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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis suggested that he would eliminate a number of government agencies during an interview on Wednesday.

“Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies? I know conservatives in the past have talked about closing the Department of Education, would you do that?” Fox News’s Martha MacCallum asked the Florida Governor on “The Story.”

DeSantis responded with a list of federal departments he would eliminate: “We would do Education, we would do Commerce, we’d do Energy, and we would do IRS.”

“And so if Congress will work with me on doing that, we’ll be able to reduce the size and scope of government,” he added.

“But what I’m also going to do, Martha, is be prepared if Congress won’t go that far, I’m going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life,” he said.

Last month, the Florida Governor voiced support for defunding the IRS during an interview with conservative radio host Dana Loesch.

“So, the answer’s yes,” he said. “I think the IRS is a corrupt organization and I think it’s not a friend to the average citizen or taxpayer. And so we need something totally different.”

“I’ve supported all of the single-rate proposals, I think they would be a huge improvement over the current system and I would be welcoming to take this tax system, chuck it out the window and do something that’s more favorable to the average folks,” he added.

#us politics #news #the hill #abc 4 #2023 #gov. ron desantis #florida #republicans #conservatives #2024 republican primaries #2024 presidential race #2024 elections #florida department of education #department of energy #department of commerce #internal revenue service #Dana Loesch #fox news #Martha MacCallum

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audhdnight · 5 months

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US Senator Mark Warren is sponsoring a bill called the Restrict Act that will allow congress to designate any foreign body as a threat to national security and jail and/or fine (up to $250,000) anyone who is convicted of consuming “threatening material” from said foreign body.

A Palestinian woman in Israel was already arrested for this (the act hasn’t passed in the United States but the Israeli government does whatever the fuck they want). She was found to be liking posts about freeing Palestine and that alone was enough that they confiscated her phone as “a threat to security of the state” and convicted her of being a terrorist.

When this bill passes (I could say if but almost everyone in office right now supports it so it’s probably a when) our government will be able to send people to jail for liking tiktoks. We can be sentenced for so little as googling and reading an article on the history of Hamas. And this is just in regards to the current conflicts; I don’t even want to imagine how many of north americas enemies we wouldn’t be allowed to engage with at all.

What follows is a summary of the bill, taken from congress’s website. The language can be hard to understand but I’ll do my best to go over it after.

This bill requires federal actions to identify and mitigate foreign threats to information and communications technology (ICT) products and services (e.g., social media applications). It also establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations under the bill.

My words: This bill allows our government to crawl the internet and invade the privacies of all users. Any sympathies found with the USA’s political non-allies will be flagged as a federal crime and threat to national security.

Specifically, the Department of Commerce must identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, and mitigate transactions involving ICT products and services (1) in which any foreign adversary (such as China) has any interest, and (2) that pose an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the safety of U.S. persons.

My words: the Department of Commerce will monitor any media associated whatsoever with the USA’s political non-allies and any person who interacts with it will be federally charged. Extreme censorship will also undoubtedly follow.

Additionally, Commerce must identify and refer to the President any covered holding (e.g., stock or security) that poses an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons. If the President determines that the holding poses such a risk, the President may compel divestment of or otherwise mitigate the risk associated with the holding.

My words: I don’t know much about “holdings” so I’m assuming this is just a way to take more people’s shit. (Feel free to add onto/educate me about this in the reblogs/tags/comments.)

Commerce may (1) designate any foreign government or regime as a foreign adversary upon a determination that the foreign government or regime is engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons, and (2) remove such a designation. Commerce must notify Congress before making or removing a designation; these actions are subject to congressional disapproval.

My words: this is just repeating that the Department of Commerce has the right to name any foreign body as an adversary and risk to national security, they only have to make sure Congress knows they’re doing it.

The bill outlines (1) enforcement mechanisms, including actions by the Department of Justice; and (2) civil and criminal penalties for violations.

