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South Dakota is cancelling $5 million in planned rural broadband investment after trump illegally killed the "digital equity act" simply because it had the word equity in it

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

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

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.