Trump billionaire crony is trashing the USPS

[Winehole23]

One party wants to make it harder for Americans to vote safely in a epochal pandemic.


The Harris County Republican Party on Monday joined a lawsuit asking the Texas Supreme Court to halt the county clerk’s plan (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/Harris-County-cannot-send-all-voters-mail-ballot-15522004.php) to send mail ballot applications to all 2.4 million registered voters.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/harris-county-gop-mail-ballot-application-texas-15527874.php (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/harris-county-gop-mail-ballot-application-texas-15527874.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20 (Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral)

[Winehole23]

it's contempt of Congress time, neither opprobrium nor legal consequence attach meaningfully to such behavior anymore.


The House Oversight Committee is preparing to issue a subpoena (https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/Subpoena%20Schedule%20for%20Postal%20Service.pdf) for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, accusing him of ignoring the panel’s demand for documents related to Postal Service mail delays and contacts with White House officials or the Trump campaign.

Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) indicated Monday that DeJoy had refused to comply with a request for documents she issued during his testimony to the committee last week,

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/oversight-panel-subpoena-dejoy-406100

[Winehole23]

the subpoena:

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/Subpoena%20Schedule%20for%20Postal%20Service.pdf

[boutons_deux]

The DC federal court just ruled that Congress cannot enforce its subpoenas on the executive branch and I bet deJoy is also protected

[Winehole23]

The DC federal court just ruled that Congress cannot enforce its subpoenas on the executive branch and I bet deJoy is also protectedoh, well.

so much for Congressional oversight.

[boutons_deux]

oh, well.

so much for Congressional oversight.

and so much more for an autocratic "unitary executive", ruled for by anti-democracy, pro-autocracy ideologue politicians in robes.

[boutons_deux]

House to subpoena postmaster general over mail delays

The House Oversight Committee intends to

subpoena Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

for documents about disruptions in mail delivery operations that are now central to questions over the ability to handle an onslaught of mail-in ballots expected for the November election (https://apnews.com/Election2020).

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the committee chair, sent a memo Monday saying DeJoy blew past last week’s deadline to fully respond to the committee’s request for more information.

He has not provided any new materials, she said.

“It is clear that a subpoena has become necessary to further the Committee’s investigation and help inform potential legislative actions,” she said.

DeJoy, who was tapped to lead the agency in June (https://apnews.com/a838c0bb546e2dae6b159bcd2f7b7277),

started quickly initiating changes at a time when the agency was already straining under the COVID-19 crisis.

Reports of delays soon piled up.

Communities across the nation complained about widespread disruptions

in postal operations this summer as

blue mailboxes and sorting equipment were removed and

employees said changes in trucking operations and overtime hours left mail on the loading docks, undelivered.

The committee produced internal postal service data showing widespread summer service disruptions.

The panel also wants information about how DeJoy, who had no previous postal experience, (https://apnews.com/aedcc34674344793961666fe82d6d257)

was selected for the job, as well as

any previously “undisclosed communication between Mr. DeJoy and the Trump campaign.”

https://apnews.com/b51d8a8f83fd0e43608e6057e5988f73?fbclid=IwAR2z7_lM dDnyQSpv22htquAL62reMoekkrzN3SzCiZTIGZZh9O6Egu5_Ky o

[Winehole23]

#ImpeachDeJoy

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[RandomGuy]

and so much more for an autocratic "unitary executive", ruled for by anti-democracy, pro-autocracy ideologue politicians in robes.

Eyup.

It is full on fascism at this point. They aren't really even trying to hide it at this point.

[Winehole23]

On June 5, 2020, in response to a request from the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee as to whether USPS had a “concrete plan” to ensure necessary capacity to process voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, a senior USPS official wrote, “Yes, the Postal Service has the capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume” during the pandemic, noting that USPS has “long-standing processes to align workforce to workload, including contingencies to respond to events like the COVID-19 pandemic” and “will continue to adjust staffing levels as needed to maintain its important role in our democratic process.”

The meaning could not be more clear: in May and early June, senior USPS officials were extremely confident in the agency’s ability to deliver all election mail accurately and on time.

Ten days later, Trump mega-donor Louis DeJoy became Postmaster General, and less than a month after that, the agency changed its tune. Internal USPS memos (http://postalnews.com/blog/2020/07/13/document-purports-to-show-pmgs-plans-for-changes-to-usps-operations/) first revealed (https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2020/07/looking-cut-costs-new-usps-leader-takes-aim-overtime-and-late-trips/166917/) on July 13, show that the new Postmaster General announced new changes that would severely limit overtime.

On June 18, 2020, Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works wrote USPS to ask: “Is there a plan to mitigate this roundabout mail sorting for the purpose of Vote by Mail? Has such an effort been considered? Why or why not?”

USPS responded on July 1st that it “is not considering changing distribution plans for the purpose of Voting by Mail as doing so would introduce added risk to service and decreased levels of efficiency throughout the network.”
https://www.citizensforethics.org/usps-told-congress-distribution-plans-would-stay-intact-for-voting-by-mail-before-dejoy-changes/

related USPS documents (https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/04212757/Requested-Documents_Redacted.pdf)

[Isitjustme?]

Honestly, how is Trump not taking more of a hit for this among the general public? It takes fucking forever to get shit in the mail now. 2 or 3 people have mailed me shit and I'm still waiting on one case almost 10 days now

[Winehole23]

Honestly, how is Trump not taking more of a hit for this among the general public? It takes fucking forever to get shit in the mail now. 2 or 3 people have mailed me shit and I'm still waiting on one case almost 10 days nowTrump Administration decided to wreck the USPS. DeJoy is the hitman.

Mission accomplished, pert near.

[Isitjustme?]

Trump Administration decided to wreck the USPS. DeJoy is the hitman.

Mission accomplished, pert near.

Yeah, but why isn't the public more outraged at them over this? I understand the partisanship hardcore people like leftists/liberals and trumpists staying in their lanes but among normal people who aren't ideological you'd think the mail being broken would at least pierce through.

[Winehole23]

Yeah, but why isn't the public more outraged at them over this? I understand the partisanship hardcore people but among normal people who aren't ideological you'd think the mail being broken would at least pierce through.People stopped protesting babies in cages. Turned the page.

I'm also surprised there's not more open love for the USPS, it's one of the greatest US institutions.

[Will Hunting]

Yeah, but why isn't the public more outraged at them over this? I understand the partisanship hardcore people like leftists/liberals and trumpists staying in their lanes but among normal people who aren't ideological you'd think the mail being broken would at least pierce through.
The media has ADD and is incapable of sustaining coverage of something for more than a few weeks. The outrage was picking up momentum but the attention this was getting seemed to die down after the Dejoy House Testimony.

[Will Hunting]

Democrats are also just a lot worse at sparking outrage than Republicans are. Republicans took Benghazi and managed to keep a bullshit nonstory in the news cycle for Obama’s entire 2nd term. Democrats can’t do the same with Trump and Dejoy sabotaging the USPS and making it so veterans don’t get prescriptions. They don’t know how to turn scandals into blunt instruments that get hammered over people’s head for months on end the way Republicans do.

[Winehole23]

The media has ADD and is incapable of sustaining coverage of something for more than a few weeks. The outrage was picking up momentum but the attention this was getting seemed to die down after the Dejoy House Testimony.For better and for worse, Republicans' contumeliousness to law will come to sharper focus, if only briefly, over congressional oversight of obvious misdeeds.

The big test will be Christmas for the USPS, if it survives the election.

[boutons_deux]

‘A fiasco is clearly foreseeable’:

USPS watchdog probe found 1 million primary ballots likely delivered too late to count

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/a-fiasco-is-clearly-foreseeable-usps-watchdog-probe-found-1-million-primary-ballots-likely-delivered-too-late-to-count/ (https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/a-fiasco-is-clearly-foreseeable-usps-watchdog-probe-found-1-million-primary-ballots-likely-delivered-too-late-to-count/)

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Harvard Law Prof: USPS Failures Expose Constitutional Violations in Vote-By-Mail Laws of Several States

Citing to the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court case O’Brien v Skinner (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/414/524/), Tribe said that the

Equal Protection Clause “invalidates state rules that make arbitrary distinctions between voters who can get their absentee ballots counted and those who can’t.”

Thus, if two people in a state mail their ballots on the same day, one of those votes cannot be counted while the other is invalidated because they were delivered at different times.

the Constitution requires that states enact postmark rules –

meaning all mail-in ballots must be dated and

cannot be invalidated if sent before the election deadline.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/harvard-law-prof-usps-failures-expose-constitutional-violations-in-vote-by-
mail-laws-of-several-states/ (https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/harvard-law-prof-usps-failures-expose-constitutional-violations-in-vote-by-mail-laws-of-several-states/)

As if Repug states gave the tiniest fuck about election laws and regs

[Will Hunting]

People need to fucking mail their ballot early or drop it off personally, and Biden’s campaign needs to use the $324 million it just raised last month to make sure the base does that in important states. It’s that simple, don’t trust the USPS to get your ballot mailed 2 days before Election Day.

[boutons_deux]

Dejoy employees saying he reimbursed them for donations to Republicans to get around campaign limits, a felony

Who has standing to sue him or charge him?

[boutons_deux]

DeJoy regrets ‘if’ employees felt uncomfortable when he asked them to break the law

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/dejoy-regrets-if-employees-felt-uncomfortable-when-he-asked-them-to-break-the-law/

[Will Hunting]

:lol Trump said Dejoy should be investigated and should resign if he violated campaign finance laws

Always funny when Trump turns on one his sychophants.

