Some public water naturally has flouride in it without adding it. IIRC it was high flouride well water in Colorado that revealed its benefits You can also use flouride rinses or just not rinse after brushing. This doesn’t help kids though, which as I understand it are the primary beneficiaries of flouride in waterr.

Of course it is, along with the Administration ignoring a judge’s order. The point is that this DOJ will not prosecute it. AG Bondi had made that clear.

Exactly who are you thinking would bring criminal charges? The DOJ certainly won’t. His family might get some sort of civil judgement. Possibly a civil rights case filed with a state?

That is one reason to do tariffs. However, as someone who’s consulted in a variety of industries, it’s stupid to do non-targeted tariffs like this. There’s no way this is going to rebuild industry on shore in the US, exactly as you say. That takes years or decades to even build up an infrastructure and a supply chain, not to mention that, at least recently, we’ve had low unemployment rates and no one to work the jobs anyway.

The CHIPS act was a better way to do it. If you believe you need to re-onshore an industry, then give multiple years’ warning before implementing tariffs and provide support for redeploying domestic production capacity. However, for some strange reason, the Republicans don’t like that act.

I think your general point may be correct, but remember that tariffed countries don’t pay anything, it is the US importers that pay and pass that along to US consumers.

Which is why I am happy to be a metallurgical engineer who can blacksmith…

Silly, now you’ve broken the law in Florida because you’ve talked about climate change. That and signing petitions will get you a visit from the police! Totally normal state governmental functions.

Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney is exactly what you are looking for.

It’s not scare quotes. Just indicating a verbatim quote from her ex.

His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he’s ineligible he can’t win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it’s wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.