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An ordinary citizen who would go online with a promotion of the digits "86 47," a reference many understood as a threat to President Donald Trump … to "86" or end the 47th president, they would have come under federal investigation.

And when a former high-ranking federal official, Barack Obama's FBI chief, James Comey, does it, it seems, the treatment is the same, under the Trump administration.

Comey flamboyantly posted the messaging online, and the FBI immediately confirmed it knew all about the apparent threat to Trump from Comey, who quickly canceled his posting.

And it promised an investigation.

Now, according to a report at Just the News, which quoted the New York Times, Comey was, in fact, interviewed, even followed, because of his behavior.

It explained the messaging was a picture of seashells arranged to spell "86 47."

"The first number has roots in the restaurant industry for getting rid of, or no longer having, a certain food. But others say it is a call for an assassination. The second number stands for the 47th president," the report said.

Now three anonymous government officials have confirmed law enforcement in unmarked cars tracked the location of Comey's cellphone the day after he posted online.

Comey, subsequently, had explained, "I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down."

The report noted, "Authorities tailed Comey and his wife, Patrice, as they drove from their North Carolina vacation through Virginia to their home in the Washington, D.C., area, the officials said, citing 'exigent' circumstances for the justification. "

Federal agents also were at his home awaiting his return, monitoring the location of his phone, and he also was interviewed both via telephone and in person in a Secret Service office in Washington, the report said.

Anthony Guglielmi, a service spokesman, explained, "The Secret Service will vigorously investigate any individual, regardless of position or status, that may pose or be perceived as a threat to any of our protectees. To preserve operational integrity, we are not able to comment on specific protective intelligence matters."

WND reported when the story first developed on the reaction.

There also, at the time, was a reminder that President Trump has faced two assassination attempts in just the last year, so the threat is serious.

Trump fired Comey in 2017 while Comey was orchestrating one of the many Democrat lawfare investigations of Trump.

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Kevin O'Connor, who served as the physician to Joe Biden during his term in the White House, has refused to answer questions from Congress investigating Biden's health decline, and the threats that could have posed, while in office.

That there was a decline was obvious to all who saw him during live events, where he would stumble over words, make mistakes including calling on members of Congress who were dead, jumble comments, even sometimes simply stare vacantly or wander around trying to find a way off stage.

It came to a crisis point during his debate with President Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign, a performance that gave the Democrats no other option but to allow him to "withdraw" as the party's nominee, after which the party elites in a non-democratic process named Kamala Harris as their choice.

Biden's decline is under investigation because of serious questions about some of his formal actions, including pardons to family members, which were signed by a government autopen.

Such actions are, in fact, routine, but the questions are whether he even was aware of those actions, often done by subordinates.

Legal questions remain about the validity of actions his aides would have taken if he was not fully cognizant of them, and the ramifications.

The House Oversight Committee has started taking depositions on the topic, but O'Connors lawyers submitted a statement to the members of Congress that he would "decline to answer" any questions.

"First, the physician patient privilege and the physicians' ethical duty of confidentiality require that Dr. O'Connor refuse to testify about any aspect of his care and treatment of President Biden," they said. "Second, the pending Department of Justice criminal investigation leaves Dr. O'Connor no choice but to invoke his constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to any questions posed by the committee."

However, the results of annual physical exams for other presidents routinely have been made public, even to the point of including the results of President Donald Trump's cognitive tests during his exams.

A report from the Washington Examiner noted O'Connor's claims were based on his "Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."

The committee's investigation into the cover-up of Biden's health issues began days ago with a deposition from Neera Tanden, a Biden aide.

O'Connor earlier had insisted that his deposition be delayed, a demand refused by the committee.

The White House has waived executive privilege for those summoned by the committee, making it problematic for them to refuse to answer.

"The American people have a right to know the health condition of the president, both physical and mental," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has confirmed.

"It's no secret that this is an investigation of the autopen, but at the center of the use of the autopen is whether or not the president knew his name was being signed with an autopen."

The committee has been forced to issue subpoenas for some members of Biden's entourage, as they had voluntarily promised to appear and testify, then reversed course and refused.

Republicans want to know what tests were done for Biden, and the results, especially whether Biden's inner circle put pressure on O'Connor to say he was fit for office.

Others expected to testify include Jill Biden's "work husband," Anthony Bernall, Ron Klain, Steve Ricchetti and Ashley Williams.

Comer has cited Biden's recent revelation of a cancer diagnosis.

There are suspicions, he said, "that people were covering up the president's mental decline. But yet Dr. O'Connor's reports were glowing with, you know, how healthy the president was."

