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It looks like we can indeed kiss net neutrality goodbye. I posted about this earlier, but there’s more confirmation now. It’s been a long fight, and yes, mostly won, but no more.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected two anti-net neutrality advisers to shape the future administration’s telecom policy strategy at the Federal Communications Commission, Recode reported.

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Trump has previously favored deregulation and criticized the FCC’s net neutrality rules, calling them a “Fairness Doctrine” and an “attack on the internet” that will “target conservative media.”

To help advance his agenda, Trump has brought on Jeff Eisenach, who worked on campaign telecom policy for the Reagan administration, and Mark Jamison, a former Sprint lobbyist.

Eisenach was part of former President Ronald Reagan’s Federal Trade Commission and FCC transition teams. The resulting FCC agency repealed the Fairness Doctrine, which required media to portray contrasting perspectives in news coverage of public issues. Jamison, who also teaches at the University of Florida, has staunchly opposed the FCC’s policies to improve internet access and options in low-income and rural areas.

Low income and rural, that’s me. I have to wonder how all those internet shitlords and proud deplorables are going to take this news, are they going to twist themselves into torturous positions in order to justify this one? Full story at Think Progress.

With Trump and his cronies, teachers in uStates have much more to worry about, especially as Trump is of the opinion that teachers are stupid.

President-elect Donald Trump once called teachers “stupid” and sharply criticized teachers unions. Members of his family have minimized sexual harassment and suggested that teaching kindergarten would be a good job for someone who does not “belong in the workforce.” Now he is preparing to take over the U.S. Department of Education, and many teachers are worried about the consequences for their jobs.

Throughout his campaign, Trump offered scant details on how he would try to steer federal education policy. But he has hinted that major cuts could be coming to the Department of Education, and he has a long track record of making dismissive or demeaning comments about teachers.

Trump said teachers had very little intelligence in a 1997 legal deposition.

“I assumed that the people essentially teaching the kids were not stupid. They turned out to be very stupid,” Trump said.

Full Story at Think Progress.

The news about Trump’s possible Supreme Court picks…not good. Not good at all, especially as they don’t have the slightest problem with voter suppression. We all see where that one is going, yeah?

About the infrastructure, it’s great news for Wall Street. Everyone else, not so much:

In fact, Trump’s team has already laid out exactly how it would invest in infrastructure, in a paper authored by advisers Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro. But if Democrats were to read the details, they would quickly see there is little worth endorsing.

In short, rather than have the government raise or borrow money at incredibly low interest rates and then grant the money to state and local governments to build or maintain infrastructure, Trump’s plan would give private investors tax credits for construction projects. Those private firms would then raise the rest of the money needed for those projects, recouping the costs in profits.

Such projects would address very few of the country’s most dire infrastructure needs, end up costing some Americans a lot more money, and generate little to no economic boost. However, the plan would be a major windfall for private companies looking to boost their bottom lines.

Oh yes, and the climate. Well, who gives a fuck about the climate? Trump lines up staff to avoid international action on climate change. Source.

How to keep track: 15 things that happened in the second week Trump was president-elect:

This is the second in a weekly series tracking the Trump transition and presidency. You can find the entire series here.

As a candidate, Trump was able to avoid accountability through volume. He said and did so many things, it was hard for any individual statement or action to have an impact. Many things were simply forgotten as new outrages took their place.

Because accountability requires awareness, this series is focused on creating a real-time record of what Trump and his administration says and does.

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