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Big Tech's AI Utopia Is a Lie. Republicans Are Helping Them Take Your Job.
Tech billionaires are telling us that AI will cure cancer, solve world hunger and bring an age of abundance where none of us has to work.
MAGA is Ruining America
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Elon Musk Is Buying Our Elections. He's Already Started on the Midterms.
In 2024 Elon Musk spent an estimated $288 million to buy himself a president and a Republican Congress.
Interior Gave Its State Land Directors Three Days to Find Public Land for Data Centers. The Agency That Would Have to Review Them Has Lost Nearly Half Its Staff.
The Bureau of Land Management asked its state directors to identify public land 'ripe for data center development' and gave them three days. It has shed nearly half its workforce under Trump, one state reported 50% vacancies in the offices that would do the reviews, and the administration is proposing further cuts while telling the bureau to refocus on AI.
On September 18 a New Trump Rule Starts Counting Medicaid, CHIP and Food Stamps Against Green Card Applications. The Government's Own Analysis Says the Savings Come From Mixed-Status Households Dropping Off.
A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
Ken Paxton Released an AI Video of James Talarico Giving a Speech He Never Gave. Paxton Appears at the End to Say He Approved the Message.
The ad, titled 'King James,' uses an AI-generated Talarico to deliver a monologue rewriting the Bible. It stitches together fragments of his real remarks, strips their context, changes some of his words, and scripts them into a speech that does not exist. Paxton's campaign did not answer when The Advocate asked why it manufactured footage instead of using real video.
Zach Lahn Picked a Running Mate Whose Farm Is Now in Receivership. A Sheriff Has an Open Investigation, and a Co-Op's Lawyer Called His Payments 'Acts of Fraud.'
Lahn named Derek Wulf his lieutenant governor pick on June 12. A Des Moines Register investigation found eight people or businesses have sued Wulf or his company since 2023, a judge has placed his farm in receivership, and the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office has an active investigation.
Lisa Demuth Says Kids From Six-Figure Families 'Do Not Need Free Meals.' Her Plan Opts Minnesota Into a Voucher Credit Her Own Education Department Says Helps the Wealthy.
Demuth released her education plan on September 10. It would means-test Minnesota's universal school meals, opt the state into the $1,700 scholarship tax credit from Trump's budget bill, let districts opt out of paid family leave, and remove 'woke' standards she could not name.
Dan Sullivan Chairs One Fisheries Subcommittee and Skipped Half the Hearings of the Other One He Sits On. Alaska's Seafood Industry Is Worth $5.2 Billion.
Sullivan missed four of the eight hearings held by the Senate's Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife Subcommittee since 2021, including the only one held this year. GovTrack has him missing 169 of 4,339 Senate votes, worse than the median senator.
Rob Bresnahan Tells Voters That 'to Big Data, We're Just Land and Dollar Signs.' He Holds Up to $2 Million in the Companies That Build Big Data.
Bresnahan's new Scranton-area ad casts him as the man standing between Northeastern Pennsylvania and the data center industry. His August disclosure lists between roughly $804,024 and $2.04 million in the chipmakers and equipment suppliers that industry runs on — and last year he called data centers 'catalysts for economic growth.'