[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a new study suggesting some hypervelocity stars were ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud.


• Crooked Timber's John Holbo wonders how else Trump can transgress the norms of the presidency.


• The Crux notes the exceptional hardiness of the tardigrade. These forms of life might well outlive the sun.


• Gizmodo notes the evidence for a recently frozen subsurface ocean on Pluto's Charon.


• Joe. My. God. notes the Israeli government's effective, if confused, opposition to same-sex adoption.


• Unicorn Booty looks at the significant impact RuPaul's Drag Race has on music sales.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Putin's political allies have been having trouble coming up with a positive future.