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Idaho Schools E-Rate Coordinator • he/they • Opinions are my own • The Internet is Flat https://linktr.ee/KaravanKmdr
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What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

folks let me tell you: a normal administration is "veep shit." this signal stuff is not veep shit, it's "the entire national security team of the Trump admin is complicit in behavior that ensures that every hostile government has a direct line of sight into American-decisionmaking" shit

they're hijacking a big chunk of $42.5 billion in infrastructure bill broadband grants, redirecting them away from affordable community owned fiber and local community-centric ISPs, and toward Musk's expensive, congestion-prone, ozone-layer destroying Starlink satellite broadband service

The Springfield bullshit nudged us into a new frontier of lying. It isn’t just that they don’t back down from the lies. It’s that every lie is increasingly exaggerated to the point of absurdity. Shameless lying is a demonstration of your loyalty. The more shameless the lie, the more loyal the liar.

sabotaging government so that you can turn around and tell people government is broken and that’s why we should privatize everything

This is how bad it is in the US. The American Bar Association had to put out a statement in support of the Rule of Law. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

there is a 24/7 right-wing propaganda apparatus that operates across multiple mediums and it designed to do exactly this: smother any kind of local, material concern with cultural war signifiers and cultivate a “political affiliation as team sport” ethos

"2024 was the year “disinformation” outlasted its usefulness. Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view."

Been thinking about this opinion piece a lot recently in regards to several crises of leadership happening abroad, in DC, and here in Idaho. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/o...