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HERE WE GO: Navy Commander Confirms DOZENS of Penetration Operations by Foreign Nationals Reported at US Bases Over Last Few Weeks
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Joe strikes again! Biden is accused of repeating long-running lie in commencement address at West Point military academy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13459433/Biden-lie-commencement-address-West-Point-military-academy.html
The president had been delivering the commencement speech at the Military Academy at West Point, New York, when he made the remarks to 1,036 cadets. During the ceremony, Biden told the crowd of graduates that he had been 'appointed' to the Naval Academy. Biden had previously made this same claim while addressing graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy in 2022.
ADHD drug shortage shows signs of letting up, but some patients still struggle
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/adhd-drug-shortages-fda-easing-affecting-patients-rcna152570
Many of the ADHD medication shortages that have plagued the U.S. for the last two years have now been resolved, the Food and Drug Administration says. Yet some doctors and patients report they are still struggling to get prescriptions filled.
Dr. Royce Lee, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago Medicine, said supply has gotten better but it’s still an issue for about a third of the patients he writes prescriptions for. This often means he still has to call around to pharmacies to see if they have the medications in stock, switch patients to different drugs, and deal with insurance companies to confirm coverage.
“I do see signs of the shortages easing up,” Lee said. “But there are still enough shortages that every day we’re having to put in a little bit of work for prescriptions that need to be changed or hunted down.”
“I think a lot of people are still not getting their treatments,” he added.
A total of nine manufacturers now have ADHD medications back in stock, according to the FDA’s drug shortage database, up from six last September.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, a major manufacturer of ADHD medications, has resolved all of its shortages after certain doses were unavailable for several months, according to the agency’s database. A 5-milligram dose of one of its medications remains in limited supply, however.
SpecGx, which manufactures a generic version of the ADHD medication Vyvanse, has all dosages of its drugs back in stock after most were on back order last year.
About 6 million children and teens have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it among the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in kids. Millions of adults are estimated to have it as well, and some may not know it.
>addiction
Key Senate Democrats seek meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over ‘Supreme Court’s ethics crisis’
The senators are asking Roberts to “ensure” that Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from certain cases.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-senate-democrats-meeting-chief-justice-roberts-alito-ethics-rcna154052
Two top Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked to meet with Chief Justice John Roberts to address “the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis” following reports that controversial flags flown at the Capitol building by some supporters of Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, were also displayed at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s homes.
In the letter released Friday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked to meet with Roberts “as soon as possible” and renewed their “call for the Supreme Court to adopt an enforceable code of conduct for justices.”
The senators wrote that Alito created “reasonable doubt as to his impartiality” and repeated calls for him to recuse himself in cases related to Trump and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The Supreme Court is currently set to weigh in on two cases related to Jan. 6: Trump’s presidential immunity claim in his election interference case and an appeal for a man prosecuted for his actions at the U.S. Capitol.
Their request comes after The New York Times reported that Alito flew an upside-down American flag at his home in Virginia in January 2021. At that time, weeks after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the flag was a symbol used by those in the “Stop the Steal” movement, who believe that President Joe Biden did not win the 2020 presidential election.
Following the first report, Durbin told NBC News that he didn’t plan to hold an inquiry on the matter but repeated calls for Alito to recuse himself from cases involving Trump.
A subsequent report in the Times found that an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which was also flown by some Jan. 6 protesters, was flown for an undetermined period at the Alitos’ vacation home in New Jersey. The news about Alito’s flags comes amid a litany of stories that have raised questions about the ethical standards of the court and calls for justices to recuse themselves from certain cases, including Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, is a conservative activist who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Durbin and Whitehouse also allude to Thomas in their letter, writing that the justice has “repeatedly participated in cases relating to the January 6th attack on the Capitol and the alleged surrounding plot to overturn the 2020 election.”
“His wife’s involvement likely provided grounds for recusal under the federal recusal law,” the senators wrote. “But it appears that the Court has failed to ask what the facts were — particularly the critical facts as to what Justice Thomas knew about his wife’s interactions with alleged participants and when he knew it.”
>an appeal to heaven
Trump to announce plans to commute 'Silk Road' website operator Ross Ulbricht’s prison sentence
The former president has previously called for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, depending on the severity of the crime.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-commute-silk-road-website-operator-ross-ulbrichts-life-prison-se-rcna154082
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans to announce at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday that he intends to commute "Silk Road" website operator Ross Ulbricht's life in prison sentence, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Ulbricht was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2015 for creating and operating a hidden website known as the "Silk Road" that people used to buy and sell drugs, among other illegal goods and services.
Many libertarians have called for Ulbricht's release. At the convention on Saturday, the crowd was filled with "free Ross" signs and took up chants in support of Ulbricht.
However, Trump's previous comments about drug dealers are in conflict with Saturday's planned announcement about Ulbricht.
The former president has said that the death penalty should be instituted for certain drug dealers, depending on the severity of the crime.
Then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara attributed at least six deaths to Ulbricht's actions. Bharara also called Ulbricht "a drug dealer and criminal profiteer." "While in operation, Silk Road was used by thousands of drug dealers and other unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services to more than 100,000 buyers, and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars deriving from these unlawful transactions," said a 2015 Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release announcing Ulbricht’s sentencing.
On Friday night, the libertarian crowd was hostile to mentions of Trump, and the audience booed when Vivek Ramaswamy brought up the former president. Separately, the crowd cheered one Libertarian Party member's suggestion that “we go tell Donald Trump to go f— himself.”
"What he’s really trying to do is to show that he can be a president for all Americans," a Trump campaign official said ahead of the former president's remarks. "If you want to compete for non-traditional Republican votes, then you got to go where they are. You can’t expect them to just show up to you.”
The Libertarian National Convention is taking place at D.C’s Washington Hilton hotel.
>will this happen?