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The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]<p><strong>Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, January 14 2025</strong></p> The question isn't if China will turn on Russia, but when -- Putin has failed to meet any of his strategic objectives in Ukraine -- Bryansk chemical plant hit in aerial attack, Russian media says -- Russia's federal budget won't fund anti-drone systems at civilian airports -- Everything we know about the North Korean POWs captured by Ukraine -- and more <p><a href="https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Tuesday,%20January%2014%202025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/U</span><span class="invisible">kraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Tuesday,%20January%2014%202025/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for <a href="https://c.im/tags/modernizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernizing</span></a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/improving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>improving</span></a>, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/strengthening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strengthening</span></a> the regulatory system<br>🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸<br>said Rachel Weintraub, <br>executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."</p><p> “The bill would restore <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deference</span></a>, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable. </p><p>The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment. </p><p>And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people<br> – not just big corporations<br> – can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”</p><p>More than 70 groups in the 🔸Coalition for Sensible Safeguards 🔸are calling on senators to endorse the bill introduced today by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth <a href="https://c.im/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warren</span></a> (D-Mass.), </p><p>👉The House version of the bill -- <a href="https://c.im/tags/HR1507" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HR1507</span></a>, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jayapal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jayapal</span></a> (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors.&nbsp;</p><p>Specifically, the bill would…<br> • Codify <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deference</span></a>, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;<br> • Require <a href="https://c.im/tags/disclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disclosure</span></a> of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;<br> • Bar the White House from <a href="https://c.im/tags/unreasonably" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unreasonably</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/delaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>delaying</span></a> essential safeguards;<br> • Make it a crime for corporations to submit <a href="https://c.im/tags/false" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>false</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> to regulators;<br> • Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to <a href="https://c.im/tags/disclose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disclose</span></a> potential <a href="https://c.im/tags/conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conflicts</span></a> of interest;<br> • Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing <a href="https://c.im/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/participation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>participation</span></a> in rulemaking, which will give communities that benefit most from new regulatory protections a much stronger voice in the process, including those that speak languages other than English; and<br> • Authorize agencies to quickly <a href="https://c.im/tags/reinstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reinstate</span></a> rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.<br><a href="https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sensiblesafeguards.org/press/s</span><span class="invisible">enators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/</span></a></p>
🌈 Evil Stylo the Werunicorn 🦄<p>Oh how beautiful the enlightenment 🙄</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalist</span></a> mania for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beating</span></a> children:</p><p>"Humanitarian <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bentham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bentham</span></a> also strives to make beating more reasonable and useful than before. Beating the defenseless was considered dishonorable in many cultures, though <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> to defeated enemies was not uncommon. Habitually beating one's own children, however, remained almost the exclusive preserve of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> occidental civilization; and this fine custom increased in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/modernizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernizing</span></a> history an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/orgy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orgy</span></a> of a general pedagogy of beating in families, schools, prisons, and armies well into the 20th century." --- Robert Kurtz</p>