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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---TGIF! [1]

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Date: 2025-04-25

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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Yeah, FIDJT'S team is nothing but trash.

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The story itself is behind a paywall, but you get the drift.

x “I’ll hook you up to a f—ing polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to two people familiar with the exchange. @wsj.com

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...



[image or embed] — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Oh and remember yesterday's Word of The Day (Incompetence)?

Somewhere, I saw a comment that they hoped Whiskey Pete (aka Pete Kegseth) wasn't using the nuclear codes for his password....

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This is a really good read. Why Did a Judge Only Block Part of Trump's Voter Suppression Order? www.muellershewrote.com/…

✂️ The judge reminds us that the court is not considering “whether the President’s executive order reflects good policy choices or even whether the policies it describes would be legal if implemented. Rather, this Court’s task is to decide whether the President can dictate those policies unilaterally, or whether that power is reserved to Congress and the States alone.” The Trump administration isn’t really arguing that he has the power to do this unilaterally (probably because he clearly doesn’t.) Instead, the administration is arguing that the consolidated cases have been brought “by the wrong plaintiffs at the wrong time.”

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Thank you Donati Law for having a spine - and showing it.

x 🔥 Wow — attorneys with Donati Law just withdrew from the Tennessee Bar Association after 40 years because of the TBA’s silence in the face of Trump’s “full-blown assault on the rule of law”



[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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Quelle Surprise. Not!

Meanwhile,

x George Santos must feel like shit rolling into his sentencing hearing tomorrow as the only former Republican elected official in America who can’t get a pardon from Trump for a criminal conviction. — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Let's see what FIDJT does.

x Woohoooo! Now let’s see if he gets a pardon. I’m not sure he can do anything for Trump, though, so 🤷‍♀️ If you want the quid, you gotta have the quo.



[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) April 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM

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Oh, and about those trade negotiations.

x Trump is so used to people covering for his lies, and no one calling him out on them, that it probably shocked him to have China flat out say this.



[image or embed] — Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM

x China has returned two Boeing jets, each valued at $55 million. With $69 million in tariffs applied, the cost per plane increased to $124 million. Orders for an additional 130 jets have been indefinitely suspended.



[image or embed] — Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Ya know, this thing's been bugging me for awhile now. If these tariffs are so damn successful, why do the rich need more tax cuts?

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From the Holy Crap Files:

x The Trump regime is now targeting Act Blue, the platform Dems use to raise money. “An authoritarian crackdown on the opposition” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...



[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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I haven't found a concise summary of what the hell is going on here, so I'm just including a bunch of Flutters that include snippets of info. This is bad people.

x Breaking: Federal agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee accused of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement



[image or embed] — The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) April 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM

x This criminal complaint seems pretty thin on the statutes charged. She allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom by a different door in her courtroom. The arresting agents literally saw him in the hallway right after going to elevator 1/ — Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM

x It seems like the federal government wanted to commandeer the judge into doing their law enforcement work, which they cannot do as a constitutional matter. Refusing to assist the federal government is not the same as actively impeding law enforcement. This is highly suspect behavior from the feds.



[image or embed] — Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM

x Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.



[image or embed] — Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM

x In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...



[image or embed] — Sam Wang (@samwang.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM

x House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin: "This is a drastic escalation and dangerous new front in Trump's authoritarian campaign of trying to bully, intimidate, and impeach judges who won't follow his dictates. We must do whatever we can to defend the independent judiciary in America."



[image or embed] — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM

x NEW: Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee in support of Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest earlier today by the FBI. (🎥 TMJ4 News)



[image or embed] — News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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But wait, I did find some good news. 19 states sue Trump administration over push to end diversity programs in public schools. apnews.com/…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Nineteen states that refused to comply with a Trump administration directive aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools went a step further Friday, filing a federal lawsuit challenging what they consider an illegal threat to cut federal funding. The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts by Democratic attorneys general seeks to block the Department of Education from withholding money based on its April 3 directive ordering states to certify their compliance with civil rights laws, including the rejection of what the federal government calls “illegal DEI practices.” States also were told to gather signatures from local school systems certifying their compliance by April 24. Instead, the plaintiffs informed the government that they stand by their prior certifications of compliance with the law but refuse to abandon policies that promote equal access to education. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are legal efforts that help students feel safe, supported and respected. The Trump administration’s threats to withhold critical education funding due to the use of these initiatives are not only unlawful, but harmful to our children, families, and schools,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.

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x JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the administration from enforcing President Trump‘s executive order aimed at gutting federal sector employee unions.



[image or embed] — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM

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In case you missed this earlier this week.

Trying to end the week on a light(er) note. Did it work?

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Okay, how about this?

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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Hug A Plumber Day! I don't think this is what they had in mind.

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