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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday, September 4th, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-04
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Posting A Diary
Critter Herding
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About that sinking of a foreign vessel.
5/ These statements by Secretary Rubio make the legal case against the U.S. strike even stronger.
Finucane spells out that implication here: [image or embed]
But if so (and it doesn't), that means the US War Crimes Act applies too, including the prohibition on murder.
3/ The best line of argument for the administration might be that the law of armed conflict somehow applies.
Time to connect some dots. Multiple judges - including a panel for the very conservative 5th Circuit - have ruled that deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act is unlawful because it’s a war time statute and we’re not at war.
That's not authority. Also, they're not terrorists, literal or otherwise, other than in the Dumb Person sense of terrorist = bad. Drug dealers do not tend to be ideology driven. Nobody is smuggling coke to take down capitalism. [image or embed]
I'll be curious to see how this develops. He was in the upper quintile of Republicans disgracing themselves through sheer toadyism in the first Trump term. But now he's starting to treat Trump like a lame duck rather than a god emperor. [image or embed]
this post will never not make me snort [image or embed]
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In Judicial news.
"A dozen federal judges—appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump, and serving around the country — pointed to a pattern they say has recently emerged: ... [image or embed]
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases. www.nbcnews.com/...
Emergency rulings used to be rare. But their number has dramatically increased in recent years.
And then the Supreme Court, in emergency rulings, swiftly rejects the judges’ decisions with little to no explanation.
Lower court judges are handed contentious cases involving the Trump administration. They painstakingly research the law to reach their rulings. When they go against Trump, administration officials and allies criticize the judges in harsh terms. The government appeals to the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority.
In rare interviews with NBC News, a dozen federal judges — appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents, including Trump, and serving around the country — pointed to a pattern they say has recently emerged:
Some judges believe the Supreme Court, and in particular Chief Justice John Roberts, could be doing more to defend the integrity of their work as President Donald Trump and his allies harshly criticize those who rule against him and as violent threats against judges are on the rise .
WASHINGTON — Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no explanation, with some worried the practice is undermining the judiciary at a sensitive time.
@kenwhite.bsky.social - is it a good sign when the District Courts and other Supreme Court Justices are now regularly referring to the Supreme Court's decisions as Calvinball? Harvard v. HHS, DoJ, etc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
With alt text. This is absolutely judicial speak for “get your shit together, SCOTUS”. [image or embed]
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Dog, what an idiot.
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So, RFK Jr. testified before Congress today. I have to agree this was the biggest hangup for me. That and everything else that came out of his mouth.
Think about this for a second.
The rethugs didn't bother to put him under oath, because they knew the lies would be forthcoming.
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x Their “frustration” is irrelevant. Who cares? They know RFK Jr is dangerous, unfit, & is going to hurt a lot of people. But their fear of retribution from Trump is the deciding factor in all their inaction. They put their political survival over the lives and health of Americans.
[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
x WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?
[image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
x SEN. CASSIDY (R) : “Do you agree Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp speed?” RFK JR.: “Absolutely.” SEN. CASSIDY: “But you just told Senator Bennet the COVID vaccine killed more people than COVID.” RFK JR.: “….”😬 🤷🏻♂️
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Sidenote: Why am I not surprised? The cruelty is the point.
x Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands. — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Sen. Hassan is on to something:
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To follow up on our discussion last night, How Are You Supposed To Get The COCID Vaccination Now. An Explainer. defector.com/…
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of respiratory illnesses. You might be interested in conveniently booking an appointment at your local pharmacy, showing up on time, and walking away with a cutesy band-aid and the knowledge that you are lucky to partake so easily in the storied, life-saving tradition of immunization. But this is not how things work now, here, in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s America. On Aug. 27, the Food and Drug Administration approved this year's COVID-19 vaccines, which were previously recommended for most adults to protect from severe illness, hospitalization, and death. But the new vaccine comes with new, prohibitive guidelines designed to make it difficult for most people to get it. In a post on Twitter, Kennedy said the guidelines fulfilled his promises to "end covid vaccine mandates" and "keep vaccines available to people who want them, especially the vulnerable." This is a lie. The new guidelines erect enormous barriers for people who want the vaccine, including the vulnerable. The guidelines will result in fewer people getting the vaccine, which will result in more people dying. As someone who is under 65 years old and wants a COVID-19 vaccine, I set out to understand how available they really are. You will never guess what I found!
Read the whole thing when you have the time.
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I'm getting carpal tunnel from typing this so often, but WT Actual F?
x A) what exactly did the Energy Secretary say he's doing B) aren't these guys just a little bit embarrassed by the constant Juche performances
[image or embed] — Dante Atkins (@danteatkins.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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On the mortgage front. Justice Department takes new steps in Lisa Cook investigation. www.nbcnews.com/…
The Justice Department has taken additional steps in its investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News. Cook has denied the allegations, according to filings this week from her legal team. Earlier on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal first reported that the Justice Department had issued subpoenas focused on Cook’s properties in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Atlanta. "The questions over how Governor Cook described her properties from time to time, which we have started to address in the pending case and will continue to do so, are not fraud, but it takes nothing for this DOJ to undertake a new politicized investigation, and they appear to have just done it again," Cook attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement Thursday. Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump's top mortgage official and a housing industry scion, said last month that he made two criminal referrals to the Justice Department over alleged fraud he claimed Cook committed before and during her time as a Fed governor. Ed Martin, a Justice Department official tapped to oversee probes into Cook and other top Democrats facing similar allegations, said in late August that an investigation was being opened into Cook. Martin also said that Fed Chair Jerome Powell should remove Cook, according to a copy of his letter obtained by Bloomberg. Powell does not have the power to remove other top Fed officials, such as Cook.
BUT,
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/…
The Trump administration has vowed to go after anyone who got lower mortgage rates by claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. President Donald Trump has used it as a justification to target political foes, including a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, a Democratic U.S. senator and a state attorney general. Real estate experts say claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time is often legal and rarely prosecuted. But if administration officials continue the campaign, mortgage records show there’s another place they could look: Trump’s own Cabinet. Underscoring how common the practice is, ProPublica found that at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data provided by Hunterbrook Media. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer entered into two primary-residence mortgages in quick succession, including for a second home near a country club in Arizona, where she’s known to vacation. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has primary-residence mortgages in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has one primary-residence mortgage in Long Island and another in Washington, D.C., according to loan records.
Hypocrisy, thy name is the GQP.
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Hmm, if you're in the neighborhood..
x INBOX — “Ogles neither lives in nor has an office in NASHVILLE. Perhaps he’d like to invite the National Guard into his actual community.” Mayor @freddieoconnell.bsky.social reacts to Ogles calling for the Guard to invade the city. (part of which Ogles supposedly represents)
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Dog, I love this guy! Mamdani, not FIDJT.
x WATCH: “An affront to our democracy.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social reacts to the report that Trump is offering jobs to Adams & Sliwa to drop out, saying he’s “angry” because it shows why so many are grossed out by politics. AGAIN: A vote for @andrewcuomo is a vote for Trump.
[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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