Stan Tsunoda
@stantsunoda.bsky.social
Son of California Nisei, proud father & grandfather, husband, physicist, lifelong Democrat, avid piano detuner.
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Unless Trump backs down to avoid the Gov shutdown, healthcare premiums for many will skyrocket. Sen Dem Leadership have chosen a good strategy to pushback and highlight Trump incompetence and cruelty.
See Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
See Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Unless Trump backs down to avoid the Gov shutdown, healthcare premiums for many will skyrocket. Sen Dem Leadership have chosen a good strategy to pushback and highlight Trump incompetence and cruelty.
See Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
See Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Senator Alex Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents while questioning Kristi Noem at her LA news conference. Trump is cynically inciting violence in LA and elsewhere by federalizing Nat'l Guard and deploying US troops while rounding up immigrants to meet his daily quotas.
June 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Senator Alex Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents while questioning Kristi Noem at her LA news conference. Trump is cynically inciting violence in LA and elsewhere by federalizing Nat'l Guard and deploying US troops while rounding up immigrants to meet his daily quotas.
Maher’s dinner was honest, informative but terribly naive. More importantly, we all wanted to hear about a declining, ranting Trump. Instead, his charm offensive on Maher just makes him more evil and insidious.
April 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Maher’s dinner was honest, informative but terribly naive. More importantly, we all wanted to hear about a declining, ranting Trump. Instead, his charm offensive on Maher just makes him more evil and insidious.
An American Version of the Cultural Revolution?
Our current politics originated with and are being driven by the cult-like following of one man.
Disastrous economic policies forced on the population.
Widespread attacks on universities and generally accepted expertise.
Pervasive fear.
Our current politics originated with and are being driven by the cult-like following of one man.
Disastrous economic policies forced on the population.
Widespread attacks on universities and generally accepted expertise.
Pervasive fear.
April 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
An American Version of the Cultural Revolution?
Our current politics originated with and are being driven by the cult-like following of one man.
Disastrous economic policies forced on the population.
Widespread attacks on universities and generally accepted expertise.
Pervasive fear.
Our current politics originated with and are being driven by the cult-like following of one man.
Disastrous economic policies forced on the population.
Widespread attacks on universities and generally accepted expertise.
Pervasive fear.
Know your vulnerable Republican Congressmen!
Cook PVI of D+2 means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the district performed 2 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
Cook PVI of D+2 means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the district performed 2 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
April 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Know your vulnerable Republican Congressmen!
Cook PVI of D+2 means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the district performed 2 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
Cook PVI of D+2 means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the district performed 2 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
Bring back the >260 Venezuelans taken from US soil on March 16 in violation of their 5th amendment due process rights. They are being imprisoned in El Salvador at the behest of the US which is funding their incarceration.
This callous disregard for due process threatens us all.
This callous disregard for due process threatens us all.
March 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Bring back the >260 Venezuelans taken from US soil on March 16 in violation of their 5th amendment due process rights. They are being imprisoned in El Salvador at the behest of the US which is funding their incarceration.
This callous disregard for due process threatens us all.
This callous disregard for due process threatens us all.
A win. In response to a lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Ret Ams, the Am Fed of Gov Em and the Serv Em Intl Union, the DC District Court has prevented DOGE from complete access to the Bureau of Fiscal Service payment system records, granting only read-only access.
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February 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A win. In response to a lawsuit filed by the Alliance for Ret Ams, the Am Fed of Gov Em and the Serv Em Intl Union, the DC District Court has prevented DOGE from complete access to the Bureau of Fiscal Service payment system records, granting only read-only access.
fedscoop.com/wp-content/u...
fedscoop.com/wp-content/u...
Fun fact: The Universe has pretty much made all the stars it's going to create by now. Specifically, it has formed about 95% of the stars it is capable of creating.
#astronomy
#cosmology
Details in arxiv.org/pdf/1202.343...
#astronomy
#cosmology
Details in arxiv.org/pdf/1202.343...
February 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Fun fact: The Universe has pretty much made all the stars it's going to create by now. Specifically, it has formed about 95% of the stars it is capable of creating.
