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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Wednesday July 23 [1]
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Date: 2025-07-23
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
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Posting A Diary
Critter Herding
We’d still love to welcome any and all interested Shady people to our ranks as writers and herders. I will not be deterred! I’m certain there are those out there just waiting for me to utter the right words at the right time to finally convince them to take up the challenge. Writers for Tuesdays would be welcomed even more warmly! 🥰
***Update***
lemay50 will be taking the helm at the writers’ desk on 7/29 and 8/5!
Woohoo! Thanks lemay!
We would still appreciate any other volunteers to step in when necessary. When there are absences due to vacations or what have you, it would be wonderful to have others to fill in. There is a standing call for anyone wanting to help out. Don’t be shy. 💙
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There is some breaking news as of just this afternoon!
What a great trio of Democrats. I love them all and cannot wait until the House is in their capable hands!
x Keep ‘em coming “A House subcommittee on Wed voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein after Democrats successfully goaded GOP lawmakers to defy Trump and Republican leadership to support the action” apnews.com/article/epst...
[image or embed] — @GottaLaff (@gottalaff.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s a cover-up!!! If a cover- up is good enough to bring down Nixon, it should be more than ample to bring down the felon! 😂🤣😁🤣😂
x CNN: The Wall Street journal is reporting that in May, AG Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the white house that his name was in the Epstein files.
[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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We can defend democracy in a peaceful way. We are doing it! We are heeding Carl Sagan’s call, and I couldn’t be prouder. 💙
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This is alarming. Skydance wants to turn CBS into Fox.
The last thing we need is more right-wing media.
CBS cancels Stephen Colbert to please Trump
The termination of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show by CBS should both inspire and outrage us. Stephen Colbert was a sharp and effective critic of Trump. When CBS’s parent company (Paramount) needed the FCC’s permission to be acquired by Skydance, Trump saw an opportunity to silence Colbert. In a shameful episode of inappropriate interference with government oversight, Skydance’s CEO reportedly entered into a “wink-and-a-nod” agreement with the administration to terminate Colbert’s program as part of a condition of the FCC’s approval of the acquisition. See Slate, Stephen Colbert: The real reason why Paramount canceled The Late Show. Skydance is controlled by the conservative Ellison family, which apparently intends to remake CBS in the image of Fox. Per Slate,
Larry Ellison’s son, David, met with the FCC’s [Chairman] Carr earlier this week to get the merger ironed out, promising that CBS would embrace “varied ideological perspectives” under his watch. Such perspectives are likely to be influenced by the right-wingers Ellison wishes to add to the CBS operation, including . . . .Free Press editor Bari Weiss. (According to Belloni, Skydance is reportedly in talks to acquire Weiss’ increasingly Trumpy publication; if both the Paramount and Free Press deals go through, Rhodes and Weiss would serve as the “ideological guide” for CBS News.)
For those of you unfamiliar with Bari Weiss, her publication, The Free Press, is ranked #1 on Substack (ahead of both The Bulwark and Heather Cox Richardson). Per Slate, the “increasingly Trumpy” Bari Weiss will be the “ideological guide” for CBS! But do not despair! Stephen Colbert is already receiving offers to join progressive news outlets, including the juggernaut “The Meidas Touch News Network,” which is the most-watched YouTube channel in America—beating Netflix and Fox News. Stephen Colbert will land on his feet—and will be a bigger and sharper critic from his new perch. Colbert may be paying a short-term price for standing up to Trump, but he will outlast Trump and be remembered as a faithful defender of democracy. Wherever Colbert lands, we should all follow and support him in any way we can. While Colbert will be remembered as a hero, Skydance, Paramount, and CBS will be remembered as media organizations that capitulated to Trump or sought to curry favor with the only president to attempt a coup, incite an insurrection, have a jury conclude he engaged in sexual abuse, and be convicted of criminal fraud.
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About that #1 ranked publication on Substack by ‘trumpy’ Bari Weiss...Apparently, there’s a new issue we need to keep an eye on.
x Something I am thinking a lot about is the risk posed by the large concentration of pro-democracy media on Substack. On the one hand, it facilitates those outlets growth, which is important. On the other, it’s clear their investors are looking to maximize money and an eventual exit. — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
x Looking at their outside investors does not inspire confidence. This is not a long term play to help pro-democracy media grow. At best they are people looking to flip their investment for a handsome profit. At worst they are right wing ideologues. — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
x This is not to say that every pro-democracy outlet or author should leave Substack immediately. It does mean that we should avoid over concentration and reliance on it as a long term solution to building progressive media. — Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) July 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
So now what? I wish more rich democrats would buy media outlets. We are overrun with fascist media owners.
