Open Thread

Persecuted

Written by SK Ashby

(Cartoonist - Rob Tornoe)

In other news, Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill that would prohibit cities from voting to block fracking within their city limits. Democracy is for chumps, amirite?

Meanwhile, a group of 23 doctors in New York City have been charged for operating a Medicaid fraud scheme that used homeless people as unwitting accomplices.

And finally, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted by a federal grand jury for corruption. Menendez allegedly used his office to benefit a Florida doctor who provided Menendez with "luxury vacations, airline travel, golf trips and tens of thousands of dollars in contributions."

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