The newly-formed "Democrats for Fascism Caucus" has four members:
Every interaction with AI-mediated "help" desks will be an interaction with the technological love-child of Rube Goldberg and Franz Kafka.
Digging into the compendium of consumer complaints against Starlink, the evidence is there, for all to see that problems are not only on the horizon, they are already here: www.fastcompany.com/91532281/spa...
We've launched a lawsuit quadfecta suing the State Dept, FBI, DOJ, and ICE to make public the illegal surveillance of Palestine solidarity advocates! More here:
www.rightsanddissent.org/news/defendi...
And Starlink has been identified as the go-to resource for criminal scam camps in Myanmar:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I feel like there's a subtle theme here, if only someone could connect the dots.
Let the [BEAD] defaults... BEGIN!!!
www.broadband.io/c/get-broadb...
Did we not learn from the RDOF default fiasco: lowest-bid contracts yield extremely high default rates unless you have *meaningful* repercussions for defaulters. Mark my words, this will get much worse over the next 18-24 months.
I've been working with the incredible Data & Forensics team over at Sky News for the last couple months on this analysis of Starlink's activities. Definitely eye-opening, and raises substantial questions over corporate accountability and rule of law:
news.sky.com/story/elon-m...
To end 2025, in the past month, Starlink has increased its lowest cost service by 100%, removing its $40/month plan and only allowing U.S. customers to purchase its $80/month or $120/month plans -- see:
www.notebookcheck.net/SpaceX-quiet...
The GAO has ruled that NTIA cannot move forward with the entire BEAD program due to the government agency illegally changing their policies (to steer money to Starlink), in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (which exists to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse):
www.gao.gov/assets/890/8...
Starlink has been found to be providing connectivity to paramilitary death squads in Sudan:
news.sky.com/story/elon-m...
With BEAD awards moving into the contract execution phase, a small but growing number of proposed subgrantees are deciding not to proceed. In some cases, companies are walking away voluntarily. In ano...
Civil liberties defense group Defending Rights & Dissent has filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the State Department, the FBI, the DOJ, and ICE to release cri…
SpaceX has dropped its 'Residential 100Mbps' plan from Starlink's US site. This sudden change likely stems from high demand filling up network capacity in the areas where it was available. However, th...
SHAME!
Dems @golden.house.gov, Josh Gottheimer & @gluesenkampperez.house.gov voted for Speaker Johnson’s scheme to make it easier for Trump to use FISA data to prosecute Americans.
And all of them, plus @tomsuozzi.bsky.social, voted with Republicans to try and ram FISA through w/o any reforms.
