Cast the First Stone

Jim Saksa at Democracy Docket:

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) confirmed it is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order.  “The Postal Service is abiding by these injunctions, which are also currently under appeal,” Postmaster General David Steiner and Amber McReynolds, chairwoman of the USPS board of governors, wrote Monday in a letter to Senate Democrats obtained by Democracy Docket. The USPS leaders were responding to concerns Democratic senators raised in a letter after Trump issued his executive order in March. That order directed the Postal Service to only deliver mail ballots if states handed over a list of preapproved voters. The senators later reiterated their concerns after USPS published a proposed rule to execute the order in June.  Trump’s directive also mandated USPS to develop secure ballot envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking and utilize them ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. USPS’s letter contends that, even though the agency proposed the rule in response to the executive order, the changes themselves would be “consistent with the Postal Service’s existing — and longstanding — recommended best practices.” 

UPDATE! They found the original photo!

Need a last minute holiday gift for your cat? I bet they’d enjoy some dried pasta!

Jehannnn

I was originally drawing something else, but then I saw Louis Emmanuel's Jehan wearing a green vest, it was just too cute... so this thing came about.

Who could resist Jehan in that green floral vest?! Nobody could!

Black cat and woman's leg - Harald Sallberg , 1951 .

Swedish , 1895-1963