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Evening Shade--Resistance Rising-- Wednesday [1]
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Date: 2025-03-19
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Hello everyone! There has been much discussion about the Democrats not communicating effectively. Yes, Ds need to up their game, but when we’re fighting a clueless media machine that props up the Rs and tears down the Ds, it makes it much harder.
x The fact that the corporate legacy media is even having this event shows how little they understand the moment we are in and how little they intend to fight back. Support fearlessly independent media.
[image or embed] — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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The felon and f’elon have worked hard to tear down as much as possible in the shortest amount of time. The courts have been issuing orders to stop them. Many of the reversals are going unnoticed.
thehill.com/…
Trump administration moves to reinstate 24,000 federal workers after judge’s order...✂ U.S. District Judge James Bredar, an appointee of former President Obama, last week ordered the mass reinstatement of fired probationary workers at 18 federal agencies after determining the government’s claims its terminations stemmed from “performance” issues “isn’t true.” More than a dozen declarations filed by the government Monday night indicate the administration has moved to reinstate more than 24,000 federal probationary employees. The filings provide the clearest look yet at the sweeping terminations. ✂
www.reuters.com/…
US aviation agency reinstating fired employees after court order, union says.. ✂ The Federal Aviation Administration is reinstating 132 employees who were fired on February 14 after a federal judge in Maryland ordered their return, a union said on Monday. The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union said the probationary employees who were fired as part of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency federal government cuts will receive back pay and should return to duty status on March 20. ✂
x Big win for us as federal court rules that Musk & DOGE do NOT have the authority to dismantle USAID This is a landmark victory for the Constitution & every worker impacted the Trump-Musk chainsaw campaign
[image or embed] — Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Good news but still worrying since the entire agency has been dismantled. Hoping it can be rebuilt.
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The damage they are doing is going to take years to repair. And in some cases, the traitors’ egos are getting in the way.
paulkrugman.substack.com/…
We often think of Social Security as a retirement program, which it is; most Social Security beneficiaries achieve that status simply by reaching retirement age. But the program also helps Americans with disabilities that prevent them from working or limit their ability to work, and for millions of people these benefits are a crucial lifeline. Now the Social Security Administration, following orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE, appears set to subject disabled Americans to immense hardship. And everything we know indicates that this act of cruelty is mainly motivated by a combination of ego and spite. ✂ ✂ Washington Post reported that the Social Security Administration was considering ending phone service for Americans filing retirement or disability claims. The SSA quickly backed off that idea — sort of. The day after the Post report, however, the agency circulated an internal memo — acquired by the newsletter Popular Information — laying out a plan that would be almost equally destructive. Under this plan, beneficiaries would still be able to call the SSA. But they would have to verify their identity either over the internet or through in-person visits to field offices. Bear in mind that we’re talking about older and/or disabled Americans, many of whom are unable to access the internet and physically unable to visit SSA offices — which would in any case be overwhelmed by the increased traffic, given that the agency is already facing large staffing cuts. So this would be a move of almost cartoonish cruelty, and a nightmare for millions of Americans. ✂ ✂ So what the Musk is going on here? This plan would save some money, not by eliminating fraud, but by effectively cutting off aid to Americans who are legally entitled to that aid, and specifically those who need it most. But I don’t think the savings are the point. My guess, instead, is that it’s an ego thing, that Social Security has become to Musk what Canada has become to Donald Trump. Both men at one point said something stupid, something that would have turned them into laughingstocks if there weren’t so much fear in the air. But both men have been unable to let go, doubling down in what amounts to an attempt to redeem their initial foolishness. ✂
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That is a good segue way into more proof f’elon makes and does horrible things.
x There are many reasons for NOT driving a Tesla. An obvious one is that the company owner is nazi sociopath and destroyer of US government services Elon Musk. Another is that a Tesla is more likely to kill you. And others.
[image or embed] — Simon Rosenberg (@simonrosenberg.bsky.social) March 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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x To distract from his own legal troubles, Trump is pushing the ridiculous claim that Biden’s pardons are invalid because they were signed with an autopen! The irony—Trump himself appears to have used an e-signature Another baseless attack from an autocrat desperate to change the subject
[image or embed] — Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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This is REALLY scary. 😳
x The Republican voter suppression war machine grinds on. So must the fight for voting rights and free and fair elections. dailycaller.com/2025/03/17/r...
[image or embed] — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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We just keep fighting!
x NEW: Elon Musk’s PAC has dumped millions into an apparent attempt to buy a seat on the WI Supreme Court Has the PAC broken the law while doing it? I’m proud to be part of the bipartisan team holding Musk’s political activities accountable
[image or embed] — Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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x The economy is slowing, he keeps losing in court, Putin keeps humiliating him, Tesla is crashing and polls/consumer confidence are plummeting. Today, Trump looks like a loser, a failure, a cowardly appeaser of Putin, a weak man not a strong man. My latest 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/today-trum...
[image or embed] — Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Here’s hoping!!!
x he will suffer an embarrassing, humiliating defeat in the Supreme Court of the United States. There's not a court in the land that will uphold these sinister Executive Orders against the country’s law firms and lawyers. The Nation's 1.2M lawyers are the trustees of the Rule of Law in America. — judgeluttig.bsky.social (@judgeluttig.bsky.social) March 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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SO GOOD!!!
x Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?
[image or embed] — CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Good evening, all!
Today is National Let's Laugh Day
I believe it's critically important to keep a sense of humor even in trying times. ESPECIALLY in trying times!
It's also National Chocolate Caramel Day
We have a delightful locally owned and operated candy store in downtown Louisville. They have delicious caramels!
And here is a chocolate golden kitteh named Caramel! (I am in awe of Tall City Girl’s and Nanny’s ability to find appropriate videos! I can only apologize for my lack of talent here.)
And it’s National Certified Nurses Day
Tomorrow is the first day of Spring!!!
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