Caro Claire Burke

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4,515 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Aug

Caro Claire Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Diabolical Lies · How "Abundance" Lost the Left · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

Thanks to more than a decade of industry lobbying, the FCC's map of broadband availability counted coverage at the level of census blocks, based entirely on provider self-reported data, allowing incumbents to keep subsidized competitors at arm's length. podcast-host

In early 2020, Congress finally intervened, enacting legislation to force the FCC to create a granular address-level map and implement a system for the public to challenge provider coverage claims. podcast-host

But Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sat on his hands for the remainder of his term, claiming that the FCC could not start work on the map until Congress appropriated funds explicitly for that purpose. podcast-host

The funds were appropriated in December, but Pai was by then looking ahead to a private sector career, first in private equity and later as the president of a major wireless provider trade association. podcast-host

By the time the infrastructure bill was being negotiated, the Biden FCC had just begun work on the new map and staff predicted that it would not be ready until probably next year. podcast-host

Nuance strikes again. podcast-host

This also just gets into like the weird incentives game of publishing. podcast-host

I'm not saying that Ezra Klein knew that it was quote unquote Republicans and decided to come up with a different answer. podcast-host

But like it is a fact that a book that was just saying that Republicans are slowing things down wouldn't have sold. podcast-host

Like that's a pretty tiny... podcast-host

Oh, yeah, yeah. podcast-host

I actually do think, like, as much as I am framing this as a criticism, I actually empathize with this quite a bit because I think you and I often, I'll just speak for myself, I think that we've been doing this podcast for two years now, and I can be sensitive to overly referencing the patriarchy and white podcast-host

capitalism in episodes now because we spent so much time at the beginning of the podcast thinking, podcast-host

talking about it. podcast-host

And it just feels, frankly, kind of tired to me. podcast-host

occasionally I will, like, read feedback and someone might say, like, I just wish they spent more time tying this back to white supremacy. podcast-host

And I'm like, I understand that impulse. podcast-host

And the flip of that is that when you spend too much time talking about that, you run the risk of, frankly, sounding like a broken record. podcast-host

And so I definitely feel that way. podcast-host

I mean, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have both way longer careers where they've been talking about shit for way longer. podcast-host

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