#Day48

[couchtaro]

Some stickers I made of myself and @eaudecrow

[the-psudo]

Welcome to the Forty-Eighth Day

There are at least 35 legal cases that have blocked the Trump administration's abuses of power, at least temporarily.

Let's talk about another one: NCN v. OMB.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the part of the federal government that does the most actual implementing of policy. They are the federal government's human resources, accounting, information technology (ꞮT), and quality assurance (QA) departments all rolled into one. They handle the hiring and firing of government employees, their benefits and pay, their procurement and computer tech support, giving departments and agencies their money to spend, and measuring whether government programs are working as they're supposed to.

When Donald Trump started his administration by signing dozens of executive orders, it was largely the OMB carrying out his orders.

Biden's OMB Director had stepped down, and Trump's OMB Director wasn't yet confirmed by the Senate, so Matthew Vaeth was Acting Director of OMB in the early days of Trump's second term. So when Trump signed dozens of executive orders in his first week in office demanding massive changes to how the federal government was to be run, it was Vaeth he was ordering around.

On Monday, Jan 27th, Vaeth issued Memo M-25-13 entitled "Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs" (read it here, if you want). In a nutshell, the Memo called for a pause of all federal funding until it could be determined which federal funding was compatible with Trump's executive orders and which was not. The stated goal of the Memo was "ending 'wokeness' and the weaponization of government" and to stop "equity, transgenderism, and green new deal" policies. The Memo specified that "The temporary pause will become effective on January 28, 2025, at 5:00 PM."

Four nongovernmental charity organizations quickly filed a lawsuit in hopes of preventing the Memo from going into effect: The National Council of Nonprofits (NCN), the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the Main Street Alliance (MSA), and Services and Advocacy for *GLBT Elders (SAGE). They sued OMB and Vaeth, saying that "In practice, the Memo purports to eradicate essentially all federal grant programs" that "will have a devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of grant recipients," and that "the Trump Administration ... must do" its work "within the confines of the law. It has not." (pp.2–3) They called for "a temporary restraining order to maintain the status quo until the Court has an opportunity to more fully consider the illegality of OMB’s actions."

The same night (Jan 28th) that the lawsuit was filed, Judge Loren Alikhan of the DC District Court first granted an administrative stay preventing OMB from stopping all that federal spending for a few days (until 5:00pm Feb 3rd), giving OMB a chance (and a deadline) to try to argue that the Memo didn't break any laws. Then, on Feb 3rd, after she heard OMB's argument and found it lacking, she granted the temporary restraining order (TRO) that the charities requested. Then, on Feb 25th, the TRO was strengthened into a Preliminary Injunction (PꞮ). The Memo couldn't be implemented at least until the trial was over. The government could spend their money.

The Trump administration hasn't yet filed any appeals of any of these decisions against them. But they did try to only release some of the federal funds, and keep others blocked. The charities hammered them on that, and the Trump administration has been ordered to defend their behavior March 7th (yesterday). As of this writing, I haven't heard what came of that deadline yet.

Case Status: Trump blocked while trial continues.

You can read the court documents from the case, if you want. Or you can read the New York Times' summary of the case.

* Sometime, I need to share the story of why SAGE says GLBT and everybody else says LGBT. It's kind of a bittersweet story. Remind me in the comments, especially if it's no longer March of 2025.

2025-03-08

[dailyspiteful]

48

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[atikinverse]

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[viewstitch]

It’s Day 48 of the Wessagusset Wind/Humidity Wrap 2025. The wind was out of the W at 25mph with gusts to 43mph. The humidity was 43%. I used the Pumpkin color of Red Heart Super Saver yarn to show the humidity 43%. I knit the PATTERN: Row 1: K Rows 2-4: seed stitch to show the wind was blowing at 14mph. It was a sunny day in Wessagusset, and it was very cold and windy. The temperature felt lower than the actual temperature due to the strong wind, and relentless gusts. I stayed inside today, not wanting to face the very strong wind, and the cold temperature. There were loads of rolling whitecaps with some actual waves in the Fore River. Tomorrow will be more of the same, but colder. Something to look forward to in the morning. Be safe out there.

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[arturia-giallo]

Day48 ロビン(コスメCM ver.) by 南条まや [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[hobbitinnumenor]

The Hobbit" Ch #8: "Of Flies and Spiders" thoughts, here we go!

Thoughts always v welcome and ty!!#Day48 #myTolkienreading2025 🪰🕸💍🌳🗡✨️🤓📖

1. Dreams becoming more of a theme, beyond Bilbo! A fantastical but also scary aspect to them (getting stuck in sleep): JRRT balancing the two for child readers again?

2. Bilbo's development really is staggering...this is the guy who collapsed in his kitchen at the mere thought of adventure, as Dr. Olsen notes! His clever & brave rescuing of the dwarves feels like a development on both the trolls incident & thinking he should turn back to the goblin caves for them.

3. It really is a v practical, v tough dilemma...they were *very clearly* warned against leaving the path, but if they don't they could die from starvation (as Thorin keeps...he's got food on the mind for sure, lol)...I think they approach it well through deliberation and then sending scouts.

4. I'm fascinated by these glimmers of Tolkien's wider legendarium: the "Light-elves" (Vanyar), "Deep-elves" (Noldor), "Sea-elves" (Teleri) [I'm guessing? Haha]. Also the long-standing conflicts between Elves & Dwarves. When his larger legendarium began to weave itself into this story in earnest?

[patchworkmirage]

yeah

i want my gay ass son out of my head. he needs to be put down like a cat (he is a fish)

[demoneyesidol]

Day48. WIP

[lottieratworld]

made a trackmania2 track. set in lagoon with the valley car.

believe u just need trackmania2 lagoon to play it, dont necessarily need valley to be able to use its car

[denkyu-getemono]

More and more cats 🐈‍⬛Day48💝

[crydayz]

DAY48

60DAYZ drawrまで48/60

[jeimecestello]

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[adwardsaibold]

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[thomeslykens]

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[viewstitch]

It’s Day 48 of the Windy Wessagusset Wimple of 2024. The wind was out of the south southwest at the 6mph at 6am. The temperature was 29° and it felt like 23°. I used the Royal color of Red Heart Super Saver yarn to indicate the wind was out of the south southwest west. I worked my stitches in garter stitch to show the wind speed was between 0mph and 9mph.

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