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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Monday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-10
(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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Call me a cynic, but I'm wondering if this is any way connected to those Canadian lumber tariffs. We won't need no stinkin' Canadian trees when we've got plenty of our own...?
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Please, tell me more. I hope Judge Ho concurs.
x NEW: NYT asks Judge Ho to unseal newly filed govt exhibits in Eric Adams case that purport to show "troubling conduct" of SDNY prosecutors: "It is hard to imagine a circumstance in which the public interest would be higher and the privacy interest lower." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) March 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Poor Lil Marco...
x NEW on CNN: Darren Beattie, the acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy —one of Trump’s most senior State Department appointees — deleted tweets spreading unfounded rumors that Rubio attended gay foam parties and calling him “low IQ.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...
[image or embed] — Andy Kaczynski (@kfile.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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From the article. Where Would Trump Be Without His Spineless Defenders? www.thebulwark.com/…
IN 2022, AFTER RUSSIAN TANKS ROLLED across an international border into Ukraine and missiles pierced the quiet of cities like Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky earned worldwide acclaim for his courage and heroism. Famously, in response to an American offer of a safe exit, he replied “I don’t need a ride. I need ammunition.” Former President George W. Bush expressed what many were thinking when he declared that Zelensky was the “Winston Churchill of our time.” But perhaps no one was more pro-Ukrainian than Sen. Lindsey Graham, who exulted in an arrest warrant the Russians had issued against him: I will wear the arrest warrant issued by Putin’s corrupt and immoral government as a Badge of Honor. To know that my commitment to Ukraine has drawn the ire of Putin’s regime brings me immense joy. I will continue to stand with and for Ukraine’s freedom until every Russian soldier is expelled from Ukrainian territory. Last Friday, after mad king Donald and his scheming viceroy, JD Vance, performed a tag-team ambush on Zelensky in the Oval Office, Graham sounded a different note. “A complete, utter disaster,” he told reporters, which is okay as far as it goes. But then it became clear that he had inverted victim and aggressor. He continued, “Somebody asked me if I was embarrassed about President Trump. I have never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of JD Vance for standing up for our country.” Disgusting. A politician whose identity was forged as a hawk and staunch defender of liberty and democracy now praises the most powerful man in the world for sandbagging the beleaguered leader of a bleeding ally, a victim of aggression? That’s standing up for America?
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This is scary AF. And ironic as hell.
From the article. Stephen Miller Makes a Case to Defund or Deport Elon Musk. www.emptywheel.net/…
Over the weekend, ICE arrested one of the people involved in Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests, Mahmoud Khalil. It appears that they first stopped him with the intent of arresting him on a claim his student visa had been canceled; but even after they confirmed he was a Green Card holder, they detained him anyway. On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment – at his New York City home, an apartment building owned by the school, says advocates. According to the advocates, at around 8:30 PM, Khalil and his wife – who is eight months pregnant – had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents pushed inside behind them. The agents allegedly did not identify themselves at first, instead asking for Khalil’s identity before detaining him. The agents proceeded to tell Khalil’s wife that if she did not leave her husband and go to their apartment, they would arrest her too. The agents claimed that the State Department had revoked Khalil’s student visa, with one agent presenting what he claimed was a warrant on his cell phone. But Khalil, according to advocates, has a green card. Khalil’s wife went to their apartment to get the green card. “He has a green card,” an agent apparently said on the phone, confused by the matter. But then after a moment, the agent claimed that the State Department had “revoked that too.” Meanwhile, Khalil had been on the phone with his attorney, Amy Greer who was trying to intervene, asking why he was being detained, if they had a warrant, and explaining that Khalil was a green card holder. The attorney had circled back to demanding to see a warrant when the agents apparently instead hung up the phone. Khalil was initially detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in downtown New York, pending an appearance before an immigration judge. Greer said they now do not know his precise whereabouts. They were initially told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. But when his wife tried to visit him, she was told he wasn’t there. They have received reports that he may be transferred as far away as Louisiana. This feels like another bone-headed move — like the firing of FEMA workers who were dutifully helping try to claw back funds already granted to NYC and the attempted investigation of an EPA worker who didn’t do what a Project Veritas video suggested — which the Administration will engage in further corruption to try to defend, making it and the authoritarianism far worse.
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in case you were wondering. Judges have ruled on this issue before.
x Former judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the president's sister: "The issue ... is whether an alien who is in this country legally can ... be forcibly removed ... in the unfettered discretion of the Secretary of State and without any meaningful opportunity to be heard. The answer is a ringing 'no.'"
[image or embed] — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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AND,
x To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”
[image or embed] — Bend the Arc Jewish Action: South Jersey (@btasj.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Late, breaking update:
x A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Moar good news. For us, anyway. Edward Kelley, not so much.
x NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's pardon does NOT apply to a Jan. 6 defedant's conviction for conspiring to kill his investigators. But he said DOJ's shifing views of Trump's pardon required him to do his own analysis. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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x JUST IN: A federal judge clarifies that his order barring enforcement of Trump EO on "DEI" funding applies to *all* federal agencies, not just those named in the lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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On a lighter note, "The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre."
Somehow, I don't think that's what Skum had in mind.
Irony, still not dead yet.
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Dems are getting the message. Rethugs, not so much.
x This is how you win back a district. New Jersey deserves a Rep who will listen to their constituents!
[image or embed] — George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This is how you engage with MAGAs, and win.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy International Bagpipe Day!
Happy National Napping Day!
Happy National Pack Your Lunch Day!
AND Happy National Blueberry Popover Day!
Tomorrow is National Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day.
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