WELCOME
TO THE EVENING SHADE
A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM
YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS
(Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE)
AND EVEN MORE CRITTERS
THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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Admin Note:
This is part of the very, very long notes from 2thanks in yesterday’s Good News Round Up
Prepare for WordPress (version 10)
kos’s most recent update on the transition to WordPress. Check out these screenshots of the new Daily Kos — 2/20:
- Public beta: March 31
- Full launch: April 13-20 (depending on beta feedback)
- Check out these screenshots of the new Daily Kos (Feb 20, 2026)
- Daily Kos new site update: We have our first build! (Feb. 17, 2026)
- Site migration update: Comments and more! (Feb. 2, 2026) Comments, Image Library, accounts, the old homepage, List View.
- Here's an update on the 'new' Daily Kos (Jan. 30, 2026)
- Your new Daily Kos is coming along (Dec. 12, 2025)
- Why Daily Kos is moving to WordPress (Sep. 12, 2025)
I suggest staying current about the transition to DK6. Things seem to be getting easier for members of Daily Kos. Kudos to the Tech Department, the Community Advisory Panel, and kos!
If you have them, you’ll need to save your own important drafts and templates, which will not migrate to WordPress.
Images: Multiple images in diaries will be saved, first images in comments will be saved, and subsequent images in comments will become links, Avatars will be saved. Diary images (WordPress) will be completely separate from from comment images (Viafoura), but if you must have a diary image in a comment, we should be able to insert that image in a DK6 draft and then either copy or download/upload it to a comment, but we will know more later.
How to Save Images (Version 1):
This method works best on a laptop or desktop and not on a cell phone. Please let me know in the comments if this works on an iPad, and I will edit this paragraph.
Version 1 is basically my first draft, but I am willing to share it with you, to let you know that help is on the way. Sorry, I have not had time to add all the Mac keyboard shortcuts yet. If you have any questions or clarifications, I welcome them.
I’ve developed a method of quickly saving my images, based on the fact that in the Image Library, you can select the image and text in the frame on the right, copy it, and paste it in a draft. This is a one-fell-swoop method of copying images to a draft. I suggest that you put ’this method in your quiver: You don’t need to use it immediately, but this will make it easier to copy unpublished images to WordPress (DK6).
I recommend starting the selection with a click and drag, selecting the picture at the top of the frame and a few lines below that. Keep holding the Shift Key down, and use the down arrow to select the rest of the text in the frame.
When you get to the last line of the selected text, you’ll have to adjust the end point of the Selection to end on the right side of the last line. This will avoid selecting the invisible information located at the bottom of the frame. If the last line of that right-hand frame is “Last Used in Stories:” … Select down to the colon. Do not select any of the hidden lines below that line. You’ll understand this paragraph better once you have copied your first several images.
Once you’ve selected the image at the top of the frame and all the desired text and copied it, press Ctrl + Shift + PgUp to move to the Tab to the left, Ctrl + V to paste the selected image and text into the draft. Then return to the right tab with Ctrl + Shift + PgDn.
Once you’ve pasted the image and text into your draft, you don't necessarily have to edit it at all, especially if you are short on time. Your choice. All that text will probably be useful for searching for images in your Saved Images diary.
Save your draft after posting every image.
Caveat:
- Some people add information to the Attribution field instead of to the Description field. If that’s the case for the image you want to save, you’ll have to first copy the rest of the frame to your draft, and then copy the text under “Attribution” to your draft separately.
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There’s a lot more there, if you want to read it.
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On with the show!
I’m not going to mince words. The fog of war continues, and other than a few hundred dead Iranian school girls* and a few military deaths, there’s not a lot to report. The American people seem to mostly be firmly opposed to this, as I’m sure everyone reading this is. I haven’t seen anything about scheduled votes on anything, War Powers Act, Impeachment, etc. I’m sure things are happening behind the scenes, but I’m not seeing the reporting, which is probably not a slight to the news sources.
Keep protesting and make your voices heard. I suspect that this is going to further erode the fascist base, so do your part in demoralizing them.
Can I just do an entire Dr. Seuss diary today? So far today feels like the worse option to a long, slow root canal without anesthetic.
*Just to be clear, the deaths of innocent Iranians and our own military are devastating. This didn’t need to happen, but we have a toddler-in-chief that wanted the boom boom and a drunk Department of War chief who also loves the boom boom.
