# gst: when science meets poetry, an image of three-dimensional stepped cracks (bistability, and their transition to simple cracks)

<< Slow cracks may be simple, with no internal structure. The leading edge of a simple crack, the crack front, forms a single fracture plane in its wake. Slow cracks may also develop segmented crack fronts, each segment propagating along a separate fracture plane. These planes merge at locations that form steps along fracture surfaces. Steps are not stationary, but instead propagate within a crack front. Real-time measurements of crack front structure and energy flux reveal that step dynamics significantly increase energy dissipation and drastically alter crack dynamics. Simple and stepped cracks are each stable. By extending the use of energy balance to include 3D crack front structure, (AA) find that, while energy balance is obeyed, it is insufficient to select the energetically favorable crack growth mode. Transitions from stepped cracks to simple cracks occur only when their in-plane front lengths become equal and a perturbation momentarily changes step topology. Such 3D crack dynamics challenge our traditional understanding of fracture. >>

Meng Wang, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Jay Fineberg. Dynamics of three-dimensional stepped cracks, bistability, and their transition to simple cracks. Phys. Rev. Research 5, L012001. Jan 9, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L012001

Also

keyword 'crack' in FonT

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keyword 'rottura' | 'crepa' | 'frattura' | 'rugosa' in Notes

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keywords 'meets poetry' in FonT

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Keywords:  gst, transitions, dynamical phase transitions, crack, cracking,   fracture, roughness

# gst: monitoring of stable crack growth; crack tip behavior at the nanoscale (during ceramic fracture).

<< To understand fracture and make brittle materials more ductile, (AA) rely on modeling what happens at a crack tip. However, observing a crack tip in a brittle material is challenging: cracks propagate fast, and the events that (AA) are interested in observing occur at the nanoscale or below. Up to now, (They) were not able to observe what happens ahead of a moving crack tip. >>

<< In this work, (AA) show how by carefully performing fracture experiments inside a transmission electron microscope (They) can grow stable cracks while observing the nanoscale events happening at the crack tip. >>️

Oriol Gavalda-Diaz, Max Emmanuel, et al. Observing the crack tip behavior at the nanoscale during fracture of ceramics. PNAS. 121 (43) e2408292121. Oct 17, 2024.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408292121 

Also: fracture, crack, behav in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fracture, crack, behavior

# gst: critical crack length during fracture.

AA << established an inverse correlation between the strength of the material and the cracks which grow inside it—both the maximum crack and the one that sets in instability within the system, defined to be the critical crack. >>

AA << found that the maximum and the critical crack often differ from each other unless the disorder strength is extremely low. A phase diagram on the plane of disorder vs system size demarcates between the regions where the largest crack is the most vulnerable one and where they differ from each other but still show moderate correlation. >>️

Viswakannan R.K., Subhadeep Roy. Critical crack length during fracture. Phys. Rev. E 110, 024134. Aug 26, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024134

Also: crack, instability, fluctuations, noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, crack, instability, fluctuations, noise, criticality

# gst: phenomenology of cracks in thin colloidal films (undergoing desiccation)

<< A number of geometric and topological properties of samples of crack-template based conductive films are examined to assess the degree to which Voronoi diagrams can successfully model structure and conductivity in such networks. >>

AA << analysis suggests that although Poisson-Voronoi diagrams are only partially successful in modeling structural features of real-world crack patterns formed in films undergoing desiccation, such diagrams can nevertheless be useful in situations where topological characteristics are more important than geometric ones. A phenomenological model is proposed that is more accurate at capturing features of the real-world crack patterns. >>️

Yuri Yu. Tarasevich, Andrei V. Eserkepov, et al. Phenomenological model of crack patterns in thin colloidal films undergoing desiccation. arXiv: 2501.07303v1 [cond-mat.dis-nn]. Jan 13, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07303

Also: crack, particle, network, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, crack, particles, network, crack pattern networks, Voronoi tessellations 

# gst: dual role for heterogeneity in dynamic fracture.

<< ️(AA) approach the problem of heterogeneous dynamic fracture by considering spatiotemporal perturbations to planar crack fronts. Front propagation is governed by local energy balance between the elastic energy per unit area available to fracture 𝐺 and the dissipation in creating new surfaces. 𝐺 is known analytically as a perturbation series in the crack front fluctuation. >>