Comer said, "I think the president, the state of the president's health is the transparency that we all expect. The president of the United States is the most powerful person in the world. The American people have a right to know the health condition of the president, both physical and mental,"

He also noted, "There's more and more evidence that comes out every day that would suggest that the president was in a pretty severe mental decline."

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Some detainees at the federal government's new detention facility in Florida, known as Alligator Alcatraz, are complaining about the conditions inside – including mosquitoes "as big as elephants."

Along with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, President Trump last week celebrated the opening of the facility deep in the Everglades.

Not all the guests, however, are happy with their new accommodations.

Leamsy "La Figura" Izquierdo, a Cuban artist who was arrested in Miami last week, told CBS News he moved into the facility with about 400 others.

"There's no water to take a bath, it's been four days since I've taken a bath," said Izquierdo, who was arrested on charges of battery and assault with a deadly weapon.

The inmate claims he is fed only once a day. Another complaint is that detainees have not been given toothpaste.

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Bullying by teenagers causes inestimable damage across America. Sometimes victims have responded with extreme measures, up to and including suicide.

But now one state has adopted a plan that will hit back, really hard.

It will take drivers' licenses away from the offenders.

A report at EndTimeHeadlines calls it a "bold move to curb bullying."

Minors could lose their driving privileges for up to a year if found guilty of bullying or cyberbullying.

The law was signed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee in April and expands previous attempts to define the actions as offenses.

Rep. Lowell Russell, a Republican who sponsored the bill, said, "Most acts of violence or suicides are results of being bullied."

He said the issue came into focus when he encountered a parent whose son faced bullying and got inadequate support from his school.

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As Texans continue to deal with Saturday's flash flooding that has claimed dozens of lives, the lieutenant governor of the Lone Star State is urging citizens not to give up hope for those missing.

"Do not give up," said Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "Miracles can happen."

The death toll Sunday morning rose to 59, with 27 girls missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas.

Five girls staying at the camp have been confirmed dead. There were 750 attendees when floodwaters rose 26 feet in abut 45 minutes, slamming into the camp.

"The miracles that have happened," Patrick continued, "it's hard for me to talk about that because I'm also taking to the families of those who are missing. And right now they're focused on that. Miracles are tough. They expect and they hope and they pray. We stand on the rock of our faith through now."

"But there have been dramatic stories … Camp Mystic where camp counselors smashed a window open, we know this story from the girl who was telling her parents because they drove her back to Dallas.

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Iran appears to be following the path of other repressive regimes that find their path into the future clouded and uncertain: Turning to attacks on its own citizens.

A report at Fox News describes the aftermath of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, in which the rogue Islamic regime "appears to be turning inward – escalation repression with chilling speed."

It is Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran, who confirmed the Islamic Republic is accelerating toward a "North Korea-style model of isolation and control."

Iran, where its nuclear weapons facilities were decimated by the recent bombings from Israel and the U.S., long has insisted on obtaining nuclear weapons in order to "wipe" Israel off the map.

That, President Donald Trump and Israeli officials both said could not be allowed.

Now, Aarabi said, "We're witnessing a kind of domestic isolation that will have major consequences for the Iranian people. The regime has always been totalitarian, but the level of suppression now is unprecedented. It's unlike anything we've seen before."

A Fox source inside Iran said the repression now is "terrifying" and Aarabi described a population under siege from its own Islamic leaders.

"He described how citizens are stopped at random, their phones confiscated and searched," the report said.

"If you have content deemed pro-Israel or mocking the regime, you disappear. People are now leaving their phones at home or deleting everything before they step outside."

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The continued collapse of Tehran's stock market indices this week, compounded by massive capital flight following the recent war, reflect deepening economic turmoil throughout Iran.

On Wednesday, July 2 alone, over 13,200 billion tomans were withdrawn from the Tehran Stock Exchange – a historic record. Reports had already surfaced of the regime's desperate efforts to curb this exodus, including deliberate technical disruptions in multiple currency exchange offices as early as Monday.

A future clouded by uncertainty

Abbas Abdi – a former student leader involved in the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and ex-deputy head of the Iran-based Presidential Strategic Research Center – recently wrote:

"On the surface, administrative, production and service sectors seem to have returned to normal after the war. But one thing has fundamentally changed: our perception of the future."

That perception is now defined by uncertainty and fear. Growing anxiety within the regime's inner circles reflects a deep concern that collapse is not only possible, but imminent. Many regime officials, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders and business elites have already secured escape plans abroad – particularly in Canada and Latin America – and arranged foreign citizenship for their children, the so-called Aghazadeh ("children of the elite"), as a safeguard should the regime fall.

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The Supreme Court just days ago declared unconstitutional a scheme by school officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, to impose mandatory LGBT indoctrination on children as young as three years old.

