vi-gravitatis.bsky.social
Retired technology guy, current grandfather, Sci-Fi aficionado, news junkie, climate change believer.
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But... That's not Ted Cruz!
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Aussie doodle.
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Girl dog
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Just watch this. A former Brigadier General (and GOP Congressman) says it all. This chat did share classified info and they should just admit it. youtu.be/W5NwRnYK3eU?...
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My take:
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My thoughts:
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My take:
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My thoughts:
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Here's something I wrote on this.
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Add to my thread at bsky.app/profile/vi-g... the CDC purge. It's getting scary w.r.t. public safety and will only get worse.
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Seen on FB:
We have got to stop saying "How stupid can you be?"
Too many people are seeing it as a challenge.
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Many inspectors in food processing plants and slaughterhouses are young, probationary folks in the USDA, likely in the first wave of folks to be fired because they don't yet have Civil Service job protections.
Welcome Trump's America! It's going to be great, eventually, if we don't all die first.
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It doesn't happen by magic; regulators have to exist in sufficient numbers to bring about the intended consequences of our laws, which includes coordinating with other branches like the DoJ if legal action must be taken to do so.
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Even if no new rules are ever written (and even Trump wants to have new laws passed which therefore implies detailed rules be created to enforce his objectives), I wonder who the heck is going to monitor the intended targets of these laws and rules and bring the scofflaws to heel?
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Who and how will new rules — based on the somewhat high-level and ill-defined laws Congress passes — be defined, run through the rulemaking process, and enforced to regulate their various spheres of authority?
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So, with Elon and the Muskrats dismantling the agencies that have the domain expertise to perform rulemaking and dismissing many of the folks who must understand and abide by the laws and procedures that govern the process, I am left wondering the following:
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Governing Laws
The rulemaking process is governed by laws including the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the Congressional Review Act, and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Public participation
The public can participate in the rulemaking process by submitting comments through regulations.gov.
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Additional rulemaking process steps:
• Review: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) reviews the rule
• Report: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) may report on the rulemaking process
• Congressional review: Congress may consider a resolution disapproving the rule
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1. Initiation: Agency starts the rulemaking process
2. Notice: Agency publishes a notice in the Federal Register
3. Comments: Public comments are invited on the proposed rule
4. Development: Agency develops a final rule
5. Publication: Agency publishes the final rule in the Federal Register
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Actually, no agency gets to just make stuff up that immediately becomes binding. The federal rulemaking process is how federal agencies create and change regulations. It's a complex and lawful process that is very superficially described below and involves:
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Like your olives, do you?!
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Years ago, Lufthansa did a back first, window to aisle boarding process. Worked like a charm. Don't know if it's still used, though.