Important Takeaways:
- Almost 300,000 residents in Alaska’s largest city are bracing for an explosive volcanic eruption.
- Mount Spurr, a 11,000-foot-tall volcano that sits just 81 miles from the largest city in the state, is due to blow this year for the first time in 30 years.
- City officials in Anchorage have raised the emergency planning level to Level 2, meaning that they will ramp up communication with the public about the threat and public safety agencies will prepare to launch into eruption response protocols.
- ‘If it’s during the school day, as soon as we get word that an eruption has occurred, we’re going to be reaching out to the Volcano Observatory,’ said Anchorage School District Office of Emergency Management Director Jared Woody.
- ‘We’re going to be working with the National Weather Service, as well as (the city) to find out what are the anticipated impacts to the city. Is the ash plume coming towards us at this point?’
- Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) say Mount Spurr is ‘moving closer to an eruption’ that could happen in ‘weeks to months.’
- On March 7, the volcano began releasing elevated levels of gas from its summit and a side vent that last erupted in 1992.
- These emissions are the latest development in a period of unrest this volcano has been experiencing since April 2024, when it started shuddering with small earthquakes — the first clue that new magma was rising toward the volcano’s vents.
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Important Takeaways:
- One of the worst environmental and public health crises in America is happening right now in Southern California
- Over the past five years, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage, industrial waste and toxic runoff from Tijuana have flooded across the border into our communities. Let that sink in: 100 billion gallons. In 2023 alone, 44 billion gallons crossed into the U.S. — the most ever recorded.
- This sewage isn’t just disgusting — it’s dangerous. It contains E. coli, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, arsenic and other toxic chemicals. Our water is contaminated. Our air is polluted with aerosolized waste. Residents are reporting everything from skin infections to viral pharyngitis — and even family pets have gotten sick after exposure. And some beaches have now been closed for over 1,000 consecutive days. That’s nearly three years of lost access to one of the greatest natural assets in America.
- Millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent. Just like the homelessness crisis, we’ve seen government throw money at the problem with nothing to show for it. The pollution keeps coming. The promises keep breaking. The leadership keeps failing.
- Let’s be honest: Mexico has failed to fix this, and the United States has failed to hold them accountable. Across multiple administrations, we’ve seen weak oversight, delayed action and zero results. That must end.
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Important Takeaways:
- Genetic testing company 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help the $50 million company sell itself, the company announced Sunday.
- 23andMe’s saliva-based kits have been helping customers learn about their ancestry since 2006, and the company said it will continue operating while the bankruptcy court facilitates the sale process.
- News of the move raised concerns about how the personal data of millions of 23andMe customers will be handled.
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a “consumer alert” regarding the “trove of sensitive consumer data 23andMe has amassed,” reminding Californians that they have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data, destroy their test samples and revoke permission for genetic data to be used for research.
- “There are no changes to the way the Company stores, manages, or protects customer data,” 23andMe said in a media release.
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Important Takeaways:
- It’s a practice that it dubbed “concerning,” not “not illegal,” unlike another underground industry in the state, where Chinese nationals work with “baby brokers” to bring pregnant Chinese women into the country so their babies are born U.S. citizens, according to the report.
- When wealthy Chinese couples “rent a womb,” and pay an American woman to be the surrogate, the resulting child is automatically a U.S. citizen, even if the family immediately returns to China.
- Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Joseph McNally told the outlet the practice is gravely concerning, and pointed to a case in Irvine where a baby born to a Chinese national and ended up joining to Chinese military but still had a U.S. passport.
- “That provides a real national security asset to China. And a real problem to the United States,” McNally said.
- Clients pay around $200,000 to do the surrogacy process in the U.S., and roughly $70,000 goes to the surrogate, according to the report.
- The Heritage Foundation released a report on this very practice in 2024 called: “The New Face of Birth Tourism: Chinese Nationals, American Surrogates, and Birthright Citizenship.” The report notes that China’s now-ended one-child policy and its resulting societal impacts, combined with the fact that surrogacy is illegal in China, could be contributing to Chinese nationals’ use of the American surrogacy industry to create a family.
- Officials told Entin that illegal Chinese birthing agencies will organize trips to California and charge at least $100,000 and that couples are often housed in luxury apartments and mansions in the suburbs of Los Angeles, which neighbors call “baby farms.” California hotels and motels have also reported seeing many Chinese pregnant women, and say some would come and stay for months before giving birth.
- McNally told Entin this “system” has led to the births of at least 30,000 Chinese babies into U.S. citizenship.
