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We’ve noted how Republicans are busy screwing up the infrastructure bill’s $42.5 billion BEAD broadband grant program. After performatively whining that the program wasn’t moving quickly enough for their liking during the election season, the GOP announced it would be significantly slowing fund dispersal just to make life harder on poor people and to throw billions in new subsidies at Elon Musk...
This weekend, Donald Trump pulled off something that’s happened exactly once before in US history: federalizing a state’s National Guard over the state governor’s objections without invoking the Insurrection Act. And he did it to deal with what the LAPD itself described as peaceful protests that were “under control.”
The constitutional implications here are important. Trump bypassed California...
How’s your Monday going? Well, buckle up. The day ain’t over yet.
No sooner had California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state would be suing Trump over his illegal deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles to do whatever it is they’re supposed to do when deployed illegally than the Defense Department turned Pete Hegeth’s tweeted threat into reality.
The Trump administration is...
Trump is setting the stage for martial law. Again. The reasons for his latest move are directly tied to the actions of his administration and, more specifically, the most visible arm of his anti-migrant policies.
ICE has been problematic for years, but it took two non-consecutive Trump administrations to turn it into the cartoonish supervillain it is now. Even during his first term, no one...
Last week, Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington abruptly announced that he would be stepping down from the FCC. Simington gave all of two-days notice of his departure, which was odd not only because of the short notice, but because it delays Trump Republicans from getting a voting majority allowing them to actually do anything real.
In his wake, right wing media outlets like Fox News are...
Remember when TikTok was supposedly an urgent national security threat that required emergency legislation? Funny how that “emergency” keeps getting 75-day extensions.
Trump is reportedly about to hit the snooze button on TikTok enforcement for the third time, extending a deadline that was supposedly so urgent that Congress had to rush through legislation ignoring basic First Amendment...
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As ICE continues to engage in a mass deportation program that more closely resembles a mass kidnapping program, communities have literally taken to the streets to chase ICE and their law enforcement enablers out of town. Rolling in looking like some sort of cartel death squad just isn’t intimidating enough anymore. And if you can’t do your job legally or honestly, people may stop you from doing...
Despite the ongoing fake promise of “populism,” so far Trump 2.0 has proven to be a bonanza for telecom giants seeking to get even bigger. As usual that means higher broadband prices and shittier broadband service are just over the horizon.
As a reward for promising to be more racist, Verizon recently saw its $20 billion merger with Frontier approved by the Trump FCC. Comcast is rumored to be...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side MrWilson with a comment about a Republican school superintendent bemoaning that “parents would opt their kids out of understanding American history”:
Another accusation-confession. Walters has opted the state of Oklahoma out of understanding American history.
In second place, it’s Professor Ronny with a simple comment on that same post:...