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Sen. Blumenthal asks if Pai's FCC could prep a public-interest report on the AT&T merger for Congress even if it won't review the deal. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Markey's tie is pretty fabulous today https://t.co/LkHC4dFV7l — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @JohnHendel: "I’ve certainly not made comments like that," Chairman Pai finally says of Bannon's comments about the media keeping its mo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zackwhittaker: Samsung spox. confirms it's looking into report that CIA hacked into its smart TVs. More here: https://t.co/x4M8S4r8rr h… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amir_anasr: .@CoryBooker wrote to Pai to argue how important inmate calling affordability is for people both in and out of jail https:/… — PolitiTweet.org

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(Not that he's likely to answer.) — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Pai: The wireless market is a highly competitive marketplace. So: What does he think about those Sprint/T-Mo merger rumors? — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Pai: The FCC won't have legal authority to review the AT&T merger. Commits to getting staff to examine that authority closer. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Smartphones are only an extravagance if you're wealthy enough to be able to view them as a form of entertainment and fun. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wrote about the luxury of @jasoninthehouse telling poor people their iPhones are a luxury: https://t.co/E4vq7MRusH https://t.co/5OR469sjvj — PolitiTweet.org

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"An all hands on deck thing": A former Obama adviser talks about the future of jobs, automation and cyberwarfare: https://t.co/NpXARh1Kgq — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

This is super confusing, but the underlying strategic discussion is really important: https://t.co/NyDSheFZEH — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Get real sick 2. Miss work 3. Lose "continuous" coverage 4. Watch your premiums go up 30% 5. Repeat https://t.co/1ZzJO1WgOS — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Leaked CIA guidance for traveling agents: "Buy something in Duty Free, because you're awesome and you deserve it!"… https://t.co/SlJWgTHgKJ — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@ttoboyle Heh, no worries — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@jesseberney touché — PolitiTweet.org

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Buying individual stocks to get rich is a fool's errand. Buy and hold low-cost index funds instead. https://t.co/BZSznUtqKZ — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@johndburger I've got a couple other things on my plate to take care of this morning, but thinking about doing something along these lines. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@swin24 "a blogger i guess" — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

In America, it isn't enough for poor people to be poor. The poor must conform to a wealthy person's idea of what it means to be poor. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@AthertonKD This is what happens when "low-income" becomes an abstraction. Actual poor have to fit the mental image wealthy people project — PolitiTweet.org

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Or do homework, research and all that other pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps stuff society loves to judge poor pe… https://t.co/9vC7bQkZLs — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Cellphones aren't at the tippy top of Maslow's hierarchy. It's much closer to the bottom than many people think. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

He sees phones as a luxury item for entertainment, not a tool for meeting physiological/social needs in a digital world. Which says a lot. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

At the margins, you could buy a *cheaper* phone. But Chaffetz's home budget seems to pose a binary *between* cellphone and healthcare. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

That he's hinting it's not really a choice — that people should choose healthcare over iPhones — is just a mandate pretending not to be. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Chaffetz frames this as a "choice," but the normative language he uses shows how it's still an implicit govt mandate https://t.co/6n0tcK10uk — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Huh, so weird that these social media hours map onto those of a senior admin official https://t.co/Fngp1riG6j — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @washpostbiz: Why a weird legal dispute about whether the Snuggie is a blanket actually matters a lot https://t.co/lPqOSzM1kD — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Here's the text of the new executive order on foreign entry: https://t.co/lLViXBJWW5 — PolitiTweet.org