<< ️For dissipation that monotonically increases with the crack speed, (AA) derive an equation of motion for crack fronts that is second-order accurate. In the linear order, heterogeneity does not change the net speed of fracture. In the second order, nonlinear interactions of the front and the heterogeneous landscape populate an intermediate-scale fluctuation spectrum. >>

<< ️(AA) find that, when dissipation weakly grows with velocity, nonlinearities globally amplify dissipation and reduce the crack speed. Strong velocity dependence, however, mitigates toughening effects and may facilitate fracture. >>

Itamar Kolvin, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, Dual Role for Heterogeneity in Dynamic Fracture. Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 106201. Sep 3, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/j4vb-y1ng 

arXiv: 2407.02347v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]. Jul 2,  2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02347 

Also: fracture, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fracture, crack, front propagation

# gst: an atomic imaging of a (slow) crack

AA << successfully imaged the snapping of individual atomic bonds in a one-atom-thick sheet of rhenium disulfide ( ReS2) using scanning transmission electron microscopy. (STEM) >>

<< Because of its unusual chemistry, Re forms a 2D lattice with "lanes" that guide cracks, allowing the cracks to propagate with ease. The heavy element also efficiently deflects electrons, providing the signal needed to gain clear images. The study is a remarkable example of how a specific material can provide insight into the universal behavior of matter. >>

<< Because of its strong scattering, ReS2 provides an ideal target for STEM. (Interestingly, tungsten, the periodic-table neighbor of Re, has just one fewer proton and is routinely used in electron microscopy to stain viruses and bacterial flagella.)  >>

<< By measuring the deformation of the lattice around the crack, the team showed that the tearing stresses were concentrated around the crack tip. The stresses then decayed as the inverse square root of the distance from the tip, a finding that matches predictions for macroscopic materials. Using these measurements, the team defined a stress intensity threshold for cracks to propagate. >>

<< The images taken by Huang and colleagues used seconds-long exposure times, meaning they could only follow the propagation of the slowest crack (those that moved at a few angstroms per second). There is much interest in how faster cracks behave, as these cracks are subject to instabilities, meaning they can deviate from a straight line or form branches, for example. To observe faster cracks, future experiments could use reduced exposure times. >>

Itamar Kolvin. Atomic Imaging of Cracks. Physics 13, 193. Dec 9, 2020. 

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v13/193

Lingli Huang, Fangyuan Zheng, et al. In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Observations of Fracture at the Atomic Scale. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 246102. Dec 9, 2020.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.246102

Also

(+)  the intriguing dynamics of a crack. Nov 7, 2017. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2017/11/gst-intriguing-dynamics-of-crack.html

(+) multiple cracks, simultaneously ... Oct 23, 2016.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2016/10/s-gst-multiple-cracks-simultaneously.html

(+) onda criptica. May 22, 2005 (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/05/1641b-onda-criptica.html

(+) keyword "fracture" in FonT

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# gst: modeling around the edge of a crack

<< It is said that a weak link determines the strength of the entire chain. Likewise, defects or small cracks in a solid material may ultimately determine the strength of that material – how well it will withstand various forces >>

<< What, exactly, happens right around the edge of the crack, in the area in which those large stresses are concentrated? >>

The Breaking Point. What happens at the moving edge of crack? Aug 23, 2017

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/breaking-point

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170823094054.htm

AA << show that cracks undergo an oscillatory instability controlled by small-scale, near crack-tip, elastic nonlinearity. This instability occurs above an ultrahigh critical velocity and features an intrinsic wavelength proportional to the ratio of the fracture energy to the elastic modulus (..) This ratio emerges as a fundamental scaling length assumed to play no role in the classical theory of cracks, but shown here to strongly influence crack dynamics >>

Chih-Hung Chen, Eran Bouchbinder & Alain Karma. Instability in dynamic fracture and the failure of the classical theory of cracks. Nature Physics doi: 10.1038/nphys4237 Publ. Aug 21, 2017

https://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys4237.html

# gst: pulse-to-crack transition, unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress scenarios.

AA << study the effects of a spatially-varying prestress τb(x) on 2D slip pulses, initially generated under a uniform τb along a rate-and-state friction fault. (They) consider periodic and constant-gradient prestress τb(x) around the reference uniform τb. For a periodic τb(x), pulses either sustain and form quasi-limit cycles in the L−c plane or decay predominantly monotonically along the L(c) line, depending on the instability index of the initial pulse and the properties of the periodic τb(x).  >>️

