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Evening Shade--Resistance Rising--Friday September 19 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-19
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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Critter Herding
Sun Day (Sep 21) Events
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Don’t forget: Sunday is Sun Day celebrating solar energy. Check out the event schedule above.
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Starting tonight’s hodgepodge with some good news: the right’s beloved free market prevails. Insurance companies put their money on vaccinations.
x The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated. Gift link: — Dr. Tom Frieden (@drtomfrieden.bsky.social) 2025-09-18T17:21:00.538Z
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This sounds like an awful idea for people on Medicare. But people on Medicare Advantage get medicare via insurance companies. How would this play with the insurance industry?
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x UPDATE: Democrats just put a bill on the floor to save health care. Republicans voted to shut down the government and keep up the health care crisis THEY created. We're not giving up on this.
[image or embed] — Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants a divorce.
“To be honest, I want a peaceful national divorce. Our country is too far gone and too far divided, and it’s no longer safe for any of us,” she continued, before adding: “Tighten your circle around your family and protect them at all times. I will pray for the left, but personally I want nothing to do with them.” Greene has called for a national divorce before. Back in 2021, the congresswoman suggested that people moving from blue states to red states should have a “cooling off period” before they’re able to vote. “All possible in a National Divorce scenario. After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida,” she wrote on X at the time. “Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period.” (Huffpost)
She might not like the alimony. According to Time, blue states bail out red states by giving more in federal taxes and taking less in return.
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Democrats fight back against Trump’s use of war powers.
“While we share with the executive branch the imperative of preventing and deterring drugs from reaching our shores, blowing up boats without any legal justification risks dragging the United States into another war and provoking unjustified hostilities against our own citizens,” Mr. Schiff said in a statement. “This unauthorized and illegal use of our military must stop.” Mr. Kaine, who has pressed for Congress to reclaim its constitutional authority over matters of war, also rebuked the military campaign. “President Trump has no legal authority to launch strikes or use military force in the Caribbean or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere,” he said in a statement. The Trump administration has refused to give basic information about the strikes to Congress, including why it was necessary to put the lives of U.S. military personnel at risk, Mr. Kaine said. (NYT)
This article addresses the use of the military to blow up a Venezuelan boat suspected of running drugs. But a presumed war was also the excuse for sending immigrants to Salvadoran CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Speaking of war, the guy who accused his predecessors of “forever war” and insists he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize wants to go to Afghanistan and take back the Bagram airbase.
x 🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Trump says he is looking to send U.S. troops back into Afghanistan — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-09-18T18:58:01.812Z
(This in addition to planning at various points to take Greenland, Gaza, and the Panama Canal, and hinting at Canada.)
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x The US military will likely find that Charlie Kirk fans wanted to say bigoted things and maybe become podcasters, not sacrifice and put themselves at risk for national service.
[image or embed] — Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Nanny Ogg hit free speech issues hard yesterday. Here’s more because what could be more important? Trump isn’t sure he supports the first amendment.
On Monday, he mentioned a decades-long peace vigil protest he had removed from near the White House earlier this month, bragging that “it was gone the next day” after he found out about it. Trump also claimed the protester was part of a “violent radical left group.” “They still have a First Amendment right, though, they’re still out there protesting,” the reporter pointed out. “Yeah, well, I’m not so sure about that,” Trump said.
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Tucker Carlson is not my favorite newscaster but he makes an excellent point in his address on free speech.
Tucker Carlson on Wednesday used the opening monologue of his show to stridently push back against the Trump administration’s onslaught against free speech ― even going so far as to call out Attorney General Pam Bondi for using Charlie Kirk’s death as its pretext. “Charlie was a free speech champion,” Carlson noted. “Absolutely he was. And I pray that that’s his legacy.” He then equated freedom of speech with freedom of conscience and “the right of other people to make up their own minds about the basic questions of what is right or wrong.” Forcibly silencing that is akin to telling people they’re “meat puppets,” said Carlson. “If you don’t acknowledge the right of other people to do that, and if you take steps to prevent them from doing that, what are you really saying? You’re really saying, ‘I don’t think you have a soul,’ I think you’re a meat puppet I can control, I think you’re an animal, maybe sub-animal. You’re a slave, you’re a person to whom I can dictate belief.”
It made me think of all the right wing hot button issues that are based on the idea that if a child or adult is made aware of information that the right wing opposes, they will automatically morph into liberals. “Meat puppets” indeed.
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“Cancel culture” is people who say, “I disagree with what he says. I’m not listening to him and you shouldn’t either.” The New York Times makes a distinction between “cancel culture” and “consequences culture,” which is this:
x Trump said that federal regulators should revoke the broadcast licenses of late-night hosts who speak negatively about him.
[image or embed] — Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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But he’s still stuck with lawyers who don’t know their trade.
x INEXCUSABLY ATHWART is my new band name. — Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-09-19T17:03:48.429Z
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And Democrats in Congress aren’t taking threats to first amendment rights lying down.
x House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says he'll be launching an investigation into the Trump admin, ABC, and Sinclair "amid ongoing efforts to censor opposition to the President of the United States." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
x 🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech
[image or embed] — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) September 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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x I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
[image or embed] — Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Take a break with the NPR News quiz.
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Today is the birth date of “Mama” Cass Elliot (1941-1974). It’s Jimmy Fallon’s birthday. And it’s the birth date of William Sellers (1824-1905), the inventor of the standard screw thread. (The screw was invented in Mesopotamia in 900-600 BC but standardizing it took awhile.)
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On this day in 1778 the first federal budget was passed by the Continental Congress. In 1796 George Washington’s Farewell Address was printed as an open letter to the public. In 1957 the first underground nuclear explosion took place in Las Vegas.
It’s National Love Your Lunch Day, a day to combat school lunch shaming. “All kids should feel comfortable enjoying the foods they love at home and at school without fear of embarrassment or bullying during lunch time. However, many students are made to feel ashamed about the foods they bring to school. Often, these lunches reflect a family’s culture, traditions or socio-economic status, which makes it even more hurtful. Parents are urged to teach kids to respect one another’s lunch selections.” (from the National Day Calendar)
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It’s National Butterscotch Pudding Day.
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It’s National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
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And it’s National Talk Like a Pirate Day!
x YouTube Video
(Did real pirates ever talk like a pirate?)
Friday at last! Anybody have a good weekend planned?
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