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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-04
(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 nucking futs!
x This tracks with same alleged issue affecting staff at National Weather Service in CA (Bay Area weather radar - KMUX) who can't repair the weather radar (no ETA) because of the credit card issue holding up purchase of equipment. As reported by Anthony Edwards of the SF Chronicle:
is.gd/wd8ShT
[image or embed] — Pam Spaulding (@pamspaulding.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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x Trump wasn’t impeached or punished for the first time he broke the law withholding aid from Ukraine. He’s learned that he can get away with anything
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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As shat.
x NEW: Kegseth is changing the name of Ft Moore back to Ft Benning (originally named after a confederate), but says it’s Benning the WWI guy. What a dick. www.defense.gov/News/News-St....
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Another appropriate nickname to add to the list. "Napo-Leon." How about Nappy-Leon, or is that better suited for FIDJT?
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x Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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x You don't often see a complaint with an epigraph, let alone an epigraph with an epithet. (This is AP's amended complaint over its exclusion from the WH press pool, filed late last night. It's excellent.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Jesus Fucking Christ. Hey you so called "Christians," just because it's a Goat instead of a Calf doesn't make it any less idolatry.
x Trump-Adorned, Golden Goat “Idol” Fetches $300,000 at Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser Funds were raised for a rescue charity caught buying dogs from a puppy mill
[image or embed] — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Hey "Moses" MiQe, you remember that story from the Bible, right?
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Thank you Ben Wikler for keeping your day job. Click the flutter to read his entire thread.
x Voters are FURIOUS about Elon Musk. What Musk is doing (which Trump and just about every Republican elected official is publicly supporting!)—to Social Security, the Veterans Administration, health care, and so much more—is absolutely toxic. That's why we're unveiling this: peoplevmusk.com
[image or embed] — Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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And thank you Gov. Walz!
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Here are some tools you can use.
x Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm.... — Erica Chenoweth (@chenoweth.bsky.social) March 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
x THIS: "Actions aren’t just meant to push those in power. They can also be designed to rally people and get them further engaged." Fascists have spend a decade building their own alt-civil society, which has FAR more to do with its effectiveness than elected politicians. Dems let theirs stagnate.
[image or embed] — emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 7:18 AM
From the article. The Boycott and the Skeptics. www.everythingishorrible.net/…
✂️ I share some of the doubts about whether a one-day boycott is likely to change the behavior of businesses, much less of Trump or Musk. But I don’t think the effort is harmful. On the contrary, I think there’s value in people trying different actions—not least because (contra the skeptics) rather than being a distraction, resistance (of whatever form) often builds more resistance. To be clear, if all direct action is ineffectual, that’s obviously bad. Just doing something for the sake of doing something doesn’t always lead to change, and the most effective actions—like demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement, for example—are often carefully planned and calibrated. Fighting fascism is important, and you want the fight to be effective. In that vein, the Tesla takedown demonstrations, congressional Town Hall protests, and coordinated call-in campaigns to Senators seem more promising ways to build power and put pressure on Republicans (and Democrats). Having said that…we’re in a very difficult and in some ways unprecedented situation right now. The US—government, media, businesses, colleges, nonprofit institutions—has never turned its back on multiracial democracy and embraced fascism this enthusiastically and relentlessly since at least the end of Reconstruction. One thing we’re missing in particular so far in the second Trump term is what might be called easy-mode resistance. In 2017, we had the Women’s March and a range of other family friendly, large-scale protests. Those protests, too, provoked a certain amount of sneering, and some grumbling about “performative activism.” The thing about activism, though, is that it’s meant in part to be a performance. That performance can do various things; it can, for instance, be a way to force those in authority to reveal their brutality. But it can also be a way to let people know that they’re not alone in their resistance. It can remind them that they have a voice, and that they have the power to speak, especially when they speak together. Actions aren’t just meant to push those in power. They can also be designed to rally people and get them further engaged. You draw people in, give them a sense that they can work together, and they may be ready to do more. After boycotting, they might be inspired to, for example, call their Senators, travel to a town hall, protest
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Fat Tuesday!
Happy National Hug A G.I. Day!
Happy National Paczki Day! This one's with Basil
Not to be confused with a jelly donut.
Happy National Marching Music Day!
AND Happy National Pound Cake Day!
Tomorrow is National Absinthe Day and National Cheese Doodle Day!
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