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Evening Shade---Resistance Rising---Thursday, September 11, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-09-11

YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY

WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE

EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER

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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Continuing on with the big story of the day.

x Only in America is the report of children being shot at school knocked out of the news by another shooting on the same day. — Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) September 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM

x Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

[image or embed] — Aaron Weiss (@aweiss.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM

x These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.

[image or embed] — Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM

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Ya think?

x So they haven’t caught the guy and you don’t have a ton of leads? Maybe sending all your federal law enforcement agents to help ICE and dismantling the JTTF and firing the head FBI field office for political reasons wasn’t the best idea.

[image or embed] — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) September 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM

x In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

[image or embed] — Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM

The story itself is behind a paywall, but here's a bit more on the political motivations for firing senior FBI officials.

x Breaking news: Former acting FBI director Brian Driscoll and two other former senior FBI officials are suing Director Kash Patel, alleging they were ultimately fired for unlawful and politically-motivated reasons.

[image or embed] — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) September 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM

I found a write-up from Marci Wheeler with more info. Kash Patel Yapped His Mouth with a REAL Feeb. www.emptywheel.net/…

There’ll be a lot of good articles on this lawsuit that three recently fired senior FBI agents — Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen, and Spencer Evans — have filed against Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and the agencies that fired them. For example, NYT focuses on disclosures about Stephen Miller’s role in running DOJ. NPR focuses on Dan Bongino’s obsession with social media. The complaint retells stories already reported in the press, such as how the Trump Administration intended to hire Robert Kissane as interim FBI Director but fucked up the announcement, so Driscoll served instead. There are descriptions designed to be embarrassing — if not debilitating to Kash’s ability to lead the agency — such as the revelation that Kash has a collection of whiskey and cigars in his office and that Kash’s challenge coin that is unusually large. The audience for such disclosures goes beyond Judge Jia Cobb, who’ll preside over the case, to members of Congress who’ll hold hearings with Kash just days from now. These details discrediting Kash’s leadership are matched by details describing how these men, especially Driscoll, were fired because of their efforts to treat FBI agents with respect and dignity, intervening to prevent firings or mitigate the impact of them. A long passage describes Driscoll’s efforts to undercut Emil Bove’s jihad against agents who–like Bove and Driscoll themselves–had participated in the January 6 investigation. This includes an anecdote about how Bove bolloxed an attempt to send an email to the entire FBI workforce to complain about Driscoll.

Things are not good at the FBI.

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Meanwhile, "leaders" leading.

Just sayin':

x Congress passed a bipartisan law long ago mandating that a plaque honoring the officers who defended Capitol on J6 be displayed in the building. Mike Johnson has ignored that law and refuses to do it.

[image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM

Wow. Thom Tillis actually gets it. I think.

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In other news - which understandably is hard to find this morning:

x BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better." — Adam Rose (@adamrose.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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x I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

[image or embed] — Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM

From the article. I agree with Anna Bower, do not look away. The Guatemalan Children’s Case and the Judicial Learning Curve. www.lawfaremedia.org/…

✂️ The circumstances bear a striking similarity to that of an earlier case involving the frenzied removal of migrants without process and with scant legal basis. In that case, which played out in March before Judge James Boasberg, the planes took off from the United States and landed in El Salvador—and more than 250 men ended up in a notorious prison. This time, too, the administration’s efforts to remove these children in secret and over a weekend prompted the speedy intervention of a district court judge. But Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who handled the case this time, had a big advantage over Judge Boasberg: She knew what had happened the last time. And that, it turned out, made all the difference. At key moments, Sooknanan—her eye clearly on what happened before Judge Boasberg—made different decisions, put things in writing, and monitored compliance with her orders to make sure the children were not removed behind her back, or over her objections. The result is that a week later, the children are still in the United States—and there is an ongoing legal process before a different judge to decide their fate.

x HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return. DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government. — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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At least Lutnick is giving it longer than two weeks:

See what i mean?

x ‘ZERO ORDERS’: Trump’s second trade war with China is sabotaging soybean farmers all over again. Tennessee farmers planted 1.75 million acres of soybeans this year. 😳

[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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In other words:

About that violence in Chicago. Numbers geeks, rejoice! :

x “My God! Chicago’s so out of control we need the military! Because it’s ranked #1… out of 4.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social shows Trump is cherry-picking data to justify his war on Chicago, where crime is actually down.

[image or embed] — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM

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More election numbers news.

x EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s popularity is sinking in a swing Pennsylvania county. Trump won Bucks County by less than 1 percentage point last year after Biden narrowly carried it in 2020.

[image or embed] — Politico (@politico.com) September 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Trump’s popularity is sinking in a swing Pennsylvania county. www.politico.com/…

A new private poll in one of the nation’s top bellwethers shows President Donald Trump’s popularity taking a nosedive and Democrats staking out a lead in local elections — a potential warning sign for Republicans in the 2026 midterms. Fifty-three percent of likely voters in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, view Trump unfavorably, compared to 42 percent who see him favorably, according to the survey by the Democratic firm Upswing Research & Strategy that was shared first with POLITICO.

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The birthday book is getting all the headlines, but there were more details released involving other "players." The story is behind a paywall:

x Exclusive: A cache of 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News offers a raw look into the world of the disgraced financier and sex offender — and reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s secrets

[image or embed] — Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) September 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM

But, you get the gist:

x EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

[image or embed] — Jason Leopold (@jasonleopold.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM

Folks whose names you may not recognize have been identified.

x British Prime Minister Keir Starmer just fired the U.K.'s ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, over his links to Jeffrey Epstein. "In light of the additional information in emails written by Peter Mandelson, the prime minister has asked the foreign secretary to withdraw him." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM

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In other international news, Brazil follows South Korea's lead, not the U.S.

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup. www.theguardian.com/…

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justices Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha and Cristiano Zanin ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning four of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Delivering her decisive vote, Rocha denounced what she called an attempt to “sow the malignant seed of anti-democracy” in Brazil – but celebrated how the country’s institutions had survived and were fighting back. “Brazilian democracy was not shaken,” Rocha told a court in the capital, Brasília, warning of the spread of “the virus of authoritarianism”.

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Evening Shade Seekers! Today marks the 23rd time we remember what happened on 9/11.

Which many recognize by making it a Day Of Service and Remembrance.

It's also National School Picture Day!

Happy National Make Your Bed Day! (I admit, a day I don't celebrate nearly often enough!)

It's also National SUP (Stand Up Paddleboarding) Day!

It's also the birthday of Johan Pachelbel, composer of the Canon in D

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