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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Saturday 6/28 (Regional edition) [1]
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Date: 2025-06-28
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)
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Call for volunteers
By now you’ve seen this about a dozen times. Mostly we could use a critter herder for Tuesdays. Reply in the comments if you’d like to give it a go. [the third party voice is because I’m hoping that this will be used by others]
kraigo’s accumulated documents:
Posting a Diary (mostly Nanny. kraigo gathered them up, cleaned them a bit, organized and stored it off).
Critter Herding (mostly TCG, with additions from Nanny and kraigo).
Nanny vacation schedule Tuesdays are “BYOC” (bring your own cat). In other words, no one is scheduled and it’s why many are posting The Call at the top of the Shade
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Geek corner
Progressive Muse has taught me at least two things that I didn’t know before.
1) How to turn a YouTube short’s URL into a URL that can be embedded.
YouTube short to video
https://www.youtube.com/ shorts/ rNqkGPzetHA ?si=08jnPILjv6xwoSg5 vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v= rNqkGPzetHA
(My lazy explanation)
2) How to embed a BlueSky flutter.
So, when PM showed up in the GNR this morning, I hit them up with a question.
Threadreaderapp.com will unroll a Xitter thread for you. I had gone looking for an equivalent in BlueSky, but had come up short. PM kindly replied with two suggestions.
Skyview
Blueviewer
I found a thread to test with and can confirm that they both work. I think the trick is to right click (or equivalent), open the flutter in a new tab and post the URL of that into the unrollers.
x 1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us. — Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) June 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
OTOH, if you open the flutter in a new tab, it unrolls itself for you. <* le sigh *>
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With all of THAT unpleasantness out of the way, let’s get started!
I’ve got too much material for tonight’s Shade. Right now, I’m just adding everything and will cull before publishing. I’ll store the cutting room floor material in a different place and consider posting some of it in comments, so I don’t overwhelm you with an overly long diary.
As always, a HUGE shoutout to News from the States for feeding me much of this material.
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I’d mentioned the snowstorm that Montana got last Saturday. Oddly, other than a wedding, there’s very little reporting after the fact. Rather than quote the article on KRTV , I’ll leave it to you to go to the article. I won’t quote it because it’s very, very short. 10” of snow in parts of Montana and possibly Idaho on Sunday 6/22/2025.
It’s newsworthy because it’s unusual to see any snow at all after the summer solstice up in these parts.
June snow in Montana
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This will probably be stale by the time this Shade publishes. Via Slate
One of Trump’s Most Deranged Backers Lost His Defamation Trial. He’s Declaring Victory.
Mike Lindell, most famous as “the MyPillow Guy” who made a small fortune marketing his sleep wares to millions of Americans, can’t stop selling. Not even during his own defamation trial, with tens of millions of dollars at stake and the sales pitch threatening his very defense. The high-energy founder of MyPillow was stuck in a federal courtroom in Denver for most of the first half of June, facing a lawsuit from Eric Coomer, a former Dominion Voting Systems executive, whom Lindell had accused of being part of a criminal conspiracy to rig the 2020 election. But that didn’t prevent America’s foremost peddler of overhyped bedding from using the occasion to tell his followers that they were witnessing “the trial of the century,” and offering them “the sale of the century”: a whopping discount on MyPillow merchandise, available through use of the promo code JURY. ✂️
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WCCO/CBS Minnesota via MSN.
Biden pays tribute as lawmaker Melissa Hortman, husband Mark, and dog lie in state at Minnesota Capitol
The public took the opportunity on Friday to bid farewell to slain Democratic Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog, Gilbert — all of whom are lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Melissa Hortman is the first woman to ever lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol, and only one of nearly 20 people to ever have the honor. Gov. Tim Walz was among the first mourners to visit the rotunda on Friday. Later Friday afternoon, former President Joe Biden arrived at the State Capitol rotunda to pay tribute. ✂️
This is how a decent president acts.
The Minnesota Reformer reported that thousands had gathered and a personal anecdote that I got first-hand confirmed that there was an EXTREMELY good turnout for it, especially on a weekday when they closed down at 5:00 PM local.
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x Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. Between the caskets was an urn containing the ashes of the family’s golden retriever, Gilbert.
[image or embed] — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) June 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The Strib via MSN to get past the paywall.
