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Crazy thin wings on USAF T-38 Talon, Beale AFB on static display at the Capital Airshow, Mather Field, California. March 2025 #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #T38 #talon #NACA #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #CCA2025 #Z9 #wing #aerodynamics
Waxing Gibbous moon over the left winglet. London to San Francisco, Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350 #moon #A350 #Virgin #VirginAtlantic #wing #WaxingGibbous #avgeek #nikon #photography
Dragonfly in the garden showing off its beautifully complex wing structure #dragonfly #wing #bugs #insect #garden #macro #blackandwhite #BlackandWhitePhotography #photography #nature
If you’ve received a box in the mail recently, you’ve likely touched ULINE.
As North America's largest distributor of shipping, packaging and industrial supplies, ULINE is an omnipresent supplier in today’s shipping-fueled economy.
ULINE was founded in 1980 by Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein
—heirs to the Schlitz beer company fortune.
ULINE has grown to offer close to 40,000 products and has more than 7,000 employees
—seems like a true midwestern success story, right?
OK, SO WHY SHOULD I “REFUSE ULINE?”
The Uihleins have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most #extreme #right-#wing politicians and movements in the United States.
The Uihleins are ranked by the donation-tracking site OpenSecrets.org as the fifth-largest donors in the United States to outside political spending organizations, having contributed a whopping
$62.8 million to conservative groups in the 2020 election cycle.
The founders of ULINE were the largest Trump donors in Wisconsin
— and Mrs. Uihlein took a fundraising role with the Trump campaign.
The Uihleins have funneled at least $27 million into “dark money” groups that funded the Republican law makers who baselessly voted to invalidate the 2020 election.
The ULINE founders gave millions to the groups that stormed the US Capitol and organized the Jan 6 insurrection.
The Ed Uihlein Family Foundation poured millions of dollars in 2020 into a sprawling number of groups connected to efforts to challenge Joe Biden’s victory and reimagine election law, as well as other right-wing extremist organizations, including ones designated as hate groups.
The ULINE founders donated over $4 million dollars to bankroll the anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v. Wade
The Uihleins donated over $20 million to get Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) into power, and in turn he personally ensured a tax break for “pass-through companies” like ULINE
—netting $215 million in deductions in 2018 alone.
ULINE received over $700k in government aid since the start of the pandemic
— while the Uihleins poured over $1.1M to vaccine and election conspiracists in 2020.
The Uihleins assail transgender rights and bankroll partisan newspapers that try to disguise as “local reporting.”
ULINE ignored public health recommendations for COVID while accepting federal funds to supply PPE and industrial cleaning supplies.
The Uihleins funded Roy Moore’s campaign in Alabama
—even donating after he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls.
Louisiana’s lawsuit was just one instance in a spate of #right-#wing #attacks
against the EPA’s use of #civil #rights law to regulate pollution in neighborhoods of color.
In April, Republican attorneys general from 23 states filed a petition with the Biden administration’s EPA asking the agency to stop using #TitleVI of the Civil Rights Act to regulate pollution.
The effort was led by Florida’s Ashley Moody, and compared the EPA’s efforts at tacking environmental justice through civil rights law to “#racial #engineering.”
The EPA has not yet responded to the petition.
Summertime in Okinawa.
Airplane flying high in the sky with a small cloud below it. #AirVehicle #Blue #Flying #Cloud #Airplane #Outdoors #Sky #Wing #Okinawa #Summer #okinawa_photo_community #PhotosOfMastodon #マスト写真部
Closeup of the intricate wing structure of a Dragonfly in the garden. #Nikon #dragonfly #bug #insect #fauna #wing #nature #photography
The House Rules Committee's schedule for next week consists entirely of a half dozen bills to prohibit the Energy Department from setting energy use standards for home appliances.
The Liberty in Laundry Act, the Refrigerator Freedom Act and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards, or SUDS, Act are among the bills.
There is no sign, however, of legislation to provide military aid to Ukraine,
Israel or
Taiwan, which some lawmakers have said they expect to come up for a vote next week.
"With any material vote, we've relied predominantly on Democrat[ic] votes. And then we want to pass messaging bills, that have no future in the Senate, to show what we stand for," Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told Axios.'
Good, the chair of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, said that dynamic is "not really doing anything for the American people."
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) told Axios he is "really #sick of these #messaging #bills," adding, "Yeah you support Israel, yeah you support Ukraine ... but what are you actually doing to help them by putting a piece of paper on the floor that's expressing the sentiment of Congress?"
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said House Republicans are "just #dallying with our time." "This country's got issues here – security, we've got debt, we've got all kinds of issues we've got to address," he said.
Asked if there should be consequences for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and others GOP leaders, Good said, "Well, I don't think that's a sustainable future, to do what we've been doing now."
Good is among a handful of #right-#wing #hardliners who have declined to say whether they would throw their potentially decisive support behind Rep. Marjorie Taylor #Greene (R-Ga.) if she forces a vote to remove Johnson.
For some lawmakers, it's not just about next week or even the 118th Congress, but an indictment of the nature of modern politics.
"Those post offices aren't going to name themselves," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) quipped ruefully when asked about the appliance votes.
Burchett added: "I have bills in committees that don't get heard. Up here, there are two ways to get ahead: raise money and kiss a**. And I don't do a good job at either one of them ... it's the system, man. It's the system."
Some GOP lawmakers said the appliance-related bills are worth their time, even if they don't stand a chance in the Senate.
Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) said he would "like to get a lot of things done," but "we're going to protect Americans' choice on their home appliances."
