It is so unfair that you’re criticizing a politician for the things he has said and the legislation he has supported. This whole purity politics trend of refusing to support candidates who you have fundamental disagreements with is so childish and immature.   Read more

If you want to apply for a loan, fine, but you should do so only after you’ve gotten enough money to repay the principal immediately after taking out the loan.  Read more

For “two seconds,” he said he was concerned a “para-military Confederate group” had found his information online. Read more

*googles “who was governor of New York on 9/11"* Read more

For any young Canadian Indigenous journalists out there (or aspiring Indigenous journalists), just gonna take this opportunity to mention that the charity I work for has an Indigenous journalism fellowship program that’s accepting applications now: http://cjf-fjc.ca/awards/cjf-cbc-indigenous-journalism-fellowships Read more

Great piece, although I skipped the Elizabeth Warren section to prevent my blood from further boiling. I really wonder how many Splinter readers bother to read ICT or other Native journals. I try to make it over to ICT at least once a week and am always amazed at the geographic breadth of coverage from Inupiat to… Read more

Finally. I ran field for the southern part of the state in the Doug Jones election in 2017, and there is literally no state structure for the democratic ticket. None. At all. Read more

BRB, setting up a GoFundMe to drag Alabama into the 20th Century. We’ll work on funding the rest of their journey into the 21st later.
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Unions work which is why the bosses hate unions.   Read more

Good lord. I like Warren and everything, but this is all I can picture about when I think about she’s come off in this whole Native American controversy:

I wondered what could possibly be the expressed rationale for this move, because it appears to just be pure malevolence, considering that The Big Companies are even opposed to it. So I looked it up Read more

We’ve paid multiple times over for the major telecoms to build out their infrastructure to service those in rural areas.  In response, they pocket the money, expand service a tiny bit, and then put their hand out again for more money.   Maybe we should nationalize the infrastructure and allow the ISP/SP to compete on… Read more

Pai is an unrepentant, morally bankrupt shitheel and everything but am I the only one who thinks he looks like the snowman from Frozen?  Read more

If you live in an area that is underserved by AT&T or Verizon landlines and frankly all landline customers are being underserved because of creatures like Pai, you deserve FCC tariffed and regulated fiber optic broadband to your home. You paid for it.
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Evil Politician: “How can we make indigenous peoples even more out-of-sight?” Read more

Is that Jim Gaffigan in the picture? Read more

As always, the lesson to be taken away from this is that, regardless of party affiliation, it totally fucking kicks ass to be rich in America. Read more

Whew thank goodness I was worried that Amazon might not make enough money this year.
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The crazy thing to me is that all of the stuff in the bill doesn’t already exist. Keep murder and abduction statistics? Give indigenous police access to crime databases? Read more

Wait, I thought after the whole Kavanaugh debacle that we weren’t supposed to worry about past transgressions?  Boys will be Boys, et al?  Read more