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President Joe Biden---Day 1347---Fourth Year---Day 355---Evening Shade---Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-01-08
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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Thank you again Progressive Muse for the Bluesky Embed tutorial. It makes things so much easier!
Question for the Shade - can everyone read the blueskies as is? I know there were issues with the xit-world where just the link showed. If everyone and their reader/computer of choice can read/display them, I don't have to duplicate. Let me know in the comments if you are just seeing a link and we'll work from there.
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oh, the irony!
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And here I am, sharing it via Bluesky.
x Trust that it pains me to use CNN to put out a WaPo story but here we are. WaPo lays off roughly 100 staffers as star journalists, and a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, exit.
Subscriptions continue to plummet. Good. www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/m...
[image or embed] — Lisa Reyna Loe (@lisaloe.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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This is the New York hush money case. Merchan subtweets John Roberts ahead of Trump's sentencing. www.publicnotice.co/…
✂️ “Indeed, one of Defendant's most frequent arguments is that this Court should defer to the will of the citizenry who recently re-elected him to the Office of the Executive, notwithstanding an actual guilty verdict in this case,” he wrote. “Thus, whatever stigma that might have existed, will most certainly not interfere with Defendant's ability to carry out his duties — both as President-elect and as the sitting President.” And Merchan took exceptional umbrage at Blanche and Bove’s inflammatory language, which mirrored the defendant’s conduct both in and out of court. “Counsel has resorted to language, indeed rhetoric, that has no place in legal pleadings” he scolded. “For example, countless times in their Motion to Dismiss, counsel accuses the prosecution and this Court of engaging in ‘unlawful’ and ‘unconstitutional’ conduct.” ✂️ In one sense, Justice Merchan was playing it straight when he quoted Chief Justice John Roberts’s end of year report decrying “intimidation” of the judiciary. “Disappointed litigants rage at judicial decisions on the Internet, urging readers to send a message to the judge. They falsely claim that the judge had it in for them because of the judge’s race, gender, or ethnicity — or the political party of the President who appointed the judge,” Roberts lectured, adding that “public officials, too, regrettably have engaged in recent attempts to intimidate judges — for example, suggesting political bias in the judge’s adverse rulings without a credible basis for such allegations.” But Roberts’s report is a shockingly craven document, likening legitimate criticism of the Court to intimidation. It ignores the reasons for widespread public distrust of the Supreme Court, most glaringly the immunity ruling that allowed Trump to escape accountability for his crimes. And it finger-wags at lawyers and public officials for not defending the judiciary’s sacred honor. Meanwhile, the chief justice blithely ignores the once and future president, who levels shocking abuse at judges, doxxes their family members, and ensures a torrent of death threats for judges, court staff, and prosecutors.
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This is the federal, stolen documents case.
x UPDATE: The 11th circuit rejects Trump codefendants request to respond by tomorrow morning, says they must answer DOJ by 5pm today.
[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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x “Trump’s demand that Smith’s report be suppressed is a useful reminder that he really hates truthful accounts of January 6th, even if—especially if—they are based on testimony under oath from many different individuals, including many who worked for him.“
[image or embed] — George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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x Will Levi is the guy who sent Bill Barr a laptop the day after DE USAO got a warrant for a certain laptop.
[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Here's a bit more from the story. This is wrong on so many levels. Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing. abcnews.go.com/…
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to recommend one of his former law clerks for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned. "William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position," Justice Alito confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. "I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon." The call occurred just hours before Trump's lawyers on Wednesday morning filed an emergency request with the justices asking them to block a New York judge from moving forward with sentencing Trump on Friday in his criminal hush money case.
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Not really.
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Oh yeah, remember him?
x NEW: Justice Dept asks court to reject George Santos's request to delay February sentencing in federal fraud case in NY DOJ: "The government, the numerous victims of Santos’s criminal schemes and the community writ large have a strong collective interest in the expeditious resolution of this
case" — Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
x Justice Dept argument to judge OPPOSING request for delay in sentencing of George Santos "A delay to allow Santos to develop his podcast—the title of which is a tone-deaf and unrepentant reference to the crimes he committed— is presumptively unreasonable"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Hahahahahahahaha! Trump nominee accused of committing voter fraud. www.rawstory.com/…
Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human services has been accused by a watchdog group of committing voter fraud. The left-leaning watchdog group Accountable.US filed a complaint Wednesday morning with the New York State Board of Elections alleging that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed felony election fraud when he cast a ballot in the 2024 election, reported Politico. ✂️ Kennedy has argued that he was renting a room from a childhood friend in Katonah, but that individual's spouse testified that he had spent only one night there, and New York courts ordered him removed from the state ballot — which triggered a series of appeals that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court declining in September to restore him to the ballot. “Not actually living in New York in the eyes of the law allegedly did not stop RFK Jr. from casting his election ballot there illegally,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of Accountable.US, in a statement.
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Plus, he apparently did not wow the head of the Senate committee that oversees HHS. Sen. Bill Cassidy offers tepid response after meeting with RFK Jr. www.politico.com/…
Bill Cassidy (R-La.) wrote in a tepid social media post following the meeting that he had a “frank” conversation with Kennedy and that the two spoke “at length” about vaccines.
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This is bonkers not unusual in GQP world...West Virginia legislature vacates lawmaker's seat after his arrest for terroristic threats. www.rawstory.com/…
In one of the most chaotic developments in a state legislature in months, the West Virginia House of Delegates has vacated a seat of a newly-elected Republican state legislator — and due to a bizarre series of events, Democrats may get to appoint his replacement, despite the seat being in a county that gave two-thirds of its vote to Trump. Delegate-elect Joseph De Soto, who ran unopposed last year after winning the GOP primary for House District 91, stumbled into an explosive and snowballing controversy even before he was elected. DragLine, a local nonprofit journalism outfit affiliated with the West Virginia ACLU, published a bombshell series of allegations, including that De Soto was not licensed to practice medicine despite claiming to be a doctor on his campaign site, and that while he served in the military, the timeline of his service doesn't line up with some of the roles he claimed to have served. Then, in December, multiple Republican state delegates questioned him behind closed doors about the truthfulness of his claimed military service and medical practice — which, according to West Virginia Watch, then allegedly led to an enraged De Soto making terroristic threats against GOP lawmakers Wayne Clark and Mike Hornby, and his subsequent arrest. ✂️ In one of the strangest twists in the saga, De Soto formally defected to the Democratic Party in December, after being elected as a Republican. Under West Virginia's procedures for filling a legislative vacancy, the Berkeley County Democratic Party may now get to nominate someone to serve out De Soto's term, even though Democrats didn't even run a candidate in this heavily Trump-supporting area last year.
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California wildfires live updates: At least 2 dead and over 1.5 million customers without power. www.nbcnews.com/…
Stay safe out there California Shaders and everyone else dealing with severe and/or unexpected weather!
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Bubble Bath Day! Same are bigger fans than others.
Happy National JoyGerm Day!
On January 8th, National JoyGerm Day annually reminds people across the country that by being positive and treating people with kindness, they can influence those around them and pass that positive attitude on to others. When we share good moods, we impact the lives of people around us, and those people become infected with that same positive joy and spread it to others.
Spread the Joy!
Happy National Career Coach Day! Some are moar helpful than others.
Happy National Argyle Day!
Or, if you prefer your plaid in kilts,
AND, Happy National English Toffee Day!
Tomorrow is National Apricot Day. Why it's in the middle of winter, I don't know. Then again, I like dried apricots.
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