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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-01-21
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
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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Rest In Power valiant warrior. Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, has died. www.cnn.com/…
Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said Monday in a statement. She was 67. “This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” it read.
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Sigh.
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Ruth Ben Ghiat with an important read. It’s Day One--Of a New Phase of the Fight to Save Our Democracy. Welcome to the Political Opposition. lucid.substack.com/…
✂️ Today, of course, this describes the collusion of President Trump and Elon Musk as well as the designs of Project 2025. In other words, the individuals and organizations that want to destroy our democracy and make us feel powerless and hopeless in the process have been at this game for a long time. But now far more of us are onto them. We are now familiar with their scams, their distraction and deflection rhetoric, their conversion of violence into patriotism, and their bargains with unscrupulous religious leaders who praise them as instruments of divine will. And we can translate that experience into anti-authoritarian action. So let’s consider Day One as the start of a new phase of our fight to save our democracy. As of 12:01pmET, all Americans who believe in democracy become the political opposition –a term used in many foreign countries to describe those working to unseat the forces of corruption and autocracy. And that position has power, as those who came together in 2023 in Poland proved when they voted to drive their corrupt far-right government out of office. Trump & Co. have encouraged Americans to internalize their propaganda, starting with “Day One” as the advent of an all-powerful government to be opposed at your peril. Let’s flip the script. So, it is Day One to take back our country from those who want to destroy it for the benefit of their autocratic allies abroad. Regardless of your political party, and whether you have voted or not in your lifetime, if you care about the future of democracy and rights in America you can be part of this effort.
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Remember:
x Before whatever is about to happen happens: There will be a lot of reporting and commentary about executive orders. Much of that reporting, at least initially, will regurgitate what the White House *says* the orders do as opposed to what they can *actually* do based on the text and controlling law. — Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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x One of the benefits of knowing the exact date autocracy arrives is that you can spend that time preparing lawsuits to file - like this one from CREW, Vote Vets and others. www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
From the article: DOGE sued to follow the law or cease operations. www.citizensforethics.org/…
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is operating in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Public Health Association, American Federation of Teachers, Minority Veterans of America, VoteVets Action Fund, Center for Auto Safety, Inc., and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), represented by Democracy Forward and CREW. The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the establishment of DOGE is unlawful, and for the court to force DOGE to comply with the transparency, ethics, records retention and equal representation required under FACA. Currently, DOGE is operating unchecked, without authorization or funding from Congress and is led by unelected billionaires who are not representative of ordinary Americans. DOGE representatives have reportedly already been speaking with agency officials throughout the federal government, and communication is allegedly taking place on Signal, a messaging app known for its auto-delete features. The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires that advisory committees follow a specific authorization process, include a balanced membership, have a clear charter including the scope of the committee’s activities, have meetings open to the public and disclose records to the public. DOGE is currently in violation of these requirements, and the lawsuit seeks to pull DOGE into the light, so the public has the ability to hold it accountable for the sweeping changes its unelected and unaccountable leaders plan to make.
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Andrew Napolitano is not my go-to legal analyst. Still I was surprised to learn this. 'What else could he nullify?' Newsmax legal analyst slams Trump order as unconstitutional. www.rawstory.com/…
✂️ "This is an extraordinary amount of activity in just 24 hours," said Napolitano, a retired judge and former Fox News analyst. "The number of executive orders that were signed, which basically direct others to do things, the pardons direct the [Department of Justice], let these people out of jail immediately, even directs the courts wipe out their convictions. You know, if you've been convicted and you serve time and you are assessed a penalty and you paid the penalty and you got a pardon, what happens to that penalty? You get the money back, so all of these things now will begin to take place as a result of the executive order. It's not just a piece of paper, it's directing people in the government to do things."
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These people are idiots. Thank Dog. 'All Americans legally female': Trump invites mockery with sloppy executive order. www.rawstory.com/…
President Donald Trump published two executive orders late Monday that targeted transgender people, but critics couldn't help but note that the clunky language declared all Americans legally female. One of Trump's order is titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." In the definition, the order claims, "'Female' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell." It then says, “'Male' means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell." What critics point out is the crucial phrase "at conception." According to the Associated Press, the second "order declares that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they’re to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order." ✂️ Author, game designer and transgender woman, Crystal Frasier wrote on Blue Sky, "In that familiar old incompetence I haven't missed, Trump's executive order defines sex as what a person is at CONCEPTION. Fetal sex doesn't begin to differentiate until about 7 weeks into gestation. Which means Donald used the highest office in the land to declare all Americans legally female." "Just realized that this EO outlaws men. At conception, all embryos are female. Which, to be honest, might not be such a bad thing," said legal analyst Jay Reding.
Bolding mine. And what will probably save us in the end.
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Barron should know.
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A-fecking-men Gen. Milley. And Thank you Joe Biden.
x Gen. Milley on his pardon: "My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today. After 43 years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation … I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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I'm off to the matinee of The Count of Monte Cristo and most likely won't be back when the Shade publishes. TCG has graciously offered to herd. So play nicely and welcome any new arrivals. Movie review will be forthcoming!
Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!
Happy Hyaluronic Acid Day!
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Happy National Hugging Day!
And Happy National Granola Bar Day!
Tomorrow is National Blond Brownie Day
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