<< For a constant-gradient τb(x), expanding/decaying pulses closely follow the L(c) line, with systematic shifts determined by the sign and magnitude of the gradient. (They) also find that a spatially-varying τb(x) can revert the expanding/decaying nature of the initial reference pulse.  >>

<< Finally, (AA) show that a constant-gradient τb(x), of sufficient magnitude and specific sign, can lead to the nucleation of a back-propagating rupture at the healing tail of the initial pulse, generating a bilateral crack-like rupture. This pulse-to-crack transition, along with the above-described effects, demonstrate that rich rupture dynamics merge from a simple, nonuniform prestress. >>️️

Anna Pomyalov, Eran Bouchbinder. Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress. arXiv: 2407.21539v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]. Jul 31, 2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21539

Also: transition, instability, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, transition, instability, crack 

# gst: cascade crack in chain of beads.

<< ️(AA) consider a homogeneous chain of spheres linked by liquid bridges under tension. The rupture of a single liquid bridge leads to a fragmentation cascade driven by the inverse relation between the capillary force and the sphere distances. The initial length of the liquid bridges determines the number and size of the fragments and the velocity of the fragmentation front. >>

Meysam Bagheri, Thorsten Pöschel. Cascade Crack in Chain of Beads. arXiv: 2508.01288v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Aug 2, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01288

Phys. Rev. E 112, 045414. Oct 17, 2025.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/hzs3-8ffk

Also: crack, fracture, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, crack, fracture, fragmentation cascade.

# gst: elastomers fail from the edge.

<< The performance of soft devices is limited by the fracture resistance of elastomers. (..) A key observation is that thicker elastomers can be significantly tougher than thinner ones. (AA) show that this surprising toughness enhancement in thick samples emerges from the 3D geometry of the fracture process. In contrast to the classical picture of a 2D crack, failure is driven by the growth of two separate “edge” cracks that nucleate early on at a sample’s sides. As loading is increased, these cracks propagate in towards the sample midplane. When they merge, samples reach their ultimate failure strength. In thicker samples, edge cracks need to propagate farther before meeting, resulting in increased sample toughness. (AA) demonstrate that edge-crack growth is controlled by the elastomer’s strain-stiffening properties. >>

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Nan Xue, Rong Long, Eric R. Dufresne, Robert W. Style. Elastomers Fail from the Edge. Phys. Rev. X 14, 011054. March 22, 2024. 

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.011054

Also: elastic, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, elastic, crack, elastomers, fracture

# gst: apropos of breaking mechanisms, crack of a floating particle raft caused by waves.

<< When particles of a few tens of microns are spread on the surface of water, they aggregate under the action of capillary forces and form a thin floating membrane, a particle raft. >>

<< For a sufficiently strong wave amplitude, the raft breaks up progressively by developing cracks and producing fragments whose sizes decrease on a timescale long compared to the period of the wave. (AA)  characterize the breaking mechanisms.  >>️️

<< The visual appearance of the fragments distributed in size and surrounded by open water bears a notable resemblance to the floes produced by the fracturing of sea ice by waves in the polar oceans. Fragmentation concepts and morphological tools built for sea ice floes can be applied to (AA) macroscopic analog, on which the entire dynamic evolution is accessible. However, the mechanics of the two systems differ, as (AA) particle raft breaks due to the viscous stresses, whereas the sea ice fractures due to its bending by the waves. >>️

Louis Saddier, Ambre Palotai, et al. Breaking of a floating particle raft by water waves. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 094302. Sep 27, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.094302 

Also: 'crack', 'particle', in  https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: 'break' in  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=break

Also: 'raft' in  https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=raft

Also: 'zattera' (quasi-stochastic poetry) in  https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=zattera  'randa' (quasi-stochastic poetry) in https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=randa

Keywords: gst, crack, break, particle, raft, particle raft

# gst: dynamics of fluid-driven fractures across material heterogeneities.

<< Fracture propagation is highly sensitive to the conditions at the crack tip. In heterogeneous materials, microscale obstacles can cause propagation instabilities. Macroscopic heterogeneities modify the stress field over scales larger than the tip region. >>

 Here AA << experimentally investigate the propagation of fluid-driven fractures through multilayered materials. (They) focus on analyzing fracture profiles formed upon injection of a low-viscosity fluid into a two-layer hydrogel block. >>

<< Experimental observations highlight the influence of the originating layer on fracture dynamics. Fractures that form in the softer layer are confined, with no penetration in the stiffer layer. Conversely, fractures initiated within the stiffer layer experience rapid fluid transfer into the softer layer when reaching the interface. >>

