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Date: 2025-03-15

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FACISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS 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 === Good Evening, folks! This will help you appreciate just how much Nanny does for us, and in my case, may inspire some of you to step up into taking an evening of your own to host a Shade or herd critters. ===

From my neighboring state and home of meadowmist (and Ben Wikler) via PBS Wisconsin

Wisconsin Democrats hold 'People vs. Musk' town hall to issue call to action for the 2025 spring election

SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) — They came to vent and to cry and to exhort. The overflow crowd of frustrated Democrats who met this week in a small Wisconsin city’s library voiced anger over President Donald Trump, his billionaire adviser Elon Musk and the direction of the country. One person called for riots. Another said he was embarrassed to be an American. But their barbs weren’t limited to Republicans. Some Democrats who gathered under St. Patrick’s Day decorations in the Sauk City library’s meeting room questioned their own party’s messaging and expressed fear about losing a high-stakes 2025 state Supreme Court election. The April 1 election will be a litmus test early in Trump’s term in a key presidential swing state. Control of the court is on the line as it faces cases over abortion and reproductive rights, the strength of public sector unions, voting rules and congressional district boundaries. ✂️

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via Nebraska Examiner : Walz targets Bacon in Omaha stop of national town hall tour

OMAHA — Should the Omaha area replace Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon with a Democrat and help curb the worst impulses of the Trump administration? You betcha, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said during the second stop of his national tour criticizing House Republicans for avoiding in-person town halls. Walz, a Nebraska native, made Bacon a focus of his mid-morning Saturday speech at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus to more than 400 people. He said he was “not here to personally attack the representative” or call him names. But he said Bacon needs to face his voters and their questions. “Do the damn job and answer the questions,” Walz said. The former running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris slammed Bacon for following national GOP advice and skipping an in-person town hall this year. Bacon, who has hosted in-person and telephone town halls in the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District, is hosting a tele-town hall on March 25. ✂️

Because Nebraska gets me an extra state and Walz is my governor, that’s why.

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via Maine Morning Star . Superior Court ruling brings us one step closer to justice for Maine people

In a landmark ruling last Friday, the Kennebec County Superior Court decided in favor of the ACLU of Maine and our clients, ordering the state to uphold the people’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel and establish a plan to end our state’s ongoing crisis. The U.S. Constitution requires states to provide attorneys to people who have been charged with a crime and who cannot afford their own. In 2019, the Sixth Amendment Center reported that Maine was not meeting its constitutional obligations, and that the situation would only get worse without serious changes. As of early March of this year, nearly 500 people were facing charges but had no attorney. Of those, 111 were incarcerated, locked up at a time when they are legally innocent. We recognized that this was one of the most important constitutional issues facing Maine’s people because it undermines the fundamental principle that all people are innocent until proven guilty and creates a two-tiered system of justice: one for the rich and one for the poor. Starting in 2019, we worked for three years to convince the state to fix things. That advocacy didn’t lead to change, so we took the state to court. On March 1, 2022, we sued the state so people’s Sixth Amendment rights would not exist not only on paper, but also in practice. Three years later, on March 7, 2025, the court ordered the state to develop a plan to guarantee legal assistance for people accused of crimes, starting from when charges are formalized through the end of the case. If the state can’t develop and implement a plan, the court is going to order people released from jail and charges dismissed. This order is a serious remedy designed to address an egregious problem. It’s also not a new or radical idea. More than two decades ago, Massachusetts’ highest court imposed a similar remedy to address their Sixth Amendment crisis. More recently, an Oregon federal court ordered that people be released from incarceration after seven days without counsel. ✂️

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via Alaska Beacon . Anchorage judge rules state’s brown-bear killings are unconstitutional .

