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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Sunday, August 31st, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-08-31
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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Posting A Diary
Critter Herding
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Tomorrow is Labor Day! Have a great barbecue but consider shifting it to make time for a great protest.
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Wondering how various redistricting efforts will tilt the playing field? Check out this New York Times (shared) article that has a what-if chart. Long story short: it hurts Democrats, but at levels that could be overcome.
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One reason Trump is deporting illegal aliens is because they take away jobs that could be done by citizens.
Your tax dollars at work.
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It’s not just LA, DC, and Chicago: Trump plans to send agents to other “sanctuary cities.”
Trump border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that the administration was preparing to send a “large contingent” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Chicago while ramping up immigration enforcement operations in “sanctuary cities” across the country. “You’re going to see a ramp-up of operations in Chicago, absolutely. You’re going to see a ramp-up of operations in New York. You’re going to see a ramp up of operations continuing in LA, Portland, Seattle, all these sanctuary cities that refuse to work with ICE,” Homan told reporters during a press briefing. These so-called “sanctuary cities” have policies in place that limit collaboration between local police and federal immigration agents. (Huffpost)
It’s not just Chicago: other cities are warning agents that they’re not welcome.
x FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE NOTE… It’s not just Chicago standing strong. Other blue cities and governors are ready to unite against Trump’s federal invasion. I’m not an attorney, but this point seems huge: if federal agents break state or city laws, they can prosecuted. And Trump cannot pardon them.
[image or embed] — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) August 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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First the Trump team said they were going after murderous criminal illegals. Then they said they were coming for any illegal immigrants. But now they’re happily arresting law abiding legal immigrants who are contributing to our nation’s good.
x The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
[image or embed] — Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Expedited removal used to be applied by DHS to migrants near the border who had recently crossed it. Under Trump’s admin the process has been used on migrants far from the border who had been here for up to two years. A federal judge has temporarily blocked that.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., suggested the Trump administration’s expanded use of the expedited removal of migrants is trampling on individuals’ due process rights. “In defending this skimpy process, the Government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them,” Cobb wrote in a 48-page opinion issued Friday night. “Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk.” (Huffpost)
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The Trump admin tried to deport a group of Guatemalan children who crossed the border without parents. A judge has put a temporary hold on that so that the children can receive due process.
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the order after the National Immigration Law Center filed an emergency request in federal court to stop the deportations. The lawyers argued that the government had violated the children’s rights to due process and had ignored special protections for minors who cross the border alone. The court forbade the administration from deporting the children, who are as young as 10, for 14 days. Even so, dozens of children were removed by immigration authorities from shelters overnight and were gathered in preparation to be placed on chartered planes to Guatemala, according to officials with knowledge of the situation. (NYT)
So much losing.
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What a real law enforcement professional looks like, and what he plans to do about masked pseudo-cops.
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x This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
[image or embed] — Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) August 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Here’s a shared copy of that New York Times podcast and its transcript. Obama is pretty careful to follow the tradition of past presidents not interfering with current ones, so when he speaks out, it’s important.
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Speaking of professionals, the CDC sadly lost a number of senior public health scientists this week thanks to RFK. But a crowd assembled to celebrate their contributions as they left.
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Rand Paul is right.
x If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?
Terrible idea.
What to know about the US getting a stake in Intel | AP News
https://t.co/3UHCM39NUB — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 20, 2025
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This article is offbeat but fascinating: A woman who sells teaching materials for girls’ empowerment discusses the conversations about a liberal subject in typically conservative-leaning home schooling conferences.
“OK, my daughter loves Harriet Tubman. Tell me what you got!” she says. I explain our product, how we use historical women to teach girls about their worth and potential. The mother says: “But is it woke? I mean, I don’t want to teach my daughter about woke.” ... I think to myself, Hell yes, it’s woke. The irony is lost on this potential customer. “What do you mean, ‘woke’?” I ask. (Huffpost)
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And another good idea in conservative education:
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Gavin Newsom is becoming the next Chuck Norris, meme-wise. This from Canada:
x Gavin Newsom has ended 186 wars, including 36 wars that haven’t even started yet. He was offered the Nobel Peace Prize but he turned it down because the job isn’t finished yet.
😂 — 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) August 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Sunday Science
This short discussion on astrophysics turned up in Bored Panda.
Time is not linear due to the constant expansion of space therefore time is expansive.
Phytanic replied:
also time is a function of gravity. the earths core is ~2.5 years younger than the crust
Velocity_Rob replied:
I can relate to that. I feel like my core is still only 28 but my crust is definitely 40.
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Our preparedness for another Katrina-level storm is less than ideal and getting worse as Trump denies climate change and cuts key positions.
On August 25, 191 current and former FEMA employees — only 35 of whom attached their names, for fear of retaliation — signed the “Katrina Declaration,” an open letter to Congress to “sound the alarm” that the agency’s “current trajectory reflects a clear departure” from efforts made in the wake of that disaster not to repeat the agency’s shortcomings. On August 27, FEMA suspended more than 20 employees who had signed the letter. As climate change increases the frequency and severity of hazards, annual losses due to disasters is projected to double in many countries around the Gulf Coast by 2050. A study by the Urban Research Institute, using data from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Future Risk Index, found that Gulf Coast states are projected to lose $32 billion per year under a “middle-of-the-road” warming scenario, compared with $15 billion if global warming is not considered. (Science News)
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If you’re paywalled from Washington Post, this MSN article is similar.
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A shingles vaccination can reduce risk of heart disease and stroke.
Getting the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 20%, according to the first study of its kind. Shingles is a common condition affecting millions worldwide that causes a painful rash and can lead to serious problems such as deafness, long-lasting pain and blindness. It is more likely to cause serious problems in older age groups. Most countries tend to only recommend the vaccine to older people or immunosuppressed adults but the findings suggest it could have cardiovascular protective effects in adults as young as 18. (The Guardian)
Will discoveries like this about treating this “long chicken pox” lead us to useful discoveries about long COVID?
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x People who received a whole-virus Covid vaccine in a research study were more than 1.5 times to twice as likely to be infected than those who had been immunized with an mRNA vaccine that targeted only the virus’ spike protein.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
[image or embed] — Ian Weissman, DO (@drianweissman.bsky.social) August 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Aren’t you glad you got mRNA?
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On this day in 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his famous The American Scholar speech at Harvard College. In 1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope which showed moving pictures. In 1955 — 1955! — the first solar powered automobile was demonstrated in Chicago, IL. In 1965 - Congress established the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And in 1987 a minor league baseball catcher, Dave Bresnahan, attempted to lure an opposing base runner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball in an event known as the Great Potato Incident.
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It’s National Eat Outside Day. (Sound up to hear the music.)
x YouTube Video
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And it’s National South Carolina Day!
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Trail Mix Day!
x YouTube Video
Got a good trail mix recipe? Share it in the comments.
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And National Diatomaceous Earth Day. Haven’t you always wanted to just get out there and whoop it up for diatomaceous earth?
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And it’s National Matchmaker Day.
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