Trump declares war on 'foreign, invasive' enemy



From deploying the National Guard and slashing homicides by 30% to beautifying the city's parks and waterways, the Trump administration has been unusually attentive to the nation's only federal district.

On Tuesday, Trump issued an executive order to defeat a new D.C. foe: "foreign, invasive mosquitoes."

'The expanding tick populations in the United States expose Americans, our pets, and our livestock to debilitating and expensive health risks.'

Trump's Eliminating Disease-Carrying Pests and Restoring Enjoyment of the Great Outdoors order aims to reduce the capital's invasive mosquito population by 90% and its tick population by 50% in two years.

The order directs the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the General Services Administration to implement the anti-pest campaign in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Both novel and well-established interventions are set forth in the order.

Agencies are directed to drain pest breeding grounds on federal land. They are also ordered to "control" the deer and rodent populations responsible for carrying ticks.

The order further directs the EPA to "consider sterilization techniques, safe genetic modification, and use of safe, beneficial bacteria" in alignment with a May 2025 executive order enhancing biological research security.

A similar Singaporean effort has seen remarkable success since launching large-scale operations in 2018.

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Singapore's National Environment Agency released lab-bred male mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria into the wild. When Wolbachia-infected males mate with uninfected wild females, the resulting eggs fail to hatch.

Egyptian mosquito populations exposed to the trial fell by nearly 85%, and dengue fever exposure declined by around 70% at the Wolbachia-infected males' release sites.

Though specific plans for a Wolbachia trial have yet to be confirmed, the D.C.-area initiative is designed to serve as the testing ground for future nationwide protocols.

Private companies in D.C. have already begun releasing Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in the area.

“I was frankly flabbergasted when I read it because of how detailed it was and how much I agreed with what they were proposing,” Bee Safe Mosquito Control founder Todd Montgomery told City Cast DC. “To me, it sounds like they have somebody advising them that really does know what they're talking about, and they're trying to approach it in a really smart way.”

Bee Safe Mosquito Control released 600,000 Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into the D.C. metro area in 2026.

Google's Debug Project, another Wolbachia-infection proposal, has also applied for experimental pesticide approval with the EPA, according to Politico.

Though the federal mosquito response is just beginning, government funds have already been released for the order's tick-killing component.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS issued nearly $3 million to two CDC Centers of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases on Monday. The pilot program will lace deer and rodent bait with acaricide, an anti-tick pesticide, to study its efficacy.

“This effort is designed to move tick control forward by evaluating large-scale deployment of wildlife-targeted interventions,”CDC Division of Vector-Borne Diseases Director Lyle Petersen said in a press release. “The ultimate goal is simple but ambitious: reduce the number of ticks to stop tick bites and tickborne diseases.”

Agencies have until late November to plan and launch their campaigns, "subject to the availability of appropriations."

The EPA, GSA, CDC, and Departments of the Interior and Agriculture did not immediately provide comment.

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The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with President Donald Trump against a collection of Democrat-controlled states who sued to oppose his executive order restricting mail-in ballots.

The highest court of the land found in a partisan 5-3 ruling that the states did not have standing to sue against the president's order and overturned a lower court order to block the restrictions in 23 states.

'Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections.'

"This internal directive does not regulate the States' voter registration processes," read the order from the Supreme Court. "Nor does it impinge on the States' authority 'to create and enforce a legal code' for elections."

However, the majority ruling warned that not all measures taken by the executive to implement the order will be necessarily lawful.

"On that score, time will tell," the majority said.

The court's three liberal justices dissented from the ruling.

The executive order from March directed the Department of Homeland Security to tabulate a list of citizens eligible to vote. It then called on the U.S. Postal Service to only accept ballots from people on the list.

U.S. attorneys general from several Democrat states sued to stop the order on the basis that it would disenfranchise some voters who could vote lawfully.

"Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections and ensure only eligible American citizens are casting ballots," read a statement from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson in April.

In her dissent Monday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the president of seeking to "foment chaos ahead of the November elections."

Justice Sonya Sotomayor said the ruling only "postpones" the adjudication of the president's order.

"Today's decision does not address whether the President's attempts to interfere with States' administration of the November 2026 elections are lawful," wrote Sotomayor in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan.

