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President Joe Biden---Day 1354---Fourth Year---Day 361---Evening Shade---Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-01-15
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Amen Officer Dunn!
x Remember that January 20th 2025 is Martin Luther King Jr Day.. A day of service. Let's not be consumed by any other events of the day and let's focus on service to those less fortunate. — Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) January 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Thank you Governor Newsom. I prefer my leaders to be the adults in the room.
x Today, I signed an executive order prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA wildfire victims with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property. Make no mistake — this is a prosecutable crime.
[image or embed] — Governor Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) January 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Well, DUH! Please proceed as shats.
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Don't worry, the rest of the article is as Qray-Qray as the headline. At RFK Jr.-Led Environmental Group, Insiders Questioned How He Spent $67 Million. www.motherjones.com/…
On July 10, 2020, Terry Tamminen wrote a letter to the board chair of Waterkeeper Alliance, the clean-water group founded and led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to say that he wanted out. Tamminen, a veteran, highly-regarded environmentalist and co-founder and longtime board member of the organization, had become concerned about the outfit’s finances—so worried that he was tendering his resignation. At issue was at least $67 million that Kennedy’s group had received and passed along over the previous six years—an eye-popping amount for a non-profit that prior to this influx of money had annual revenues of about $4 million, according to its tax filings. Tamminen noted in his letter that he had repeatedly asked Kennedy and other top WKA officials for an explanation regarding these funds—the source of the money and its ultimate use—and had received no satisfying response. He wrote that either there was “no proper documentation” covering this large flow of funds or such documentation was being “withheld” by Kennedy and the staff. Tamminen had come across a situation that had raised questions among staff at WKA and people within the group’s orbit about the organization and Kennedy’s handling of tens of millions of dollars. His letter was prompted by a legal complaint that claimed WKA had “funneled millions of dollars to the Bahamas” to assist Louis Bacon, a hedge-fund billionaire, in his purported effort to “destroy and damage” Peter Nygård, a Canadian fashion mogul, who owned an estate next to Bacon’s on the island nation. The complaint, filed in a lawsuit brought by Nygård against Bacon, alleged that WKA had engaged in “illegal and/or improper activities” to benefit Bacon, a major financial backer of WKA. It also claimed Kennedy had “carried out illegal and improper activities to further [Bacon’s] scheme to damage [Nygård’s] business and property at the direction of, under the supervision of, at the request of or on behalf of [Bacon].”
It just gets weirder from there.
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Rachel Maddow has a feature she calls a "Public Servant Announcement," where she does a deep dive on FIDJT Cabinet picks. Today is all about Pam Bondi. It's over 20 minutes, but it's an interesting listen.
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Aaron Rupar, watching the Bondi confirmation hearings, so we don't have to. Click the Sky to read his observations.
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And other observations of note.
x Is it good if the chief law enforcement officer in the U.S. won't acknowledge basic facts because they conflict with her partisan interests? Who's to say.
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[image or embed] — Philip Bump (@pbump.com) January 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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x I assume what she means is that it will be compiled at the White House and kept at the FBI. She will just follow orders.
[image or embed] — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Moses MiQe is an as shat, example eleventy billion and one. 'Can't make this up': Mike Johnson slammed for denying pregnant lawmaker a proxy vote. www.rawstory.com/…
This week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) denied a request by Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) to pass her bipartisan resolution to allow pregnant congresswomen to have other members cast their votes for them by proxy while they are indisposed by maternity care — something affecting her directly at the moment, as her due date is too close for her to fly to Washington, D.C. “I’ve filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court asserting that proxy vote is unconstitutional," Johnson told NBC News' Sahil Kapur. "That's been my belief as a constitutional law litigator, and I don't see any way around that. And it's unfortunate. I have great sympathy, empathy for all of our young women legislators who are of birthing age. It’s a real quandary. But I'm afraid it doesn't fit with the language of the Constitution, and that's the inescapable truth that we have.”
Bolding mine. Oh, and WT actual F??
Rep. Jim McGovern absolutely eviscerates MiQe in response:
✂️ He thinks it’s *so unconstitutional* that he did it — not once or twice — but nearly 40 times?" wrote McGovern. "First, some history. In the middle of COVID, I led efforts to allow Members of Congress who couldn’t physically attend due to the public health emergency to vote remotely so that their constituents would still be represented. It worked. Speaker Johnson is right that he joined a lawsuit claiming voting by proxy was unconstitutional, but that's not the whole story. "First, he LOST! The district court dismissed the lawsuit. The Appeals Court agreed. The Supreme Court wouldn’t hear it. His view lost. Full stop," wrote McGovern. "Second, he actually REMOVED HIS NAME from the lawsuit! You can't make this stuff up. He and almost every other House Republican disowned their own lawsuit when it was on appeal. They walked away from it!" And the reason, he wrote, is because Johnson and the other Republicans wanted to vote by proxy themselves. "He was okay using proxy voting to give himself an early start on August recess while still casting his vote against a commonsense bill to ban assault weapons from our street," wrote McGovern. "He was okay using proxy voting to catch an early flight home while still casting his vote against a bill to reduce violence in our streets. And no, he wasn’t ill — he spoke at a high school the next day. He was even okay using proxy voting to leave town early while still casting his vote against marriage equality. In fact, Speaker Johnson thought it was alright to use proxy voting for the entire last week of the 117th Congress, including to cast his vote against funding the government."
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Thank you Rep. Lieu and well said!
x More GOP lies and division in a time when we should be coming together. Thank you for setting the record straight, Rep. Lieu.
[image or embed] — George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) January 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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I want this on a t-shirt!
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Booch Day!
On January 15, National Booch Day (also known as National Kombucha Day) kicks off a delicious way to celebrate with kombucha fans.
Happy National Hat Day!
Happy National Strawberry Ice Cream Day!
AND Happy National Bagel Day!
Tomorrow is National Fig Newton Day.
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