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OpelYourMind retweeted
Sheldon Whitehouse holds roughly $1.7 million in Nvidia.
He is the sponsor of a bill that makes it easier for hyperscalers to build data centers and procure natural gas to power them.
@ossoff is this the anti-corruption you ran on?
NO on #BAAJA
I’m sure it’s a coincidence that Howard Lutnick’s sons have $362 million in Nvidia washingtonexaminer.com/opini…
OpelYourMind retweeted
Hi politicians.
We understand. You have political promises and deals with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
And, respectfully, We the People do not give a single fuck about a single one of those political deals.
We will make your political careers HELL. Especially those of you who were elevated by the People in the first place.
OpelYourMind retweeted
See the word “permit” in the screenshot below?
If #BAAJA passes, agencies revising or revoking a permit based on new scientific information about emissions, just like this new information, would become illegal.
OpelYourMind retweeted
It’s so revealing that literally not one person has a positive case to make for reelecting Schumer and Jeffries. It’s just all inevitability and presumption and no attempt to actually make a positive argument about what they will do or about their skills. What a tell.
OpelYourMind retweeted
AIPAC is running attack ads against @VanHollenForMD @ChrisVanHollen even though he's not running for anything. It's because they want their agent @chuckschumer installed as Senate Majority Leader. That in and of itself disqualifies Schumer. Let him run for the Knesset.
OpelYourMind retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed is a bad ass.
Fox “News” lost 27% of their viewership.
Questions?
WOW! ABDUL EL-SAYED TOLD JESSE WATTERS TO BE SERIOUS ON LIVE TV:
He said it straight to his face — let's get serious, cut the culture wars, and talk about the real facts people want to talk about. 'You don't want to talk about gas prices.
You don't want to talk about groceries. You want to bring up all this culture war.' Look at Jesse Watters' face — priceless. He wanted a gotcha moment so bad.
Why This Matters: this is what the new generation looks like — Democrats who walk onto Fox News, take the culture-war bait, and throw it right back with the issues people actually live with: gas, groceries, healthcare.
EVERYBODY KNOWS IT
OpelYourMind retweeted
I am endorsing Chris Van Hollen to be the next Senate Majority Leader. Here’s why.
OpelYourMind retweeted
On Monday, I'm talking with two of the authors of this paper, which argues that AI is enabling more carbon emissions than it is avoiding. They were at Microsoft but left when they realized this was true.
Got questions about how AI impacts global emissions?
nature.com/articles/s44168-0…
OpelYourMind retweeted
Congress Shouldn't Weaken Endangered Species Act for Faster Permitting. For >50 years, the ESA has been a bipartisan commitment to preventing extinction. Senators should not trade that for new bureaucratic hurdles & fewer protections for threatened wildlife. us.list-manage.com/F90PwQkrL…
OpelYourMind retweeted
For Zeteo, I debunked the whole 'moderates overperformed/progressives underperformed' midterms BS schtick from centrist pundits like Yglesias, Chait, Tanden, et al. With receipts.
8 things they don't tell you about the races and the results:
OpelYourMind retweeted
Chuck Schumer was one of the 23 Democrats who voted to confirm Sean Duffy.
Chris Van Hollen was one of the 21 Democrats who opposed him.
OpelYourMind retweeted
YOUNG PEOPLE JUST CONFRONTED HAKEEM JEFFRIES, DEMANDING A NEW GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP.
OpelYourMind retweeted
Sen. Chris Van Hollen: This was not a Washington, D.C. orchestrated victory, this was a huge movement across the country... This was because of the will of the American people not, with respect, to the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee).
OpelYourMind retweeted
Ralph Nader in a letter to Hakeem Jeffries: "You should resign as Minority Leader and abandon your House Speakership ambition to honor the will of the midterm voters and their impressive vote of confidence in progressive candidates and fundamental changes for the people."
