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November 04, 2026 | Watchdog Weekly
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It’s A New, Blue World
Last night was unequivocal: voters are done with this era of corruption, incompetence, and cruelty.
November 04, 2026
How BAAJA Would Benefit AI Data Centers, According to the AI Industry And Its Friends
On November 3, voters made it abundantly clear that they reject the inevitability of the tech industry’s rush to build out AI data centers. Dozens of Democratic candidates ran successful campaigns talking about AI and accountability for Big Tech, and dozens of AI data center moratoria were passed around the country.
In the brief lame duck session before this next generation of political leaders takes office, the quartet of Senators behind the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) seem eager to fulfill Abundance Twitter’s dreams.
October 28, 2026
Elites Influencing Democrats on AI Policy: Jay Carney
Former Obama press secretary and Amazon executive Jay Carney leads Project Blueprint, an initiative to influence AI policy. Project Blueprint is backed by SV Angel, a venture capital firm invested in dozens of AI companies.
October 27, 2026
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Personal Information at Risk
The United States federal government knows a lot about you. If you’ve ever applied for federal student aid, the Department of Education has records of your income and assets. The Social Security Administration begins collecting information from the moment your parents apply for your Social Security number at birth, adds new data every time Social Security taxes are deducted from your paychecks, and continues to monitor you until the day you die.
October 21, 2026
Democrats Shouldn’t Let Jay Carney Bring Back The Obama-Era Tech Friendship
Obama administration alum Jay Carney is tapped to mend Silicon Valley’s relationship with Team Blue as Dems seem poised to win big in the midterms, and possibly start to hold Big Tech accountable.
September 25, 2026 | Dissent Magazine
Death by Data Centers
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed AI data centers.
September 18, 2026 | Common Dreams
What OpenAI Having Chuck Schumer’s Daughter as a Lobbyist Tells Us
The hiring of Jessica Schumer is another example of powerful people and families, regardless of party, who are deeply intertwined with the corporate behemoths that people are organizing against.
September 18, 2026 | The American Prospect
What Congress Actually Needs to Do About AI: Staff Up
A revival of Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment is needed now more than ever to ensure independent expertise shapes Capitol Hill’s legislative approach towards “frontier” artificial intelligence firms.
September 16, 2026
Tracking the Revolving Door Between AI and Former Biden Officials
The Revolving Door Project is tracking AI companies that have hired senior level Democrats who staffed the Biden administration – figures who are likely to be in positions of power for a future Democratic administration. Thus far, we’ve tracked over 100 former Biden admin senior staff from the White House and other executive branch agencies who have gone on to AI industry companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Amazon.
September 10, 2026 | The Lever
The Big Tech Alums Building Trump’s AI War Machine
As lawmakers demand new AI protections, a Pentagon office staffed by Big Tech alums is dismantling safeguards and accelerating AI warfare as their former employers land lucrative military contracts.
September 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Sergey Brin
After years away, Google co-founder Sergey Brin returned to his company to oversee Google’s entry into the multi-trillion dollar AI arms race.
September 09, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Lisa Su
AMD CEO Lisa Su has influenced U.S. AI policy from within the administration while her company continues to grow from the current AI boom.
September 08, 2026
RDP: Schumer's Daughter Imperils Potential Landslide
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s daughter has a new job at OpenAI. It’s threatening to ruing Dems’ anti-corruption message
August 31, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Sriram Krishnan
Sriram Krishnan, former Big Tech executive turned White House AI Policy Advisor, has helped shape Trump’s AI policy at home and abroad.
August 31, 2026
AI Villains and the Trump Administration: Molly Solsbury
Molly Solsbury plays a crucial role in the Trump administrations military AI policy as the Maven Smart System Program Director for the DOD.