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"Nor does it suggest that the Executive Branch has any constitutional or statutory authority to implement the President's directives," they added.

New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed with Sotomayor in her own statement on the ruling.

"This decision is a painful setback, but it will not be the final word," she wrote. "The right to vote is sacred, and no administration should be allowed to put that right in jeopardy by making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots."

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Parents, not bureaucrats, should call the shots



President Trump signed an executive order last week reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 to 11 and urging states with school-entry requirements to update their laws accordingly.

That should be a starting point, not an end point.

More coercion will deepen skepticism, not cure it.

Alabama is already closer to that model than most states. Its school-entry requirements rely on a narrower set of core vaccines and do not force hepatitis B vaccination for every student. Other states should treat the president’s order as the floor for vaccine freedom, not the ceiling.

The most immediate step is obvious: States can reduce school-entry requirements to match the new federal recommendations. Better still, they should eliminate those mandates altogether or, at minimum, make it much easier for families to opt out.

Coercion has no place in parental medical decisions. Public schools exist to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. They should not condition access to a publicly funded classroom on a government-approved medical regimen.

Aligning state rules with the new federal baseline would be progress. But true parental authority requires going farther.

Forty-six states already allow religious exemptions from school vaccine requirements. Their broad existence also shows that states can preserve opt-outs without schools simply ceasing to function.

Religious exemptions should remain. But the principle should not end there.

Parents can have sincere nonreligious reasons for declining particular vaccines, whether because of personal medical history, concerns about a specific product, or objections to the schedule itself. Treating religious objections as legitimate while dismissing every other conscientious objection draws an arbitrary line.

States should therefore expand personal and philosophical exemptions as well. Families should not have to choose between access to public education and surrendering authority over their children’s medical decisions.

Idaho has already gone farther. Its Medical Freedom Act prohibits schools from imposing medical intervention mandates, including vaccine requirements, as a condition of attendance. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is pushing in the same direction, seeking to eliminate school vaccine mandates entirely in the Sunshine State.

Other lawmakers should study those models. The core principle is straightforward: Attending a government school should not require surrendering parental authority over a child’s body.

The burden of vaccine mandates also falls unevenly.

Affluent parents who object can more easily homeschool or move a child to a private school with different policies. Working families often have fewer options. They may be forced to comply, navigate exemption processes that demand time and paperwork they do not have, or keep a child out of the classroom.

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That creates a two-tier system in which families with the fewest resources have the least room to exercise meaningful choice.

Reducing mandates or broadening opt-outs would expand educational freedom precisely for the families who are most constrained by the current system.

None of this prevents families from vaccinating their children. Parents who want the full schedule remain free to choose it. The question is whether the state should force that choice on everyone else as the price of attending school.

Public trust in health institutions fell sharply after COVID. Rebuilding that trust will require transparent information, honest risk communication, and genuine freedom to say no. More coercion will deepen skepticism, not cure it.

President Trump’s executive order gives states a practical starting point.

Legislatures should use it: Reduce school-entry vaccine mandates to the new federal baseline, expand opt-outs beyond religious grounds, or eliminate the mandates entirely.

Parents, not bureaucrats, should decide what goes into their children’s bodies. States that move first can expand educational freedom while beginning the harder work of rebuilding public confidence through voluntary cooperation rather than compulsion.

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Trump admin urges SCOTUS to nix Obama judge's attempt to 'run out the clock' on election security initiative



U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a daughter of immigrants who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, appears desperate to undermine the Trump administration at every opportunity — even at the expense of American election security.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March aimed at protecting "the integrity of the mail as a medium for transmitting Federal election ballots and establish[ing] uniform standards for mail-in or absentee ballot services implemented through the United States Postal Service."

'The district court's erroneous orders will effectively run out the clock on the government's ability to implement Section 3.'

The USPS subsequently issued a proposed rule that would implement best practices in accordance with the order, including a process that would help "evidence how many ballots have been mailed and allow law enforcement officials to compare the total number of mailed ballots to the total number of received ballots to detect potential issues meriting further investigation."

The threat of higher standards was evidently too much to bear for liberal activist groups and various blue states.

Twenty-three Democratic-run states led by California and the District of Columbia challenged Trump's executive order, claiming several parts of it violated the separation of powers, the Elections and Electors Clauses, and the 10th Amendment's anti-commandeering doctrine.

