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

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Date: 2025-03-17

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

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Go Mariners!

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I haven’t cultivated national news sources, so this might get weird. I have a long list of sources (all available upon request) and I’m starting on this Shade early. I am deeply appreciative of all of the news sources that I have and I hope that I’m giving them attribution that they deserve.

I’m sorry for the brief Shade. I didn’t find much that inspired me. I’ll try to do better.

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From The Fucking News (because they amuse the fuck out of me) Schumer's Not the Problem

Is TFN flip-flopping like some sort of Democratic Senate minority leader? Of course not! Arguing that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) isn’t the problem doesn’t mean he shouldn’t go. It’s a warning that replacing Schumer isn’t necessarily a cure-all. In fact, there’s no reason to think his replacement wouldn’t be worse. Still, the knives are out. Yesterday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said of Schumer helping the GOP pass its some-funding bill, “He is absolutely wrong.” Crockett twisted the knife, fucking up my knives-being-out metaphor: “The idea that Chuck Schumer is the only one that’s got a brain in the room and the only one that can think through all of the pros and cons is absolutely ridiculous.” She asked Senate Democrats to consider choosing a new leader.

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In Vanity Fair, Molly Jong-Fast

Trump’s Assault Demands a United Front

Donald Trump has been in office for only about two months, but his administration is on a supercharged march to exert complete control over both the media and academia. So much of this is right out of Project 2025, which involves concentrating executive power while castrating the judicial and legislative branches. I predicted last month that the latter two might be something of a bulwark, as they were last time, against Trump’s worst instincts. This time, however, that doesn’t seem to be the case: Congressional Republicans will seemingly rubber-stamp just about anything Trump wishes, while Democrats appear increasingly powerless against the GOP’s groupthink. Only the courts and the cratering financial markets have provided some checks on Trump—and he has unsurprisingly decided to ignore both.

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x Casey: There’s this whole mentality that MAGA has painted—like you’re either MAGA or you’re, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever. But there are a lot of people who are just like, “We’re just regular people—we don’t want a dictator, we don’t want to see people’s benefits ripped away..”



[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Here’s the best song you’re going to hear all day. For me, perhaps in a life time.

Today is…

I’m going to leave nothing for TCG to work with but Irish themes. Do a Duck Duck Go search for “National Today is” and scroll to the bottom.

Ramon Magsaysay memorial day

Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Day is celebrated on March 17. Ramon Magsaysay was the seventh President of the Philippines, serving from 1953 until he died in 1957. In the Philippines, the Magsaysay name is synonymous with charity, justice, integrity, and incorruptibility. Filipinos so greatly revere him that the nation introduced the Ramon Magsaysay Award after his death — considered the ‘Nobel Prize of Asia.’ Magsaysay’s track record as a politician, civil servant, and humanitarian is well known to all Filipinos. He is credited with bringing peace, law, and order during the Cold War era.

Shiekh Mujibur Rahman’s birthday

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birthday, observed on March 17 each year, is one of the most important holidays in Bangladesh. It celebrates Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who is regarded as the father of the nation of Bangladesh, also popularly known as “Bangabandhu” (Friend of Bengal). The Sheikh was born in the Tungipara village of Gopalganj as the third of six children. His father was Sheikh Lutfur Rahman and his mother was Sheikh Sayera Khatun. Despite controversy and debate among politicians, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman remains a popular figure in Bangladesh. He was voted the “Greatest Bengali of All Time” in a 2004 B.B.C. Bengali opinion poll. Rahman has been depicted on Taka (Bangladeshi currency), and many Bangladesh public institutions are named after him.

I could go on. Happy St. Patrick’s Day folks. The Shade is open.

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