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the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he is going to purchase parlor. do you know what por lor is? the word might invoke the image of a fancy room or cute little lady sit and sip their tea from good china. but parlor is decidedly not that. parlor is a far right fringe social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capitol insurrection, january 6, 2021, because many of the violent rioters organized on parlor. podcast host kara swisher that very day asked one of the founders of parlor if he felt any responsibility for death and destruction to which he said this. i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform, considering we re a neutral town square that just add head heres to the law. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset and they felt disenfranchised. not long after that interview, appl ....
Ohio is one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic in america. and tonight, the crisis was a key point of discussion during the final debate between the tim ryan, the democrat, and j.d. vance, the republican. ryan using the opportunity to criticize vance for pulling out of a fund-raiser over the weekend after it was reported that one of the hosts had been cited in a lawsuit against perdue pharma, a company accused of worsening the crisis, as well as other companies. take a listen. as recently as saturday, j.d. was doing a fund-raiser with a guy who was raising money, one of the top ten pill pushers, doctors, in the entire country. and he just cancelled it. you know why? because the press broke the story and he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. joining us now to discuss is patrick keith, author of empire ....
Reader, the less it seems to make its way around the internet. whereas, if i, for instance if i do a philadelphia eagles rooting cheering tweet, a lot of people see that because a lot of people don t want to read about me loving the philadelphia eagles. well, i mean, this is just a history of media gone, starting to exponentially advance. and that is in the 70s, abc decided they were making so much money with ten comang commercia car commercials in the midst of the brady bunch, they would run news. they found the ratings were much greater for opinion. we re all a bit guilty of this in media. we ve decided that more controversial, novel content, is more entertaining, engages users, and is more profitable. all these social media companies have figured out a way into all ....
Brought to us by greed. i think the sackleres and pursue started it and other companies joined in and that our regulatory systems were basically bought off, everything from the fda to dea to medical educational journals that got co-opted by companies. very much the opioid crisis is here as an indictment of the entire system. and patrick, j.d. vance also went after ryan for accepting money from pharmaceutical companies. take a listen. those commercials are paid for by pharmaceutical blood money because tim ryan received tens of thousands of dollars from the very companies that have profited off this, and that s exactly how he s able to fund the lies he s been putting on tv against. ryan says his record on taking on big pharma is, quote, inpeckable. stepping away from this senate ....
Nobody was really connecting them to this terrible overdose crisis. that had such a hand and helping to create a un about this funny situation where the company and been bankruptcy. might want to how company it was generated $35 million in revenue from one drug had been back quincy. the reason because the family has been pulling money out of the company for ten years. leading up to this. so then she got all these lawsuits against the company and the family has taken more than ten billion dollars out of the company and they say well, too bad, the company s bankruptcy. so they got to keep the money. you end up with the sediment, and we are committed to pay six billion dollars. which received a lot or a little depending on your point of view. they re gonna get this sweeping grant of immunity. this is malcolm that i think left a lot of victims of the covid crisis feeling pretty raw. if you look at is not justice. you read the defensive book about the victims of the frontline. where it ....