholism
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According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the following states have the highest rates of excessive drinking:
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Arkansas
Alabama
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According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the following states have the highest rates of excessive drinking:
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Montana
South Dakota
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Arkansas
Alabama
msstate7
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Saw this in an article about whole foods shutting down in SF...
"...But the store was soon confronted head-on with many of the problems plaguing the area. People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem....
"During the store’s 13 months in operation, at least 14 people were arrested, including on charges of grand theft and battery, according to official reports. Chief Scott said that plainclothes officers were sent there and security improved over time, but seemingly not enough for the company...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/san-francisco-whole-foods-crime-economy.html
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So you got 568 emergency calls and a small number of confirmed arrests, 14. This has be questioning crime stats in SF.
"...But the store was soon confronted head-on with many of the problems plaguing the area. People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem....
"During the store’s 13 months in operation, at least 14 people were arrested, including on charges of grand theft and battery, according to official reports. Chief Scott said that plainclothes officers were sent there and security improved over time, but seemingly not enough for the company...."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/san-francisco-whole-foods-crime-economy.html
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So you got 568 emergency calls and a small number of confirmed arrests, 14. This has be questioning crime stats in SF.
sturg33
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Yeah when you don't actually prosecute anything there's no reason to go through the song and dance.
Their crime stats are all made up
That’s why there’s rarely any real grocery stores in the inner cities. They can’t stay in business due to theft. And what does the local community do? They Blame the companies and not the local community that caused the closures.
sturg33
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Perhaps it's time to do something about the immigration crisis that you support
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nsacpi
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hich states lead in children killed by guns
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According to the CDC, the following states had the highest rates of child gun deaths in 2020:
Alaska (13.7 deaths per 100,000 children)
Alabama (10.0 deaths per 100,000 children)
Mississippi (9.4 deaths per 100,000 children)
Louisiana (8.9 deaths per 100,000 children)
Missouri (8.8 deaths per 100,000 children)
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According to the CDC, the following states had the highest rates of child gun deaths in 2020:
Alaska (13.7 deaths per 100,000 children)
Alabama (10.0 deaths per 100,000 children)
Mississippi (9.4 deaths per 100,000 children)
Louisiana (8.9 deaths per 100,000 children)
Missouri (8.8 deaths per 100,000 children)
nsacpi
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which states have the lowest rates of child gun deaths
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According to the CDC, the following states had the lowest rates of child gun deaths in 2020:
Massachusetts (0.4 deaths per 100,000 children)
New York (0.5 deaths per 100,000 children)
Rhode Island (0.6 deaths per 100,000 children)
Connecticut (0.7 deaths per 100,000 children)
New Jersey (0.8 deaths per 100,000 children)
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According to the CDC, the following states had the lowest rates of child gun deaths in 2020:
Massachusetts (0.4 deaths per 100,000 children)
New York (0.5 deaths per 100,000 children)
Rhode Island (0.6 deaths per 100,000 children)
Connecticut (0.7 deaths per 100,000 children)
New Jersey (0.8 deaths per 100,000 children)
A hugely-controversial bill would decriminalize homeless camps in Oregon and allow people who live in them to sue for $1,000 if they are 'harassed'
Democrat lawmakers tabled the bill amid out-of-control homelessness in Portland which has led some residents to leave the city
The proposal has had thousands of letters of opposition but only a handful in support
Democrat lawmakers tabled the bill amid out-of-control homelessness in Portland which has led some residents to leave the city
The proposal has had thousands of letters of opposition but only a handful in support
Tapate50
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Less black people is your solution?