"[The bill] would prevent professional licensing boards from denying licensing applications based on applicants’ unrelated criminal records or vague character standards."

Just 6 commodities—corn, soy, wheat, cotton, peanuts, rice—account for 94% of FCIP support. Many of these are not used to provide affordable nutrition but are heavily processed into the fillers and sugars that are likely a large part of people’s health problems

"Had the internet, personal computing, or e-commerce been burdened with such a contradictory and costly patchwork of technocratic state and local policies, it is unlikely the U.S. would have become the global leader in digital technology" @adamthierer.bsky.social

Rather than codifying unfounded fears about on-the-job fentanyl exposure, legislators and departmental decision-makers should promote science-based education and provide practical training.

"The inaccurate narratives that underpin FL SB 718 have unfortunately driven very real fears and misunderstandings about safety among first responders."

"Georgia law prevents a host of people from working in their preferred profession, but lawmakers should remember that 'Having a job [...] has been shown to reduce recidivism.'"

"The inaccurate narratives that underpin FL SB 718 have unfortunately driven very real fears and misunderstandings about safety among first responders."

Americans get 60% to 90% of their calories from highly processed foods and drinks

Congrats to R Street friend @benjaminwittes.bsky.social! www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/to-mock-po...

By eliminating solitary confinement for juveniles in all but the most extreme cases, Pennsylvania has the chance to end what many psychologists have come to regard as a form of torture

"When it was discovered that many of these solar panels were made with slave labor and ought not to be imported, officials have slow-walked or skirted such restrictions since it would be harder to meet their "'clean energy objectives.'"

"Restorative justice alternatives reduce negative emotions and feelings of hopelessness among victims, improve participant self-esteem, reduce recidivism and save taxpayers’ money."

"Florida tops lists with more than 20 percent of drivers uninsured, compared to the national average of about 12 percent."

"Policymakers rarely want to reckon with what that might look like or be forced to admit that sometimes their policies got it wrong and made problems worse."

"For years, Florida has topped lists of states with the highest auto insurance rates in the nation, averaging about $2,500 a year for full coverage. Ohio has the lowest rates at about $1,000 annually"

Reclaim AI would be liable if it moves meetings for terrorists on a calendar even if they don't know they're moving meetings for terrorists @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

10 of your favorite tools that the Blumenthal-Hawley AI bill would destroy @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"The backlog is staggering; over 2,000 GW of capacity sits in interconnection queues currently, exceeding the installed capacity of the entire domestic generation fleet."

"One study found that the propensity to re-offend was reduced by 32 percent after participating in a restorative justice program."

🎧 "The good news is youth use has been declining since 2019 when it had peaked." — Mazen Saleh

"Project completion rates in the interconnection queue and the reliability value assigned to generator capacity vary by fuel type. Accounting for these, PJM’s firm generation capacity queue backlog is 69 percent renewables and 31 percent natural gas."

"The average wait time in interconnection queues doubled from two to four years between the 2000s and 2010s. A typical generation project in 2022 spent five years waiting for interconnection approval, and the trend is worsening."

"Project completion rates in the interconnection queue and the reliability value assigned to generator capacity vary by fuel type. Accounting for these, PJM’s firm generation capacity queue backlog is 69 percent renewables and 31 percent natural gas."

"The term 'restorative justice' was coined in 1977 by Albert Eglash, who believed perpetrators gain a renewed sense of self-respect by admitting wrongdoing, apologizing, repairing the harm and creating space for forgiveness."

"In 2009, it was estimated that 437,400 Americans died due to smoking-related disease and that number has changed little with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 480,000 tobacco-related deaths in 2022."

"Policymakers should first take advantage of the extensive array of existing regulations being enforced by the federal government’s 434 different existing departments." @adamthierer.bsky.social

"In a randomized controlled trial of a California program called 'Make-it-Right,' juveniles in the intervention group were 19 percent less likely to be rearrested 12 months post-program compared to their peers in the control group."

Spotlight on Criminal Justice: Observing National Restorative Justice Month – November

"AI is not inherently more polluting than other electric uses; in fact...it may be cleaner than average. Concerns about AI energy use should be directed at the environmental impacts of electric power generation in general."

"Our kids are going to grow up to be adults in an information saturated world where computers and the internet are going to be central to their success in life."

"In the future, we ought to see politicians focusing on the tangible environmental and human improvement under their watch, and not just a tally of how much has been spent on one industry over another."

Authors of some social media legislation claim it will prevent minors from viewing obscenity online. But these bills have no effect on obscenity in the vast majority of cases. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"If Congress simply strikes down the DOJ’s rule, they betray the purpose of their legislative function to create and codify policies that preserve the health and welfare of the American people."

"Ultimately, having the government force users to verify their identities is a barrier to free speech and causes manifest security problems." @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"It is easy to dismiss these practices, thinking, 'What would attackers even want from me?' But as the North Korean breach proves, even an innocuous job application can result in the compromise of an entire organization and any connected services" @ocregister.bsky.social

"Congress should set aside the most radical regulatory proposals. Massive new technocratic bureaucracies are a non-starter" @adamthierer.bsky.social

"Of the 13,204 individuals sent to home confinement under this policy, only 27 have committed any new crimes. This is a less than 0.2% recidivism rate, which is less than 1/200th of the federal government’s overall self-reported recidivism rate of 43%."

Those outraged at Haley’s comments would do well to look at how Congress and the states are already violating our rights with similar proposals at this very moment.  @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"The amendment was not voted on, but if it had been adopted, it would make members of Congress 'at-risk individuals' who would be allotted privacy protections that many Americans would not have."

"My husband and I became first time homeowners a little over a year ago. When we were going to secure homeowner’s insurance, we genuinely could not find anyone who would provide insurance for us except for the state backed system."

The Senate should codify — not reject— CARES Act’s home confinement policy

"The Senate is currently only a few signers away from action to discard one of the most effective reintegration programs our federal system has ever witnessed."

In ACLU v. Mukasey, the Third Circuit found that COPA was impermissibly vague for various reasons, including not defining the standard of “knowingly.” A current federal proposal similarly does not define a “knowingly” standard. @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"A staggering 99.8% of those sent to home confinement under the CARES Act succeeded in establishing and maintaining law-abiding lives outside of federal brick-and-mortar custody."

"This policy paper explores the history, principles, methods, and outcomes of applying restorative practices to the juvenile justice system and offers key recommendations for implementing such programs."

Other research studies, including one by researchers at Yale, have asked what an ex-smoker would do if their preferred flavor of e-cigarettes was removed from the market. The most likely outcome would be to return to cigarettes. @ocregister.bsky.social

"Because the user would be representing their age to a federal agency, misrepresentation of age would constitute a violation of the federal false statements statute." @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

Current laws and proposals would endanger minors’ access to health information @senatorshoshana.bsky.social

"Even accounting for a history of nuclear accidents, it is one of the safest sources of energy at about 0.03 deaths per terawatt-hour, or more than 800 times safer than coal energy."

"The policies that come out of Congress and the administration ought to be focused on reducing harm, not simply favoring producers that are popular among their constituents."