Wife of alleged political assassin says she’s ‘absolutely shocked,’ pledges cooperation with police
The wife of the man charged with shooting two Minnesota political leaders and their spouses said she was “blindsided” after learning of her husband’s alleged role, calling the attacks a “betrayal of everything we hold true as tenets of the Christian faith.” Speaking publicly for the first time, Jenny Boelter issued a statement through a lawyer saying she and her family are fully cooperating with the investigation of her husband, Vance Boelter. The family was “absolutely shocked” and “heartbroken” to learn of the allegations, she said. ✂️
Also
Police shot at suspect outside Hortman home, says new account from investigators
Police officers who caught up with alleged assassin Vance Boelter at the home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman fired at him after hearing gunfire inside, according to a new account released Thursday about the chaotic scene at the Brooklyn Park home. The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCA) is leading the investigation into the June 14 deaths of Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, a few hours earlier at their Champlin home. ✂️
Last one, I promise — same attribution as the above two
Alleged assassin’s attorney claims poor jail conditions, sleep deprivation during brief court appearance
You can click through if you want to read more.
This is obviously a big deal in Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities. The articles came in via an e-mail the Strib sends out. I had to search on the title to find a version that wasn’t paywalled. In each case, MSN.
So, it’s not the MSN algorithm just feeding me things I’m interested in. It’s national news, so I am not too sheepish about having included it.
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Michigan Advance
Jocelyn Benson vs. GOP: What is this fight over Michigan election manuals really about?
Michigan’s top election official is locked in a clamorous legal battle with Republican lawmakers over access to election training materials, a conflict that likely has less to do with policy than politics — and the coming race for governor. And if the battle continues at its current volume, voter trust in Michigan’s elections could take a beating. On one side is Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who won her 2022 re-election race by nearly 14 percentage points and is now a leading Democratic candidate for governor. Since 2019, she has been a key part of the Democratic power structure in the executive branch and the face of election oversight in a swing state that became a target of heavy scrutiny and conspiracy theories after Donald Trump’s 2020 loss. ✂️
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Louisiana Illuminator
‘We need to keep fighting’: HIV activists organize to save lives as Trump guts funding
GREENVILLE, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he would drive from Mississippi to Washington, D.C., to join HIV advocates at an April rally against the Trump administration’s actions. It had clawed back more than $11 billion in federal public health grants to states and abruptly terminated millions of dollars in funds for HIV work in the United States. Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South, a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. About 40% of adults with HIV rely on it for their lifesaving treatments. Further, the budget proposes to eliminate all HIV prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This alone could lead to an additional 14,600 HIV-related deaths within the next five years, according to one analysis. Trump’s budget proposal also would cancel a major grant that provides housing assistance for people with HIV. And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. ✂️
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Maryland Matters
This is really a nice read. It’s relatively short and I think most of us would count this as a positive change. It’s also much more grassroots than the approach David Hogg is taking.
I appreciate Hogg’s passion, but I wasn’t behind him implementing his strategy from within the DNC. Now that he’s not in that role anymore, I’m much more receptive to his methods. We do need new blood in decision making capacities. Stepping off my soapbox...
Millennials taking control in Prince George’s County politics
Four years ago there were no millennials on the Prince George’s County Council in Maryland. Today, five of the 11 seats on the council are filled by millennials. This change was pointed out by Council member Tom Dernoga, during the swearing in of Council member Shayla Adams-Stafford earlier this month. “I think that’s to the benefit of the county because we have a younger population,” Dernoga said. “I think it’s better that we reflect the population than with older folks like me, and I’ll be retiring soon so I’ll be replaced by someone younger and we’ll be skewing even younger.” For At-large Councilmember Calvin Hawkins, it means the top-down style of politics in the county is on the way out, in favor of grassroots coalitions. ✂️
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An op-ed in the Kentucky Lantern
Will the coalfields ‘get over’ losing hospitals miners fought to create?
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell told his colleagues behind closed doors this week that “failure is not an option” when it comes to passing their bill to deeply cut health, nutrition and education programs to fund tax cuts skewed to the wealthy. “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid,” he told fellow senators. “But they’ll get over it.” “Getting over it” will be hard in Kentucky, where the budget reconciliation bill is estimated to take health care from over 200,000 Kentuckians. Crucially, it also puts 35 rural Kentucky hospitals at risk of closure, more than any other state and 10% of the vulnerable hospitals across the entire country. These facilities depend heavily on the payments from Medicaid-covered patients to make emergency and specialty care available to everyone in the community. ✂️
I am hoping that this sort of message reaches the ears of voters across the state.