OpelYourMind retweeted
The betrayal of BAAJA can't be overstated. Dems just won their biggest majorities in 50 years by running against AI data centers + billionaires. A week later, Dems’ Senate leadership team joined Trump and the GOP to pass a giveaway to those billionaires. newrepublic.com/article/2178…
OpelYourMind retweeted
WHAT THE CHOICE BETWEEN CHUCK SCHUMER AND CHRIS VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE LEADER IS ALL ABOUT
The election for Democratic Senate Leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what it is. This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic Party. It is a debate about whether the Democratic Party remains a top-down party dominated by billionaire campaign contributors, inside-the-beltway consultants and 30-second TV ads, or whether we can transform it into a grassroots party of, by and for the working families of our country.
The election for Democratic Senate Leader will determine whether or not we continue to tinker around the edges and maintain status quo policies, or whether we finally have the courage to take on enormously powerful special interests and address the unprecedented crises that we face. For example:
Do we address the issue of oligarchy, obscene income and wealth inequality, and the reality that never before in the history of our country have so few people held so much wealth and so much power?
Do we address the issue of a corrupt campaign finance system and their super PACs, which enables billionaires to buy elections and undermine our democracy?
Do we address the issue that, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country and millions of seniors are unable to retire with dignity?
Do we address the reality that our current healthcare system is dysfunctional, wildly expensive and that we are the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee healthcare for all as a human right?
Do we address the reality that Artificial Intelligence, the most transformative technology in history, is being pushed down our throats by a handful of Big Tech billionaires who could care less about the well-being of ordinary Americans?
Do we address the reality that climate change is causing deadly heat waves, massive forest fires, drought and extreme weather disturbances and will only get worse if don’t transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energy?
Do we address the reality that our immigration system is broken and that we have, with ICE, a domestic army that has killed Americans in cold blood and has acted in cruel, illegal and unconstitutional ways?
Do we address the reality that the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and the current war in Iran were based on lies and that we need to fundamentally rethink our foreign policy including continued military funding to the extremist government in Israel?
Bottom line: Whether we like it or not our country faces some extraordinary and unprecedented crises. Do we seriously address these difficult challenges, and restore the faith of the American people that their government can improve their lives, or do we continue the same old, same old politics.
In large measure, that is what this Senate Democratic Leadership election is all about.
OpelYourMind retweeted
"The combined rule of Jeffries, Schumer, and Trump is a disaster for democracy. The US cannot have a NYC trifecta — two of whom used to celebrate Roy Cohn’s birthday at Studio 54 (Trump and Schumer) and all of whom are drenched in AIPAC and Big Tech money — and expect its sovereignty to survive."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
OpelYourMind retweeted
If you’re confused about why Outlook, your payroll app, every airport in America, and Amtrak all broke within 30 hours of each other...
You have to go back to October, when hackers broke into the refrigeration controls at hundreds of French supermarkets and cranked the freezers past 122 degrees overnight, spoiling food and even starting fires, and then on November 2nd it happened AGAIN at stores in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Luxembourg and beyond, and France has since formally pinned the attacks on Iran, and then yesterday, out of nowhere, Microsoft Outlook went dark, with more than 130,000 outage reports and Teams and Copilot disrupted across 74 countries, and it took the better part of a day to mostly fix, and Microsoft says it was their own mistake from a network change during a capacity upgrade, not hackers, and then this afternoon Workday, the HR software millions of workers use to check their pay, went down too, reportedly hitting employees at companies like Walmart and Target, and Workday says it found an issue while testing its backup systems, and then the FAA grounded the entire country, and right after that Amtrak’s website and app started crashing as stranded travelers tried to book trains instead, which Amtrak blamed on the surge in demand, just THREE days ago the FAA expanded a new AI air traffic management system to every air traffic center in the country, and the FAA insists that has nothing to do with this, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there’s no sign of anything nefarious, calling it “just a telecommunication outage,” and says it isn’t connected to Microsoft either, and maybe every one of these really is a coincidence, but it’s hard to blame Americans for being skeptical when the same officials who tell us our critical systems are secure still can’t say what broke or when it’ll be fixed, so basically you have hacked freezers in Europe, a global email blackout, a payroll system in maintenance mode, a crashing train website, and a grounded nation... and no one seems to know what on earth is going on.
