Thursday, July 9, 2026
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Charlestown Conservation Commission holds July 23 on the safety of your well water
Cool, crisp, clear … safe to drink?
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| In Rhode Island, private well owners are responsible for testing and maintaining the quality of their own well water. |
To provide residents with information on private well water testing, treatment, and maintenance, research associate Lisa Hollister with the University of Rhode Island’s Cooperative Extension Water Quality Program and private well specialist Shannon Nakama with the Rhode Island Department of Health Private Wells Program will hold a free program on Thursday, July 23, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Cross’ Mills Public Library, 4417 Old Post Road, in Charlestown.
This program is held in partnership with the Charlestown Conservation Commission and the Cross’ Mills Public Library. Attendees will learn about well maintenance and protection, the importance of regular well water testing, and resources available to interpret results.
New research suggests that heavy soybean oil intake may disrupt the gut
America’s Most Popular Cooking Oil May Be Harming Your Intestines
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| A diet high in soybean oil is found to encourage the growth of harmful bacteria such as adherent invasive E. coli in the gut. Credit: Sladek lab, UC Riverside |
Soybean oil or “vegetable oil” is everywhere in the American
diet. It is used in salad dressings, sauces, fried foods, packaged snacks,
frozen meals, and many restaurant meals. Most people may consume it regularly
without realizing how much they are getting.
New research from the University of California,
Riverside suggests that high soybean oil intake may affect more than
body weight. In mouse studies, it has been linked to changes in gut bacteria, a
weaker intestinal barrier, greater susceptibility to ulcerative colitis, and
metabolic problems.
The findings do not prove that soybean oil causes these diseases in people. But they do raise concerns about how often this inexpensive, widely used oil appears in processed and restaurant foods.
Anti-vaxxer mom likely to have her lawsuit dismissed
She is charged with murdering her twins whom she claimed were killed by vaccines
Andrea
Shaw, 23, formerly of Payette, Idaho, was arrested on Tuesday after a grand
jury returned an indictment, charging her with two counts of first-degree
murder, which requires premeditation, in connection with the deaths of her
18-month-old twins, Dallas and Tyson. Police found the twins unresponsive in
their shared bed on May 1, 2025 after responding to a 911 call.
Shaw blamed the flu, hepatitis A, and DTaP (tetanus,
diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccines the children had received days earlier, but
the indictment
alleges that she suffocated the toddlers. The arrest concludes “a
lengthy and thorough” multi-agency investigation led by the Payette Police
Department, according to a press release posted to
the department’s Facebook page. That investigation was launched last year as
foul play was suspected.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine advocacy
group founded and previously led by Kennedy before he became Health and Human
Services Secretary, picked up Shaw’s story and promoted it for months. Days
after her children’s deaths, Shaw appeared on a CHD podcast, claiming that her
husband’s side of the family all suffered allergic reactions to the flu shot
that the pediatrician ignored. In the days after the vaccines, she said, her
children deteriorated, prompting a hospital visit. On the eighth day, they
died.
Shaw later became the lead plaintiff in a racketeering
lawsuit filed by the group against the American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP)—while under investigation for murder.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
‘Brazen Crypto Corruption’ Helps Trump Pocket $2.2 Billion During First Year Back in Office
Explains why Trump has been pushing crypto so hard
Jake Johnson for Common Dreams
The disclosure report shows that Trump pulled in $635
million in royalties from Celebration Coins, an entity linked to the
president’s meme coin. The president also disclosed around $527 million in
proceeds from token sales by World Liberty Financial, the Trump family crypto
venture spearheaded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
“It is completely unprecedented,” Megan Gorman, a tax attorney who has studied the history of presidential wealth, told The New York Times of the president’s windfall.
Robert Weissman, co-president of the consumer advocacy
group Public
Citizen, said in a statement that “Trump’s obscene income is driven by
various cryptocurrency schemes, leveraging his political position to exploit a
scam-driven industry that he once said was nothing more than a racket.”
“In doing so, he’s ripping off investors—to the tune of
billions—who want to get in on the game with him, or think that buying his
crypto products is an innocent means to show their support,” said Weissman.
“Most troubling, Trump’s personal profit interest has now aligned him with the
crypto industry, paving the way for dangerous legislation that will facilitate
mass rip-offs and even threaten financial system stability.”
Trump’s massive profits from an industry he’s tasked with
regulating represent what the watchdog group Campaign Legal Center (CLC)
described as an “unprecedented” conflict of interest, notwithstanding the White
House’s laughable claim that “neither the president nor his
family has ever engaged—or will ever engage—in conflicts of interest.”
“We have never seen a president have direct conflicts of
interest with his financial holdings and the policies he supports, and it’s
another example why we need widespread ethics reform now,” Kedric Payne, CLC’s
senior director of ethics, told The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal noted that, in addition to crypto profits,
“Trump reported $4.7 million in income last year from Trump-branded watches, as
well as $1.9 million in royalties from his ‘Save America’ book.”
Trump tells NATO the US is back to a shooting war with Iran, still thinking about taking over Greenland and is launching a new trade war against Spain
Trump won't stop his war against the world until he gets the Nobel Peace Prize
This week's Tea with Tina to focus on housing
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