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Although minorities made up the majority of early pandemic fatalities, the trend has turned:  current data show white people being the largest racial demographic for coronavirus deaths, largely due to having the greatest percentage of unvaccinated people.

In an analysis by the Washington Post, which looked at records concerning coronavirus deaths in the United States going back to April 2020, researchers found that white fatalities surpassed Black fatalities in October 2021 and stayed there, except for the period when the omicron variant swept through the country.

The spread of the virus in some ways dictated who would be infected:  the first waves impacted cities where minorities make up the majority of the population.  Now, according to the Post, Covid deaths have shifted significantly in primarily-white rural and suburban areas.

Sheriff’s department investigators in the town of Maple Grove, Wisconsin have said they won’t issue any tickets to the underage drinkers present at a bonfire party last Friday, a decision meant to encourage any witnesses to come forward with information about which one of them rolled a fucking 55-gallon drum full of diesel fuel into the fire, upon which it promptly exploded and injured more than at least 17 people, several of them critically, ABC 7 Chicago reports.

In a statement the sheriff’s office emphasized that catching the party animal who went overboard at the now definitely legendary rager is more important than citations. “We understand there may be some apprehension for some to meet with us based on the evidence of underage drinking, and although underage drinking is something law enforcement agencies take seriously, we can assure those who were there, that our detectives do not have intentions on issuing citations for this, as our main focus and concern is gathering the facts of this tragic event,” said the sheriff’s office.

Yeah, things aren’t going well in not so Great Britain’s politics these days as Prime Minister Liz Truss’s reign has gone to absolute shit and her party support evaporates.

In a story that’s got “FLORIDA” emblazoned all over it, a 73-year-old Florida Man and his underage 15-year-old Florida Son have been arrested for firing more than a dozen rounds at a woman who was sitting in her SUV looking at her phone who they thought was a thief trying to steal a package from their porch because a neighbor dropped off a delivery of medications that had been mistakenly left at his door.  Simple.  Got it?

Let’s go over the elements of this story from NBC News:  73-year-old Gino Colonacosta of Coral Gables, Florida got a Ring doorbell notification that someone was on his front porch Saturday morning around 7:30 a.m.  Watching the video footage, Colonacosta and his 15-year-old son–yes, our 73-year-old protagonist has a son too young to drive legally–jumped to the incorrect conclusion that they had caught a porch pirate on tape; in fact, the person caught by the camera was dropping off a medicine delivery that had been mistaken left at his door but was meant for the elder Colonacosta.

So in their early morning haze, Colonacosta and his underage son take guns to hunt down the suspected porch pirate who didn’t exist.  They reportedly didn’t call the police, but decided to be Florida Men and take the law into their own hands.

At least seven Floridians are dead and 28 more are sick with Vibrio vulnificus aka “flesh eating bacteria” infections in the areas affected by Hurricane Ian, as the nasty little bug seeps into minor wounds on people wading around in the floodwaters, the New York Times reports.

“When you have standstill water in environments such as tropical Florida, it creates a perfect cocktail for these bacteria to develop,” said Florida Health Department spokeswoman Jae Williams.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled more emails sought by the House January 6th Select Committee from fascist MAGA lawyer John Eastman are not subject to attorney-client privilege as they are likely evidence of a crime. “The Court concludes that the crime-fraud exception applies to a number of emails related to President Trump and Dr. Eastman’s (1) court efforts to delay or disrupt the January 6 vote; and (2) their knowing misrepresentation of voter fraud numbers in Georgia when seeking to overturn the election results in federal court,” wrote Judge David O Carter.

Carter also hints that Trump knowingly lied to a court by signing a document with the false election fraud claims on it. “President Trump, moreover, signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers ‘are true and correct’ or ‘believed to be true and correct’ to the best of his knowledge and belief. The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public. The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States,” Carter wrote, which sucks for Donald.

Deputies with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in Massachusetts got their asses stung when a beekeeper who didn’t take too kindly to the eviction notice they were there to serve sicced a swarm of her angry yellow babies on them on October 12th, the AP reports.

