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Mar 7
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/07/inf…

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Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local": A chance for individuals to make a difference.

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This week on my podcast, I read "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local," my @Medium column about the horrific state of US broadband, the pandemic's worsening of the situation and the near-miraculous shift in US political will for universal fiber:

doctorow.medium.com/all-broadband-… 1/ Farmers and co-op members a...
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US broadband has been a shitshow since GW Bush killed DSL line-sharing in 2001, which relegated Americans to getting their connectivity from monopolists who divided up the country into non-competing zones like the Pope dividing up the "New World":

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Mar 6
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w/George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey
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The Mad Ghoul (1943)

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Mar 6
It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder that I was playing, too.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) dir. William Castle
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It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder that I was playing, too.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) dir. William Castle
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It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder that I was playing, too.

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) dir. William Castle
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Mar 6
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Student debt strike called for May 1; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/06/i-w…

#Pluralistic 1/ A picture of a grinning skull in a mortarboard.  Image:  The
Today (Mar 6), I'm a guest on @TWiT, from 1415hPT-17hPT:

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Student debt strike called for May 1: If Biden won't fulfill his campaign promise, we'll do it for him.

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Mar 6
One of Biden's most conspicuously broken promises is student debt cancellation. This isn't a nightmare from the Machin Synematic Universe, either: Biden can #CancelStudentDebt on his own, at the stroke of a pen, in the form of an Executive Order.

debtcollective.org/flick-of-a-pen/ 1/ The Debt Collective's banner for its student debt strike. It
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Biden has the legal power to erase 100% of outstanding federal student debt. It's a wildly popular proposal that would end the nation's student debt crisis, lifting a crushing burden ($1,887,820,825,648 as of this writing!) from millions of Americans.

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