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Wisconsin Examiner
Milwaukee County Board calls for regulation of facial recognition tech
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday, calling on the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office (MCSO) to work with the community to create a regulatory framework for the use of facial recognition technology. MCSO is currently exploring an agreement with Biometrica, a data company that provides facial recognition technology to local police departments. “Facial recognition technology has been proven to disproportionately affect communities of color and young women,” said Sup. Juan Miguel Martinez. “The more facial recognition technology, the more people are able to criminalize people executing their First Amendment rights. I feel this is an issue not left or right.” Miguel Martinez also expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition technology to aid immigration enforcement or to surveil protests. ✂️
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North Dakota Monitor
Looking back at impossible choices and the impact of abortion policy in North Dakota and beyond
Even before federal abortion-rights protections were overturned three years ago, a Fargo mother says she had to travel hundreds of miles and across state lines to end a life-threatening pregnancy. Randi Lamoureux, an educator and business owner, became pregnant with her son Lammy in 2017. At 19 weeks, he was diagnosed with a severe fetal abnormality called DiGeorge syndrome. Lamoureux’s doctor told her that both she and Lammy were at risk for cardiac arrest if she stayed pregnant. Lamoureux said she had to travel more than 300 miles for care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. By the time she could make the trip, she was almost too far along under that state’s law. “That was literally the absolute last day that I could get it in Minnesota,” she said. “More than 24 hours later, I would have had to have gone to another state.” ✂️
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x Newsom: The gloves are off. Let’s go. We’re gonna call out the bullshit. And the propaganda. And the weaponization of lies and disinformation on networks like Fox…
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) June 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa newspaper company agrees to $9.5 million payout, faces three new class-action claims
The Iowa-based newspaper company Lee Enterprises has agreed to pay $9.5 million to subscribers alleging privacy violations and is now facing three invasion-of-privacy lawsuits from current or former employees. The three new lawsuits, each filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, allege that Lee, which owns hundreds of newspapers and specialty publications in Iowa and 24 other states, is guilty of negligence, breach of an implied contract, unjust enrichment and invasion of privacy. Lee’s Iowa newspapers include the Quad-City Times in Davenport, the Sioux City Journal, the Mason City Globe-Gazette the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier and the Muscatine Journal. Each of the three lawsuits is seeking class-action status in pursuit of damages on behalf of thousands of current and former Lee employees whose personal information is believed to have been accessed by cybercriminals. The three named plaintiffs in the cases are Nicole Church of Colona, Illinois; Declan Lawson of Missoula, Montana; and Anthony Bangert of Wisconsin. According to the lawsuits, on June 3, 2025, Lee began sending letters to current and former employees advising of them that the private information of certain employees had been accessed by others without authorization. The lawsuits allege the letters omitted details such as the cause of the data breach, the system vulnerabilities that had been exploited, and any remedial measures undertaken to guard against additional security breaches. ✂️
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Florida Phoenix
Lawmakers say they had no idea new slavery memorial is now on display across from Capitol
Seven years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the tragedy of slavery for the grounds of the Florida Capitol, the bronze statue called “Circle of Chains” has been completed and is on display across the street from the building. Not that anyone is actually aware of that. “I had no idea!” Miami-Dade County Democratic Rep. Ashley Gantt told the Phoenix when asked about the public unveiling of the memorial earlier this week. Neither did Miami-Dade County Sen. Shevrin Jones. “I had no idea the memorial had even been installed – and that says a lot,” Jones told the Phoenix. “A monument honoring the pain and resilience of enslaved Africans deserves more than a quiet placement. After seven years of work, there should have been a moment to honor that history publicly.” ✂️
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Nebraska Examiner
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon will not seek reelection in Nebraska’s 2nd District
OMAHA — Nebraska Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon appears poised to leave Congress in early 2027. One House Republican strategist who works on campaigns across the country said Bacon was not running for reelection and that he had already telegraphed what he was going to do. He spoke to the Examiner Friday on the condition that he not be named publicly, because he was not authorized to share the decision. “Don’t get me wrong,” the consultant said. “This seat is tougher without Bacon, but he’s not special. It can be done.” Five other local Republican sources familiar with Bacon’s choice confirmed that he had decided to skip the 2026 race. They echoed Friday evening reports from Washington, D.C., including from Punchbowl News. No immediate comment Bacon’s campaign had no immediate comment on the reports. But people who know politics in Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd District had been buzzing for days about the possibility of Bacon making a decision as soon as next week. Bacon had planned to meet with local reporters early next week. Part of the buzz came from a group of Nebraska Republicans waiting on Bacon’s decision, a list that local conservatives have said includes former State Sen. Brett Lindstrom and Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding, and might also include Bacon’s 2024 GOP primary challenger, Dan Frei. Bacon, in recent interviews with the Nebraska Examiner and other publications, had been hinting that he might step away, with the retired Air Force brigadier saying that he had to speak with his family and decide. Bacon’s decision would cause national political shockwaves, as Bacon represents one of a handful of true swing districts left nationally, one that is Nebraska’s most political divided and diverse. ✂️
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Click worthy...
