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Take a look at these resources to #SlamTheScam and protect yourself and the seniors in your life.

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“$1B a day”

The GOP-led House rejects a measure to rein in Trump’s war in Iran as the conflict costs taxpayers an estimated $1 billion a day.

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims.

Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.

A bulldozer and an excavator clear rubble as emergency personnel search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential compound in Baalbek, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. [Nidal Solh/AFP]

Families displaced by Israeli strikes from southern Lebanon seek refuge at a school transformed into a shelter in Sidon. [Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP]

An ambulance is parked near a sweeping blaze following Israeli bombardment on a solar farm and electricity generation facility in Lebanon's southern coastal city of Tyre. [Kawnat Haju/AFP]

A man passes by a destroyed car and shop on a commercial street that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon. [Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo]

Israel kills more than 100 Lebanese as it commands Beirut residents to flee https://aje.news/bauwid

AIPAC sure got their money’s worth from these 4 Dems today

But Johnson said we’re not at war.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.

“Police reported that Johnson, 45, tried to keep the children quiet by telling them he would share millions of dollars in restitution money he expected to receive from the Trump administration in connection with his Jan. 6 case.”
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

Not a single surprise.

This is the Republican Party now.

When Kash Patel generates unflattering headlines, he quickly carries out mass firings at the FBI. A new @ms.now analysis finds this pattern has happened at least four times.

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

Watching the game now and was honestly yelling back at the tv, “and don’t forget the ‘He Tells Her She Can’t Cup”

Deplorable.

The Gavel - The Boston Globe Every week Globe Opinion columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr sends you insights and observations about the Supreme Court's docket, arguments, and rulings — and explains how the court's decisions will impa...

Now is a good time to sign up for my free @globeopinion.bsky.social newsletter The Gavel, cuz the SCOTUS has been trippin this week. Drops in inboxes later this afternoon www.bostonglobe.com/newsletters/...

Karoline Leavitt says American boots on the ground in Iran are "on the table"

The Golden Age!

She has to have the cash to keep up w Oprah.

This state!!!! At the bottom in healthcare, education..at the top in obesity, opioid dependency…population declining exponentially…but sure, let’s police people’s morals. #WV

Love her. Class act.

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This state is not serious about educating our kids.

14 measles cases reported at El Paso ICE tent camp The latest outbreak comes after a spate of COVID-19 and tuberculosis cases were reported at Camp East Montana, which holds more than 3,000 immigrants.

New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday.

Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

Here’s where National Park material is under review A leaked database of proposed revisions, mapped.

Took that leaked database of proposed changes to the historic presentations at national sites and mapped them. www.pbump.net/o/heres-wher...

Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms The administration told a court on Monday that it was abandoning its defense of executive orders targeting the firms. But on Tuesday, the Justice Department appeared to abruptly change its position.

Breaking News: The Trump administration is said to be planning to renew its fight against law firms, an abrupt reversal from a day earlier.

Chris Murphy: "There is 0 history of an air strike campaign alone toppling a dictatorship and transitioning a country to democracy. We know that air strikes do not knock out Iran's nuclear capability. Why? Because we did air strikes last year. President Trump lied to the American public."

Kars for Kids isn’t clear on where it’s money goes so that one is till my #1 but the 4Patriots ads make me nuts.

Mine (Riley Moore, WV) doesn’t respond.