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Evening Shade-- Resistance Rising-- Wednesday September 3 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-03
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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Posting A Diary
Critter Herding
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Bringing the Shade is a great resistance action against the felon and his mob!
Still looking for writers and herders!
I am nothing if not persistent!
It’s always so nice to see everyone here and I’m sorry if I’m becoming a nuisance with my outreach.
I would ask anyone with just an inkling of a desire to add a diary to our community to just click on that button at the top right that says
WRITE A STORY
Go on...just click on it. You don’t have to do anything more than that. See what pops up? It isn’t scary at all.
If providing critters to our Shady pals piques your interest more, YAY! Play around with the Image library to see what’s there or visit YouTube and explore some videos. Or get creative and find shareable critters any way you’d like!
We’d be most grateful.
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The big news of the day is the press conference with the Epstein victims. First up is this from last night… a heck of a set-up.
x 🚨🚨🚨”What we heard today is a cover up. And it is a cover up of epic proportions. A cover up involving the US government, the justice system, rich and powerful individuals… and yes, a cover up by republicans in this chamber.”
[image or embed] — CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As of this afternoon…
x Epstein survivors say they’re compiling their own client list. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led—for survivors” — Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
x De Georgiou: And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing. You have a choice: stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.
[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) September 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
x Davies: The truth is Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current President Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag actually.
[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) September 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
x The Epstein saga lays bare the playbook: right-wing media, GOP politicians & MAGA propagandists colluding to hide heinous acts, divert attention and protect the powerful. It’s what they do on EVERY issue. If your eyes are open, you can't miss it — unless you are willingly looking the other way. — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) September 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hopefully this results in actual accountability. At least it keeps the spotlight on this inconvenient truth for the felon and others.
The felon ordered military aircraft to swoop overhead to try and drown out the survivors’ voices. It was a childish tantrum by the leader of the free world who is a disgrace to everything for which America stands.
The felon is strong arming the gropers in Congress to vote against the discharge petition. Yeah, that doesn’t make him look guilty at all. This news conference was more about persuading Rs in the House to vote for the bill rather than to reveal the names of the people on the list. Maybe, just maybe, a few can be persuaded to support the legislation to release all of the files.
But according to this in The Guardian
Epstein abuse survivors urge lawmakers to back bill that would release all files
✂️ But even if the petition receives that support, and the bill passes the House, the legislation will still need to be approved by the Senate, where Republican majority leader John Thune has given no indication he will put it up for a vote. Should it pass the Senate, it faces another obstacle: the president. Trump’s condemnation of the Epstein file furor, as a distraction created by the Democrats, could result in him vetoing the legislation. That would punt the issue back to Congress, where the bill would need two-third majority support to overcome his veto.
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More unhinged illegal action from the felon and his mob. It really is scary to think he could have done this simply to take eyeballs away from the Epstein news conference.
x Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
[image or embed] — Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
And more on that…
x And was there a trial? A judgment? A sentence? Just summary execution on the word of an Administration who has demonstrated no fealty to the truth. Were the folks in that boat “the worst of the worst” like the migrants outside Home Depot? — Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
x It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it. — Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 (@tabathasouthey.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Nanny Ogg did an amazing job summarizing the day’s events in her Shade last night. To further cement some of those stories, Heather Cox Richardson’s letter from last night is a great read in its entirety.
