Tootfinder

“The working class abandoned the Democratic Party, primarily because the Democratic Party abandoned the working class.”
✅ Control of the Senate Could Be Decided in Maine. This Oyster Farmer Is Vying to Unseat Susan Collins. – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20…

Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins
Marine and Army veteran Graham Platner dives into one of the most closely watched races of 2026.

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
Amy Rae Fox, Michelle Morgenstern, Graham M. Jones, Arvind Satyanarayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06786 h…

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
What impressions might readers form with visualizations that go beyond the data they encode? In this paper, we build on recent work that demonstrates the socio-indexical function of visualization, showing that visualizations communicate more than the data they explicitly encode. Bridging this with prior work examining public discourse about visualizations, we contribute an analytic framework for describing inferences about an artifact's social provenance. Via a series of attribution-elicitation…

Optically Overluminous Tidal Disruption Events: Outflow Properties and Implications for Extremely Relativistic Disruptions
Yuhan Yao, Kate D. Alexander, Wenbin Lu, Jean J. Somalwar, Vikram Ravi, Ryan Chornock, Raffaella Margutti, Daniel A. Perley, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Paz Beniamini, Nayana A. J., Joshua S. Bloom, Collin T. Christy, Matthew J. Graham, Steven L. Groom, Erica Hammerstein, George Helou, Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Russ R. Laher, Ashish A. Mahabal, J\'er\…

Optically Overluminous Tidal Disruption Events: Outflow Properties and Implications for Extremely Relativistic Disruptions
Recent studies suggest that tidal disruption events (TDEs) with off-axis jets may manifest as optically overluminous events. To search for jet signatures at late times, we conducted radio observations of eight such optically overluminous ($M_{g, \rm peak} < -20.8$ mag) TDEs with the Very Large Array. We detect radio counterparts in four events. The observed radio luminosities ($L_{\rm 6 GHz} \sim 10^{38}$--$10^{39}$ erg s$^{-1}$) are two orders of magnitude lower than those of on-axis jetted TD…