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Floyd had norfentanyl in his blood (the metabolite of fentanyl) because his first ingestion of fentanyl is not the one that contributed to his death. He lived long enough to metabolize that first ingestion. But then, as officers Lane and Keung approached his vehicle, Floyd shoved speedballs in his mouth (to hide them, probably). They began to dissolve as he was walked to squad 320. He began actively fighting just as the meth was kicking in a few minutes later he spit the speedballs out of his mouth into the back of squad 320, but not before a second dose of fentanyl made its way into his bloodstream. Almost exactly five minutes later, he was dead —- corresponding precisely to the timing of anticipated peak respiratory depression. There’s a lot more here, but all of it is consistent with the same conclusion: the second dose of fentanyl played a material role in Floyd’s death, together with other factors. But none of them had anything to do with Chauvin.

United States Senate candidate Graham Platner launched a blistering attack on the political establishment alongside Senator Bernie Sanders during the first stop of their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. Platner took aim at long-serving politicians, specifically calling out Senator Susan Collins and declared that the current system exists solely to enrich elected officials while leaving everyday Americans behind. "We will not just fight the oligarchy, we will defeat the oligarchy and the political system that it maintains. We will defeat the political system that it maintains.” “The politics of Susan Collins, a politics that turns politicians into millionaires but tells you to be grateful for crumbs. It is a lie. It is a lie intended to serve the billionaire class."

A great turnout in Portland, Maine. The people of Maine and all across the country are saying NO to oligarchy, NO to authoritarianism and NO to endless wars. Graham and Troy will take on the billionaire class and fight for a disappearing middle class.  Thank you, Maine!

Rubio: "... Every time you see these big strikes from one side or the other, it's a reminder of why this is a terrible war that's now gone on longer than the Second World War, and it needs to come to an end. And the U.S. stands ready and prepared to help do whatever we can to help facilitate the end of this war and hopefully the opportunity will present itself at some point that we can play that role again"

The Telegraph: Macron tore up 65 years of doctrine to defend Europe with French nukes, with or without the US. Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, and now the Czech Republic will host French nuclear-armed Rafales. 1/

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran, Strait of Hormuz: "They’re going to be open one way or the other. So they need to be open, what’s happening there is unlawful, it’s illegal, it’s unsustainable for the world, it’s unacceptable. I don’t know of any country in the world that does. The Russians are not in favor of a tolling system, the Chinese are not in favor of a tolling system. I mean, there’s no country in the world that’s in favor of a tolling system, except for the regime in Iran. So that’s not acceptable, that cannot happen. The straits need to be open, unimpeded, without tools. And obviously that needs to happen immediately as soon as anything is agreed to. Well, look, I think our position is well stated. The president had a very important, I think, historic call just a couple days ago with a number of leaders from the region. I think there’s strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like. I think like anything with something like this, it’s going to take a couple days to settle on, even down to the disagreements over a word sentence. So we’ll have to work through that. If there’s going to be a deal, we’re going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it’s either going to be a good deal or there isn’t going to be one."

We don’t have to settle for scraps that they throw to us from the table where they dine with the Epstein Class.