💬 Quoted… “We can no longer afford a chemical-by-chemical whack-a-mole approach.”

The federal government is vastly underestimating the amount of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that are present in America’s drinking water, per a peer-reviewed study from nonprofit environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council that was published yesterday.

• The study found 26 different types of PFAS in drinking water across 16 states – and 12 of those 26 forever chemicals are not currently included in the EPA’s water-purification standards.

🙏 Stat of the Day: 1 in 5 Americans have a family member who was shot dead, and 1 in 6 have personally witnessed a shooting, per a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

🤯 Did You Know?... António Egas Moniz, the neurologist who invented the lobotomy in the 1930s, was co-awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his invention; today, the lobotomy is widely considered one of the greatest mistakes in modern medicine.

📖 Worth a Read: The US Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist – and Bitcoin’s Anonymity → (WSJ)