The attorney general tried to pass off Trump’s predecessor’s work as his own.

Attorney General Pam Bondi shared and then deleted a graph showing a steep drop in drug overdose deaths after she was busted trying to give the Trump administration credit for progress made under Joe Biden.

The graph, which tracked overdose deaths from October 2015 to October 2024, showed that deaths surged nationwide beginning in 2015 with the advent of fentanyl, according to a June 2025 article from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The overdose rate spiked just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, during Donald Trump’s first term, before largely plateauing in 2022 and 2023. From October 2023 to October 2024, when Biden was in office, the rate of overdose deaths began to fall sharply again.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 10 months ago

MAGAts love a good lie. Their success is pillaging this country.

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They lie.

We know they are lying.

They know that they are lying.

They even know that we know they are lying.

We also know that they know we know they are lying.

They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.

Yet they still lie.

In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.

SeeMarkFly (2025)

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[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Vranyo

The most important of the 3 Russian words I know

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's not the same thing, in Russia the populace has been beaten to a pulp over centuries of being abused by their leaders.

They know they are all fodder, and they simply accept their fate. They know they are being lied to, but they are simply resigned to the fact that they are helpless and hopeless.

Americans are not the same. The majority are simply morons who BELIEVE the bullshit they are fed. Not only do they believe it, they think they are more intelligent for knowing that their "theories" are better and more intelligent than the experts'.

They culture in the two countries is totally different. They are both being lied to, but their awareness and responses are not the same.

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m so sick of the rag The Daily Beast that I am going to start posting alternative news sources. Wish I could make a bot to do that but anyways here’s a Newsweek article:

https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-deletes-drugs-post-praise-joe-biden-11287676

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[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

The hero we needed.

Someone at TDB needs to throw out their thesaurus. Every headline, Trump is "blasted" "annihilated", "ruined", "owned", or some other equally sensationalist language.

How about you employ writers who can report the news without clickbait, you fuckin' hacks?

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago