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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Monday [1]
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Date: 2025-02-24
(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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Thank you whoever you are. This resistance is amazing!
x This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
[image or embed] — Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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x #Emails2DOGE 1. Wrote down tips from George Conway on resisting
2. Wrote my congressman
3. Joined Indivisible
4. Painted
5. Checked my Social Security account — Susan Wilkinson; artist (@swilk.bsky.social) February 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud. All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't like." www.publicnotice.co/…
A month into Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s much-hyped efforts to root out fraudulent and wasteful spending by government agencies, not a single instance of fraud or waste has been discovered. Instead, DOGE has dismantled federal agencies and halted or cancelled programs that Trump and Republicans simply disagree with, amid efforts to purge agencies of employees not loyal to Trump. Along with Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general whose responsibilities ironically include finding waste, fraud, and corruption in government agencies, DOGE may be making the government less efficient, in just one instance by firing employees like Department of Transportation economists who performed cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure projects. Elsewhere, DOGE has fired FAA lawyers who help to keep drunk pilots out of the sky, Rolling Stone reports. And national parks are now understaffed thanks to the chainsaw DOGE is taking to the government. With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is simply a way for Trump and Musk to arbitrarily cancel programs they don’t like in lieu of having to negotiate with Congress on spending priorities and government policies. This is likely a violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. But it’s more than that: DOGE is now the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities.
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Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated. www.govexec.com/...
An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump’s mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs. The Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible for investigating illegal actions taken against federal employees, issued its decision for six employees, each at different agencies. While the decision was technically limited in scope, it could have immediate impact on all terminated staff at those six agencies and could set a wide-ranging precedent across government. It has not been made public and was provided to Government Executive by a source within the government. OSC, which did not provide the document to Government Executive, verified its authenticity. OSC has turned the case over to the quasi-judicial Merit Systems Protection Board for enforcement of its findings and is so far requesting a 45-day stay on the firing decisions. The agency said it will use that time to further investigate the dismissals and determine the best way to mitigate the consequences from the apparent unlawful actions. MSPB has three business days to issue a decision on the stay request. If it does not act by that deadline, the stay will go into effect. Henry Kerner is thought to have recused himself from the case as he previously led OSC.
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x New pod: @leahgreenberg.bsky.social is highly illuminating on how the huge anti-Musk backlash hitting House Rs at town halls shows Dems have a big opening to mobilize the opposition along 2017 lines. We discuss the ferocity of the anger over Musk and what it means:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
[image or embed] — Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Here's a link to the transcript from the podcast. newrepublic.com/…
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GOOD!
x Check this out. Someone on subreddit r/fednews posed this prompt — if you’re a terminated fed, who’s thinking of running for state & local, especially congressional, office? — a day ago. There has already been more than 3,500 upvotes and 130+ comments as of right now.
[image or embed] — Victor Shi (@victorshi.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The story itself is behind a paywall, but Marci Wheeler hits the highlights.
x I'm going to post my second favorite ¶ from this story in a second, but first, this one--describing how Trump is more interested in helping the Saudis take over golf than funding the govt--is buried at ¶23. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
x My second favorite is this ¶ describing Susan Collins wringing her hands bc the Democrats won't do her work for her. Followed by the 3rd to last ¶, in which Collins complains that Democrats are asking Trump to follow the law.
[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Congressional GQP, hardly working working hard.
I've asked this before and I'll ask it again. What does this have to do with the price of tea eggs in China Tacoma?
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Damn. Kevin Kruse nails it.
x "Data doesn't lie"? It's amazing how much the same people who mocked pre-eminent scientists during COVID are now blindly following a ketamine-fueled hustler and the teenage DOGE dorks.
[image or embed] — Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Plus, WTF MiQe?
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Good news, where you can find it.
x Next up, the Supreme Court will NOT reconsider a 9th Circuit decision denying qualified immunity to a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man. Alito, joined by Thomas, dissents. A small but real win in the fight against police brutality. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
[image or embed] — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Wow, just think about this for a minute.
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What you can do. I hope this works for everyone. This is the Indivisible website, www.mobilize.us/... and when I click on it, it shows a list of protests, informational Zoom meetings and in-person meet-ups and town halls that are all nearby. Hopefully, when you click on it, it will bring up a list of activities nearer to you. Bookmark and check back often.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy International Bartender Day!
Happy National Twin Peaks Day!
Happy National Play Tennis Day!
Happy National Tortilla Chips Day!
AND Happy National Steakburger Day!
Tomorrow is National Clam Chowder Day and National Chocolate Covered Nut Day. Please, just not together.
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