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#politicalappointments — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Yale: Who’s Really Running the Government? Yale Lab Tracks Unconfirmed Acting Officials. “ISPS has awarded [Christina] Kinane funding to establish a research team tasked with identifying career and politically appointed acting directors from the Reagan Administration through the Biden Administration, developing a web scraper to provide real-time updates on which acting directors are currently […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/yale-whos-really-running-the-government-yale-lab-tracks-unconfirmed-acting-officials/

  2. CW: NZPol Commissioners

    "The appointments seemed calculated to undermine public confidence in the Commission, ... I got the response back today, and its crystal clear that Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith did not follow a proper appointments process, instead parachuting his preferred candidates in to the interview process, then appointing them - possibly explicitly against the advice of the independent panel he had appointed to do the job."

    #NZPol #PoliticalAppointments

    norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/