Cities must take some initiative. It’s worked before, with Chattanooga somewhat famously figuring out how to implement its own gigabit Internet using taxpayer funds.
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The Fight Over Municipal Internet - 0 views
Is Trump fighting the 'deep state' or creating his own? - The Washington Post - 0 views
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It's not far-fetched to suggest there is a "deep state" in Washington. Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower looked at the nexus of the Pentagon and arms manufacturers and coined the phrase the "military-industrial complex." Today's observers also point to the collusion of corporate interests and D.C. power brokers as the true guiding hand in American politics.
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The Trump White House already seems to be at war with what it would say is the "deep state:" thousands of federal government bureaucrats faced with the awkward reality of working for a president who campaigned loudly against Washington officialdom and promised to "drain the swamp" when in power. This week, almost 1,000 American diplomats signed a dissent memo against Trump's executive order on immigration, prompting White House press secretary Sean Spicer to icily declare that "career bureaucrats" can "either get with the program or they can go." And Trump's public spat with Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama appointee who sought to defy his immigration order, ended with him firing Yates in an angry, chilling memo that claimed she "betrayed the Department of Justice."
Paris Turns to Flower-Growing Toilet to Fight Public Urination - The New York Times - 0 views
The 'Radical' Left's Agenda Is More Popular Than the GOP's - 0 views
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" The inequitable distribution of wealth, political knowledge, and free time in the United States gives wealthy individuals and corporations a leg up on ordinary Americans in the fight to influence public policy. But ordinary Americans have strength in numbers. And as DFP's polling suggests, there are no small number of progressive economic policies that a large majority of working people (from a wide array of regions, religious backgrounds, and ethnic groups) are ready to rally around. The trick is building institutions - and cultivating political leaders - that are willing and able to get that rally started."
The Deep State: How it Came to Be and Why it Fights so Hard - 0 views
Our new international movement will fight rising fascism and globalists | Yanis Varoufakis - 0 views
Robert Reich: It's Time to Fight for the Common Good - 0 views
'Rock bottom': Supreme Court fight reveals a country on the brink - 0 views
The Fight to Fix Symplectic Geometry | Quanta Magazine - 0 views