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

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Date: 2025-02-18

(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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To add to your useful information folder. For you or for those you love.

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If you click on the Flutter, you'll get a sample letter to shoot off to your Congress critters. There's also contact info.

x 🧵 BAD DOGE: WHAT CAN I DO? Here's a letter I am sending to all of my elected representatives. Please copy as much as you like, and send it to yours, today! This link will help you find how to contact them. My letter follows in the thread below... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...



[image or embed] — JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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Thank you AOC! A woman with balls standing up to the bullies.

x This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.



[image or embed] — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM

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I would like to say this is good news, but I bet his successor will be worse.

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On to the legal front:

x As you scoff at how obvious this all is, remember that Spiro ALSO represents Elon, who is under a whole slew of investigations.



[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM

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In yet another case:

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This is a really good, long and informative read.

x For both procedural and substantive reasons, the first Trump case to reach #SCOTUS is *not* going to tell us much about where the justices will come down on the rest of them. I lay out all of the reasons why, and the broader background, in today’s “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...



[image or embed] — Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM

From the article. The Court's First Trump II Case Won't Be a Bellwether. www.stevevladeck.com/…

Yesterday afternoon, the first of the dozens of lawsuits challenging actions taken by President Trump and his administration over the past four weeks (yes, it’s only been four weeks) reached the Supreme Court. In Bessent v. Dellinger, the Acting Solicitor General, on behalf of the Department of Justice, is asking the Supreme Court to vacate a D.C. federal judge’s ruling that had temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel—an “independent” federal agency. The government is also asking the Court to issue an “immediate administrative stay” to pause that ruling and keep Dellinger out of office—a request that neither Chief Justice Roberts (who, as the “Circuit Justice” for the D.C. Circuit, received the request) nor the full Court has yet to act on. It’s easy to understand why folks will see the Dellinger case as a litmus test for the justices—and will assume that, however the Court rules on the government’s emergency application here will necessarily signal how much (or how little) the justices are going to push back against the rest of the new administration’s actions. My own view, though, is that this is almost certainly a mistake—in both directions. The Dellinger case raises unique procedural obstacles that could foreclose emergency relief to the government without signaling any view of the merits. But it also raises a constitutional argument in support of Trump’s conduct that is stronger in this context than it will be in almost any of the other pending cases. The Dellinger case is important in its own right. But no matter how the Court rules, we shouldn’t view the result as foreshadowing everything (or, frankly, almost anything) else that’s coming.

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This is truly, WTF Qray-Qray. Bear with me here.

x DOGE's website purports to show the savings attributable to DOGE through canceled contracts. The data is pulled from other publicly available data sources. I noticed a weird entry on the DOGE website: 2/6



[image or embed] — Nick Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM

x The fact that this lease was in Atlanta made me suspicious. You can pull GSA's lease data. DOGE gives us three pieces of information to help us find the leased property: (1) The location is Atlanta, Georgia. (2) The Square Footage is 7,682. (3) The rent is $128,233. 4/6 www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...



[image or embed] — Nick Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM

x Dig around a bit in the database and you quickly find that the lessor in question is, in fact, "The Carter Center." The lease is for President Carter's personal office within the Carter Center. 5/6



[image or embed] — Nick Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM

x DOGE is not responsible for the termination of this lease. The benefits to President Carter under the FPA terminated upon his death. This example is silly, but it calls into question how many of these cuts are attributable to DOGE and how many are attributable to rote government action. 6/6 — Nick Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Get that? DOGE is claiming to have "saved" taxpayer money because president Carter passed, and the contract to provide him an office at the Carter Center automatically terminated upon his death.

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Well of course. FIDJT doesn't want his Base to get a clue.…

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The kids are alright. After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold. www.kqed.org/…

You can’t keep good kids down. After having their fall play suddenly canceled due to subject matter, and faced with continued monitoring by the administration, the students in Santa Rosa High School’s ArtQuest theater program refused to back away. Instead, they fought back the best way they know how: by co-writing a pointed, smart and hilarious one-act musical called [REDACTED], which satirized the school district and the impulse to censor content deemed “unsuitable.” And you know what? Over the weekend, [REDACTED] won the gold medal at the Lenaea Festival, a statewide theater competition of over 70 high schools. Santa Rosa also won 12 other awards at the festival, including the Spirit of Lenaea award, one of the festival’s very top honors.

Read the whole thing and smile.

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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Travel Africa Day (long)

Happy Thumb Appreciation Day!

Happy Pluto Day! (This)

(Not this)

Happy Crab Stuffed Flounder Day! (Close enough)

Happy National Battery Day!

AND, Happy National Drink Wine Day!

Tomorrow is National Chocolate Mint Day.

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