[ElNono]

:lol Trump said Dejoy should be investigated and should resign if he violated campaign finance laws

Always funny when Trump turns on one his sychophants.

Wait until Dejoy announces a tell-all book... then he's going to be the devil in the flesh, and you'll have trumptards lining up to take pot shots at him...

[Splits]

Wait until Dejoy announces a tell-all book... then he's going to be the devil in the flesh, and you'll have trumptards lining up to take pot shots at him...

marked

[LkrFan]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1303055749996843008?s=19

SMH

[Will Hunting]

Wait until Dejoy announces a tell-all book... then he's going to be the devil in the flesh, and you'll have trumptards lining up to take pot shots at him...
I wonder what happens at this point if he resigns before Election Day, would probably just send the USPS into more chaos.

[Will Hunting]

Dejoy employees saying he reimbursed them for donations to Republicans to get around campaign limits, a felony

Who has standing to sue him or charge him?
North Carolina AG has the ability to launch an investigation. He’s already hinted that an investigation should happen.

This might be what sinks Dejoy.

[Winehole23]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1303055749996843008?s=19

SMHShirking is common enough that it is a jailhouse crime.. This is what that looks like to me.

We'll see what the investigation says.

[boutons_deux]

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[Winehole23]

The USPS refused the requests of ten states to review its draft for accuracy, as a result, it is sending misinformation about absentee voting to millions of voters.

1304608522789818368

[boutons_deux]

so they get a ballot automatically

then Dejoy lies to them that they have to request a ballot

so some voters then have with two ballots

not sure what is going on, they mail in both ballots, the double vote get detected, and disqualified in the inevitable Trash demand for a recount.

Repugs are proving to us that corruption, bad faith, and out right crimes are unstoppable.

It may not, work this time.

But there are Repug/oligarchy evil geniuses noting very clearly how much Trash/Repugs violated, envelopes pushed and exceeded, obliterated now

so the next time Repugs get in power, America "as we know it" will be terminated, replace by a militarized, oppressive, Christian supremacist technocracy, where autocratic govt and BigTech (who actually hates govt) work together to maintain control.

[Winehole23]

If the anti-racist majority votes this time, there's not much the GOP will be able to do about any of that. Elections do still matter.

[tholdren]

So, no, you haven't explained why adding in a 20% profit margin will magically make things better.
Got it.

You keep on your "durr dee dur it costs money dur". For you to get my point would require you to learn something, and I do not think you can learn it.

Stop using numbers you don't understand math

[boutons_deux]

If the anti-racist majority votes this time, there's not much the GOP will be able to do about any of that. Elections do still matter.

Dems, just like the Repugs, satisfy BigDonor preferences over Dem-voting citizens' preferences

If the Dems win WH and Congress, we'll see how little they do to UNdo the Repugs destruction.

how about stopping carried interest?

how about repealing USPS PAEA act?

how about a "sales tax" on financial transactions?

ramp up IRS budget by $500M?

Fed minimum $15/hour indexed to inflation?

Medicare for All?

impeach Kavanaugh?

etc, etc, etc.

In general, the Repugs do bad, and then the Dems don't undo the bad.

America is fucked and unfuckable because the entire political class is owned by BigDonor

[boutons_deux]

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[boutons_deux]

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[Winehole23]

Postal Police sue DeJoy for exceeding his authority

1305575695918215176

[Winehole23]

Crooked as a dog's leg

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[boutons_deux]

Everybody note that what Dejoy is committing is unstoppable,

and

the entire Repug party remains silent in approving complicity.

[Winehole23]

House should impeach, tbh

[boutons_deux]

House should impeach, tbh

Moscow Mitch wouldn't try the impeached. Repugs want USPS destroyed and privatized, the rationale behind their PAEA Act.

[Winehole23]

Moscow Mitch wouldn't try the impeached. Repugs want USPS destroyed and privatized, the rationale behind their PAEA Act.Doesn't matter at this point whether the Senate would convict, it's important to lay some kind of marker next to official corruption.

[Winehole23]

Good news: 1 out of 4 Republican Supreme Court justices in WI just decided not to ratfuck the vote.

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[pgardn]

https://apple.news/AiG2UyL-gTTCqygv0GpyI5g

Bang up job by the new postmaster.
They have really taken a lot of care to try to confuse people.

[boutons_deux]

Doesn't matter at this point whether the Senate would convict, it's important to lay some kind of marker next to official corruption.

Feckless $100millionaire Pelosi doesn't have the guts, the fire to impeach.

[DMC]

I was really considering mailing in my ballot but now I am not so sure. What do you guise think?

[Winehole23]

I was really considering mailing in my ballot but now I am not so sure. What do you guise think?Go for it.

[Will Hunting]

I was really considering mailing in my ballot but now I am not so sure. What do you guise think?
Go for it but wait until election day :lol

[DMC]

Go for it but wait until election day :lol

I have plenty, I can do one per day.

[Will Hunting]

I have plenty, I can do one per day.
You getting dem Soros bucks like I am?

[DMC]

You getting dem Soros bucks like I am?

Free masks too

[Winehole23]

I have plenty, I can do one per day.Are you that guy in Dallas Co. Bill Barr was talking about?

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/04/texas-william-barr-mail-in-voting/

[Winehole23]

OH Secretary of State acted arbitrarily and unlawfully in restricting drop boxes, says Franklin Co. judge.

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[Will Hunting]

OH Secretary of State acted arbitrarily and unlawfully in restricting drop boxes, says Franklin Co. judge.

1305887451626471424
Thank god Trump blew through all his campaign money, doesn’t sound like he’s going to have the litigation warchest that Biden’s now got for election issues.

[Trainwreck2100]

Thank god Trump blew through all his campaign money, doesn’t sound like he’s going to have the litigation warchest that Biden’s now got for election issues.

lol blew, that shit is sitting in an account somewhere

[Will Hunting]

lol blew, that shit is sitting in an account somewhere
Sure it is, Brad Parscale's account :lol

[RandomGuy]

lol blew, that shit is sitting in an account somewhere

Grifty grifters already sucked it out.

Watchdogs have gone so far as to use the term "money laundering"

[RandomGuy]

Thank god Trump blew through all his campaign money, doesn’t sound like he’s going to have the litigation warchest that Biden’s now got for election issues.

I'm sure the oligarchy will come through at the last minute for this shit. Too much $$ at stake for them.

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm sure the oligarchy will come through at the last minute for this shit. Too much $$ at stake for them.

Yeah but they lost a shit load of money thanks to Covid, (there's getting it back alot faster than little guy), plus some fund managers are actually acknowledging that maybe climate change needs to be addressed

[Will Hunting]

I'm sure the oligarchy will come through at the last minute for this shit. Too much $$ at stake for them.
A lot of the big oligarchs have already told him to fuck off, notably Adelson.

Him needing to push ads out another 7 days when there’s only 50 days left is irreversible damage to his campaign when early voting has already started. We’re not in the early stages anymore, if he’s getting an oligarch bailout he needs it now.

[Winehole23]

A lot of the big oligarchs have already told him to fuck off, notably Adelson.

Him needing to push ads out another 7 days when there’s only 50 days left is irreversible damage to his campaign when early voting has already started. We’re not in the early stages anymore, if he’s getting an oligarch bailout he needs it now.it would be eminently fair to offer the 2020 Trump campaign a non-recoursee emergency public loan, to level the playing field with Biden during the home stetch of the campaign.

[Winehole23]

Twists and turns, State Supreme Court chides the county judge, reversing:


OH Secretary of State acted arbitrarily and unlawfully in restricting drop boxes, says Franklin Co. judge.

1305887451626471424

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[Will Hunting]

Twists and turns, State Supreme Court chides the county judge, reversing:



1306358778749767682
Republicans create all of this ruckus because they wanted to limit the amount of ballot drop boxes were available. People who still support this party are pieces of shit.

[Winehole23]

Republicans create all of this ruckus because they wanted to limit the amount of ballot drop boxes were available. People who still support this party are pieces of shit.Apparently fighting over the rules til the very last minute is an Ohio tradition or something. I saw a few "this shit again?" tweets from Ohio natives.

[boutons_deux]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiEeOIGWkAATYXq?format=png&name=900x900

"judges don't decide cases based on partisanship" :lol WTF

I understand she has to say that "in theory", but in blatant practive, Bitch Mitch/Leo are polluting Federal benches with ideological PARTISAN judges, which is the prime reason that "qualifies" them as acceptable to Repugs/oligarchy

[Winehole23]

WE WERE ASCARED PEOPLE MIGHT GET SCARED


“There was concern from some in the White House Domestic Policy Council and the office of the vice president that households receiving masks might create concern or panic,” one administration official told the Washington Post.

The White House Domestic Policy Council includes President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Its acting director is Brooke Rollins. It also includes most of the President’s Cabinet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usps-announcement-to-send-5-masks-to-every-american-household/39cd11c9-3e38-4d8a-9d70-7c3215ab9cf8/

[boutons_deux]

Federal Judge Blocks Postal Services Changes That Could Hamper Election Mail

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-postal-services-changes-that-could-hamper-election-mail

too late, the damage is done, and Dejoy sez Fuck You, I aint' fixin, reversin nuthin

[Will Hunting]

In his ruling judge says that USPS changes already made could result in voter disenfranchisement even with this order.

Is this still just a conspiracy theory?

