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Northern Exposure: The gradual increase in fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has dramatically escalated in the past 48 hours. Israel is determined to move its citizens back to the North without the threat of what has become constant rocket attacks from the (other) Iran-backed terror group. Meanwhile, the US is under increased pressure to find a way to keep things from spreading. Here’s the latest from CNN.
+ Rue the Day: “Bomb scares at elementary schools. A police dog checking the bushes outside City Hall. Threats against local officials. It has been a chilling couple of weeks for Springfield, Ohio, since former President Donald J. Trump pulled the city into the presidential race with baseless claims that Haitian immigrants there were abducting and eating household pets. And trying to hold the city together has been Mayor Rob Rue, who took office not even a year ago, taking on a part-time post that has been anything but that over the last several days.” NYT (Gift Article): He Makes Less Than $15,000 and Is Trying to Hold Springfield, Ohio, Together.
+ Mark Down: “Several top operatives on Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, just days after a CNN report uncovered inflammatory comments the candidate made on a p-rn website.” (Hey, at least Mark Robinson didn’t go on TV in front of 67 million people and say they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs. Now that would be bad.)
+ Husker Don’t: “A Nebraska Republican state lawmaker said Monday that he remains opposed to switching how the state allocates its electoral votes, effectively blocking a bid by President Donald Trump and his allies to change the system in a bid for an extra electoral vote this fall.” (There are constant efforts to change the rules, erase votes, and rig the election, and so often, they are resisted by a margin of one or two people.)
+ Three Peat: “Three Mile Island, the power plant near Middletown, Pa., that was the scene of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history, will reopen to power Microsoft’s data centers.” This brings back eerie memories of humanity’s worst meltdowns: Three Mile Island and Internet Explorer 6.
+ Put It in Writing: “The man who authorities say sat with a rifle in the trees where Donald Trump was golfing earlier this month in West Palm Beach, Florida, previously wrote a letter stating ‘this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,’ according to a new filing Monday by federal prosecutors.”
+ Nose Bridge: You can get an at-home flu ‘shot’ starting next year. And it’s not a shot, it’s a nasal vaccine.