My words: this is the part that mentions enforcement (censorship and threats) and penalties (jail time and heavy fines) to those who do not comply. The worst part is that the Department of Commerce is under no obligation to inform the public about which foreign bodies are designated as non-allies, so you could be sent to jail for looking at vacations in Thailand if they were an unacceptable government at the time.

Im not trying to start a panic but this is genuinely terrifying, especially when paired with Project 2025 and every other bill currently being lobbied that limits free speech and is basically turning our country into a dictatorship. We need a full reform, at every level, top-down. We can’t just vote a better person into office, because of the electoral college. We need a revolution.

#current events #congress #department of commerce #federal law #free speech #censorship #fuck the usa

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africanamericanreports · 2 years

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that Donald R. Cravins, Jr. will be the first-ever Under Secretary of Commerce for Minority Business Development for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). Under Secretary Cravins will lead MBDA in its service of the nation’s 9.7 million minority business enterprises (MBEs) following the agency’s historic elevation in authority and influence as mandated by the Minority Business Development Act of 2021.

#donald cravins jr #mbda #black business #minority owned businesses #department of commerce #african american

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pasquines · 10 months

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filosofablogger · 10 months

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A Plan For Chaos!

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has turned the state of Florida into something that I cannot even find a word to define. No limitations on guns, strict limitations on humanity, migration, and civil rights, and a complete lack of regard for the people who live there. And so now, he’s running for president because … he thinks his policies are working so well in Florida that he wants to extend them…

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#Department of Commerce #Department of Education #Department of Energy #federal agencies #Florida Governor Ron DeSantis #Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

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meteorologistaustenlonek · 11 months

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"NOAA will issue its outlook for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season during an in-person news conference on Thursday, May 25 at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland. Leaders at the Department of Commerce and NOAA will discuss the expected number of storms for the upcoming 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, climate factors that will influence hurricane development and NOAA's readiness with new products and upgrades to enhance forecasting and operations. NOAA and FEMA will also provide advice on how the public can prepare for hurricane season, which officially begins on June 1."

#Atlantic Hurricane Season #NOAA Hurricane Forecast #NOAA Center for Weather & Climate Prediction #Department of Commerce #2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season #Weather Aware #hurricane forecasts

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orbitbrain · 1 year

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US Puts 3 Dozen More Chinese Companies on Trade Blacklist

Home › Risk Management US Puts 3 Dozen More Chinese Companies on Trade Blacklist By Associated Press on December 18, 2022 Tweet The U.S. Department of Commerce is adding 36 Chinese high-tech companies, including makers of aviation equipment, chemicals and computer chips, to an export controls blacklist, citing concerns over national security, U.S. interests and human rights. The inclusion of the…

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#blacklist #China #companies #Department of Commerce #Security #Yangtze Memory Technology

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govpubsfinds · 1 year

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United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, & Office of Public and Constituent Affairs. (1999). Turning to the Sea: America's Ocean Future. Washington, D.C. Full text available via HathiTrust.

“The national dialogue begun in Monterey reflects the diverse, sometimes competing values inherent in our oceans. The seas are not only a source of economic benefit and a major avenue of world trade, but they are also a vital component of our national defense, a natural treasure to be preserved, and a fascinating frontier with secrets yet to be discovered. Our recommendations build on the broad consensus among Conference participants on the vital importance of the oceans to our nation’s future—our economy, our security, our health and well-being—and the challenges we face in ensuring that all the oceans’ many resources are protected and sustained.” (2)

Published in 1999, this book presents a vision for what the United States can do to ensure that marine resources are available to Americans in the 21st century and beyond. Since it was published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is under the U.S. Department of Commerce, the book outlines concerns and recommendations that span a wide range of categories, including sustainable maritime economics, strengthened and sustainable military presence on the ocean and along the coasts, protections for ocean environments and habitats, and education about oceans and marine resources for various groups. While long, this book outlines concerns and recommendations in a simple bulleted list and provides interesting graphics alongside the text. Also included are links to other government websites, including websites for the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the White House, and other NOAA webpages. Unfortunately, the links for some of these sites are outdated, so some of these pages may not be found on the functioning websites.

