Trump Admin Announces Major Steps Countering Big Pharma And Microplastics

The Trump administration is moving to more closely track and study microplastics and pharmaceuticals in Americans’ drinking water, marking the first time federal regulators have formally flagged them as potential contaminants.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that microplastics are a “growing threat to human health.”

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The Environmental Protection Agency will consider microplastics and pharmaceuticals a “priority contaminant group” in a current draft list. At the same time, a Health and Human Services-backed agency is launching the Systematic Targeting of Microplastics (STOMP) project to investigate the impact of microplastics and their effects on human health.

“For too long, Americans have vocalized concerns about plastics and pharmaceuticals in their drinking water. That ends today,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Thursday.

Microplastics have been detected in water, food, and household products, and some research has linked them to serious health issues like cancer, though scientists say more study is needed to understand their full impact, according to Stanford University School of Medicine.

“Americans deserve clear answers about how microplastics in their bodies affect their health,” Kennedy Jr. said. “Through [Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s] STOMP program, we will measure microplastic exposure, identify sources of risk, and develop targeted solutions to reduce it,” he said.

As for the administration’s initiatives, the goal of STOMP is to focus on the impact of microplastics in the body, specifically how to “measure,” “target,” and “remove” them. It will identify the most dangerous microplastics and how they affect the human body.

Trump Announces Pam Bondi Is out of His Administration, Todd Blanche to Serve as Acting Attorney General

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“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” he wrote. “Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900.”

“We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in

the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” he added.

Semafor’s Shelby Talcott reported Thursday morning that Trump informed Bondi her time in the role was drawing to an end on Wednesday. The discussion would have come hours after Trump and Bondi attended oral arguments for the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, at the Supreme Court earlier Wednesday.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday night that the U.S. military objectives in Iran are “nearing completion” of Operation Epic Fury and that he expects the war to last another two to three weeks.

In a roughly 20-minute primetime address to the nation, Trump outlined the goals of Operation Epic Fury and signaled that it is entering its final phase.

“Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There’s never been anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight, I’m pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” Trump said.

He added that the United States is “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly,” adding, “We are going to hit them extremely hard. Over the next two to three weeks, we’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”

Trump Considering Withdrawing U.S. From ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO Over Europe’s Failure to Reciprocate

President Donald Trump says he is reconsidering America’s membership of NATO after not a single member heeded his call for aid in securing the Middle East from Iranian threats, he told a British newspaper.

…[Europe] not being there, it was actually hard to believe.

“And I didn’t do a big sale. I just said, ‘Hey’, you know, I didn’t insist too much. I just think it should be automatic.

We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.

It is plainly evident from Trump’s several remarks on this matter in recent weeks, that of all the NATO allies the President feels most betrayed by the failure of the United Kingdom to get involved.

As previously stated, for decades one of the primary inputs of the United Kingdom into the Western alliance is the specialist capabilities of the Royal Navy, and in this conflict there is a strong need for minesweeping capacity, something that until recently the UK specialised in.

Justice Jackson Suggests Foreign Tourists Qualify for Birthright Citizenship Because They Have ‘Local Allegiance’ to U.S. While on Vacation

During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her case for why the children of foreign tourists ought to qualify for birthright American citizenship if they are born in the United States while their parents are on vacation.

The case, known as Trump v. Barbara, will decide whether or not President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and foreign tourists, often referred to as “anchor babies,” is constitutional.

During an exchange with the ACLU’s Cecillia Wang, who is arguing that the order is unconstitutional, Jackson seemingly made a case for why birthright citizenship should extend to foreigners who just so happen to be on vacation in the United States at the time their child is born.

“I was thinking about this and I think there are various sources that say this, that you can have — you obviously have permanent allegiance based on being born in whatever country you’re from, that’s what everyone recognizes,” Jackson said. “But you also have local allegiance when you are on the soil of this other sovereign.”

She continued:

And I was thinking, I, U.S. citizen, am visiting Japan and what it means is that, if I steal someone’s wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities can arrest me and prosecute me. It’s allegiance meaning, can they control you as a matter of law? I can also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to under Japanese law go and prosecute the person who has stolen it. So there’s this relationship, even though I’m a temporary traveler, I’m just on vacation in Japan, I’m still locally owing allegiance in that sense.

Annually, an estimated quarter of a million anchor babies are born to illegal aliens and foreign tourists in the United States. The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on the issue. Many leading legal scholars dispute the idea that offering birthright citizenship to such foreign nationals was the intention of the 14th Amendment.

INSANE.

NATO Commander: Europe Has Been ‘Free Rider’, Needs ‘to Ramp Up’

During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation Admiral Pierre Vandier said that in the decades after the Cold War, “the Europeans have been, somehow, the free riders of their own security. Today, there is a great change, and now, we need to ramp up in all domains” and that they should do so to make sure they can make do with a smaller U.S. force because the United States has other commitments.

Vandier said, “[T]he U.S. [has] other priorities. They are not only focused on Europe, and the crisis in Iran is a good demonstration of what is said. So, it’s a moment for Europe to stand up and to do largely more than they have been admitted to — they did before. During the post-Cold War decades, the Europeans have been, somehow, the free riders of their own security. Today, there is a great change, and now, we need to ramp up in all domains and to be able, not to do without the U.S., but, largely, with a smaller force of the U.S., given the other commitments these U.S. forces have over the world.”

He added that it’s going to take time to reverse the multiple decades of disinvestment in defense on the continent.