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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Thursday July 3 [1]

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Date: 2025-07-03

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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Good evening, everyone!

In case you missed my long-winded intro yesterday, lucky you! 😂 Here are the links for anyone who may want to try their hand at writing or herding. We sure would appreciate any and all help. If you’d rather reach out, we are just a comment away. The mornings after the shade posts are quieter and more private if that suits you better.

Posting A Diary

Critter Herding

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Bringing Home Don Bacon

It’s not even July 4, and two Republicans in swing seats have already declared their independence. ✂️ Once Donald Trump solidified his hold on the Republican party, obedience became the price of membership. Independent thought is forbidden in a party devoted to the whims of one man and the demands of his core supporters. Tragically, far too many Republican officials have been willing to hand over their agency. For those who have not, or at least have qualms, serving in government has to be a constant balancing act with their conscience. I say this without much sympathy, because Republicans could have fought this years ago. They could band together and fight it now. Or they could run away, which is what Bacon and Tillis have decided to do. ✂️ Back in April, I wrote about five factors that need to be in place to propel a blue wave election next year. Three of them were already there—and still are: voter anger, Democratic over-performance in special elections, and excellent candidate recruitment. Item #4 on this list—retirements from the other party—is an indicator that typically doesn’t come into focus until much later in the cycle: ✂️ I thought we would have to wait at least until Christmas before getting a measure of how badly Republicans wanted to run for the exits. Bacon and Tillis would have been high on my list of members who might have ultimately decided to return home, but I never imagined they would head out before we reached July. Yet here we are, with two high-profile, politically meaningful dropouts hanging it up in advance of the final vote on Donald Trump’s poisonous domestic wish list. If you want another sign that 2026 is looking like a blue year, this is it.

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Marc Elias and Democracy Docket are still sounding the alarm about Rs trying to suppress the vote. One of the most important tasks ahead of us is passing a voters’ rights bill, but that won’t happen until democrats control congress and the White House. How pathetic are republicans that their priority is to see as few voters as possible?

Anti-Voting Activists Definitely Haven’t Given Up on Passing the SAVE Act

Since the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act back in April, the GOP’s monster voter suppression bill has fallen out of the headlines somewhat. The measure — which would require people registering to vote to show documentary proof of citizenship, potentially disenfranchising millions of Americans — represents the worst attack on voting rights in American history, historians told Democracy Docket. But it appears doomed in the Senate, where it lacks the votes to overcome an all-but-certain Democratic filibuster. Still, don’t breathe easy just yet — because some of the most influential right-wing activists certainly haven’t given up on the SAVE Act. In fact, they’re ramping up a major campaign this summer to pressure lawmakers into getting around the filibuster and forcing the measure onto President Donald Trump’s desk. In an organizing meeting held Monday on Zoom and listened to by Democracy Docket, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin explained the strategy: Use grassroots pressure to convince lawmakers to attach the SAVE Act to must-pass legislation later this year — probably either a continuing resolution spending bill or the defense funding bill, known as the National Defense Reauthorization Act — which might be hard for Democrats to sustain a filibuster on. “We’ve learned over the course of our movement that when you want to get something done, you have to attach it to must-pass legislation,” Martin explained. ✂️

I do not have a passport, and I changed my name when I got married. I’d be flagged with the SAVE act and could not vote. There are millions of us being targeted by this horrible legislation.

There are 2 other stories at the link outlining more shenanigans in the works to reduce voter rolls and to enforce the felon’s anti-voting executive order. These people never stop, which is why I’m relieved we have competent fighters on our team. I do worry about these issues making it to the extreme court.

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Addressing that extreme court worry, this is such a good article. I’ll place the flutter here, but I encourage you to click and read more.

Any of you familiar with my diaries know how much I respect Heather Cox Richardson. She is the best for filling in the blanks with historical context. I know it’s a long video (nearly 40 minutes) but it is a great explainer for how we’ve gotten to this point where Rs are rabidly anti-immigrant. Of course, it makes no sense at all, and it hurts our country in the worst ways, but Rs don’t think straight.

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I’m wondering about that horrible extreme court decision and this sheds only a bit of light. Maybe the lower courts will still uphold the rule of law regardless of the shit coming from the extreme 6.

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No passage yet.

x Four R nay votes. That’s ballgame. Rule fails

[image or embed] — Kristin Wilson 📎 (@kristin-wilson.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM I wish that was it and the ugly bill was history, but they’ll keep at it. Keep calling and emailing. We haven’t lost yet! (As of this morning!!! I’ll keep checking in today and hoping for the best!) === Updates from today’s news… I love our Dems!!! Hakeem Jeffries was on hour 5 of holding the floor to delay the vote as of this writing. I’m watching a bit of it live and he is doing great!!! x House GOP tried to gut Medicaid & SNAP in the dead of night—but House Dems refused to back down. Leader Jeffries turned the “Magic Minute” into hours of powerful testimony, lifting up the voices of those whose lives are on the line. On the eve of July 4th, there’s nothing more American than that.

[image or embed] — Rep. Johnny Olszewski (@repjohnnyo.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM === I love Scott Dworkin. Great News, Unless You’re Trump ✂️ Last week in Carlinville, IL, some bad actors parked a dumpster and a truck—both full of manure—outside the regular anti-Trump protest spot. In response, around five times as many people showed up to this week’s protest. That’s what I call backlash. Nearly all of the members of the City Commission in Key West, FL, voted to cancel the agreement between the city’s police and ICE. This would mean that the Key West Police Department will no longer hold detainees for ICE, or share arrest data with them. DeSantis threatened retaliation, but they aren’t backing down. DeSantis has other things to worry about right now anyway, as his abomination of a detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” flooded, due to a regular rainstorm. The good news is that this new evidence can be added to the lawsuit aimed at shutting the facility down. It’s a colossal disaster in the making, from all angles—one that DeSantis, Trump, and Noem all deserve the blame for. ✂️ === Whew. This day has been trying. I’m refreshing as I can to find breaking news. Apologies if something happens that I didn’t post. Regardless, we will deal with what comes together. We will fight and save our democracy. We have to. === Ugh. It passed. This isn’t over. We are going to sweep them out of office in massive numbers. ===

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