There’s a bill in Congress to allow proxy voting for representatives with new babies. Mike Johsnon has gone so far as to just shut down everything for the week just to stop this bill, because there are Republicans who support it.
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Government workers in Pennsylvania are not covered by OSHA standards, but there’s a bill to change that.
I’m happy to see HB 308 introduced in the PA state house.
The federal government website is asking for “deregulation ideas” in a form.
https://www.regulations.gov/deregulation Aside from the fact this is almost comically right-wing nonsense, it seems imprudent as it almost seems set up for some “hands off” misuse, doesn’t it? If i were in charge of Regulations.Gov, I’d be taking that form down quickly, just sayin.
Treasury Secretary says federal job cuts necessary because the US government was crowding out the private market.
“And this is an opportunity to right-size the federal government and unleash the private sector again, because it’s been hemmed down by excessive regulation, and it’s been crowded out by the government.” — Scott Bessent
When government uses “anxiety” as an excuse to not deal with a problem, the term for this is Political Abuse of Psychiatry.
Some in the government used shaming “fear” of sickness and death to try to keep people engaged with the economy despite the threats of covid, and now the Trump administration is using “climate anxiety” to justify stopping research on climate, in order to attempt to hide the public health effects that would come from environmental damage.
FAFO tipping point wish-casting is apocalyptic hopium based in libertarian accelerationism fantasy.
There’s no invisible hand of the market, and people rarely learn lessons in time — people often just get harmed.
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms of government?
Politics is always involved in healthcare, and always should be. Doctors and scientists are humans and should not pretend to be above the rest of us or operating outside of the reality of our communities.
All the science that’s fit to print… and some is actually unfit but gets published anyway.
Beware those who claim that “censorship” is holding back “innovation” because the truth is science is a work in progress building consensus and building on a body of evidence with what’s come before.
Not representative democracy material.
I don’t even feel like I have a way for redress when it comes to Harrisburg. The bar has to be set higher than merely not horrendous.
Public Comment to CDC ACIP on VACCINES.
The deadline to submit a public comment is April 11th.
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez voting for the SAVE ACT to subjugate women is not surprising.
I read that Marie Gluesenkamp Perez attends a far right wing prayer group in congress and was even trying to recruit others into it.
These “dire wolf” animals sound like the wolf version of rose bushes that get fancy stuff grafted on.
“They are using the attention economy to drive up the value of their company.” – Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Berlin’s Museum of Natural History
‘Tax Return To Office’ is a political policy platform that can maybe go places.
HiFi – Welcome to WWIII, the stupidest internet war. Mar 11 at 1:56 PM Policy thought: If I were a politician, I’d tax corporations who required work from office at a higher rate, as their plantation mentality requires their employees to consume valuable resources such as petrol and time.
Lots of people get health misinformation from Joe Rogan.
Dr. Wilson of Debunk The Funk listened to the interview with Suzanne Humphries and oh my is there a lot to debunk.
Just what we need especially during stock market turbulence & a shock to The Economy — another big bank merger.
I’m concerned about the merger of Capital One taking over Discover and the monopoly situation with too big to fail banks. I think consolidation is bad.
AI generated fossil fuel pollution must be opposed.
The air pollution from power plants dedicated to noise pollution generating data centers are currently running roughshod over communities already.
Former McKinsey & Company partner presides over mortifying gaffe at federal agency.
Someone should investigate the incompetence going on at CMS.
Trump pardoned a cryptocurrency corporation as if it was human.
I’m appalled that our American President actually “pardoned” a corporation. Especially a shady cryptocurrency company.
The authoritarian eugenics plans of tech moguls and the religious far right.
The far right may seem to be, and in many ways is, made up of a lot of different factions, but some of them have similar goals of living in their own segregated network states based on eugenics.
The Trump administration is attempting to defund libraries and we can’t let that happen.
Congress needs prevent the defunding of libraries.
People should be worried about polio. And a lot of other preventable infectious diseases.
It’s not really surprising Joe Rogan is platforming some right-winger who thinks polio is no big deal, a large amount of the left seems to not realize that covid is more serious than polio.
Anyone citing pandemic profiteering anonymous accounts on the app formerly known as twitter should stop.
Anonymous covid influencer accounts on “X” (twitter) who post affiliate links to bogus & junk covid products should be dumped as information sources of any kind.