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Evening Shade--- Resistance Rising--- Wednesday April 30 [1]

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Date: 2025-04-30

Ok class, this course syllabus contains many reading assignments and several videos to review. This work counts as 3 credit hours toward your Evening Shade master’s degree. Good luck, everyone! 😁

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Let’s start with some “100 days” coverage

HCR April 29, 2025

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction. As soon as he took office on March 4, 1933, he called Congress into special session to meet on March 9 to address the emergency of the Great Depression. Congress responded to the crisis by quickly passing 15 major bills and 77 other measures first to stabilize the economy and then to rebuild it. On July 24, 1933, FDR looked back at “the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.” ✂ Today is the 100th day of President Donald Trump’s second term in office. He marked it by delivering what amounted to a rally outside Detroit, Michigan, in which he claimed his had been “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country, and that’s according to many, many people…. This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history, and everyone is saying it. We’ve just gotten started. You haven’t even seen anything yet.” ✂ But Trump’s administration does parallel FDR’s in an odd way. Trump set out in his first hundred days to undo the government FDR established in his first hundred days. Trump has turned the nation away from 92 years of a government that sought to serve ordinary Americans by regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, promoting infrastructure, protecting civil rights, and stabilizing global security and trade. Instead, he is trying to recreate the nation of more than 100 years ago, in which the role of government was to protect the wealthy and enable them to make money from the country’s resources and its people. ✂ Trump’s dismantling of the modern American state has been a disaster. Trump spoke tonight in Michigan to tout his hope that his new tariffs will center auto manufacturing back in the U.S., but the economic chaos his tariff policies have unleashed has turned what was a booming economy 100 days ago sharply downward. That economic slump, along with Trump’s illegal renditions of men to El Salvador and the gutting of services Americans depend on, has given Trump the lowest job approval rating after 100 days of any president in 80 years. And that suggests another way to look at the first 100 days of a presidential term. For all that the 100-days trope focuses on presidents, the first 100 days of Trump’s second term have shown Americans, sometimes encouraged by their allies abroad, pushing back against Trump to restore American democracy. ✂

The whole article is great. I encourage you all to click the link when/if you have time.

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We Have Numbers — Looking at major polls all in one place reveals an astounding portrait of failure

(I would love to cite the entire article here, but I think that’s against the rules. I highly encourage all of you to read this when you can.)

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x "At the 100 days mark, in cases where courts have issued a ruling, plaintiffs have succeeded over 71% of the time in blocking the government’s actions." My latest Newsletter



[image or embed] — Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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x #GVerse via @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

"100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better."



[image or embed] — 𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 (@gmf1369.bsky.social) April 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM

I love Pete, but I have to say, the fire of J.B. Pritzker and of Tim Walz really appeals to me. I’m wondering who will be our standard bearer in 3 years?

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One Hundred Days of Republican Complicity

✂ Today marks one hundred days of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency and the Republican Party’s return to power. Republicans — not just Donald Trump — now control all the elected branches of the federal government. Republicans in Congress control legislation. Republicans in the Senate control confirmations. While it is understandable to focus attention on Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism. Ignoring their complicity in Trump’s actions is a mistake — both legally and strategically. It is often said that we have three co-equal branches of government, each checking the others. But the reality is that our system is premised on the legislative branch being the strongest and the most important check on the president. Congress alone can deny the president the authority to carry out destructive trade policies. It alone can refuse to appropriate the funds he needs to conduct illegal migrant removals. Most importantly, only Congress can impeach and remove a president who undermines the rule of law and defies the Constitution. ✂

We have to hold ALL Rs responsible for this mess. They mustn’t be able to wriggle out from under the stench.

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After dealing with 100 days of Trump’s madness—plus the 3,506 days since he came down that tacky golden tinfoil escalator—I’m happy to have more great news for you. Let’s get to it. The reviews are in! Trump has the “lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years,” according to ABC News. “Most Americans see Trump as a ‘dangerous dictator,’” per Axios. And “more give Trump an ‘F’ than any other grade,” says a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. All well deserved. Dem Rep. Shri Thanedar marked the first 100 days by introducing articles of impeachment, saying that Trump’s “unlawful actions have subverted the justice system, violated the separation of powers, and placed personal power and self-interest above public service. We cannot wait for more damage to be done. Congress must act.” The 7 articles of impeachment lay out Trump's obstruction of justice, usurping appropriations power, abuse of trade powers, violating First Amendment rights, creating the unlawful DOGE office, bribery and corruption, and “tyrannical overreach.” Quite the 100-day gift from Rep. Thanedar. Former President Joe Biden penned an op-ed in USA Today, titled: “Pope Francis stood for compassion as others embraced cruelty. May mercy be his legacy.” Biden wrote: “When so many casually embraced lies. He stood for truth … And when so many practiced the politics of dehumanization, he stood for our common humanity.” The contrast with Trump could not be more clear. ✂ Another really great read if you have time... ===

From Marc Elias regarding the White House Correspondents Dinner. A Party in Washington. A crisis in democracy.

(This is from an email I received, but I can’t find a link to the whole thing. I’m sorry. This is one of the best parts though)

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