- “These were criminal enterprises that operated here in the United States and also people in China who would recruit,” McNally said. “The organizers here had contacts at hospitals and had contacts there. It was an industry. The organizers of these schemes were responsible for the birth tourism of thousands of babies. They had a system in place.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Most American food contains synthetic chemicals, preservatives, artificial flavors, GMOs, pesticides, hormones, and other toxic additives, which contribute to preventable diseases and disorders.
- A century ago, diseases like cancer, diabetes, and autism were rare, largely due to the absence of processed foods, vaccines, and chemical-laden agriculture. Post-WWII, processed foods and synthetic remedies replaced natural diets and remedies.
- American bread and fast food contain synthetic conditioners and emulsifiers, leading to gluten intolerance, digestive disorders, and long-term health issues like cancer.
- Industrial food dyes and fluoride in tap water are linked to behavioral disorders, cancer, and other health problems, with fluoride being a by-product of phosphate mining exported from China.
- Eating organic or locally-sourced food from trusted farmers can help avoid the harmful effects of the conventional American diet, which is linked to chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.
- American “food” isn’t really food at all, as most of it is made up of synthetics, chemicals, processed junk-science food stuff, additives, preservatives, dyes, artificial flavors, GMOs, flavor enhancing concentrated salt derivatives, hormones, antibiotics, fluoride, bleach, emulsifiers, insecticide, pesticide and wait for it… coagulating canola oil.
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Important Takeaways:
- Every single day, the number of American children that are killed exceeds the number of Americans that were killed on 9/11. Every single year, the number of American children that are killed is nearly equal to the number of Americans that have been killed in all of the wars that the U.S. has ever been involved in combined.
- Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. But our politicians in Washington didn’t pass a law to end the killing that year, or the year after that, or the year after that, and it certainly won’t happen this year. Of course the truth is that survey after survey has shown that most Americans do not want the killing to stop. Sadly, this is especially true for young women of childbearing age. The following are 25 facts about abortion in America that should make you very sick…
- #1 There have been more than 60 million abortions in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
- #2 The number of abortions performed in the U.S. actually went up during the 12 months immediately following the overturning of Roe v. Wade…
- #3 In 2023, more than a million abortions were performed in the United States. That was the first year since 2012 that we have surpassed the one million abortion mark.
- #4 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion.
- #5 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been involved in combined.
- #6 Approximately 22 percent of all pregnancies in the United States end in abortion. That means that more than one out of every five Americans is killed before they can even start their lives.
- #7 Approximately 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion.
- #8 Today, approximately 80 percent of all abortions are performed within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
- #9 If a state passes a law that bans abortion after 9 weeks or after 12 weeks, they are actually legalizing the vast majority of the abortions that already take place.
- #10 Unmarried women account for 88 percent of all abortions in the United States.
- #11 Pew Research has discovered that 62 percent of U.S. adults think that “abortion should be legal in all or most cases”…
- #12 According to a survey that was conducted in August 2024, 74 percent of all women in the United States between the ages of 18 and 49 believe that abortion should be legal…
- #13 A Gallup survey found that only 13 percent of Americans believe that abortion “should be illegal in all circumstances”…
- #14 In 2023, medication abortion accounted for 63 percent of all U.S. abortions. Medication abortion accounted for just 6 percent of all abortions in 2001.
- #15 The U.S. has done more to promote abortion around the world than any other nation. More than 1.5 billion abortions have been performed worldwide since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The total population of the world is currently about 8 billion.
- #16 According to the official website of the World Health Organization, there are approximately 73 million abortions globally each year. If you multiply that number by 10, you get 730 million abortions in just one decade, and if you multiply that number by 20, you get almost 1.5 billion abortions in just two decades.
- #17 Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once made the following statement…
- “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
- #18 In a 1922 book entitled “Woman, Morality, and Birth Control”, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger wrote the following….
- “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
- #19 In the United States, Planned Parenthood performs close to 400,000 abortions each year.
- #20 The average salary for the CEO of a Planned Parenthood affiliate is $317,000.
- #21 Planned Parenthood receives more than 500 million dollars from the federal government each year.
- #22 The average cost of a first trimester abortion in the United States is typically between 600 dollars and 800 dollars.
- #23 The average cost of a vaginal birth with no complications in the United States is now around 13,000 dollars.
- #24 30 percent of U.S. women that have abortions identify as Protestant, and 24 percent of U.S. women that have abortions identify as Catholic.
- #25 Tissue from aborted babies is often sold and used in various forms of “medical research”. The following comes from the New York Post…
- Stomach-churning emails show Planned Parenthood negotiating terms regarding the donation of aborted fetuses for medical research.
