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

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Date: 2025-04-22

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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What the everloving Fork? They really do think The Handmaid's Tale is a user's manual.

x I’m old enough to remember when conservatives got mad because they thought women were having babies to get cash



[image or embed] — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM

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Meanwhile,

x I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.



[image or embed] — Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Whiskey Pete's no good, very bad week is not getting better. And it's only Tuesday.

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Next time a MAGA cries, "butter emails," tell them to Fuck Off.

x What excuse with AG Bondi have for not investigating this? 18 USC 793. Last time it was that the info was not classified (really?) and it was not intentional. Now what?



[image or embed] — Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann.substack.com) April 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM

From the article: Info Hegseth shared with wife and brother came from top general's secure messages. www.nbcnews.com/…

WASHINGTON — Minutes before U.S. fighter jets took off to begin strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last month, Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command, used a secure U.S. government system to send detailed information about the operation to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The material Kurilla sent included details about when U.S. fighters would take off and when they would hit their targets — details that could, if they fell into the wrong hands, put the pilots of those fighters in grave danger. But he was doing exactly what he was supposed to: providing Hegseth, his superior, with information he needed to know and using a system specifically designed to safely transmit sensitive and classified information. But then Hegseth used his personal phone to send some of the same information Kurilla had given him to at least two group text chats on the Signal messaging app, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges told NBC News. The sequence of events, which has not been previously reported, could raise new questions about Hegseth’s handling of the information, which he and the government have denied was classified. In all, according to the two sources, less than 10 minutes elapsed between Kurilla’s giving Hegseth the information and Hegseth’s sending it to the two group chats, one of which included other Cabinet-level officials and their designees — and, inadvertently, the editor of The Atlantic magazine. The other group included Hegseth’s wife, his brother, his attorney and some of his aides. Hegseth shared the information on Signal even though, NBC News has reported, an aide warned him in the days beforehand to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen strikes, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Musical Interlude here, just for Pete. And his Grandad....

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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂gasp😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

x If you watch it on mute, it's like he's auditioning to play Vincent Gardenia's role in the Ogunquit Playhouse production of Moonstruck! The Musical.



[image or embed] — Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) April 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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Ouch! (But likely True.)

x This is a very, very complex and exceedingly thorough process that involves extensive use of the president’s TiVo remote, so please, please, everyone, give it time www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...



[image or embed] — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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I guess RoJo decided he wasn't getting enough attention in Qray-Qray land?

x Just incredible that a sitting Senator can say something like this with every expectation that such comments will not be grounds for bipartisan calls for his immediate resignation or removal from office.



[image or embed] — Larry Glickman (@larryglickman.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM

(ICYMI, he's the fucking Chair of the Committee)

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Put another way,

x This is, I think, the single greatest problem with the media's coverage of the last nine years of US politics. Democrats are broadly assumed to be the adults in the room, and as a result, Democrats and Republicans are held to *wildly* different standards of behavior by the media.



[image or embed] — London BYU Fan (@jfloyd314.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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This is a really good and hopeful piece. Resistance is not futile. Harvard is demonstrating that bullies don't like to get hit back. www.publicnotice.co/…

✂️ In assaulting the private sector and civil society, Trump and his crew are following in the footsteps of other contemporary authoritarian leaders, such as Hungary’s Victor Orban and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who have focused on destroying (or at least coopting) civil society institutions in their countries. Trump moved fast in his assaults on key non-governmental realms, implementing what initially seemed to be remarkably successful efforts to render corporations, lawyers, and educational institutions into stooges, answerable only to the Leader and his cronies. But suddenly — signaled by resistance from the nation’s most elite universities — the weaknesses of the nascent Trump authoritarianism, and the potential for resilience within our nation in the face of his lawless assaults, are coming into focus.

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Thank you Bette Midler, for sharing this important observation.

About those tariffs. Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion. www.propublica.org/…

After President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs earlier this month, the White House released a list of more than a thousand products that would be exempted. One item that made the list is polyethylene terephthalate, more commonly known as PET resin, the thermoplastic used to make plastic bottles. Why it was spared is unclear, and even people in the industry are confused about the reason for the reprieve. But its inclusion is a win for Reyes Holdings, a Coca-Cola bottler that ranks among the largest privately held companies in the U.S. and is owned by a pair of brothers who have donated millions of dollars to Republican causes. Records show the company recently hired a lobbying firm with close ties to the Trump White House to make its case on tariffs.

Gomer Pyle is not surprised.

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This is one of those, "watch this space" stories.

x The math here is simple. Republicans have passed a budget framework where very large cuts to Medicaid will have to occur. Now, they are preemptively shifting the blame for those cuts to Governors, who cannot engage in deficit spending.

All of this is for a regressive tax cut.



[image or embed] — Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM

But,

x Good illustration of the conundrum House R's are in. All it takes is 4 caucus members to say no, and any plan is dead.



[image or embed] — Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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Way to go Mississippi!

x So armies that killed the troops of the United States need to be celebrated? Which month is Nazi Germany Heritage Month, Governor Reeves?



[image or embed] — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Finally,

x MAGA Christians didn't like Pope Francis because he kept in conveniently reminding them of some dude called Jesus. And a thing I learned when I wrote for the Landover Baptist spoof site is that many right-wing Christians don't regard Catholics as even Christian. They call them "Mary Worshippers." — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM

x Pope Francis knew the enemies within: “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...



[image or embed] — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM

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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Earth Day!

Happy Oklahoma Day!

Happy National Jellybean Day! Meet Jelly and Bean (Long but so adorbs!)

Happy School Bus Driver Appreciation Day!

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