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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Tuesday, May 27th [1]
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Date: 2025-05-27
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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RIP Rick Derringer.
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x there are queens and then there's the woman who made sure the scathing songs about her ex were so iconic that his whole career would be defined by them happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
[image or embed] — shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) May 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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x “‘After 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 from the Père Lachaise cemetery, has been found,’ wrote the Paris Regional Judicial Police Directorate in an Instagram post on Friday.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/s...
[image or embed] — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) May 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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On to other stuff.
Thank you Jon Stewart!
x . @CNN.com looks like shit right now, and deservedly so, for shamelessly hawking Jake Tapper’s book. This is perfect: “Forgetting about the fact that how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago—for free.” ~ Jon Stewart.
[image or embed] — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) May 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The public agrees:
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x NEWS: This evening, Judge Brian Murphy — with some fire — denied DOJ’s request that he reconsider his decision that the Trump administration violated his prior order by trying to send people to South Sudan in a plane that left the U.S. and got to Africa. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) May 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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From Mueller, She Wrote. I'm pushing the limits of fair use, but this is really good. WOW! Judge Murphy is MAD. www.muellershewrote.com/…
I love to see rulings like this. The judge does an excellent job at summing up what just happened, so rather than try to re-state it, I’ll just share some of his eloquent and blistering order on the governments motion to reconsider his recent order. Defendants (members of the Trump administration) have mischaracterized this Court’s order, while at the same time manufacturing the very chaos they decry. By racing to get six class members onto a plane to unstable South Sudan, clearly in breach of the law and this Court’s order, Defendants gave this Court no choice but to find that they were in violation of the Preliminary Injunction. Even after finding that violation, however, the Court stayed its hand and did not require Defendants to bring the individuals back to the United States, as requested by Plaintiffs. Instead, the Court accepted Defendants’ own suggestion that they be allowed to keep the individuals out of the country and finish their process abroad. In the interest of full transparency, the Court quotes at length from the hearing transcript: ✂️ [a bunch of detail and exchanges between the Judge and the DOJ attorney, definitely worth reading] ✂️ Then the judge addresses the Trump administration’s request to stay his order: As a threshold matter, the Court finds this request for a stay perplexing. The order remedying Defendants’ violation of the Preliminary Injunction is as flexible as possible, leaving the details of when, where, and how entirely in Defendants’ hands. It is the narrow remedy Defendants requested. In short, there is very little to stay, absent completely blessing Defendants’ violation. As to the clarification to the Preliminary Injunction, that addresses a problem raised by Defendants. Defendants ask this Court to reverse its clarification but offer nothing to put in its place. That would do little more than return us to the same spot as before. The Court further finds that the class members at issue were, and continue to be, at risk of irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief. The Court has already outlined the risks faced by class members generally. Here, that risk becomes tangible as class members were nearly dropped off in a war-torn country where the Government states that “[f]oreign nationals have been the victims of rape, sexual assault, armed robberies, and other violent crimes.” For the foregoing reasons, Defendants’ motions for reconsideration and for stay pending appeal are DENIED. There’s a lot more to this 17-page bench slap, and you can read it here. Taking a step back to look at the totality of the cases I’ve been following regarding due process, the courts are rapidly losing patience with the government - and the deference the Department of Justice usually enjoys from the courts - has disappeared almost completely. As far as contempt goes, Judge Murphy said during the hearing that the government very obviously violated his orders and that he will deal with the contempt issue and other possible remedies once the due process procedures (that the government asked for) are resolved.
Read the whole thing, its definitely worth it.
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x The federal district courts deserve our praise and thanks. They are slowing and often halting the march of MAGA fascism.
[image or embed] — George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
x A federal judge blocked the Trump admin's attempt to end New York City's congestion tolling. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman is a Trump appointee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) May 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
x Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
[image or embed] — Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) (@ivey.house.gov) May 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
x BREAKING: Judge Xinis DENIES the Trump administration an additional 30 days to file a response to the complaint in the Abrego Garcia case. "Defendants expended no effort in demonstrating good cause. But these self-described burdens are of their own making." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) May 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Back to the Harvard kerfuffle. As many of you know, I was an Immigration Paralegal in my previous life, so I know a thing or two about a thing or two.
x Trump: "Part of the problem w/ Harvard is there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard...but they refuse to tell us who the people are...it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much. Bc we have Americans who want to go there...we want a list of those students...I assume with Harvard many will be bad"
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
First off, colleges use whatever criteria they use to select their foreign students. They fill out the paperwork that they send to the would be student, who submits it to the US consulate or Embassy, which reviews it and the individual's eligibility, and is the Final Arbiter of whether or not to issue the visa. If the would be student meets the criteria (for visa eligibility) then the Consulate/Embassy issues the visa to the student, which permits them to legally enter the US in the proper status. (That's overly simplified, but in essence, that's the general process). So the government has "a list." It may take some time to put together in a format FIDJT could comprehend, but the government already has the information.
Secondly, I said this weeks ago, but I still think we need to know if this all stems from Barron not getting accepted for Early Admission.
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Meanwhile, FIDJT engages in verbal ketchup tossing...
And if thats not enough,
x the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies
[image or embed] — jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) May 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Meanwhile,
x Trump pardons guy who’s mother “raised millions of dollars for Trump’s campaigns and those of other Republicans, the application said. It also highlighted her connections to an effort to sabotage Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 campaign by publicizing the addiction diary of his daughter Ashley Biden.”
[image or embed] — Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Poor Thomas Massie, realizing his face is on the menu. Is this the beginnings of a spine? Or will he post a "Thank you dear leader" apology by the end of the day?
x Massie has been taking a lot of incoming from Trump supporters for standing up to him on the budget, and may also be facing another Trump-backed primary challenger. He responds.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Didn't bother to read the article, the headline says it all.
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To Paraphrase Lloyd Benstsen, "Kristi Noem is no Omar Sharif."
I love this scene:
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Even the Russians are just trolling him now.
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NPR is standing up for Kermit and Elmo. NPR and Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House.www.npr.org/…
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order that purportedly bars the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS. "It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the legal brief for the public broadcasters. "The Order targets NPR and PBS expressly because, in the President's view, their news and other content is not 'fair, accurate, or unbiased'." The lawsuit says the administration is usurping Congress' power to direct how federal money will be spent and to pass laws. It names President Trump, White House budget director Russell Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Maria Rosario Jackson, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, as defendants. A team that includes noted free speech lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous filed the lawsuit for NPR and the Colorado stations jointly in the District of Columbia. The suit calls Trump's early May executive order "textbook retaliation" and an existential threat to the public radio system "that millions of Americans across the country rely on for vital news and information." "The Executive Order is a clear violation of the Constitution and the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press," NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement. PBS is not a party to the lawsuit. The television network issued a statement Tuesday morning saying, "PBS is considering every option, including taking legal action, to allow our organization to continue to provide essential programming and services to member stations and all Americans."
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Old Time Player Piano Day!
Happy National Grape Popsicle Day!
Or, if you prefer au natural, Happy National Grape Day (long)
Happy National Cellophane Tape Day!
AND, Happy National Nothing To Fear Day! Be Brave!
Tomorrow is National Brisket Day AND National Hamburger Day!
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