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BREAKING: House Democrats have preemptively introduced a resolution to stop the federal government from bailing out AI companies in the event of the industry collapsing. The bill says these companies should be subjected to the ordinary bankruptcy process.

"Putin Says Russia Coordinates With ‘Genius’ Musk on Satellites" FOLKS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The data center buildout could cause a massive increase in gas prices as companies scramble for limited supplies and infrastructure fails to meet demand.

In case you’re tempted, the upcoming IPOs for Anthropic and (likely) OpenAI are not investment opportunities, they’re cash out moves by the heads of those companies

Looks like Anthropic’s stock could price as low as $1.4 trillion. Not ideal to lose 30% of your expected valuation before your IPO. Maybe it’s because the company has $430 billion in non-cancellable contracts coming up just as your growth is slowing! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program has jeopardized seniors’ access to medical care by outsourcing decision-making to private AI companies without sufficient transparency, testing, or legal limits.

Hyperscalers are building data centers while leveraging billions in debt, assuming an insatiable demand for computing. @edzitron.com, CEO of EZ Primary Research, thinks the gamble is shortsighted.

Watching the riveting Gibney doc on Musk again, and it's staggering how many people have remained on Twitter after Musk bought it with the express purpose of dismantling democracy and silencing dissent. Trump will be gone and we'll still have Elon. We really are doomed if people don't wake up.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Entire Precinct Made Up Of Loose Cannons https://theonion.com/entire-precinct-made-up-of-loose-cannons-1819569414/

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

I'm for keeping our money here and not using it to buy bombs to drop on other people.

why does he need so much money. he's old as hell and you can't buy your way out of decay

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him

With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

NEW: A nonprofit tied to RFK Jr. solicited payments from companies in exchange for access to top HHS officials, according to Bloomberg. The top tier: $300,000 for a speaking slot and a private dinner with Kennedy and Dr. Oz.

Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

i have had multiple "oh you haven't heard about cumming in the fluffer?" conversations in the past few weeks which is not great for myself or for others

This is kinda fun. www.reuters.com/business/env...

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

how chill!

Warriors don't win modern wars. They haven't for quite some time.

For my newsletter, I wrote about how we shouldn't ignore that a billionaire trying to build data centers is putting a hundred million into Republican anti-trans ads in these midterms. www.burnsnotice.com/the-data-cen...

Police should not be able to bypass the Constitution with a search for "haha." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

‘The problem that they face is that they made a bet, the bet hasn’t worked, the open source guys are eating their lunch, they’ve just had a disastrous PR cycle with data centers and HuggingFace, and the markets don’t want to give them more money.’ www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The Iran War has now cost the average U.S. household around $1,760, according to an analysis from Moody’s.

Incredible headline here (among other things)

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵

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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.

Remember the Epstein Files? So far, only about half the files have been released — and a potential cover-up by the Trump regime continues to generate bipartisan political action. Here's what you should know. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files

They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road! We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite. Why is this product allowed on public roads?

Tesla's marketing of its not-really-self-driving systems to the elderly, disabled, and DUI-prone would be a major scandal if our society were one in which scandal were still possible

In a now-deleted webinar hosted for cops on Axon’s official Vimeo page, one asked if Axon would redesign their camera to not look like Flock's. “We are looking at [...] do we change the general shape,” Rick Smith, Axon’s CEO, replied. @josephcox.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.