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At the time of writing this, I’m going to confess that I’m not really finding anything that motivates me and you will likely have to deal with the Today… section and hope that someone else found something worth reading. I’ve been looking for a few hours and not much is turning up.
There aren’t many people jumping up and proudly proclaiming that this unprovoked war against Iran was a good thing. I’ll take the the silence as a positive.
Enjoy the kitten videos. At this point they are what keeps us hanging on.
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10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 269
I’ll put these two from Oz up front because I don’t have a lot that qualifies as “good” today and they warmed my heart.
Oz said that it looked like the Death Star, but to be fair, the Death Star totally stole the look. OK, it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
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Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data
A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online.
On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, and surveillance provider Palantir, as well as tech giants Microsoft and Oracle.
The hacktivist said the data comes from the Office of Industry Partnership, a unit within DHS that procures technology from the private sector.
DHS and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ✂️
OK, I’ll grant this is awesome news.
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If you are feeling panicked, Listen up.
We have repeatedly said, "it will get worse before it gets better."
That's because Republicans are scared & desperate.
That's what's happening.
That just means we are winning, & Republicans are backed up into the corner of the November elections.
— Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️🌈🐸 #NoKings🚫👑 (@pmmcdaniel.bsky.social) March 2, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Pennlive (Yahoo link for paywall reasons)
Ex-Yankees star’s Donald Trump post backfires: ‘Holy (expletive) he’s never heard of you’
Former New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira is running for Congress in Texas, and he has the endorsement of President Donald Trump.
That is something Trump brought up when he spoke in Texas earlier this week, and something Teixeira bragged about a bit on X.
“Grateful to have President Trump as a supporter — and a fan,” he wrote on X. “Thank you, Mr. President! Democrats, we’ll see you on the baseball field next year.”
Teixeira’s followers on X noticed a few things, though. Trump seemed to struggle to pronounce his name and then praised him for how hard he could throw the ball. The 45-year-old was a three-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner. He led the American League in home runs in 2009 and finished his career with a .268 average to go with 409 home runs and 1,298 RBIs.
One thing Teixeira was not, though, was a pitcher. ✂️
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Via my friend and fellow Minneapolitan, Mimer:
The New Yorker
What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
A large language model is nothing more than a monumental pile of small numbers. It converts words into numbers, runs those numbers through a numerical pinball game, and turns the resulting numbers back into words. Similar piles are part of the furniture of everyday life. Meteorologists use them to predict the weather. Epidemiologists use them to predict the paths of diseases. Among regular people, they do not usually inspire intense feelings. But when these A.I. systems began to predict the path of a sentence—that is, to talk—the reaction was widespread delirium. As a cognitive scientist wrote recently, “For hurricanes or pandemics, this is as rigorous as science gets; for sequences of words, everyone seems to lose their mind.”
It’s hard to blame them. Language is, or rather was, our special thing. It separated us from the beasts. We weren’t prepared for the arrival of talking machines. Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown, has drawn up a taxonomy of our most common responses. There are the “fanboys,” who man the hype wires. They believe that large language models are intelligent, maybe even conscious, and prophesy that, before long, they will become superintelligent. The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has described A.I. as “our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone—we are literally making sand think.” The fanboys’ deflationary counterparts are the “curmudgeons,” who claim that there’s no there there, and that only a blockhead would mistake a parlor trick for the soul of the new machine. In the recent book “The AI Con,” the linguist Emily Bender and the sociologist Alex Hanna belittle L.L.M.s as “mathy maths,” “stochastic parrots,” and “a racist pile of linear algebra.” ✂️
I didn’t hit a paywall, and hopefully, being early in the month, you won’t either. As a geek, I’m enjoying the article.
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Demand to see a paternity test, as Barron is going to get diagnosed with hereditary bone spurs.
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Since we’re on Mrs. Betty Bowers and I’ve already admitted that I’m really not finding anything, let’s go with something that made me laugh out loud.
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Thanks to Tigerupjp for this little ray of sunshine
MontanaRightNow
Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke to retire, will not seek reelection
MISSOULA, Mont. - Congressman Ryan Zinke will not seek reelection for a fourth term in Montana's first Congressional District. The Republican who has had a storied career will make it official Monday as the filing deadline looms.
Zinke announced he will serve the remainder of his term.
state senate, he took that to DC for the first time in 2014, running for the at-large seat, he then served as the Interior Secretary and President Donald Trump’s first administration, now currently he serves as the representative for the first congressional district. ✂️
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Over a month has passed since we demanded information about the Minnesota children held in federal detention facilities. We have not received a response.
