And here is an experimental version that shows each gate/line transit. There were too many Moon transits, a dozen or so a day, so I left them off.

Here's a rough and ready attempt to show transits by each line change for the week. Moon changes were too numerous to show. I think the look of it is a little bit off, so I'll think on this a bit and see if I can come up with something better.

Oh, I just had this little fantasy that there are people who're now using the DSA as a stepping stone to power! Like, you create a machine to grab power, then someone smarter notices that you don't understand political power and they use it to take your power as they climb up to your coveted spot! 😁

Wait, is he *bragging* that in the first year of his career as a teacher he was violating the law, doing something immoral, and showing an incredible level of poor judgement? I hope no school ever employed him again, I wouldn't want my kid at any school, or any place, that hired him. 🤮🙄

WTAF?

I think they were looking at the last election, the cratering support for many of T's policies/actions, and looked at their own polling and all thought: 'Am I going to vote against this? For what benefit? Do I want ads saying I opposed it?' And just kicked it upstairs to Trump, let him deal with it.

This made my morning! Was having a bit too much stress and this cleared out my heart! ❤️

Nothing better than a great teacher!

I reiterate: gerrymandering can bite back hard because you potentially dilute your power by spreading it around. I hope we see this in 2026 since Republicans seem to be convinced that this election is going to be "normal" and that there isn't going to be a big backlash.

Hint: Pete Wilson 187 in CA!

Yeah, I get that, but I'm OK with losing 1 or 2 voices if I can block 200 accounts of foolishness. That's what ruined Mastodon for me, it was too much work to block bad actors.

Also, I periodically review my blocks. Annoying but not that hard. I've been tempted to remove all and start over. 🤷

Is there a moderation list for these?

My default take on *anything* from Politico is that their intent is to harm Dems. I think we're well past the era of taking any Pundit Journalist seriously, they're just here for clicks. And Harris is probably the front runner in this early, early, too early time. I think she still has a war chest.

Sounds perfect for the type who loves to surround themselves with yes-men! Perfect WH staff for T.

But I keep wondering how the combination of population decline and CEOs replacing people with agents is going to prop up these $1B companies. If there are no consumers, then who is buying stuff? 🤷

…moving back out of 20 and into 8 was very noticeable to me (probably because I have 10/34/57 and it lit up that group) and I've considered posting an image of the slower moving planets on a longer time scale.

I do like your idea and I'll investigate adding a new option. What about the Node lines?

Yes, I've been debating with myself about how much detail to include. I'm just a month or two into looking at transits, and frankly the Moon is utterly perplexing to me. It is so fast that I barely notice it. And the outers seem ripe for going to the line, or even tone level.

For example, Uranus …

Agree with the sentiment. But 2% is WAY too low, I'm thinking 75% at least.

But the US info is way off. In 2025 they are worth $6.6T. Total health care cost is $5.6T. Child care for all 4.5M kids 0-5 is $1T. Annual college for 19M students is $0.6T.

We need much more. Corp tax increases, maybe?

I don't read the WSJ, but they say the US had 1135 billionaires in 2024 according to this web page:

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Agree 100%. From here it looks the communication issue is to accept that legacy media is only going to go for clicks, so don't play nice with them. Need to sharpen the digital and social media and be out there saying it clearly and pointedly. Stop talking policy and be personal and about daily life.