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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Friday, May 30th [1]
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Date: 2025-05-30
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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TGIF! Raise a glass to a really good week. Good for us, that is, not so much for Trump and Musk.
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The big news is Musk’s downfall. First there was the lawsuit challenging the legality of his work.
x Overnight: Elon Musk must face a lawsuit that accuses him of wielding unconstitutionally vast powers to reshape the US government, a US judge ruled. The Trump administration adopted a "perverse reading" of the Constitution's system of checks and balances, Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote.
buff.ly/7jDznks
[image or embed] — Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
And then, suddenly, he was headed out the door. Quickly, too, like an employee caught stealing company property. He said it was just that his time as a special employee was up, but he was worried about Tesla and he had also annoyed Trump by slanging the Big Beautiful Bill.
x This’ll be just like when the trump
Admin 1.0 publicly broke up with Sidney Powell but they kept working together anyhow.
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) May 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
To put Musk’s tenure into perspective, Elon Musk was the not-really-leader of DOGE for almost a dozen scaramuccis, barely more than half a bannon.
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Big thanks to folks like Maru whose protests helped to chase Musk back to Tesla to try to rescue what’s left of it. But we can’t let up yet. DOGE still has its tentacles all through government like the Body Snatchers. And we still don’t know who leads DOGE. Does anyone really believe that Amy Gleason does?
x YouTube Video
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Trump’s campaign to punish Harvard, for the questionable excuse that it’s antisemitic, hit a roadblock.
x In other words, someone finally read the regs (which require the notice and opportunity to appeal) — Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T13:50:01.784Z
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Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were turned around.
x BREAKING: COURT BLOCKS TRUMP TARIFFS Trump LOSES in US Court of International Trade — which ruled that Trump exceeded his authorized power to jack up tariffs Administration has 10 days to halt tariffs MAJOR loss for Trump — and victory for lower costs for all Americans — Tristan Snell (@tristansnell.bsky.social) May 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump railed as usual about politically motivated judges and appealed, so tariffs are back on for now.
“Where do these initial three Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of ‘TRUMP?’ What other reason could it be?”… “The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political!” Trump wrote. “Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY.” (The Guardian)
But he can’t blame it on liberals.
x Bonica’s data indicates that judges across the ideological spectrum are ruling against Trump at similar rates. He’s lost in 72% of rulings issued by Republican-appointed judges and 80% of rulings by Democratic-appointed judge. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
[image or embed] — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Even the Wall Street Journal recognizes his executive orders as clearly illegal and advises him to “cut his losses.”
x WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Trump EOs are an abuse of executive power that isn’t justified under any fair reading of the Constitution. “.. he would be wise to cut his losses before he goes zero for nine at the Supreme Court.” @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/rich...
[image or embed] — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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He’d like to blame it all on Biden (who is old, you know, though not as old as Trump will be if he lasts out his four years). In the battle of savvy age vs childish idiocy, age wins.
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His Big Beautiful Bill made it through the House but it’s not going well in the Senate.
x With Elon out and Trump's "big, beautiful bill" stymied in the Senate, it begs the question: Is this the end of Trump's first phase of his second term?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-of-trump-ii-part-1
[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) May 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Another Republican town hall exploded over the Big Beautiful Bill. (Some people just can’t appreciate beauty, eh?)
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In an attempt to wring more dollars out of Paramount for supposedly editing a Kamala Harris interview to make her look better, Trump demands more bucks than Paramount offered to settle. Why? Because of anguish.
Trump suffering anguish while viewing 60 Minutes:
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What’s in a name? Mango Mussolini, Hair Furor, Lord Dampnut, Trumpelthinskin… There are hundreds of them, but none has caught on and gotten under his skin like TACO.
Ridicule is said to be especially effective against tyrants, so yuk it up.
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Today is National Creativity Day!
x YouTube Video
It’s Loomis Day!
Mahlon Loomis (21 July 1826 – 13 October 1886) was an American dentist and inventor known for proposing a wireless communication and electric power generating system based on his idea that there were electrically charged layers in the Earth's atmosphere. Loomis' theory was that the Earth's upper atmosphere was divided into discrete voltage layers, rising from zero at ground level to higher voltage with altitude, and that these could be "tapped" using kites fitted with metallic screen conductors and 600 foot long copper cords, flown high above hills and mountains, in order to conduct electricity for use on the ground or to transmit and receive electromagnetic code impulse messages. He claimed that in 1868, he sent wireless telegraphic transmissions between two Virginia hilltops 18 miles apart using apparatus based on his theories. Historians' takes on what he actually did range from his claim being unproven to theories that he may have inadvertently sent electromagnetic wave (radio) signals between the two hilltops, despite his impractical ideas about atmospheric electrical charges.
(Sounds a lot like my grade school attempt to reinvent the Dick Tracy wrist radio, which actually now exists.)
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It’s National Mint Julep Day!
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It’s National Hole in My Bucket Day, dedicated by the good folks of Mandan, North Dakota, to this very song. The song originated in Germany around 1700.
x YouTube Video
And it’s National Water a Flower Day.
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