The fact that @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP members knowingly and deliberately voted through a bill that will increase energy costs on American families by 25-30%, kill over 700k US manufacturing and construction jobs and likely lead to brownouts and blackouts will haunt them evermore

If we do this right:

So many more Americans will get healthcare.

So much more clean energy will be built.

So many schools are going to have more teachers and books and computers.

So many families will have a bit more to spend on food and housing.

This is why we do the work.

Oh, sweetie — what an incredible waste of your time. Kansas is red and it will stay red tomorrow. Sleep well.🫶🏻💋

Congrats to the new WNBA champs, the @valkyries! Ballhalla was rocking all season, and this team was fun to watch. Enjoy the celebration.

I’m running a ceaseless team of 38 trillion+ SI agents to support my biological health for me around the clock, they’re in my gut bacteria, they’re in my earwax, they’re cleaning out my eyelashes, supporting hair growth, and driving organic matter through my microbiome.

The real test of how captured Open AI is will be whether they change their name to Open SI or just Open, or rebrand entirely now that dTrump has said that anyone using “AI” as the name of artificial intelligence is the enemy. @sama @OpenAI

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.

As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: ftc.gov/news-events/ne…).

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.

4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

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5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

This story was shared with me: a registered Republican from Monroe County wanted to attend my town hall, but couldn't come because he was in the hospital fighting stage four lung cancer -- never smoked a day in his life.

Cancer is a crisis in Iowa. As governor, I'll work to get to the root of it. ottumwacourier.com/news/local_new…

Q: President Trump called you Talafreako. He's called you weird. Paxton has called you too radical for Texas.

Talarico: A lot of people voted for President Trump because they thought he was gonna lower prices, end forever wars, release the Epstein files, drain the swamp. A year are up, there's a new forever in Iran, the Epstein files have not fully been released, and the swamp is bigger than ever before.
These nicknames don't lower the price of groceries, gas, utilities or healthcare, or improve our lives. I'm not gonna engage in the silly nicknames back and forth. I'm gonna focus on the people of Texas.

Ten years of one party control is a problem. And if you think the solution is ten years of control by the other party, look at California or New York. They have problems, too.

It's time to rotate the crops in Iowa, and we should do it with balanced government and a focus on public service.

Quick update here—since Republicans passed this bill, it has already driven household electricity prices up by over 10%!

It’s truly sick how frightened Republicans like dtrump & JDVance are about Americans voting during the midterms. They’re so afraid of Americans voting in open & fair elections because they’ve delivered on none of their campaign promises & they’re failing. cnn.com/2026/09/03/pol…

Agree the debt is a bipartisan failure.

But… it is also clear that Trump and his GOP boot lickers in Congress are the most fiscally irresponsible combo in American history. Almost 1/3rd of our nation’s debt over 250 years has come during Trump’s 5.5 years.

Corruption that puts lives and communities at risk… to help a billionaire Trump appointee at @USDA - is @SecRollins asleep or on the take?

Precisely why we need people like @VoteBobBrooks and @SamForstag in Congress - they’ve fought to protect their communities as firefighters and will hold these corrupt politicians (in either party) accountable.

No human alive has seen an El Niño event this strong. In fact, it’s possible that no human in history has seen an event this strong.

Forecasts continue to project a 3.5-4.0°C ‘Super El Nino’.

Temperatures in the east Pacific are now widely 5°C above average, peaking at 6°C.

The fiscal conservatives in the Republican Party are either dead or irrelevant and DOGE was an embarrassment with zero results.

Will Democrats regain the public trust and focus on fiscal responsibility? It’s an economic and national security imperative.

hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final

((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)

Heat domes are deadly. Europe is the most rapidly warming place on Earth due to a vicious feedback loop: warmer temps melt snow & ice, exposing darker surfaces underneath, which in turn absorb more of the sun’s energy, amplifying warming. #climatecrisis cnn.com/2026/06/23/cli…

The private credit bubble is leaking air…if it pops the repercussions will reverberate much wider…when credit freezes up it’s Americans with less than one month’s paycheck in their savings accounts that suffer most. #recession #credit #privatecredit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

BREAKING: According to the Reynolds Administration figures, 78% of Iowa’s private school students would have been there even without vouchers this year. So the cost to taxpayers for each kid in private school BECAUSE of vouchers? Over $37k. bit.ly/4vOB1SG

Yesterday's @USDOL report showed inflation in May hit its highest level since 2023, reaching 4.2%, up from 3.8% in April. @federalreserve aims to keep inflation at 2%. Energy costs are the biggest driver, fuel oil up 59%, gas up 41%. Airfare up 27%. Bad policy @realDonaldTrump