Will Congress Turn the Lights Out on America Again? 😅
Once upon a cold December, Senate leaders decided to play twister with the fiscal year. Rather than grueling over the keys to the kingdom-the funding package-they bowed out, leaving the halls of Congress in a state of delightful suspense. Weeks of high-stakes negotiations crumbled, like a layer cake left out in the snow, unable to secure enough consensus or navigate the thrilling labyrinth of committee resistance. Thus, Congress departed for holiday cheer with just enough funding to last through Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, if any drunk Santa had kept the lights on. 🎄
![The emergence of bubbles hinges on a delicate balance - a sufficient excess of buoyant force overcoming the resisting forces of surface tension and gravity, a condition meticulously defined by [latex] \Delta P = \sigma \frac{1}{r} + \rho g h [/latex].](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.21115v1/bubble.png)
