This American Adam
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Tech Policy at @amprog @CAPaction. Occasional runner and late help campaign field hack. Always and forever a New Mexican. Zia’s dad. Opinions my own.
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Joined March 2007
This is my hot take. There are many like it, but this hot take is mine. My hot take is my best friend. It is my life. My hot take, without me, is useless. Without my hot take, I am useless. My hot take is human, even as I, because my hot take is my life.
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JUST IN: Turning Point USA has acquired the naming rights to the Arizona Bowl beginning in 2026. The Tucson-based bowl game will be renamed the Charlie Kirk Bowl presented by Turning Point USA.
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It appears the House GOP is in cahoots with Democratic ad makers and media buyers to make them even richer off the ads they’re gonna be able to make this fall off this vote.
🚨IN THE HOUSE GOP HEALTH CARE PLAN - as @politico scooped earlier today health associations plans cost share reductions PBM reform - *only* price transparency self-insurance protection there will be a vote on an Obamacare extension amendment - GOP leaders expect this to fail
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This is getting amazing. Unlike my treatment of Gruters, which quoted him directly and included context, @townhallcom is plain lying about what I wrote. I didn't say Gruters was *expecting* certain defeat. I transcribed the words he said: "We are facing almost certain defeat."
“The Bulwark” ran with a story claiming that RNC Chair @JoeGruters was expecting “certain defeat” in the midterms for Republicans. The story is FAKE. Trump’s detractors have to lie to feel good about themselves. GRUTERS: “I like our chances…”
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If Poilievre loses his leadership review next month, he now has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in the history of Canadian politics
BREAKING: Conservative MP Michael Ma is crossing the floor to sit as a Liberal. Liberals are now just one seat short of a majority.
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One of the things w conservative staffers who go straight to DC from college is that they are never exposed to the type of "DC doesnt get to tell us what to do" person who has represented a town of 50k people in states like IN or NC for 18 years and owns like a tractor supply co.
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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"Actually none of the vegetables in VeggieTales are Christian" is still one of my favorite movie facts
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So it turns out the making of Ron Howard's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS was kind of insane.
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Scrolling the TL I thought this was a Fetterman/Biden interview
Alexander Skarsgård says his first acting gig came from “straight-up nepotism.” During his #ActorsOnActors conversation with his father, Stellan Skarsgård, the actor recalled landing a role at the age of seven after Swedish actor-director Allan Edwall stopped by their home:
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these people toiled for half a decade to rebuild a treasure of western civilization from ruin and ash only to have it be the 2nd biggest notre dame story of the day
This is a photo of all the workers who have spent more than five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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More people need to read OpenAI's AI Action plan submission - especially the footnotes - before commenting on the EO today
This EO will be remembered like the 1990s decision to take a federal approach to the internet, which unleashed explosive innovation, trillions in value, and US global dominance. Thank you @POTUS @DavidSacks @mkratsios47 @sriramk for clearing the path for US AI leadership. 🇺🇸 🚀
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NEW: We've issued our snowfall forecast for late Saturday night into early Sunday morning... This is subject to change... as we're on the edge of accumulating snow!!! Let's GO SNOW
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Sacks claimed child safety and data centers would be exempted/excluded in his previous tweet and it is hard to square this line with the actual text of the EO: "In summary, we’ve heard the concerns about the 4 C’s, and the 4 C’s are protected." https://t.co/iTlku5liGW
ONE RULEBOOK FOR AI I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of the concerns. First, this is not an “AI amnesty” or “AI moratorium.” It is an attempt to settle a question of jurisdiction. When an AI model is developed in state A, trained in state B,
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It bears repeating explicitly, it would have been trivial to direct DOJ/the AI Litigation Task Force/denying discretionary grants to exclude state AI laws on child safety or data centers from any action they take and they explicitly did not do so.
It does look like the “legislative proposal” that Sacks and Kratsios have been tasked with creating is supposed to exempt child safety laws. But that isn’t the part of the EO that anyone’s concerned about. A legislative proposal is just a proposal. It doesn’t do anything—it’s
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Real Hill experts know the thing to watch for is if Mike Johnson signs on to support a motion to vacate himself.
MS NOW: Marjorie Taylor Greene is weighing whether to oust Mike Johnson as Speaker via a motion to vacate “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been gauging whether there's enough support among her GOP colleagues to remove Rep. Mike Johnson from the speakership.”
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A note to all the law firms, media companies and universities who caved to Trump and those that cower: a bunch of Indiana Republicans just ignored pipe bomb threats to do the right thing. History will remember your cowardice just as it will remember others' courage during this
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Repeating “he is not a lame duck” is such sloppy communications work from the Speaker. Never, ever repeat the attack line!
Asked Speaker Johnson if Indiana GOP’s rejection of Trump’s gerrymander shows POTUS grip is weakening. “He is not a lame-duck. He’s the most powerful person of this generation,” he told me. “He did not put a major pressure campaign,” despite all of Trump’s threats of primaries
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I will repeat: the Indiana GOP holds 40 out of a total 50 seats in the state senate. 21 senators - a majority not of the Senate, but the GOP CAUCUS - voted against redistricting. Good luck.
The State Senators who opposed redistricting betrayed our nation, our voters, and our party. They must all be kicked out of office.
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An amazing article came out yesterday. Seven German journalism students, as a continuation of their OSINT course project, tracked the movements of ships with Russian crews off the coasts of the Netherlands and Germany and linked them to swarms of drones appearing over European
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