As of today, Purdue and the Sackler Family are permanently exiled from the addiction industry. Billions of dollars of their blood money will now begin to flow towards treatment, prevention, and support for the victims and survivors of the opioid epidemic infamously inflamed by their callous greed.

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In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, the news of Laura Dern joining The White Lotus s4 prompted a look back at the last time Dern and Mike White made a TV show, the incredible Enlightened:

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One possible effect of the redistricting fights: The Court decision and follow-on moves by GOP governors are a major and direct attack on Black political power. Couldn't this lead to massive Black turnout everywhere against the GOP? Couldn't this affect many other races, including for the senate?

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DUBONNET VIN TONIQUE https://www.wikiart.org/en/cassandre/dubonnet-vin-tonique-1935

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It’s fundamentally about Santa Claus politics. Congress responds to what voters want, and voters in polls consistently want more stuff and don’t want to have to pay for it. (There is support for taxing the rich more, but the rich have the best lobbyists money can buy, and keep winning more tax cuts)

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