Since this document contains many recommendations for addressing ongoing concerns for the use of oceanic resources, it would be interesting to research how the U.S. has or has not acted on these recommendations in the years following this document’s publication. It would also be interesting to see if the websites provided in the links are archived either in the Wayback Machine or elsewhere, or if they have been merged onto other websites.

#govpubs #1900s #1999 #noaa #department of commerce #oceans

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samvadprakriya · 2 years

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श्री सुनील बर्थवाल ने वाणिज्य विभाग के सचिव के रूप में कार्यभार संभाला

श्री सुनील बर्थवाल ने आज नई दिल्ली में वाणिज्य विभाग के सचिव का पदभार ग्रहण किया। इससे पहले वे श्रम एवं रोजगार मंत्रालय में सचिव के रूप में कार्यरत थे। श्री बर्थवाल बिहार कैडर के एक भारतीय प्रशासनिक सेवा (आईएएस) अधिकारी हैं। वह अर्थशास्त्र में स्नातकोत्तर हैं। उन्होंने अपनी बी.ए. (ऑनर्स) अर्थशास्त्र सेंट स्टीफंस कॉलेज, दिल्ली से और जे.एन.यू, दिल्ली से अर्थशास्त्र में एमए किया है। उन्होंने किंग्स…

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#Department of Commerce #Secretary #Shri Sunil Barthwal

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smalltofedsblog · 2 years

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DOT And Commerce Departments Teaming On Small Business Contracting And SBA Capital Investment Initiatives

“The federal government launched a new set of strategic partnerships this week aimed at bolstering support for small and disadvantaged businesses attempting to access programs within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Department of Transportation Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) kicked off a series of initiatives designed to engage with the private…

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#capital investment #Department of Commerce #DOT #government contracting #Government Contractors #SBA #SBIC #Small Business Investment Company #Small Disadvantaged Business

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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"LAZIEST UNDERGRADS HIRE STENOGRAPHER," Toronto Star. December 14, 1931. Page 1. --- Lectures Taken in Full for 50 Cents Week --- Commerce students at University of Toronto have decided it is too much of an effort to take notes in lectures so they have arranged to employ a stenographer. The scheme is to be tried out immediately in the political science course. For six economic periods a week the students will be able to concentrate on the lecturer, or to dream dreams. The committee in charge has arranged notes will cost a maximum of 50 cents a week for each student. A stenographer will attend the lectures and take down a word for word copy. This will be typed and mimeographed and the copies distributed to students in the scheme.

#toronto #university of toronto #business school #business students #university students #stenography #rich people problems #commerce department #great depression in canada #mimeograph

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mudwerks · 4 months

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Winter sports festival, Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Recreation Department, sponsors (LOC)

Iowa Art Project, WPA, 1940.

#Winter sports festival #Jr. Chamber of Commerce #Recreation Department #LOC #vintage #art #Iowa Art Project #WPA #1940

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forever-eternal · 8 months

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Empty Seats

There are empty seats at the dinner table. Not many, but they are there.

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There are many Government Departments that are proposed, many that never come into being. Departments that never get a seat at their ever-expanding dinner table.

Adam and Robin mourn what could have been, but they feel no real attachment. They never existed, they never lived, and thus they never died.

Out of all their children, their departments and their states and their human friends who had nowhere else to go, only two of their personified children had passed.

The Department of the Navy; Russell Jones.

The Department of Commerce and Labor; Clementine Jones.

Russell passed in 1947, seemingly overnight. Nothing left of him, but the gaping holes in their souls where he once occupied is all they needed to know. They woke, and their oldest child– Robert, who once had both blue eyes, now had one green.

Russell had green, and whatever being decided which of their children passed and merged with another decided that the younger Department of Navy would merge with War and fade from existence. His seat at their dinner table remains untouched.

Clementine passed in 1913, still only a teenager in body and 10 years alive. She was replaced by Mary and Jason, when the Dept. of Commerce and Labor split into two departments. Her seat barely had the time to leave its mark at the dinner table.

