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:
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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":
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.
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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.