Never done metal, but it looks like what people like for it is called a “fiber laser”

They seem to go for about $1400 but have not shopped around or tried to pick up a used one

A laser cutter could etch “TRAITOR” across his face in bulk

He can read when he wants to. The problem is that Trump has only ever been seen to read one book:

Last April [Note: article published in 1990] perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

“I don’t remember,” I said.

“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”

The scale of the science cuts doesn’t come near to paying for the war or the tax cuts for the rich. The US is borrowing huge amounts of money to cover both. While borrowing money can make sense, particularly when used to pay for research and infrastructure which will ultimately increase economic growth, this is at a scale which actually carries very real economic risks.

With the current Supreme Court, the law is whatever they make up.

A lot of other states, about half the country by population, follow the California vehicle emissions rules.

Because they desperately need any kind of materiel they can get, and they’re hoping not to be cut off

There’s a lot of evidence that it has not moved elsewhere. Let’s look at New York City for example: reducing car traffic inside the zone cut pollution outside the zone by reducing traffic there too

There are very narrow examples where what you describe isn’t impossible, but they tend to involve all-coal electric supply combined with first-generation electric vehicles. Eg: West Virginia 20 years ago.

Just that they weren’t deployed in a way that prevents a pilot who knows where the mines are from avoiding them. In the 1980s, tankers regularly transited despite a risk of mines.

Still makes a lot of sense to me that they’d try to deploy at least some mines; needing an Iranian pilot to get through the strait would provide one more advantage.

Land mines are still getting widely used in Ukraine despite there now being drones. Why is this any different?

It still makes a lot of sense for them; a set of mines which Iran knows the location of would be pretty dramatically to their advantage, just as it did in the 1980s.

Because:

• It’s cheap
• It’s effective
• It’s hard for the US to prevent
• They haven’t gotten takers on their safe-passage thing

It seems to all be anonymously sourced. Still, the kind of thing I’d be really surprised if Iran didn’t do

Organize escorts for minorities so that people can vote

They don’t have any real power. So its going to be on us to pull that off

You rather mangled the URL there. Here’s a simple gift link

I think they annoyed Republicans because they failed to help Trump hawk hats

Always been a risk with ICE and the Border Patrol. About 1% of deportations have long been of US citizens. You need to get a friend to bring your proof of citizenship and try repeatedly to come home if that happens. A lawyer helps too.

Fwiw the US only imports about 5% of its nitrogen fertilizer use.