[Winehole23]

round and round she goes

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[boutons_deux]

DeJoy’s Postal Service policies delayed 7 percent of nation’s first-class mail, Senate Democrat’s report says

The postmaster general suspended some cost-cutting maneuvers but not the moves experts say are behind the worst problems

DeJoy’s controversial midsummer operational directives delayed nearly 350 million pieces, or 7 percent, of the country’s first-class mail in the five weeks they were in effect,

DeJoy implemented stricter dispatch schedules on transport trucks that

forced workers to leave mail behind and prohibited extra mail trips,

leading to well-documented bottlenecks.

Managers under him also cracked down on overtime, which postal workers commonly rely on to complete routes

agency whose leadership was barely prepared to implement the new policies, did not anticipate the upheaval they might cause and

is still trying to find its balance as the November election draws near and

millions of people continue to experience longer wait times for their mail and packages.

on-time delivery rates hovered near 83 percent, ensnaring prescription medications, benefits checks and ballots in midterm elections.

https://chartable-images.edapps.nile.works/chartable/5f6184a5cc2903000f0ff15b/latest.svg?v=1600287452.459844

Postmaster General DeJoy’s carelessly instituted operational changes to the Postal Service

resulted in severe service impacts that harmed the lives and livelihoods of Michiganders and Americans,”

his decisions were reckless and caused significant harm to the American people.”

He left in place his orders on transportation schedules — the most controversial changes — that postal workers and independent experts say are causing the most problems.

DeJoy’s directives on “getting trucks running on time” caused a “temporary dip in
service”

DeJoy “failed to conduct any meaningful analysis about how his planned changes could affect customers,”

DeJoy did not inform the board of the changes he was considering and

that the Postal Service for a month and a half refused to provide lawmakers any records of the decision-making process driving those policies.

DeJoy misinterpreted an inspector general’s study on transportation costs, then used that document as the underpinning of his directives.

DeJoy ... said the study found $4 billion in extra costs due to late and additional deliveries, and late dispatch times.

But the inspector general’s report identifies only $550 million in potential cost savings.

DeJoy’s changes appear to have been focused on cost-cutting based on an inflated estimate, and

at a high cost to the American people in terms of delays,”

delays appeared especially pronounced in prescription medications (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/09/usps-prescription-drug-delays-investigation/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30),

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/dejoy-usps-delays-senate-report

[Winehole23]

Nationwide injunction issued


Judge Marrero’s order says the parties have until noon Friday to reach a settlement to make sure that mail-in ballots are properly handled.

“The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted,” Marrero wrote.

If both sides fail to arrive at an order by the end of the week, Marrero said he will impose his own injunction that ensures postal trucks can make late and extra trips, and that postal workers get overtime preapproved from late October through early November.

The judge also said he would mandate the Postal Service to treat all election mail — including voter registration materials, absentee or mail-in ballot applications, polling place notifications, blank ballots, and completed ballots — as first-class mail or priority mail express.
https://www.courthousenews.com/nationwide-injunction-issued-to-shield-mail-in-votes-during-pandemic/

[Winehole23]

More fuckery, strong Fat Tony vibes..

https://news.yahoo.com/postmaster-dejoy-sorting-machines-stripped-for-parts-120053250.html

[Winehole23]

"And there was nothing we could do about it"

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kTlgRU-azxU/hqdefault.jpg

[Winehole23]

WE WERE ASCARED PEOPLE MIGHT GET SCARED

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usps-announcement-to-send-5-masks-to-every-american-household/39cd11c9-3e38-4d8a-9d70-7c3215ab9cf8/Concordance at:

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287246

[boutons_deux]

DeJoy and Trump lose a third time in federal court

as Postal Service works to undo sabotage

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/28/1981392/-Three-of-three-Another-judge-slams-DeJoy-s-electioneering-for-Trump-halts-Postal-Service-sabotage?detail=emaildkre

[Winehole23]

non-Daily Kos:

https://whyy.org/articles/warning-of-irreparable-harm-pa-federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-usps-cost-cutting/

[Will Hunting]

They really need a court order demanding that the sorting machines be restored even if replacement parts are needed.

Wonder how many judges need to rule against Dejoy before Trumptards admit this isn't a baseless conspiracy theory.

[Winehole23]

Oopsie!

1.8 million change of address updates were not reflected in the USPS database 43 states are using to send out ballots.

Even if completely unintentional, the USPS has compromised ballots and could hinder voters.


for three weeks in August, as election officials across the country were preparing to send out mail-in ballots to tens of millions of voters, the U.S. Postal Service stopped fully updating a national change of address system that most states use to keep their voter rolls current, according to multiple officials who use the system. A USPS spokesperson acknowledged the failure in response to questions from TIME, and said that at least 1.8 million new changes of address had not been registered in the database.https://time.com/5893881/exclusive-as-states-prepared-mail-in-ballots-postal-service-failed-to-update-at-least-1-8-million-addresses/

[Will Hunting]

Oopsie!

1.8 million change of address updates were not reflected in the USPS database 43 states are using to send out ballots.

Even if completely unintentional, the USPS has compromised ballots and could hinder voters.

https://time.com/5893881/exclusive-as-states-prepared-mail-in-ballots-postal-service-failed-to-update-at-least-1-8-million-addresses/
Unbelievable. Hopefully it shouldn't have much of an impact since the USPS should still be forwarding the mail to its new address, but if Dejoy were an Obama appointee we'd have Fox News and OAN screaming for his resignation.

[Winehole23]

Unbelievable. Hopefully it shouldn't have much of an impact since the USPS should still be forwarding the mail to its new address, but if Dejoy were an Obama appointee we'd have Fox News and OAN screaming for his resignation.Dejoy should be impeached, I guess he'll probably resign or get promoted, depending on how the election turns out.

[Will Hunting]

Dejoy should be impeached, I guess he'll probably resign or get promoted, depending on how the election turns out.
Big tactical error for him to fuck with the mail as early as he did and give Democratic AGs time to get injunctions. He should have started fucking with the mail 2-3 weeks before the election. People wouldn't have figured it out until after election day and it would almost be a guarantee that the election ends up in a chaotic court battle.

[Winehole23]

Big tactical error for him to fuck with the mail as early as he did and give Democratic AGs time to get injunctions. He should have started fucking with the mail 2-3 weeks before the election. People wouldn't have figured it out until after election day and it would almost be a guarantee that the election ends up in a chaotic court battle.You make a good point about timing, but to be fair to DeJoy, the window of opportunity was short, and he was probably selected for his ability to move fast and break things.

Mission accomplished, tbh.

[Will Hunting]

You make a good point about timing, but to be fair to DeJoy, the window of opportunity was short, and he was probably selected for his ability to move fast and break things.

Mission accomplished, tbh.
The Republicans were too transparent early on about their strategy of trying to keep their voters away from mail-in voting so they could reliably sabotage / discredit mail-in votes knowing they would be predominantly democrat. Their voter suppression strategies are typically more clandestine and generally slip past the goalie until it's too late (i.e. voter ID laws, last minute changes to precinct locations, faulty voting equipment that always seems to get sent to inner-city precincts).

Now there's too many eyes on the USPS/Republicans trying to exclude mail-in ballots from the count that Biden's campaign has a legal war chest ready to be deployed.

[Winehole23]

The Republicans were too transparent early on about their strategy of trying to keep their voters away from mail-in voting so they could reliably sabotage / discredit mail-in votes knowing they would be predominantly democrat. Their voter suppression strategies are typically more clandestine and generally slip past the goalie until it's too late (i.e. voter ID laws, last minute changes to precinct locations, faulty voting equipment that always seems to get sent to inner-city precincts).

Now there's too many eyes on the USPS/Republicans trying to exclude mail-in ballots from the count that Biden's campaign has a legal war chest ready to be deployed.Short term sure, medium term, DeJoy already rendered the USPS weaker. To support any eventual cries for its privatization, DeJoy's tenure with the precipitous dip on time first class service, will be pointed at. People aren't getting medicine on time.

[Winehole23]

:tu

1313234350138429441 (https://twitter.com/ruralinfo/status/1313234350138429441?s=20)

[boutons_deux]

Dejoy should be impeached, I guess he'll probably resign or get promoted, depending on how the election turns out.

Dejoy is billionaire, he's a big mucky muck in the Repug establishment, he doesn't give a fuck about being impeached, or any attack on himself. $Bs make you immune

[RandomGuy]

Dejoy should be impeached, I guess he'll probably resign or get promoted, depending on how the election turns out.

Fucking with the mail is an actual crime.

If there is any HINT of that in any of his official email accounts or communication that it was deliberate, I can see actual charges.

[Winehole23]

Trump loses again in PA:


Put differently, “[f]ederal judges can have a lot of power—especially when issuing injunctions. And sometimes we may even have a good idea or two. But the Constitution sets out our sphere of decision-making, and that sphere does not extend to second-guessing and interfering with a State’s reasonable, nondiscriminatory election rules.” New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger, —F.3d —, 2020 WL 5877588, at *4 (11th Cir. Oct. 2, 2020). As discussed below, the Court finds that the election regulations put in place by the General Assembly and implemented by Defendants do not significantly burden any right to vote. They are rational. They further important state interests. They align with the Commonwealth’s elaborate election-security measures. They do not run afoul of the United States Constitution. They will not otherwise be second-guessed by this Court.https://electionlawblog.org/?p=116580


We are still waiting on a ruling from the Supreme Court (https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public\20a53.html) (https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public\20a53.html)on a separate case coming from the state Supreme Court, one where Republicans may f (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/supreme-court-covid-voting-cases-pennsylvania-south-carolina.html)are better (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/supreme-court-covid-voting-cases-pennsylvania-south-carolina.html).

the opinion:

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/08/show_temp.pl2_.pdf

[DMC]

It's amusing when normal people get their 1st glimpse of huge numbers associated with large populations like the US. Without historical reference, it's really easy to think something must be awry, that the figures are indicating something really bad happened. In reality, they could very well be simply another dot on the trend line. For example, there were nearly 36 million address changes in 2019.

[Winehole23]

It's amusing when posters put on the expert hat to distract from obvious incompetence and obfuscate for a guy like DeJoy, who's trashing the joint.

[Will Hunting]

It's amusing when normal people get their 1st glimpse of huge numbers associated with large populations like the US. Without historical reference, it's really easy to think something must be awry, that the figures are indicating something really bad happened. In reality, they could very well be simply another dot on the trend line. For example, there were nearly 36 million address changes in 2019.
4 different federal judges believe something is awry and have all issued relief accordingly.

[Will Hunting]

Trump loses again in PA:

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=116580



the opinion:

https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/08/show_temp.pl2_.pdf
Ha, not only did he lose, but the judge who ruled against him was one of his appointees.

I think both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are going to be cautious about any ruling that helps the president who appointed them, particularly Gorsuch. Roberts is also conscious of what legacy the Roberts Court will have. This country's judiciary might have just enough integrity left to avoid destroying Democracy.

[Winehole23]

Fucking with the mail is an actual crime.

If there is any HINT of that in any of his official email accounts or communication that it was deliberate, I can see actual charges.Biden will turn the page on wrongdoing and focus on healing the USPS, if elected. I don't think he has the stomach for prosecuting political predecessors any more than Obama had.

[boutons_deux]

“[f]ederal judges can have a lot of power



so-called conservatives (aka oligarchy) have been trying for 45 years to have SCOTUS with 5 non "squishy" SCOTUS.

With K, they got it, a solid 5-4, now 5-3, and soon to be 6-3

Repugs knew the power for the Federal judiciary that rules on 95% of cases vs the few that SCOTUS takes,

so McConnell slow-walked/blocked/stole ALL of Obamas Federal appointees,

then rammed through 200+ under Trash.

Repugs have been court packing for 12 years

[boutons_deux]

Maine postal workers reassemble high-speed mail-sorting machine: (https://www.wabi.tv/2020/10/09/maine-postal-workers-reassemble-dismantled-high-speed-letter-sorting-machine/)

The machine at the Southern Maine Mail Processing Center in Scarborough was among those ordered to be dismantled across the nation by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser.

There were two such machines at the center, but only one could be put back together because the other was scrapped.

Such machines can sort more than 20,000 letters an hour.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1985264

[Winehole23]

Ha, not only did he lose, but the judge who ruled against him was one of his appointees.

I think both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are going to be cautious about any ruling that helps the president who appointed them, particularly Gorsuch. Roberts is also conscious of what legacy the Roberts Court will have. This country's judiciary might have just enough integrity left to avoid destroying Democracy.Signs point to maybe.

1315057122791641088

[Will Hunting]

How the fuck did Obama not get around to filling vacancies created in 2012 and 2013?

[Winehole23]

How the fuck did Obama not get around to filling vacancies created in 2012 and 2013?Mitch McConnell would be my guess.

[Will Hunting]

Mitch McConnell would be my guess.
McConnell wasn’t majority leader until 2015, he had no power after Harry Reid ended filibusters on lower court judges in 2013.

I just figured it out though, it was that old kike bitch Dianne Feinstein refusing to end the blue slip rule even when Republicans were clearly being obstructionists.

[baseline bum]

McConnell wasn’t majority leader until 2015, he had no power after Harry Reid ended filibusters on lower court judges in 2013.

I just figured it out though, it was that old kike bitch Dianne Feinstein refusing to end the blue slip rule even when Republicans were clearly being obstructionists.

Ugh that piece of shit needs to be primaried

[Will Hunting]

Ugh that piece of shit needs to be primaried
Schumer needs to find a new chair of the judiciary if the Dems get the senate back. She’s demonstrated complete ineffectiveness from the last time around.

[baseline bum]

Schumer needs to find a new chair of the judiciary if the Dems get the senate back. She’s demonstrated complete ineffectiveness from the last time around.

Yeah I'm sure Schumer will get right on that, he has been such an effective leader for senate Democrats.

[Winehole23]

McConnell wasn’t majority leader until 2015, he had no power after Harry Reid ended filibusters on lower court judges in 2013.

I just figured it out though, it was that old kike bitch Dianne Feinstein refusing to end the blue slip rule even when Republicans were clearly being obstructionists.Dems standing on norms against unprincipled constitutional hardball. You hate to see it.

[Will Hunting]

Yeah I'm sure Schumer will get right on that, he has been such an effective leader for senate Democrats.
He’s scared of an AOC primary, and the AOC supporters hate Feinstein.

[leemajors]

He’s scared of an AOC primary, and the AOC supporters hate Feinstein.

There is no reason for anyone to like Feinstein

[Will Hunting]

There is no reason for anyone to like Feinstein
If I was a hedge fund manager or Exxon Mobile I would like Feinstein a lot.

[Winehole23]

As Will H predicted, the 5th Circuit upholds Abbott's drop box restrictions:

1315883900418379777

[Winehole23]

Federal judge (a Trump appointee) tosses Trump Campaign drop box lawsuit in PA:


"Perhaps Plaintiffs are right that guards should be placed near drop boxes, signature-analysis experts should examine every mail-in ballot, poll watchers should be able to man any poll regardless of location, and other security improvements should be made," Ranjan wrote. "But the job of an unelected federal judge isn't to suggest election improvements, especially when those improvements contradict the reasoned judgment of democratically elected officials."

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/10/922673818/judge-blocks-trump-campaign-attempt-to-limit-use-of-drop-boxes-in-pennsylvania
https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2020/08/show_temp.pl2_.pdf

[Winehole23]

PA Supreme Court ruling stands, 4-4 vote.

1318328320891752451

[Winehole23]

All caps Rick Hasen is a new one on me, he's usually the guy screwing peoples heads back on after they lose their shit over stuff they don't understand.

1318390156601208833

1318392509291061250

[boutons_deux]

More fascist "unitary executive" telling Congress and its oversight of the Exec to fuck off

Since when does USPS work for the President?


From coast to coast, the Trump administration is locking Democratic leaders out of USPS facilities (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1988039/-From-coast-to-coast-the-Trump-administration-is-locking-Democratic-leaders-out-of-USPS-facilities)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1988039/-From-coast-to-coast-the-Trump-administration-is-locking-Democratic-leaders-out-of-USPS-facilities

[boutons_deux]

Coincidence?

DeJoy's U.S. Postal Service sabotage hitting swing states, communities of color

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1988092/-Coincidence-DeJoy-s-U-S-Postal-Service-sabotage-hitting-swing-states-communities-of-color

[Winehole23]

Coincidence?

DeJoy's U.S. Postal Service sabotage hitting swing states, communities of color

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/20/1988092/-Coincidence-DeJoy-s-U-S-Postal-Service-sabotage-hitting-swing-states-communities-of-colorMission accomplished, tbh.

I get why DeJoy hasn't been impeached yet, but got damn, how bad does it have to get?

[boutons_deux]

Mission accomplished, tbh.

I get why DeJoy hasn't been impeached yet, but got damn, how bad does it have to get?

Fuck the feckless Dems.

They allow this shit to happen by some obscure Pelosi political calculation that allows the criminal Repugs to run wild with no accountability.

"unitary executive" isn't legal gobbledygook, bur Orwellian Newspeak for the President as autocrat.

Trash/Barr have pushed the envelope, blown out the Overton window, preparing for the next Repug President/Congress to terminate USA.

[boutons_deux]

You won’t believe how the post office scored in our latest mail delivery test
The Watchdog mails first-class letters from across Dallas-Fort Worth to see if USPS has its act together.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2020/10/22/you-wont-believe-how-the-post-office-scored-in-our-latest-mail-delivery-test/

[boutons_deux]

Judge imposes sweeping order to ensure ballots are delivered on time despite Trump’s USPS slowdown

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/judge-imposes-sweeping-order-to-ensure-ballots-are-delivered-on-time-despite-trumps-usps-slowdown-report/

And if Dejoy effectively gives the judge a fuck you, what is the punishment?

[Winehole23]

Impeachment, but he'll probably resign first.

[boutons_deux]

Impeachment, but he'll probably resign first.

Dejoy is a govt employee?

[Winehole23]

MN Supreme Court changes the rules on mail in ballots five days before the election, like we do now.

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[Will Hunting]

The ruling is bullshit but seriously, why do minorities and millennials feel the need to cut it so god damn close? Just hand deliver your fucking ballot to the county clerk or to a dropbox. There's no good reason for why you needed to sit on your mail-in ballot this long.

[boutons_deux]

"Incumbent Paul Thissen (https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Thissen) and Michelle L. MacDonald (https://ballotpedia.org/Michelle_L._MacDonald) are running in a nonpartisan general election for the Minnesota Supreme Court (https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_Supreme_Court) on November 3, 2020.

As of October 2020,

five judges on the court were appointed by a Democratic governor and

two judges were appointed by a Republican governor.

If Thissen wins the election, the liberal bloc on the court will maintain its 5-2 majority.

If MacDonald wins, the partisan split on the court will shift to a 4-3 liberal majority."

https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_Supreme_Court_elections,_2020

When fucking Dem judges fuck us over, there is no hope. America is fucked and unfuckable.

[Will Hunting]

"Incumbent Paul Thissen (https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Thissen) and Michelle L. MacDonald (https://ballotpedia.org/Michelle_L._MacDonald) are running in a nonpartisan general election for the Minnesota Supreme Court (https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_Supreme_Court) on November 3, 2020.

As of October 2020,

five judges on the court were appointed by a Democratic governor and

two judges were appointed by a Republican governor.

If Thissen wins the election, the liberal bloc on the court will maintain its 5-2 majority.

If MacDonald wins, the partisan split on the court will shift to a 4-3 liberal majority."

https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_Supreme_Court_elections,_2020

When fucking Dem judges us over, there is no hope. America is fucked and unfuckable.



It wasn't the Minnesota supreme court, it was the 8th Circuit COA, which undoubtedly is loaded with Trump appointees.

[boutons_deux]

It wasn't the Minnesota supreme court, it was the 8th Circuit COA, which undoubtedly is loaded with Trump appointees.

yep, only one judge by Obama, 20 by Repug presidents

[Ef-man]

yep, only one judge by Obama, 20 by Repug presidents

Sad.

[boutons_deux]

Mail Ballots Found Piled On Post Office Floor In Critical Florida District

Video footage of a post office in Miami Dade County, Florida found mail-in ballots piled on the floor as voters haven’t been getting mail.

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The video above is an example of the mail sabotage that concerned so many experts when Trump and Postmaster General DeJoy started slowing down the mail months ago.

The good news for Florida voters is that if they don’t receive their ballot,

they can still vote on election day by provisional ballot. :lol Not if Repugs are in charge

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/30/mail-in-ballots-post-office-florida.html

[boutons_deux]

DeJoy delivers stunning response after failing to meet judge’s contempt deadline on hundreds of thousands of ballots


https://www.alternet.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDU4MTI0OS9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNzA3MDExMn0.uaISMNwFc YXb1DOiLa5DN9bMLTYGNmMs1-BpsDjTXmg/image.jpg?width=1245&coordinates=0%2C11%2C0%2C11&height=700

DeJoy has just said he was "unable" to meet the judge's order to have the ballots located and processed by 3 PM, he said. Instead of displaying any sense of seriousness about the ballots or his job performance, he offered up a stunning response.


In short, DeJoy, through his USPS attorneys, told Judge Emmet Sullivan that

they couldn't meet the deadline because doing so would have disrupted postal inspectors' other work.

As if on Election Day there is anything more important than getting all ballots delivered so they can be counted.

But not only did he say they were just too busy to meet the judge's orders,

they didn't realize, he claims, the judge had put the deadline in place.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/dejoy-delivers-stunning-response-after-failing-to-meet-judges-contempt-deadline-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-ballots/

This what corrupt politicization of "civil service" looks like

Trash has stripped civil service protections from 1000s of govt employees, who will be soon fired and replaced with incompetent Repug political hacks.

[boutons_deux]

Data Appears to Show

USPS Failed to Deliver Mail Ballots from Voters Nationwide


https://www.politicususa.com/2020/11/04/data-appears-to-show-usps-failed-to-deliver-mail-ballots-from-voters-nationwide.html

[boutons_deux]

‘Someone may :lol have to pay a price’:

Judge lashes Postal Service for defying ballot order

The Postal Service did not comply with a last-minute court order to deploy postal inspectors to sweep facilities for undelivered ballots.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/judge-postal-service-mail-in-ballots-434051

may? weasel words. Defying a critical, time-dependent court order MUST be punished.

if not, the precedent will encourage others to ignore the courts.

[boutons_deux]

USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day,
jeopardizing thousands of votes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/05/usps-late-ballots-election/

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/123830723_1085120631917530_3524802985651766613_n.j pg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=2&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=0SyLR1pXpWsAX8ICfe4&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=bb23c22a7c49352652f09cd61e4ed176&oe=5FCE1FEE

[boutons_deux]

GOP donors paid USPS ‘whistleblower’ $136,000 for election fraud allegations —

that he just recanted

A Pennsylvania postal worker who became Republicans’ star witness after saying he was aware of widespread ballot tampering by the U.S. Post Office has recanted his claims.

GOP donors have paid him $136,000 via a GoFundMe campaign.

“Richard Hopkins’ claim that

a postmaster in Erie, Pa., instructed postal workers to backdate ballots mailed after Election Day

was cited by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) in a letter to the Department of Justice calling for a federal investigation,”

Hopkins has now signed an affidavit recanting his false claims

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/gop-donors-paid-usps-whistleblower-136000-for-election-fraud-allegations-that-he-just-recanted/#respond

[boutons_deux]

https://www.cdn-liker.com/uploads/link_images/5fd8ee4f20d74.jpg


Former top Postal Service official testifies

Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

Dems in 2021:

"Oh that's terrible. But Biden won, so we Dems need to "move on" (no investigations, no punishments)"

[Winehole23]

https://www.cdn-liker.com/uploads/link_images/5fd8ee4f20d74.jpg


Former top Postal Service official testifies

Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

Dems in 2021:

"Oh that's terrible. But Biden won, so we Dems need to "move on" (no investigations, no punishments)"


DeJoy needs to be impeached.

[boutons_deux]

DeJoy needs to be impeached.

who has standing?

The USPS board is tainted with Repugs who installed him

https://www.cdn-liker.com/uploads/post_images/5fd93437bb7cf.jpg

[Winehole23]

who has standing?

The USPS board is tainted with Repugs who installed him

https://www.cdn-liker.com/uploads/post_images/5fd93437bb7cf.jpgif there's some reason the House can't impeach DeJoy i'd like to hear it.

[boutons_deux]

if there's some reason the House can't impeach DeJoy i'd like to hear it.

"The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_governme nt) of the executive branch of the United States federal government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

so I guess Congress could impeach, but Moscow Mitch would refuse to try, as he did with Trash.

[Winehole23]

"The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_governme nt) of the executive branch of the United States federal government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

so I guess Congress could impeach, but Moscow Mitch would refuse to try, as he did with Trash.

if Loeffler and Perdue both lose, removal becomes possible.

[Winehole23]

impeach DeJoy



"It's nuts; it's absolutely crazy," said Frank Albergo, president of the PPOA. "They pulled us off the street. There are no more marked postal police vehicles out in the street. I mean, it's actually inviting crime."

Albergo contacted the I-Team after seeing a November investigation featuring Maryland families who reported having checks stolen from blue collection boxes. One eyewitness even saw the thieves in action, using a special arrow key that unlocks all of the blue mailboxes within a given area. Court records show carriers are frequently targeted for their keys.

"For years, we were patrol officers who protected letter carriers and the blue collection boxes on the corner," said Postal Police Officer Eric Freeman. "We need to be out on the streets instead of at the plants."

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/postal-police-officers-blame-mail-theft-increase-on-decision-to-end-neighborhood-patrols/2513381/

[boutons_deux]

if Loeffler and Perdue both lose, removal becomes possible.

that will leave the Senate with Joe Manchin + 49 Dems

[Winehole23]

that will leave the Senate with Joe Manchin + 49 Demsyep

[Winehole23]

https://www.cdn-liker.com/uploads/link_images/5fd8ee4f20d74.jpg


Former top Postal Service official testifies

Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

Dems in 2021:

"Oh that's terrible. But Biden won, so we Dems need to "move on" (no investigations, no punishments)"


Reminder, delaying the US mail is a jailhouse felony.

[Winehole23]

Give em hell, Bill Pascrell

1353753918338195456 (https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/1353753918338195456?s=20)

[Winehole23]

20% of Americans receive their medicine exclusively through the mail

http://www.ncpa.co/adherence/AdherenceReportCard_Full.pdfI'm not sure how much this has changed since August. Do people still trust the USPS to deliver their medicine on time? Not rhetorical.

I hope Biden put the USPS back on its feet, the last 15 years have been rough, but there's really been nothing like the last 7-8 months.

[Winehole23]

Postmaster General DeJoy has financial conflicts

1293681399799648257worth a bump

[Winehole23]

Defunding the USPS and reorganizing it so as to slow down US mail flauts US postal policy.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/10139 U.S. Code § 101

[pgardn]

Put him on the rack.

Scum.

[Winehole23]

Campaign promise:





:tu

1313234350138429441 (https://twitter.com/ruralinfo/status/1313234350138429441?s=20)

[Winehole23]

Biden proposes to convert the federal fleet (645,000 vehicles in 2019) to EVs in phases.


One federal agency that could desperately use a new fleet of zero-emissions vehicles is the United States Postal Service. Hundreds of the agency’s mail trucks, which are manufactured by Northrop Grumman, have caught fire over the last several years, Vice recently reported (https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3ezx4/post-office-delivery-trucks-keep-catching-on-fire). And the USPS’s deadline for official bids to make its next-generation mail truck was delayed last year (https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/14/21259037/usps-coronavirus-pandemic-next-generation-mail-truck-program-delay) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The program to replace the USPS’s current trucks was launched in 2015. But it has dragged on, forcing the postal service to keep its current trucks in service past their expected life span — despite the fact that they were introduced in the late 1980s and early ‘90s and lack features like air conditioning. Two of the original six companies have dropped out.



https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22249237/biden-electric-vehicle-government-fleet-ev
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/120220-usps-next-generation-delivery-vehicle-program-update.htm

[Winehole23]

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Mail%20Delays.png

[Winehole23]

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CPRYQECJE5AFVFSM7CVOS2VQKA.png

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Etuw3_BVEAAOCm4?format=jpg&name=900x900

[boutons_deux]

I read Biden should replace Repugs on USPS board of governors with a majority of Dems who fire Dejoy, whom Biden cannot fire directly.

The PAEA Act was Repug maliciousness to destroy the USPS into privatization.

Will the Dems repeal PAEA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act

[RandomGuy]

I read Biden should replace Repugs on USPS board of governors with a majority of Dems who fire Dejoy, whom Biden cannot fire directly.

The PAEA Act was Repug maliciousness to destroy the USPS into privatization.

Will the Dems repeal PAEA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act

They might. That is the talk. Given that Biden has moved pretty quickly to enact shit, I can see it getting done.

[Winehole23]

It's mind-blowing that DeJoy still runs the USPS, he'e eminently worthy of impeachment for what he has done to the US Mail.



Postmaster General Louis DeJoy 'plans to eliminate two-day delivery for first-class mail and hike postage rates' as USPS struggles with billions in losses (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256017/Postmaster-General-Louis-DeJoy-reportedly-plans-eliminate-two-day-delivery.html)



DeJoy is reportedly considering eliminating two-day delivery for first-class mail
Already, less than half of letters in that category are delivered on time
Plan would also see all first-class mail shipped by truck instead of airplane
Changes would coincide with a significant price hike in postage
USPS is struggling financially even after a record holiday quarter last year

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256017/Postmaster-General-Louis-DeJoy-reportedly-plans-eliminate-two-day-delivery.html

[boutons_deux]

They might. That is the talk. Given that Biden has moved pretty quickly to enact shit, I can see it getting done.

Most of his shit has accomplished nothing significant in practice.

Only 1% of Fed people make less than $15,

1% of Fed prisoners in for-profit prisons,

etc.

AZ and WV aren't blue, and their two DINO Senators certainly aren't.

Can't beat the archaic perversity of the Constitution. 48 Dem Senators represent 45M? more people than 52 Repug Senators.

Sinema and Machin, at least will block simple majority vote for DC and PR statehood, and maybe other Dem Senators, too.

Biden and Dems hold a very weak, often losing, hand.

[Winehole23]

slowing down the US Mail goes against US postal policy





39 U.S. Code § 101 - Postal policy


(a)The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people. The Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=)shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=title:39:part:I:chapter:1:section:101)to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=title:39:part:I:chapter:1:section:101)to all communities. The costs of establishing and maintaining the Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=)shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people.

(b)The Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=) shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=title:39:part:I:chapter:1:section:101) to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining. No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=title:39:part:I:chapter:1:section:101)be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities.

(c)As an employer, the Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=) shall achieve and maintain compensation for its officers and employees comparable to the rates and types of compensation paid in the private sector of the economy of the United States. It shall place particular emphasis upon opportunities for career advancements of all officers and employees and the achievement of worthwhile and satisfying careers in the service of the United States.

(d)Postal rates shall be established to apportion the costs of all postal operations to all users of the mail on a fair and equitable basis.

(e)In determining all policies for postal services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=title:39:part:I:chapter:1:section:101), the Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=) shall give the highest consideration to the requirement for the most expeditious collection, transportation, and delivery of important letter mail.

(f)In selecting modes of transportation, the Postal Service (https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=39-USC-555628448-1770702680&term_occur=999&term_src=) shall give highest consideration to the prompt and economical delivery of all mail. Modern methods of transporting mail by containerization and programs designed to achieve overnight transportation to the destination of important letter mail to all parts of the Nation shall be a primary goal of postal operations.

(Pub. L. 91–375 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rio/citation/Pub._L._91-375), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 719 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rio/citation/84_Stat._719); Pub. L. 110–405, § 2(b)(9) (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rio/citation/Pub._L._110-405), Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4289 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/rio/citation/122_Stat._4289).)


https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/39/101

[boutons_deux]

'Fire DeJoy before he burns down USPS':

Postmaster General pushes plan for slower mail and higher prices

https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6I mh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDgzMzM2Ny9vcmlnaW4 uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTc1ODI2OX0.m_TjbTVvk 9XzvjhYwKqKXI6mqsF1vc8xbswr375GTm4/img.jpg?width=1200&height=645

to roll out another slate of policies that would significantly hike postage rates and further slow the delivery of certain kinds of mail.

"Biden has the power to fill the board that decides his fate.

That board should be full of people who believe in public postal services.

And that board must be ready to fire him quickly."

"preparing to put all first-class mail onto a single delivery track...

a move that would mean slower and more costly delivery for both consumers and commercial mailers."

to eliminate a tier of first-class mail—letters, bills, and other envelope-sized correspondence sent to a local address—designated for delivery in two days," the Post reported.

"Instead, all first-class mail would be lumped into the same three- to five-day window, the current benchmark for nonlocal mail."

"The plan also prevents first-class mail from being shipped by airplane," the Post noted,

"forcing all of it into trucks and a relay of distribution depots."

"push for significantly higher postage rates" in the name of raising revenue,

Democratic lawmakers and outside progressives are urging Biden—who by law cannot fire the postmaster general himself—to take the forceful step of

terminating every sitting member of the postal board and filling it with officials committed to preserving and strengthening the USPS as a public service.

Postal governors, who can remove the postmaster general by a majority vote, must be

confirmed by the U.S. Senate, which Democrats narrowly control. :lol :lol Moscow Mitch runs the Senate, minority rule

https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-2650533961

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

looks like a vehicle the carrier can stand up in.

[boutons_deux]

no noise about Biden packing USPS board with legit people to get dejoy shitcanned,

[Winehole23]

no noise about Biden packing USPS board with legit people to get dejoy shitcanned,Really?

I thought someone wrote a letter to Biden.

[Winehole23]

cool as shit, tbh

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/23/22297823/usps-postal-service-mail-truck-electric-oshkosh-workhorse

[boutons_deux]

cool as shit, tbh

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/23/22297823/usps-postal-service-mail-truck-electric-oshkosh-workhorse

More volume for bulky items

Will Dems annul the Repug PAEA Act so USPS can operate like any other BigCorp

USPS should also add non-profit/no-shareholde public banking, to help people on low end get banked, saving $1000s/year.

[Winehole23]

watch live today

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[Ef-man]

As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before House panel, Biden nominates three to USPS board of governors.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a House panel Wednesday that his forthcoming strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service may include slowing first-class mail and removing a significant amount of mail from air transportation.

Republicans on the committee have largely used the hearing to defend DeJoy from attacks from Democrats about how the Postal Service handled ballots and election mail ahead of the November election, sparking tense exchanges between Democrats who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump, and Republicans who attempted to baselessly overturn the election the election that removed him from office, citing falsehoods about mail-in voting.

President Biden will nominate a former U.S. Postal Service executive, a leading voting rights advocate and a former postal union leader to the mail service’s governing board, according to three people briefed on the nominees, a move that will reshape the agency’s leadership and increase pressure on the embattled postmaster general.

Biden will nominate Ron Stroman, the Postal Service’s recently retired deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, the chief executive of National Vote at Home Institute; and Anton Hajjar, the former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy.

If confirmed, the nominees would give Democrats a majority on the nine-member board of governors, with potentially enough votes to oust DeJoy, who testified Wednesday before a House panel that his new strategic plan for the mail service included slowing deliveries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/24/dejoy-hearing-usps-live-updates/

[RandomGuy]

As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before House panel, Biden nominates three to USPS board of governors.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a House panel Wednesday that his forthcoming strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service may include slowing first-class mail and removing a significant amount of mail from air transportation.

Republicans on the committee have largely used the hearing to defend DeJoy from attacks from Democrats about how the Postal Service handled ballots and election mail ahead of the November election, sparking tense exchanges between Democrats who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump, and Republicans who attempted to baselessly overturn the election the election that removed him from office, citing falsehoods about mail-in voting.

President Biden will nominate a former U.S. Postal Service executive, a leading voting rights advocate and a former postal union leader to the mail service’s governing board, according to three people briefed on the nominees, a move that will reshape the agency’s leadership and increase pressure on the embattled postmaster general.

Biden will nominate Ron Stroman, the Postal Service’s recently retired deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, the chief executive of National Vote at Home Institute; and Anton Hajjar, the former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy.

If confirmed, the nominees would give Democrats a majority on the nine-member board of governors, with potentially enough votes to oust DeJoy, who testified Wednesday before a House panel that his new strategic plan for the mail service included slowing deliveries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/24/dejoy-hearing-usps-live-updates/

Looks like Dejoy is going to be on his way out.

Lock him up.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvCDjYSVIAISOO6?format=jpg&name=small

[boutons_deux]

Dejoy says he will be heading USPS for a very long time

If Biden gets his nominees through the "fuck Biden, obstruct, deny him everything" Senate Repugs,

the board will be 4R - 4D and #9 will be an processive independent.

'Our entire country is fed up':

Biden nominees urged to demand Trump megadonor's ouster


https://www.rawstory.com/us-post-office/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6663

[Winehole23]

such good timing

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[DarrinS]

Forgot about this blueAnon thread

[Winehole23]

Forgot about this blueAnon threadWhat's blueAnon?

[ChumpDumper]

What's blueAnon?It's when Republicans tell anyone who listens what they are doing and Darrin wants to pretend they aren't doing it.

[Winehole23]

DeJoy trashing the USPS isn't a conspiracy theory. The graphs don't lie and my own early take had two prongs:

1. That DeJoy was trying to undermine confidence in mail in voting. (it didn't work, because DJT drew attention to it)
2. DeJoy was deliberately wrecking the USPS toward the end of its eventual privatization. (Endgame has yet to be borne out, but by many available measures, DeJoy has already trashed the USPS.)

Is that blueAnon?

