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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Sunday April 27 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-27
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If it feels like everything is going wrong right now, take a minute to read this terrific Good News Roundup. There’s encouragement in every Good News but this diary is especially bright with light at the end of the tunnel.
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New York Times doesn’t offer many permissions to share articles so I save them for rare ones that just have to be read end to end. This real-life detective story about kidnapping, hacking, and crypto currency theft is a riveting read. Nobody in it is named “Big Balls” but it feels oddly like a glimpse into the culture of the DOGE script kiddies.
For [Detective Sgt.] Castrovinci, it was a strange and dramatic case. Danbury is a well-off, quiet place, and while the police there did get the odd kidnapping case, they were almost always related to child custody. A violent midday abduction was unheard-of. There was no apparent connection between the suspects and the Chetals, and, stranger still, law enforcement discovered that the suspects — men between the ages of 18 and 26 — had traveled to Connecticut all the way from Miami... “This is a case — you may only get one of these, one or two of these, in a career,” Castrovinci, who has been in law enforcement for 20 years, including five with the New York Police Department, told me. “Not in this area. We don’t deal with stuff like this.” A few days after the attempted kidnapping, Castrovinci says his team received a tip from the F.B.I. that cast the case in a strange new light: a possible connection to an enormous cryptocurrency heist, one that happened just a week before the attack. A group of young men, some of whom connected on a Minecraft server, were suspected of taking a quarter of a billion dollars from an unwitting victim, setting off an incredible chain of events that involved an online network of cybercriminals, some of them teenagers; a group of independent digital detectives who track their efforts; and several law-enforcement agencies. (NYT)
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Trump’s Vicious Sewing Circle, Maureen Dowd points out that the overly emotional behavior often attributed to women is being demonstrated by the manly men of Trump’s administration. In a New York Times opinion titled, Maureen Dowd points out that the overly emotional behavior often attributed to women is being demonstrated by the manly men of Trump’s administration.
All the talk about more traditional gender roles hearkens back to a time when women were seen as biologically unfit to hold higher office. For centuries, women were thought to be too high-strung and unstable to have a hand in running world affairs. What if women got into the highest echelons of government, determining life and death, war and peace, and began gossiping, catfighting, backbiting and clawing each other’s eyes out? And everyone knew, of course, that women were more deceptive. So it is grimly entertaining to see this most “masculine” of administrations reflecting stereotypes about female behavior that long kept women out of power.
She also quotes an apt statement from another article that looks at Trump’s regime through a gendered lens.
“He is replacing the meddlesome Nanny State with an aggressive, paternalistic Daddy State, based on the deference and devotion of his underlings,” Gerald Seib wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
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Trump’s first 100 days hits a new record!
Look who’s leading the anti-Trump charge.
x Pew poll has Trump at 27% approval among Hispanics CNN poll has Trump at 28% approval among Hispanics This is a complete collapse among what was the fastest growing group of GOP supporters. Trump is now where he was before the 2018 wipeout.
[image or embed] — Mike Madrid (@mikemadrid.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Eggs are down to 35 cents a dozen! Oh, wait...
“There is a meaningful slice of Trump voters who voted for Trump specifically because he promised to lower prices on groceries, etc…. Many of these voters express frustration that Trump isn’t doing more to lower costs.” Trump’s response to his failure on the single most important issue to the median voter in the November election has been a favorite standby: He has simply lied about it. “Groceries have come down,” he said in an Oval Office photo opportunity on Tuesday, and then focused on eggs in particular. “The cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office.” In fact, eggs got expensive under predecessor Joe Biden and then got even more expensive after Trump took office because of a bird flu epidemic. For Trump’s claim to be correct, eggs would have to be selling for about 35 cents a dozen now, which they clearly are not. (Huffpost)
How do MAGA folks go from grocery shopping to praising Trump’s perfection without their heads exploding?