Talwani ruled in June that the executive order did not apply in the blue states that raised the fuss and granted them a permanent injunction.

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In a separate but related case overseen by Talwani, the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and other liberal advocacy groups sued the government, claiming that sections 2 and 3 of the EO were unconstitutional and violated their members' rights to vote.

On Tuesday, the Obama judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the USPS from "implementing, giving effect to, or enforcing Section 3 of Executive Order No. 14399, with respect to the November 3, 2026, or any earlier federal election."

Section 3 of Trump's EO requires that all outbound ballot mail must be in an envelope that:

  • is marked as official election mail;
  • is automation-compatible and bears a unique intelligent mail barcode; and
  • has undergone a design review by the USPS to ensure compliance with agency mailing standards.

Section 3 also gave states until 60 days prior to the midterm elections to notify the USPS whether they intend to submit to the agency a list of eligible voters — with their eligibility confirmed on the basis of citizenship data — whom they intend to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot via the postal service.

The activist judge wrote, "Where the EO is presently causing confusion and threatening both increasing chaos and an erosion of trust in our democracy, the court finds that enfranchisement heavily outweighs the executive’s attempt to unconstitutionally insert itself into the domain of election regulation."

"That it is now less than 90 days before the November 3, 2026, midterm elections underscores the critical need for an injunction to prevent Defendants from changing election rules on the eve of the election," added Talwani.

The Trump administration — which asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the first of the two cases before Talwani on July 27 — asked again for a stay on Wednesday, stressing that the Obama judge's order in the League of Women Voters of Mass v. Trump case "violates well-established Article III standing and ripeness requirements for all the same reasons as its prior orders."

"Courts cannot enjoin implementation of an executive order that merely instructs agencies to pursue a proposed policy in a manner that is consistent with law, while leaving open material issues for them to resolve, unless and until those agencies actually take concrete actions that injure the plaintiffs," wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer.

Sauer noted that barring a stay from the high court, "the district court's erroneous orders will effectively run out the clock on the government's ability to implement Section 3 of the executive order for the federal elections in November, thereby causing irreparable harm to the federal government, the public, and election integrity."

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Seemingly out of nowhere, the United States is knee-deep in the quantum computing race.

President Trump signed the executive order Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation on Monday, but the effects of the impending research are rarely discussed.

'These are the problems where today we cannot run high enough fidelity simulations in a classic computer.'

Quantum computing is typically explained by comparing the calculations of a traditional computer that uses ones and zeros to a quantum computer that uses the numbers in between to make calculations much faster.

A flat coin versus a spinning coin is also used as an analogy, essentially meaning that a quantum computer holds data in a special state that allows it all to be analyzed at once, resulting in faster (more numerous) calculations.

"Quantum information science and technology (QIST) will provide transformational capabilities that will drive American innovation, power economic growth, generate high-paying jobs, and bolster national security," the executive order reads.

Simply put, the bizarre-looking machines will calculate a lot faster.

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"A quantum computer is going to solve a very particular type of problem that isn't solved well today with a classic computer, and it's going to solve it much better," Amazon AI executive Peter DeSantis told CNBC.

The reluctance (or inability) to pin down the actual end result of quantum computing can be difficult to surmise, but DeSantis theorized "the problems that I would think are going to be tackled first are the ones that are quantum-based problems, so things like chemistry, material science."

He added, "These are the problems where today we cannot run high enough fidelity simulations in a classic computer, and once we have a quantum computer, we're going to find some real progress."

These computers will allegedly be more adept at code-cracking and designing batteries or superconductors because they are able to model atomic behavior precisely.

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White House Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios promised more jobs and an increase in the domestic supply chain for quantum infrastructure and materials.

These materials include superconducting circuits, semiconductors, and other supplies so unheard of they are hard to describe outside of their definitions.

For example, required materials include a photonic circuit, which is a chip that modulates and controls laser beams.

In addition, a trapped-ion system is a physical, trapped qubit (a quantum computer bit) that is suspended or trapped in an electromagnetic field.

According to ABC News, Kratsios said the United States should be ready to expand the quantum workforce through apprenticeships, credentials, and workforce development.

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