Letters from an American September 2, 2025
✂️ Trump appeared today in the Oval Office—an hour late—to announce he would move Space Force headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, apparently to put the rumors of his ill health to rest. At the event, Trump referred to the recent court decision declaring many of his tariffs illegal, saying that “if you took away tariffs, we could end up being a third-world country.” In fact, the country’s economy has slowed significantly since Trump instituted his tariffs, and Trump’s agenda continues to take hits. Yesterday, nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents reaching back to President Jimmy Carter, published an op-ed in the New York Times warning that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “is endangering every American’s health.” ✂️ Kennedy’s firing of CDC director Dr. Susan Monarez last Wednesday, a firing Trump approved, appears to have been the event that spurred the former directors to speak up as a group. They wrote that what Kennedy has done to the CDC and to public health in the U.S. since taking office is “unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.” ✂️ A post on Trump’s social media account yesterday morning seemed to try to blame “Drug Companies” for “let[ting] everyone rip themselves apart, including Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC,” suggesting that administration officials are aware that there is a political backlash brewing over the administration’s assault on public health. ✂️
She addresses many other events of the day but I’ll focus on the mess at the CDC. For that she referenced an article in The Bulwark
Trump’s Real Health Care Problem
I don’t know if Donald Trump has a personal health problem. But I’m confident he has a political health care problem. At 8:15 a.m. yesterday, bright and early on Labor Day, our president took to Truth Social. That of course isn’t unusual. Trump posts at all hours on any day. But this was, for him, an unusual type of pronouncement. He wasn’t boasting about invented achievements. He wasn’t ranting about dastardly opponents. Instead, he seemed . . . concerned. Almost puzzled. Dare one say, pensive? ✂️ The Centers for Disease Control is “being ripped apart,” he fretted. Surely Donald Trump hasn’t suddenly developed an appreciation for the importance of not “ripping apart” government agencies. But he is, I’d judge, alarmed about the political effects of what’s happening there. And who’s been doing that ripping apart? His own secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, said on Friday that Kennedy is “a crown jewel” of Trump’s administration. Trump’s post yesterday did not repeat this encomium. In fact, it didn’t even include a statement of confidence in his HHS secretary. To the contrary: Trump says that Kennedy is one of those “rip[ping] themselves apart” in the controversy. Crown jewels don’t rip themselves apart. ✂️ So, as we head into the September showdown on next year’s budget, Republicans have handed Democrats a politically powerful agenda on the issue of health care: Undo the Medicaid cuts. Keep the health insurance tax credits. Provide vaccines. Trump is now on the unpopular side of these arguments. He doesn’t care about the substance, and will be tempted to give in and take these attacks off the table. But that would fracture his base. MAHA doesn’t like vaccines. Many congressional Republicans, not just the Freedom Caucus, hate concessions on Medicaid or Obamacare. So Trump’s path ahead is rocky. The Democrats’ path, on the other hand, is pretty simple: Promote and publicize doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and patients and their families, explaining the damage Trump is doing. And then spend all month in D.C. fighting on their behalf. ✂️
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OMG. Surely this will end up in court. The stupidity is off the charts with these people.
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So much winning losing...
x Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.” — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is what happens when you put the dumbest, most incompetent people in charge.
Now that we know, can we change back to what we had in the Biden administration, PLEASE?
He did so much for the American people. ALL of the American people!
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It’s all about priorities…
Someday, we might have nice things, too.
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As we all have lamented here, the media is complicit in the destruction of our democracy. Here is another take on that from Matt Kerbel. I agree with him wholeheartedly that civics needs to make a comeback in our schools!
Constitutional Revival: Information
On January 6, 2021, supporters of Donald Trump attacked the Capitol to halt the counting of electoral votes that would have certified Joe Biden as the rightful winner of the 2020 election. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they were peaceful tourists. Maybe it was a day of love. Maybe Biden didn’t win the election at all. These false claims have all been amplified by right-wing media. And our media environment is so fragmented that you can get all your information from news sources or influencers who promote their own reality. This is no way to run a democracy. In fact, it may make democracy impossible. For all the reforms we’ve discussed in this series, a functioning democracy may remain elusive unless we break out of our information silos. And I have to admit that I don’t know of an easy way to make that happen. ✂️ Even if you could bring back standards for reporting news in the public interest, tailoring them to our fragmented, decentralized information bazaar would be orders of magnitude more challenging than what the FCC faced when it was dealing with three television networks. And protecting free expression in the pursuit of maintaining good information potentially puts a foundational right at odds with a democratic essential. But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. Good information reliably communicated is a cornerstone of effective governance. So is the ability to process information. So is having a fundamental understanding of how government works. On that score, there may be something we can do quickly to make politics feel a bit less overwhelming. There may be a way to help people develop the tools to wade through our confusing news environment and make better political choices for themselves. Civics. Understanding government and our role as citizens. A bipartisan group of senators led by Democrat Chris Coons and Republican John Cornyn have sponsored the Civics Secures Democracy Act, which would pump $1 billion federal dollars annually to state education agencies and nonprofit organizations to support the teaching of civics in public schools. ✂️ Democracy becomes easier to sustain as more people understand the fundamentals of government, recognize how it affects them, and figure out where they fit in the process. Remember, Donald Trump has openly embraced poorly educated Americans. He does not want you to think for yourself. Do we need a better reason to make sure people do? For all the institutional changes that will help us reclaim democracy, perhaps none is as important as civic education. We can bring the Court back into balance. We can draw fair districts. We can reform the filibuster. We can recalibrate campaign finance laws. We can make voting easier. We can do these things. We must do these things. But when we do, our nation will still only be as strong as the people entrusted to make decisions for themselves. We have to empower ourselves and our neighbors to make good decisions. To make informed decisions. To make decisions that will serve our interests. Because this is how democracy works. This is how democracy is supposed to work. Democracy is not and never has been a spectator sport. It is the sum total of the collective choices we make. We need to be able to make those choices well.
