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• President Donald Trump announced late on Friday, Oct. 2, that he will send "nearly $100" to 20 million seniors across the country in his latest effort to promise Americans cash.
• To be exact, it's $90 to each of the seniors.

>"My Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums," the president said in the late-night announcement on his social media website Truth Social. "This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse."

• It’s unclear whether the White House has the authority to divert the cash as Trump says. USA TODAY has reached out to the administration for information.
• The promised checks are the president’s latest move to offer Americans money ahead of the upcoming midterms. Trump is not on the ballot but Republicans are expected to face a tough fight from Democrats amid angst over the negative impact Trump’s war on Iran has had on household finances.

TO CLARIFY:

And, it's a ONE time payment! IF they send anything at all.
And, there are about 65 million seniors in the U.S.
Therefore the 20 million are the down and out seniors struggling to survive/live!
WHAT an enormous slap in the face!

>The Class I categorization raises the recall to the FDA's highest risk level, indicating serious health effects or death. According to the company, those at greater risk are the elderly, pregnant women and infants, especially if consumed over extended periods of time.

thyroid tablets sold by Vitrvias Therapeutics Inc. as a Class I, the highest risk level the agency assigns.

Snippet:Thyroid tablets, USP, are a natural preparation derived from porcine thyroid glands composed of levothyroxine and liothyronine. They are used to treat hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid.

The Food and Drug Administration has raised the risk level of a thyroid medication recall issued last month. The FDA classified the recall of one lot of thyroid tablets sold by Vitrvias Therapeutics Inc. as a Class I, the highest risk level the agency assigns.

• According to the FDA, a Class I recall means using the product could cause serious health effects or death. In a recall notice on Aug. 24, the company said its thyroid tablets, USP 30 mg with the lot number 504950, were potentially superpotent.

>Consumption of superpotent thyroid tablets can cause hyperthyroidism or an overactive thyroid, bringing a slew of symptoms such as weight loss, heat intolerance, fatigue, nervousness, muscle weakness, hypertension, chest pain, rapid heart rate or heart rhythm disturbances.

>The recall affects roughly 1,955 bottles of the medication. According to the company, those at greater risk are the elderly, pregnant women and infants, especially if consumed over extended periods of time.

• At the time of the Aug. 24 recall, the company said it had not received any reports of reactions in relation to the recall. The recalled lot was distributed nationwide in the USA to Vitruvias Therapeutics' direct accounts from Jan. 31, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2025.

Another company and recalled in July: A nationwide recall of Major Pharmaceuticals levothyroxine sodium tablets was classified as Class II by the FDA in July 2026 because the pills were found to be subpotent (containing less active ingredient than labeled).

It was an old cesspool well.

• The ground beneath a Long Island woman opened up, swallowing her into the earth below. 
• Danielle Tammone spent several terrifying minutes in a hole in her quiet residential Bohemia backyard Thursday. 
• Tammone said she suddenly found herself 8 feet underground in her backyard. Her dog Daisy anxiously looked on. 
• She screamed for help, asking if anyone was there. 
• "People suffocate and they die, so I thought that at first," she said. 
• It happened on her 47th birthday. Tammone thinks she was trapped for about 30 minutes. 
• "It's my birthday. This might be my death date," Tammone said. "I couldn't breathe well, because I was gasping, and scared and crying." 
• Tammone said she wasn't sure if she had been swallowed into a water well, cesspool or sump. 
• "I was trying to put my legs up to get out, but the stone was crumbling down," she said.

 

>Fortunately, her screams and cries for help were heard by neighbors. One neighbor happened to walk onto her porch as another was getting into her car. They both heard the screams and came running.

They called 911, etc. and there's more in the article, but I posted some more in the comments.

• For months, President Donald Trump has been coping with his myriad failures and plummeting approval ratings by trying to make it harder for people to vote his party out of power in the 2026 midterms.
• To that end, in March, he issued an executive order that would require the U.S. Postal Service to draft a rule that would upend vote-by-mail procedures in dozens of states, and effectively block the agency from processing ballots that do not comply with the rule’s exacting requirements. Trump did not attempt to hide his motives for doing so: Legal restrictions on mail-in voting, he told Republican lawmakers, would “guarantee the midterms” for a party that is otherwise in danger of losing them badly.
• A series of lawsuits ensued, given that the Constitution (1) divides the power to administer federal elections between Congress and the states and (2) very much does not allow elderly conspiracy theorists to arrogate that power on account of their fixation with the results of a presidential election they lost more than a half-decade ago.
• And fortunately for anyone who cares about maintaining some semblance of representative democracy in this country, in a three-sentence order on Monday, the Supreme Court left in place a federal district court order that blocks the Postal Service’s rule from taking effect in time for the 2026 midterms. Only Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas noted their dissents.

