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Ajit Pai made Elizabeth Pierce his “broadband advisor,” and now she’s been arrested for a $250,000,000 fraud
On April 17, 2018 by IleneTrump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made Elizabeth Pierce — ex-CEO of Alaska fiber networking company Quijntillion — one of his “broadband advisors” and now she’s in jail on charges of having run a $250,000,000 fraud. According to the charge sheet, Pierce raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Quijntillion from investors after forging
Gothamist unionized and its evil Trumpist billionaire owner shut it down; now public radio is bringing it back
On February 24, 2018 by IleneLast November, evil Trump-supporting billionaire Joe Ricketts shut down Gothamist (and its sister sites) to punish its staff for forming a union. Now the sites have been acquired by a consortium of public radio stations including WNYC (NYC), WAMU (DC) and KPCC (LA), thanks to a deal brokered by the sites’ founders, Jake
Peter Thiel, “libertarian,” wants to buy Gawker’s archive, which would give him the power to censor stories he didn’t like
On January 15, 2018 by IleneLibertarian wisdom holds that “the answer to bad speech is more speech,” but if you’re a Peter Thiel libertarian (that is, the kind of “freedom lover” who doesn’t think women should vote, wants to spy on everyone in the world, and secretly wields power to censor the free press), then “the answer to bad
Peter Thiel: the “libertarian” who loves mass government surveillance, monopolies, and censorship
On December 27, 2017 by IlenePeter Thiel thinks that it was a mistake to let women vote; that democracy is incompatible with “freedom” (because poor people will tax rich people if they get to elect their own leaders); that the major problem with the mass government surveillance that Edward Snowden revealed was that it was incompetently conducted (which is
Sean Spicer literally thinks “A Christmas Carol” is a book of Christmas carols
On December 15, 2017 by IleneNot only that, but as Randy Michaels quipped, “The most Christmas carols ever gathered in one book. Period.” Sean Spicer thinks that A Christmas Carol is a collection of Christmas carols pic.twitter.com/b8k2NzW2LT — Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 14, 2017 Donald Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made a terrible, unfunny video mocking the tens of
Trump’s Oklahoma campaign manager, who once introduced an anti-immigrant law to “stop sex trafficking of children,” admits to trafficking young boy for sex
On November 20, 2017 by IleneOklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey has resigned after pleading guilty to trafficking a teenaged boy for sex; when Shortey was serving as Trump’s Oklahoma campaign manager, he introduced an anti-sanctuary cities bill, claiming that immigrants trafficked their children for sex. Shortey’s plea bargain got the prosecutors to drop three child pornography charges
Washington Post tricked defeated transphobe into respectfully gendering Danica Roem
On November 19, 2017 by IleneBob Marshall, the anti-trans bigot who just lost his delegate seat to transgender delegate-elect Danica Roem, wrote an angry letter to the Washington Post, misgendering his successor. WaPo corrected his insults, which did not sit well with him. Wash Post TypoThe Washington Post published my letter yesterday (11/17/17, p. A-20) but changed “Danica” to Ms.
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