The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/
Senate Republicans hold hearing on Biden's mental fitness as Democrats boycott (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/biden-age-senate-investigation-fitness-republicans-a39d86a556f0ffd862ae47e35dc5fb74
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p111#a250618p111
The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Revival Season:
🎵 Slick Rick
#RevivalSeason
https://revivalseason.bandcamp.com/track/slick-rick
https://open.spotify.com/track/14vClwHDUWnbZr7fSGwkXh
Senate Finance cuts doctor pay raises from Trump tax bill | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/17/senate-finance-trump-tax-bill-republicans-remove-medicare-pay-raises-for-doctors/?utm_campaign=rss
As a former Pebble user (and a big fan of the whole concept) I'm looking at this with interest. At the same time though, this very project killed my interest in any hardware project funded on Kickstarter, so I have trust issues.
https://store.repebble.com/countdown
Senate Republicans Propose More Aggressive Medicaid Cuts to Help Pay for Tax Bill (Rachel Cohrs Zhang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/senate-republicans-to-omit-medicare-advantage-cuts-in-tax-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p125#a250616p125
Republicans have a plan to add trillions of dollars to the national debt
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/05/13/republicans-have-a-plan-to-add-trillions-of-dollars-to-the-national-debt…
Senate overhauls Trump's tax bill, setting up brawl with the House (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/16/trump-tax-bill-senate-republicans-child-tax-credit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p57#a250617p57
Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869