The ASTROLABE: 3/27/25 | GHIBLI Memes; BIg PHARMA Defunded; NPR CEO; Maple Syrup Americans

Every M-F I do a livestream on Twitter and YT called The ASTROLABE, covering all the tweets, videos, articles, and memes that caught my eye. Many are saying it's the "best afternoon morning show on the internet."

SEE BELOW for the list of all the content for the 3/26 show.

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3/27 ASTROLABE LINKS:

• (39) Jack on X: "The future's looking green https://t.co/O9Bng16tzt" / X

• (23) Paul Suda on X: "TRUMP 47 Week 10 of 208 "EYE OF THE TIGER" https://t.co/Wgywq2ybpj" / X

• (28) Paul Suda on X: "@DaddyWarpig @IgorBrigadir not only do I GOT YOU, I chose a superior cover https://t.co/Q3twPg4l5B" / X

• (28) Aesthetica on X: "Generational President https://t.co/1i9kBB0zl9" / X

• (28) Fr Calvin Robinson on X: "https://t.co/ITUPcs7f0V" / X

• (28) Angantýr on X: "Morning btw https://t.co/JwYYvYqCgg" / X

• (28) Jordi Hays on X: "good morning https://t.co/WbAhm4DdRo" / X

• (28) The White House on X: "https://t.co/Bw5YUCI2xL" / X

• (29) bone on X: "Studio Ghibli presents SPIRITED OY VEY https://t.co/pgunTGn7OL" / X

• (29) PJ Ace on X: "What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼 https://t.co/IqUeBSH4H0" / X

• (29) Kunal Bagaria on X: "what if interstellar was a ghibli animation https://t.co/AJsjpZ1RGK" / X

• (29) pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X: "I love studio ghibli https://t.co/fFKXigtix5" / X

• (31) ☦️ Kingpilled 👑 on X: "“Hey ChatGPT I need you to ghiblify my entire FYP” https://t.co/54fav4kQ8A" / X

• (31) Trung Phan on X: "Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (“The Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary https://t.co/BwvipsyVCl" / X

• (33) Howard Mortman on X: ""Should the Defense Secretary.." Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Wait what country are you from?" "From the UK" "OK we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country. We have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders" https://t.co/l1lYrYdEbH" / X

• (33) Breaking911 on X: "POTUS: "No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you’re born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman. You're not going to be a woman." https://t.co/XF70L5jOak" / X

• (33) Dr. Ben Braddock on X: "Instant canon https://t.co/lAfDLUH028" / X

• (33) Rep. Lukas Schubert on X: "On Monday, I presented HJ22, a resolution to acknowledge that Christ is King to the judiciary committee, here is my testimony: https://t.co/2ReiiruD32" / X

• (20) Rapid Response 47 on X: "Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: "Allow me to offer the congratulations of the Greek-American community on your re-election to the presidency of our nation!... I also want to thank you for creating the White House Faith Office, which promises to be an extraordinary https://t.co/tFsgkF4OW9" / X

• (20) Rapid Response 47 on X: "Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presents President Trump with a Holy Cross: "Through your leadership, you embody the values of our Christian faith and love for the Gospel. You remind me of the great Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great." https://t.co/CbtYYHl2hL" / X

• (22) Nick Sortor on X: "🚨 #BREAKING: CDC under RFK Jr. just canceled $11 BILLION in COVID funding for state health departments GREAT news! “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, & HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years https://t.co/ltrO8GwKr8" / X

• (20) Texas 🇺🇸 on X: "BIG PHARMA TARGETED EASTERN KENTUCKY! A familiar story (all around the country) put to song! 🎶 “The Devil Wore a Lab Coat” She’s really good! 👏👏 Mary Kutter https://t.co/QmKhvphYDc" / X

• (33) The Vigilant Fox 🦊 on X: ".@RobertKennedyJr: "The Media Is an Extension of the Pharmaceutical Industry" "75% of advertising revenues now on the mainstream media are now coming from pharma — and that ratio is even higher for the evening news." "Anderson Cooper has a $12 million a year annual salary. https://t.co/KOkibk2dYM" / X