AA << report the propagation dynamics and show that it is controlled by the toughness contrast between neighboring layers, which drives fluid flow. (They) model the coupling between elastic deformation, material toughness, and volume conservation. After a short transient regime, scaling arguments capture the dependence of the fracture geometry on material properties, injection parameters, and time. These results show that stiffness contrast can modify fracture propagation over large length scales and demonstrate the importance of macroscopic scale heterogeneities on fracture dynamics. >>

Sri Savya Tanikella, Marie C. Sigallon, Emilie Dressaire. Dynamics of fluid-driven fractures across material heterogeneities. Phys. Rev. E 111, 025504. Feb 28, 2025.   https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025504     arXiv: 2407.10298v1 [physics.flu-dyn]. Jul 14, 2024.  https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10298

Also: fracture, crack, elastic, 

instability, disorder, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fracture, crack, elasticity, instability, disorder, transitions

# gst: the dynamics of a collective bubble (in a foam) that collapse in a droplet

<< Foams have unique properties that distinguish them from ordinary liquids and gases, and are ubiquitously observed in nature, both in biological systems and industrial products. (..) understanding how bubbles in a foam collapse is an important aspect for product longevity and tailoring physical properties. >>

<< Once a crack appears near the border and a collapse front is formed, (AA) find that the curvature of the front reverses as it migrates, followed by the emergence and emission of droplets. >>

<<  It is particularly interesting to note how the shape of the front changes as it migrates. >>

Naoya Yanagisawa, Marie Tani, Rei Kurita. Dynamics and mechanism of liquid film collapse in a foam. Soft Matter 17, 1738-45. doi: 10.1039/ D0SM02153A. Feb 17, 2021.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/SM/D0SM02153A#!divAbstract   

<< An initial crack in a film creates a RVPB (released vertical plateau border). A second crack event in the film causes a "collapse front" to be formed which sweeps up the RVPB before its shape begins to flatten and invert, finally leaving a droplet. >>

When foams collapse (and when they don't). Tokyo Metropolitan University. Mar 01, 2021. 

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-foams-collapse-dont.html   

Also

keyword 'drop' or 'droplet' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=drop

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=droplet

# gst: the intriguing dynamics of a crack

<< Cracks develop intricate patterns on the surfaces that they create >>

<< Although fracture mechanics predict that slow crack fronts should be straight and form mirror-like surfaces, facet-forming fronts propagate simultaneously within different planes separated by steps >>

Itamar Kolvin, Gil Cohen & Jay Fineberg. Topological defects govern crack front motion and facet formation on broken surfaces.  Nature Materials. doi: 10.1038/nmat5008 Oct 16, 2017

https://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat5008.html

Novel technique reveals the intricate beauty of a cracked glass. Oct 31, 2017

http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/35974

Intricate beauty of a cracked glass
Physics, math and special gels explain the formation of fracture patterns in brittle materials. Oct 31, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171031111457.htm

# gst: apropos interacting cracks

<< When two cracks propagate in a material like concrete or metal, they tend to follow paths that bring them closer to each other. However, some cracks exhibit repulsion for a short distance before reverting to the attractive mode of propagation. >>

Michael Schirber. Synopsis: Why Some Cracks Repel. June 20, 2018.

https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.255501

Marie-Emeline Schwaab, Thierry Biben, et al. Interacting Cracks Obey a Multiscale Attractive to Repulsive Transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 255501. June 20, 2018.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.255501  

Also: "crack"

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=crack

# gst: self-organized adaptive branching in frangible matter.

<< ️Soft and frangible materials that remodel under flow can give rise to branched patterns shaped by material properties, boundary conditions, and the time scales of forcing. (AA) present a general theoretical framework for emergent branching in these frangible (or threshold) materials that switch abruptly from resisting flow to permitting flow once local stresses exceed a threshold, relevant for examples as varied as dielectric breakdown of insulators and the erosion of soft materials. >>

<< ️Simulations in 2D and 3D show that branching is adaptive and tunable via boundary conditions and domain geometry, offering a foundation for self-organized engineering of functional transport architectures. >>

P.L.B. Fischer, J. Tauber, L. Mahadevan. Self-organized adaptive branching in frangible matter. arXiv: 2509.26101v1 [cond-mat.soft]. Sep 30, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26101

Also: fracture, crack, self-assembly, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, fracture, crack, self-assembly, transitions, self-organized adaptive branching, soft-- frangible materials, emergent branching, branched patterns, resisting-- permitting flow, erosions.