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'It's always been nonsense': John Roberts' long-running claim blown up by editor
Chief Justice John Roberts claims to be a moderate but is in fact in Donald Trump's pocket, according to a Salon editor. Alex Galbraith, Salon's nights and weekends editor, is also author of the outlet's free daily newsletter, Crash Course. On Thursday, Crash Course took aim at Roberts, whom it says, "has overseen the death of the Voting Rights Act, the end of abortion protections in the United States and the last semblance of potential consequences for criminal American presidents.” ✂️ "Sure, Roberts might seem level-headed compared to the seance-holding Originalist Samuel Alito, tantrum-throwing boozer Brett Kavanaugh and bribe-taking Cone of Silence resident Clarence Thomas. But’s he’s as much of an operative for the Republican Party as any of them. Perhaps more so, as his hard-won reputation as an honest dealer provides a sheen of legitimacy to the blatantly partisan rulings of his court," according to the editor. "No need to dig through the last few decades of Roberts court decisions, just take a look back on the term that just ended. Making heavy use of the court’s 'shadow docket,' the court has dodged the question of birthright citizenship, allowed the president to gut the federal government and generally shown support for lawlessness in the executive branch, provided the president wears a red tie." ✂️
The more that is reported on the extreme six, the better. Sunlight really is the best disinfectant. Of course, legacy media won’t do it. It’s up to the independents who are rising to the challenge. (Now we just need to get them to an outlet not owned by right wing idealogues!)
A good conversation here about the ways news needs to be reported in these times. We can’t return to 40+ years ago. Instead, those of us who want to be a part of informing our neighbors must join others to provide a credible alternative; a community of reporters. HCR makes a point in her letters of referring to others who are gathering information and writing about it. She stresses that it’s a team effort without one main star. With the defunding of NPR and PBS, it’s more important than ever for individuals to inform their towns and rural communities of things that are happening. Keeping the dialogue going by talking to people in our circles and just beyond will do a lot to revive the lost news organizations.
The video runs just over 17 minutes.
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I’m going to put in a couple of funny social media responses and memes (that I have bolded) that Heather Cox Richardson referenced in her July 20, 2025, Letters from an American. I love this because rather than leaving them in the response section, she’s reporting on them so they are getting a wider audience. What good are clever comments and memes if they aren’t seen by a ton of people? The more of us who laugh at the felon, the better. It’s also really great that his distractions are becoming something that we all laugh at too! The fact that his pathetic attempts to change the subject aren't working may be a sign We the People are onto him and won’t let it happen anymore. At least I’d like to think so.
✂️ You don’t need polls to see that Trump, at least, is panicking. He is throwing red meat to his base in what appears to be an attempt to regain control of the narrative. After his July 12 threat to strip comedian and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship (she was born in New York, and he does not have that power), he has kept up a stream of social media posts that seem designed to distract his wavering followers from the news around them. On Wednesday, Trump announced on social media: “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them—You’ll see. It’s just better!” ✂️ Social media users posted memes of Coke bottles emblazoned with the words “Trump is on the List” and, in small letters below, “Now with cane sugar.” On Thursday, after observers had noted both the president’s swollen ankles and what appeared to be makeup covering up something on his hand, the White House announced that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that his physician described as a “benign” and common condition in which veins don’t move blood back to the heart efficiently. Trump has never offered any information about his health, and his doctors have presented accounts of his physical exams that are hard to believe, making observers receive this announcement at this moment with skepticism. “Chronic venous insufficiency is a condition where the veins in the legs have difficulty drawing attention from the fact that the Epstein Files still haven’t been released,” one social media meme read. Today, Trump posted on social media: “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!” ✂️ Trump’s attempt to control the narrative didn’t work. “The thing about the Redskins and Indians is that Donald Trump is on the Epstein list,” one social media user wrote. The post was representative of reactions to Trump’s post. ✂️
I am thrilled and somewhat shocked that this could actually be the thing that brings him down. FINALLY! There is no doubt he is a pedophile. The shocker is that maga morons couldn’t see it. How blinded they are to reality. What a terrible life to be sucked into conspiracy theories with no anchor to the real world.
