But first, more Trump madness, bribery and assorted hijinks: His  diversity equity inclusion (DEI) attack  is more and more alienating those misguided middle to low class voters who previously supported him.  His cabinet met for the first time today. Elon Musk was the first speaker.  That says a lot.   EPA secretary Lee Zeldin plans to cut 65% of his agency. According to Trump, President Zelenskyy has caved-in to one Trump piece of blackmail.  Ukraine has agreed to "share" their rare earth minerals with the USA.  What this means will be disclosed on Friday when Zelenskyy meets with Trump in the White House.   Ukraine has   deposits of nearly half   of the 50 minerals the U.S. Geological Survey lists as critical for America’s economic development, including titanium and lithium .   Trump said that while he wants to expand his immigration program, nothing wrong with selected individuals entering the country, and predicted hi...

Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip to take the New York congressional seat that was left vacant when Republican George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives.  Did you know that former speaker Kevin McCarthy not only lost his leadership, but he outright resigned from Congress?  There are now, I think, 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, with three vacancies, all Republican seats.  Speaker Mike Johnson's job is getting more complicated.   How important is just one more Democratic seat in the House?  Well, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas got impeached yesterday by one vote.  Had Suozzi been there, that would have failed again.  This matter dies here anyway, for the Senate won't do anything about any further impeachment.   About McCarthy , he now has time to work behind the scenes to hurt the re-election chances of Republicans who ousted him. About vitamins from  Wikipedia : Vitamins are organic molecules essent...

By now you know that Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary by double digits, an unimpressive "only" 11%.  The way the upcoming primaries are shaping up, Nikki Haley has no chance of overtaking Trump, and,  as I detailed yesterday, the best hope for any kind of Republican victory is for Trump to embrace Haley as his vice-presidential running mate .  It was mostly a waste of time and effort for Democrats, but  Joe Biden also won , easily, through a write-in campaign. Last week Wednesday , I compared the two scientific journals most respected by researchers and academia.  From  Quora : But  iLovePhD  shows that #2 is not  Science , but  The New England Journal of Medicine , which is fine for the medical profession.  I thought the  Journal of the American Medical Association  would be higher rated, but it is only at #11. Last week,  FeedSpot  listed its 45 Best Science Magazines. Science  is #1. ...