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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-06
(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 the fighting spirit we need. Thank you Rep. Crockett!
x Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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And thank you Senator Murphy!
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Senator Schiff nails it.
x Schiff: Just today we learned that some list of officers at the CIA was sent to The White House in an unclassified e-mail. Now, I remember when Donald Trump was always talking about Hillary's e-mails. What about this e-mail?
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Forking rethug hypocrites.
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Amy Klobuchar, killing it with economy jokes.
x Klobuchar: What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale. *boo* Klobuchar: Ok. For any Republican Trump Administration person who wants to throw eggs at me because of that joke. You can’t because they’re too expensive.
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Fighting back works.
x 🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:
[image or embed] — Lauren Kaori Gurley (@laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Thank you AFL-CIO!
x New lawsuit: The AFL-CIO is asking a federal judge to block unelected billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing Department of Labor systems, which the union warns could give Musk sensitive information about investigations into his companies. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) February 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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What the Fork?
x In related news, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will determine for himself whether what he is doing is sexual assault.
[image or embed] — Domestic Enemy Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Once again, the Law of Unintended Consequences can never be repealed.
Sorry about your faces guys…
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Sweet Jeebus, this is so infuriating. Top Trump prosecutor in DC dropped federal case against Capitol rioter he represented. www.reuters.com/…
Donald Trump moved last month to free the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, his newly appointed top prosecutor in Washington put his name on a request that a judge drop charges against one of them he represented as a defense attorney. As Presidentmoved last month to free the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, his newly appointed top prosecutor in Washington put his name on a request that a judge drop charges against one of them he represented as a defense attorney. Justice Department regulations require lawyers to step aside from cases involving their former clients for at least a year. Lawyers generally are prohibited from taking both sides in the same case and U.S.regulations require lawyers to step aside from cases involving their former clients for at least a year. That did not stop Edward Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, from attaching his name to the federal government’s request to end its case against one of his own clients who took part in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Doing so likely violated a swath of ethics rules, legal experts said. "You can't do that. It's a fundamental conflict of interest," said Richard Painter, the former chief ethics official in Republican President George W. Bush's administration. "Attorneys don't switch sides in cases."
I need a brain cleanse.
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This is a really good reminder and sanity check. "You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism" www.404media.co/…
If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, it’s exactly what they want. ✂️ The reality is you are oxygenating the things these people are saying even as you purport to debunk them,” Katherine Cross, a sociologist and author of Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, told 404 Media. “Whether it’s [New York Times columnist] Ross Douthat providing a sane-washing gloss on Trump’s mania or people on social media vehemently disagreeing and dunking on it, they’re legitimizing it as part of the discourse.” Cross’ book contains a meticulous catalog of social media sins which many people who follow and care about current events are probably guilty of—myself very much included. She documents how tech platforms encourage us, through their design affordances, to post and seethe and doomscroll into the void, always reacting and never acting. But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action. This, says Cross, is the primary way tech platforms atomize and alienate us, creating “a solipsism that says you are the main protagonist in a sea of NPCs.”
It's okay to cope, but don't forget to act.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Lame Duck Day!
You get my drift and it's better than a clip of FIDJT.
Happy National Optimist Day!
Happy National Chopstick Day!
AND, Happy National Frozen Yorgurt Day!
Tomorrow is National Bubble Gum Day and National Wear Red Day. Don't say you weren't warned!
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