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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Friday, July 18 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-18
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EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
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(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
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Big Bird needs your help! In the latest volley against freedom of the press, Trump called for not just ending funding but a clawback of funds for NPR and PBS. If you can spare anything, donate!
x President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasters threatens scores of radio and TV stations across the U.S. Here is where the cuts threaten access to PBS and NPR.
[image or embed] — The New York Times (@nytimes.com) July 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The plot thickens with Paramount / CBS. Elizabeth Warren lays it out:
x I’ve been investigating Paramount’s deal with Trump. Here’s what we know: - Trump sued CBS
- CBS called the lawsuit “meritless”
- Paramount (owner of CBS) still settled, handing $16 MILLION+ to Trump’s library
- Paramount has a billion-dollar deal that needs Trump’s approval
[image or embed] — Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) July 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
But Fox gets a bye.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo says the big story on the Wall Street Journal’s publication of Trump’s salacious birthday card to Epstein is how hard Trump pushed them not to publish it.
x Trump Failing and Flailing – No One’s Ever Seen Anything Like It! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump... — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-07-18T14:56:53.542Z
Update: At 5:29 Trump has sued WSJ over it.
Washington Post has been bought out and many of the best journalists quit in protest. New York Times, in an effort to avoid looking too left-leaning, has whitewashed a good bit of Trump’s worst behavior. Where do you turn for trustworthy journalism now?
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Top of the news is still the Epstein files. Nancy Pelosi says they’re just a distraction from real issues. But if the stink of pedophilia reduces Trump’s followers’ respect for him, isn’t that a big deal? Some of the right’s favorite news commentators are down on him.
Even Tucker Carlson is upset.
“It is salacious... people have followed it for years, the president promised to reveal the truth about this. Pam Bondi... went on television [and] said, ‘We have the truth and we’re gonna give it to you,’” Carlson told Enjeti. “I think this is kind of, I think, this is a big deal. It’s a really big deal.” The political commentator went on to accuse the DOJ of “covering up... very serious crimes” under Bondi’s orders. (Huffpost)
A day after Republicans voted not to release the Epstein files, Trump ordered Pam Bondi to release the grand jury files.
President Donald Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday to release grand jury documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, but while Bondi vowed to ask the court Friday to unseal the filings, it could take months for any documents to actually be released—if the court allows them to come out at all. (Forbes)
Why? Did he, in his habit of reinventing the truth, convince himself that he never knew Epstein? Is he expecting that the judge will refuse the request for release, giving him a good excuse for saying he can’t share the information?
x Why did Trump “order” bondi to release the grand jury info, which is the ONLY stuff that a judge has to approve, vs releasing all the other stuff that’s not grand jury, that they can release today? How about all of it? — Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) July 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Or does he have plans to clean it up before anyone sees it?
x So after 6 years of Republicans calling Democrats pedophiles, they have been exposed at the party who defends pedophelia. Sick — Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) July 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Look, over there! Coca Cola!
But while it’s the big reason why people are having a falling-out with Trump, it’s not the only one. Some Republicans are defecting.
x Re: Trump's Epstein files approval, I can't remember a presidential policy this far underwater ever. Having a hard time wrapping my head around the 20:1 ratio between the percent of people who want him to release the files (79%) and those that don't (4%).
[image or embed] — G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) July 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Intermission.
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In immigrant news, the US citizen and veteran who was grabbed by ICE last week, George Retes, will sue. Check out the details on his story here:
x ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The AP article linked is an eye opener. It includes a side note about a protester taken on the same day.
Retes was detained along with California State University Channel Islands professor Jonathan Caravello, also a U.S. citizen, who was arrested for throwing a tear gas canister at law enforcement, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli posted on X. The California Faculty Association said Caravello was taken away by agents who did not identify themselves nor inform him of why he was being taken into custody. Like Retes, the association said the professor was then held without being allowed to contact his family or an attorney. Caravello was attempting to dislodge a tear gas canister that was stuck underneath someone’s wheelchair, witnesses told KABC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles. (AP)
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With all the distractions, don’t forget the men in CECOT.
x NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador:
• Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided
• More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
[image or embed] — ProPublica (@propublica.org) July 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Whyever is the US sending men to foreign prisons?
x NEW: Trump - who said he had no custody or control over the men at CECOT - has just dealt them away to Venezuela in some kind of prisoner exchange. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) July 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Last week states sued for educational funds that were owed them but being withheld. Now this.
x A coalition of 20 states filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration over its abrupt decision to terminate a multibillion-dollar federal grant program designed to help communities withstand floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) July 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Why can’t Republicans in congress see what’s going on and do something about it?
Long story short: she thinks that the sort of violence that she and her husband faced is intimidating other congress members, who think it could happen to them.
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It’s National Tropical Fruit Day!
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And National Sour Candy Day.
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And National Caviar Day. Cats, it turns out, love caviar as much as I do. (Fish eggs: eeuw.)
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