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The Jukebox is here. Ghost is the host with the most from coast to coast. The theme is English, not American.
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DebtorsPrison has become a new regular here in the Shade. He runs an online bookstore called “The Literate Lizard”. I’ve bought a book from him, as others have here. I was very happy with the service that he provided. I have neither incentive nor reservations. He was awesome.
If you’re buying a book anyway, why not go through him? There is a kossak discount code. I’ll let the details pop out from his diary on the Tuesday 24th (and every Tuesday) at 7:00 PM Eastern time. Details are near the bottom of his diary.
Nonfiction Views: Dark City Dames, by TCM host Eddie Muller, plus the week's notable new nonfiction
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Today is…
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NATIONAL FOODIE DAY
Each year on June 28, we celebrate National Foodie Day, a day dedicated to those with an insatiable passion for food. Whether you’re exploring the latest culinary trends, seeking out hidden gem restaurants, or perfecting recipes in your own kitchen, foodies bring undeniable enthusiasm to the world of cuisine. ✂️
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NATIONAL MURAL DAY
Each year on the last Saturday in June, we celebrate National Mural Day to honor the vibrant and powerful art of murals and the artists who create them. From colorful street corners to towering cityscapes, murals bring people together, inspire dialogue, and add beauty to the spaces we share. On this day, we celebrate not only the muralists who pour their creativity into public spaces but also the communities that support and sustain these public art efforts. ✂️
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NATIONAL PAUL BUNYAN DAY
It may sometimes seem as though a great majority of the most popular folklore characters are evil predators who spend their lives hunting for their next victim. Paul Bunyan, on the other hand, is the embodiment of the all-American lumberjack—tall, strong, capable, and good-natured.✂️
Bemidji, Minnesota (Wikipedia) claims to be the birthplace of Paul Bunyan, but so do many other towns. Still, most of the photos you’ll find of a Paul Bunyan statue are from Bemidji.
As you’ll recall, Bemidji had a derecho a week ago. 100+ mile/hour winds.
Gov. Walz declares emergency in Beltrami County (via my dad’s favorite radio station growing up, KFGO )
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KFGO) — Governor Tim Walz today declared a peacetime emergency and directed state agencies to provide additional assistance to support recovery efforts following severe storms that caused widespread damage to property and critical infrastructure in Beltrami County. “Minnesota will deploy every available resource to aid communities throughout Beltrami County as they recover from storms that brought hurricane-force winds, devastated infrastructure, and left thousands without power,” Walz said. “I’m grateful for the tireless work and rapid response from emergency management officials, first responders, and community members. Together we will rebuild and heal.” ✂️
That’s how a real chief executive does it. Sorry, I got carried away.
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NATIONAL ALASKA DAY
On June 28 we celebrate Alaska on National Alaska Day and recognizes the largest state to join the union and the Nation’s Last Frontier. Unlike Alaska Day, celebrated on October 18 when Russian Empire was officially transferred to the United States, our National Alaska Day celebrates the beauty, the people, and the celebrations of Alaska. ✂️
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Mel Brooks ’ (Wikipedia) (1926-Still Living) birthday - Comedian and actor (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein). I had to count my fingers and toes five times for this — he’s 99 today. Now what am I going to do with this extra toe I just chopped off?
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Gilda Radner ’s birthday (Wikipedia) (1946-1989) - Saturday Night Live comedian. Since we did Mel Brooks above, remember that Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein) was also Gilda’s husband.
There are too many good sketches to remember, but Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella (both Wikipedia) were priceless.
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My spleen!
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The Shade is open. Have fun!
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