Saddened to hear of the passing of Alex Sanders. He was a true Southern gentleman and one of the great storytellers South Carolina has ever known. Alex could hold a room like no one else. Praying for his family. Rest well, my friend.

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11/ Then President Trump returned to the White House. Almost immediately, he gutted the FBI and DOJ teams dedicated to taking on public corruption. Today, there is no one left to look into Kao’s explosive allegations. The case is dead.

Five candidates have thrown their hat in the ring in the highly anticipated South Carolina U.S. Senate race. ebx.sh/nMWksf

Iran has now issued a deadly warning to the Middle East. Iran will no longer allow the UAE and other Gulf countries to assist Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI, or other AI and data companies. Any financial, land or energy resources provided to AI and data companies will be met with deadly consequences. Ghalibaf's exact words: The Persian Gulf Data Authority is coming. To governments in the region, you are advised to provide no resources to any AI or data company again. Assist them and face our enforcement. In simple English, Iran has demanded that the Middle East completely abandon every single project involving Microsoft, Google and Apple. Otherwise, the IRGC could be forced to launch a bombing campaign against non compliant countries. This means the UAE'S Stargate project will most likely get them bombed. Iran's new restrictions could completely cripple the UAE and Saudi. They could lose tens of billions of dollars. Their oil exports and tourism are already taking devastating hits. During the 12 day war, the US dropped a 14 ton bomb on Iran. It failed to work. Iran has analyzed the bomb's components, alloys and electronics. Iran now possesses the technology. They have announced the father of Iran's missiles is ready to fire. Data centers of Amazon, Google and Microsoft are now under serious threat. This is leading to a total disaster.

My coworker's mother passed away last November. She left her modest $190,000 house to him clear and free, no mortgage, completely paid off after thirty years of factory work. He moved into the home in January to finally settle the estate. Two weeks ago, a letter arrived from the state Medicaid estate recovery office. Because his mother spent four months in a rehabilitation facility before she passed, the state quietly slapped a retroactive $114,000 lien against the property title. He called the state health department, frantic, asking how a hospital stay could bankrupt an inherited home that had no mortgage balance. The caseworker sighed and told him: "Federal law requires state programs to claw back healthcare costs from deceased estates. The house cannot be sold or transferred until the balance is cleared in full." He offered to pay a monthly settlement. They said no. The full $114,000 is due in 60 days, or they foreclose on the property at a public auction. A lifetime of working-class savings, wiped out overnight by a retroactive healthcare lien. You don't own generational wealth. You're just holding a property title until the state finds a legal mechanism to repossess it the moment you die.