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Important Takeaways:
- Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have discovered a newly opened volcanic vent in Norris Geyser Basin.
- The vent is at the foot of a rhyloite lava flow, and is spewing hot steam up into the air.
- ‘While driving south from Mammoth Hot Springs towards Norris Geyser Basin early on August 5 last summer, a park scientist noticed a billowing steam column through the trees and across a marshy expanse,’ the USGS explained.
- The new vent was discovered last summer within a region called the Roadside Springs thermal area.
- Lying within a swath of warm, hydrothermally altered ground, approximately 200ft (60 meters) long, the new feature is about 9.8ft (three meters) below the marsh surface.
- Shortly after it was identified, park geologists visited the vent to get a closer look.
- There, they discovered a very thin veneer of grey silicious clay barely covering the ground, and temperatures of 77°C (171°F).
- According to the team, this indicates the new vent is ‘very young’ in nature.
- This isn’t the first time that this type of hydrothermal activity has been spotted in the area.
- Back in 2003, a similar vent was spotted just on the other side of the same rhyolite lava flow.
- ‘Are the new feature and the activity that started in 2003 hydrologically connected?’ USGS asked.
- ‘Probably.
- ‘One could run a line along the axis of the older active area and it would intersect the new feature.
- ‘This line also follows the trend of faults that run from Norris Geyser Basin northward to Mammoth Hot Springs and beyond.’
- So far, geologists have mapped more than 100 major hydrothermal areas in Yellowstone National Park, as well as more than 10,000 within its boundaries.
- Thankfully, USGS reassures that there is still about 100,000 years to go before the supervolcano is likely to erupt.
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Important Takeaways:
- The move is intended to help the US reduce its reliance on imports from countries like China, which dominates the industry for production and processing of many of these important materials.
- The order gives Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in consultation with other executive branch agency heads, the authority to use the Defense Production Act to facilitate the advancement of domestic mineral production.
- The act, which was passed in 1950 in response to production needs during the Korean War, gives the government more control during emergencies to direct industrial production. Trump invoked it in 2020 at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- “It is imperative for our national security that the United States take immediate action to facilitate domestic mineral production to the maximum possible extent,” the order states.
- Within 10 days, Trump calls for Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to provide a list of all federal lands “known to hold mineral deposits and reserves” and “prioritize mineral production and mining related purposes as the primary land uses in these areas, consistent with applicable law.”
- The order also asks the heads of the Interior, Defense, Agriculture and Energy departments to identify “as many sites as possible” where the construction and operation of private mineral production could take place.
- Trump previewed the action in his joint address to Congress earlier this month, saying, “I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA.”
- On Inauguration Day, Trump signed an executive order declaring a national energy emergency, which said an “active threat to the American people from high energy prices is exacerbated by our Nation’s diminished capacity to insulate itself from hostile foreign actors.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Johnson & Johnson plans to spend over $55 billion to build four plants in the U.S., it said on Friday, as a threat of drug import duties from the Trump administration forces companies to expand their manufacturing operations domestically.
- The new plants will be built over the next four years, including in Wilson, North Carolina, where the pharmaceutical giant officially broke ground on Friday. The drug and device maker said the investment represents a 25% increase compared to the last four years.
- Trump, who campaigned on a promise to boost domestic manufacturing, has been piling pressure on drugmakers since taking office to move medicine production to the United States.
- J&J’s site in Wilson, where it plans to invest more than $2 billion, is expected to create 5,000 jobs during construction, and more than 500 positions across the state. The site will focus on producing medicines used for treating cancer, immune-mediated and neurological diseases, it said.
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Important Takeaways:
- “I’m thrilled to announce that, at my direction, the United States Air Force is moving forward with the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet,” Trump said from the Oval Office, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
- “Nothing in the world comes even close to it, and it’ll be known as the F-47,” Trump said.
- Trump said the jet has been in the works for a long period of time, and after a rigorous and thorough competition between America’s top aerospace companies, the Air Force has awarded the contract to make the jet to Boeing, which will be known as the Next Generation Air Dominance platform.
- “The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built,” Trump explained, adding that an experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost five years.
- “We’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” he continued. “The F-47 is equipped with state-of-the-art stealth technologies — virtually unseeable and unprecedented power.”
- Trump said the plane would fly with “many drones,” adding, “that’s something that no other plane can do.”
- The president said a new fleet of the planes will be built and “in the air” during his administration, over the “next couple of years.”
- Trump also called the contract a “historic investment in our defense industrial base, helping to keep America at the cutting edge of aerospace and technology.”
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