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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Joseph Quattrocchi @quattrocchi.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
@Sujiyan @TheAdmin It seems the instance is close to shutting down. There has been interest from several people in preserving the server, whether through hosting, moderation, or successor administration. Has any solution been negotiated yet? I have already set up a GoToSocial instance as a […]
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
🔋 MIT just published the most comprehensive EV emissions study yet, analyzing every US zip code with real driving data. Battery EVs cut lifetime emissions 40-60% vs gas cars in most locations. Even on the dirtiest grid in the country, they still come out ahead. The study used DOE's GREET […]
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Chalmers: good lord what is happening in there?
Skinner [labelled OpenAI next to Anthropic crossed-out]: cyber weapons
Chalmers: can I see?
Skinner: no

Meme: Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers from the Simpsons.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
This seems to upset some people, who probably are themselves hosted on instances with different rules and who don’t understand why I “get away” with flagrantly violating rules that I took great care to ensure don’t apply where I post. But that’s the nature of a federated system. People pick the […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
I want to clarify something, which may not be well understood. The federation of instances from which people post are autonomous. They’re run by different people, and have different rules. Posters are governed by the rules of the server they post from, not by the rules of every instance on […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
This last day I’ve been bombarded with some very angry comments from people who want me to follow a different set of rules, where discussing “politics” is discouraged or requires a warning. That might be what people on some other instances want, but it simply doesn’t work for me, which is why […]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🔥 “Who won the 2020 election? ISN’T IT HUMILIATING to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions?” Trump administration nominee for director of national intelligence Jay Clayton pathetically won’t answer Sen. @ossoff
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2026
1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups
“They have sued organizations into the ground.”
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This paper found that about half of chatbot responses to health questions were problematic. Many people are already turning to AI for health information, making it increasingly important to teach the limitations of these tools. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...
bmjopen.bmj.com
Generative artificial intelligence-driven chatbots and medical misinformation: an accuracy, referencing and readability audit
Objectives Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots have been rapidly adopted across research, education, business, marketing and medicine. Most interactions, however, come from non-experts using ...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Question for you all. As you probably know, at FediForum we operate connect.fediforum.org, which showcases products/services/projects on the open social web. We post about them from Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. But: that's where all the people are that are already convinced of the […]
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Ralf Stockmann @rstockm.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
AOL, Friendster, MySpace, StudiVZ, SecondLive, Flickr, Tumblr, Vine, Snapchat, Twitter. Sie waren mal dominant/relevant und sind jetzt ziemlich tot. Dennoch scheinen gerade Politik und Journalismus fest überzeugt, dass eine Welt jenseits X, Insta und TikTok völlig undenkbar ist. Ich kann mir das […]
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FediForum Connect @fediforumconnect.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Bonfire is a federated, modular, open-source social platform designed to give communities real autonomy and participatory governance over their digital spaces. Have a community, need a digital space for it? Check out Bonfire. Curated by FediForum Connect […]
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rabble @rabble.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
I’m in Berlin, Germany but Bluesky has decided I need to do KYC to comply with Texas laws. This social media future is both Kafkaesque and Orwellian.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/07/2026
So apparently Elon Musk's X is now posting betting lines? Someone sent me an X post and I noticed in the righthand column that they're showing the betting lines (from MGM Grand) for World Cup matches. So on top of bots, scams, propaganda, & NCII, now you have... gambling.
Heading: Soccer:


🇦🇷

Argentina

3

🇨🇭

Switzerland

1

FT

Jul 11

🇫🇷

France

+130

🇪🇸

Spain

+225

Tomorrow

12:00 PM

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

England

+155

🇦🇷

Argentina

+195

Jul 15
12:00 PMFrance vs. Spain

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FRA

Tomorrow

12:00 PM
Dallas Stadium

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ESP

@equipedefrance

@SEFutbol

Odds by BetMGM


Money

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ESP

+225

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FRA

+130

Draw

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New paper out w/great co-authors across several fields: AI & the Future of Digital Public Squares, led by @bgoldberg.bsky.social Focuses on shifts in 🗣️Deliberation & Collective Dialogue Systems 🌉Bridging Systems ⚖️Community-driven Moderation 🤖Proof of Humanity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first, the advent of the internet and second, the recent introduction of large language models (LLMs). LLMs offer opportunities to reimagine and redesign more decentralized, participatory online spaces that can be used to facilitate deliberative dialogues at scale, but LLMs without proper governance can also exacerbate societal schisms. Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems. Building on the input from over 70 civil society experts and technologists, we argue that LLMs both afford promising opportunities to shift the paradigm for conversations at scale and pose distinct risks for digital public squares. Given that people are shaped through their interactions in public squares, there is an important opportunity to build individual capacities and collective cohesion by transforming these digital public spaces. We lay out an agenda for future research and investments in AI that will strengthen digital public squares and safeguard against potential misuses of AI.
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
Major new study comparing biomedical #preprints with versions later published in peer-reviewed journals: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… "The primary claim was unchanged in 39.9% of abstracts, minorly revised in 50.0% [mostly for level of confidence], and […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
The Fediverse People Directory. Consent-powered, you need to explicitly add our hashtag to your bio to be included. Ethical Discovery. Possible 🚀 fediverse.info/people?topics=pixelf…
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fediverse.info
A friendly guide to the open social web.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
I feel like the popularity of AI Twitter is the only thing still keeping Twitter alive, and it would be great if we could persuade them to move here and kill that platform.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE wielded extraordinary power during the first months of the Trump administration. It was more important than any Cabinet official. The fact it has been completely memory-holed by this administration says much about its purpose and impact. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...
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Vought: Trump admin won’t do DOGE after-action report | Federal News Network
OMB Director Russell Vought says there are no plans to do a closing report on DOGE's controversial, cost-cutting blitz across government.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Leftist strongmen like Platner is not Democrats telling a new story. It's the same laziness leftists accuse mainstream libs of. It's the same losing strategy Dems have pursued for a decade, but from a different direction: Tell Republicans what they want to hear and they'll vote blue.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 08/07/2026
It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community. This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
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Tom Casavant @tom.tomkahe.com · 08/07/2026
Every day another X user cooks his brain, but for just 70 cents a day you can provide an X user with the mastodon server they need to turn their life around.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My latest piece for @quantamagazine.bsky.social might stir the pot somewhat. It takes on the contentious notion that biological organisms can be considered to possess agency. www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...
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Is Life Just Different? | Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here's Meta's Andrew Bosworth describing NameTag, the company's face recognition feature for its glasses, which Meta said did not exist after we reported that inactive code for it was already on millions of phones: youtu.be/VmQl7TswfLM?... Our original story here: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Meta's Plan to Win in AI: Glasses, Muse Spark, and Staff Data - Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth
YouTube video by Nicholas Thompson
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).
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のえる @noellabo.fedibird.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
mastodon.cloudが8月10日にサービスを終了するとアナウンスしています。 フランスのMastodon古くからあるサーバで、ざっくりいうと、最初の管理者が管理しきれなくなったあと、協力者がヘルプに入り、きぼうソフトが引き継ぎ、DSNOになり、Sujitechが継承したサーバで、登録ユーザーが多く(27万8千)運営期間が長い分だけデータベースは大きいが、アクティブは少なくなっており(MAU 1600程度)、EU基準ということで運営が難しかった面はあると思います。 メンテナンスを引き継いでくれるヨーロッパのパートナーを探していますので、まぁ可能性は低いと思いますが、過去何度か […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
I spent a lot of time redesigning and improving the new fediverse.info it would mean a lot to me if you boost this, and spread awareness of this powerful onboarding resource ❤️
fediverse.info
fediverse.info
The bespoke fediverse guide and people directory.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026
Another view. Fossil fuels remain dominant.
Another view. Fossil fuels remain dominant.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2026
Some sobering graphs from the EIA today. This one shows that, while the rise of renewables lately has been notable, the real energy story of the 21st century in the US has been the large-scale replacement of coal by natural gas.