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How anyone could have voted for a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist, or worse, didn’t bother to vote against him because they didn’t feel sufficiently “inspired” by the Democratic leadership, defies all reason. We are living in historical times. This will be referenced years from now about the dangers imposed by an uneducated, ill-informed electorate compounded by a for-profit media owned by billionaires who are intent on furthering their own fortunes at any cost to democracy and the citizens’ welfare.
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WarrenPease has a new poem!
NO KINGS
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chloris creator has a new diary!
Some poll numbers tRump doesn't want you to see: Obama most popular politician, tRump way down
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DebtorsPrison has a new diary too!
Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction
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An intermission! I love Girasol’s new literary tool. 😁
I am a bit of a lego nerd and found this and immediately thought of all our Shady friends who love the Simpsons.
JKBrickworks is a great site to spend a few minutes for anyone who likes kinetic lego sculptures.
Homer in the Bushes -- JKBrickworks
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(It needs to sound professional because it’s for a work email. 🤣😂)
Thanks go to Nanny since I saw it in the comments from a funny flutter she posted in a comment to Sunday’s Shade!
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Worlds Unite
Would Richard Nixon have resigned the presidency if there had been a right-wing media universe in 1974? We’ll never know, of course, but given the events of the last decade it isn’t a stretch to imagine that he could have convinced 40% of the country that the Watergate break-in was a hoax staged by Democrats to bring him down, which would have given cover to the Republican senators who were prepared to convict him in an impeachment trial. Without the threat of being removed from office, Nixon would have had the latitude to stick around, attack his enemies, and complete his term. But in 1974, everyone got their information from the same small set of sources, which reported the same news from essentially the same perspective. There was no credible way for Nixon—or any political figure—to escape the consensus framing of media gatekeepers who set the political agenda. Through a frame of reference that was tethered to reality, the entire country learned that the break-in was part of a political espionage ring operating out of the White House and that Nixon himself was behind an effort to cover it up. The lack of agreement over basic facts like these is the hallmark of our time, perpetuated by a fragmented media environment that allows us to operate within information bubbles of our own liking. If some number of people are willing to believe that a sinister deep state operated by Democrats is covering up a child sex trafficking ring that Donald Trump has promised to expose, well, it isn’t difficult for them to find the reinforcement they’ll need to confirm it. ✂️ The Jeffrey Epstein story is not following the pattern of every other scandalous outrage Donald Trump has faced. Trump has tried his usual tactics but he has been unable to get the story to disappear. ✂️ Most people think Trump is hiding something in the Epstein matter. And almost everyone wants Trump to release all documents related to the case. Literally. Almost everyone. ✂️ The Epstein matter has cut through our usual divisions because both MAGA and not-MAGA are—for different reasons—appalled by what’s happening. Trump dismissing the Epstein evidence undermines one of the core promises he made to his base about being an anti-deep state superhero, so the more Trump equivocates on releasing the Epstein files, the more he implicates himself in the thing he promised to expose. Add MAGA’s rejection of Trump’s defenses to the rest of us who already assume that he is complicit in Epstein’s crimes and you get (poll) numbers like these. ✂️
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This flew under my radar. I had no idea the felon had sued judges. 😯
'Impermissible': Trump hit with blistering court response in bid to sue judges
A federal court in Maryland has responded to President Donald Trump's out-of-the-box plan to sue judges who ruled against him — and pulled no punches. Last month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland instituted a two-day pause in deportations as part of a habeas ruling in favor of immigrants challenging their detention in that state. Trump's Justice Department responded by suing the court and every judge sitting on it. “Every unlawful order entered by the district courts robs the Executive Branch of its most scarce resource: time to put its policies into effect. In the process, such orders diminish the votes of the citizens who elected the head of the Executive Branch,” said the complaint. But the court has issued its own response to the lawsuit, tearing it apart at every level. This lawsuit, the court wrote, "is impermissible." "It is an effort by one branch in its institutional capacity to sue another branch in its institutional capacity seeking what amounts to an advisory opinion unmoored from any specific case or controversy. The courts have confronted similar efforts by legislators to sue in their official capacity and have routinely rejected them on Non justiciability grounds." ✂️
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He is vile. I hope a jail cell is waiting for him.
