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The Trump administration is promising to block billions in already-awarded infrastructure bill broadband grants to any states that enforce net neutrality or try to impose any sort of meaningful oversight on the country’s unpopular, predatory broadband monopolies.

Two-thirds of Americans say that the country is “pretty seriously off on the wrong track,” while just under a third say the country is moving in the right direction, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.

If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no one left with any of these traits in the White House, so we get the sort of thing we’re now seeing with increasing frequency: Trump (deliberately or not) forgetting who was sitting in the Oval Office in 2020.

In a Truth Social post over the weekend, President Donald Trump continued to rehash the outcome of the 2020 presidential election — and appeared to lay the groundwork for calling the results of the upcoming 2026 midterms into question. For years, Trump has been unwilling to admit defeat in the 2020 election, wrongly alleging that President Joe Biden won the race as the result of widespread…

The government shutdown, already the second-longest in history, with no end in sight, is quickly becoming a way for President Donald Trump to exercise new command over the government. 

It’s been coming for a while, but now the shackles are off and the president is doing whatever the hell he wants.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.