We will not stay silent while Donald Trump and Kristi Noem imprison children.
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— Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) March 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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The Left Wing Echo Chamber
CC had a new diary up. It was awesome!
Wilson's Take on Operation Epstein Fury and MAGA May Be in Hospice
Since this section is light and as I write this, I have no idea what I’m going to write about, here’s something via Stony and Nanny this morning in the orange juice Evening Shade this morning.
If anyone has a diary of theirs that they’d like promoted, please drop a comment (preferably with a link) in the previous night’s Shade. Hopefully the next Shade will include a promotional link for you.
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Today is…*
*Attributions to WineRev refer to his entries in this morning’s G&G in the GNR
WineRev and I didn’t synchronise today, so while I encourage you to read his comment, I (for once) didn’t lift anything from him. Honestly, I’m kinda done after Dr. Seuss and Guam.
Birthdays
Susanna M. Salter (1860-1961) - The first woman to be elected as mayor and one of the first woman to serve in any political office in American.
Edward Condon (1902-1974) - Physicist who helped develop the radar in WWII.
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) - Children's book writer and illustrator.
via Wikipedia
Theodor Seuss Geisel (/suːs ˈɡaɪzəl, zɔɪs -/ ⓘ sooss GHY-zəl, zoyss -;[2][3][4] March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991)[5] was an American children's author, illustrator, animator, and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss (/suːs, zuːs/ sooss, zooss).[4][6] His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.[7]
Frances Spence (1922-2012) - Female computer programmer considered one of the first computer programmers in history.
Mark Dean (1957-Still Living) - Computer engineer who holds three PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer.
Jon Bon Jovi (1962-Still Living) - Founder and lead singer of the rock band Bon Jovi.
John Francis Bongiovi Jr, professionally known as Jon Bon Jovi, was born on March 2, 1962. He is well-known as the frontman and lead singer for the rock band Bon Jovi. As a leading force in the entertainment industry, he has gained widespread success as a solo artist and actor, winning multiple awards and breaking records. Join us as we celebrate his birthday.
Still a rock star!
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Events
1807 - Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, making it illegal to import slaves into the U.S.
1867 - Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act to help determine how the southern states will reenter the Union.
1867 - The Department of Education is created by Congress.
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NATIONAL READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY (DR. SEUSS DAY)
Each year, National Read Across America Day is celebrated on March 2nd, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The annual event is part of Read Across America, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. Since the event is designed to encourage reading in children and is fostered through the schools, when March 2nd lands on a weekend, the day is observed on the closest school day.
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Guam History And Chamorro Heritage Day
Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day is on the first Monday in March every year and this year, it falls on March 2. Most of us may be aware that Guam is a former Spanish colony. Others may recognize it as the home of several U.S. military bases. But what many don’t know is the story of the island itself — the incredible people, culture, and heritage. Guam is the largest island in Micronesia and home to the indigenous Chamorro people. Over centuries of colonialism and turmoil, the songs, language, and soul of the Chamorro lie forgotten, but Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day reclaims some of these lost narratives. It is a day of traditional song, dance, food, and storytelling and isn’t just a celebration of the Chamorro identity but provides a vision for their future.
Both my dad and my brother served in the Navy in Guam. I had a housemate from Guam. She was awesome! I’d love to visit someday.
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International Rescue Cat Day
International Rescue Cat Day is observed on March 2 every year. There are a lot of homeless cats on the streets just waiting for a day like this where people will come to take them off the streets and adopt them as a member of their families. To adopt a cat, you just need to visit a pet adoption agency and after the agency does their due diligence and everything checks out, they then go ahead with the adoption. Most domesticated cats are valued by humans for companionship, especially by people who work from home and people who live in apartments.
I don’t suppose I think of Phoebe as a rescue cat. I got asked and I took her. I wasn’t looking for a cat. My friend Maryanne later told me that the Humane Society is not a no kill shelter, so I suppose I did rescue her. She remains a difficult (but charming) kitty and we’re life partners.
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NATIONAL BANANA CREAM PIE DAY
The traditional custard pie was modified into a recipe that resulted in the appetizing and flavorful banana cream pie. Dating back to the 19th century, banana cream pie found its way into recipe books. Today, recipes fill cookbooks and flood the internet for this yummy pie. In the 1950s, soldiers of the United States Armed Services ranked the banana cream pie as one of their favorites.
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Tomorrow Is…
National I Want You to be Happy Day
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