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In "One, Big Beautiful Bill" news, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders and other Republican governors are calling on Senate Republicans to remove language placing a 10-year moratorium preventing states from regulating AI.

A federal proposal that would ban states from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law as part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/c...

Big Beautiful Bill AI moratorium unites unlikely group of critics https://www.europesays.com/us/20834/ As Senate Republicans rush to pass their hodgepodge tax and spending package — the Big Beautiful Bill —…#us #news #usnews

states spent YEARS making plans to spend BILLIONS in infrastructure bill broadband grant money now they lose all of it if they attempt ANY oversight of big tech companies and their energy-sucking AI efforts both options suck and will harm millions enjoy rule under corrupt right wing zealots

NEW: The mother who sued Character.AI and Google for negligence over the death of her 14-year-old son — who died by suicide following extensive interactions with unregulated chatbots — has written an open letter against the proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation. futurism.com/mother-teen-...

Utah’s top politicians — from legislative leaders to the governor — are pushing back against a provision in the "Big Beautiful Bill" that would prevent states from regulating AI.

This thing has $9,995,000,000 for a Mars mission. I can't imagine which South African asshole that might benefit.

At midnight on Saturday, because they’re so proud of it and want all of us to know what good work they’re going to do for the American people

The bill is bad for America

FULL TEXT: Senate Republicans just released their 940-page reconciliation bill. www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

12:04 a.m. on a Saturday

"This should be obvious, but let’s be clear: Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Justice has the authority to hire or fire university presidents. But if you claim a power and everyone acts like you really have power, you totally have that power."

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

Exclusive: The Senate GOP reconciliation bill includes what clearly has to be a lobbyist giveaway to a specific renewable energy project that’ll let it avoid changes to the Inflation Reduction Act… BUT ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHAT PROJECT IT IS AND I’M GOING MAD TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT 😤😰‼️

A second Reconstruction, but this time the way Thad Stevens and Charles Sumner would have had the first one go

Birthright ctizienship is good and essential and we're going to need a second Reconstruction to undo the combined damage of the Roberts Court and the second Trump administration.

this is bad in a variety of ways that have nothing to do with porn and everything to do with expanding invasive surveillance of every single Internet user including all adults www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

"theocracy" his mother isn't even muslim the guy is literally from a more multifaith background than like 90% of Americans what are we even doing here anymore

Enabling Act by a thousand cuts.

Trump on El Salvador: "They've built a massive prison system. It's a hell of a system. We bring people there, and when they go there, they don't get out ... it's a brilliant system."

Whoever fights back the most gets my vote, end of story.

I know some Dem donors, staffers, party operatives follow me. If you’re not going about the next few years with this as your guiding light, you are going to lose and so will the country. This is the break-glass emergency, right here. This is what you save up political capital to spend it on.

When the Mamdani family lived in South Africa for a time, while Zohran was young, Zohran was reported by a teacher in Cape Town for having called himself "mustard" when asked what race, or what color, he was.

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Supreme Court's third decision of the day UPHOLDS the Universal Service Fund—which provides phone and internet access to poor and rural areas—by a 6–3 vote, holding that it does NOT violate the non-delegation doctrine. This is very good news. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This morning sucks, but I promise that looking at the replies here👇will make you feel better

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

Mi amigo. Corvid🩵🌿🪶

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

court expansion needs to be non-negotiable for the dem nominee going into 2028

Gillibrand’s offices: NY: 212-688-6262 DC: 202-224-4451

on Mamdani's city-run groceries idea, "laboratories of democracy" are one of the great U.S. strengths - even if you don't think it's likely to work, it's really interesting to see it tested. Maybe it'll be really successful! Maybe it'll fail for reasons we don't expect!