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s decision to kill almost 200 brown bears in order to boost a struggling caribou herd violated due process and was unconstitutional, an Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Andrew Guidi’s 10-page decision means at least a temporary end to the state’s controversial bear-killing program, which was intended to aid the struggling Mulchatna caribou herd. “Unless they want to seek a stay of this decision, they’ve got to stop killing bears,” said attorney Joe Geldhof, who represented the Alaska Wildlife Alliance in a lawsuit that prompted Friday’s decision. The Alliance sued the state in 2023 to challenge the application of Alaska’s “intensive management” project in Southwest Alaska. Originally designed to kill wolves in order to boost the populations of prey species that hunters pursue, the program was expanded in 2022 to cover bears that have been preying on the Mulchatna caribou herd. That herd, which contained 200,000 animals at its peak in 1997, has declined to about 13,000 animals and is closed to hunting. Anchorage attorney Michelle Bittner filed a separate lawsuit, also challenging the state’s bear-killing program. Both lawsuits argued that the state’s Board of Game failed to follow adequate due process standards before beginning the program. ✂️

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via North Dakota Monitor . Testimony wraps up in Greenpeace trial with jury expected to get case early next week .

A jury of nine early next week will decide the $300 million case accusing Greenpeace of concocting a scheme to undermine the Dakota Access Pipeline. The environmental group is on trial in Morton County District Court over claims that it incited illegal acts by protesters in North Dakota that cost the developer of the pipeline millions in alleged property damages, lost revenue and other unexpected costs. Energy Transfer also claims Greenpeace waged a misinformation campaign against the company in an effort to stop the project. Greenpeace was one of many activist groups involved in the demonstrations, which took place in 2016 and 2017 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, and drew thousands of attendees. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe started the protests in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, which it sees as an affront to tribal sovereignty and a pollution threat. Greenpeace denies all of Energy Transfer’s claims and has called the lawsuit an underhanded effort to hurt the environmental movement. The environmental group wrapped up its testimony on Thursday in the trial that began Feb. 24. Closing arguments are expected to take place Monday. After that, the jury will have to weigh several claims. ✂️

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This has gotten long. Almost all of what I got was referred through News from the States . Feel free to explore more.

I went looking for more about the Coeur d’Alene townhall incident, notably, had there been any resignations as a result, but I found nothing of note. Still, it’s nice to see this via Coeur d’Alene Press . I can disagree with her on many things, but I agree with her on this, and it’s a start.

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On Saturdays I tend to avoid national news stories because they are covered to death, but this is more local in that it was broken by a local news organization. It’s in Politico and it’s a good read.

A Congresswoman with Dementia Stopped Coming to Work. The DC Press Corps Never Noticed .

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x POLL: Most Americans believe undocumented folks who have been here 10+ years with a clean record (which is most of them) should be allowed to stay — and deportations should focus on criminals. open.substack.com/pub/changere...



[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM

x Haven’t even read the piece but this simple point is 100% right. And not simply as branding. America has a robust civic democratic tradition, rich w libertarian (and not in the modern weird sense) symbols and touchstones, anti-autocratic totems. It’s the touchstone of the country’s civic mythology.



[image or embed] — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM

I’m looking forward to this one. Click through the flutter to read the thread.

x Here's something important. It's just one part of the equation. But it's a key one. This debate is being carried on on the basis of the claim that a long shutdown opens up new legal authority for Musk to fire people. For a while now I've been in contact with a lawyer with deep knowledge of ... — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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Today is…

Well, it’s officially the Belle dog’s birthday. I doubt that anyone actually knows when she came into this world. She was feral for her first 10 months or so and I assigned her this birthday. Pro tip: Never go to Petfinder.com unless you have an actual plan to adopt an animal. Sorry, Belle. You’re stuck with me.

Et tu,Brute? It’s the Ides of March .

Myth #3:

Caesar nobly uttered “Et tu, Brute” (you too, Brutus) with his dying breath.

False: Caesar singling out Brutus as he lay dying was an invention of the Renaissance movement. The emperor was a trained soldier who fought for his life, tried to escape the ambush, and never uttered these words.

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It’s National Kansas Day. Getting1 is one of our Kansas residents. Others, feel free to pipe up.

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National Pears Hélène Day

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Have a great evening, the Shade is open.

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