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Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City - The New York Times - "Mayor Adams’s campaign was left foundering after repeated scandals, a federal indictment and his courtship of President Trump." - he quit yesterday, Both Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa are still in the race...

"Collectivism" in "Communist" countries is ownership by some self-proclaimed representatives of the working class. That's not much different from representative democracy in theory, it must be noted, and some left-wingers call Communism in practice a form of capitalism where the State is the...

Not again. US government shutdown looms; Senate rejects stopgap funding bill | Reuters As US government shutdown nears, Trump administration mum on contingency plans | Reuters Trump scraps meeting with Democrats, raising government shutdown risk | Reuters

As to why a ternary computer might be good, I've seen the argument that base 3 has more optimal use of memory space than base 2. Here is what seems to be that argument. Consider base b, and consider expressing a number N in that base. Then the number of digits is log(N)/log(b) Larger b will...

Looking at the belief that sorcery can be deadly, it was widespread among people with Paleolithic or early Neolithic technology, and it is unlikely that these people started believing that when literate people started documenting them. So this belief is likely as old as our species, meaning that...

Seems like they got heart attacks or strokes. Can you really be scared to death? | American Heart Association There are other possibilities, like coincidence and hunting for scapegoats. There are some "primitive" people who supposedly believed that essentially all death is due to malicious...

Angela Gonzales-Torres is running against incumbent Jimmy Gomez, someone who is usually good on most issues. Justice Democrats back a progressive challenger to Rep. Jimmy Gomez - Live Updates - POLITICO noting AIPAC goes in for Jimmy Gomez - Live Updates - POLITICO and Justice Democrats...

Candidates - Justice Democrats - a second one: Angela Gonzales-Torres. Her platform: Housing for All Expansion of Housing Choice Vouchers and Emergency Rental Assistance Federal Incentives for Permanently Affordable Housing Strong Support for Community Land Trusts Rapid Rehousing with...

Susan Collins to Get Hollywood Treatment at Fund-Raiser Featuring Democrats - The New York Times She must be getting desperate.

That research was done with RNA and amino acids, and while the smaller AA's can be made with prebiotic chemistry without much trouble, RNA's can't. Of the three parts, phosphate ions are obviously prebiotic, and one can make some nucleobases prebiotically, but ribose is difficult to make...

List of U.S. House incumbents who are not running for re-election in 2026 - Ballotpedia Also not seeking re-election is Danny K. Davis - Ballotpedia Of the Democrats, potentially retiring are Nancy Pelosi CA-11, Frederica Wilson FL-24, Steny Hoyer MD-05, Jim Clyburn SC-06, Henry Cuellar TX-28...

Will the election of Jerry Nadler's successor be the kind of shitshow this election was? New York's 10th Congressional District election, 2022 - Ballotpedia After the redistricting after the 2020 census, NY-17 get pushed further upstate, and Mondaire Jones decided to go to another district...

In Maine, several Democrats are competing to unseat long-time Republican Senator Susan Collins. Janet Mills says decision on challenge to Susan Collins may come in November - "Maine’s governor told reporters Wednesday that she’s ‘seriously considering the run.’ It’s the strongest indication yet...

More from that Jerry Nadler interview: Carolyn Maloney also has a long history in public service. She was born in 1946, a year before JN. She was elected to New York City Council in 1982, serving there before being elected to the US House in 1992, the year that JN was elected to that body. She...

Also retiring is New York City rep Jerrold "Jerry" Nadler, currently of NY-12 in central Manhattan. Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year - The New York Times - "Representative Jerrold Nadler, the ex-House Judiciary chairman who helped lead President Trump’s...