New batch of cards in the mail: it has taken me such a long time to get my head into a regular postcrossing mode, that I had to reactivate my account.
Five cards on their way:
- Malaysia
- U.A.E.
- Russia
- Canada
- (and as always) Germany
#PostCrossing #Posted
#posted
I was flamed last time I posted so I fixed some things and added the reference image so you guys can compare. Ballpoint pen art on paper https://www.girlselfie.com/643618/i-was-flamed-last-time-i-posted-so-i-fixed-some-things-and-added-the-reference-image-so-you-guys-can-compare-ballpoint-pen-art-on-paper/ #added #art #ballpoint #compare #fixed #flamed #Guys #image #paper #pen #posted #reference #SydneySweeney #time
US watchdog to investigate Musk ‘Doge’ team’s access to payment systems
Treasury inspector general to launch audit as judge mulls whether access to sensitive data was unconstitutional
Loren Sciurba,
the treasury’s deputy inspector general,
said the audit would review the past two years of the system’s transactions
to examine Musk’s claim that his team has uncovered evidence of billions of dollars of fraudulent payments.
She said the audit
– launched in response to demands from the Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden
– would begin immediately and
👉take until August to complete.
Its launch coincided with a judge in Washington considering a legal suit
lodged by Democratic attorneys general from 14 states,
arguing that Doge’s work was illegal on the alleged grounds that Trump violated the US constitution
💥by creating a federal government department without congressional approval.
The attorneys general argue that Musk has exercised “virtually unchecked power”
by entering government agencies and ordering sweeping cuts without oversight or authorization from Congress.
#USAid, the government foreign assistance agency, has been shuttered on his authority
and its workforce put on leave,
although a judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift the funding freeze it has imposed on the agency’s humanitarian work.
The suit, led by
New Mexico’s justice department,
alleges that Doge has “unraveled federal agencies, accessed sensitive data, and caused widespread disruption for state and local governments, federal employees, and the American people”.
A separate hearing in a court in New York was due
over whether to extend a temporary block on the Doge team entering the #payments #system
that was imposed in an interim ruling last Saturday by Judge #Paul #Englemayer.
Musk called for Englemayer’s impeachment after that ruling,
while JD Vance, the vice-president, wrote in a social media most that judges were not allowed to interfere with a president’s “legitimate power”
– a view contested by most constitutional law experts.
On Friday, Judge #Jeannette #Vargas extended the temporary block, though she said she would not yet rule on whether there should be a longer lasting preliminary injunction prohibiting Doge’s access to the treasury payment system.
Swingeing cuts continued apace despite the plethora of legal challenges.
Federal agency heads were ordered to fire most recent hires who have not completed their probation period – a move likely to affect about 200,000 workers, the Washington Post reported.
The treasury department audit coincided with a call from #Chris #Murphy, Democratic senator for Connecticut,
for an official investigation into the “legality and scope” of Musk’s penetration of the federal bureaucracy.
“Musk and his aides are subject to various conflict of interest statutes which prohibit federal employees from participating in matters that impact their own financial interests,”
Murphy wrote to the US government comptroller general, #Eugene #Dodaro.
He added: “It is imperative the public understands whether Musk and his aides have complied with the law
and whether highly sensitive data could be at risk if accessed by private actors who seek to benefit from the information illegally,
or worse, by foreign adversaries who wish to attack this country.”
Murphy’s letter to Dodaro came as HuffPost reported that Doge had publicly #posted #classified #information about the size and staff of a US intelligence agency – the National Reconnaissance Office – on its new website.
The exposure reportedly left some “scrambling to check if their info has been accessed”,
according to one Defense Intelligence Agency employee who spoke with HuffPost.
Despite the rising resistance to its activities,
the US #armed #services were preparing a list of weapons systems to be cut
in preparation for Doge casting its gaze over the #Pentagon, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Members of Musk’s team were expected to visit the Pentagon on Friday.
💥“People are offering up things sacrificially, hoping that will prevent more cuts,” a defence official told the Journal.
The army was said to be volunteering cutting outdated drones and vehicles,
while the navy is proposing cuts to frigates and littoral combat ships.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/musk-doge-payment-system-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Making a big splash
Not all it's cracked up to be
You might get posted
#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #USA #Ohio #October #Autumn #Fall #Travel #Beach #Ocean #Atlantic #Seaboard #Carolinas #Edisto #SaltLife #IslandLife #Sun #Sol #Beach #Waves #Sand #Splash #Post #Posted #ACEBasin #StHelenaSound
October 30, 2024
Donald Trump's #mental #state appears to have further #deteriorated since last night’s news about a new grand jury’s #superseding #indictment of him on charges of trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.
Over the course of about four hours this morning, Trump #posted #50 #times on his social media platform, mostly reposting material that was associated with #QAnon, #violent, #authoritarian, or #conspiratorial.
🔸He suggested he is “100% INNOCENT,” and that the indictment is a “Witch Hunt.”
