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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-12
(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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Fecking Snowflake.
x Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“ — Natasha Bertrand (@natashabertrand.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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x This moment reminded me a lot of Sean Spicer infamously claiming "this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period"
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Here's more.
x There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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x Raskin: "Trump is suing CBS for $20b in damages because, check this out, he believes an interview with Kamala Harris produced too favorable an impression of her. That means I could sue Fox News because I think their interview with Trump produce too favorable an impression. I mean, this is lunacy."
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Ouch!
x Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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When you discover it's your face that's been eaten…
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And of course,
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This is just creepy AF.
x Future historians -- if there are any -- will be shaking their damn heads. Not least over the kid as human shield for President Musk.
[image or embed] — Regina Schrambling (@gastropoda.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Geography lesson interlude.
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This is really good and long, with lots of specific examples. I just included the overview, but encourage you to read the rest. This obscure law is one reason Trump's agenda keeps losing in court. www.nbcnews.com/…
WASHINGTON — Lawyers challenging President Donald Trump's aggressive use of executive power in the courts are turning to a familiar weapon in their armory: an obscure but routinely invoked federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act. While lawsuits challenging such provocative plans as ending birthright citizenship and dismantling federal agencies raise weighty constitutional issues, they also claim Trump failed to follow the correct procedures as required under the wonky 1946 statute. Trump fell afoul of the law in some high-profile cases that reached the Supreme Court during his first term, raising the possibility he could suffer the same fate this time around. Known in abbreviated form as the APA, the law allows judges to throw out federal agency actions that are "arbitrary and capricious" on various grounds, including failing to articulate why the agencies are changing policy. Much to the anger of Trump and his officials, judges have been issuing a series of orders putting administration plans on hold, including freezes on federal funding and drastic reductions in staffing. The rulings are at a preliminary stage and often do not include detailed legal reasoning. In fact, one of Trump's first losses in court in his second term — over an Office of Management and Budget memo ordering across-the-board funding freezes — was based in part on a claim brought under the APA. The administration quickly rescinded the memo, although litigation continues. "What we're seeing from the Trump administration is they are moving so fast, and they're trying to do so much with so little reasoning, and they're trying to disrupt as much as possible, as fast as possible, that these actions are inherently arbitrary and capricious" under the APA, a lawyer involved in one of the lawsuits said.
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Some good news. Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland launches New Mexico governor campaign. www.nbcnews.com/…
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is running for governor of New Mexico, looking to be the first Native American woman to be elected governor of a state. Haaland launched her campaign Tuesday morning in an online video after having hinted at an announcement for the last few days. In it, she leans heavily on her biography, opening the video by saying she learned after a childhood of moving around, having to raise her child as a single mother and working toward "35 years of sobriety" that "nothing comes easy" but that "here in New Mexico, struggle makes you fierce."
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Former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper (D) has accepted an eight-week teaching position at Harvard University but isn’t ruling out a 2026 Senate bid. Sharing the news of the gig Saturday on X, Cooper said, “In the next few months, I’ll be deciding what’s next and how I can best make a difference.” Cooper is considered a top potential Democratic challenger to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina). www.washingtonpost.com/...
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The kids are alright. 'Appears to be the first': Two teens are reportedly challenging Trump executive order. www.rawstory.com/…
A pair of teenagers from New Hampshire have filed what appears to be the first legal challenge to one of Donald Trump's executive orders. Two transgender public high school students asked a federal court Wednesday to add the president and members of his administration as defendants in a lawsuit they filed last summer over their eligibility for girls' sports after the state barred transgender athletes in grades 5 through 12 from participating, reported the New York Times. "Their court filing on Wednesday appears to be the first time that the constitutionality of Mr. Trump’s executive order, titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,' has been challenged in court," the newspaper reported.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Georgia (State) Day!
Happy National Freedom To Marry Day!
Happy International Floating Lantern Day!
Happy National Darwin Day! Though we celebrate Dawin on his birthday, and his incredible achievements in science, we cannot forget the award honoring his name…
Happy National Lost Penny Day!
Happy National Hug Day!
AND Happy National Plum Pudding Day!
Tomorrow is National Cheddar Day, National Crab Rangoon Day AND National Tortellini Day. The possibilities are endless!
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