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

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Date: 2025-01-26

(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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Ezra Klein points out that while money normally talks in government, attention is king in Trump’s administration.

Plenty of his billionaire backers didn’t make the cut at his inauguration. The catbird seats were occupied instead by the titans of attention. It was the leaders of Facebook and Instagram and X and TikTok and Amazon and Google that Trump was so eager to see arrayed before him. (NYT — paywall)

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First Mexico wouldn’t pay for the wall. Now this:

Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. Thursday night, the sources said. The third flight, slotted for Mexico, never took off. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's government has said it opposes Trump taking "unilateral" action to implement restrictive immigration standards — including the reinstatement of a "remain in Mexico" policy that forces migrants to stay in that country while they await adjudication of asylum claims. (NBC)

Colombia does the same, refusing to allow two deportation flights to land, and faces Trump’s wrath:

"So I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures," Trump stated. The measures included "emergency 25% tariffs," travel restrictions, and financial sanctions. (Raw Story)

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x Most immigrants Trump targets have been here 10+ years, paying taxes, raising families, contributing to our communities. Mass deportation would devastate our economy and tear apart the social fabric of America. https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/



[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Trump bypassed the law when he fired more than a dozen inspectors general without 30 days’ notice. They were, of course, the first to point this out.

x BREAKING — Inspectors General are NOT leaving, stating Trump’s attempted firings broke the law Also: Chuck Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa, said Trump broke law requiring 30 days notice to Congress and detailed reasons for firing IGs KEEP STANDING YOUR GROUND! — Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM

And Lindsay Graham admits it.

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His campaign of shock and awe is already meeting resistance.

x Trump’s abuse of executive orders, his plan to fire nearly all Inspectors General hits a roadblock, how Dems can use his pardons of Jan 6 criminals against him, and more. Don’t miss Legal AF at 8p ET/5p PT!



[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) January 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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Maybe a woman won the presidency after all. (If you just took a sip of coffee, for the safety of your keyboard, swallow it before continuing.) The Guardian asks this important question:

After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president?

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Vance says that the new administration has “done a lot” to lower grocery prices. Yeah? Name one thing.

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Speaking of the Tuskegee Airmen — one small episode in the long span of Black history — that’s an inspiring story of tremendous courage against enemies both foreign and domestic. Trump can say what he wants but we won’t forget.

x YouTube Video

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Sunday Science

Rain predicted for LA will help firefighters but raise the risk of debris flow.

When fires burn hot or long enough, they leave an invisible layer of waxy material just under the surface of the ground. This develops from decomposing leaves and other organic material, which contain naturally hydrophobic or water-repellent compounds. Fire can vaporize this litter, and the resulting gas seeps into the upper soil—where it quickly cools and condenses, forming the slippery layer. When rain falls on ground that has been affected by this phenomenon, it can’t sink beyond the hydrophobic layer—so the water flows away, often hauling debris with it. “All of the trees, branches, everything that’s been burned—unfortunately, if it rains, that stuff just floats,” Lund says. “It’s really concerning.” (Scientific American)

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Scientists are applying the technology of coral growth to make cement products that trap CO2 instead of creating it as current cement technology does.

The cement industry also has a major climate problem. It’s responsible for 8 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions — that’s roughly three times more emissions than all aircraft combined. San Jose–based startup Fortera is aiming to change that. While a small percentage of the cement industry’s carbon emissions comes from burning fossil fuels, most of its emissions are the byproduct of a chemical reaction that transforms limestone into cement. Fortera has developed a new cement production process that actually absorbs carbon dioxide, rather than emitting it. (Canary Media)

x YouTube Video

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It’s National Peanut Brittle Day! Even cats eat peanut brittle. (Don’t feed your cats peanut brittle. It’s not good for them. Eat it all yourself. It’s not good for you either but somebody’s gotta do it.)

x YouTube Video

It’s also National Green Juice Day! Doesn’t that look delicious and healthy too? Enjoy this instead and I’ll eat your peanut brittle because somebody’s gotta do it.

x YouTube Video

And it’s National Spouse’s Day! Share a cat video with your significant other.

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