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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Sunday [1]
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Date: 2025-04-20
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
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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Raising the national debt by $7B: is that a lot? Elizabeth Warren explains. This very short video is worth a watch.
x Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to spend $7 trillion on tax handouts for billionaires and billionaire corporations. But who the heck knows what $7 trillion even is? I've got a list of things we could do with that money instead.
[image or embed] — Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) April 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Wait! Didn’t Republicans used to think that the national debt was a bad thing?
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The wealth goes to the people who need it least. But they have so much that it doesn’t raise their funds by nearly as much as it takes away from the people at the bottom of the heap.
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x Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) April 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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And you thought Trump wasn’t doing good things for Canada.
What a nice turn of phrase! Say it again slowly: “malignant narcissist thug.”
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Do you long for the days when you could buy computer applications and own them instead of paying again and again for “subscription service?” If you thought that was bad…
x 4/ This honestly is perhaps the most insane thing we’ve heard since Jan 20. Musk, Thiel and Luckey want the US to pay for the creation of this network of surveillance and attack lasers and then the Pentagon will become a subscriber to the service. So the US won’t own our own missile defense.
[image or embed] — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) April 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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In case you didn’t catch this, a hasty shout from ACLU to the Supreme Court, and a Supreme Court ruling at 1:00 am Friday night, kept another plane from leaving for El Salvador. Trump thought he could sneak migrants out before anyone noticed but it didn’t work.
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Of course the big news is the 50501 protest yesterday. The target for attendance was 3.5% of the population, 11 million people. The event is believed to have exceeded the 2% of the population that turned out on April 5, but what with the size and the holiday, I haven’t seen an estimate of attendance yet. But I found myself in this picture!
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Sunday Science
The Trump/Musk assault on American science continues. Alzheimers research is delayed. National Science Foundation funds are cut. On the eve of launch, NASA’s next space telescope effort is at risk. NIH clinical trials are halted and grants are frozen.
x NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor. — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) April 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Scientists studying varroa mite infestations in bees have discovered another mite damaging bee colonies.
Ramsey first saw a tropilaelaps mite in 2017, also in Thailand. He had traveled there to study another damaging parasite of honeybees, the aptly named Varroa destructor mites. But when he opened his first hive, he instead saw the stunning effect of tropilaelaps. Stunted bees were crawling across the hive frames, and the next-generation brood of cocooned pupae were staring out of their hexagonal cells in the hive with purple-pigmented eyes, exposed to the elements after their infested cell caps had been chewed away by nurse bees in a frenzy to defend the colony. At the hive entrances, bees were trembling on the ground or wandering in drunken circles. Their wings and legs were deformed, abdomens misshapen, and their bodies had a greasy sheen where hairs had worn off. Without bees the almond yield drops drastically. Other foods, such as apples, cherries, blueberries, and some pit fruits and vine fruits, are similarly dependent on bee pollination. We wouldn’t starve without them: corn, wheat and rice, for instance, are pollinated by wind. But fruits and nuts, as well as vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, celery, cucumbers and herbs, would become more scarce and more expensive. Because the cattle industry depends on alfalfa and clover for feed, beef and dairy products would also cost a lot more. (Scientific American)
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New weight loss drugs may spell the end to Weight Watchers.
“Until you’ve dealt with the problem, which is the appetite signal … that ‘eat less, exercise more’ approach was just doomed to fail. It’s just a reality that GLP-1 drugs are so much better for people who have been suffering for a long time.” “I think [Weight Watchers] had its day,” says Tim Spector, professor of genetics at King’s College London… “I think it’s a good thing. Most calorie counting is largely snake oil … it doesn’t work on the vast majority of people, because if you restrict calories, you increase appetite – and if you don’t focus on the quality of the food, you’re still eating foods that make you overeat.”
So if you’ve ever felt guilty for not being able to cut calories and lose weight, smile...with a chocolate bunny in your mouth.
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Rock samples from an asteroid reveal the basic chemicals of life. US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx returned mineral sample from the asteroid Bennu that
..completely blew us away,” said Prof Sara Russell, cosmic mineralogist at the Natural History Museum in London, and a lead author of a major study in Nature of the Bennu minerals. “The diversity of the molecules and minerals preserved are unlike any extraterrestrial samples studied before.” ...phosphates, ammonia and more than a dozen protein-building amino acids that are present in life forms on Earth – as well as the five nucleobase building blocks that make up RNA and DNA – were found in the samples brought back by OSIRIS-REx. “These strongly suggest that asteroids similar to Bennu crashed on to Earth, bringing crucial ingredients that led to the appearance of life here,” she added.
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It’s 420 Day, if you celebrate. No one is quite sure where “420” came from but it might be the hour at which a group of teenagers in San Rafael got together after school for a smoke. Oh, and it’s also Easter.
x Happy Easter! or 4/20 as I like to call it. — Nash Is Here for It (@nashishereforit.bsky.social) 2025-04-20T14:35:28.501Z
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It’s Volunteer Recognition Day!
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Cheddar Fries Day.
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day.
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Look-Alike Day.
x YouTube Video
I left out National Lime Bean Respect Day. Is that disrespectful?
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