• A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas woman can't sue two Santa Fe police officers who pinned her face down on a fire ant hill while she was handcuffed, causing her to receive hundreds of painful bites to her face.
• In an August 6 opinion, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed a lower court decision allowing Taylor Rogers' lawsuit against the City of Santa Fe and the two officers to move forward. Instead, the panel held that the officers were shielded from her claims under the doctrine of qualified immunity.
• In a press conference last Friday, Rogers' attorney, Randy Kallinen, criticized the ruling.
• "The United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is out of touch with the Constitution and the public, granting police immunity in the most egregious of cases," Kallinen said. "The people need to elect officials who will nominate and affirm judges loyal to the Constitution."
• Kallinen told The Daily News that he has requested an en banc hearing for the full 15-member 5th Circuit to review the case, and he'll petition the Supreme Court for review if that fails.
• "The facts, injuries and footage speaks for itself," Kallinen said. "If they let this one slide, they're letting police do just about anything."

>Santa Fe Independent School District Police officers arrested Rogers in 2021 after she drove erratically through a school parking lot and disobeyed commands to stop. According to the 5th Circuit opinion, she continued to thrash and resist officers in a state of hysteria after being handcuffed.

Edited to add from another article:

>Her attorney, Randall Kallinen, said Rogers was dropping off her child at school when she got into a confrontation with a Santa Fe ISD police officer who was directing traffic.

"She allegedly drove the wrong way in a pickup line before another district officer stopped her."

The show I recently watched was about tiny homes, but I've seen plenty of shows on HGTV where the above happens and they seem to fixate on the chandelier they hate or the paint color on the walls.

During this particular show, the couple was standing in the small kitchen/dining area, and one of them could ONLY focus on the dining table and how much she hated it! 🤦

Does this annoy anyone else??

Article about the tracking device Saylor should have been wearing:

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"It is important to understand that Project Lifesaver is a voluntary program," the statement from WCSO said. "A parent, guardian or caregiver is responsible for ensuring the transmitter remains properly secured to the client. The transmitter is attached using a specialized band designed for continuous wear. It cannot simply be unclasped or removed by the client; the band must be physically cut in order to remove the transmitter."

• If Saylor Hayes, the 5-year-old nonverbal Virginia girl whose body was recently found near Pawleys Island, was wearing her trackable transmitter when she went missing, the hours-long search for her could have unfolded much differently.
• Saylor, who is from Bristol, Va., went missing from her family's rental home in Hagley Estates on Aug. 30 and was discovered the next day in the Waccamaw River.
• She had been part of the Project Lifesaver program with Virginia's Washington County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) since 2024, but she was not wearing her trackable transmitter when she was discovered, WCSO said.
• "Project Lifesaver assists law enforcement in locating individuals who are at risk of wandering due to cognitive conditions or other special needs," a statement from WCSO on Facebook said. "Clients wear a small transmitter that emits an individualized radio frequency, allowing specially trained personnel to track and locate them if they become missing. The program has been an extremely valuable and effective resource for our agency and the families we serve."
• Saylor had a severe case of nonverbal autism with a history of elopement, along with a pronounced affinity for water, according to an affidavit shared by the Georgetown County Sherriff's Office on Facebook.

What are your thoughts?

And, Giuliani told Mamdani to stay away from the 9/11 memorial???🤔

• Mayor Mamdani said Tuesday New Yorkers were “lied to” about the dangerous air quality in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks — though he declined to explicitly pin the blame on past mayors.
• Mayor Mamdani said Tuesday New Yorkers were “lied to” about the dangerous air quality in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks — though he declined to explicitly pin the blame on past mayors. A tranche of long sought-after documents was released Tuesday, with the 25th year since the attacks just days away. After a multi-year legal battle, around 170,000 pages of documents were put online for public viewing, with more uploads to follow as the city reviews more documents, Corporation Counsel Steve Banks said.
• “People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air,” Mamdani said at a City Hall press conference announcing the release of the documents. “And then when they began to contend with the symptoms of the illnesses that followed, the government that had not hesitated to send them into harm’s way was nowhere to be found.”
• Mamdani repeatedly declined to name names.
• The roles of Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg are coming under increasing scrutiny as more information emerges about the degree of awareness there was about toxins in the air as New Yorkers were told it was safe to return to lower Manhattan.

• Veterans and Democrats are escalating efforts to prevent construction on President Donald Trump’s planned arch as the anticipated start of site work approaches, arguing the project is illegal and would diminish the experience of visiting nearby Arlington National Cemetery.

>VoteVets, a political organization aligned with Democratic veterans, on Tuesday launched a new messaging campaign to mobilize more veterans against the planned 250-foot-tall arch.

• In a 2½-minute video, which was first shared with The Washington Post, speakers call attention to the Trump administration’s stated plan to spend 20 hours per day building the arch over several years, which they note could conflict with military burials. The arch also would feature an observation deck for tourists to gaze at the city — and look out at the cemetery.
• “We don’t need tourists overlooking funerals. I’m just appalled,” Karen Meredith, a Gold Star mother whose son is buried at Arlington, said in the video.

• OpenAI failed to disclose an incident in which a swarm of its AI agents hijacked a German wiki site earlier this year in events that closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face.
• OpenAI only confirmed the incident after Reuters first reported it. Reuters story contained strong circumstantial evidence that OpenAI was aware of the wiki attack as well as comments from unnamed OpenAI employees acknowledging that they had been aware of the agent swarm targeting the wiki for weeks but had been pressured by OpenAI executives to keep quiet about it. OpenAI later issued a statement denying that any lawyers from the company had pressured the employees.