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Some of our Shady pals’ recent diaries can be found at these links:
chloris creator has a new News the felon-in-chief does not want you to see: September 3, 2025 edition
And DebtorsPrison’s latest Nonfiction Views: This week's notable new nonfiction
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The latest webcast from Heather Cox Richardson is informative, as always. It runs 34 minutes if you’d like something to listen to while you perform daily chores. 😎
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I have looked and looked and can’t find numbers for the “Workers over Billionaires” protests. I loved this from Scott Dworkin, though.
Trump Faces 1,000+ “Workers Over Billionaires” Protests Images from all 50 states and DC
Countless Americans protested peacefully across the country yesterday. Like we’ve done in the past, we spent a lot of time gathering images to prove there were “Workers Over Billionaires” events in all 50 states and DC. Especially since corporate media coverage was abysmal. We’re still gathering photos and adding them to this post—we’ll be updating it throughout the day. ✂️
Click on the link to see pictures of the protests!
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Lots of war references from around the world in the daily observances today.
Merchant Navy Day is observed in the UK and Canada, honoring the sacrifices made during war and conflict.
I don’t mean to be flippant or to minimize the importance of this day, but Merchant Navy Day made me immediately remember Mr. Lucky, with Cary Grant.
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Commemorates the day in 1901 on which the Australian National Flag was first flown.
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The complete title of the Victory Day holiday is known as “Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese War and the World Anti-Fascist War Victory Commemoration Day”, which is exactly how the World War Two is called in China. On September 2, 1945, Japan put its signature for its formal surrender, with China deciding to commemorate the day, a day post the date.
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Skyscrapers are a real decoration of big cities, but they have existed for only 130 years. In crowded areas, where there is little land space, such buildings are also quite effective. The date was not chosen by chance. September 3rd was chosen as the date for this commemorative day because it was the birthday of architect Louis H. Sullivan, who has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and was widely considered to have designed the first ones. The world's first skyscraper is generally considered to be the Home Insurance Building in Chicago. It was built in 1885 and was 10 stories tall -- an impressive height back then -- and stood out as well for having a frame of metal, rather than being built primarily from stone. An addition in 1890 later gave another two stories to the Home Insurance Building.
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A good history lesson can be found here: The Surrender of General Tomoyuki Yamashita ✂️ Yamashita’s surrender marked the end of a brutal period in Philippine history. The Japanese occupation had been characterized by widespread atrocities, including massacres, forced labor, and the destruction of cities and infrastructure. The Battle of Manila alone had left much of the capital in ruins, and the toll on the civilian population was immense. The liberation of the Philippines and the surrender of the Japanese forces allowed the country to begin the process of rebuilding. However, the scars of the war would remain for decades. The Philippines suffered massive losses in terms of human life, infrastructure, and economic stability. The destruction of Manila, once known as the “Pearl of the Orient,” was particularly devastating, as it had been one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities in Asia before the war. ✂️ ===
Armed Forces Day in Taiwan was first held on September 3rd, 1955, to commemorate the Republic of Chinas victory over Japan in the second world war.
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Welsh rarebit consists of a savory sauce of hot melted cheese poured over toasted bread. A popular legend suggests that the meat-based name for this meatless dish stems from Welsh peasants for whom cheese was a substitute for the meat they could not afford. x x YouTube Video
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The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) was founded in 1895. It is the national governing body for ten-pin bowling in the United States. The organization was formed to provide standardized rules, regulations and scoring for the sport of ten-pin bowling. x x YouTube Video
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There was bacon day in the US just a couple of weeks ago. Seems like we could have just made that day international and been done.
What is the difference between bacon in the UK and bacon in the US?
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