I did not like the era of "musicians and actors should never express political opinions and should quietly exist as ideological homogenized mannequins that happen to make art" and I'll be thrilled if our dance with authoritarianism results in an actual counter-culture with teeth [Massive Attack urge BBC and me...](
NME
Massive Attack urge BBC and media to redirect their attention to "what is happening daily to the people of Gaza" rather than Bob Vylan Glastonbury furore
Massive Attack have urged the media to focus on "what is happening daily to the people of Gaza", rather than Bob Vylan’s controversial Glastonbur...
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I still haven't gotten over the concentration camp merch
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 $...](
Exclusive | Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump: sources | New York Post
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