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Someone pointed out that David Crowley will need to step down from his role as County Executive of Milwaukee County if/when he is elected Governor...
...and the best thing to do would be to get a *true* progressive (maybe even a Democratic Socialist?) elected to be the new County Executive.
Hell Yeah.
#wisconsin

Of course SF needs to give the Mayor more power to do what he wants. Look at the stream of evidence about the high standards for transparency and honesty /s
Please, vote NO on D, E & F - Consolidating power in the executive DOES NOT "Clean up CIty Hall" - it enables poor practices.
City official said OpenGov software was ‘exceeding’ goals. Data said otherwise | The San Francisco Standard

City official said OpenGov software was ‘exceeding’ goals. Data said otherwise
Proponents of the mayor’s permit overhaul acknowledge delays, but say the new system is miles better than the old one.

Of course SF needs to give the Mayor more power to do what he wants. Look at the stream of evidence about the high standards for transparency and honesty /s
Please, vote NO on D, E & F - Consolidating power in the executive DOES NOT "Clean up CIty Hall" - it enables it.
City official said OpenGov software was ‘exceeding’ goals. Data said otherwise | The San Francisco Standard

City official said OpenGov software was ‘exceeding’ goals. Data said otherwise
Proponents of the mayor’s permit overhaul acknowledge delays, but say the new system is miles better than the old one.

S301 is a very normal #star in a very unusual neighbourhood.
It orbits Sgr A*, the #BlackHole at the #MilkyWay's centre, at 8% of the speed of light, and approaches to within 12 AU (about the distance from the …

This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy
The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted

Trump-endorsed Mills loses primary in Florida amid House Ethics probe (Sophia Vento/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6027569-mills-loses-florida-house-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260818/p138#a260818p138

Hall of Fame locks: Active NFL players bound for enshrinement include Aaron Rodgers, Myles Garrett

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/hall-of-fame-active-nfl-players-aaro…

Giants say Malik Nabers fully participated in practice, but not sure if he'll play against Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/giants-say-malik-nabers-fully-participated-in-practice-but-not-sure-…

Triaxiality of the Milky Way dark matter halo and the microlensing optical depth towards the Large Magellanic Cloud
J. Garc\'ia-Bellido, M. R. S. Hawkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08988 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08988 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08988
arXiv:2609.08988v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The microlensing optical depth towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), $\tau_{\rm LMC}$, bounds the compact-object fraction of the Galactic dark matter halo, but is almost always evaluated for a spherical halo. We compute it for triaxial haloes and show that the shape dependence is carried entirely by the projection of the line of sight onto the halo principal axes: for a scale-free halo $\rho\propto R^{-\alpha}$ at fixed local density it factorises exactly as $\tau/\tau_{\rm sph}=S_\odot^{\alpha}\langle S^{-\alpha}\rangle_w$, with $S(\Omega)$ the ellipsoidal shape function. The LMC lies only $0\fdg78$ from perpendicular to the Sun-Galactic Centre line, making it a near-optimal probe of in-plane elongation and a poor probe of vertical flattening. For the halo shapes favoured by \textit{Gaia} we find $\tau_{\rm LMC}/\tau_{\rm sph}=0.95$--$1.15$ at fixed local density, $1.57$ for the Law-Majewski logarithmic potential, and $0.67$--$1.54$ when the major-axis azimuth is left free. For the Einasto halo required by the declining \textit{Gaia} DR3 rotation curve, truncation near $25\kpc$ is offset by the larger local density it implies and $\tau$ falls by only $7$--$15$ per cent; but the median lens distance moves inwards from $13.4$ to $8.5\kpc$, where the logarithmic slope is steep and rising, amplifying the shape sensitivity: the \textit{Gaia} RR~Lyrae enhancement grows from $15$ to $23$ per cent and the orientation-free range widens to $0.62$--$1.62$. The systematic on the inferred MACHO or primordial-black-hole fraction is two-sided, of order $\pm15$ per cent for the measured shapes and a factor $2.6$ under full orientation freedom, exceeding the statistical errors of the EROS-2 and OGLE bounds.
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The money raised to defeat El-Sayed was staggering.
He was outspent by more than nine to one.
It was the most expensive Democratic congressional primary ever.
A roll call of cartoon bad guys,
such as Chevron and Philip Morris,
funded his opponent, Haley Stevens,
to the tune of over $60m.
Of that funding, nearly half came from a Super Pac backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).
The symbolism of the win is heavy,
t…

Centrist Democrats dismiss Abdul El-Sayed as a freak radical. Do they want to win in 2028 or not?
Americans want someone on their side in the fight against sordid interests – that means politicians like the Michigan primary winner and Zohran Mamdani, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Malik Nabers doesn’t know if he’ll be ready for NY Giants vs Cowboys in Week 1 https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/malik-nabers-doesnt-know-if-hell-be-ready-for-ny-giants-vs-cowboys-in-week-1