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AIPAC Is Secretly Intervening in Portland’s Congressional Race - May 3 2024, 5:11 p.m. - "The pro-Israel group is funneling money through a “pro-science” PAC, according to two members of Congress." That PAC: 314 Action - from pi = 3.14 Great trick. Pramila Jayapal herself? She "has a week to...

Good we agree on something - I hate one-size-fits-all representation. Only to a right-winger. It would provide some balance to the Senate. It would also help undo the effect of splitting the Dakota Territory into North and South Dakota -- gerrymandering in the creation of these states. More...

So being hungry for AIPAC money is "caring about one's district"? If it does good journalism, then why not? As if they have upper-middle-class standards of living. What they get is barely enough to survive. Whatever might qualify as "too friendly" to "Big Labor", whatever that is. As if...

Summer Lee has some experience in politics. She was born in 1987 in North Braddock PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh. She graduated from Penn State University (State College PA) in 2009, the university where my father was a mathematics professor for many years. She got a JD from the law school of...

George Latimer Rakes in AIPAC Cash to Primary Jamaal Bowman - February 1 2024, 3:21 p.m. - "AIPAC Is the Largest Donor, by Far, to Jamaal Bowman’s Primary Challenger " - "George Latimer was recruited by AIPAC to challenge Bowman, a member of the Squad who has called for a Gaza ceasefire."...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces $3 Billion to Replace Toxic Lead Pipes and Deliver Clean Drinking Water to Communities Across the Country | The White House - something that Rashida Tlaib has tried to get funding for. Deconstructed: Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the...

How Rep. Summer Lee Cruised to Victory - a 3:2 victory over Bhavini Patel. Just like AIPAC, even if not AIPAC itself. AIPAC lost both times against her. Then describing how she got $1.2 billion in Federal money for her district, and how she got support from both local and national Democrats...

Back to CommonDreams. He then linked to Duverger's law It makes me so happy to see a politician do something like that. He correctly recognizes that first-past-the-post produces a two-party system, and that third parties have no chance of winning unless some such party can displace some...

"Yet this approach to politics has been essential in helping the left win a series of progressive victories over the course of Biden’s first term." AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long Biden’s newest climate rule takes an aggressive swing at coal power plants -...

Back to CommonDreams. AR then says that in every poll he's seen, these AOC-haters are a small minority. But they are much louder than her supporters. AR then says that it's necessary to play to win, including winning elections. Seems like "They hate us for their freedoms", but when someone's...

Opinion | Breaking Down AOC Derangement Syndrome | Common Dreams - "Relentlessly tearing down one of our most effective leaders undermines the capacity for progressives to win. And win we must." - by Aaron Regunberg, who ran for Rhode Island's House seat in 2023 What was this? WHAT THEY ARE...

Bertrand Russell, in his "History of Western Philosophy", notes a book that advocated absolute monarchy. "Patriarcha: or The Natural Power of Kings", by Sir Robert Filmer, published in 1680. "In fact, both Protestant and Catholic divines, in their contest with Catholic and Protestant monarchs...

Imperial Presidency? In 1973, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote The Imperial Presidency AS wrote "...by the 1970s the American President had become on issues of war and peace the most absolute monarch (with the possible exception of Mao Tse-tung of China) among the great powers of the world." While...

Donald Trump plans an imperial presidency. - "To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland." His targets...

Project 2025 - Project 2025 | Presidential Transition Project Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME Interviewer Eric Cortellessa toward the end of his interview:

Although Jessica Cisneros isn't running this time, her main opponent both times, Henry Cuellar (D-Azerbaijan) is now in trouble over his Azerbaijan connections. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife indicted on bribery and foreign influence charges The two were released on $100,000 bond after an...

There are two solutions, one for the light coming nearly directly and one for the light making a detour around the mass: \displaystyle{ a_{obs} = \frac12 \left( a_{src} + \sqrt{(a_{src})^2 + (2 a_{ring})^2} \right) } and \displaystyle{ a_{obs} = \frac12 \left( a_{src} - \sqrt{(a_{src})^2 +...

...a_{obs} = a_{src} + \frac{2R_{bh}}{b} } The impact parameter is \displaystyle{ b = D a_{obs} } where D is the reduced distance: D(src-mass) * D(mass-obs) / D(src-obs) very close to D(mass-obj) if D(src-mass) >> D(mass-obj). That gives us \displaystyle{ a_{obs} = a_{src} +...

...- 2,000 K. Leaving that aside, what would the BH look like? Its Schwarzschild radius would be 47 km, and its minimum-passing-light diameter 3*sqrt(3) this or 246 km. Its size would be minimum 15, mean 21, maximum 39 milliarcseconds. But its gravitational-lens effect would be much larger...

I'll now consider the prospects of observing black hole Sgr A* from star S2. Main sequence - for definiteness, I will make it a B0V (main-sequence) start, with mass 18 Msun, radius 7.4 Rsun, luminosity 20,000 Lsun, and temperature 30,000 K. One would have to be in orbit around S2, but what...