"Hakeem Jeffries is the kind of leader we need to combat the awful corruption of the Trump administration... wait.. what? He did what??" www.axios.com/2025/09/28/e...

Some pretty cool solutions in dealing with the challenges of youth and smart phones... www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Fortune writes an entire story about Sinclair's effort to ban Kimmel "to protect communities" without making a SINGLE reference to Sinclair's long history of airing election fraud conspiracy theories and medical disinformation

79. American citizen.

Private equity firms are looking to buy electric utilities for a simple reason: there’s money to be made, and potentially quite a lot of it, on the backs of captive utility customers apnews.com/article/big-...

This is hard to get used to.

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

A utility regulator had the audacity to scrutinize (and even reject) proposed rate hikes, and the utilities came for her job. A shameful indictment of a regulatory system complicit in incessant rate increases that drive profits for utility shareholders. boondoggle.substack.com/p/monopoly-u...

This is the way. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

2. Not having high-speed internet is a huge obstacle to carrying out basic tasks, like applying for a job. But it's more than that; as my colleague @sportshotchris.bsky.social points out, this is about equality and freedom. mainemorningstar.com/2025/09/22/r...

There are plenty of negative things to focus on lately for where America is going. But this week, Jimmy Kimmel is back after the Trump admin targeted him for cancellation. He is back in part because Ted, Cruz, Rand Paul, and other Trump supporters said Freedom of Speech is more important than party.

A bill to address broadband affordability in CA was killed over the summer But the California Public Utilities Commission is looking to include new broadband affordability requirements as part of the state’s looming approval of Verizon’s massive $20 million merger with Frontier Communications

Proponents of BlackRock's takeover of Minnesota Power like to note the state Dept of Commerce supports the deal. But AG Ellison's office and others say many of the provisions that got Commerce on board are either already required or provide no benefit efiling.web.commerce.state.mn.us/documents/%7...

The whole point of “woke” as the right uses it is to be vague and undefinable. If you press them, it means HR training nonsense about how it’s white supremacy to expect employees to be on time. As actually deployed in the wild it means “this movie has black & queer people in.”

Remember the geniuses who said people are afraid of Trump? Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine if Trump were in power? Let's see... Poland, Romania, and Estonia, all probed recently by Russia. They don't seem to be afraid of the guy wearing all the makeup ... or his SecDef, Mr. Makeup Dressy Up Guy

Hakuna MAGA ta! The New Disney! Dutch comedian @arjenlubach.bsky.social has created a new promo for Disney. Making our Company Great Again! Brendan Carrs, Lock her up, oh Belle you are so hot! And more! #kimmel #freespeech #fcc youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE?...

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Ladies and gentleman, I give you the champion of freedom of speech! Brace yourself for the onslaught of lickspittle support for this lawsuit by people who have also cloaked themselves in similar claims - apnews.com/article/trum...

More than 6,000 public commenters have weighed in on Xcel Energy's latest proposal to hike Minnesota customers' rates, an unprecedented show of opposition with many citing exorbitant profits and executive pay www.eenews.net/articles/uti...

One problem is that we use the word “debate” to refer to both any sort of reasoned argument between opposed viewpoints and a very specific kind of stylized verbal performance art that is somewhere between useless for & actively hostile to truth or persuasion.

It would be shocking if the BLS data was intentionally wrong - whether last year or in recent days. I don't think the corruption of DC has gotten that deep - this is an underfunded office with people doing the best they can.

Missed the return of the Community Broadband Film Series last week? 📽️ No problem - you can stream AAPB and @communitynets.bsky.social’s premiere of Rocketeers: The UTOPIA Fiber Story below, and stay tuned after for a Q&A! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjb-...

It is obvious that Trump was close friends to Epstein, that both of them liked young women and Epstein clearly liked them underage. This was an open secret among the powerful in NYC and many of them laughed about it over the years. These people should all pay. Out them all apnews.com/article/trum...

This should be kept for the history books - what emotions were people feeling as the U.S. handed global hegemony (for good and bad) to India and China, gleefully running the economy off a cliff.

Exciting new Connect This! about to start at 2ET (archived at same link) to discuss latest in BEAD, Starlink, USI Fiber and T-Mobile - inside an ISP sale - and more! Trying a new platform so bear with us and watch on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZFA...

Wow - that is a lot to SpaceX - especially for a state with comparatively high-density rural locations (as compared to western states).

"The enemies of a free society—the enemies of limited government and the rule of law, the opponents of political liberty and human equality—don’t sugarcoat what they’re doing. There’s surely no reason we should sugarcoat what we’re seeing."

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Your periodic and heart broken reminder that the official US policy on school shootings is to hope it happens to other people's kids.

I think John Bolton is wrong about most of the things that matter. But I suspect he follows the rules around classification fairly well - this raid from Trump is more about Epstein and distraction than anything related to Bolton. Release the Epstein information.

Scott Goff of Gibson Connect joins the podcast this week to share how an electric co-op in Tennessee is transforming rural communities with affordable fiber broadband. He and @sportshotchris.bsky.social discuss overcoming state barriers, building trust, and why community-first models are key 📶⬇️

Trump’s residence was searched after MONTHS of being treated with kid gloves during which he defiantly refused to return hundreds of pages worth of highly classified documents he was storing insecurely.

How come most of us don't have a choice in choosing Internet service providers? Why is there is there so very little competition? The CBN team cuts right to quick in discussing it with @karlbode.com @sportshotchris.bsky.social @seangon.bsky.social and @jpittman.bsky.social 🌐📶💻 #LostPackets

Is anyone counting how many women and children are slaughtered in Ukraine today while Trump bends at the knee to war-criminal Putin on U.S. soil? The United States just rolled out the red carpet for someone responsible for kidnapping 20,000 children - this is really evil shit.

WATCH: Wireless Deployment How-To With Brodie Ford (Sp‘q’n’i? Broadband Services, Spokane Tribe) and Matthew Douglas (Acorn Connected, Hoopa Valley Public Utilities District) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQaw2uj9rI #TribalBroadbandBootcamp @matthewrantanen

Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record: “They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.” “Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.” A month later, he was gone.

Great idea! Anyone know how to use voicemail?

Soo... probably not the first to note this... but: Trump bragged about peeping on young girls at pageants, joked about his best friend Epstein, bragged about sexually attacking women, was convicted for sexually attacking a woman and now some people think his supporters will abandon him over Epstein?

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Community broadband continues to make strides! Our story here comes out of Syracuse NY where the city has expanded its municipally-owned network Surge Link to 9,200 low-income households, offering $15/month service for qualified households 👏👏👏 🌐💻⬇️ communitynetworks.org/content/syra...

This is not only the U.S. walking away from important new medical tech, it is making Americans more dependent on companies in Asia and Europe for future medical treatments. We are ceding tomorrow's technology to our international rivals in industry after industry. Grossly incompetent.

What a great and important show from John Oliver - deferred prosecution agreements and corporate crime. And it references an amazing book - the Chickenshit Club by @jeisinger.bsky.social - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNo8...

Tell me you don't understand statistics in a post.

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

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