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said he has no issue with the bills but wants "a strategy for how we're going to deal with the rest of this Congress."
"It almost seems like [Senate Democratic Leader] Chuck Schumer is in charge of Congress," Nehls said.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/house-republicans-anger-messaging-votes
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP
The GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
— Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
— said that #Russian #propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”
McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.
“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it
— and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television]
— on our airwaves,” McCaul said.
He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate, and they actually model Russian propaganda.”
Asked which Republicans specifically he was talking about, McCaul said it was “obvious,” before staff intervened and asked that the conversation go off the record.
These comments are the most significant to date, but they’re not the only ones.
A GOP impasse over additional funding for #Ukraine’s defense against Russia
— combined recently with Tucker Carlson’s deeply weird promotion of Russia and Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies from Moscow
— has apparently occasioned some self-reflection among Republicans about their colleagues and allies:
• Former vice president Mike Pence, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and a top aide to Sen. Todd Young (R-Ill.) have warned their party against serving as #apologists for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Recent presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies, among others, “#empower #Putin.”
• And Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) shot back at criticism from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) about Cornyn’s support for Ukraine, urging Paxton to “spend less time pushing Russian propaganda.”
Around the same time, former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said there is now “a #Putin #wing of the Republican Party.”
In 2022, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the pro-Putin sentiments in some corners of his party “#almost #treasonous,” while allowing that perhaps his fellow Republicans were just #attention-#seekers.
“It’s unthinkable to me, it’s almost treasonous and it just makes me ill to see some of these people do that,” Romney said.
“But, of course, they do it because if they get shock value and it’s good to get more eyeballs and maybe make a little more money for them or their network. It’s disgusting.”
And then there is what may be the most famous example: when House GOP leaders in 2016 privately joked about Trump being #compromised by Russia, as later reported by The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/when-top-republican-says-russian-propaganda-has-infected-gop/
Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks is flowing into groups affiliated with a conservative venture aimed at creating a Republican "government-in-waiting," including over
$55 million from groups linked to conservative activist #Leonard #Leo and the #Koch network, according to an Accountable.US review shared exclusively with NBC News.
Launched by the #Heritage #Foundation in April 2022, #Project2025 is a two-pronged initiative to develop staunch conservative policy recommendations and grow a roster of thousands of #right-#wing personnel ready to fill the next Republican administration.
With former President Donald Trump now the GOP's presumptive 2024 nominee, the effort is essentially laying the groundwork for a potential Trump transition if he wins the election in
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360
Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu
Senate Majority Leader #Charles E. #Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Israeli government to hold a #new #election in a speech warning that Israel risks becoming an #international “#pariah” under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and his #right-#wing #cabinet.
Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States and a staunch ally of Israel, said he thinks Israelis understand “better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world” and would choose better leaders if elections were held.
“I believe that holding a new election once the war starts to wind down would give Israelis an opportunity to express their vision for the postwar future,” Schumer said Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor, in remarks that did not set an exact timeline for a new election.
Schumer, who opened his speech saying he felt “immense obligation” as a Jewish American to speak, stressed that the outcome of that election would be up to the Israelis — not Americans.
The call, from one of Congress’s strongest supporters of Israel, marks the clearest signal to Israel yet that #frustrations over Netanyahu’s handling of the #war in #Gaza are boiling and could even threaten the future of the close relationship between Israel and the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/14/israel-elections-netanyahu-charles-schumer/
House Martins
Burton Mere
#rspb
#bird #birds #tree #trees #housemartins #clouds #naturereserve #sunlight #dusk #wirral #burtonmere #wetlands #burtonmerewetlands #feathers #flight #wetlandsconservation #nature #wildlife #conservation #conservationphotography #naturephotography #birdphotography #rspb #Flying #Wing
#nikon #z8 #400mmf4
Making an Aircraft Wing Work for an Audience - Many of us will have sat and idly watched the flaps and other moving parts of an a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/01/31/making-an-aircraft-wing-work-for-an-audience/ #transportationhacks #aircraft #airbus #cons #wing
Looking at cruise missiles (Storm Shadow and Taurus, in particular), and being used to "normal" wings, I find it utterly fascinating how tiny and thin the wings can be when the only flight phase is fast cruise. No takeoff, no landing, no high angle-of-attack slow flight, no consideration for benign stall characteristics, no significant g-loads or maneuverability, but uncompromsing optimisation for high subsonic cruise (and the ability to stow the wings).
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/germanys-taurus-cruise-missile-could-be-the-next-for-ukraine
#thinwing #airfoil #aerodynamics #wing #cruisemissile #militaryaviation #taurus #stormshadow
Empty leg at 45,000 feet
We will be planting extra herbs to make sure our butterflies will be well taken care of this summer. #ModernArt #butterfly #wing #pollinator #schmetterling #ArtistonMastodon #FineArt #MastoArt #Art #SpringForArt #Fediart #Kunst #ArtBooster #AYearForArt #mastoart #Artist #LoveArt #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Black-Swallowtail-Butterfly-Wing/1146594/132?mediumId=13&size=50x75
@darq
You are very right.
I posted about #covid. I did not express my personal opinion, but quoted directly articles written in mainstream journals like Wall Street journal and fox News. I also questioned #biolabs in #ukraine and the scandal of #hunter #biden and the fact that #covid is probably #artificially #engineered and that it was probably not a #lableak but it was leaked on purpose.
Thank you #left #wing #cancel #culture.
#twitter seems now a much better place than these provincial instances of #mastodon.
On #mastodon #censorship is #real and #sound.