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Where it started… (livestream here)
x Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) are executing a marathon live stream on east steps of Capitol Rep Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, says GOP House budget will gut health and nutritional assistance programs
[image or embed] — Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Where it’s going…
And a Sunday word from Rev Warnock:
x Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A great explanation of Trump’s 200 deals with ….who??
Yes, I’m still giggling about the penguins. You take your joy where you find it.
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Sunday Science
Some bad news: CO2 emissions jumped last year and NOAA was afraid to talk about it.
Climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024, surging by 3.7 parts per million, a recent NOAA data analysis has found. Instead of publishing a press release or a featured article online, the agency described the findings only in social media posts on Facebook and on X. And the posts failed to highlight the dataset’s most important finding: that last year’s CO₂ concentrations jumped by an unprecedented amount. According to a source with knowledge of the 2024 analysis, NOAA staff prepared a public web story this year as usual. But officials nixed the report at the last minute, instead releasing the findings only on social media. The source was granted anonymity because they feared reprisal from the Trump administration.
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I thought of Alf when I read about how mathematicians use Magic the Gathering cards as a computer.
Magic requires competitive players to select the optimal deck of cards based on how they think it will function against hypothetical opponents with many different strategies—then the game itself offers proof or disproof of the player’s predictive powers. Because about 30,000 different cards are available today—though they’re likely not all owned by a single individual—there are many degrees of variation. Software engineer Alex Churchill and two other Magic players created a game situation in which the cards act as a universal computer—as a Turing machine. They posted their work to the preprint server arXiv.org in 2019. Their computer model sealed the deal: Magic is the most complex type of game, they concluded. Theoretically, any kind of calculation that a computer can perform, a particular Magic game can do the same. (Scientific American)
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Leopards are not literally eating faces but lions really did chew on gladiators. That’s been surmised from Roman artwork. Now the first actual bite in human remains has been discovered, remarkably in one of the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire. What was a lion doing there?
As a fight to the death reached its end around 1,800 years ago, a victorious lion sank its teeth into a young man’s thigh bone. Feline bite marks, preserved on a skeleton interred in northeast England, provide the first physical evidence of a Roman-era battle between a gladiator and a nonhuman animal anywhere in Europe, say forensic anthropologist Timothy Thompson of Maynooth University in Ireland and colleagues. The man’s remains, which date to between the years 200 and 300, come from what may have been a gladiator cemetery in the Roman city of Eboracum, now called York, the researchers report April 23 in PLOS ONE.
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Lobotomized mice count calories: Scientists removed all of the brain except for the brain stem from lab mice. (The brain stem manages “basic functions like heart rate and breathing.”) Then they offered the mice food.
Just the sight of food spurs neurons to anticipate whether a lot of calories will be packed into that food. The neurons respond more strongly to a food like peanut butter — loaded with calories — than to a low-calorie one like mouse chow. The next control point occurs when the animal tastes the food: Neurons calculate the caloric density again from signals sent from the mouth to the brainstem. Finally, when the food makes its way to the gut, a new set of signals to the brain lets the neurons again ascertain the caloric content. And it is actually the calorie content that the gut assesses, as Zachary Knight, a neuroscientist at the University of California San Francisco, learned. NYT
Although they were mice of very little brain, they refused more food when they had enough calories of whichever sort of food was offered. Then researchers identified which brain stem neurons were controlling the decision, and were able to make full mice eat and hungry mice refuse food by stimulating the right neurons.
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Today is the birthday of Walter Lantz (1899-1994).
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It’s National Gummi Bear Day!
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It’s National Pet Parents Day. Some of the best cat parenting advice says to provide a challenging environment.
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It’s National Devil Dog Day, celebrating WWI Marines who bear that name, also the Brooklyn-made chocolate snack cake of that name, and one classic spooky movie.
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It’s National Prime Rib Day!
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It’s National Tell a Story Day!
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And National Babe Ruth Day
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