#astronomy
#cosmology
Details in arxiv.org/pdf/1202.343...
#astronomy
#cosmology
Details in arxiv.org/pdf/1202.343...
Images of matter swirling around the super massive black hole in M87. Left most images are from the Event Horizon Telescope. Middle two images are from a model simulation. Right most images show a theoretical composite of a gaussian clump of material superimposed on a model image.
#astronomy
#astronomy
January 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Images of matter swirling around the super massive black hole in M87. Left most images are from the Event Horizon Telescope. Middle two images are from a model simulation. Right most images show a theoretical composite of a gaussian clump of material superimposed on a model image.
#astronomy
#astronomy
Can you travel back in time and kill your Grandfather? Lorenzo Gavassino says no and shows why in an interesting paper. If you traveled back in time, you would experience spontaneous memory erasure and forget who your Grandfather was. arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18640
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
January 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Can you travel back in time and kill your Grandfather? Lorenzo Gavassino says no and shows why in an interesting paper. If you traveled back in time, you would experience spontaneous memory erasure and forget who your Grandfather was. arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18640
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
I'm not really a gamer, but this nice documentary gave me a new appreciation of gaming.
#movies
#documentaries
#movies
#documentaries
January 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm not really a gamer, but this nice documentary gave me a new appreciation of gaming.
#movies
#documentaries
#movies
#documentaries
Lieb, et al have studied the structure and dynamics of dust shells surrounding the Wolf-Rayet binary star WR140. 17 dust shells have been produced over approx 130 yrs as a burst of dust is produced at each eccentric orbit with period 7.93 yrs.
Details in iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#astronomy
Details in iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#astronomy
January 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Lieb, et al have studied the structure and dynamics of dust shells surrounding the Wolf-Rayet binary star WR140. 17 dust shells have been produced over approx 130 yrs as a burst of dust is produced at each eccentric orbit with period 7.93 yrs.
Details in iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#astronomy
Details in iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
#astronomy
Yet another outrageous consequence of a tragedy of the commons caused by the fossil fuel industry and the inadequate global response to climate change.
January 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yet another outrageous consequence of a tragedy of the commons caused by the fossil fuel industry and the inadequate global response to climate change.
Very cool picture of Venus taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus probe. Venus is veiled in carbon dioxide with thick sulfuric acid clouds.
#astronomy
#astronomy
January 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Very cool picture of Venus taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus probe. Venus is veiled in carbon dioxide with thick sulfuric acid clouds.
#astronomy
#astronomy
Despite all the technological and educational advances of the last 2,200 years, some driving aspects in politics don’t change. After the 2nd Punic War (218-210 BC), additional land, plunder, and foreign taxes enabled the Roman Republic to enjoy increasing wealth in many households. 1/
January 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Despite all the technological and educational advances of the last 2,200 years, some driving aspects in politics don’t change. After the 2nd Punic War (218-210 BC), additional land, plunder, and foreign taxes enabled the Roman Republic to enjoy increasing wealth in many households. 1/
Very cool graph by Charles Lineweaver and Vihan Patel: Size vs Mass for everything. Top line is Schwarzschild radius (populated by black holes). Bottom line is Compton wavelength (populated by elementary particles). Dots sloping up are baryonic matter.... 1/
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
January 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Very cool graph by Charles Lineweaver and Vihan Patel: Size vs Mass for everything. Top line is Schwarzschild radius (populated by black holes). Bottom line is Compton wavelength (populated by elementary particles). Dots sloping up are baryonic matter.... 1/
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
Some current controversies in cosmology: 1) Is the Cosmological Principle really true? LambdaCDM assumes a homogenous universe (determined from galaxies), but what if you include dark matter and energy? EUCLID will measure gravitational weak lensing to address this. /1
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
December 30, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Some current controversies in cosmology: 1) Is the Cosmological Principle really true? LambdaCDM assumes a homogenous universe (determined from galaxies), but what if you include dark matter and energy? EUCLID will measure gravitational weak lensing to address this. /1
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
It’s fun to watch the fractures in MAGA world over H1-B, but we need their votes in 2026 & 2028!
