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TLDR: They have a cap of 3,000 medical students per year. Of course letting immigrants in to do anything but the dirtiest jobs is unthinkable. So with an aging population (especially in poorly-served rural areas) the number of doctors is kept artificially low to reduce competition. That's pretty insane to begin with, but it gets worse. Somehow there's a quota for the number of total medical students but no quotas for how many have to go into different fields, so most of them choose to become dermatologists. It turns out that in a skin-obsessed culture you can make a lot more money that way than by delivering babies in some village out in the mountains. (Also some of the "dermatology" clinics are just places where rich people go to get shot up with propofol. They're literally just drug dealers.)

So President Yun Seok-Yul tried to increase the quota to 5,000/year. The doctors went apeshit and went on strike. That was back in February and they still are refusing to back down. The public is starting to realize that doctors are a cabal who've got a monopoly on health care and intend to squeeze the most possible cash out of it. The doctors are also pissed now that nurses are being allowed to take over some duties that used to be theirs. Well maybe show up and do the work if you don't want someone else to?

It's a good thing doctors in other countries aren't exactly the same...

DRUMPY'S top levels aren't even filled!

!transphobes

A prominent transgender activist stole nearly $100,000 from a bail fund she operated, using the money to pay for her closet renovations and her Mercedes, prosecutors in Brooklyn allege.

Dominique Morgan, 43, of Atlanta, was already making $200,000 a year as the executive director of the Brooklyn-based Okra Project when she stole $99,000 during a roughly two-week period in July 2022, prosecutors allege.

Morgan announced that OKRA, which offers mutual aid and other resources to the Black trans community nationwide, would start bailing people out, but didn't take any steps to create an official initiative, prosecutors charge.\

She transferred the money into her personal account, ostensibly to bail out indigent criminal defendants, but instead spent it on a $19,000 California Closet renovation, car payments for a Mercedes-Benz, purchases at clothing stores, meals and other personal expenses, according to prosecutors.

When OKRA asked her for proof she was using the money for bail, she cooked up bogus receipts for 23 people who were supposedly arrested in Fulton County, Ga., and Douglas County, Neb., prosecutors allege. But an audit showed none of those people had been arrested in either county at the time, prosecutors said.

She left OKRA the next month, announcing on her LinkedIn page, "August 2, 2022 was my final day in my contracted role as the Executive Director of The Okra Project. The decision was amicable."

On Tuesday, Morgan was indicted in Brooklyn Supreme Court on one count of grand larceny and 23 counts of falsifying business records. She pleaded not guilty, and Justice Danny Chun ordered her released without bail.

She did not respond to questions outside the courtroom, and her lawyer, Jonathan Fink, declined comment Tuesday.

She could face five to 15 years behind bars if convicted of the top count.

"The theft of nonprofit funds deprives communities of critical resources, erodes public trust, and cheats donors who give in good faith," said Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez. "The defendant in this case allegedly stole bail funds meant to secure pretrial release of indigent defendants, instead using the money for personal benefit."

OKRA representatives did not return a message seeking comment Tuesday.

The nonprofit's current executive director, Gabrielle Inès Souza, alluded to turmoil in a letter on the organization's website after she took the job.\

"I am no stranger to the lack of leadership, accountability and transparency that have plagued this organization. Many have tried to forget past missteps, hoping to forge a path of newness without addressing old wounds," she wrote. "But in the words of George Santayana, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' And in recent years, we've been stuck on repeat."

Morgan is also the former executive director of Black and Pink, a national prison abolition organization that supports currently and formerly incarcerated individuals who are LGBTQ+ and/or living with HIV/AIDS.

After leaving OKRA, she became the director of the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy.

Borealis representatives did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

When will Uncle Ted receive his presidential pardon?

On September 9, Delilah Barajas, who reviews TV shows and horror movies on TikTok, ditched her usual content to talk about a real-life suspenseful scenario: the showdown between cartel members that caused Culiacán, her hometown in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, to go into a self-imposed lockdown.

Heavy gunfire could be heard throughout the city, littered with burned cars and dead bodies, as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel — formerly led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera — fought each other.

In her video, a teary-eyed Barajas talked about the convoys of desvividos lying in the streets. "It's like The Purge movie," she said. Her post quickly went viral.

"Desvividos," which translates to "unalived," is not normally used in Mexican Spanish. Barajas, and dozens of other TikTok creators, have used the term to refer to the murder victims of the ongoing cartel-related violence to bypass what they consider TikTok's arbitrary moderation policies. The word is part of a growing collection of euphemisms that TikTok users have created and adopted to avoid having their accounts blocked. Rest of World spoke with four creators in Culiacán who said their videos about violence are being flagged, taken down, or have reduced visibility on the For You page. They said they have received warnings that their accounts are at risk of being deactivated.

Creators have identified other euphemisms that fly under the platform's moderation radar: levantón (getting picked up) instead of secuestro (kidnapping), civiles armados (armed civilians*)* instead of narcos (drug dealers or drug kingpins), and bom bom instead of grenades and shootouts.

TikTok's community guidelines do not allow gory, gruesome, disturbing, or extremely violent content, but specific images and words used to talk about cartel-related violence are not blocked or prohibited, a TikTok spokesperson told Rest of World.

"We recognize that some content that would otherwise violate our rules may be in the public interest to view," the spokesperson said. "The most important factor we consider in looking at public interest exceptions is context, such as whether the content is raising awareness or criticizing harmful behaviors."

