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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-13
(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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I don't know how much politics I can get through before I have to go take a shower and hug something soft. Anybody remember The Handmaid's Tale? Don't know about the TV series, the book was scary enough.
x Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
[image or embed] — George Pearkes (@peark.es) February 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Well, Fuck.
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x It boggles the mind that economist were not expecting inflation to rise. The only econ class I ever took was watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 8th grade health class and I saw this coming.
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
x Who could have imagined that dismantling and defunding Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cause inflation to rise? — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Sanity check. Thank you Rep. Garcia for calling a dick spade a dick spade.
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Meanwhile, Hegseth is still an as shat, in over his head.
x This man is completely out of his depth. Embarrassing to put this on the world stage at such a crucial time. Maybe he should stick to renaming bases. bsky.app/profile/atru...
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Dog, these people are idiots.
x What's the difference between filing a civil lawsuit & filing a charge (criminal complaint)? Civil cases involve disputes between individuals or organizations, often seeking monetary compensation or specific actions, while criminal charges involve offenses against government. No charges filed here.👇
[image or embed] — NACDL (@nacdl.org) February 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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x Something else that must be stressed in covering this: Vince McMahon admitted, in so many words, to Dave Meltzer and Phil Mushnick in 1992 that he and Linda fired Mel Phillips in 1988 on suspicion of using his job to molest children, but rehired him weeks later. And never disputed their accounts.
[image or embed] — David Bixenspan (@davidbix.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
From the article. Linda McMahon is much worse than you think. www.publicnotice.co/…
Today, the Senate is holding a confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Education Secretary nominee, Linda McMahon. Though she served in Trump’s first cabinet as SBA Administrator, McMahon is best known for her private professional career, co-founding what’s now World Wrestling Entertainment with now-estranged husband Vince McMahon. She left her executive role in the company in 2009 to embark on a career in politics, dumping $100 million on a pair of failed Senate campaigns en route to becoming a bigwig in Republican donor circles. As we sit right now, it seems likely that Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of of Education will be central to Democrats’ questions during McMahon’s confirmation hearing. And given the state of things, that’s probably the right choice. There is, however, another reason that she shouldn’t be anywhere near the cabinet, least of all running the DoE. That would be her role in an ugly scandal that’s reared its head again in recent months thanks to a new lawsuit: The sexual abuse of tween boys who were paid to work as gophers for WWE (then Titan Sports doing business as the World Wrestling Federation) and the claims that the McMahons covered it up.
I encourage you to read the whole thing.
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Sigh. Any thoughts Minnesotans on potential successors?
x I wanted you to hear directly from me that I have decided not to run for reelection to the Senate in 2026. I have loved my job, and after 20 years of hard and rewarding work in the public sector, I'm ready to spend more time with my family. I want to take some time here to explain my decision (🧵)
[image or embed] — Senator Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) February 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I'm including the Flutter because of the the Venn Diagram, the article goes into much greater depth and detail.
From the article. "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks. christinapagel.substack.com/…
So much happening all the time In 2018 Steve Bannon famously said the way to beat the media was “to flood the zone with shit”, on the (correct) assumption that it was impossible both for media organisations to cover everything in the detail it deserved and for the public to keep up with what reporting there was. The Trump administration has been doing exactly this since the 20th January inauguration. As one article described the barrage of announcements: “The point isn't to persuade anyone of anything, it's simply to ensure that critics don't mobilize around a coherent narrative and that no one has control over the flow of information.” Well, I’ve been fishing in the ‘flood of shit’ and this post is my attempt to assemble the patchwork of policies into a coherent tapestry. In assembling it, I realised I’d already forgotten some of the early actions that were only (!) three weeks ago. Even while writing this substack, I had to keep adding new policy actions every few hours. So take a breath and let’s look at the whole.
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I'll leave you with this.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy World Radio Day! Music really does soothe the savage breast (although in this case, "beast" works just as well).
Happy Choose A Different Name Day!
Happy National Kiss Day!
Happy Nayinal Cheddar Day!
Happy National Internet Friends Day! Thank you Shade Seekers!
Happy National Crab Rangoon Day! I don't know, maybe the crab's name is Rangoon?
AND Happy National Tortellini Day!
Tomorrow, in addition to Valentine's Day, is also National Cream Filled Chocolate Day.
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