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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Thursday June 26 [1]

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Date: 2025-06-26

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Good evening, everyone!

It’s me again! Filling in for Nanny Ogg who is on her 1st week of a 7 week excursion. Safe travels Nanny!

As always, I’m reaching out to all our Shady friends to ask for diary writers and herders for the next several weeks. Nanny writes on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we’d be grateful if anyone would like to try their hand at the writers’ desk. Have a go! It’s fun and rewarding. 😎

Herding is also needed, especially on Tuesdays.

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Marc Elias has been sounding the alarm for years about the R plan to suppress the will of the people through voter suppression. Anyone who reads his Democracy Docket is well informed of the cases being brought against numerous states and entities. This is just the latest sign Rs may be planning to disenfranchise more voters.

MAGA and Election Conspiracy Theorists Cheer Trump’s Call for Prosecutor to Probe 2020 Election

It’s likely to fuel the GOP’s efforts to implement more voting roadblocks ahead of the 2026 election. The Republican National Committee stepped in to defend Trump’s sweeping anti-voting order in the courts, while Senate Republicans are currently exploring every option to pass the SAVE Act , which could disenfranchise millions of voters. Meanwhile Republicans on the state level are trying to pass their own anti-voting bills in time for the 2026 midterms — in some cases using 2020 election conspiracy theories to fan the flames of support for these bills. ✂️

✂️Trump may be looking backwards to 2020, but his call for a special prosecutor seems equally aimed at undermining future elections.

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This is really scary. The extreme court is a sampling of what happens when judges who are loyal to the felon instead of the constitution sit on the bench. Imagine that in more courts across the country.

Trump’s Spat with the Federalist Society Signals a Heightened Threat to the Rule of Law

Donald Trump’s loyalty test for judges has reached new — and concerning — heights. As Trump prepares to appoint new judges, he’s made it clear that he expects loyalty to him over the constitution. If you need proof, just take a look at his recent spat with the Federalist Society (“FedSoc”) and its former court-packing head Leonard Leo. FedSoc may try to bill itself as a mere debating club, but in reality, it is a far-reaching legal advocacy organization whose mission is to align the courts and rule of law with the political strategies and policies of the right. Membership has long served as a near-litmus test for conservative judges and attorneys. For example, of Trump’s 51 nominees to circuit courts during his first administration, 43 were current or former FedSoc members. That’s why many gawked when Trump recently lashed out at the organization, claiming that it had given him “bad advice” on his previous judicial nominations. The tantrum followed a ruling against Trump’s tariffs, one of many blocking his unlawful executive overreaches, and was a candid admission of Trump’s expectation that his judges would simply always rule in his favor. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the rest of us, even some very conservative judges can recognize when an authoritarian president is stepping too far outside the lines. ✂️ The increasingly clear and blatant loyalty test for judicial nominees should trigger alarm bells. Conservative — or “originalist,” if you prefer the right’s euphemism for its judges — is no longer good enough for Trump. He wants judges who are loyal to him personally over the Constitution or the law. That crosses a new line from selecting judges who will cater to his policies on a partisan level to judges who will ensure he always wins, regardless of the outcome’s popularity on either side of the political spectrum and regardless of the law. ✂️ Right now, our courts are one of the few fortifications defending against the administration’s abuses of power, and as it is, there are some Trump judges and justices allowing him to get away with atrocious acts — even if only temporarily. If we lose ground by allowing even more Trump loyalists on the bench, that could be the game for our democracy. ✂️

More evidence we do not want a repeat of the extreme court anywhere.

x Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.



[image or embed] — Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM

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More crazy, made-up rules by Rs to hamper justice

Chuck Grassley handcuffs Democrats from questioning Trump's court appointee

At the start of the confirmation hearing of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit Court, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) invented a new rule that restricted the questions and answers from Bove, claiming that it fell under a "deliberative process privilege." Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took issue with the rule he outlined in the opening statement, saying that never has such a restriction been invoked for a witness before their committee. ✂️ Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) also raised the concern with Grassley. "This witness has no right to invoke that privilege. It's a privilege that belongs to the government of the United States," said Blumenthal. He remarked that the deputy attorney general was behind Bove and said that the deputy AG had not invoked privilege on behalf of the United States." ✂️

emil bove needs to be disbarred, not rewarded with a lifetime appointment on any court.

x Don't lose track of other things that are important in all Trump's chaos Like the fact that his defense lawyer & DOJ hatchet man Emil Bove has a hearing on Wed. in the Senate for a lifetime judicial appointment on the 3rd circuit From there the next stop could be SCOTUS! Now is the time to fight👇



[image or embed] — Norm Eisen (@normeisen.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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Rs are really bad at governing.

