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)
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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How it started.
How it's going.
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ICE Director Says He Wants To Run Deportations Like Amazon Prime, 'But With Human Beings'. www.comicsands.com/…
While his boss at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, came hot off the heels of cosplaying again and demonstrating how not to hold a gun, the acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was modeling their human rights violations after online shopping.
Republican President Donald Trump's unconfirmed—nor congressionally vetted—acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons, shared his dreams for the agency during the 2025 Border Security Expo, where private companies explored opportunities to profit from Trump’s mass deportations and rub elbows with Noem and Lyons.
In Lyons' perfect set up, ICE vans would crisscross neighborhoods carrying ICE agents doing swift abductions and deportations—just like Amazon's delivery services.
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Remember This!!!
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Hey John Roberts, how's your face these days?
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I wonder how the Supreme Court feels about granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and fuck the fuck off.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) April 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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In other news:
Thanks kraigo! This is long, but WOWZA. A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. www.npr.org/…
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But according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.
Read the rest, its good.
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Now see, I was going to say she went full on Scary Lake.
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Elsewhere,
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen: “I applaud Harvard's decision not to give in to bullying from the Trump administration.”
He added that, in many cases, what students are doing is protesting the actions of the US & Israeli governments with respect to Gaza—not seeking to undermine US foreign policy.
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— Ian Fraser (@ianfraser.bsky.social) April 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Um, please proceed as shat (FIDJT that is)
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Probably not worth thinking through financial implications for churches of opening this particular front in the culture war
*TRUMP: PERHAPS HARVARD SHOULD LOSE TAX EXEMPT STATUS
*TRUMP: PERHAPS HARVARD SHOULD BE TAXED AS POLITICAL ENTITY
*TRUMP: TAX EXEMPT STATUS IS CONTINGENT ON PUBLIC INTEREST
— George Pearkes (@peark.es) April 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Mrs. Betty Bowers nails it.
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Or maybe it's as simple as this..,?
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Jeffries: "So many of these people are crooks, liars, and frauds, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is of course exhibit A ... we do need to change the law so that sitting members of Congress cannot trade stock. Period. Full stop."
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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A bit more detail on this. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s well-timed stock purchases draw scrutiny. www.msnbc.com/…
Last week, Donald Trump surprised much of the world with a 90-day “pause” to much of his agenda on trade tariffs. The major Wall Street indexes had been falling off a cliff in response to the president’s trade agenda, but investors were delighted to see the Republican back off, and markets immediately soared.
It wasn’t long, however, before many observers started to take note of the timing. A few hours before he made the announcement, the president — who had publicly insisted that his trade tariffs were “here to stay” and would “never change” — published a related item to his social media platform. “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” he wrote. It came four minutes after Trump also wrote, “BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well.”
Evidently, one of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill also thought it was a good time to buy. The New York Times reported:
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, disclosed on Monday that she had purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of President Trump’s announcement that he was pausing a sweeping set of global tariffs, a pivot that sent the stock market soaring out of a sizable slump. Ms. Greene bought between about $21,000 and $315,000 in stocks on those days. The day before Mr. Trump’s move, she also dumped between $50,000 and $100,0000 in Treasury bills, according to required public disclosures made to the House.
These disclosure documents are public information, which have been published online. In this instance, they show the right-wing congresswoman made nearly two dozen trades — ranging from $1,001 to $15,000 — the day before and the day of her presidential ally’s “pause” announcement.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy Titanic Remembrance Day!
Happy National Rubber Eraser Day!
Happy National Laundry Day!
AND Happy National Spiral Cut Ham Day!
Tomorrow is National Banana Day.