# gst: apropos of monopoles with internal degrees of freedom

AA << ️consider a class of spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theories with adjoint scalar and look for exact magnetic monopole solutions in the Bogomol'nyi--Prasad--Sommerfield (BPS) limit. (They) find that some of the resulting solutions exhibit a new internal degree of freedom (a moduli space parameter) that controls the energy density profile of the monopole while keeping the total energy (mass) constant. >>

Petr Beneš, Filip Blaschke. Magnetic monopoles with an internal degree of freedom. arXiv: 2507.13879v1 [hep-th]. Jul 18, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13879

Also: particle, fracture, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, particles, magnetic particles, monopoles, degrees of freedom, spontaneous break, fracture, crack

# gst: compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts

AA << simulate a two-dimensional array of droplets being compressed between two walls. The droplets are adhesive due to an attractive depletion force. As one wall moves toward the other, the droplet array is compressed and eventually induced to rearrange. The rearrangement occurs via a fracture, where depletion bonds are quickly broken between a subset of droplets. >>

<< For monodisperse, hexagonally ordered droplet arrays, this fracture is preceded by a maximum force exerted on the walls, which drops rapidly after the fracture occurs. >>

<< In small droplet arrays a fracture is a single well-defined event, but for larger droplet arrays, competing fractures can be observed. These are fractures nucleated nearly simultaneously in different locations. >>

AA << also study the compression of bidisperse droplet arrays. The addition of a second droplet size further disrupts fracture events, showing differences between ideal crystalline arrays, crystalline arrays with a small number of defects, and fully amorphous arrays. >>

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Pablo Eduardo Illing, Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, et al. Compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts. Phys. Rev. E 109, 014610. Jan 17, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.014610

Also: drop, defect, fracture, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Also:  raft   https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=raft  

zattera (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/04/1864-onda-di-liberazione.html  

randa (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=randa

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, raft, defect, fracture, crack

# gst: early warning skill, extrapolation and tipping for accelerating cascades; if the upstream system crosses a tipping point, this can shorten the timescale of valid extrapolation.

AA << investigate how nonlinear behaviour (both of forcing in time and of the system itself) can affect the skill of early warning signals to predict tipping in (directionally) coupled bistable systems when using measures based on critical slowing down due to the breakdown of extrapolation. (They) quantify the skill of early warnings with a time horizon using a receiver-operator methodology for ensembles where noise realisations and parameters are varied to explore the role of extrapolation and how it can break down. >>

AA << highlight cases where this can occur in an accelerating cascade of tipping elements, where very slow forcing of a slowly evolving ``upstream'' system forces a more rapidly evolving ``downstream'' system. If the upstream system crosses a tipping point, this can shorten the timescale of valid extrapolation. >>

<< In particular, ``downstream-within-upstream'' tipping will typically have warnings only on a timescale comparable to the duration of the upstream tipping process, rather than the timescale of the original forcing. >>

Peter Ashwin, Robbin Bastiaansen, et al. Early warning skill, extrapolation and tipping for accelerating cascades.arXiv: 2506.01981v1 [nlin.CD]. May 16, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01981

Also: crack, fracture, noise, track changes in noise, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, climate, early warning, tipping prediction, accelerating cascade, crossing a tipping point, multiple tipping points, fragmented tipping, criticality, noise, noise-induced tipping, crack, fracture

# life: and so the short run matters, by John.

<<  Good Wednesday morning, and happy Liberation Day. This is Jack Blanchard, off to panic-buy Yorkshire Tea and Scotch whisky before the tariffs kick in.  >>️

<<  Fears on the Hill: In particular, the numerous free-traders in the GOP’s ranks on the Hill are feeling pretty darn uncomfortable about what’s coming. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said he hopes the president’s plan is ultimately to use the threat of tariffs to force other nations to strip back their own. “In the long run, [it] will probably work,” he said. “The problem is that in the long run, we’re all dead. And so the short run matters.”  >>

Jack Blanchard. A message to Musk. Politico. Playbook. Apr 02, 2025. 

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/04/02/a-message-to-musk-00265583  

Also: Mr. Donald, Mr. Vlad, Mr. Chen, RAG-time, triptych, crack, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, Mr. Donald, Mr. Vlad, Mr. Chen, RAG-time, triptych, crack