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

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Date: 2025-01-28

(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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What about rethugs and "small govmint?" Or letting the markets decide?

x ✅ DEI Action of the Day™ Join Costco

$65 a year Yesterday, 19 Republican attorneys sent a letter to Costco: "Within 30 days, please either notify us that Costco has repealed its DEI policies or explain why Costco has failed to do so." Join Costco here: www.costco.com/join-costco....



[image or embed] — Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM

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x NEW: Nonprofits have filed an emergency suit to stop Trump's blanket freeze of federal aid programs, setting up a key legal fight amid Trump's blitz of executive actions. Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, gets the case: www.politico.com/news/2025/01...



[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM

x Sen. Angus King blasts Trump's freeze of federal grants and loans, saying it's "blatantly unconstitutional." "This is a profound constitutional issue. What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM

x New York AG Letitia James says she'll take legal action against the Trump admin for freezing federal aid. "My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration's unconstitutional pause on federal funding." "We won't sit idly by while this administration harms our families." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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A-fecking-men Sen. Schatz!

x We passed a law. They don’t get to force people to petition the king for mercy. We are still a democracy and this will be found illegal.



[image or embed] — Brian Schatz (@schatz.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM

x I know we don’t have the votes, but this demands articles of impeachment. When we found out Trump violated the impoundment control act for withholding Ukraine aid, we IMMEDIATELY began impeachment discussions. This is like that but GOVERNMENT WIDE. This requires more than letters and lip service.



[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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x BREAKING: A federal district judge just temporarily blocked Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans — pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments on Monday morning. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) January 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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Elsewhere:

FBI insider raises concerns about Kash Patel's role in hostage rescue. www.cbsnews.com/…

Days before this week's high-stakes confirmation hearing of Kash Patel to be FBI director, a bureau insider has come forward with new information questioning Patel's judgment during sensitive hostage rescue missions, CBS News has learned. The whistleblower, whose identity is being withheld by Senate Democrats for fear of retaliation, worked with the FBI's Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, which leads the government's missions to rescue hostages overseas. The whistleblower alleges that Patel violated firmly entrenched protocols to keep such operations under wraps until the captives are safely in U.S. hands and their families have been notified. In a letter obtained by CBS News, Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote that Patel, while serving on the National Security Council during the first Trump term, "broke protocol regarding hostage rescues by publicly commenting without authorization on the then-in-progress retrieval of two Americans held captive by Iranian-backed militants in Yemen in October 2020." According to the letter, on Oct. 14 at 10:55 a.m., the Wall Street Journal published a story in which Patel confirmed that the two American captives and the remains of a third were exchanged for two hundred Houthi fighters who were being held in Saudi Arabia. According to the letter, the news report was published "several hours before the hostages were in the confirmed custody of the United States." In the end the Americans returned home safely, but FBI officials involved in the mission were livid over Patel's leak, which they regarded as reckless and potentially risking tragic results.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will lead the confirmation hearings.

119th United States Congress Main article:

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Holy Crap!

x Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."



[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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Hey wRONg! How's your face this morning, anything left?

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Trump’s offshore wind assault threatens factory jobs in GOP districts. www.canarymedia.com/…

Three days before President Trump took office, an undersea-cable company abandoned plans to build a plant that would employ up to 350 people in Somerset, Massachusetts. Media outlets were quick to spotlight the loss as a specter of what’s to come for the offshore wind industry that Trump put on ice with the stroke of a pen last week. It’s a reminder that Trump’s attempts to kill the offshore wind industry threaten not just the decarbonization plans of a few states, but job opportunities for a wide array of Americans. In fact, over 64% of the offshore wind manufacturing and supply-chain investments made or announced are in Republican congressional districts, according to data from industry group Oceantic Network. The 64% statistic describes mostly private investment into offshore wind but also includes some public investment, including money flowing in from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration’s cornerstone climate law and a favorite target of Trump. In total, $3.4 billion has either been invested in or pledged to Republican districts to build a domestic offshore wind supply chain. ✂️ But Trump last week signed an executive order that paused the approval of leases, permits, and loans for both offshore and onshore wind energy pending a federal review. The freeze will likely impact projects in earlier stages of development while the nine commercial-scale offshore wind projects that already have federal permits in hand appear safe. It could also ripple throughout the emerging U.S. offshore wind supply chain. Developers have signed nearly 2,000 supply-chain contracts with manufacturing firms in 40 states, including some that are hundreds of miles from a coastline, like Ohio and Wisconsin.

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Go for it Mayor Pete! Scoop: Pete Buttigieg taking "serious look" at Michigan Senate race in 2026. www.axios.com/…

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is "taking a serious look" at running for the Michigan senate seat left open by the surprise retirement of Sen. Gary Peters, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Buttigieg would bring his national fundraising network to what is expected to be one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.

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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Plan A Vacation Day!

National Plan for Vacation Day, on the last Tuesday in January, reminds us to plan our vacation at the start of the year for the rest of the year. The early bird gets to pack their bags and fly away to a little fun and relaxation!

Happy National Gift of the Ladybug Day!

National Gift of the Ladybug Day on January 28th honors all children with critical illnesses. The day is also an opportunity to raise awareness of childhood illnesses and support the children and the families facing medical differences. #GiftOfTheLadybugDay The book The Gift of the Ladybug by Carole Mac follows the story of a family of horses who discover their child is a ladybug and will not live very long. The ladybug reassures the horses by saying, "I am a ladybug! I don't know how to be a horse. I only know how to be a ladybug." Every day, hundreds of families receive a diagnosis that puts their child's life in danger. The ladybug serves as the perfect symbol of a child faced with a critical illness. Her life may be short, but she's perfect just the way she is. The beautiful ladybug captures our imaginations and gives us a reason to celebrate.

(The video is very long)

Happy National Kazoo Day!

AND, Happy National Blueberry Pancake Day!

Tomorrow is National Corn Chip Day.

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