Words that creators said trigger TikTok's content moderation warnings include balacera (shootout), tortura (torture), and narcomantas, which refers to messages left by cartels on cloth banners in public spaces. Content that mentions El Chapo has also been taken down*.*

TikTok said these terms are not banned or prohibited on the platform, as they "are frequently used in counter-speech or news contexts" in Mexico. Discussions about violent political organizations, like drug cartels, are allowed as long as violence is not promoted, the spokesperson said. According to TikTok, "El Chapo" is a banned term "unless its use is informative."

Héctor Frank, a content creator from Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa, has been posting weekly updates on the violence since early September for his more than 1 million followers. "Unless it's an official news outlet, it seems that TikTok doesn't like people to talk about what's happening in terms of narco-violence," Frank told Rest of World.

Frank, who works as a TV reporter, has posted videos about the lavish lifestyles of drug kingpins in Sinaloa since 2022. When his content mentions El Chapo or San Malverde, an icon of narco culture, TikTok flags it for violating community guidelines, he said.

TikTok took down one of Barajas' videos where she talked about narcomantas. When she uploaded it again, the platform took it down for violating community guidelines but didn't specify how. "I hate it," she said.

Describing the attacks in Culiacán on TikTok is challenging because cartel-related violence is particularly gruesome. More than 120 people have been murdered or have disappeared since September, and the city is still in partial lockdown. According to local newspaper El Espejo, many of the victims have been found burned, mutilated, or tortured.

"Every day we wake up to six or seven murdered, decapitated, or tortured bodies," Fernando Gómez Bórquez, a TikToker from Culiacán, told Rest of World. He avoids using those words while recording videos for his followers, enunciating only the first syllable of triggering words like muerto (dead).

When his videos are flagged or taken down, Gómez Bórquez doesn't put up a fight. "I have other things to do with my family or at work instead of rerecording," he said.

Barajas, whose livelihood depends on online content creation, rerecords her videos when the platform takes them down, getting ever more creative. To describe bodies found with torture marks, she uses the word tortuga, or turtle, instead. Her followers catch on.

"Did she say 'turtle marks?'" a user named Abraham Kato commented on a video. Another user clarified that Barajas said "turtle" because using the actual term could lead to her video being banned.

In early October, Gómez Bórquez tried to post a video about how school children are often trapped in the crossfire. TikTok blocked the video from being posted, saying it violated community guidelines.

Last year, Frank tried to post a video about El Chapo's abandoned mansion in Culiacán. He referred to the drug kingpin by name until he realized it was triggering the platform's moderation process. He received a message from TikTok saying that the video couldn't be uploaded because it violated community guidelines. Frank rerecorded the audio, referring to El Chapo as "the most wanted man in the world." The video still comes up in search results for El Chapo, making him worry that TikTok's moderation policies are arbitrary.

Far from celebrating kingpins, reporting on them is a way to hold them accountable, said Frank. "They've had so much power and influence inside and outside Mexico, and they're a big reason why people in Culiacán are struggling."

One source of inspiration for the euphemisms is the popularity of the narcocorridos music genre, Anajilda Mondaca Cota, a retired social sciences professor from the Universidad de Occidente in Culiacán, told Rest of World. Songs from the genre narrate the lives and downfall of drug kingpins and cartels since the 1910s, and are peppered with euphemisms.

On social media, people use emojis to represent the words chapiza and mayiza, which refer to the dueling factions within the Sinaloa cartel that have become popular in narcocorridos in recent years. Chapiza, which means the people aligned with El Chapo, is represented by a pizza emoji; mayiza, referring to allies of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the now-imprisoned leader of a rival faction of the cartel, is depicted using the cowboy emoji.

Some creators say that using euphemisms and emojis is risky.

This week, a TikToker who published an appreciation post referencing El Chapo and using pizza emojis, was murdered in Culiacán.

Frank said he avoids responding to comments that include pizza or cowboy emojis for fear of inadvertently engaging with cartels. "If a day comes where someone demands I take a video down because I'm saying too much, I'll reconsider. I don't want to have any problems," he said.

!transphobes !trump2024

A 74-year-old Pennsylvania resident was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill former President Donald Trump a day before his Penn State rally, declaring: "I'd like to shoot that guy."

Paul J. Gavenonis — who uses she/her pronouns, according to the Centre County Public Defender's Office — was nabbed after she was overheard making the alleged threats while trying to buy a parking pass at the university's transportation office last Friday, the Lexington Herald Leader reported.

"I hate Donald Trump. I'd like to shoot that guy," Gavenonis allegedly said after making a gun-racking motion with her hand.

She also allegedly described climbing to the top of a building, saying "you can't take a gun in or the students will see it," according to an arrest affidavit.

An alarmed staffer alerted cops amid fears that the parking pass could potentially get Gavenonis closer to Trump's rally at the university. The former president held the rally on Saturday, October 26, 2024, just 10 days before the election.

When Penn State police and the Secret Service later questioned the suspect, Gavenonis allegedly laughed when asked if she believed she could kill the Republican presidential candidate.

"Probably. Yeah," Gavenonis is alleged to have said.

"Frankly, I hope somebody would get him," she added, according to the affidavit.

Gavenonis allegedly also told agents she had a rifle at her home.

It wasn't immediately clear if the alleged perp was trying to purchase the parking pass to gain access to the rally, or if she had plans to attend.

The Kansas City Star reported the suspect is a registered Democrat.

Gavenonis was charged with making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.

She is being held without bail in Centre County Prison.

Also lots of people getting killed in Sinaloa.

Somehow AMLO's plan of just pretending the cartels don't exist didn't end the open warfare going on around the country.

Backstory: https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/how-babydog-got-her-name-according-to-gov-jim-justice/

It's a cool dog but with all the money they are taking in they can't afford nasal surgery to help it breathe??