Chief Strategist for @RoKhanna
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Cooper Teboe retweeted
I know the shill crowd was getting paid to say data centers didn’t matter but it didn’t make it any less audacious or ridiculous
Data center opposition comes up on CBS, and @tonydokoupil notes that these results represent voters pushing back on "corporate power"
Cooper Teboe retweeted
Remember when all the Big Tech, Wall Street, Big Law, media, and universities bent the knee to Trump? That was less than two years ago.
Excellent work @ThirdWayTweet
Big balls
SCOOP: Rep. Ro Khanna, in the final stretch of the 2026 midterms, is endorsing against his House colleagues in three of California's Dem vs. Dem runoffs.
He tells @axios he's backing:
Eric Jones in #CA04
Mai Vang in #CA07
Angela Gonzales-Torres in #CA34
axios.com/2026/10/30/ro-khan…
Imagine:
All the money in the world.
Most innovative people on the planet on your side.
Unlimited data and infrastructure.
And still so, so bad at this.
It would be sad if it weren’t so funny
NEW —
The super PAC for DATA CENTERS has arrived.
Meet Building the Future. The group is spending millions for Darline Graham in the homestretch, a preview of fights to come in 2028.
With @ELaserDavies:
nytimes.com/2026/10/26/us/po…
Any company that spent the last two years cozying up to the Trump Admin is in for a very rough and repentant 2027 and beyond: washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Cooper Teboe retweeted
Amy Acton was raped by her stepfather when she was 12.
As a former prosecutor of child sexual abuse, I saw this pattern too frequently: a child victim discloses the abuse by a stepdad or mom’s boyfriend, and mom takes the abuser’s side because she can’t bear to think that she had exposed her own child to a monster.
Mom is protecting mom—not the child.
Every DA will tell you the same—it’s a painful pattern. It’s the most infuriating thing to hear a mother accuse a child of lying despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I’ve had jury members plead with me after trial to arrest the mother for aiding and abetting.
Vivek Ramaswamy has embraced the Trumpian role of taking the side of the predator—and despicably rolled out Amy’s estranged mother to denounce Amy.
The brother of @amyactonoh confirms Amy’s account. The child protection authorities did the same—and took custody of both of them away from Acton’s mother.
This is disgusting politics. Vivek, you may not be better than this, but the American people are.
It is impressive to be this clueless about where our politics are and where they are going with all of the information readily at our fingertips. Blissful ignorance of the growing rage amongst Americans.
Michael Moynihan says Ro Khanna has sacrificed his principles by overly focusing on Israel:
He has twisted himself into pretzels trying to find that progressive issue...and now it is the Israel thing.
Kmele Foster: Do you think he's hurt himself?
Moynihan: Absolutely he's hurt himself. This is the trade-off, right? You make a national profile for yourself. What you sacrifice is your principles and you get an audience, but that's a national audience that is unbelievably thin when you're running for office.
It's like, oh yeah, I can get a million views on this video and let's pretend everyone liked that video. That is meaningless in politics.
Dumb. The more these companies spend, the better those they spend against will do.
Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI dlvr.it/TVX4Fs
Political genius savant Garry Tan weighs in on what Americans really need from AI and regulation.
Pretty safe bet to do the opposite.
.@garrytan says the Jacob Coxon stuff is a smokescreen distracting us from the much more immediate, practical concerns around AI that we're facing right now:
"We should be talking less about this Jacob Coxon guy, and talking a lot more about — what is actually happening with Hugging Face? Are agent swarms going to take over infrastructure en masse? And then, what are we actually doing about that?"
"I don't want to hear about some guy who worked for Anthropic for 2 months. There's a coordinated effort to try to influence politicians to get a knee-jerk response out of them."
"That's a smokescreen. You shouldn't be paying attention to that. We need to be paying attention to the actual things we can do to, for example, prevent agents swarms from taking over entire data centers. What's our shutdown strategy? How do we ensure provenance? Where is this agent actually located? What software can we build? What cybersecurity defenses can we build today?"
"That's the level of discourse I think we need, and we just don't have that."
"I don't really care about science fiction. I saw Terminator 2, too. We're not here to talk about that. We need to actually talk about what's really happening with the servers, what's actually happening with the agent swarms, and how do we actually prevent that?"
"When it comes to regulation, it's like, let's pass regulation of these things we actually care about, instead of what a socialist says in the New York Times. I don't care about that."
Cooper Teboe retweeted
Wow. Are you telling me that pumping millions into the Trump political machine, trying to pass a ban on state AI laws, using NDAs to do cloak-and-dagger data center deals, and spending $100M+ on super PACs back fired?
🚨🚨 Forget energy. Forget chips. Forget China. The most clear and present danger to AI and any AI-related economic boom is rapidly rising public opposition to U.S. data centers. AI CEOs + GOP = spooked bigtime axios.com/2026/08/19/data-ce…
Interesting.
