Despite Fukushima Trump hands nuclear regulation to Silicon Valley#AIDataCenters #artificialintelligence #Block2 #Chernobyl #ChristopherHanson #datacenters #DOGE #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #FukushimaDisaster #MarcAndreessen #PeterThiel #regulatorycapture #SethCohen #ThreeMileIsland #UnitedStates #USDepa

Who are the key figures in the sewage crisis, and where are they now? With anger stoked by Channel 4’s drama Dirty Business, we look at what has happened to some of the main players

🤮 Short answer: Walking away from the wreckage without a mark on them, all considerably richer by now... #FailingUpwards #RegulatoryCapture #Corruption www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The broader lesson isn’t really about legal services. It’s how quietly capture can happen—without anyone acting maliciously. Hard question: how do we manage risk without pricing people out of low-cost help? #RegulatoryCapture #AI (6/6)

U.S. Economic Growth Has Not Been Shared Evenly Since 1974 For two decades after World War II, incomes grew at a rate close to the U.S. economy-wide growth rate. Anemic growth from 1969 to 1974 kept inequality in check. But since then, the benefits of growth ...

#TrendsInIncome1975-2018
#RegulatoryCapture
Just read the executive summary and see where your salary went! The top 5% and especially the top 1% took it all!

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This is a bloody brilliant middle finger to the surveillance states with an optional "bring it, muthafrackah" mode.

I invite you to page through their reasoning; it's ... _interesting_.

(note in thread...)

https://goblincorps.com/ageless-linux.html#

6. When Rules Protect Power Instead of People - Michael Murphy - New Voice for Cook County Not all rules exist to protect the public. Some exist to protect those already in power.

When Rules Protect Power Instead of People
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#RegulatoryCapture
#PowerAndPolicy
#PublicAccountability
#RuleOfLaw
#GoodGovernance
#FairCompetition
#LevelPlayingField
#BarrierToEntry
#PolicyReform
#TransparencyMatters
#CookCounty
#michaelmurphyforcookcountyboardpresident

Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank From End of Tariffs The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect behind Trump’s tariffs.

Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank from End of Tariffs 😱💰🧾🫥🔥#CorruptionCulture Vibes
* #SwampStuff #RegulatoryCapture

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect behind Trump’s tariffs. ↷ newrepublic.com/post/206882/...

Something is very wrong at the FDA via The Hill News — This is not some random question based on spasmodic, Trump-deranged leftist opposition to everything going on in Washington. This is serious.

The FDA is facing serious concerns over its operations, raising questions about its effectiveness and integrity in safeguarding public health.

resist47.news keeps you informed.

#resist47 #FDARegulation #PublicHealthCrisis #GovernmentAccountability #RegulatoryCapture

Governmental Ethics, Transparency, and Public Responsibility: Freedom & Prosperity Framework pt. 2 Democracy must be grounded in transparency, public trust, and limits on private influence.

A working #democracy must be grounded in #transparency, public trust, and clear limits on private influence over public power.

#PublicTrust
#Accountability
#OpenGovernment
#Ethics
#Lobbying
#ConflictOfInterest
#RegulatoryCapture
#Corruption
#PublicInterest
#DemocraticReform

EPA to gut its own climate finding. This isn't 'deregulation,' it's strategic legal sabotage against future climate protection. The fossil fuel lobby writes the laws, then 'regulators' sign off. #RegulatoryCapture

Read more: piaz.news/article/when-the-regulat...

The 'endangerment finding' revocation isn't about 'energy dominance.' It's about deregulating the fossil fuel industry, plain & simple. Follow the money. #ClimateCrisis #RegulatoryCapture

Read more: piaz.news/article/the-climate-dere...

FTC targets trans health groups for 'consumer protection.' Funny, similar zeal is absent for pharma price gouging. A familiar playbook of political targeting thinly veiled as public good. #RegulatoryCapture

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Toxic chemicals banned TWICE, then unbanned by EPA under political pressure. 'Data gaps' or corporate cash? History repeats with hazardous results. #RegulatoryCapture

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What if the only appreciable way to substantially reduce risk is to eliminate collisions?

