The Daily Populous

Thursday March 7th, 2024 evening edition

image for Dr. John Gartner: The world is watching "a fundamental breakdown in Trump’s ability to use language"

For example, at a series of rallies and other events last weekend, Trump repeatedly confused one person with another.

I mean, this is it's gotten worse, it hasn't gotten better he's not nearly as sharp as he was.

We are seeing it night after night on the rally stage, where he seems to even just lose control of the English language.

I had to speak out now because the 2024 election might turn on this issue of who is cognitively capable: Biden or Trump?

There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging.

And finally, there were more examples last week of a fundamental breakdown in Trump’s ability to use language, to think and to communicate.

He has gone from what might be described as possessing a somewhat sophisticated vocabulary to one sorely lacking in suppleness. »

PFAS 'forever chemicals' to officially be removed from food packaging, FDA says

Authored by livescience.com

PFAS chemicals will no longer be used in food packaging in the U.S., according to a new announcement from the FDA.

Manufacturers will no longer use harmful "forever chemicals" in food packaging products in the U.S., according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Again, it could take 18 months for leftover stocks of PFAS-containing food packaging to be removed from the market. »

Retired US army colonel charged with sharing Ukraine secrets on dating site

Authored by theguardian.com
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A retired army colonel sent classified Pentagon secrets about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through a foreign dating website to a person he believed was a woman in Ukraine who called him her “secret informant love”, court filings allege.

David Franklin Slater, 63, a retired lieutenant colonel who was working as a civilian for United States Strategic Command, is accused of illegally disclosing sensitive national defense information.

Slater was communicating through the dating website with a person claiming to be a woman living in Ukraine. »