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I, for one, cannot wait for the commenters to show up to call this headline hyperbole. mfers please. Why don’t you just read it for yourselves, in your own god-king’s words and images:
So, what are we looking at here, you might be asking if the embed didn’t load or you’ve averted your eyes in a last desperate act of self-preservation. And if you’re just visiting here from a more pleasant...
Last year Trump Republicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) had broad, bipartisan support, and more than 23 million Americans received the discount at its peak.
At the time, the GOP claimed they were simply looking to save money. The real reason, of course, was that the ACP was popular...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Shannon Vanshoon with a comment about RFK Jr’s congressional hearing:
So, yeah, I’d say on one hand that it’s nice Senator Cassidy is railing against Kennedy like this for all the unmitigated and horrifically dangerous decisions he’s making.
But hey, you know what would’ve been even better? Not being the deciding vote in the first place...
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For years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific research. Simply put, the light pollution Musk claimed would never happen in the first place is making it far more difficult to study the night sky, a problem researchers say can be mitigated somewhat but never fully eliminated.
And it appears to...
Well, that was certainly a thing. We mentioned yesterday that RFK Jr. was scheduled to go before the Senate Finance committee to answer all kinds of questions as to just what in the holy hell is happening at HHS. As we said, this was always going to be a contentious hearing, given that the Democrat Senators are aligned, and in fact demanded his resignation before the hearing, while even GOP...
Below is the brief, in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, I have been waiting my career to write, to finally tell the Supreme Court that when it comes to platform liability for their users’ alleged copyright infringement, we’ve been doing it wrong.
While I’ve already had a chance to tell the Supreme Court that copyright and the First Amendment have to play nice together, and that...
Well, the RFK Jr. congressional hearing is now over. And, to the shock of very few thinking persons, it was a complete and total shitshow. I’m sure I will be writing something up on the hearing soon, but the short version is that Congress members on both sides of the aisle went in fairly directly and hard on Kennedy, who attempted to play word games and/or lie in response, when he wasn’t delving...
Trump continues to wield everything he controls like a weapon against his enemies, even when the law says he can’t. Trump sent thousands of National Guard troops (and a couple hundred Marines) to Los Angeles to quell nonexistent riots and otherwise get in the way of local law enforcement.
Of course, it was nothing but a show of force: a petty president doing things to his perceived enemies just...
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