Trump's ex-campaign manager is running an Israeli influence operation targeting the MAGA base time.com/article/2026/07/13/…
.@RepJoshG deleted and reposted this because he got a community note showing his statement was false, as reported by Israeli media.
Let’s be honest, this was a publicity stunt. Channels exist to protect elected officials, and Khanna intentionally entered a restricted, unstable area without coordinating to provoke a response.
What’s appalling is that Ro ignored requests to meet 10/7 survivors and hostages, or to visit sites of the 10/7 terrorist attacks. Instead, riding the anti-Zionist wave, he used the trip as a presidential campaign cameo.
nypost.com/2026/07/11/world-…
These political rubes have willfully forgotten they just tried to primary Ro and their guy managed an impressive 6.5% of the vote with over $1m spent on his behalf.
They stroke eachother off on X all day because they know that’s where their political influence begins and ends.
Cooper Teboe retweeted
This is just intellectual nonsense @friedberg and wouldn't get a passing grade at a place like University Chicago in a freshman seminar. You know that.
I can't believe you are defending without a shred of introspection the unfair and lopsided economy where nearly 80 percent of Americans believe the American dream is dead, but 19 billionaires are worth as much as 12 percent of our GDP (three times the concentration of the gilded age). It's a comparison, and I get the difference between stock and flow.
Do you not believe that there must be some democratic check on "blind economic forces" and "blindly selfish men" seeking to hoard this nation's wealth and power. There must be some check to rampant speculation, monopolization, and war profiteering where the capital class builds fortunes in its sleep, but nurses, teachers, doctors, firefighters, carpenters, HVAC technicians who work long days can't afford to even buy a house.
I am for a free enterprise system that works for hard working men and women in every part of America, not just the connected and privileged.
I am for a patriotic capitalism, instead of an extractive capitalism.
I celebrate entrepreneurs and those that build businesses. I am absolutely not for taking away their property or having the government control their business.
A private sector is necessary to be a free society so that government does not control every aspect of our life.
But men should not be allowed to buy politicians with their wealth and skew the laws in their favor.
They should not be allowed to evade justice as we saw with the Epstein class.
They should pay a fair tax before they die, like ordinary Americans do, so that every American can have the basic necessities of healthcare and education.
There are many business leaders who still believe in the social contract and recognize their obligations to their employees, to the community, to their customers, and to our nation. I call them economic patriots.
The problem is with arrogance of those billionaires who believe they are better than us, that they are entitled to rule, that somehow they are better allocators of capital than the American people. Really? The American people who defeated Nazism and communism, funded the Moon landing and creation of the internet, and who have built the greatest economic engine the world has seen.
I want an America where every has the chance to build wealth, where the political opinion of a billionaire does not matter more than that of a nurse, and where the success of our business leaders leads to the success of all Americans.
When young people start cheering prominent business leaders, you will know we are headed in that direction. Right now they are being booed, not by politicians, but by an entire generation that feels forsaken.
.@friedberg explains what the Politburo is:
“The Politburo is the leaders who elect themselves to dictate the flow of the economy, the allocation of capital, what work individuals are allowed to do, and what activities they’re allowed to do in an unfree society, which is what they’re creating.
They are the true oligarchs.
And this is Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna.
This is the group that is trying to coalesce power and create for themselves a system whereby they have greater influence, greater control over aspects of the economy.
They want to seize the means of production.
They want to control education.
They want to control media.
And anytime there’s an effort by an individual enterprise, or an individual themselves, to go out and build a business and succeed and do something that’s outside of their scope and their span of control, they lose their minds over it.
And that’s what we’re seeing.
So I react to their tweeting and their bullshit, where they’re basically trying to contort things about inequality and fairness and justice, when the truth is they are the rising empire, the evil empire in Star Wars.
They are the folks who want to take from all of us what we were endowed with when this nation was started, and what many people came to this country for, which is individual freedom and liberty, the ability to build a business in peace, the ability to make decisions, to do what you want with your own assets, and to have functionally private property.
And they’re taking it all away.
And they’re trying to take it all away.
And we’re watching, piece by piece, step by step.
So they are forming a politburo where they can effectively control the economy, control education, control the media, and tell us all what we can and can’t do and say.
And it’s frustrating to me to watch it because it’s masqueraded as bullshit virtue, as justice, as equity.
It’s a bunch of nonsense words that they use to try and make themselves seem virtuous when, at the end of the day, they are fundamentally evil.”
Few in SV have yet recognized the coming backlash. Ppl are scared. They see social media hurting their kids; data centers ruining their communities; AI taking their jobs; wealth hoarded as they can barely afford food and gas.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly