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"Kendrick Lamar Half Time Show" by Alex Beightol

This sort of contextualized + reviewed the Super Bowl half time show for me.
I'm a person who doesn't usually enjoy or seek out watching sports unless I feel added social + political value, like "yeah, Olympics."

#KendrickLamar
#SuperBowl
#BlackMastodon
#BlackHistoryMonth
#music
#USPol
#NFL
#Football
#Hiphop
#rap
#Racism
#BlackFedi
#culture
#WestCoast
#woke
#conscious
#American
#game
#system
#AlexBeightol

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A top-ranking official in the U.S. Department of the Treasury is resigning
after a fight with Elon Musk over a sensitive payment system.

The Washington Post reports that David Lebryk,
who has worked in the department for decades and is its longest-serving career official,
will depart soon, after conflicting with Musk’s deputies over access to the government’s #payment #system used to distribute trillions of dollars every year.

Until Scott Bessent’s confirmation as treasury secretary on Monday, Lebryk served as acting head of the department.

Musk’s people at his “Department of Government Efficiency” have sought access to the system since the election, the Post reports,
and their requests continued after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

However, the Treasury’s payment systems have usually only been accessed by a small number of career officials.

The Bureau of Fiscal Service operates the systems,
⭐️controlling $6 trillion of money disbursement around the country.

💥Tens, and possibly hundreds, of millions of people rely on the systems,
which distribute Social Security and Medicare benefits,
federal salaries,
payments to government contractors,
grants, and tax refunds,
as well as thousands of other things.

Lebryk joined the department in 1989 as an intern,
and has worked for three decades under 11 different treasury secretaries.

His departure at this time doesn’t bode well,
especially since he served in the previous Trump administration and was praised by Trump’s current deputy treasury secretary, Michael Faulkender, in 2023.

“I could not, to this day, tell you his politics,”
said Faulkender,
who worked with Lebryk in sending out stimulus payments during the Covid-19 pandemic,
an effort Lebryk led.

“He always seemed to be relaxed and under control.”

It appears that #Musk, while upending the lives of federal workers,
is now causing chaos with the U.S. government’s money flow.

If federal officials who have served for decades under different presidents, including Trump,
see a need to quit,
that’s not a good sign for the country.
newrepublic.com/post/190983/to

The New Republic · Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any CostA top Treasury official plans to resign after a fight with Elon Musk’s allies over access to a sensitive payment system.

…i think we should properly introduce ourselves.

We are a system of… Currently five, possibly more, headmates. We are still learning as a plural system (and still learning other things, too), and we will take all the advice we can get for sorting through these thoughts.

Since we’ve recently set it up, you can check out this page to learn more about each of us we’ve found so far:
sleepingholly.neocities.org/bi

(...still a work in progress, we've never created a site before...)

sleepingholly.neocities.orgA Thoughtspace of Friends!
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@flexghost All #Americans need to be disgusted by this. The blatant #corruption which saturates our #justice #system and #government has been on full display the moment #DirtbagDon stepped into #politics.

Unfortunately, the #damage has been done, #confidence has been lost, and there's no undo. Once this raging #asshole is sworn in, the #unhinged #insanity will #reign again.

The #unitedstates used to be the beacon of #hope for many people. Now it's just the #punchline to any number of #jokes.