• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Fuck RFK Jr. He killed all those kids in Samoa. Now he wants to do the same here. If you aren’t organizing yet. Do it! Get to DC!

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      That’s why neoliberals will consistently lose to maga…

      Both groups are corrupt and put money over people, but neoliberals tell the lie that’s it good for us and any day it’ll trickle down. But they need to work to sell it, and a lot of Dem voters have checked out due to it and are no longer reliable voters.

      Meanwhile…

      Republican voters are a neoliberals wet dream, you can tell them Santa stole their social security and they’ll start their own war in Christmas while Republicans openly gut it in front of them.

      We can’t outlie republicans, everyone that falls for that shit is already neck deep in maga.

      We need an honest candidate who will put in a good faith effort to actually fix shit, and elections would become a formality. Democracy can’t survive when the majority of voters are only voting against who they think is worse and not who they think will be best

  • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
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    The Nixon-era Richardson Waiver came about amid a push for more public engagement, with the waiver acting essentially as a workaround to amending the APA’s exemptions. As Richard Brady, the assistant secretary for administration, wrote in the Federal Register at the time, implementing the Richardson Waiver “should result in greater participation by the public in the formulation of this Department’s rules and regulations.”

    “The public benefit from such participation should outweigh any administrative inconvenience or delay which may result from use of the APA procedures in the five exempt categories,” Brady wrote. The waiver also noted that the Health Department should use the “good cause” exception “sparingly.”

    Kennedy’s new policy rescinds the Richardson Waiver entirely. He writes in stark contrast: “The extra-statutory obligations of the Richardson Waiver impose costs on the Department and the public, are contrary to the efficient operation of the Department, and impede the Department’s flexibility to adapt quickly to legal and policy mandates.”

    So, just to make this clear, they didn’t just not really implement their fabled transparency, they also walked back on the control mechanisms that were already in place.