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Crazed girls flood Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz with fan mail

Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.

Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive — tucked inside cute greeting cards and attached to notebook paper with offers of friendship and encouragement. Groupies also are joining Facebook communities to talk about how to help the killer.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained copies of some of the letters showing that Cruz, who had few friends in the outside world, is now being showered with attention.

So a galaxy has been found that contains NO dark matter (all the matter seen is all the matter it needs).
"The astronomers realised something about DF2 was amiss when telescope observations revealed that 10 clusters of stars within it were moving far slower than would normally be expected."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/distant-galaxy-dark-matter-universe-understanding-theories-wrong-space-yale-a8277951.html

Could it not need 'dark matter' because the stars aren't rotating fast enough for inertial effects to kick in?
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca/2014/01/mihsc-101.html

Dark matter is dead. Please leave the corpse alone.
Close snark.

Tresorit Launches Campaign To Build An End-To-End Encrypted Social Network

Sociall.io

The new technology that aspires to #DeleteFacebook for good (Mastodon)

At the end of these charts, you can see a small spike in Diaspora users.

It might all be in the name. People/"dumb fucks" will sign up for a "Facebook", but "Prevaat"?

Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and Shark Week: ‘He made me sit and watch’ (archive)

Clickbait? Sure. But reading about the history of "Shark Week" in that context really makes something click.

Stormy Daniels describes her alleged affair with Donald Trump (w/ transcript)

"Wow, you-- you are special. You remind me of my daughter."

Folks, when I was the President-elect, I did something VERY SPECIAL. I talked on the phone with President Tsai of Taiwan. And the Chinese lost their minds over that one. They absolutely lost their minds, that was so amazing. Because for a long time we had what they called the One China Policy. That said Taiwan is part of China, they call it a province. One team, one people, one Chinese family. Very important to the Chinese. And because we went along with that, China helped us take out the USSR, they were having big problems with the USSR just like we were. And we made some deals that were very unfair to our country. That made it so our companies, our factories, our jobs, our technology, our money all went to China. That changes now. I'm doing tariffs, I put on some tariffs.

And I signed a proclamation, I didn't have to sign it but I wanted to sign it. I loved signing it. Our guys in Congress worked very hard on this one, and they passed it OVERWHELMINGLY. So it would have gone through even if I didn't sign. But I signed.

It's called the Taiwan Travel Act. And it's great news for the people of Taiwan. Because it means Taiwan isn't just an island in the Pacific any more. It's now a Country. They already had a President -- great phone call, by the way, one of the best. They have a Flag, it's a lot like ours because it's red, blue and white. 🇹🇼 Instead of red, white and blue (God bless our Flag). 🇺🇸 But to the United States, to my predecessors, they weren't a Country. We pretended they were just a so-called "province" of China. I upgraded them massively, now they're a Country. We're going to make some great deals and do a lot of great things together. Because this Travel Act lets our diplomats go back and forth much more easily. Congratulations!!!

Reversing his veto threat, Trump signs the $1.3 Trillion dollar spending bill.

National Review says it's the Biggest Spending Increase Since 2009.

Trump briefly threatened to veto it. Mostly because it didn't spend enough: “... the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded,”

Spending wouldn't be such a problem except for the fact they also cut revenue by a over a $trillion with the tax bill.

I'm no mathematician but that seems to put a bit of crimp in his promise to eliminate the national debt in eight years.

Yet Another American Football League: The Alliance of American Football

Another New Football League Says It Will Start Play in 2019

The N.F.L. is under pressure from falling television ratings, lawsuits over its handling of concussions, and fan opposition to player protests during the national anthem.

Yet investors keep lining up to help start new football leagues. On Tuesday, the longtime N.F.L. executive Bill Polian and the television and movie producer Charlie Ebersol became the latest entrepreneurs to join the fray when they unveiled plans for the Alliance of American Football.

There have been several short-lived football leagues before, including the United Football League, United States Football League and XFL. Like others before them, Polian and Ebersol say they have a formula for success. They have acquired investments from Silicon Valley firms that will allow their eight-team league to start playing a week after the Super Bowl in February 2019. Their partners include CBS, which will show a few games on its main channel and some on its cable network. They will also launch a smartphone app on which fans will be able to stream games and play fantasy football.

The league will also aim for two-and-a-half hour games (N.F.L. games generally last at least three hours). To achieve that, there will be no kickoffs or extra points — only 2-point plays — and a 30-second play clock, as opposed to the N.F.L.'s 45-second clock. There will also be no television timeouts, which will lead to about 60 percent fewer commercials.

Also at Variety.

Previously: As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return?

NASA to Discuss Upcoming Launch of Next Planet Hunter

Join NASA at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 28, as astrophysics experts discuss the upcoming launch of NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Reporters can attend the event in person at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington or participate by phone.

The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

Scheduled to launch April 16, TESS is expected to find thousands of planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, orbiting the nearest and brightest stars in our cosmic neighborhood. Powerful telescopes like NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope can then further study these exoplanets to search for important characteristics, like their atmospheric composition and whether they could support life.

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

John Oliver’s Gay-Bunny Book Is Outselling the Mike Pence Book It’s Trolling

John Oliver’s Marlon Bundo Book Sells Out In A Day; Another Printing In Works

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

Worst Pence bashing since Trump:

“Trump thinks Pence is great,” Bannon told me. But, according to a longtime associate, Trump also likes to “let Pence know who’s boss.” A staff member from Trump’s campaign recalls him mocking Pence’s religiosity. He said that, when people met with Trump after stopping by Pence’s office, Trump would ask them, “Did Mike make you pray?” Two sources also recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality. During a meeting with a legal scholar, Trump belittled Pence’s determination to overturn Roe v. Wade. The legal scholar had said that, if the Supreme Court did so, many states would likely legalize abortion on their own. “You see?” Trump asked Pence. “You’ve wasted all this time and energy on it, and it’s not going to end abortion anyway.” When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”

That's all, folks.