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"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

De ware aard van de chipsdoos van Lays - #Zwerfinator
https://zwerfinator.nl/index.php/2025/06/01/de-ware-aard-van-de-chipsdoos-van-lays/…

"Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Arctic

Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'

"Politically, many diaspora Jews have felt increasingly homeless. The left, consumed by identity politics, often included them in the “white” majority and expected them to denounce any affiliation with Israel as proof of their ideological reliability. On the right, populist-nationalist parties, evolved from movements that were once openly hostile towards Jews, were ascendant. And so the indifference to the suffering of Jews exhibited by parts of the left, the uptick in antisemitic attac…

The ambiguous AT2022rze: Changing-look AGN mimicking a supernova in a merging galaxy system
P. J. Pessi, R. Lunnan, J. Sollerman, L. Yan, A. Le Reste, Y. Yao, S. Nordblom, Y. Sharma, M. Gilfanov, R. Sunyaev, S. Schulze, J. Johansson, A. Gangopadhyay, K. Tristram, M. Hayes, C. Fransson, Y. Hu, S. J. Brennan, S. Rose, K. De, P. Charalampopoulos, A. Gkini, M. J. Graham, C. P. Guti\'errez, S. Mattila, T. Nagao, I. P\'erez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, J. S. Bloom, J. Brugger, T. X. Chen, M…

The ambiguous AT2022rze: Changing-look AGN mimicking a supernova in a merging galaxy system
AT2022rze is a luminous, ambiguous transient located South-East of the geometric center of its host galaxy at redshift z = 0.08. The host appears to be formed by a merging galaxy system. The observed characteristics of AT2022rze are reminiscent of active galactic nuclei (AGN), tidal disruption events (TDEs), and superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). The transient reached a peak absolute magnitude of -20.2 +- 0.2 mag, showing a sharp rise (trise,1/e = 27.5 +- 0.6 days) followed by a slow decline (td…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16076 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Optimal intrinsic alignment estimators in the presence of redshift-space distortions
We present estimators for quantifying intrinsic alignments in large spectroscopic surveys that efficiently capture line-of-sight (LOS) information while being relatively insensitive to redshift-space distortions (RSD). We demonstrate that changing the LOS integration range, Πmax, as a function of transverse separation outperforms the conventional choice of a single Πmax value. This is further improved by replacing the flat Πmax cut with a LOS weighting based on shape projection and RSD. Alth…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18128 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

A cometary Fluorescence Model for the $ν_3$ Vibrational Band of Cyanogen
Cyanogen (\ce{C_2N_2}) is suspected for a long time to be present in comets and to contribute to the creation of CN radical. So far no observations with ground-based facilities managed to detect this species but the Rosetta mission, thanks to in situ observations with the ROSINA mass spectrometer detected this species in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. To investigate its presence from infrared spectra in other comets, we developed a fluorescence model for the $ν_3$ fundamental band. Fro…

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129
#serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

Hannah Arendt, as relevant as ever.
"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true…
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on
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