For the next week, I’ll be doing a stint as the “featured blogger” on Public Knowledge’s policy blog. As regular readers will know, I’ve often applauded PK as one of the key organizations fighting against expansion of intellectual property rights at the expense of the public, and critical in working to expand the intellectual commons. I’ll still try to post here as well. But I may just point people to PK.
For example, click here to see my update on the Adelphia transaction.
Stay tuned . . . .
Wait, Terrance & Philip are testifying?
WATCH: Michigan voter fraud hearing attended by Rudy Giuliani goes viral for alleged flatulence, unruly witness http://hill.cm/zxCqnaI
Can you make a quick Friday afternoon call?
Tell key Senators to oppose Nathan Simington for FCC. If he's appointed he'll kneecap the FCC in the middle of a pandemic and block #netneutrality for years.
This could come to a vote as early as next week!
http://battleforthenet.com/call
The Bush-Obama transition also reflected well on Obama team, which abided by the one-president-at-a-time rule despite the world economy crashing about them. This book on 43-44 model transition should be required for all outgoing/incoming administrations https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/oath https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1334928469633929217
This, although I do think the Clinton transition out was legitimately bad and worth looking down upon.
The gold standard for partisan transition is Bush 2008, by all accounts a professional and seamless transfer that benefited Obama and reflects well on W. https://twitter.com/kdbyproxy/status/1334927873979920387
So looked at the Ligado language from the NDAA. Short version, not only is this not a "Ligado killer," it's not even a grazing wound. But while Ligado dodged a bullet, GPS still has a gun. OTOH, if GPS can't win on their home turf . . . /1
This is a critical reason Boomers and Millenials have so much trouble understanding each other's world view. For Boomers, economic stability is the norm and the modern econ precarious world=betrayal. Millennials, can't imagine anything else.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21473579/millennials-great-recession-burnout-anne-helen-petersen
