You know the drill. No doomscrolling. We have majorities on all of the issues. They are throwing away voters with all of their hands, and shooting themselves in all of their feet. GOTV everywhere, to take seats all up and down the ballot. Run up the score. Get ready to do the maximum for the General Welfare in 2025, especially for those who can’t stand it because Those People are starting to get their fair share.
Point and laugh to the max.
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Domino falling down chain reaction!
And at the critical moment, stand well back.
I admit it. I have no idea how that was built.
Regular Good News for Us
Good News Roundup, Wednesday 1/17/24: Past, Present, Future
Dark Brandon protected our soldiers from sexual harassment and assault: Boosting Biden Day 13
Shared to 10 different social media platforms so far, and we are investigating more. I’m creating groups and lists that you can join.
Renewable Tuesday: Double, Double, Make Good Trouble for the Fossil Fools hanging on desperately to $10 terabucks in increasingly bogus market “valuations”.
In Telangana, an arid south Indian state notorious for drought, a man swipes a card at an ATM. Instead of cash, the machine doles out 20 liters of clean drinking water. The ATM is housed in an iJal (My Water) station, run by 31-year-old Somarathi Sindhuja, a petite mother of two. When she set it up seven years ago, she had not imagined that her seed money of Rs 2,00000 (just under $2400 US) would help her create what she today calls her “public service business,” which supplies clean drinking water within a two-mile radius of her home in Warangal, Telangana’s second largest city.
Sindhuja is one of the 350 rural water entrepreneurs trained and supported since 2017 by Safe Water Network (SWN), an American nonprofit founded in 2006 by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman and other civic leaders. The entrepreneurs buy or provide the space for the water filtration equipment and ATM, as well as the raw water. SWN provides them with the necessary training, technical support and water treatment expertise. Using all this, they are able to filter water to international safe drinking water standards and sell it for the nominal sum of Rs 5 ($0.07 US) for 20 liters.
And there’s plenty more where all of that came from.
Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin
Gilbert’s original lyrics for the Little List in The Mikado included
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob, And likewise — Never-mind,
And 'St— 'st— 'st— and What's-his-name,
And also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,
For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
The Mikado - Little List Song - Lyric Theatre June 2010 with updated lyrics, including e-mail spammers
Elise Stefanik
No morals and no integrity...exactly what Donald Trump wants, a sycophant, a yes-person who will do whatever he says.
E. Jean Carroll Second Defamation Lawsuit
Fearful Trump Unleashes a Flurry of Frantic Posts Attacking His Rape Victim, E. Jean Carroll
Trump Lawyer Complains that Just Factually Reporting His Legal Problems is Election Interference
Trump Unleashes a Fear-Drenched, Lie-Riddled Rant Misstating ‘Facts’ From His Many Indictments
Iowa Caucuses
No, this is not The Onion.
14th Amendment
Oregon Supreme Court could be next to rule on Trump’s eligibility for the ballot under the 14th Amendment
Trump's eligibility for the ballot is being challenged under the 14th Amendment. Here are the notable cases.
The efforts aimed at Trump's ability to appear on ballots under the Constitution's so-called insurrection clause, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, began just months after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. That's when the liberal advocacy group Free Speech for People sent letters to the top election officials in all 50 states urging them to bar the former president from the ballot as a candidate for the White House in 2024.
Since then, legal challenges to Trump's eligibility under the measure have been brought in federal and state courts in more than two dozen states — 26 cases were filed by a little-known Republican presidential candidate named John Anthony Castro. Most cases brought by Castro have been dismissed, either voluntarily or by the courts. In 14 states, there are cases pending, according to Lawfare, a national security website that is tracking the Section 3 cases.
SCOTUS
No predictions from me. I’ll wait to hear their decisions on 14A and Divine Right of Trump to comment. Either SCOTUS will give us good news or an even bigger target for November.
Nikki Haley on the Cause of the Civil War
Mahomenahomena
🎩 Jackie Gleason
Ken Burns: The Civil War was about 'slavery, slavery, slavery'
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
Remember to look for PWB (Pooties, woozles, and birdies) Diaries, and the Daily Bucket.
PWB - Kitties And Winter Sports
Daily Bucket - Random shots of available birds.
There are also large numbers of posters of nature pictures on several social media platforms.
Extremely Large Telescope
5-mirror anastigmat
Primary mirror: 39.3 meter (130 ft) diameter
The 39-metre primary mirror will be composed of 798 hexagonal segments, each approximately 1.4 metres across and with 50 mm thickness.[29] Two segments will be re-coated and replaced each working day, to keep the mirror always clean and highly reflective.
The first 18 mirror segments have arrived on site.
The pre-formed glass-ceramic blank of the secondary mirror is being polished and tested by Safran Reosc.[41][42][2] The mirror will be shaped and polished to a precision of 15 nanometres (15 millionths of a millimetre) over the optical surface.
The 3.8-metre concave tertiary mirror, also cast from Zerodur, will be an unusual feature of the telescope. Most current large telescopes, including the VLT and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, use two curved mirrors to form an image. In these cases, a small, flat tertiary mirror is sometimes introduced to divert the light to a convenient focus. However, in the ELT the tertiary mirror also has a curved surface, as the use of three mirrors delivers a better final image quality over a larger field of view than would be possible with a two-mirror design.[31]
The 2.4-metre quaternary mirror is a 2-millimeter-thick flat adaptive mirror. With up to 8000 actuators, the surface can be readjusted one thousand times per second.[43] The deformable mirror will be the largest adaptive mirror ever made,[44] and consists of six component petals, control systems, and voice-coil actuators. The image distortion caused by the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere can be corrected in real-time, as well as deformations caused by the wind upon the main telescope. The ELT's adaptive optics system will provide an improvement of about a factor of 500 in the resolution compared to the best seeing conditions achieved so far without adaptive optics.[44]
The 2.7-metre by 2.2-metre quinary mirror is a tip-tilt mirror used to refine the image using adaptive optics. The mirror will include a fast tip-tilt system for image stabilization that will compensate perturbations caused by wind, atmospheric turbulence, and the telescope itself before reaching the ELT instruments.[49]
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