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Date: 2025-03-30

YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY

WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE

THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS

(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)

YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS

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Fox probes Peter Navarro on Trump’s big tariff announcement expected Tuesday. He puts lipstick on that pig. But check the poll 10 seconds in. Even Fox admits that tariffs are expected to raise prices.

x BREAM: What do you say to people who say we hired the president to make the economy better, but now he says there's going to be disruption in the short term because of these tariffs? NAVARRO: Trust in Trump



[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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How much money is Musk saving?

x FEDERAL SPENDING SURGES Despite chaos caused by Trump, Musk, and DOGE, federal spending is on pace to come in 7.4% higher this year than last. The federal government has spent $1.893 trillion in 2025 as of March 26, compared to $1.763 trillion at the same date last year. 1/



[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) March 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM

x So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?



[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) March 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Can’t recall where I read that Musk’s cost cutting is like saying “I saved my family thousands of dollars simply by not paying the mortgage!”

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus sounds like he’s staging an intervention over Trump’s wild ways.

x Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Well, Donald, in just three months, you’ve turned your nation into a spectacle of disgrace. You think Canada is the nastiest country you’ve ever dealt with, yet you kiss up to Vladimir Putin, a war criminal...



[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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Great advice for Social Security users:

x I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share! — Peter Morley 💙 ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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Last week Trump went after law firms that have been involved in cases that annoyed him (all the way back to Robert Mueller’s days.) Some have caved but now some are fighting back. NYT has an op ed calling on all lawyers to file friend of the court briefs standing up to this attack on the legal system.

x NEW: Law firms and the rule of law remain under attack. Jenner and WilmerHale fight back. Skadden's Jeremy London, though, tried to explain the firm's capitulation. Also: A law firm partner provided Law Dork with a "parable" of two paths for firms in this moment. Tonight, at Law Dork —>



[image or embed] — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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The big Tesla Takedown saw a lot of energy all over.

And it may be working. Musk has a sad.

x Targeting Tesla has led to a Musk meltdown — on Fox. “My companies are suffering,” Musk muttered, on the verge of tears. Musk appeared minus his chainsaw, whining that his involvement in the government has been “disadvantageous” — claiming his companies are “suffering”… — Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) 2025-03-29T16:24:29.485Z

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It’s a great time to urge folks on the right to step away from the dark side. If they’re not ready yet they will be very soon. Joe Cleary has ideas for George Conway.

x George...all the sponsoring groups should make clear that there is no litmus test to join in if you oppose the actions of the administration.

You voted for Trump but regret it - welcome!

You wanted border security but not goons abducting people & sending to goolag - welcome!

1/ — Joe Cleary (@joecleary2.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM

x You wanted a rational & clear eyed review of federal spending & priorities search for waste: but not this shit - welcome!

You support the first amendment & rule of law all the time not just when it's convenient for your side - welcome!

Canada & Denmark are friends, Putin isnt. -Welcome! — Joe Cleary (@joecleary2.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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Sunday Science

Can’t resist a good graph:

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Those woolly mice that kraigo showed us are a step on the way to making more than woolly mammoths:

Mice are much easier to work with than elephants, of course. The tiny rodents require little space, breed quickly and have already been extensively studied with regards to their genetics. For instance, scientists have known since 1994 that if you turn off the FGF5 gene, mice will grow much longer hair than usual. Similarly, a gene known as Mc1r makes mice blond, while Frzd6 makes that hair whorly and frizzled. The final step was transforming edited embryos into living, breathing, gloriously furred mice. Colossal Biosciences, founded in 2021, has also been experimenting directly with Asian elephant cells, because that species is most closely related to extinct woolly mammoths. Similarly, the scientists are also working on de-extinction projects for the dodo and a wolflike marsupial known as the thylacine. (Science News)

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Voyagers 1 and 2 are still sending back data about the space beyond the heliosphere. Launched in 1977, they were sent to study the outer planets. It wasn’t part of the plan for them to explore so far beyond the solar system but they’re still communicating. (Eventually they’ll go beyond our reach and Spock will mind meld with one of them but that’s another story.)

Our plush atmosphere protects us from our star’s worst hazards. But in reality, the sun is a roiling mass of plasma and magnetism that radiates particles billions of miles out into space in the form of the solar wind. The sun’s magnetic field, which travels with the solar wind, also influences the space between planets. The heliosphere grows and shrinks in response to changes in the sun’s activity levels over the course of an 11-year cycle... “Every one of our measurements to date, until the Voyagers crossed the heliopause, has been filtered through all the different layers of the sun,” Rankin says. (Scientific American)

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We haven’t figured out hyperdrive like the Millennium Falcon’s, but some Star Wars spacecraft used solar sails. Earthlings are already experimenting with those now.

Not all vehicles in the Star Wars universe rely on hyperdrives; some “sun jammers” have huge sails that catch stellar winds... Recently, the nonprofit Planetary Society tested a similar concept. The crowdfunded LightSail 2 launched in 2019 and orbited Earth for about three years. Rather than relying on solar wind, though, the small craft’s solar sails used pressure from sunlight itself. Although light doesn’t have mass, it does have momentum. The solar sails intercepted sunlight with thin sheets made of reflective Mylar and other polymers. When speeding photons hit the sail, they bounced. Using solar sails to propel a large spacecraft would be tough, Miller says. The thrust produced probably wouldn’t be strong enough to carry ships ferrying humans. Upscaling solar sails would offer unique benefits, however. Using sunlight would allow a spaceship to accelerate without fuel. And unlike objects on Earth, spacecraft aren’t slowed by air friction produced by an atmosphere. This would allow any spacecraft to continue gaining speed as long as it’s exposed to sunlight. (Science News)

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It’s National Virtual Vacation Day! How about a trip to the Alps? (More virtual reality tours here.)

x YouTube Video

It’s National Pencil Day!

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