#PublicHealthEthics #Agnotology #RegulatoryCapture #TechnologicalImperative #Bioethics #HealthLaw #PublicHealthLaw

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When regulators come from—and return to—the industries they oversee, skepticism grows.
Who is regulation really serving?
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#RegulatoryCapture #Transparency

Tahoe residents press lawmakers for greater oversight of TRPA Some Nevada residents in the Lake Tahoe Basin say they’re growing increasingly frustrated with how the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) makes decisions — concerns that surfaced publicly last week...

Environmentalist nails the irony: “TRPA has amended the code of ordinances over 300 times in the last few years. So it’s just a completely different organization. Now it’s being transformed into a development agency.” #regulatorycapture #LakeTahoe

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What a cracking idea. With six massive companies dominating the market #Ofvet will be just as successful as Ofwat and Ofgem. 🙄
#RegulatoryCapture
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"You can depend on Americans to do the right thing when they have exhausted every other possibility."

We need to break that approach. I don't know how when top-down control of media bubbles are being entrenched by colluding billionaires and Republican #regulatorycapture.

(Doomerism apology.)

Exciting numbers, but don’t expect to see them again until we clear out the Republican #regulatorycapture of the DoJ.

Horizon Accord | Environmental Narrative | Scientific Uncertainty | Regulatory Capture | Microplastics Doubt Will Be Used as a Weapon | Machine Learning Methodological uncertainty in microplastics research is real—but it’s about to be weaponized to delay regulation and absolve industry.

Doubt doesn’t have to disprove harm.
It just has to delay action.
Microplastics uncertainty is already being weaponized—just like tobacco and climate science before it.
#Microplastics #RegulatoryCapture #CorporatePower #EnvironmentalHealth

Ofcom is run by partner of former top Telegraph exec.
#RegulatoryCapture

#EveryBillionaireIsFailedTaxPolicy

We really need to start considering creating an open season on our ultra wealthy. Harvesting the entire population of wealthy predators is a reasonable option if we can’t revamp tax policy & clawback the unearned wealth..

#RegulatoryCapture
#TaxPolicyChange
#Hunt

Why British politicians are flocking to American tech giants | TechCrunch Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has joined OpenAI as managing director and head of OpenAI for Countries. He also will run Coinbase's internal advisory council.

Why American tech firms are snapping up British Politicians for their executive suite. #revolvingdoor #regulatorycapture #rolodex techcrunch.com/2025/12/18/w...

Regulatory capture is a significant concern. Are oversight bodies truly effective in protecting individuals from harmful chemicals, or are they unduly influenced by corporate interests? The debate questions current safeguards. #RegulatoryCapture 3/6

U.S. Economic Growth Has Not Been Shared Evenly Since 1974 For two decades after World War II, incomes grew at a rate close to the U.S. economy-wide growth rate. Anemic growth from 1969 to 1974 kept inequality in check. But since then, the benefits of growth ...

The term of are is “clawback” not redistribution. Taking back that which was never theirs is not redistribution.

#Clawback
#RegulatoryCapture

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For a senior diplomat to declare affection for a #bank that is “too big to fail” is not harmless sentimentality—it is a public admission of political dependency, moral hazard, and #RegulatoryCapture risk.

This lens assumes that corporate dominance was acceptable as long as it produced lower consumer prices, shaping policy for several decades. Aside from a brief shift during the Biden admin, it led to minimal antitrust enforcement.
#RegulatoryCapture in its purist form. And here we are again.

France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

Neonicotinoid pesticides are still not banned in Canada.
#RegulatoryCapture
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The "revolving door" between Tesla/Boring Co. and Nevada's state government raises red flags. A former Tesla exec in a key state infra role fuels suspicions of a cover-up & preferential treatment for Boring Co. This erodes public trust in regulatory bodies. #RegulatoryCapture 3/6

Regulatory capture - Wikipedia

Got to watch out for #RegulatoryCapture tho.

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"regulatory capture (also called agency capture) is a form of #CorruptionOfAuthority that occurs when a political entity, #policymaker, or regulator is co-opted"