People who experience discrimination show distinct differences in their gut microbiome, including lower levels of anti-inflammatory bacteria and altered gene activity. Researchers could predict with 91% accuracy which study participants faced discrimination by only analyzing their gut microbiome

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#Uruguay, presidential election:

Preliminary results, 90.0% counted

Orsi (FA, left|centre-left): 45.9% (+0.5)
Delgado (PN, centre-right): 28.4% (-0.3)
Ojeda (PC, liberal): 16.9% (-0.2)
...

(+/- vs. 70% counted)

Orsi and Delgado will go to the runoff

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On this day, 27 October 1970, the administration of president Richard Nixon passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their "war on drugs". According to journalist Dan Baum writing in Harper's Magazine, a Nixon adviser, John Ehrlichman, later admitted to him in an interview: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."Our podcast episodes 43-46 are about the movement against the Vietnam war. Listen on every major podcast app or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/Pic: Richard Nixon signing the Drug Abuse and Treatment Act of 1972

TIL one of the longest writings preserved in Pompeii is the poem of a woman yearning for another woman [source, comments]

#Liechtenstein, final result:

Privatisation of public broadcaster Radio Liechtenstein referendum

Support: 55.4%
Oppose: 44.6%

Turnout: 59.3%

➤ europeelects.eu/liechtenstein

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Harris' Politik kommt bei Republikanern gut an – aber viele realisieren es gar nicht https://www.watson.ch/!126595929

Eat the rich - it's good for the climate
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#Georgia: On top of the electoral integrity violations reported by observers, the widespread tampering in favour of the government is visible also in the detailed official results counts.

Europe Elects was independently able to reproduce the markings of fraud.

The biggest telltale sign of tampering with the results is implausible deviations from normal distribution when it comes to vote shares of a relevant party.

In more rural municipalities, the governing GD raked up disturbingly high vote shares much in excess of the expected.

Detailed election results are exceedingly hard to tamper with convincingly, as such tampering has to take into account a whole slate of variables and dimensions to remain credible.

Most of the time the tampering does not succeed and leaves its marks to the data.

We have followed and analysed hundreds of elections during the past decade.

It is safe to conclude that the 2024 Georgian parliamentary election exhibits clear fudging with the results, on top of the electoral violations reported elsewhere by observers.

All data used in our analysis is publicly available by Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, including the certification notes from each electoral station: https://results.cec.gov.ge/#/en-us/election_57/tr/prot