MONOLOGUE: Back on my B******t, and removing the Citrus. SO THAT HAPPENED: 1 https://apnews.com/article/amazon-outage-aws-cloud-services-be93bc744e4e69d04055683830a409c3 (AP) Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Tuesday, affecting publishers that suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites. The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was tied to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications. Roughly two hours after customer began experiencing errors, the company posted on its AWS status page that many of the affected AWS services were “fully recovered” and it was continuing to recover the rest. **On a related note, I was window shopping on Amazon at the time. So, to paraphrase the words of the lady in the cafe’ in When Harry Met Sally, ‘I’ll have what Jeff’s having”. 2 https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/karine-jean-pierre-hatch-act/index.html CNN  — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act for using the term “mega MAGA” from the briefing room podium, the US Office of the Special Counsel has determined, and has received a warning letter. Jean-Pierre was found to be in violation of the Hatch Act, a law that is supposed to stop the federal government from affecting elections or going about its activities in a partisan manner, when she said “mega MAGA Republican officials who don’t believe in the rule of law,” according to a letter from OSC. The letter was addressed to Michael Chamberlain, a former Trump administration official and director of the “Protect the Public’s Trust” organization, after Chamberlain filed a complaint that Jean-Pierre used the phrase “mega MAGA Republican[s]” in an “an inappropriate attempt to influence the vote.” “OSC has investigated your allegation and concluded that Ms. Jean‐Pierre violated the Hatch Act. However … we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and have instead issued Ms. Jean‐Pierre a warning letter,” OSC’s Hatch Act Unit chief Ana Galindo-Marrone said in the June 7 letter to Chamberlain, who served in the Department of Education during Donald Trump’s presidency. https://osc.gov/News/Pages/19-10-Kellyanne-Conway-Hatch-Act.aspx https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/kellyanne-conway-eclipses-50-hatch-act-violations-on-twitter/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/protect-publics-trust-nonprofit-status_n_64553faae4b0452cee9d5df0 **I wonder what Mr. Chamberlain has to say about the numerous times Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act during the previous administration. You know, the one he was also a part of. The OSC recommended to the former President that Conway be removed from office, which of course didn’t happen. You might remember Conway saying “If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work,” and “Let me know when the jail sentence starts.” Also, Protect the Public Trust seems to have an identity problem. It doesn’t know what to call itself, a non profit, an NGO, or something else. It also doesn’t want you to know how it gets funded. There’s a word for a person that doesn’t want you to know the truth about them and has a shitload of money with no visible means of support, and since we’re not talking about anyone I’m related to…well, crook still applies. They’re a crook. Pay no attention to them. 3 https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-students-parents-react-narrowly-passed-lgbtq-resolution/291-8690e1e2-b2da-4b50-9299-65cb72bc5219 https://youtu.be/TV3UTm-Q97k [13 News] VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It's a contentious topic that has plagued Virginia Beach City Public Schools for more than a year: determining what to do with a proposed LGBTQ+ resolution. The