A. Stefansky
@astefansky.bsky.social
Former brewer. Occasional reprobate
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
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This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social is not to be missed, as usual — especially @micahloewinger.bsky.social’s conversation with a Pentagon reporter who agreed to the new restrictions www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Covering the Pentagon, from Sy Hersh to Laura Loomer | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The New York Times has sued the Pentagon for restricting access to journalists. On this week’s On the Media, meet the new cast of right wing influencers and conspiracy theorists repla...
www.wnycstudios.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social is not to be missed, as usual — especially @micahloewinger.bsky.social’s conversation with a Pentagon reporter who agreed to the new restrictions www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
WELKER: Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
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Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us
It’s a cesspool.
This is your annual reminder, from me, that Facebook launched Groups in 2010, meaning the company has fostered, repeatedly refused to ban, and defended its Holocaust denial groups for 15 years. A generation.
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s a cesspool.
It’s a death cult.
it's genuinely wild how much conservative literature is basically desiring this as an outcome
i was reading kurt's latest fiction book earlier
i was reading kurt's latest fiction book earlier
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It’s a death cult.
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Trump hasn’t earned a single thing in his life. That’s why he was a bankrupted loser when that asshole put him on TV pretending to be a successful CEO, and is now a multi-billionaire as the most corrupt president in the history of the United States.
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump hasn’t earned a single thing in his life. That’s why he was a bankrupted loser when that asshole put him on TV pretending to be a successful CEO, and is now a multi-billionaire as the most corrupt president in the history of the United States.
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
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They all need to be disbarred. This is flagrant disregard for the rule of law and the courts.
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
They all need to be disbarred. This is flagrant disregard for the rule of law and the courts.
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It’s just another form of the grift that always plagues school spending. Someone is getting a cut of each iPad the district buys. When my daughter was in HS the English teacher issued brand new, consumable (non-reusable) workbooks and said, we wont be using these, but I’m required to hand them out.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It’s just another form of the grift that always plagues school spending. Someone is getting a cut of each iPad the district buys. When my daughter was in HS the English teacher issued brand new, consumable (non-reusable) workbooks and said, we wont be using these, but I’m required to hand them out.
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I am calling for Wilmer’s immediate release from NWIPC—he has NO criminal convictions, he poses no threat to the community, and he urgently needs appropriate medical care since ICE is denying him the treatment he requires.
I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.
I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I am calling for Wilmer’s immediate release from NWIPC—he has NO criminal convictions, he poses no threat to the community, and he urgently needs appropriate medical care since ICE is denying him the treatment he requires.
I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.
I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.
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the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.
it is absolutely unbelievable that the Trump administration is systematically persecuting Cubans and Venezuelans, the most Republican Latinos in the US. what are they doing
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.
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Murder.
Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Murder.
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My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
Term limits and bump the justices to 15.
And fuck the shadow docket right off into the burning fury of the Sun.
And fuck the shadow docket right off into the burning fury of the Sun.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Term limits and bump the justices to 15.
And fuck the shadow docket right off into the burning fury of the Sun.
And fuck the shadow docket right off into the burning fury of the Sun.
Imagine if tech was built with the well-being of people in mind. This is a start.
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Imagine if tech was built with the well-being of people in mind. This is a start.
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if shapiro runs his 2028 campaign fighting the last war then he will lose pretty handily
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
if shapiro runs his 2028 campaign fighting the last war then he will lose pretty handily
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The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
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RFK Jr.’s hand-picked anti-vax panel has removed any doubt about their obvious bias and destroyed any shred of credibility for their decision-making process.
CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.
CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.
CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
RFK Jr.’s hand-picked anti-vax panel has removed any doubt about their obvious bias and destroyed any shred of credibility for their decision-making process.
CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.
CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.
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The entire right half of the political spectrum has gone all in on the idea that black people are uniformly less qualified for inclusion in politics, leadership, and higher education - and virtually no one has even mentioned it, much less raced to defend black Americans. It’s beyond belief.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The entire right half of the political spectrum has gone all in on the idea that black people are uniformly less qualified for inclusion in politics, leadership, and higher education - and virtually no one has even mentioned it, much less raced to defend black Americans. It’s beyond belief.
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Fucking crazy. Please talk to your doctors and pediatricians before listening to these bozos. I hope but doubt the people dumb enough to vote for Trump/RFKJr are smart enough to ignore them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fucking crazy. Please talk to your doctors and pediatricians before listening to these bozos. I hope but doubt the people dumb enough to vote for Trump/RFKJr are smart enough to ignore them.
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Not only does a Democratic Congress/Admin need to remove the Roberts majority, they should pass legislation allowing a say 15-year lookback period to vacate and reissue any decision on the existing record.
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Not only does a Democratic Congress/Admin need to remove the Roberts majority, they should pass legislation allowing a say 15-year lookback period to vacate and reissue any decision on the existing record.
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Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute.
Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.
Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.
You may have gripes...nobody is perfect, but Newsom has been a great governor. He's an excellent administrator, and if you want to join the circular firing squad which has destroyed progressive politics, be it on you.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute.
Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.
Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.
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THE MAN LITERALLY ACCEPTED A SOLID GOLD BAR TO DROP TARIFFS ON SWITZERLAND I FEEL LIKE I AM LOSING MY MIND AGHHHHHHHH
It's an incredible grift, that people think "he can't be bought" lmfao
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
THE MAN LITERALLY ACCEPTED A SOLID GOLD BAR TO DROP TARIFFS ON SWITZERLAND I FEEL LIKE I AM LOSING MY MIND AGHHHHHHHH
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I do consider it my business that many members of my party seems willing to elect a guy with weird white supremacist sympathies, actually
Very different situation with Biden since that was a national party issue. With Platner. Maine D's would have to take the lead. Really isn't anyone from Minnesota's business (or any other state).
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I do consider it my business that many members of my party seems willing to elect a guy with weird white supremacist sympathies, actually