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“In #Kamala #Harris we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class,” progressive Rep #Ocasio-#Cortez said in her speech on Monday.

“She understands the urgency of rent checks and groceries and prescriptions. She is as committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed.”

Ocasio-Cortez issued a wholehearted endorsement of the new nominee, and she promised that, if elected, Harris would serve as a champion of the middle class.

In his own convention speech, Senator #Bernie #Sanders pledged that Democrats would use their governing power to “tax the rich”, “take on price gouging” and “expand Medicare”.

The possibility of that change has animated progressives.
“The energy is electrifying and it’s a lot of young folks,” the congresswoman #Pramila #Jayapal, chair of the Congressional #Progressive #caucus, told the Guardian.
“If you have young people, if you have progressives, Black, brown, Indigenous folks, working-class folks, that is actually the base that helps us to win because they are the ones that go door to door. They’re the ones that mobilize voters.”

To deliver on the promises that progressives are seeking, Harris may have to distance herself from Biden in certain areas, especially climate and the war on Gaza.
During his 2020 campaign, Biden embraced a sweeping climate agenda as he looked to reassure the millions of progressive voters who had not backed him in the primary.
While Biden signed the most significant federal climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, however, failed to follow through on his campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands”.

Progressives hope Harris will stick to some of the promises that Biden made as a candidate but then walked back.

“We cannot have that happen again,” #Jeff #Merkley, a senator, told the Guardian.
“We, as climate truth-tellers, have to be very present, very loud, very determined to say,❇️ ‘We will back you 1,000%, but you can’t keep expanding the fossil infrastructure.’”❇️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

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 #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation 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
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

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 #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation 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
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

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 #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation 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
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

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 #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation 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
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

♦️“The Stop Corporate Capture Act ♦️is a comprehensive blueprint for #modernizing, #improving, and #strengthening the regulatory system
🔸 to better protect the public,” 🔸
said Rachel Weintraub,
executive director of the "Coalition for Sensible Safeguards."

“The bill would restore #Chevron #deference, ensuring that courts defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of an ambiguous statute is reasonable.

The bill would enhance our government’s ability to deliver results for workers, consumers, public health, and our environment.

And it would level the playing field so that ordinary people
– not just big corporations
– can weigh in on potential rules that affect them.”

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 #Warren (D-Mass.),

👉The House version of the bill -- #HR1507, introduced by U.S. Rep. Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.) in March 2023, already has 74 cosponsors. 

Specifically, the bill would…
• Codify #Chevron #deference, the recently overturned legal principle that courts must defer to agencies as long as their interpretation of statutory ambiguity is reasonable;
• Require #disclosure of changes and the sources of changes made to draft rules during the White House regulatory review process;
• Bar the White House from #unreasonably #delaying essential safeguards;
• Make it a crime for corporations to submit #false #information to regulators;
• Require anyone submitting scientific or technical research to #disclose potential #conflicts of interest;
• Create an Office of the Public Advocate charged with increasing #public #participation 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
• Authorize agencies to quickly #reinstate rules rescinded through the Congressional Review Act.
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/

The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renewed calls for a #wealth #tax.
Sen. #Elizabeth #Warren (D-Mass), Rep. #Pramila #Jayapal (D-Wash.), and others are pushing to pass the ♦️Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act♦️, which would put a 2-cent tax on every dollar of wealth over $50 million.
Warren referred to U.S. President Joe Biden calling for higher taxes on billionaires during his State of the Union when the bill was reintroduced earlier this month.
https://www.alternet.org/wealth-of-the-top-1-in-us-hits-all-time-high-of-45-trillion/

Dear Ms #Jayapal ,
thank you for your great work at the #AntitrustCommission facing tech CEOs.

I'm French (I had to fake my contact details in order to be able to use that contact form) and I've been grateful to watch this record as an engineer involved with these technologies.

I recently published #Déclic (declic-lelivre.com), a book about these issues we're facing when it comes to the major domination of these companies affecting businesses all over the world. It also shows solutions and alternative to these problems. It's in French at the moment.

Why I'm writing to you is to tell that a fine, even huge, won't do much harm and worst, it will not allow any opening in the market. If there's one central battle which could help in reopening the game or mom and pop business : it is #interoperability .

It's something that's at the heart of the telecommunication and we tend to forget it. Let me take an example : if you're on #Messenger ( #Facebook ), you can not send/receive message with someone who's on #Signal or elsewhere. It's all centralized . Users have adapted and we all have many apps for the same goal, which is connecting to each other, #Whatsapp for the #grandparents , #Snapchat for #teens , #Instagram for... and so and so.

But : imagine tomorrow AT&T subscribers could only call or text AT&T subscribers and if you wanted to reach people using another carrier you'd have to get another subscription. Who would accept that?

Here, we're facing the same. We accepted collectively that situation because these apps are free" to use and we didn't realize the power it gave to these companies thanks to network effect. Now we're stuck. If I want to text my #grandpa , I have to install and use Whatsapp but I don't want to give my data to Mr. #Zuckerberg . I'm stuck. Same for a #developper who would like to build a new better app for communication, it's a no-no.

So interoperability, which is fundamental to the internet and which is actually what permitted these giants to grow , back in the days, must become mandatory. If tomorrow, thanks to interoperability, I have the option to keep the contact with my grandfathers who's on Whatsapp by using an app created by another company which respects better my privacy because they are base on another business model, then we reopen the market.

Anyone should be able to use the app they want to connect with their family, friends, etc. Another comparison : if I want to visit a friend. I'm free to take the car/flight/train that I want. With interoperability, it is the same. It frees user by standardizing the protocols that connects people on the internet. Which then ensure their data can flow also freely.

If Zuckerberg want so badly "to connect the world", he knows it's the best way to do it. But that would be taking a risk on the business side and they are not willing to take it. In their early days, Facebook was actually using #XMPP for their messenger, an open messaging protocol made just for that. We were able, back then, to do exactly what I'm saying above. But then, when it became big enough, they cut.

That's a common strategy for tech companies, and well documented. First, they
#opensource and #interoperable #protocols in order to get maximum usage and trust from the tech #community then when they get big enough, because they have the biggest #userbase anyway, they cut it all, close the doors and keep everything for them. You can ask any developer about that.

On the Facebook/Google etc side, it is probable they will say they can't reverse that, that it's not possible technically to reopen the doors. It is true in a way that it may demand some effort on their side to refactor some of their infrastructure, but totally doable and they will always, for the reasons said before, overestimate such efforts. To be fully transparent, tech solutions for such problems exists already. Just ask #W3C , it's their job to work on such protocols.

On the #socialnetwork side, there's also a protocol called #ActivityPub, ask about it. And for messaging there are XMPP, #Matrix and other protocols. It's just a matter of will, and without pressure from you, they won't do.
Most people working in tech are waiting for such bold move to reopen the game and only the state can now help on that with well thought regulations. You are in position of making history and giving back to people the real promises of the internet. That would also lead to incalculable new opportunities in term of economy.

Another crucial battle which need to be fought also in parallel is about the data and who owns it. I suggest you speak with #TimBernersLee, one of the founders of the web. He's working right at the moment on such technology to re-open the web and give back data in people's hand. The protocol he's working on is called ' #Solid '.

I can go into more details if needed. I hope this helps. I'm writing to you as I believe, from watching the commission, you'd be the best to hear and support such position.

Best,
#MaximeGuedj

#DéclicLelivre