'It's a problem': Senate Republicans don't have the votes to even debate Trump's big bill

✂️ Despite pressure from Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to vote before the July 4 recess, GOP leaders don’t yet have the necessary 50 votes to advance it. The final version of the bill is still being drafted, leaving senators wary of committing. A main issue is how the bill would affect rural hospitals. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) warned that some senators “will not support taking up the megabill until we get further clarity on the rural hospital issue,” saying: “They’re not voting to proceed until they get some clarity.” ✂️ Thune is expected to force a procedural vote by Friday. He’s told colleagues “we’re on track to start Friday,” and Kennedy agrees a vote is likely. However, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) noted privately that no one wants to hold a vote they plan to lose, according to the report. “I don’t think the leader wants a failed vote,” she said.

Update: the parliamentarian has struck the Medicaid cuts from the bill. This throws a giant monkey wrench because they were going to provide the bulk of the money to offset the giveaways to the billionaires. Watch this space. I'm sure the felon is throwing a fit. We'll see if the Rs abide by the ruling or buckle under the wrath of the felon.

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A friend told me recently that looking back, she wonders if the felon had to win last November in order for America to finally move on from her flirtation with fascism. She said, “I’m beginning to think only trump can defeat trump.” It does seem the narrative of trump the liar, trump the bumbler, trump the crook is finally sinking in. I think the election in New York City of Zohran Mamdani is the strongest indication we have that we are past ready for billionaires to pay their fair share, for the social safety net to be expanded, not eliminated, for our country to embrace its melting pot heritage.

I think the response we’ve seen is proof the wealthy and powerful are scared shitless.

x Folks can argue about the relevancy of the “Democratic socialist” label all day. But if that’s what you’re hung up on, you’re missing the larger point. People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change. 🧵



[image or embed] — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) June 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM

x Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist. — Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Thrilled to see the sell off of public land stripped from the big ugly bill, only to learn the felon is trying again. I swear, he is the worst. What is his problem with saving wild places???

Trump administration opens new logging, roads on 59 million acres of protected forest

The Trump administration has overturned the Roadless Rule that protects more than 59 million acres of national forests, including in the San Bernardino National Forest, the Sequoia National Forest and other treasured and flammable woodlands. The decision allows for road construction and timber harvesting on millions of acres in 38 states previously protected under the rule, including about 1 million acres in Southern California's national forests. Trump officials said the move is necessary for fire prevention on 28 million acres of forests at risk of wildfire, and to boost the depressed logging industry. Critics immediately denounced the rollback as a sell-off to the timber industry, and vowed to fight it legally. ✂️ Pushback was swift. "The Trump administration's disdain for nature knows no bounds," said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Stripping protections from these last unfragmented national forests risks our drinking water, plants, animals and some of America's most beautiful wild places. It's a prescription for more wildfires so logging companies can make a buck. The roadless rule is one of our country's most important conservation achievements and we'll fight like hell to keep these protections in place." ✂️

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I love our fighting Democrats and am proud of the pushback they are giving the lying liars. A sampling of the fire they’re bringing to hearings:

x JUST NOW: House Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) calls out Kari Lake to her face: “You ran for Governor. You lost. Instead of conceding, you embarrassed yourself and our state by lying again and again for years blaming everything under the sun for your loss except for your own toxic politics”



[image or embed] — Bill Caine (@allchronology.com) June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM

x CARTER: The Adolescent Trial Network for HIV intervention received a stop work order that shut down research at 14 sites where 7 studies were being conducted. Were you aware of that? RFK JR: As far as I know, we haven't cut any clinica-- CARTER: I'm telling you by your own records you are



[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) June 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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I’m not really sure what makes anyone think that by requiring pathological liars to swear under oath to anything will get at the truth. Hopefully there is undisputable truth out there and this is a gotcha moment.

'Under penalty of perjury': Noem and Lewandowski ordered to reveal whether they used personal devices to discuss pulling protected status for hundreds of thousands of migrants

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