Some sobering graphs from the EIA today. This one shows that, while the rise of renewables lately has been notable, the real energy story of the 21st century in the US has been the large-scale replacement of coal by natural gas.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
I once gave up on building a federated microblogging app because the ActivityPub work swallowed it. That frustration turned into Fedify, and the app I shelved eventually shipped as Hollo, built on top of it. I wrote up where implementing ActivityPub actually hurts, and why it doesn't have to […]
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We all need to be aware that the Regime doesn’t care about the law. They are pushing the idea that religious freedom overrides any and all public health interventions that they don’t like. They will continue to try to end vaccine requirements using as many levers that they can access.
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Trump administration puts religious freedom at heart of US health policy
Critics say the new focus could reshape LGBTQ+ healthcare, abortion access and vaccine policy
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/06/2026
"It's not clear why we need these new cities." I talked to @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about Silicon Valley's push to replace government with billionaire-run city-states. The Network State cult: From Próspera to Gaza to California Forever. 224K views in a day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLf...
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Peter Thiel's Plan To Replace Democracy (And Profit Off What Comes Next)
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.
Case 3:23-cv-00571-TAD-KDM
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL
VERSUS
ALEX STAMOS ET AL
CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D.
MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject
Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos,
Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the
Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the
Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition
[Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
This case is before the Court on limited remand to determine jurisdiction.
Hines v. Stamos, 111 F.4th 551 (5th Cir. 2024); see also [Doc. No. 112]. On May 2,
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hegseth proudly announced that the flu vaccine would no longer be required for people serving in the military. A flu outbreak is now happening at Lackland Air Force Base, and flu vaccinations are again required. The AF has now been forced to admit that a 25-year-old recruit has died of influenza.
yahoo.com
Air Force confirms first death in Lackland flu outbreak, Rep. Castro says
A flu bug has swept the ranks of recruits at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, the service's basic training hub. Nearly 300 are said to have been infected.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
"Because they believe that only their clan represents America, that only people like them deserve to be considered “real” Americans, and that the American government exists to serve them alone, they need to undermine anything that tells a more unifying story." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Anti-Patriotic Trap
The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
The threat landscape is changing. Our last needs assessment showed that automated #spam and coordinated #disinformation have overtaken other issues as the top daily drain for community admins and moderators. Tell us what you're facing today in the annual […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Promotional graphic for the 2026 Social Web Operations Survey, formerly known as the Moderator Needs Assessment. Text reads: "Now Open. Moderators, admins, community managers... your voice matters. Any platform, any protocol."
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Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy @workers4democracy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) held OMB Director Russell Vought's feet to the fire during today's Congressional hearing. Pocan continually demanded that Vought answer for the many global deaths he helped facilitate by canceling USAID's funding, firing all of its employees, and effectively shuttering it.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Supreme Court saved gratuitous meanness to trans kids for the last day, presumably because they wanted to savor the cruelty.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
Here’s a very accessible explication of how Trump is trying to use the USPS to control voting in the midterms, how unconstitutional it is, why we can’t count on the Roberts court to respect that obvious point, and how much power states clearly have to run elections as they choose to and […]
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11681165843652… Time to trot this cartoon out again.
Cartoon showing Uncle Sam at a store counter, with his hands on a box labeled “U.S. Gov’t.” and “Control of Internet Speech.” A clerk, wearing a suit and labeled “Corporate Media,” asks “How would you like this wrapped?” On the wall are two rolls of wrapping paper, one labeled “Anti-terrorism” and the other labeled “Protect kids.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026
Over at @theverge.com, @seangon.bsky.social and I wrote about how billionaires hijacked a generational $42.5 billion program intended to dramatically improve internet access. Republicans stripped away all affordability and equity requirements, and are turning it into a slush fund.
theverge.com
Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
“We’re fed up … The BEAD program has failed us.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/06/2026
California is going to sue the Trump administration over its corrupt offshore-wind nonsense.
energy.ca.gov
California Sends Notice of Intent to File Suit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Offshore Wind Deal
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and California Energy Commission (CEC) Chair David Hochschild today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue targeting an unlawful agreement between the U.S. Depa...
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