Kennedy vowed last month to usher in an era of “radical transparency.”…
  • @SanctusEnglish
    100•1 day 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!

      • @Eldest_Malk
        17•1 day ago

        This kind of thinking does nothing good, at all.

      • @[email protected]English
        15•1 day ago

        The kids are blameless. Their parents, on the other hand, are absolutely complete idiotic psychopaths.

      • @checkmymixtapeyo
        6•1 day ago

        I appreciate when people make it known they are useless and should be ignored

      • @otacon239
        8•1 day ago

        What did the kids do wrong? The only ones that deserve anything got vaccinated ages ago when their parents were smart enough to do so. Otherwise they would have already died by now.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•19 hours ago

        Gleeful about the preventable deaths of those who live in a different area or have different beliefs is a Republican mentality. We have to be better than that…

        Oh, and they’re innocent fucking kids.

  • Jesus
    53•1 day ago

    Is there a single appointee that didn’t blatantly lie during their hearing?

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      13•1 day ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
    45•1 day ago

    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.