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As the nation staggers toward the 2026 round of midterm elections,
the threats to the integrity of U.S. democracy
— already a veritable hailstorm of partisan contention
— have escalated dramatically under the second Trump administration,
attaining something like hurricane force.
Owing to the fevered narratives proliferating across right-wing media,
many have come to believe that the nation faces a scourge of “illegal” voting and wide-scale fraud.
Bu…

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
Trump’s Department of Justice is suing over 20 states in a bid to open voter rolls to purges via federal challenges.

Next out 2nd - Birth, school, work, death by The Godfathers. A really good rock song.
https://youtu.be/QO5dcW0P75M?si=owIbTRxcoaCdizyk

Czy makowiec powstaje z produktu owiec jedzących maki?
#SlowaNaOpak

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Curtisy, owin & Emily Beattie:
🎵 My Friends
#Curtisy #owin #EmilyBeattie
https://curtisy.bandcamp.com/track/my-friends
https://open.spotify.com/track/21uXqwFqZDX3VMGb5kYWQs

Hyperbolic Dispersion and Low-Frequency Plasmons in Electrides
Qi-Dong Hao, Hao Wang, Hong-Xing Song, Xiang-Rong Chen, Hua Y. Geng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.17859 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.17859
arXiv:2511.17859v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Natural hyperbolic materials have attracted significant interest in the field of photonics due to their unique optical properties. Based on the initial successful explorations on layered crystalline materials, hyperbolic dispersion was associated with extreme structural anisotropy, despite the rarity of natural materials exhibiting this property. Here we show that non cubic electrides are generally promising natural hyperbolic materials owing to charge localization in interstitial sites. This includes elemental and binary electrides, as well as some two-dimensional materials that show prominent in-plane hyperbolic dispersion. They exhibit low plasma frequencies and a broad hyperbolic window spanning the infrared to the ultraviolet. In semiconductor electrides, anisotropic interband transitions provide an additional mechanism for hyperbolic behaviour. These findings remove the previously held prerequisite of structural anisotropy for natural hyperbolic materials, and open up new opportunities, which might change the current strategy for searching and design photonic materials.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Ka:
🎵 Beautiful
#Ka
https://ikristel.bandcamp.com/track/knowing-is-beautiful

'He's growing up quick': RB RJ Harvey posts 100-yard outing, snags rookie TD lead in win over Raiders https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/he-s-growing-up-quick-rb-rj-harvey-posts-100-yard-outing-snags-r…

Exploring vibronic dynamics near a sloped conical intersection with trapped Rydberg ions
Abdessamad Belfakir, Weibin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04941 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.04941
arXiv:2512.04941v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study spin-phonon coupled dynamics in the vicinity of a sloped conical intersection created by laser coupling the electronic (spin) and vibrational degrees of freedom of a pair of trapped Rydberg ions. We show that the shape of the potential energy surfaces can be engineered and controlled by exploiting the sideband transitions of the crystal vibration and dipole-dipole interactions between Rydberg ions in the Lamb-Dicke regime. Using the sideband transition, we realize a sloped conical intersection whose cone axis is only tilted along one spatial axis. When the phonon wavepacket is located in the potential minimum of the lower potential surface, the spin and phonon dynamics are largely frozen owing to the geometric phase effect. When starting from the upper potential surface, the electronic and phonon states tunnel to the lower potential surface, leading to a partial revival of the initial state. In contrast, the dynamics drastically change when the initial wavepackets are away from the conical intersection. The initial state is revived, and is almost entirely irrelevant to whether it is from the lower or upper potential surface. Complete Rabi oscillations of the adiabatic states are found when the wavepacket is initialized on the upper potential surface. The dynamics occur on the microsecond and nanometer scales, implying that Rydberg ions provide a platform for simulating nonadiabatic processes in the vicinity of a sloped conical intersection.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Sympathy For The Devil
#TheRollingStones
https://brasslampedits.bandcamp.com/album/the-rolling-stones-sympathy-for-the-devil-brass-lamp-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pcg5HSoWI1Yg5Yt8rixG1