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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---May 2, TGIF! [1]
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Date: 2025-05-02
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The only strategy known to work against a fascist power grab is widespread and diverse pro-democracy organizing. We win by showing up for each other and with each other. [image or embed]
Here's some action you can take:
1. Register (it’s free!) 2. Attend your school board meeting in May - DofD volunteers will help you with any questions if it’s your first visit
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Thank you Justice Brown Jackson!
BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his allies' attacks on federal judges who've blocked many of his policy moves www.politico.com/news/2025/05... #SCOTUS [image or embed]
From the article. Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump’s attacks on judges. www.politico.com/…
Jackson’s unusually pointed comments received a standing ovation from the judges and lawyers in attendance. Her 18-minute fulmination is the strongest public statement by any member of the Supreme Court since the Trump administration began denouncing judges who have blocked Trump’s policies on immigration, firing government workers, and halting federal grants and contracts.
Jackson urged her judicial colleagues to show “raw courage” to dispense justice without fear of the results. “I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service,” the Biden appointee said.
Though she did not mention Trump by name, Jackson said she was addressing “the elephant in the room,” a clear reference to the belligerent language — and calls for impeachment — that Trump and some of his advisers have lobbed at federal judges who rule against his agenda.
“The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity,” Jackson told a judges’ conference in Puerto Rico. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully condemned attacks by President Donald Trump and his allies on judges who have blocked Trump administration policies, warning Thursday that the increasingly hostile rhetoric poses a dire threat to the country’s political fabric.
Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms — especially in light of all the media attention and scrutiny Joe Biden received after his disastrous debate performance or when Special Counsel Robert Hur described him as “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
Donald Trump’s recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, that’s not news. But what stood out is that Trump is consistently confused and disconnected from reality even on issues that are supposedly in his wheelhouse.
Rather, it seems likely his worldview has always been so ignorant and distorted that he's NEVER had a grasp on reality [image or embed]
To be fair, it may not be that he has any cognitive issues
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Speaking of which.
"For those of you planning to engage in crime, let me encourage you to commit your skills to the world of crypto. A purchase of Trump coin might pay dividends someday." [image or embed]
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This was 70% of the guys I went to school with. They didn’t do the assigned reading. BS’d their way through the discussion. Sounded unprepared and not intelligent but still became class president because they threatened someone’s dog. [image or embed]
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Dog, this is so spot on!
“One moment, he’s the master of the universe…The next moment, he’s a very smol bean working with limited knowledge and a limited toolset, and why are you bullying him by asking him whether the law requires him to give hearings to deportees?” [image or embed]
From the article. Donald Trump, an All-Powerful President With No Power at All. When the rain falls, Trump wants credit. When the rain stops, Biden’s to blame. www.thebulwark.com/…
Donald Trump, the great man of history, stands astride America like a colossus. Pencil-pushers scuttle for cover as he stretches out his hand to sweep away the detritus of the moribund old bureaucratic ways; other nations tremble with fear as he burns the former global order to the ground to build something gleaming among the ashes. America’s golden age has begun, spoken into existence by the new god-king.
Except when markets crash and people get mad. Then Trump is just a workaday guy trying to clean up a mess, and would you all please have a little patience, for crying out loud? These things take time!
“This is Biden’s stock market, not Trump’s,” the president complained yesterday amid yet another flurry of economic bad news. “Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!”
There’s always been a sweetly childlike quality to Trump’s relationship with the stock market. It doesn’t matter what’s going on in the economy or the world—it doesn’t even matter who happens to actually be president. If markets are rising, Trump takes credit. If they’re falling, someone else is to blame.1
But it isn’t just markets. This crown-on, crown-off posture has become a regular thing for Trump. One moment, he’s the master of the universe, demanding total prostration from world leaders and government officials and taking credit for all blessings that may rain on the lives of the people. The next moment, he’s a very smol bean working with limited knowledge and a limited toolset, and why are you bullying him by asking him whether the law requires him to give hearings to deportees?
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The shtick is thin, and people aren’t buying it. On the matter of the economy, for instance: A CBS News poll last month asked whether Joe Biden’s policies or Trump’s were “more responsible for the state of the U.S. economy today.” Fifty-four percent said Trump, more than double the 21 percent who suggested we were still living the dream of Bidenomics.
That’s the trouble with going around proclaiming yourself god-king. The god-kings of old had it pretty good in fat times—enjoying the credit for keeping things square with the (other) gods, ensuring good weather and bountiful harvests. When things went sour, though—when the rains dried up, the cows didn’t calve, a plague broke out—it didn’t do the king much good to try to tell the people he really had very little to do with any of that. He was probably ending up a ritual sacrifice either way.
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