The practical effect of the ruling was to force school officials to allow parents to opt their children out of the offensive teachings, over the protests by the district that it really didn't have the ability to manage such a situation.

It was because of the obvious scheming in which officials insisted on feeding children a reading diet of books that "normalized" LGBT beliefs, including the scientifically impossible concept that boys can turn into girls, and the district's instructions to teachers to ridicule and correct students who disagreed.

The school, with its agenda, moved well beyond exposing children to other beliefs, according an analysis posted online at Scotusblog.

It moved into requiring students to adopt the school's "certain values and beliefs," in short, its religion.

The analysis charged, "The court didn't say that merely exposing children to ideas contrary to their faith is unconstitutional. [Justice Samuel] Alito acknowledged that not every curriculum dispute triggers a free exercise claim. The key, he explained, is the combination of normative messaging and institutional reinforcement. The majority pointed not only to the content of the books, which portrayed same-sex marriage and gender transition as joyful and self-affirming, but also to the teacher guidance documents distributed by MCPS.

"Those documents instructed teachers on how to respond to student questions or objections. If a child said that 'a boy can't marry a boy,' teachers were told to respond, 'Two men who love each other can decide they want to get married.' If a student said a character can't be a boy if he was born a girl, the teacher should say, 'That comment is hurtful.' One prompt advised teachers to explain that '[w]hen we're born, people make a guess about our gender and label us 'boy' or 'girl' based on our body parts. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong.'

"Teachers were told to '[d]isrupt either/or thinking' and were discouraged from presenting these topics as optional or neutral," the analysis said.

"In short, this was not passive exposure to diversity. It was, in the court's words, a curriculum 'designed to present certain values and beliefs as things to be celebrated, and certain contrary values and beliefs as things to be rejected.' And when combined with mandatory attendance, a lack of opt-out rights, and the young age of the students – some as young as five – the court found that this amounted to more than discomfort. It was a constitutional burden on religious formation."

The analysis noted the school was imposing "moral instruction for young children without offering a way out."

The case was brought against the school by parents who charged that the school was violating the Constitution by imposing on their protected religious rights, with which the Supreme Court agreed.

The court found the school imposed on young children "real pressure to conform" to the school's religion.

"For advocates working at the intersection of religious liberty and public education, this case is both a warning and a roadmap. The warning is clear: Ignoring procedural pluralism – by eliminating opt-outs and dismissing religious objections as mere bigotry – risks violating constitutional protections. But the roadmap is more hopeful. If school districts want to honor inclusion without coercion, they must offer parents meaningful ways to participate and dissent. Opt-out policies, clear notice, and open dialogue with families aren't threats to diversity – they're how pluralism works in practice," the analysis found.

It said, "When public schools act as both educators and moral guides, they carry a responsibility to make space for conscience, not just as a matter of fairness, but as a matter of constitutional law."

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It often begins with a last-minute calendar invite – mandatory, with no explanation.

For many workers in the tech industry, this has become a familiar signal. As the video meeting starts, hundreds of employees log in silently. Soon, human resources and legal representatives appear. The message is read. The decision is final.

Employees are informed their positions are being eliminated.

There is no opportunity for dialogue. Years of service are sometimes brought to an end in just a few minutes.

Many of these employees had stayed late, worked weekends, mentored new team members and remained committed through difficult cycles. The meeting typically ends with a bland, impersonal, standard statement of appreciation.

Executives often describe these actions as necessary for business reasons, with public statements citing over-hiring, inflation, economic uncertainty or the need for cost control. Workers are told the decision is not personal – just business.

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A rock performer appearing at the United Kingdom's big Glastonbury music festival led the crowd in a "Death to the IDF" chant, advocating violence against Israel, and promptly discovered while his speech may be free, it is not without consequences.

Reports reveal that the rocker now has not only been banned from entry into the United States, he's apparently lost his agent, too.

Social media reports have revealed the consequences for a performer named Bob Vylan, real name Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34.

The Daily Mail revealed Robinson-Foster provided the crowd with the chant, then led the radicals who were waving Palestine flags and calling for the deaths of Israeli soldiers.

British police have begun investigating Robinson-Foster as well as drummer "Bobbie Vylan."

They were to appear in Spokane, Washington, in October, but the report confirmed the U.S. Department of State has intervened and canceled permission for them to enter to America.

"The State Department has revoked the U.S. visas for the members of the Bob Vylan band in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants," according to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.

"Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country."

"Republican Senator Ted Cruz also shared a video of Bob Vylan leading 'free Palestine' and 'death to the IDF' chants at Glastonbury on X, condemning it as 'sick," the report said.