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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Saturday [1]

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Date: 2025-01-25

(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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And just like that, the Midnight Massacre begins. Trump fires 17 independent inspectors general at federal agencies, source says. www.reuters.com/…

Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists. The inspectors general at agencies including the departments of state, defense and transportation were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, the source said on condition of anonymity.

x A couple of comments abt Trump's IG massacre. First, as WaPo notes, Trump hired many of these people. A good chunk of Trump's fight against The Deep State is actually an attempt to disavow his own past choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...



[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM

x It’s against the law to fire an inspector general without giving Congress 30 days’ notice. I hope the administration is sued. It’s the only recourse at this point. — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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x NEW: Inspectors general say Trump's removals may be illegal since they fail to comply with 2022 law requiring 30 days notice to Congress WH will likely argue this is unconstitutional, but it will be a fight w/ @meganmesserly.bsky.social @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/01...



[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM

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Yup.

x Now Thom Tillis just has to hope Hegseth doesn’t get drunk in a strip club with a married female co-worker who ends up accusing him of sex assault before the 2026 NC Senate election. — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM

I would not bet ghost's ten dollars. You can thank me later.

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Read, copy, print and share.

x Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...



[image or embed] — Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Fred Wellman nails it.

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Say wha-?

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x What a moron, his next executive order will repeal the law of gravity. The best part is all the Republicans have to pretend Trump is making sense.



[image or embed] — Dean Baker (@deanbaker13.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM

And the real reason for FIDJT's concern comes into focus. Trump’s water war with California could benefit his LA golf course. www.eenews.net/…

President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold wildfire relief aid to California unless the state distributes more water to the Los Angeles area. His golf course would benefit from that plan. The Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles is perched on the Pacific Ocean. It features sweeping water views, with 18 holes of bright green turf dotted by wind-swept natural brown landscaping. State water restrictions, fueled by historic drought and climate change, have hit Southern California golf courses significantly in recent years, driving up costs and causing clubs to rip out turf and let major parts of the course go brown. Golf courses in Southern California have had to cut their water usage almost in half since 2009, according to the Southern California Golf Association. Trump held a campaign event at his course in September and promised that California was “going to have more water than you ever saw.” Now, he is telling state officials to turn on the “faucet” of water from Northern California, claiming that doing so would have made the fires easier to prevent and to put out. State and local officials have said that is not true.

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In other words, Groundhog Day.

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Hey Crypto-Bros, think you'll be able to buy yourself a new face with your currency? It makes it all look corrupt': Trump-supporting exec turns on him over 'cash grab.' www.rawstory.com/…

Donald Trump's continuing attempts to ingratiate himself with supporters of cryptocurrencies has hit a large speed-bump after he and some of his family members dipped their toes into the industry with their own digital coins which, in turn, infuriated some supporters who never saw it coming. According to a report from the New York Times, crypto executives have long battled the perception that their industry is not on the up and up, and welcomed the newly elected president's plan to embrace the financial instrument. However, as the Times is reporting, Trump and his wife Melania's entry in the market caught some of the president's crypto millionaire and billionaire supporters "off guard." The Times is reporting, "Crypto executives criticized the move as a cash grab, saying that Mr. Trump had undercut the industry’s credibility at the very moment when proponents were seeking a more prominent place for digital currencies in mainstream finance and business," after it "created a brief and highly publicized bubble that partly deflated within a few days even as Mr. Trump’s family and its business partners collected millions of dollars from fees on purchases and sales of the coin."

=== Everyone, especially if you're in a state with Rethug senators. Forward them this and ask how the hell they could even consider voting in favor of this guy. x Hard no. Maybe he’ll say it was just a joke but you can’t put the FBI in the hands of someone who thinks this is funny.



[image or embed] — Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM ===

Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Florida Day! Yeah, the current governor sucks, but there are some cool places to visit in the state (long)

Happy National Opposite Day!

The aim of the day is to have fun all day long saying exactly the opposite of what you really mean. This day has kids rejoicing everywhere. It is also a great day for adults to play along and break out of the winter blues. Maybe we should have dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner!

Happy National Seed Swap Day!

AND, Happy National Irish Coffe Day! Whiskey sure likes her coffee!

Tomorrow is National Green Juice Day and National Peanut Brittle Day.

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