[Winehole23]

the writing is on the wall

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[boutons_deux]

Pelosi Just Threw Down And Announced Democrats Will Wipe Out Louis DeJoy’s USPS Cuts

"The Postal Service needs smart, strong investments to ensure that it can continue to serve the American people in a timely and effective manner, particularly in our most remote and under-served communities.

The Congress will soon advance a robust infrastructure bill

to ensure that the Postal Service has the resources needed to serve the American people in a timely and effective manner.

We must deliver For The People."

Democrats aren’t just going to get rid of DeJoy, they are also going to save the Postal Service

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/03/23/pelosi-dejoy-usps-cuts.html

They say the infrastructure act is for the summer, Biden can get rid of Dejoy a lot quicker

[Winehole23]

:tu

[Winehole23]

what an irony if Trump and DeJoy end up being the ones who ruined the carefully laid, decades long, bipartisan plan to defund and privatize the Post Office, by hobbling and wrecking it too obviously.

[boutons_deux]

Biden nominates three to USPS board of governors as DeJoy testifies on mail crises

The White House moves to reassert control of the Postal Service as the postmaster general brushes off lawmakers’ calls to resign

If all three win Senate confirmation,

the nine-member board would be made up of equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans with McReynolds,

whose organization is a darling of left-leaning groups, as the lone independent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/24/dejoy-hearing-usps-live-updates/

[boutons_deux]

can anybody find if the USPS board appointees need simple majority or 2/3 of Senate?

[boutons_deux]

The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts

The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests,

The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

“Locations and times have been identified for these protests, which are being distributed online across multiple social media platforms, to include right-wing leaning Parler and Telegram accounts.”

https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html

[RandomGuy]

what an irony if Trump and DeJoy end up being the ones who ruined the carefully laid, decades long, bipartisan plan to defund and privatize the Post Office, by hobbling and wrecking it too obviously.

Yeah, Trump was everything the nutters wanted, and overplayed his hand, in the most lazy and spectacularly incompetant way possible.

The contrast that Democrats are going to be able to make in future elections will be obvious.

Vote for the Trump/Gaetz/Jordan/Greene crowd, or vote for sanity.

[Winehole23]

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[RandomGuy]

what an irony if Trump and DeJoy end up being the ones who ruined the carefully laid, decades long, bipartisan plan to defund and privatize the Post Office, by hobbling and wrecking it too obviously.

One of many ironies. They overplayed their hand at every turn and did things that ultimately hurt people. Shocker: that makes you unpopular.

[Winehole23]

:drunk

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[SpursforSix]

I haven't read any of this thread but the USPS sucks. Whenever I've mailed out checks or tax statements with windowed envelopes, half never make it. Even security envelopes don't make it sometime. I've had to end up wiring money or FedEx several times with cancelling checks. Not to mention, the "postmen" that come pick up the mail without any kind of uniform or post office vehicle.

The post office sucks.

[Winehole23]

I haven't read any of this thread but the USPS sucks. Whenever I've mailed out checks or tax statements with windowed envelopes, half never make it. Even security envelopes don't make it sometime. I've had to end up wiring money or FedEx several times with cancelling checks. Not to mention, the "postmen" that come pick up the mail without any kind of uniform or post office vehicle.

The post office sucks.unfortunately, that would seem to be by deaign.

[Ef-man]

More unemployed and higher postage costs, thank you trump.

USPS sends first RIF notices to non-union employees, seeks to raise mail prices above inflation.

The Postal Service sent its first reduction in force notices to non-union management employees Friday, and is planning to set higher prices on its mail products well above the rate of inflation.

The Senate, meanwhile, voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s third nominee to serve on the USPS Board of Governors. The board is now fully staffed for the first time since 2010, and will help the agency get its 10-year reform plan off the ground.

USPS employees working at its headquarters, or area and district offices, have known for nearly a month that a non-voluntary RIF has been on the horizon. A memo obtained and first reported by Federal News Network notified employees that RIF notices would go out as early as May 21.

However, USPS spokesman Dave Partenheimer said that notices didn’t go out last week as described under an “earlier timeline.” Partenheimer confirmed RIF notices went out Friday, but didn’t have an estimate of how many the agency sent.

[Winehole23]

Postal Board needs to whack this wiseguy

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[boutons_deux]

Questions raised after Louis DeJoy buys over $300K in bonds from firm linked to USPS governing board member

https://www.rawstory.com/questions-raised-after-louis-dejoy-buys-over-300000-in-bonds-from-firm-managed-by-usps-governing-board-member

[RandomGuy]

Questions raised after Louis DeJoy buys over $300K in bonds from firm linked to USPS governing board member

https://www.rawstory.com/questions-raised-after-louis-dejoy-buys-over-300000-in-bonds-from-firm-managed-by-usps-governing-board-member

Why is this guy still in charge?

[Winehole23]

Why is this guy still in charge?apparently Sleepy Joe wants him there

[Spurs Homer]

apparently Sleepy Joe wants him there

not true

due to some law/rule

biden cannot fire him outright

only a board decision- and congress appears to be working on re-balancing that trumpy board

but of course republicans like ted cruz et al are obstructing

[Winehole23]

not true

due to some law/rule

biden cannot fire him outright

only a board decision- and congress appears to be working on re-balancing that trumpy board

but of course republicans like ted cruz et al are obstructingit wouldn't cost Joe Biden anything to ask for DeJoy's resignation or for the DOJ to investigate his jail felony straw donations. for some reason though, neither of those things are happening.

[Spurs Homer]

it wouldn't cost Joe Biden anything to ask for DeJoy's resignation or for the DOJ to investigate his jail felony straw donations. for some reason though, neither of those things are happening.

like i said - by some crazy/obscure law - Biden does NOT have the power to fire him - look it up

and we do NOT know which investigations are ongoing...

we do NOT know if there are any investigations - OR - if there are MANY investigations into trumps sedition and treason

[Winehole23]

don't hold your breath, SH

[Spurs Homer]

don't hold your breath, SH

its just common protocol...

over 500 terrorists arrested/prosecuted
those same terrorists get interrogated as part of evidence gathering/case prosecution
terrorists name whose orders they were following

meanwhile

congress is holding hearings and collecting white house docs/comms,etc

much of evidence points to head terrorist who planned and organized and incited the insurrection

evidence becomes a criminal referral to DOJ to add to already established evidence


FBI/DOJ now have a trove of substantiated evidence and other bits and pieces adding up to an inescapable conclusion:

there is more than enough evidence to demand an investigation into these crimes and who coordinated, planned ,ordered and was complicit

there can be no other course of action except

the Merrick Garland corruptly refuses to follow the law

which I will - for now- give Garland the benefit of the doubt

[boutons_deux]

...

[Winehole23]

TX Local Officials Go On With School Mask Mandates Despite State Supreme Court Decision

Dallas and Bexar countieshttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/tx-local-officials-go-on-with-school-mask-mandates-despite-state-supreme-court-decisionwrong thread, but :tu

[boutons_deux]

'A big win': USPS must turn over docs about DeJoy's potential conflicts of interest

A leading government ethics watchdog on Wednesday cheered a federal judge's ruling ordering the United States Postal Service to hand over documents concerning potential conflicts of interest involving embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) a full summary judgment (https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CREW-v-USPS-Memorandum-Opinion-2021.08.17.pdf) (pdf) and

ordered (https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CREW-v-USPS-Order-2021.08.17.pdf) the United States Postal Service (USPS) to give the advocacy group seven documents it requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).


Over the past seven years, the USPS has reportedly paid approximately $286 million to XPO Logistics, DeJoy's ex-employer, and

has "ramped up its business" with the company since DeJoy's appointment as postmaster general.

After his appointment, DeJoy continued to hold financial interests in XPO totaling between $30 and $75 million.

DeJoy also held a significant amount of stock in Amazon, a major USPS competitor.


Earlier this month, Common Dreams reported (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/06/long-past-time-fire-dejoy-postmaster-generals-ex-company-gets-120-million-contract) on growing calls to fire DeJoy following the revelation (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/06/usps-dejoy-xpo-logistics/) by The Washington Post that

USPS will pay XPO Logistics $120 million over the next five years.

Last Friday, a Post report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/13/dejoy-usps-bloom-bonds-brookfield/) that

DeJoy had purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of publicly traded bonds from Brookfield Asset Management—where USPS Board of Governors Chair Ron Bloom is a managing partner

—fueled further calls (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/14/dejoy-and-bloom-are-bandits-top-dem-calls-removal-postal-service-chiefs) for DeJoy's termination, with Connolly calling (https://twitter.com/GerryConnolly/status/1426281534575763459) Bloom and the postmaster general "bandits" whose "conflicts of interest do nothing but harm the Postal Service and the American people."

https://www.alternet.org/2021/08/dejoy-conlifcts-of-interest/

[Winehole23]

if the investigation concludes anywhere short of a criminal referral, advantage DeJoy. mere scandals no longer suffice to pressure bad guys out of office.

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[Winehole23]

damn, I thought deliberately delaying the US mail was a crime

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701

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[Winehole23]

weird conflict of interest, I guess nobody cares

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

pay more, wait longer

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1442979998701273090/WfJZRjw3?format=jpg&name=medium

[boutons_deux]

USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program

The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system (https://prospect.org/day-one-agenda/create-public-option-simple-banking/) in America.

In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and

have the money put onto a single-use gift card.

It’s the most far-reaching executive action that the Biden administration has taken since Inauguration Day.

https://prospect.org/economy/usps-begins-postal-banking-pilot-program

but why has Biden not replaced Dejoy?

