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Saturday, October 10, 2026

A US judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department's push to obtain state voter rolls and check them against a federal immigration database in order to demand that states remove voters it deemed ineligible was unlawful. read more


Surveillance video from the last hour of a woman's life in a Missouri jail has disappeared, according to new court filings that accuse the Pike County Sheriff's Office of failing to turn over key footage. read more


If you want to see the face of real Republican desperation, look no further than President Trump's local Republican Party.


Friday, October 09, 2026

US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting Washington on a diplomatic collision course with European allies.


Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines.


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Jail video showing woman's final moments reportedly missing
fox2now.com

... But there are other videos that Grote's family attorney Mark Pedroli now alleges are missing.

According to the court filings, Pedroli claims two videos that would provide the most answers have disappeared.

Pedroli said he demanded all videos less than a month after Grote died but was not given all of them.

The filing reveals deputy in charge David Carroll said in a deposition, "The last hour, yes, is gone."

Though the deputy also reportedly said he saw the video, including Grote, " ... being dragged out into the hallway."

The filing adds, "the footage indisputably existed, and defendants' own investigator watched it, before it was lost." ...


Wally - What to Do (1974)
www.youtube.com

"... All I need is music to bring the best in me ..."

@#44

Thanks for the follow-up.

I found this ...

Phil Donahue's Prediction of Live Executions Comes True with Hegseth: Talk Show Host Tried to Make It Happen in 1994 But Was Rejected
www.showbiz411.com

... Phil Donahue, the late talk show host, predicted we would one day have live executions on TV.

In 1994, he petitioned the Supreme Court to videotape Lawson's execution for television, arguing that the public needed to see capital punishment to decide if it was right or wrong.

The death row inmate, David Lawson, convicted of a 1980 murder, joined him in the petition, the SCOTUS turned them down.

Donahue wasn't asking for the access to advocate for capital punishment. Rather, he wanted people to see how barbaric it was. He told Larry King on King's show: "I am on record as being against capital punishment,. I am making this argument not as an ideologue, but as a person who believes that this free-press establishment has a responsibility to show this issue, which has split families." ...


@#31

To wit ...

2016 General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
www.realclearpolling.com

171 electoral votes in the "toss-up" (a.k.a., too close to call) category.

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