• (33) Liz Wheeler on X: "If reports are true—and I pray they are—that RFK Jr. is gonna ban Big Pharma ads on TV, a massive society earthquake is about to happen on two fronts. #1: The corporate media will fail. You will watch before your very eyes as highly paid MSM anchors are fired, networks panic &" / X

• (21) Holden Culotta on X: "“This is the biggest secret Big Pharma has been trying to keep from us.” Nicole Shanahan just exposed the truth about autism. “This is the biggest cover-up in my lifetime.” “I was knee-deep in the autism literature … I can remember a call I had with a neurologist—and I’m https://t.co/RadhMByLVn" / X

• (21) George on X: "RFK Jr. says Elon Musk & DOGE are now inside the Department of HHS, exposing & eliminating massive fraud. "We've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS. The expenditures, and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up by 38%, the employees went up https://t.co/y4dJayTN9M" / X

• (34) America on X: "President Trump signs an Executive Order enabling the U.S. Treasury to modernize its payments system, in order to reduce waste, fraud and abuse: – Gets rid of all of the 47 “independent” payment systems and centralizes. – Makes use of the Do Not Pay list of fraudulent entities https://t.co/H7CsFhKRy7" / X

• (21) Jack's complete lack of surprise on X: "@realKingpilled #showprep" / X

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• (35) Thomas Cyr (OFFICIAL 7HOMAS777)⚡️⚡️ on X: "@StandardUser420 You're talking literal SHIT, IOW - and you don't even understand your own position adequately (the data rebuts everything you've alleged, obviously). Beyond that - and more importantly - the issue is what Friedrich List, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Schumpeter SAID it was:" / X

• (35) Christopher Landau on X: "Over the past several decades, the American foreign policy community seems to have forgotten these five simple words. Not anything that happens anywhere in the world is our business, and effective diplomacy means clearly defining what our business is and is not. The absence of https://t.co/TRMslsiP8p" / X

• (25) Tanvi Ratna on X: "The American empire isn’t ending—it’s evolving. Beneath the chaos is a fast, unorthodox, and deliberately under-explained strategy to reshape the U.S. role in a multipolar world. Tariffs, geopolitics, alliances—none of it’s random. It’s a new kind of statecraft. Let’s unpack it." / X

• (39) Financelot on X: "🇨🇦🇺🇸 “We're going to make sure we inflict as much pain as possible on the American People." Ontario Premier Doug Ford https://t.co/OeLz7pSMnq" / X

• (37) LTC Steven Murray on X: "This is growing legs for one reason - The world is tired of the parasites in office who are owned by the EUSSR elites. This is the start of the break up of the common wealth, the EU and the UK" / X

• (21) Chris Brunet on X: "according to this chart, the entire nation of Canada just spent 5 whole years fighting over a carbon tax that crippled the nation's economy to offset just *37 hours* worth of China's carbon https://t.co/8bScaW2jgE" / X

• (37) Jarvis on X: "I listen to a lot of NPR and my favorite tic of theirs is what I like to call Two Good Facts/Two Bad Facts. Once you hear it you can’t unhear it. If it’s a Dem policy or politician, they get Two Good Facts. “Kamala Harris, who is (1) gaining in the polls, has a new proposal to" / X

• (37) @amuse on X: "STATE FUNDED MEDIA: NPR's CEO Katherine Maher explained, "Truth is a distraction from getting things done". She didn’t realize that 100% of NPR’s editorial staff were Democrats and has never seen any bias in the newsroom. https://t.co/gJldvEUZf5" / X

• (38) Collin Rugg on X: "NPR CEO Katherine Maher was completely caught off guard today after Rep. Brandon Gill started reading her past tweets to her one by one. Absolutely brutal. Gill: Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? Maher: I believe that I tweeted that. I believe much https://t.co/TfBt0h1qDF" / X

• (39) Buckley Carlson on X: "Our father's obituary. Insufficient to say he was unique. Only truly fearless man I've ever known. Richard W. Carlson. February 10, 1941 — March 24, 2025. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused https://t.co/wqjeFSvKyA" / X

• (25) 🕊️ on X: "God's first question in the bible wasn't about the forbidden fruit. it was "Adam, where are you?" as if the Creator of everything somehow lost track of his creation. why would an all-knowing God need to ask this? because He wasn't seeking information - He was inviting confession." / X