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Evening Shade--Resistance Rising--Friday September 12 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-12
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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More on the Charlie Kirk shooting. The probable shooter has been taken into custody after his own father identified him.
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Early reports indicated that marks on the shooter’s spent casings referred to “trans ideology” and antifa. Later ones say they point to furries and role playing as well as a video game. But the official word just now is that the shooter’s motive is still not clear.
Even before the suspect was identified, many people -- including the president — were jumping to the conclusion that he must be a radical leftist because Kirk was a conservative.
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Gavin Newsom and Utah governor Spencer Cox as well as a number of other Democrats are trying to “lower the temperature” of discourse.
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News commentary and questions regarding Kirk have led to stern consequences.
MSNBC said [commentator Matthew] Dowd is no longer with the network after his comments, shortly after the shooting, about “hateful words” leading to “hateful actions.” (AP)
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Early word is that the shooter held extremist views, so it’s possible that he was an extreme leftist. But there appears to be a possibility that he might a groyper, a flavor of conservatism that had bones to pick with Kirk’s version of conservatism. Which one, or whether it’s neither, remains unclear at this point.
(The NYT story linked is shared.)
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Lest it be forgotten, there was another school shooting at the same time, a student gunman who injured two and then turned the gun on himself.
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There’s a strange story about birth control supplies staged in a Belgian warehouse that had been headed for impoverished nations before USAID was ended. Yesterday the story was:
x The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
[image or embed] — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
But today Belgian authorities say they found the contraceptives.
The Trump administration told The New York Times on Thursday that it had destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries… A spokeswoman for U.S.A.I.D., Rachel Cauley, replied that the contraceptives had been destroyed. “Yes. I can confirm they were destroyed,” she wrote... But when the authorities in Belgium, responding to the report in The Times, obtained authorization to enter the warehouse that had been holding the supplies on Friday morning, the stockpile was still there, an official in the Flanders region said.
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With all the news on Charlie Kirk, don’t forget Epstein.
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Don’t forget that Putin sent drones into Poland. Trump says that might just “have been a mistake.”
Poland's most senior officials on Friday dismissed President Trump's suggestion that a major Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace could have been a mistake by Vladimir Putin's military. "We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn't. And we know it," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a message posted on social media. (CBS)
Denmark hasn’t forgotten Putin’s drones.
x Denmark bought $9 billion air defence systems - its largest defense purchase in history - citing an increasingly “challenging security situation.” NATO allies are continuing to ramp up their defenses after 19 Russian drones penetrated Polish airspace on Wednesday.
[image or embed] — Tim Mak (@timkmak.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Don’t forget the tariff mess.
x FEDWATCH: “.. underneath the tariff blanket is a bleak picture of tenacious price pressures of everyday necessities that are affected by tariffs, and although lower weighted in CPI, they nonetheless add up to over 5 percent, which is enough to affect a future release with an upside surprise.”
[image or embed] — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Don’t forget the military incursion into American cities. Next up, Memphis, where, no surprise, the mayor, Paul Young, is Democratic and Black. But it appears Trump has decided against sending the Guard to Chicago after all.
President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor...He said the city is “deeply troubled” and “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington,” where he’s sent National Guard and surged federal law enforcement... Trump said he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a “hostile” place with “professional agitators.” (Huffpost)
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Don’t forget the possible government shutdown if the stopgap spending measure isn’t passed by the end of the month. Make that probable government shutdown. Schumer doesn’t plan to capitulate.
Schumer says he and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries are united in opposing any legislation that doesn’t include key health care provisions and a commitment not to roll them back. He argues that the country is in a different place than it was in March, when he vigorously argued against a shutdown, and he says he believes Republicans and President Donald Trump will be held responsible if they don’t negotiate a bipartisan deal.
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Don’t forget inflation. Huffpost notes WSJ’s efforts to keep that subject front and center.
The Wall Street Journal on Thursday pointed out how current economic data isn’t actually “bearing out” the Trump White House’s “optimism” that inflation has been “vanquished.” “Sorry, Inflation Still Lives,” the newspaper’s conservative editorial board ― which is needling Trump on an almost daily basis at the moment ― titled its essay. Read the full op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. (Huffpost)
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Don’t forget the attack on healthcare. This week it expands to defunding Planned Parenthood...
Half of Planned Parenthood patients use Medicaid for their health care insurance, according to the organization. Without that Medicaid reimbursement, nearly 200 of Planned Parenthood’s 600 health centers are at risk of closing, and more than 90% of those closures would occur in states where abortion is legal… “It’s not just abortion that’s going to be impacted,” McGill Johnson said. “Cancers will go undetected, STIs will go untreated, and patients won’t get the birth control that they need to plan their families and futures. Patients will have to travel further to get care and wait longer to get it. As demand surges at health centers, Black, brown and rural communities will be hit the hardest.”
..and also linking childhood deaths to Covid vaccine based on unverified data.
The Washington Post was the first to report the plans, citing four people who say next week’s presentation will focus on reports of 25 child deaths. Those accounts appear to be gathered from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which includes unverified reports from various sources, including ones pulled from social media, the Post reported. (Huffpost)
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To finish the news on a positive note, though, some good advice from a hero of Jan 6.
x Protect your peace (or whats left of it) this weekend. Its a lot and social media is and has been a dark place this week especially. Hug a loved one, pet a dog, get an extra scoop of ice cream. Love most of you. — Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Today is the birthday of Jesse Owens (1913-1980) - Four time Olympic Gold sprinter and long jumper during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. See him do it and watch the sour look on Hitler’s face.
x YouTube Video
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On this day in 1910 Alice Stebbins Wells became the first recognized female police officer in the U.S.
x YouTube Video
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On this day in 1958 The Supreme Court ordered the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, AK to integrate Black students. This was four years after Brown vs Board of Education and two years after the first Black students petitioned to enter the segregated high school under that ruling and were turned down. In between was a fierce battle between states’ rights and federal rule, with protests, postings of the Arkansas National Guard and the 101st Airborne Infantry, and prayer services on both sides of the issue. If you don’t remember it well, here’s a good review of the action in a National Park Service web page that hasn’t been taken down yet. Some of the politics seem quite similar to current events.
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It’s the National Day of Encouragement and National Hug and High 5 Day!
x YouTube Video
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National Just One Human Family Day!
x YouTube Video
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It’s National Report Medicare Fraud Day. Medicare has some advice on how to report fraud, and they cite Senior Medicare Patrol’s helpful explanations of how someone might try to trick you or a family member into being a pawn in Medicare fraud.
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It’s National Video Games Day. I’m celebrating with friends here in Guild Wars 2. It’s a great way to hang out with distant friends and family.
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And it’s National Chocolate Milkshake Day. Take a look at this: a restaurant famous for chocolate cake whirs a whole slice into a milkshake. At 5:20 on the video they stuff it into the cup.
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