05 March 2026

No support for squishes on the war powers

I am a strong proponent of Democratic unity. Admire the bejeezus out of Jasmine Crockett but support Talarico 100%. Disagree with some positions of Peltola but intend to contribute heavily (for me) to her campaign because we need to win the Senate, and she will be a reliable vote for the most important matters. All that. But I'm sorry. Any and every Democrat who votes not to rein in Trump's unconstitutional exercise of illegal war powers in the present outrage can go to hell. I will not support them in any way, shape or form and will actively support any Democratic challengers to them. To me, this is the absolute red line in the fight against fascism and the anti-Constitutional establishment, which, unfortunately, has far too many adherents in our own party. I would sooner vote for a George Conway or a Michael Luttig constitutionalist former Republican than a neo-con "executive maximalist" Democrat. To me, Libya is the single worst blot on Obama's record, and I think Clinton was wrong not to obtain a clear mandate from Congress before engaging in war in the Balkans. This stuff matters

  


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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything... (No, it's not 42, but it is a dimensionless real number)α (alpha), equal to the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles:
α = e24πε0ħc ⁠ 1/137

where 
e is the elementary charge (~1.602×10−19 C);
h is the Planck constant (~6.626×10−34 J⋅Hz−1);
 is the reduced Planck constant⁠(h/2π (~1.055×10−34 J⋅s);
c is the speed of light in a vacuum(~300Km⋅s−1);
ε0 is the electrical permittivity of space (~8.854×10−12 F⋅m−1);
μ0 is the magnetic permeability of space (~1.2567×10−6 N⋅A−2).
As far as anyone knows, having no reason to suspect otherwise, this is and always has been and always will be true everywhere in the universe, but no one really knows why, if there is a why, this number has the value it does. 

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