Their departments may not be made the same way Adam and Robin are, but they’re closer to their parents make-up than the States. States shatter and they change, they never leave anything behind because their body recycles itself.

Governments and other personifications similar to them– agencies, departments, services– fragment in similar ways. But they leave nothing. They don’t reform. They leave no bodies. Adam and Robin don’t know what higher power their departments are connected to, the place to which they return, but that doesn’t make it hurt less.

They couldn’t bring their children back, you can’t bring government personifications back from death.

Postmaster, their little Paige, hadn’t died. Not quite. But, he had changed. The post offices were privatized and their child changed with them. He wasn’t their Paige anymore, he left and never came back. They see him, sometimes, when he delivers the mail.

He doesn’t recognize them. He doesn’t remember them.

It feels like he did die. His seat at the table still empty.

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And there had been a human, the only human they loved like a child. More than their parents and children’s human friends– no, it was as if he was their actual child.

A boy named Gregory, he had no last name when they met him, 8-years-old and living on the streets in the early 1990’s. They would have taken him, plucked him off those streets and taken him home.

But, for some reason, they couldn’t. They couldn’t make a human immortal, couldn’t keep him and knew it’d hurt more when he died of old age. But, they helped him. They found a place, they found him a family. They studied them, made sure they would do well and do right by the child they had already decided was theirs.

But it didn't work.

Gregory caught an illness, and it was left untreated for too long. They had been in Europe the entire time, and returned to find him gone.

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But humans were easier to bring back. It would take effort, they only brought back the dead as corpses to do their bidding and to punish their wretched souls.

Gregory had been a kind boy, quiet even. They couldn’t do that to him.

It took a while, he wasn’t perfect by any stretch– some of his skin was a bit grayer than would be considered healthy, his eyes a tad too cloudy. Quieter, they couldn’t quite repair his voice, but he was back.

He wasn’t human, not anymore. He was too different.

More like them.

He still enjoyed reading, still enjoyed recording and people-watching. He was still Gregory, still the little Greg they remember walking home when they found him out in the evenings. He still grows and ages like a human, but once he reaches a certain point that will stop. He’ll be alive as long as they are, he will have his seat at the dinner table

Yet, the empty seats at their dinner table– the ones left by their departed departments and agencies and (for the longest time) their avoidant States still mock them.

#welcome to the table #welcome to the table au #family ties au #wttt #wttt gov #wttt assistant #wttt oc #wttt greg #wttt dept of navy #wttt dept of commerce and labor #wttt postmaster #other mentioned departments #grief #mentioned loss of a child #mentioned resurrection #i’ll go into more detail on Greg at some point #but I just decided how I wanted to have him in this au #much love!!#💙

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thebotanicalarcade · 1 year

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n133_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Vick's garden and floral guide.. Rochester, N.Y. :James Vick's Sons,1900.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43864484

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galleryyuhself · 2 years

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G A L L E R Y Y U H S E L F

Vintage photography from Trinidad and Tobago

Ground floor counter of an unidentified department store (perhaps Glendinning’s) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 1958.-Photo: Walter Nurnberg

#galleryyuhself/stores in Trinidad and Tobago #galleryyuhself/history of commerce on the islands #galleryyuhself/shops #tumblr/Glendinnings #tumblr/Walter Nurberg #tumblr/shops in Trinidad and Tobago #shops #stores #Glendinnings?#Trinidad and Tobago #department stores #commerce #selling #products #dry goods

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cannabisbusinessexecutive · 6 hours

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Ohio’s medical marijuana dispensaries prep for adult-use green light

Ohioans will likely be able to buy recreational marijuana as soon as mid-June, earlier than the timeline outlined by the initiated statute they voted to pass last fall, and existing medical marijuana dispensaries say they plan to be prepared for the state’s non-medical green light. The state’s joint committee on agency rule review (JCARR) meets May 13, when it’s scheduled to vote on its first…

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#Division of Cannabis Control #Legal Marijuana #Ohio Department of Commerce #ohio marijuana #recreational marijuana

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