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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Tuesday, July 1 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-01
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When Trump says this, it’s without a sense of irony.
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The jokes write themselves.
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“Hoist by his own petard.” I had to look that up. A petard is a small bomb so the phrase indicates blowing oneself up. The Republicans in the Senate have tossed their petard to the House. This will not end well for them.
x NEW: The U.S. Senate has passed the GOP budget bill by a vote of 51-50 following a tie-breaking vote by JD Vance. Tillis, Collins, and Paul voted No.
[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) July 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
x The House is now expected to vote tomorrow on whether to send the sweeping policy bill to Trump’s desk for final approval. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The bill, if passed, is expected to hit Republican areas hardest. The New York Times quotes a study from Wall Street Journal indicating that the number of Republican counties heavily dependent on federal funds has increased 10 times as quickly as the number of Democratic counties.
..the number of Republican-majority counties dependent on the federal government for at least 25 percent of local government expenditures increased from 186 in 2000 to 1,746 in 2020 (an uptick of 838.7 percent). In contrast, the number of Democratic-majority counties dependent on federal payments for 25 percent of their budgets over the same period grew from 131 to 240 (an uptick of 83.2 percent). (NYT)
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x In classic Republican fashion—they've found a way to make their "Big Beautiful Bill" even worse. More cuts to health care.
More money added to the debt.
More Americans suffer.
[image or embed] — Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) June 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The news focuses on Medicaid and SNAP but there’s also that huge increase in national debt.
x Hard to believe I'm siding with the guy who spent $300 million to get Trump elected, but he's not wrong: Republicans’ plan to run up the national debt to hand out giant tax breaks to billionaires will be an economic disaster.
[image or embed] — Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Musk has threatened to start a new political party if the bill passes. There’s long been talk of third parties and none have come to much. But then, those doing the talking weren’t the richest man in the world and owner of a conservative social media platform.
[Musk] has dramatically escalated his anti-Republican rhetoric over the past few days. On Monday, he suggested that if the G.O.P. bill passed, he would swiftly form a new “America Party.” “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” he wrote in one of several Monday posts to his 220 million followers on X. “Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actually have a VOICE.” (NYT)
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When Musk became Trump’s new best friend you probably started counting the Scaramuccis. Trump turns on his allies. They leave in disgrace, grouse to the media, and disappear. But this exit promises fireworks.
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In immigration news, Alligator Alcatraz opened today.
Unsatisfied with that level of cruelty, and with his brain stuck in an alligator rut, Trump adds...
But there’s good news: the ACLU is still escalating an effort to short circuit Trump’s worst deportation efforts.
The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union squared off in front of a federal appeals court on Monday to debate for the first time whether President Trump could use an 18th-century wartime law to deport immigrants he has accused of belonging to a violent Venezuelan street gang. The debate took place during an hourlong hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. While several lower courts have considered Mr. Trump’s use of the statute, known as the Alien Enemies Act, the Fifth Circuit case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of whether the president has been employing it correctly.
x In 2024 alone, immigrants contributed an estimated $24 billion to Social Security, from people who will never receive benefits in return. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Some good news odds and ends:
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online. (NYT)
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In a bittersweet send-off, Bush, Obama, and Bono thanked USAID employees on their last day.
“You’ve shown the great strength of America through your work, and that is our good heart,” former President George W. Bush told the staff… “Ending your presence and your programs out in the world hurts the most vulnerable, and it hurts the United States,” Mr. Obama said, citing the agency’s efforts to prevent disease, fight drought and build schools. “To many people around the world, U.S.A.I.D. is the United States...” “They called you crooks — when you were the best of us, there for the rest of us,” [Bono] said. (NYT)
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For all Trump’s scare language about violent crimes, murders in the US are dropping fast.
The number of homicides is falling dramatically nationwide. In 2024, murders fell by at least 14% across the U.S., according to analyses by the data firm AH Datalytics and the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank. Official data from the FBI goes only through 2023 but shows similar drops. Early analyses from AH Datalytics suggest the drop will be even bigger in 2025. (NPR)
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x The Department of the Interior thought they could rewrite history by asking folks to report “negative” park narratives via QR codes… but instead, people used those codes to flood the system with support for our National Parks, and some hilariously blunt messages. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
x Hundreds of comments demanding more funding for parks, stronger protections for public lands, and calling out the administration’s censorship attempt for what it is. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
x One gem: “This felonious Administration is the very definition of un-American. The parks belong to us, the people… Respectfully, GO **** YOURSELVES.”
(Followed by: “Rangers, have a lovely day. You are appreciated.”) — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
(Sounds rather like a howler from Molly Weasley.)
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On this day in 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg began. On this day in 1943 was the first time that income tax was withheld from a paycheck. In 1963 zipcodes went into service. In 1966 Medicare began. Today is also the birth date of actor Jamie Farr.
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It’s National Gingersnap Day. Here’s a spicy Gingersnap who needed help.
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It’s National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day! What’s the oddest ice cream you’ve tried? Mine’s dill pickle.
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It’s National US Postage Stamps and National Postal Workers Day! Here’s Big Foot at the post office.
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