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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-01-23
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
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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this is really good and about six minutes long. It's worth a watch when you have time
x Dan McClellan is a PHD accredited bible scholar. And he has taken issue with trump and his followers response to Bishop Budde. He is always very thorough in his explanations. And he is no less here. youtu.be/IB8P6R6ZLGo?...
[image or embed] — Azlend (@azlend.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's the YouTube direct link.
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Another very good read. Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed. www.emptywheel.net/…
It was amusing to me to hear Trump’s reaction to the service at the National Cathedral on January 21st. I’ve been a pastor for a long time, and heard many opinions offered about the quality (or lack thereof) of the services I’ve designed and led and the sermons I’ve given. To me, Trump’s reaction says a lot more about him than it does about Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. To start things off, here’s the printed program [pdf] prepared for those who attended the service. (You can watch the video of the service on the Cathedral’s YouTube channel here.) Notice the title on the front cover: “A Service of Prayer for the Nation.” Notice what isn’t on the front cover? Two words: Donald Trump. The message is clear, right from the start – this isn’t a celebration of Trump, like the inaugural balls or the rally at the Capital One arena. This is a service for the nation. Not for “the citizens of” the nation.
Not for “the taxpayers of” the nation.
Not for “the leaders of” the nation.
This was a service for the nation – the *whole* nation. Trump can attend, but it’s not about him or for him. It’s a service for the nation. It’s also a service of prayer, and as I browse through the program, I can’t help but see the *whole* nation raised up again and again and again.
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Hey Franklin, how's your face this morning?
x Incredible stuff. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham spent yesterday blasting Rev. Budde and claiming the cathedral had been “taken over by gay activists” — unaware that Trump had frozen a refugee program that Graham supports, and was one of the things Budde was referencing in her sermon.
[image or embed] — Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I'm sorry folks, here's some scary shit.
x We are in real time chaos now. My partner runs a research lab at Mayo Clinic funded primarily via the NIH, He’s #5 in the world in aging research & expertise & on multiple review boards ensuring funds go to crucial research. #NIH #NCI We are both in tears
@mayocliniccancer.bsky.social
[image or embed] — c2snow 🌊 ⛰️ ❄️ (@c2snow.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
From the attached article. Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring. www.science.org/…
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already having a big impact at the $47.4 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the new administration imposing a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings including grant review panels. Officials have also ordered a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel. The moves have generated extensive confusion and uncertainty at the nation’s largest research agency, which has become a target for Trump’s political allies. “The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says. Today, for example, officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils. Panels that were scheduled to review grant proposals also received eleventh-hour word that they wouldn’t be meeting.
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I need a brain cleanse.
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I feel better now.
x BREAKING: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's a NO on Pete Hegseth, Trump's Defense Secretary pick. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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x Reuters: US JUDGE CALLS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ORDER CURTAILING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP 'BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL' — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Mississippi Democrat trolls his foes with anti-masturbation bill. www.rawstory.com/…
✂️ NBC News reports that Mississippi State Sen. Bradford Blackmon has filed a bill called the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act" that makes it a crime to "discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo. This means that masturbation would essentially be outlawed, although the bill does make some exceptions for men who donate their sperm for use in helping women conceive children. ✂️ "All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation," Blackmon said in explaining his rationale for filing the bill. "This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me."
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Dog, FIDJT is an idiot.
x Trump is telling the Billionaires forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Biden let the American trade deficit with China get out of control.
Notice below when the biggest deficit in goods trade took place and under which president it came down.
[image or embed] — David Cay Johnston (@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The shitcoin presidency. www.publicnotice.co/…
Donald Trump declared on the campaign trail that he’d be a “crypto president” during his second term. He said he’d make America “the crypto capital of the planet” and a “bitcoin superpower.” His sudden and wholehearted embrace of cryptocurrency thrilled the industry, but just days before taking office, Trump surprised his crypto supporters with a cash grab that’s shameless even by his standards. Last Friday, Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he’d launched his own “memecoin” bearing the name $TRUMP. “My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE!” he wrote. “It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump community. GET YOUR $TRUMP Now. Go to gettrumemes.com — Have Fun!” ✂️ The Trump family used the presidency to enrich themselves in egregiously corrupt ways the first time around, but the memecoin stunt suggests that owning a hotel by the White House and forcing the Secret Service to spend at Trump properties will soon seem quaint.
I need another brain cleanse.
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x So Musk is using a “budget cutting” committee as a front to gain access to classified information to gain a competitive advantage over his competitors, while the CCP is also one of his most important business partners. Worth every penny of that PAC money.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Happy National Handwriting Day!
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Happy National Measure Your Feet Day! How will yours measure up?
Happy Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day! (Shhh, don't tell the neighbors)
But it's really a thing (sorry, I dislike the bot narrator, but it's the best explanation I can find)
AND Happy National Pie Day! Sweet or savory, take your pick and enjoy!
Tomorrow is National Peanut Butter Day!
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