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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Friday, July 4 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-04
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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Blast from the past! In 1988, NPR began its annual tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on the fourth of July. In 2017 they also tweeted the Declaration and raised a furor on Twitter. People didn’t recognize the articles against King George III and thought that liberal public radio was bashing the new president, Donald Trump.
Please stop. This is not the right place.
This is why you’re going to get defunded.
So, NPR is calling for revolution. Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound "patriotic". Your implications are clear.
Here’s the cast of NPR discussing and reading the Declaration of Independence this year.
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Mother Jones is unabashedly talking about Trump in this item by item breakdown of the Declaration of Independence. Best read in its entirety, but warning: snark ahead.
Two hundred and forty-nine years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Donald Trump. Here’s a look at how Trump stacks up against the Mad King.
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A brief review of what this holiday is all about, more or less. Rather less.
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In all seriousness, though, this isn’t the land of the free right now.
x Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Nor is this the country acting in the religious fervor of “under God.” Reverend Warnock preaches it.
x SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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What would Jesus say? Not this.
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ICE has been bad but they haven’t even gotten the big budget boost the Big Bill promises.
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ICE violence: it’s not just for immigrants anymore. Citizens documenting ICE action can be roughed up and jailed as well. This one is fighting back.
x A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny. THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
[image or embed] — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) July 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Trump threatens to strip citizenship from criminals making them eligible for an ICE jail or deportation or both.
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“Criminals” refers to people Trump doesn’t like. But Mamdani is fighting back too.
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With the Big Bill’s Medicaid cuts hitting red states hardest, here’s where the blue wave that ghost mentioned last night might come from.
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But it’s important to get the word out to red state folks who will be relieved to find that their health care is still intact after the bill passed. That’s because the cuts coming their way hit hardest only at the end of Trump’s term.
x Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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NYT has a good breakdown of the Big Bill’s impact on our lives with charts. (I love charts.) This is a shared article and worth a good look. You weren’t doing anything until it gets dark, right?
With unusual speed, and despite an armada of controversial provisions, Congress has birthed a sprawling, nearly 900-page policy bill stuffed with hundreds of changes that will bestow trillions of dollars in tax cuts on the rich and special interests while slicing deeply into social programs relied on by millions of Americans.
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The bill hurts most Americans, raises the deficit, dumps an amount of money on the rich that isn’t likely to be significant to them compared to what they already have, raises the national debt by trillions, and is likely to wreck the economy as well. (Also a shared article.) This is in addition to the economic damage being done by ICE targeting fields and Home Depots to jail our workforce.
Donald Trump as a candidate promised his policies wouldn’t add to the debt. Before taking office, he vowed “to restore fiscal sanity to our nation.” His “big, beautiful bill” does the opposite... We were members of Bill Clinton’s economic team when the federal budget was balanced, the only time that has happened in more than half a century. In nearly every respect, the Trump administration’s approach is the opposite of what worked in the 1990s — and it poses huge risks to our economy. (NYT)
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The good news is that Americans from all over are still fighting. Keep calling congressmen, observe no-buy Fridays, keep talking to your neighbors, and keep making your voice heard. Let freedom ring every way you can.
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x Happy Friday Bsky! There's a lot to not like about the state we are in. But we still have a lot to be thankful for. Protect your mental health. Take breaks when you need to. Hug your loved ones. We'll get through this. Have an awesome day!
[image or embed] — Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️🌈 (@spawn03.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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On this day in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed and 20 years later was the first celebration of Independence Day.
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On the 50th anniversary of the signing, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died within hours of each other.
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It’s Alice in Wonderland Day. On July 4, 1862 Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell a story,and on July 4, 1865 he published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with it’s well known cat.
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On July 4, 1970 Casey Kasem first broadcast American Top 40.
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It’s National Caesar Salad Day.
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And it’s National Barbecued Spare Ribs Day! If you share with cats or dogs, though, don’t give them the bones.
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