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This bill helped bring rural broadband to ALL marginalized pops (including rural trump supporting veterans) but was killed because idiots operating at a third grade reading level thought it was something that was exclusively helping minorities

20/5/25, 2:00 pm10 reposts52 likes

I wonder if we will get an @ezraklein.bsky.social podcast lamenting this lack of abudance

vtdigger.orgFederal government cancels Vermont’s $5.3 million digital equity grant - VTDiggerThe National Institute of Standards and Technology stated that the grant—intended to support Vermont’s push for universal, reliable internet access—was rejected due to its inclusion of what the presid...

This is, of course, happening across most U.S. states that had been planning to use this money to bring access to long-neglected rural communities. But when I read mainstream broadband journalism, Republicans never have to take ownership of unpopular policies that harm their own constituents.

@kaikronfield.bsky.social

I spent decades listening to Republicans and Libertarian free market guys whine and falsely claim that modest net neutrality rules were killing broadband investment. Now a mad king is killing broadband investment for no coherent reason and most of those folks are all quiet as little mice.

Kai Kronfield

You mean those long-neglected rural communities that Biden actually tried to help but the propaganda outlets never reported on (or distorted) and so they voted for the guy who lied to, and is now fucking them? Those ones? It’s so exhausting.