As gov corruption and corp profiteering become more apparent, how best can Dems persuade them that immigrant scapegoating is just a distraction invented by Trump, Musk, and the oligarchs that abet them?
As gov corruption and corp profiteering become more apparent, how best can Dems persuade them that immigrant scapegoating is just a distraction invented by Trump, Musk, and the oligarchs that abet them?
December 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
It’s fun to watch the fractures in MAGA world over H1-B, but we need their votes in 2026 & 2028!
As gov corruption and corp profiteering become more apparent, how best can Dems persuade them that immigrant scapegoating is just a distraction invented by Trump, Musk, and the oligarchs that abet them?
As gov corruption and corp profiteering become more apparent, how best can Dems persuade them that immigrant scapegoating is just a distraction invented by Trump, Musk, and the oligarchs that abet them?
Facts:
Immigrants commit less violent crime than US-born citizens
Unemployment is at a low 4.2%
If immigrants are no longer the scapegoats in MAGA world, then billionaires and corporate greed become more exposed.
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
Immigrants commit less violent crime than US-born citizens
Unemployment is at a low 4.2%
If immigrants are no longer the scapegoats in MAGA world, then billionaires and corporate greed become more exposed.
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
December 29, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Facts:
Immigrants commit less violent crime than US-born citizens
Unemployment is at a low 4.2%
If immigrants are no longer the scapegoats in MAGA world, then billionaires and corporate greed become more exposed.
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
Immigrants commit less violent crime than US-born citizens
Unemployment is at a low 4.2%
If immigrants are no longer the scapegoats in MAGA world, then billionaires and corporate greed become more exposed.
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
MAGA meets Reality. I hope that MAGA can be persuaded that
1) High skilled immigrants are good for society
2) Low skilled immigrants are good for society
And I hope that MAGA will reflect on the fact that
3) They themselves are descended from immigrants
#US Politics #Progressive #TrumpWatch
1) High skilled immigrants are good for society
2) Low skilled immigrants are good for society
And I hope that MAGA will reflect on the fact that
3) They themselves are descended from immigrants
#US Politics #Progressive #TrumpWatch
December 27, 2024 at 6:41 PM
MAGA meets Reality. I hope that MAGA can be persuaded that
1) High skilled immigrants are good for society
2) Low skilled immigrants are good for society
And I hope that MAGA will reflect on the fact that
3) They themselves are descended from immigrants
#US Politics #Progressive #TrumpWatch
1) High skilled immigrants are good for society
2) Low skilled immigrants are good for society
And I hope that MAGA will reflect on the fact that
3) They themselves are descended from immigrants
#US Politics #Progressive #TrumpWatch
So far the Great (wannabe) Dictator is shaking down our neighbors to the North & South, declaring that Canada should be the 51st state, lusting after Greenland, and threatening to take back the Panama Canal. What next?
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
December 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
So far the Great (wannabe) Dictator is shaking down our neighbors to the North & South, declaring that Canada should be the 51st state, lusting after Greenland, and threatening to take back the Panama Canal. What next?
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
#US Politics
#Progressive Town Square
#TrumpWatch
#Liberal Democrats
Thank you Dennis Overbye for your many years of enthusiastic and clear explanations of science.
Congratulations on your retirement from NYT!
#astronomy
#cosmology
Congratulations on your retirement from NYT!
#astronomy
#cosmology
December 20, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Thank you Dennis Overbye for your many years of enthusiastic and clear explanations of science.
Congratulations on your retirement from NYT!
#astronomy
#cosmology
Congratulations on your retirement from NYT!
#astronomy
#cosmology
Gamma ray flare from a supermassive black hole in M87 shown in paper by Algaba, et al "Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode". Flare is tens of million times longer than the event horizon.
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
December 17, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Gamma ray flare from a supermassive black hole in M87 shown in paper by Algaba, et al "Broadband multi-wavelength properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT campaign including a very high energy flaring episode". Flare is tens of million times longer than the event horizon.
#astronomy
#cosmology
#astronomy
#cosmology
December 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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