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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Jgbird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Jgbird</span></a></span> </p><p>This photo tells us something important about aerodynamics for wings.</p><p>Look at the tip feathers. They are hardly bent, and feathers are flimsy. There is no lift being generated at the bird's wingtips.</p><p>My glider generates lift at the tips...and because of that my glider needs a rudder/vertical fin in order to turn.</p><p>Birds don't have vertical fins/rudders, but they turn just fine.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Hr0I6wBFGpY?t=238" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Hr0I6wBFGpY?t=238</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl-D" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl-</span><span class="invisible">D</span></a></p><p>The kind of wing the Wright Brothers used...made a rudder/vertical fin mandatory. We had to unlearn that in order to make a plane that flies like a bird.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aviation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Aerodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aerodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wing</span></a></p>
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C.IMChuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes — the mail-order boxes and grocery store bags — are sold by a single private company, with its name, #Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products is now 💥fueling election deniers and other far-right candidates across the country. #Dick and #Liz #Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate #Doug #Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to #Jim #Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020. They are major funders to groups spreading #election #falsehoods, including "Restoration of America", which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and 👉 “punish leftists.” Flush with profits from their shipping supply company, the Uihleins have emerged as ⭐️the No. 1 federal campaign donors for Republicans ahead of the November elections, and ⭐️the No. 2 donors overall behind liberal financier George Soros. The couple has spent at least $121 million on state and federal politics in the last two years alone, 🔥fighting taxes, unions, abortion rights and marijuana legalization. The German-American clan made their original fortune in the 19th century as owners of the Milwaukee brewery Schlitz. Family members were staples of the Chicago Tribune society pages. In 1917, Dick’s grandfather was identified as a millionaire in a Chicago Tribune humor item about how the wealthy man had fired an unqualified chauffeur. When Dick and Liz Uihlein donated millions in recent years to the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Action", they were following in a family tradition. Edgar J. Uihlein of Chicago was among the handful of largest donors to the original "America First Committee", the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s group that opposed the United States’ entry into World War II. (It’s unclear whether that was Edgar Sr., Dick’s grandfather, or Edgar Jr., his father, who had just graduated from college.) While "America First" drew supporters from across the political spectrum, it was most associated with rightists. Uihlein’s donation was disclosed in 1941. Later that year, Lindbergh gave an openly #antisemitic #speech assailing Jewish influence. When Edgar Uihlein Sr. died in 1956, his estate was valued at $4.8 million — more than $50 million in today’s dollars — and the money was left in a trust for his heirs, newspapers reported at the time. Dick’s father, #Edgar Uihlein Jr., who had started a plastics company after serving in the Navy during World War II, established himself as 💥an important funder of far-right political groups in the 1960s. A document from 1963 identifies Edgar Uihlein Jr. as on the ⚠️National Finance Committee of the #John #Birch #Society. Founded a few years earlier, the group quickly became a significant force to the right of the Republican Party, known for its obsessively anti-communist politics. The Birchers combined hostility to New Deal social programs with lurid conspiracies, famously campaigning against “the horrors of #fluoridation,” a supposed Red plot. The group fiercely opposed civil rights. An entry in one 1963 Birch newsletter railed against the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King would give his “I Have a Dream” speech: “the only good Americans who should have anything to do with this Communist-instigated mob in any way, or pay any attention to it in Washington, are the police required to maintain law and order.” Edgar Uihlein Jr. supported politicians who embraced #segregation. In early 1962, he sponsored a speech that brought to Chicago a former U.S. Army general named #Edwin #Walker. Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled “the tyranny within our own white race.” The Anti-Defamation League, which tracked far-right figures in the period, has archives showing Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s involvement with several other groups and campaigns, including a $1,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of segregationist #George #Wallace in 1968. It’s not clear when, if ever, Uihlein’s association with the John Birch Society ended. As late as 1977, the founder of the group wrote a long letter to him asking for money. https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1724992559&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,threads,twitter

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.

refuseuline.com/

refuseuline.comRefuse UlineUline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dollars are supporting. This needs to end now. Let's refuse to use uline.

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. 

c.im/@cdarwin/1130140142118315

C.IMChuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)Federal judge rolls back key #civil #rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘#sacrifice #zones’ The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump, decided to block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions based on “#disparate #impacts” — or the idea that a 🔸regulation might disproportionately harm one group of people over another. 🔸 A provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as #TitleVI allows federal agencies to take action against state policies and programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Since the EPA’s founding in 1970, however, the agency allowed most of the Title VI complaints that it received to languish without resolution. In 2015, a coalition of community groups in Louisiana, with the assistance of the public-interest environmental law organization #Earthjustice, sued the agency for this practice and won. Five years later, after president Biden took office, ✅federal regulators finally began addressing the civil rights complaints they received and ✅the EPA announced a civil-rights #probe into #Cancer #Alley — a stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where 💥over 150 chemical plants pump cancer-causing chemicals into the air of predominantly Black communities💥 — marking 💪🏽a new phase of the agency’s use of Title VI. The federal government was making significant progress with Louisiana officials in their Title VI negotiations: Cancer Alley residents’ principle demand — that state regulators assess whether a community is already exposed to disproportionately high levels of pollution before permitting a new project there — had made it into a draft resolution document. ❗️But at a certain point in the process, sources told Grist, the talks broke down. ⚠️Then in May 2023, #Jeff #Landry, then the attorney general (and now the #governor) of Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against the EPA. On the basis that the agency was overstepping its authority, 💥Landry’s suit challenged not only the EPA’s use of Title VI to regulate pollution in Louisiana, but 💥also the very legal justification of "#disparate-#impacts" regulation, 👉which reaches thousands of programs across the country 👉and can be used to adjudicate decisions as varied as where a new highway can go or whether a housing practice is discriminatory. 🆘Advocates worried that the lawsuit had the potential to unravel decades of civil rights law. Judge Cain’s final judgment concurs with Landry’s argument. 🔥In effect, the ruling will make it impossible for the EPA to pursue enforcement actions based on disparate impacts — but only in Louisiana. Cain’s judgment comes in the same week as ❗️the EPA’s new Title VI guidance, which urges state and local regulators to establish safeguards that protect their constituents against discrimination. https://grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-james-cain-louisiana/

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.

axios.com/2024/04/12/house-rep

Axios · House Republicans fume over "messaging" votesBy Andrew Solender

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
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Washington Post · Analysis | When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out the problem in his party.

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
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec

NBC News · Leonard Leo, Koch networks pour millions into groups prepping for potential second Trump administrationBy Katherine Doyle

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.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on NetanyahuBy Liz Goodwin

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).
thedrive.com/the-war-zone/germ
#thinwing #airfoil #aerodynamics #wing #cruisemissile #militaryaviation #taurus #stormshadow

The Drive · Germany’s Taurus Cruise Missile Could Be The Next For UkrainePressure is building for Germany to approve a transfer of the air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine, following the U.K. and France.
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@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.