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Apologies in advance for the discombobulated Shade tonight. Breaking news just kept coming. First, there is a new Pope.
Ouch!
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Absolutely unreal plot twist by the writers today — the new pope is a JD Vance critic, setting the stage for a redemption narrative after the previous pope died just hours following his meeting with Vance.
They still have their fastball.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Breaking news you may have missed.
Oh sh!t! I guess you could say it's an outside the (Wine in a) Box choice.
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Meanwhile, about that Surgeon General Nominee.
And his current head of the FBI.
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He’s like a kid in the 8th grade who didn’t complete his homework assignment offering up lame BS explanations to the teacher. He couldn’t even get the FBI budget done on time and has no timeframe for having it done. These people are grossly incompetent. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Different day, same batsh!t Qray-Qray.
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Not that long ago, this was my Top Story for tonight's Shade.
'He knows the weight of every word': CNN host in awe as John Roberts takes shot at Trump. www.rawstory.com/…
Chief Justice John Roberts took a thinly veiled shot at President Donald Trump during an interview Wednesday, and his remarks stunned CNN anchor Erin Burnett, who noted, "he knows the weight of every word."
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"He knows the weight of every word, Kristen. The words there carry a lot of weight — and come amid major tensions with Trump. So significant to come from the Chief Justice," she said.
Holmes agreed, noting "we don’t usually hear him weighing in on politics."
"And of course, as you say, he knows the weight of every word. He never said Donald Trump’s name. He was incredibly diplomatic when he was talking," said Holmes. "In fact, he was actually asked about this idea that people should be impeached, and he referred back to a previous statement. He never really speaks out of turn. Everything he says is incredibly deliberate — we know this from years of covering him."
Again, don't watch what they say, watch what they do. We'll see.
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Good thing I didn't bet ghost's ten dollars...
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WTF? "That we own???"
Whoa! Rep. Huffman just went there.
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Huffman: "Why not go all the way? We know that's where this is all heading anyway, since everything is in service of one man's fragile ego. So why not rename the entire planet Planet Trump?"
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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We coulda had Tim Walz. Sigh.
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Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future.
And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.
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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Oh yeah. All for me and none for thee.
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Fucking hypocrite.
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Thank you Bill Gates. Bill Gates Goes Nuclear on Elon Musk: ‘The World’s Richest Man Killing the World’s Poorest Children’. www.mediaite.com/…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates didn’t mince words in his evaluation of Elon Musk’s role in government, fuming that “the world’s richest man” was “killing the world’s poorest children.”
Speaking with the The Financial Times, Gates expressed his disgust with Musk’s role in shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” said Gates, who told the Times that he’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid that had been going to a hospital in Mozambique.
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Gates’s comments came concurrently with an announcement that his own charitable endeavor, the Gates Foundation, would spend an estimated $200 billion over the next 20 years before closing its doors in 2045.
“It gives us clarity,” said Gates. “We’ll have a lot more money because we’re spending down over the 20 years, as opposed to making an effort to be a perpetual foundation.”
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He has the concept of a deal…
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Trump's feverishly touted "full and comprehensive trade deal with the United Kingdom" is really just a *concept* of what a *future* trade deal *might* be.
But with no deals in his pocket, Donald "90 Trade Deals in 90 Days" Trump is desperate to pretend he has a solid deal. Sad.
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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Randy Rainbow is back!
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And Mrs. Betty Bowers weighs in (again).
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Donald "No Responsibility" Trump is trying to blame Biden and Pete Buttigieg for current air traffic control problems.
Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Republicans in Congress REFUSED Buttigieg’s call for funding more air traffic controllers. And Trump/DOGE then stepped in and fired many.
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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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In case you're in need of some light reading, this is a realy useful site. Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts. www.huffpost.com/…
WASHINGTON – A few years ago, Jeff was working for a California bank that asked him to look into getting the business listed on a website called PublicSquare.
The bank’s leaders were big supporters of Donald Trump, and PublicSquare was an ideal place to advertise it: Its website, which bills itself as “the anti-woke online marketplace,” is a hub of tens of thousands of businesses nationwide that want people to know they align with MAGA views and oppose so-called “progressive priorities” like women’s reproductive rights and diversity initiatives. In order to list your business on the website, you first have to confirm that you will “respect the core values of PublicSquare” and agree not to “support causes that are in direct conflict with our core values.”
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As a consumer, PublicSquare’s website is easy to use. You just enter your ZIP code and it pulls up businesses near you that want to be publicly associated with Trump and his values. The company, which launched in 2022, has direct connections to Trump, too: Its board of directors includes Donald Trump Jr., who also is an investor.
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Jeff, a regular user of the social media platform Reddit, started noticing people in his San Diego community posting messages desperate for ways to fight back against Trump’s recklessness. Some called for boycotting MAGA-friendly businesses but didn’t know how to identify companies that support Trump’s views. So Jeff, who had extensively researched PublicSquare at his previous bank job, tossed in a note about it.
“MAGA has made it easy for all of us to avoid their businesses,” he wrote under his Reddit name, Hour-Abbreviations18. “A couple years ago, they introduced a website – publicsq.com — to promote MAGA businesses. We can use that same tool to make informed purchasing decisions.”
“If a business is listed on the site, it’s not a fluke,” he wrote. “It’s on purpose."
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That’s definitely how Janet Koenig feels. The 62-year-old California resident recently came across one of Jeff’s posts on Reddit, so she went to PublicSquare’s website and entered her ZIP code. To her dismay, one of her favorite coffee shops came up. She was horrified.
“I was like, you’ve got to be kidding me,” Koenig said. “I just assumed they were one of the good guys. I’ll be sure to tell all my friends not to go.”
Now she regularly checks PublicSquare before buying products. She’s also been sharing a link to its website with as many people as she can, most of whom, like her, had no idea this company existed and at least some of whom plan to use it to make sure they don’t inadvertently give money to Trump-aligned businesses. She said she feels like her efforts may not be having much of an impact, but she feels a new sense of empowerment.
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Finally, Happy 99th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough! (Longish, but oh, that voice!)
Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Dakotas Day!
Happy National No Socks Day!
Happy Truman Day!
Happy Give Someone a Cupcake Day!
Happy National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day! Okay, so a slightly different take.
Happy National Iris Day!
AND Happy National Coconut Cream Pie Day! I don't think critters like coconuts, so I'm going with Bananas instead.
Tomorrow is National Butterscotch Brownie Day and National MosCATo day. Enjoy!
