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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Sunday, July 6 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-06
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)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
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Selling off our public lands — our national treasure — so that corporate interests could make a short term profit was a provision in the Big Bill. Did you notice that this provision was ousted from the final version of the bill?
America’s public lands are safe — for now. A provision proposed by Senator Mike Lee of Utah in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill that would have required the Bureau of Land Management to sell as much as 1.225 million acres of public lands is dead. It died when Mr. Lee raised a white flag in defeat. It died because, in addition to Democrats, four Republican senators from Montana and Idaho refused to vote for it. It died because five Republican House representatives from Western states said it was a “poison pill.” And it died because over 100 conservation groups and public lands advocates, as well as hunters, anglers, ranchers, recreationists and right-wing influencers said no.
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But Trump is still trying. Don’t stop calling on your congress members to save our public lands. Speaking up worked once and it can work again.
x The newly established “Make America Beautiful Again Commission,” created under a Trump executive order, may sound harmless, or even beneficial, but beneath the surface, it represents a major threat to public lands. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
x While the order uses polished language about “stewardship” and “recreation,” its real intent is to expand industrial access to previously protected areas. History shows that when Trump — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
x talks about increasing recreation like hiking and hunting, it paves the way for oil drilling, mining, and logging under the guise of “multi-use.” Millions of acres in states like Alaska, Nevada, and New Mexico have already been opened to fossil fuel and hard-rock extraction using similar language. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The art of no deal.
x Trump in April on trade deals: I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please sir, make a deal. I'll do anything sir!' Trump Treasury Secretary Bessent today on why there are no deals: Many of these countries never even contacted us
[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) July 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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This explains so much.
x Reporter: Do the tariff rates change at all on July 9th or do they change on August 1st? Trump: What are you talking about? Reporter: Tariff rates. Do they change on July 9th or August 1st? Trump: They're going to be tariffs. The tariffs are going to be the tariffs.
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Trump and the Republicans will regret dumping the richest man in the world.
Musk has already filed for the party.
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These aren’t disaster funds. The money comes from FEMA’s Shelter and Services fund which is indeed designed to provide temporary housing for migrants released by Border Patrol so that they don’t end up dumped on the streets. (FEMA’s own Shelter and Services page is currently “page not found.”)
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The state of Florida also helped provide Alligator Alcatraz funding though.
x We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Brain cleanse.
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x 'In a stunning moment, Republican Senator James Lankford admits that President Biden’s border bill would have been far more successful than anything Trump has done on the border.' via @democraticwins.bsky.social
substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
[image or embed] — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Word salad is back on the menu. (If you want a bigger helping, check out Digby’s report on Trump’s speech in Iowa.) News articles about Trump’s dementia are on the rise again. He isn’t “weaving,” he’s just tangled.
“You know, when I did the 250, there was nothing I could do. It was 250. It was 250. So I can’t see — that was my baby. The country happened to be 250 years old. But what I did do is during my first term, I got the Olympics, and I got the Great Soccer. You know that whole deal, right? I got — we call it soccer. They call it football. I got them both. I got the Olympics. First, I got the Olympics, and I got it. I was president. And I said, you know, it’s a shame. It’s a shame. I got the World Cup, and I have the Olympics, and I did it. And you have no idea. President Obama didn’t want to make a call to the Olympics. You know why? Because he went to Switzerland or wherever, and he said, you know, if a president goes to get the Olympics, you have to have a deal. You have to be chosen. He went there, and he came in fourth, so he hated them, I guess. And he was unwilling to make a call, and they called me up. The Democrats called me up, actually, from Los Angeles, and I said, I’ll do it. I made the call, and I couldn’t get the people off the phone because they were so starved for love, because nobody would call them from — anyway, we made a deal.”
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Sunday Pseudo-science
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Sunday Science
Who’s applying for asylum? American scientists. In France.
At Aix-Marseille University, hundreds of applications came in from researchers tied to institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford. Three months after they launched their programme – named Safe Place for Science – the university said it had received more than 500 inquiries. It was a glimpse of the “historic” moment the world was facing, said Éric Berton, the university’s president. “More than 80 years ago, as France was under occupation and repression, America welcomed exiled researchers, offering them a helping hand and allowing them to keep science alive,” he said. “And now, in a sad reversal of history, some American scientists have arrived in France in search of a space for freedom, thought and research.” (The Guardian)
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West Virginia is rife with polluted streams from past coal mining. Owners of plots large and small are cleaning those waters and harvesting rare earth minerals in the process. This is a NYT sharable article with interesting photos of how it’s done.
Separating rare earths from solids is expensive, and trying to open a new mine to do so could take years. “You’d have to grind it up, treat it with acids, all kinds of chemistry,” said Dr. Ziemkiewicz, whose team worked with Virginia Tech researchers and L3 Process Development, a chemical engineering firm, to develop a patented process for extracting rare earths from mine water pollution. Acidic mine runoff is already doing much of the work, dissolving rare earths and other materials into a polluted mixture that requires cleanup, anyways. (NYT)
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3I/Atlas is “3I” because it’s the third interstellar object discovered so far, passing though the solar system so fast that the sun’s gravity can’t hang onto it. It presents no danger to Earth.
The interstellar comet’s size and physical properties are being investigated by astronomers around the world. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes through September 2025, after which it will pass too close to the Sun to observe. It will reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December 2025, allowing for renewed observations.
Or you can see it here.
x That small dot moving left to right is 3I/ATLAS. It's a comet that was discovered on 1 July 2025. It's travelling at 58 km PER SECOND and isn't gravitationally bound to the Sun. Which means you're looking at a comet that formed around another star, passing through the Solar System.
[image or embed] — Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Are you up for reading something deeper? Vox published an interesting article on literacy vs orality. In short, reading is becoming less popular as online sound bites become more popular, resulting a rebirth of a sort of oral tradition. But literacy encourages abstract thought and critical thinking in a way that orality does not.
In his book Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror, the media theorist Andrey Mir argues that “digital orality” has plunged many conservatives and progressives into the abyss of Plato’s cave — the allegorical realm where subjective intuitions are mistaken for objective truths. The right subordinates reason to Trump’s cult of personality, while the left values empiricism less than “intersectionality.” The result is “identitarian tribalism,” polarization, and a crisis of representative democracy.
If you have a few minutes and can still summon up some attention span, go read it.
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Public service announcement: It’s July, so everyone needs quick, easy, decadently rich ice cream made with three ingredients and no churning. The flavor shown here is lemon but it could be vanilla, chocolate, coffee, rum raisin, peanut butter (mmm, peanut butter) or anything you can dream up. Two minute video about a five minute recipe.
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