🔸He called for trials and jail for special counsel Jack #Smith, former president Barack #Obama, and the members of Congress who investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
🔸And he reposted a sexual insult about the political careers of both Vice President Kamala #Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary #Clinton.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has today escalated the fight about Trump’s photo op Monday at #Arlington #National #Cemetery, where campaign staff took photos and videos in Section 60, the burial ground of recent veterans, apparently over the strong objections of cemetery officials.
Then the campaign released photos and a video from the visit attacking Harris.
A statement from the Arlington National Cemetery reiterated:
♦️“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate's campaign. ♦️
⭐️Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.
We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed.”
Arlington National Cemetery was established on the former property of General Robert E. Lee in 1864,
after the Lee family did not pay their property taxes.
At the time, Lee was leading Confederate forces against the United States government, and those buried in the cemetery in its early years were those killed in the Civil War.
The cemetery is one of two in the United States that is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army, and it is widely considered hallowed ground.
Theme Thursday: Nylon with Trousers – Rachel McAdams (sorry I know it was posted recently) https://www.girlselfie.com/551961/theme-thursday-nylon-with-trousers-rachel-mcadams-sorry-i-know-it-was-posted-recently/ #Celeb #CelebNylons #celebrities #Celebrity #CelebrityNylons #Celebs #McAdams #nylon #nylons #posted #rachel #theme #Thursday #trousers
Theme Thursday: Two or more – Holly willoughby and Davina McCall (sorry I know it was posted recently) https://www.girlselfie.com/550125/theme-thursday-two-or-more-holly-willoughby-and-davina-mccall-sorry-i-know-it-was-posted-recently/ #Celeb #CelebNylons #celebrities #Celebrity #CelebrityNylons #Celebs #Davina #Holly #McCall #nylons #posted #theme #Thursday #Willoughby
#Trans #man #TeeArnold #shottodeath outside #Florida #shoppingmall.
Arnold had previously #posted to #socialmedia that his #life was in #danger, writing that he had a “#reward” on his head.
#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Transphobia #SayHisName
#Gay-#hating #GOP #leader #humiliates himself (again), this time with wild #airplane #conspiracytheory
The #Michigan #legislator, #MattMaddock, spotted three #buses at the city’s #airport and #posted without evidence that they were filled with #undocumented #immigrants.
Also... #NotNews24...
I #Posted this #ControversialVideoLink and #Lost a #Follower, and got #Blocked by #SomeRandomDiesel... #Meh; #FuckEm... | #Reciprocity #AndAllThat
#DefinitelyNotNews... #MP5Ready, though...
🧙:fediverse:🤖🐺🤖:fediverse:🧙 | 🚁:loading:🦹🦄🦹:loading:🚁
#DankPods: The MP5 Player
#HatePastor #StevenAnderson is #notorious for his #hatred of #LGBTQ+ #people. Now his #son is a #Nazi.
"Speak for yourself, I know I’m a Nazi," is just one of many Nazi comments #IsaacAnderson #posted #online.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Nazis #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Racism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #EmptyThePews #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
"Very troubling." #FultonCounty DA #FaniWillis said her daughters, her father & even her ex-husband had have their #private #information #posted #online. Some of those posts included #racist #slurs, others suggested #violence.
#Trump #MAGA #Extremism #doxxing #Harassment #Intimidation #MobBoss #TrumpIsATerrorist #DomesticTerrorism #Hate #Retribution #law #legal
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/fulton-da-prosecuting-trump-young-thug-says-her-family-has-been-threatened/QJZMKODGUJHWBGSBIMSPV3WDEM/
For fun I ordered some old #Korean postcards from #ebay - they were cheap & no bidding needed & I thought I'd pick one to frame for my random photo wall. I thought they were all blank - but two have been #posted - so now we have a fun story between 1977 Seoul & the Kenana Sugar Project in #Sudan ... #stories #postcards #history.
Plus farmers dance: https://asiasociety.org/farmers-dance-korean-tradition
Techies: See, the way it worked was, you #posted #stories on your #websites. The only people who would see your stories were those who typed "wha-wha-wha dot canadianmedia dot com" into their #browsers and came to your websites.
#Canadian #Legacy #Media: Oh, ya, we remember. The #IT #nerds said we weren't getting many visitors or something. We told them to send out more #invitations.
Techies: Were you proud when they told you you were in the tenth #percentile of your class at U?
11/x
Hand-painted #Bollywood billboard at the reopened Young V&A, formerly the Bethnal Museum of Childhood.
ALT text has full gallery caption.
It is part of a very informative exhibit of various decorative and manufacturing techniques and technologies, including: bossing; vaneering; enamelling; marquetry; glazing; mosaic; engraving; casting; staining; weaving; 3D printing; printing; and, of course, painting.
@andymarfia As long as it is #Posted in #ALLCAPS someone will #hearit
#StarbucksWorkersUnited, the #union representing #Starbucks #workers at more than 300 locations in the US, also #posted a #thread on #Twitter on 13 June claiming that #workers in at least 21 #states, including at #unionized #stores, have reported their #storemanagement #banning #Pride #decorations
https://twitter.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1668619099025575946
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