You can't throw in "former heroin addict" with the currently addicted alcoholics. Don't shame people for conquering their addiction.

The wording is due to Trump announcing earlier today that the UK would be sending two minesweepers.

Tom is correct. A large number of black and hispanic men won't vote for a woman, and a large number of black and hispanic voters of both genders won't vote for a gay man. The anti-gay sentiment among those two demographic groups has fallen the last 20 years, but it persists enough to lose elections.

Following this line of reasoning, what happens when Hegseth orders the Navy to fire a warning shot at a Chinese flagged tanker? Would anyone in the line of command be obliged to refuse the order?

I'd like to see Mayor Pete win a statewide race before running on the national stage again. If he can't get elected governor of Michigan, then he has no shot at President.

Only open question is whether Trump will lift sanctions. I bet he will, because then he will have the option to impose sanctions in 2028 when he needs to start rattling the paranoia cage again before the elections.

Trump just announced a new 50% tariff on all Chinese goods and the stock market is up?

Is it possible the three generals fired last week had refused to draw up illegal war plans to bomb civilian infrastructure?

Why hasn't China invaded Taiwan? If Xi truly wants to seize Taiwan, now is the best opportunity he will have for 20 years, given the depletion of the US's missile stocks.

This week, learn about the crowdsource RNA design platform, Eterna, and Anthony Stohr's switch work. In the future, how could Eterna be used to tackle to 3D RNA structure problem?

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Trump playing the deadline game again like he did with tariffs. He thinks calling off the bombing of Iran's power facilities will buoy markets. It won't. Plus he just enjoys making big announcements.

MAGA magical thinking has finally hit a brick wall.

Trump is sending the Marine Excursion Unit to invade Kharg Island because he thinks that will allow him to steal Iran's oil as war treasure.

Trump thinks he can steal/control Iran's oil by invading Kharg Island. The man needs his war treasure.

Now see, if you had just given us Greenland, none of this would have happened.

Trump wants to invade Kharg Island because he thinks that will allow him to steal Iran's oil.

I love that you call us Yankees. Although Trump is more of a Confederate.

Trump will flinch before the end of March. He will declare victory and withdraw the carrier groups so he can go invade Cuba next. Will be interesting to see how much damage Iran can inflict before then.

Only question now is how large the attack and response will be. Will Trump bomb the same nuclear sites and Iran responds with missiles aimed at remote area of US base, and it's all over by Monday? Or does Iran respond by hitting higher value targets on a ship or base?

Iran has 3000 ballistic missiles at most. Is that enough to take out an aircraft carrier or inflict deadly damage at Al Udeid? Or do the U.S. fleet/bases in the region have sufficient anti-aircraft munitions to neutralize the Iranian missiles?

No more tax break for data centers in Oregon! Enough already! They need to pay property tax like everyone else. It's bad enough that they are driving up electricity costs for residents.

The construction employees who are afraid to come to work, do they have documentation? I bet they do. I'm hearing a lot of stories of documented workers being detained and deporrted.

MAGA people I know want all brown and black people gone, legal or not. They want a white country.

Great work by Philipp Holliger's group at Cambridge. More and more evidence that RNA likely was the origins of life.

This is a ridiculous idea. Buses are only 1% of the traffic on SE 82nd. Increase the speed limit to 40 MPH instead.

I gave Google access to my science docs/sheets for AI training because they have been the least evil of the big tech, they give me awesome software and storage for free, and I hate X/Grok with a passion. Musk destroyed the science community on X.

Congressional investigation will start in 2027 after Democrats are voted into the majority in the House. The Trump White House is filthy with corruption. Trump doesn't care because he is above prosecution. Could part of the 2.5B be seized during a corporate prosecution?

Uh huh. Same as Putin has been seriously talking with Witkoff for 10 months now. Iran will make some promise to Trump and then not keep it. Adversaries have figured out how to play Trump. Just give him sound bites for the base.

"Bloody mist" is a pretty impressive rhyme with Minneapolis.

I THOUGHT WE WERE INVADING CUBA NEXT

I THOUGHT WE WERE INVADING CUBA NEXT