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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---TGI Friday! [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
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About those Florida Special Elections.
x This is Randy Fine, who is running against Democrat Josh Weil next week in FL’s special election to replace Mike Waltz.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
x Randy Fine, running in FL’s special election next week, threatened to defund the Special Olympics because they invited a school board member he didn’t like to an event. t.co/IpUownJHA9
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
x Trump could have endorsed virtually ANY Republican with a pulse to easily win this R+30 district next week. But he WENT OUT OF HIS WAY to endorse the most noxious, odious person in FL before he even announced his candidacy. Even Desantis hates Fine - that’s how bad he is.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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x Weil: There are two types of people here in District 6—those who don’t like Randy Fine and those who haven’t heard of him.
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Speaking of Flori-Duh… (no offense to the good people of the state)
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In Tennessee, the kids are alright. Grownups, not so much.
x Yesterday Emma Wilkins (10) knelt in front of the Ed committee asking Rep. Lamberth & Sen. Watson to “Stop Attacking My Friends” and not go after kids with their cruel bill aimed at blocking undocumented kids from our schools Republicans passed it anyway (H/T @tennesseannews )
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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It's a feature, not a bug.
x Uh guys? NBC just found out a DHS staffer accidentally added a journalist to an email thread about an ICE raid in Denver. Yeah, a completely separate incident. THAT staffer is being punished — so why aren’t Hegseth & Waltz??? — Tokyo Sand (@dhstokyo.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email. www.nbcnews.com/…
A federal worker accidentally includes a journalist on a detailed message in advance of a government operation. While that sounds like the case of The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief being added to a group Signal chat by Trump’s national security adviser Michael Waltz, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed military attack plans in Yemen, it’s not. It’s what happened to a longtime Department of Homeland Security employee who told colleagues she inadvertently sent unclassified details of an upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation to a journalist in late January, according to former ICE chief of staff Jason Houser, one former DHS official and one current DHS official. (The two officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they do not want to endanger their current or future career opportunities.) But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, who both remain in their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on administrative leave and told late last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance, the officials said. The Trump administration, meanwhile, has largely rallied around Waltz and Hegseth, with Trump on Wednesday calling it “all a witch hunt.”
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What the actual fork..?
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When your own AI bot is thinks you're an as shat.…
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Republicans Just Made It Easier for Banks to Screw People Over. newrepublic.com/…
Senate Republicans voted Thursday to overturn a $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, leaving working-class people vulnerable to exploitation from financial institutions. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adopted the cap late last year. It was scheduled to take effect later in 2025. ✂️ The resolution passed in the Senate on a nearly party-line vote of 52–48. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley was the only Republican to oppose the measure. “Why would we help the big banks at the expense of working people?” Hawley said, after the vote. “I just don’t understand it.”
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Oh and a moment of silence for the death of Stefanik's Hopes and Dreams.
x based on a number of people flagging the uncanny read created by the bolding here "crushed and scrambled" is my official latest Trumpism. Sub-genus of wraithing.
[image or embed] — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Ending the week on a positive note. Three Signals that I Very Much Like. A special election, a bad internal GOP poll and the yanking of a nomination tell us things are not going very well for Trump and the GOP. statuskuo.substack.com/…
I want to cover three developments that I believe are quite positive signs for the growing movement against Trump and the GOP. They reveal significant shifts in voter sentiment, both in actual votes and in polling. Before I jump in, however, I want to talk about why this matters. After taking office, Trump launched campaigns against migrants, his political opponents, universities, our neighbors to the north and south, our allies and our own federal government. To justify this massive shift in policy, he claimed a mandate that he did not have. After all, he won the popular vote only by a small amount, the crucial Northern swing states by a narrow margin, and failed to garner even a majority of the actual presidential votes. Many voters don’t understand that his claims of a mandate are false. But they would be laid bare if voters began to reject the GOP at the ballot box in an undeniable way. That brings us to today’s discussion about the three signals: One in a deep red rural Pennsylvania, another in Florida in National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s former congressional district, and a third involving an upstate New York Congressmember whose nomination to the administration just got yanked.
Read the rest, its really good.
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Moar late breaking news:
x What's incredible about this order is the way Judge Jackson details a blow-by-blow of the Trump admin's efforts to dismantle the agency entirely, using information gained through discovery. Take this bit, showing their rush to fire people before she could stop them.
[image or embed] — Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Respect Your Cat Day!
Happy National Weed Appreciation Day!
Happy National Something On A Stick Day! Even if it's a doggo with an oversized sense of accomplishment.
AND Happy National Black Forest Cake Day!
Tomorrow is National Pita Day and National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day.
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