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hmmm 💡 And if the "owner" decides to shut the bridge down for a year, or on weekdays ? Canada would have to call Trump for help? Venezuela 2.0 ?

Potomac River E-coli levels skyrocket after 240 million gallons of sewage pours in The EPA called it an ecological crisis of "historic proportion" after a massive sewer pipe collapsed north of Washington, D.C. It's not just the white house anymore.

I'm not sure how a typical human cell can function without it. Inaccuracy means being wrong a significant amount of the time. Accuracy means being wrong less than that. Those compulsively thinking "inside the box" may be perceived to be wrong less often. Even when wrong, often under cover of...

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis. mRNA is made from a DNA template during the process of transcription. The role of mRNA is to carry protein information from the DNA in a cell’s nucleus to the cell’s cytoplasm (watery interior), where the...

Trump is doing a worse job than Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Andrew Romano / Tue, February 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM EST As Americans return to work and school after the long Presidents’ Day weekend, a new Yahoo/YouGov poll has found that 40% of them now consider Donald Trump to be the “worst president...

Q: What do you call a Texas snowman after an August heatwave? A: A puddle.

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Trump remembers Jesse Jackson as 'good man,' 'force of nature' 'I knew him well, long before becoming President,' Trump noted By Alex Nitzberg Fox News / Updated February 17, 2026 10:10am EST President Donald Trump issued a Truth Social post on Tuesday, reflecting on Rev...

Not sure it's counterintuitive: we may not be able to predict which individuals within a large population will succumb. BUT !! Applying well known epidemiological analysis of populations we can fairly accurately calculate such things. Not sure what to make of the notion that we can calculate...

Fine. But that illustration looks to me more like Shelly Duvall than Robert. Those people at hair & make-up work wonders. https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=obituary

Robert Selden Duvall (/duːˈvɔːl/; January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. Duvall began his career on television with minor roles in the 1960s on The Defenders...

I believe many if not most climatologists with significant professional connection to the anthropogenic global warming process already know the answer. I deduce water vapor is generally a greenhouse gas, though H2O can manifest in a variety of forms. I don't have data handy on the vegetation /...

I don't know of any federal employee earning a U.S. federal paycheck that hasn't sworn an oath of fidelity to the United States Constitution. That fidelity oath binds each of them to the Constitution including Art. 6 Sect. 2: Even if the U.N. established a global government (hasn't it already?)...

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Perhaps. BUT ! According to my monitoring of the news on this topic from numerous sources including Pravda, al Jazeera, and more familiar venues, the view you offer in #262 is an extreme minority view not shared by m/any of our NATO allies, or m/any of our trade partners in Western Europe or...

You two have reminded me of the Gaia hypothesis, rather more a myth or legend than science-based perspective. None the less the idea is, without necessarily delving into the supernatural, Earth self-regulates, so when pollution threatens global catastrophe, Earth naturally responds somewhat the...

Bombshell Report Finds Putin Lost Twice the Number of Troops In January as the Soviets Lost In 10 Years Fighting In Afghanistan Alex Griffing / Fri, February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM EST·2 min read Russia’s Vladimir Putin lost twice as many soldiers in January of 2026 as the Soviet Union lost...

Politics·The Daily Beast TACO Trump Plots Humiliating Retreat as His Approval Rating Plummets Donald Trump is quietly gearing up to roll back some of the tariffs he promised would make the country “rich as hell” as his approval rating plummets amid an affordability crisis. The president slapped...

Over five hundred cubes, AND a carburetor on top ?! The vent windows have nostalgic appeal. - but - By 3rd millennium standards that contraption is a death machine. air-bag? seatbelt? collapsible steering column? disc, or anti-lock brakes? radial tires? Real pretty though. 🏎️