Checking in on the status of the U.S. government:

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Today's the day.

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Laurinburg, NC

Well+Being Medical Mysteries: A surgeon's ominous pain and a question of grilled meat July 8, 2023 Pictured an illustration of a man on a bathroom scale

"The surgeon’s persistent, methodical approach to his own illness — honed during his long medical career — coupled with the assistance of his longtime gastroenterologist led to the discovery of the unusual and preventable reason for his alarming decline."

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An elderly man feeding stray cats in Baghdad, Iraq 🧡

From archive.ph: While living in China in the early 2000s, Zhu served as the vice chairman of the state-controlled enterprise, Henan Pioneer Aide Biological Engineering Co., and board chairman and general manager of Aide Modern Cattle Industry China Co., which was the primary shareholder of 11 cattle companies in China, according to the congressional report. Zhu then moved to Canada and started doing business there, focusing on the cattle industry. In 2016, one of his businesses was ordered by a Canadian court to pay $330 million for allegedly stealing cattle-related technology from a U.S.-based company. It is not clear whether the business ever paid the judgment. Amid the litigation, Canadian court records show, Zhu emailed a colleague: "The law is strong, but the outlaws are 1o times stronger." He was ordered to serve six months in jail after being found in contempt of court, a conviction that he appealed, but court records don't make clear whether he served any time. The House Select Committee report says that Zhu is fled Canada and landed in California. By 2020, federal prosecutors say, Zhu and his partner Wang were operating two companies - Universal Meditech Inc. and Prestige Biotech Inc. - that sold COVID-19, pregnancy and other types of test kits. Zhu and Wang imported hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 test kits from a Chinese company they controlled and falsely represented to customers that the test kits were made in the United States, according to their indictment. They illegally imported the COVID test kits disguised as pregnancy tests, which they had been approved to import, prosecutors said. The couple netted about $1.7 million in the alleged scheme, according to prosecutors.

Amid the litigation, Canadian court records show, Zhu emailed a colleague: “The law is strong, but the outlaws are 10 times stronger.”

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When an Iranian gunboat called a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in late 1987 and demanded to know its cargo… Before the merchant captain could answer, another voice cut in:

“Machine guns, hand grenades to Iraq - and the atomic bomb.”

It was the Filipino Monkey again.

The human-made roots of Japan's hay fever crisis

Efforts to thin forests and breed low-pollen cedar advance, even as labor gaps and neglected land complicate the work.

@down.blue

So, in truth, the four hideously partisan Republican members of the N.C. Supreme Court have destroyed the tribunal as an institution. It delivers only partisanship, not justice. Its mantle is politics, not law. That means when the Berger-Page election is delivered to their doorstep none can be expected to believe what they say. Even if Phil Berger’s boy recuses himself — which, of course, he might not. He hasn’t followed the rules so far. Why now? There are high costs to becoming a politically corrupted tribunal. We’re now, once again, about to pay them. Read more at: https://www.salisburypost.com/2026/03/08/the-wages-of-a-political-court/#

Four Republicans on the NC Supreme Court will probably try to steal the primary election for Phil Berger. Professor Gene Nichol: www.salisburypost.com/2026/03/08/t... #ncpol

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The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) strongly condemns the reported decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to exclude press photographers from Pentagon briefings after photographs of Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth were published that officials reportedly considered “unflattering.”

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Drone killings of press members are on the rise: surging from two in 2023 — the first year CPJ documented such killings — to 39 in 2025. Military drones were confirmed or thought to be behind 33 of those killings, with Israel responsible for 28.

Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

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Gavin mogs to death Vance in 2028

He's the lolcow of 2026

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I was born and raised in the Qualla Community, and am the third generation to live on our family farm. I attended North Carolina State University, and have over 30 years experience working in construction finance. I am honored to serve my community by participating in positions such as the EBCI Governing Board of Audit and Ethics, and the Eastern Band of Cherokees Planning Board. have life long experience with the benefits of belonging to a local community as well as the challenges of living in rural Western North Carolina In my free time I organize and participate in our community roadside trash pickup, volunteer on my church finance and event committees, and travel with my husband to visit our son who is attending graduate school.

Interesting, she is EBCI.

The News & Observer 6 hrs • Senate leader Phil Berger is accused of "using his campaign fund like a piggy bank." But Berger says it all has been cleared with the state. Complaint says top North Carolina Republican is taking donors' money for personal gain

From 2019 classic Piggy Berger

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I memba when Jr was an active member on Parler before J6 lmao

THE BERGER PIG DYNASTY PHIL BERGER JR THIS LITTLE PIGGY... WAS APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT THANKS TO DADDY ASHLEY BERGER SNYDER THIS LIFTLE PIGGY... HELPED DADDY WITH HIS FAILED CASINO DEAL KEVIN BERGER AND THIS LITTLE PIGGY... WAS ELECTED TO COMMISSIONER AFTER A "RECOUNT" YOU CAN'T POLISH PIG SHIT

SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE PHIL BERGER & HIS THREE LITTLE PIGGIES SUCKING ON DADDY AND ON YOU!

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