Rorie Woods, 55, of Hadley, Massachusetts, pleaded not guilty at her arraignment on facing multiple assault and battery charges after she, wearing a beekeepers suit, opened the door her beehive trailer parked in the driveway of the Longmeadow home and shook the beehives, agitating them to attack the cops. It’s not clear from the report why Woods, who doesn’t live at the address where they were evicting the occupant, would attack the cops. When told that several of the officers were allergic, Woods reportedly said “Oh, you’re allergic? Good!” Woods was eventually cuffed, but not before several of the officers were stung, one of whom required hospitalization.

Trump-endorsed Wisconsin governor candidate and rich construction executive Tim Michels has a habit of calling his wealthy enclave’s cops to handle some gratingly petty shit, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports on response records from the Village of Chenequa Police Department.

In 2016, Michels called police when a man towed Michels’ 16-foot Zodiac boat from the driveway, only for cops to find that the man had been hired by Michels’ wife to make repairs to the vessel ahead of some regatta. In 2018 the future MAGA candidate called from the road to say his wife wasn’t answering the phone, police found Mrs Michels was simply taking a nap. In 2004, when Michels was running for the US Senate against incumbent Dem Russ Feingold, he called police to ask to investigate if a local car dealer who supported a GOP primary rival had dumped a shit ton of those chintzy free home and auto buyers’ guides on his front lawn. Several months later he called again to report over 100 copies of a Milwaukee lib alt-newspaper were also strewn on the lawn.

By far the most common reason for Michels requiring police assistance was his dogs, who apparently have a habit of running away. Cops warned Barbara Michels “she will receive a citation if we get another dog-at-large complaint,” after the dogs escaped twice in two days.

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate Benjamin Cole, scheduled to be executed Thursday for the December 2002 murder of his 9-month-old daughter Brianna because she was crying while he was trying to play video games, the AP reports.

We’re not going to print the details of how Cole did it, they’re too gruesome and upsetting, and the motive alone is enough for the “I’m against the death penalty but I support certain exceptions like this” people to say just that. The bottom line is humans who fuck up and kill a few drug dealers in a botched robbery should absolutely be shown mercy while animals like Cole should get put down.

Federal prosecutors have concluded they have enough evidence to indict disgraced former President Trump on obstruction of justice charges for his fucking around with moving stolen documents around Mar-a-Lago after they were subpoenaed though they have yet to make the formal recommendation to Attorney General Merrick Garland amid variables on timing, politics, and potential charges on other crimes Donald could be hit with, Bloomberg reports.

Not hard to imagine this leak was sanctioned from the top of the Justice Department as they’ve been pretty few and far between during Garland’s tenure, trying to soften the ground before prosecutors move ahead on the Orange God Emperor. The Bloomberg report also says Garland is unlikely to make a decision before Christmas as the investigation into the main crime of the theft of the documents as well as the failed insurrection attempt after Trump’s 2020 loss continue.

Consumer prices in Britain rose 10.1% in September from the previous year, as the inflation that Biden’s America exports globally continued to take its toll on economies far and wide, the New York Times reports. Since the United States is the world’s standard when it comes to money and the world economy, thus as the US goes, so goes the world. Libtards are trying to make it look like since the economy is faltering in Europe, that the economic woes in the US are not Biden’s fault when they point out inflation is even worse elsewhere. It’s true, we read it on the internet.

Marjorie Taylor Greene deleted and redid her Tuesday night Truth Social post about her visiting a Civil War monument, removing only the word “Confederate” in the second version (you’d think that maybe Truth would’ve included an edit button from the get-go to differentiate themselves from Twitter). If you’re thinking she removed the word to hide her affinity for the Confederacy you’d probably be wrong. The real reason is almost certainly that the Wilder Brigade Monument is actually dedicated to the Union soldiers of Colonel John T Wilder’s “Lightning Brigade,” not Confederate slavers. That’s why the dumbass changed her post without any further comment on why.

A Missouri elementary school will be closed indefinitely and its students will carry on through remote learning after officials discovered usually high levels of radioactive lead in classrooms and the school playground, among other areas, ABC News reports.

Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri, a city of 52,000, was shut down Monday after school officials reviewed a report by Boston Chemical Data Corp. confirmed an earlier report by the Army Corps of Engineers that found ground leakage from the site of an old nuclear weapons facility near Coldwater Creek contaminated large areas where the school was built.  This comes after a 2019 report that showed people who lived near Coldwater Creek from the 1960s to 1990s had a higher-than-expected number of cases of diseases like bone cancer, lung cancer and leukemia.

