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President Joe Biden---Day 1351---Fourth Year---Day 359---Evening Shade---Sunday [1]
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Date: 2025-01-12
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RULES IN THE DIARY
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Just your average Democratic president doing everyday Democratic president stuff.
x The economy I am leaving America is the best in the world, and stronger than ever for all Americans. — President Biden (@POTUS) January 11, 2025
x In four years, the economy created 16.6 million new jobs – the most in any single presidential term.
In fact, there wasn’t a month when the economy lost jobs. Another record for any presidency.
The last month America lost jobs was the month before I came to office. pic.twitter.com/KoMchnZFU3 — President Biden (@POTUS) January 11, 2025
x I spoke with President Zelenskyy today to update him on the United States' surge of support to Ukraine.
Continuing this support for Ukraine is important in its fight for freedom, so that the Ukrainian people can secure the just and lasting peace they deserve. — President Biden (@POTUS) January 11, 2025
x I will also make sure California has every possible resource to fight these fires and help survivors.
Survivors should go to
https://t.co/swj8W7NBov or call the number: 1-800-621-3362 as soon as possible. — President Biden (@POTUS) January 11, 2025
Elon Musk seems to have backburnered Mars as he aims for domination of Earth. He became de facto US vice president a few months ago, meddled in British and German politics a few weeks ago, and now Musk is bothering Canada.
Musk’s intrusion into European politics has prompted leaders in the UK, France and Germany to speak out against his election interference and misinformation. Now it appears it is Canada’s turn to deal with the richest man in the world… In a series of posts following Trudeau’s resignation, Musk has expressed support for Poilievre, whose Conservative party is widely expected to dominate Canada’s elections after three successive Liberal governments...Casting himself as an opponent of “Trudeau’s woke authoritarian agenda”, the Alberta-born Poilievre has played into conspiratorial rhetoric about “globalist elites” and promised to reduce immigration while blaming the Liberal party for economic inflation.
What will the next 4 years be like? We don’t have long to wait to find out. Trump is said to have 100 executive orders lined up for Day 1.
President-elect Donald Trump is preparing more than 100 executive orders starting Day One of the new White House, in what amounts to a shock-and-awe campaign on border security, deportations and a rush of other policy priorities….Allies of the president-elect have been preparing a stack of executive orders that Trump could sign quickly on a wide range of topics – from the U.S.-Mexico border clampdown to energy development to federal Schedule F workforce rules, school gender policies and vaccine mandates, among other day-one promises made during his campaign. While executive actions are common on the first day of a new White House, as a new president puts a stamp on certain priorities, what Trump and his team are planning is an executive punch unseen in modern times as he prepares to wield power in untested ways, bypassing the legislative machinery of Congress. (AP)
In better news, not everyone is on board Trump’s train. The Senate fears that enough House Republicans will balk at Trump’s tax plans to stall them.
[Senate] Republicans are aiming to pass large pieces of Trump’s agenda through a process known as reconciliation, which bypasses the Senate filibuster and thus doesn’t require Democratic votes. But House Republicans’ razor-thin majority presents an intraparty challenge… Mullin cited conservative Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) call for putting higher corporate tax rates “on the table” to pay for extending Trump’s expiring tax cuts as a concern.The Oklahoma senator warned that if Roy votes against a tax package that doesn’t increase corporate taxes, the Speaker “really can only lose one more” Republican vote. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) told NBC News last month that between eight and 10 House Republicans could insist on raising cap on SALT deductions. (The Hill)
Big week ahead: Here’s the schedule for hearings for cabinet appointees. Hegseth is up Tuesday morning.
Sunday Science
Can you get H5N1 bird flu from eggs and milk?
The risk is very, very, very low to nonexistent ... That’s because commercial farms have strict biosecurity measures to keep the domestic birds separate from wild ones, and H5N1 is so deadly to poultry that farmers must quickly cull an entire flock before the virus can contaminate any eggs. Dairy cows pose a different risk. When infected with H5N1, they don’t get as sick as chickens do, so these cows aren’t necessarily removed from the milking herd. Raw milk from infected cows contains high levels of H5N1, and cats have died from drinking it. But pasteurization kills the virus, so pasteurized milk is safe to consume. (Scientific American)
2024 was the hottest year on record. It crossed the important boundary of an increase of 1.5 degrees C since the before the industrial age. Climate change is likely to blame but there are other factors as well.
Earth switched into an El Niño phase in mid-2023 and stayed there through spring of 2024. So, Schmidt says, it likely contributed to 2023's record. But it couldn't explain all of it: the timing was wrong. 2023 started off in a La Niña state and was still in that cooler phase when the heat began breaking records in June of that year. (NPR)
Another hypothesis involved a volcanic eruption… Some scientists hypothesized that the warming effect could have contributed to some of the mystery heat. But after close study, scientists realized the impact was probably minimal. (NPR)
In 2020, international rules governing the fuels for the shipping industry changed. The old fuel was heavy in sulfur; once in the atmosphere, sulfate pollution attracted water droplets, causing visible cloud plumes to trail behind a ship chugging across the ocean. The newer, cleaner fuel produces less sulfate pollution—and fewer, smaller cloud plumes. When scientists did the math, they realized those ship trails had been common and reflective enough to cool down the planet. Because the climate system doesn't respond instantaneously, the reductions in pollution set in motion in 2020 could have started having an impact in 2023—to the tune of roughly 0.1 C, or about half the total mystery heat. (NPR)
The National Old Growth Amendment, a plan to save old growth forests, didn’t make it.
The proposed plan...would have prohibited commercial logging on about 10 million hectares of old growth and required all national forests to update their management plans to increase the resilience of old-growth stands… The plan was also innovative because of its focus on strengthening the role of tribal nations in forest management. USFS ran out of time to fully develop and approve it before the end of the Biden administration. On Tuesday, the agency head, Randy Moore, announced he was withdrawing the draft. (Science)
But the observatory at Mount Wilson and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory did make it. Fire crews saved them from LA’s Eaton fire and will stand watch over them for the next week to keep them safe.
The Mount Wilson Observatory about 13 miles northeast of JPL, once the site of the world’s largest telescope and the location where Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding, is largely used today for public outreach. (Science)
Today is Jack London’s birthday.
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It’s also Kiss a Ginger Day.
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It’s National Sunday Supper Day
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And National Marzipan Day and National Curried Chicken Day.
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And if that wasn’t enough reason to celebrate, it’s National Pharmacist Day.
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