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBGAsbRWEAEKcTw?format=jpg&name=large

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/p843x403/244816232_209866974578218_98677231899426595_n.jpg? _nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=uYvAnOIfvNcAX9zz0ON&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=b2a9a6d6599d5b229546cb701e38fdae&oe=61846707

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Trouble piles up for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

Postmaster General DeJoy faced over a dozen conflicts of interest, refused to divest from own firm

Dejoy reportedly recused himself from agency decisions that might have affected the performance of his former freight transportation company XPO Logistics.

However, the postmaster general opted out of divesting from the firm altogether, opening him up to a blatant conflict of interest.

Back in August, CNN reported (https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/postal-service-dejoy-conflicts-amazon-trades-xpo-stake/index.html) that, despite his role in heading the USPS, DeJoy's stake in XPO fell between $30 million and $75 million –
an apparent conflict that came as a complete "shock" to many outside experts.

"If you have a $30 million interest in a company, of course it's going to impact you,"

"I would assume that there is a problem here. It certainly doesn't pass the smell test."

just a month after he joined the administration. The postmaster general specifically

bought $50,000 and $100,000 in stock options for Amazon.

"It's another conflict. He's got the option to buy. That means he's gambling that Amazon's value is going to go up,"

"Why is he investing in a competitor to the enterprise that he's supposed to be managing?

This is a classic case for investigation by an inspector general."

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/23/trouble-piles-up-for-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/

Dejoy also enriched (bought off) one of the USPS directors.

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[Winehole23]

Somehow, I'm skeptical this will make any difference

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Postal employees rail against Louis DeJoy's 'disastrous' new changes

his plans to essentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

Trump appointee has drawn criticism for changes he called for that resulted in delays, cuts and other upheavals,

as well as his conflicts of interest (https://www.citizen.org/article/guaranteed-delivery-dejoys-post-office-corruption/),

and postal employees unions are fighting plans to consolidate 18 processing facilities into regional centers,

"I would say they were actually disastrous. The mail has slowed down. They reduced the service standards.”

“All of these DeJoy's changes are already hurting low-income and rural Americans, as well as small businesses,

after the postmaster general released

a 10-year austerity plan that called for

longer delivery windows,

cuts to branch hours,

postage rate increases and

other changes intended to improve financial sustainability."

“The 10-year plan is a plan for privatization -- it just doesn’t use the ‘p’ word,”

https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-postmaster-general-2656385291

The oligarchy strategy of killing govt functions to be replaced by Capitalists' profits

[Winehole23]

Weird how irreplaceable DeJoy is

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[RandomGuy]

Weird how irreplaceable DeJoy is

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Follow the money. Be interesting to see where that goes.

[Will Hunting]

Somehow, I'm skeptical this will make any difference

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If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.

[Winehole23]

If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.I'm unconvinced he ever wanted to.

[Will Hunting]

I'm unconvinced he ever wanted to.
I'm sure, like everything else, he doesn't have a strong opinion one way or the other and is taking cues from his staffers. If enough of them tell him it's a big deal, he might push for it.

Unfortunately his staffers are also pushing the same tone deaf COVID policy that's killing his approval rating.

[RandomGuy]

If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.

Agreed.

Now that a majority of the board is probably willing to oust him, we will see what happens.

[Will Hunting]

Agreed.

Now that a majority of the board is probably willing to oust him, we will see what happens.
The board members he picked haven't gotten approved though, right? That might be tricky with Lujan out recovering from a stroke.

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Dems gutting the Repug strategy of crippling USPS into privatization. All House no votes were naturally Repugs

House Passes Bill to Repeal 'Debilitating' USPS Prefunding Mandate

"Now," McConnell added, "it's time for the Senate to pass the bill and send it to the president's desk." W T F F?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/09/house-passes-bill-repeal-debilitating-usps-prefunding-mandate

[Winehole23]

USPS gets more funding, will deliver six days a week; prefunding for health care and pensions has also been relaxed.


While lawmakers from both parties have hailed the legislation as an important step for the USPS, Paul Steidler, a Postal Service expert at the Lexington Institute, told CNN it doesn't go nearly far enough.


"The bill is woefully insufficient because it does nothing to improve mail service. It takes the pressure off of the Postal Service to better understand and to reduce its costs. And it doesn't sufficiently empower the Postal Regulatory Commission, which right now is very small and has very tiny resources compared to the Postal Service."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/politics/senate-vote-postal-service-bill/index.html

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USPS gets more funding, will deliver six days a week; prefunding for health care and pensions has also been relaxed.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/politics/senate-vote-postal-service-bill/index.html

They already deliver six days a week.

Just a postage price increase across the board gussied up by State run media.

[Winehole23]

If not for the ridiculous law requiring the USPS to prefund pensions for 75 years, there wouldn't be a problem.

Besides that, the postal service is consitutionally required infrastructure. It was never supposed to be a business.

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[Winehole23]

Dejoy is still doing a heckuva job


The two groups, the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors, said local election officials “in nearly every state” are receiving timely postmarked ballots after Election Day and outside the three to five business days USPS claims as the standard for first-class mail.https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-mail-ballots-voting-postal-service-985dd6e483fb6dc593d83255b11a9d0a

[Winehole23]

If Biden didn't want the USPS to get wrecked, he'd have canned this guy


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https://x.com/cspan/status/1839347075915624816

[Winehole23]

if you're mailing in your ballot, consider putting it in a drop box rather than taking a chance on the USPS to get it there on time

[Winehole23]

DeJoy announced billions in losses and stepped down

this result is terrible for the USPS and terrible for the USA


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[Yonivore]

if you're mailing in your ballot, consider putting it in a drop box rather than taking a chance on the USPS to get it there on time
I wouldn't trust anything important with the USPS. It's time has passed and it should be folded.

[Winehole23]

nonsense, the USPS is a great American institution

[Winehole23]

The USPS was created by Congress at the direct suggestion of the US Constitution

Article I Section 8 clause 7

I don't think Trump can abolish it or reassign it within the executive branch by decree -- pass a fucking law, guys

[Yonivore]

The USPS was created by Congress at the direct suggestion of the US Constitution

Article I Section 8 clause 7

I don't think Trump can abolish it or reassign it within the executive branch by decree -- pass a fucking law, guys

"To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
Doesn't say how many or what they do.

[DarrinS]

Can't remember the last time I used snail mail. 90% of what I receive is trash.

[DarrinS]

nonsense, the USPS is a great American institution

:rolleyes

[Winehole23]

:rolleyesit absolutely is and one of the most popular ones

[Winehole23]

Doesn't say how many or what they do.The section literally starts: "the Congress shall have the power to...

[DarrinS]

it absolutely is and one of the most popular ones

Who is going to USPS in 2025? Your mom?

[DarrinS]

I don't care if USPS dies.

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I wouldn't trust anything important with the USPS. It's time has passed and it should be folded.

Precisely.

[Winehole23]

I don't care if USPS dies.did you know a lot of people receive their medicine through the US mail?

[Winehole23]

Who is going to USPS in 2025? Your mom?get your Trumpy US reps to pass a law if you think it's a waste

[Yonivore]

did you know a lot of people receive their medicine through the US mail?
You do know there are other carriers available, right? Besides, I wouldn't trust my life-saving medication with the USPS; I'd pay extra to make sure it got to me.

Prices are higher, with other carriers, because they can't compete with the government subsidized monopoly that is the USPS. If it were gone, they would be in free market competition with one another. Prices would come down.

[Winehole23]

You do know there are other carriers available, right? Besides, I wouldn't trust my life-saving medication with the USPS; I'd pay extra to make sure it got to me.

Prices are higher, with other carriers, because they can't compete with the government subsidized monopoly that is the USPS. If it were gone, they would be in free market competition with one another. Prices would come down.great, get your congresscritter to pass a law to make it so

[ChumpDumper]

Darrin and Yoni's war on rural Americans continues.

[Yonivore]

Darrin and Yoni's war on rural Americans continues.
Other carriers will bring your mail to your door. The USPS leaves it in community boxes or at a mailbox at the end of a long rural driveway. And, when the community boxes are broken, as they often are (like mine is now), you have to go to the post office to get your junk mail.

All my important stuff is brought by carriers other than the USPS. All I get in my mailbox anymore is junk and stuff from the federal government.

[Thread]

Other carriers will bring your mail to your door. The USPS leaves it in community boxes or at a mailbox at the end of a long rural driveway. And, when the community boxes are broken, as they often are (like mine is now), you have to go to the post office to get your junk mail.

All my important stuff is brought by carriers other than the USPS. All I get in my mailbox anymore is junk and stuff from the federal government.

Bingo!

[ChumpDumper]

Other carriers will bring your mail to your door. The USPS leaves it in community boxes or at a mailbox at the end of a long rural driveway. And, when the community boxes are broken, as they often are (like mine is now), you have to go to the post office to get your junk mail.

All my important stuff is brought by carriers other than the USPS. All I get in my mailbox anymore is junk and stuff from the federal government.Anecdote!

How much does a FedEx letter cost you?

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Anecdote!

Nope! Fact.

[Yonivore]

Nope! Fact.
The few places I know of, in the Austin area, where the postal carrier brings your mail to the door are in affluent sections of Austin. Nope, no having to schlep to the Community Box for the well-heeled.

[ChumpDumper]

The few places I know of, in the Austin area, where the postal carrier brings your mail to the door are in affluent sections of Austin. Nope, no having to schlep to the Community Box for the well-heeled.Convenient marxism from Yoni here.

[Thread]

The few places I know of, in the Austin area, where the postal carrier brings your mail to the door are in affluent sections of Austin. Nope, no having to schlep to the Community Box for the well-heeled.

Exactly.