for as long as I've been alive the GOP "negotiation" strategy is to offer you a giant mountain of shit you then have to negotiate to a slightly less ridiculous mountain of shit, at which point everybody applauds the fact the giant mountain of shit wasn't even bigger
at some point journalism could simply make a choice to stop treating every brain fart this man has as a major story [Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the...](
Gizmodo
Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System
The tech billionaire has had it with the β€œPorky Pig Party," and he wants to replace it with something new.
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Well that's a tiny bit of good news. A Republican fake consumer group had sued to try and make an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools (USF) unconstitutional. RE:
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Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
Third #SCOTUS ruling is in the universal service fund (non-delegation) case. For a 6-3 majority (with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenti...
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I wrote about how the Trump admin is trying to bully states into avoiding AI oversight by threatening to pull billions in already awarded broadband expansion grants: [GOP Moves Forward With Plan To...](
Techdirt
GOP Moves Forward With Plan To Pull Billions In Broadband Grants From States That Attempt ANY AI Oversight
Republicans are currently trying to force through a massive and cruel new legislation package that will impose historic cuts in public services to ...
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the promise that the Trump phone would be made in America lasted one-one hundredth of a scaramucci [The Trump Phone no longer prom...](
The Verge
The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in America
American β€˜design,’ built… where?
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funny how decades of Republican whining about "activist supreme court judges" resulted in a high court full of radical activist zealots and decades of Republican whining about "liberal media bias" resulted in a cowed media that panders to the right wing and normalizes authoritarianism RE:
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Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social)
Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. ...
If I pluck a story at random on the Tesla Robotaxi fail, not a single one mentions that the Trump administration and his courts have taken an absolute hatchet to corporate oversight and consumer protection. Why? It's kind of important context that regulators can't/won't do their jobs anymore? https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w&cid=bafkreif5l4pssiehpj3w5ffresqfxf7we7qihim2xkp4plygu3tkysbu3m
the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention [Exclusive | Paramount delays $...](
Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump: sources
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There's a lot going on so you might have missed the fact that the Chinese hack into most of our major telecom companies was found to be much worse than publicly stated good thing a bunch of dipshits obliterated whatever was left of functional telecom oversight! [US agencies assessed Chinese t...](
Nextgov.com
US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people fa...
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none of the people whining about "bluesky bubbles" are coming at the complaint in good faith they're annoyed there aren't more centrist or right wing voices here propping up their bigotry and dumb takes. ironically because they wandered outside their traditional bubble stupid cack RE:
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jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social)
the reframing of bluesky as some sort of bubble for one viewpoint conveniently ignores the fact many of us left X because our work was obviously be...