The creek runs behind the school and it borders hundreds of homes as it meanders through Florissant.  There is no statement about the efforts to help those homeowners or residents who presumably would also be impacted by the radioactive waste seeping from the nuclear weapons site.

The Ukrainian government on Tuesday sent an official letter to Israel asking for air defense systems technology that would allow it to stop Iranian drones and missiles fired from inside Russia and Belarus, Axios reports. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had opposed the transfer of any defense technology to Ukraine earlier this year out of fear of angering Russia, but that fucker’s been gone since June so maybe Kyiv will have better luck with his successor Yair Lapid.

“According to available information… there is a high probability of prompt deliveries to Russia of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar ballistic missiles from Iran… Ukraine is highly interested in obtaining from Israel in shortest possible terms defense systems, in particular: Iron Beam, Barak 8, Patriot, Iron Dome, David Sling, Arrow interceptor and Israeli support in training for Ukrainian operators,” said the letter sent to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, adding that practice in the field by Iranians against Ukraine “will significantly contribute in strengthening Iran’s potential of producing offensive weapons and as a result, increase the security threats for Israel and the Middle East… The Ukrainian side expects a positive reaction from Israel to this proposal.”

Election data eggheads Echelon Insights, whose prediction of the 2020 presidential election turnout came within 1 million of the final tally, have this year estimated an awfully specific and exacting figure of 125,655,745 total ballots cast nationally in the 2022 midterms. Why they have it down to the single digit rather than, say just calling it “125.65 million,” is unclear, but given their track record their estimate should still be pretty close to the final outcome. The figure is 7 million more than the 118.5 million that turned out in 2018, likely keeping parity with 2018 percentage-wise in line with population growth and Americans aging into the electorate.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, a man who has spent 651 days orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station and is no doubt highly trained on how to operate some extremely complex machinery, apparently has some difficulty operating a motor vehicle at night as he ran over a Roscosmos employee who was crossing a road at a training facility Monday, the AP reports.

Artemyev immediately rendered first aid to the victim, Anatoly Uronov, an employee at the Star City training center outside of Moscow, who was hospitalized with several bone fractures. Roscosmos emphasized in a statement that Artemyev, who just three weeks ago returned from an extended mission on board the ISS, was sober and immediately called police after running over the man.

A lot of Netflix users will be in for a shock next year when their access to their ex-girlfriend (three girlfriends ago) account gets blocked as part of the company’s coming crackdown on people who share their access, CNBC reports.

In its quarterly earnings notice, Netflix announced it gained 2.4 million new users last quarter, more than doubling the expected figure of one million.  The largest region of growth for the streaming service was Asia and the Far East, with the US and Canada only accounting for 100,000 net new subscribers.

Starting next year, Netflix will stop multiple people from sharing the same account outside a single household.  The company said it would offer people using others’ accounts opportunities to keep their current account content when signing up for an authorized separate account.  Account holders will also be able to pay for subaccounts for people who live outside their household.

It’s getting really pathetic.  First, Mike Lee begged for Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney to endorse him in Lee’s tight race against Independent Evan McMullin.  Then he goes on Sean Hannity’s ongoing telethon for GOP candidates.  And again Tuesday, he made an appearance on the Trump advisor’s Fox show, asking people for money, even though Republicans claim to be ones who are fiscally responsible.

Authorities say the man accused of killing no fewer than five men in the Stockton, California area used a so-called “ghost gun” created on a 3-D printer out of a polymer, making the weapon untraceable by law enforcement, NBC News reports.

Using the technology, 43-year-old felon Wesley Brownlee was able to circumvent gun background checks at brick-and-mortar gun stores to make his own handgun, which he used in a series of killings that include five police in Stockton have linked him to as well as two more in which he’s suspected.  Plus, Brownlee is believed to be involved in a murder in Oakland as well as a non-fatal shooting in Stockton.

Gun control advocates have warned about the ability of people to produce unregulated weapons via a 3-D printer, urging manufacturers of the printers to adopt technology that would prevent certain components from being created.  Gun violence advocates say that’s illegal because something something Second Amendment and tyranny and cold dead hands and unsatisfied wives.