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There’s been a lot of talk about hate lately. Specifically, Adam Kinzinger accurately pointing out the hate on the right to get the rubes to vote against their own interests. This is an interesting take:
Your Anger is Making Someone a Lot of Money
One trend I have noticed over my political life is the increasingly widespread promotion of anger as a public good. I think you know what I am talking about. It is encapsulated in sayings like “if you are not outraged, you are not paying attention,” or “if you are not outraged, you are part of the problem.” In our times, we expect our fellow activists and our leaders to not only distinguish right from wrong, and to not only act in support of what is right and against what is wrong, but to be performatively angry while they are doing so. It is no longer possible to just do the right thing—you have to be visibly enraged while you are doing it, or else you are doing it incorrectly. Well, I have something to tell you today that I hope will make you a little skeptical of this trend: anger over politics is a big business. A very big business. A multi-billion dollar a year business. A lot of people who you do not know—consultants, social media influencers, Substackers, email and text message marketers, pundits, staffers of campaigns and advocacy organizations—are making a lot of money off of people, including you, who are angry about politics. You don't know who these people are, what their goals are, or what they are doing with this money, but they are doing very well off your anger and enjoying their lives quite a bit as a result, thank you very much. I’m not writing this article to accuse anyone specifically, or to name and shame. I consider that sort of thing poisonous. I am writing this for you, the individual grassroots Democratic or progressive activist (although, who knows, perhaps conservative activists could benefit from my advice). With Donlad Trump back in the White House, it has become par for the course in progressive circles to make daily, visible demonstrations of your burning rage. In this environment, it’s wise to wonder: are there people who are profiting from your rage? And, if there are people profiting from your rage, should you perhaps be suspicious of the provenance and motives behind the rage-oriented media you are consuming? ✂️
I do not like to be manipulated or feel that I am being manipulated. I pride myself on avoiding emails and articles that come off this way. It is impossible, with the felon in office, not to be angry at the destruction he is causing to our democracy and to the basic tenets of a civilized society. I want to be angry in the right way by vowing to write more postcards to voters, by calling and emailing my members of congress, by protesting peacefully, by talking to people in my circle to make sure their voter registrations are up to date, by emphasizing to the people I interact with they must vote in every election for every office and they must vote for democrats because, right now, in this time, all republicans are enabling the destruction of everything we hold dear.
I need my anger not to consume me, and I know that it doesn’t. Life is too short for that. Every day, there are challenges and issues we must all deal with, and we do not need to be focused on the negativity.
Sometimes we need to step back and question why we are being bombarded by so much anger. Then, take a deep breath, exhale slowly, and get on with the things that are important to us. 💙
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Vanilla is the world’s most popular flavor of ice cream. Ice cream was invented in China and vanilla comes from Mexico.
All things in moderation for us and for the furry critters.
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Why, yes. Yes it is. We are roasting this summer and I’m ready for fall.
These cuties are doing their best to stay cool.
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"The Yada Yada" is the 153rd episode of the American NBC sitcom Seinfeld. The 19th episode of the eighth season, it aired on April 24th 1997. In the show, Seinfield used the phrase when he lost interest in something. If it happens to you today then it's only fitting to use "Yada yada yada". The episode has become one of the most famous of the series, specifically for its focus on the phrase "yada yada". "Yadda yadda" was already a common phrase before the episode aired, used notably by comedian Lenny Bruce, among others. The phrase may have originated with the 1950s "yackety-yack", 1940s vaudeville, or earlier. Seinfeld director Andy Ackerman remarked that while filming the episode he was struck by the fact that "yadda yadda" hadn't been the subject of a sitcom episode before, since it was such a universal everyday expression. The Paley Center named "Yada Yada Yada" the No. 1 funniest phrase on "TV's 50 Funniest Phrases". In April 2015, Michael W. Casby noted there was a Blah, Blah, Blah Day. He then declared July 23rd as Yada, Yada, Yada Day. Seinfield also gives us another non-holiday, Festivus. x x YouTube Video
I spent far too much time on YouTube watching Seinfeld clips for this segment! 😂 My favorite (today) was the one with the low flow shower heads. 🤣
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Welcome to the comments, Shady people! 😎
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