Husband, Dad, Fmr Member of Congress, Founder/CEO 2 public companies. Now: @forbrightbank. @galvanizeLLC @natgeo @bpc_bipartisan @meridianintl
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Let's be very clear on this one point.
The President mocking a former President in front of the communist leader of China is the most un-American thing an American president has ever done.
"This is the autopen... it's Biden." 🤣
President Trump shows off the legendary Presidential Walk of Fame to President Xi.
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I'm all for bipartisanship and working together, but what I don't understand about @golden4congress opinion is that @RepMikeLawler seems to be a frequent guest on Fox railing against Dems and their policies all the time. Doesn't seem very bipartisan.
Something you don’t see often — or ever, really: a House Dem endorsing a House Republican for reelection
Dem Rep. Jared Golden endorses GOP Rep. Mike Lawler in op-ed:
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Public sentiment is crystal clear.
The party that runs on immediately ending the war in Iran, regulating AI and lowering costs will win the midterms.
It's that simple.
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People love to dismiss public opinion polling - thinking it doesn't matter. They could not be more wrong.
Lincoln famously said "Public sentiment is everything. With it, anything is possible. Without it, nothing is possible"
Today's public opinion will shape our future!
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Grant was a singular defender of the rights of African Americans
Consider:
He crushed Lee and won the Civil War
He prosecuted over 1000 klansman & crushed the KKK
Led the creation of 15th Amendment - giving African Americans right to vote
Passed the 1st Civil Rights Act
In 1887, Congress nearly approved a mile-long medieval granite fortress across the Potomac, complete with turrets and a drawbridge, to honor Ulysses S. Grant. The cornerstone sat waiting in a lot near the Treasury for years.
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This would result in a 53- 47 Democratic Senate.
Nate Silver’s latest Senate polling averages show Democrats ahead in ten key races:
🔵 NC: Cooper +8.9
🔵 GA: Ossoff +9.1
🔵 NH: Pappas +5.0
🔵 OH: Brown +4.5
🔵 ME: Jackson +4.2
🔵 MN: Flanagan +2.8
🔵 MI: El-Sayed +2.8
🔵 TX: Talarico +2.7
🔵 AK: Peltola +1.7
🔵 IA: Turek +0.8
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I'm against socialism as a broad economic model but certain specific policies DSA candidates advocate for - like universal healthcare - are very popular and the right answer policy wise
Those blindly ranting against "food line style socialism" ignore that fact at their peril
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Under the leadership of prior Board Chair @DM_Rubenstein, the Kennedy Center was a well maintained, thriving institution operating with annual budget surpluses.
Mr. Rubenstein was the largest donor in Center history and respected its status as a memorial to a fallen President.
Trump on why it’s important for him to have his name the Kennedy Center: For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump Administration should have recognition. If we don’t do that, it’s going to close and get ripped down.
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Where should it come from?
We need more revenues - and to control expenses - if we want to get our disastrous fiscal house in order. That's basic arithmetic.
If you don't want to take it from the top 10% then just say where you want to get it from. Everyone else?
Defeat Iran
Support Israel
ICE has a job to do
Human control over AI
Billionaires, and the top 10%, already pay almost all the income tax
Medicare for seniors
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In Biden's last year the Kennedy Center had a $40 million surplus according to tax records.
It was named after a fallen President.
To the extent it gets renovated, those funds can only be approved by Congress and come from the American taxpayers
Trump on why it’s important for him to have his name the Kennedy Center: For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump Administration should have recognition. If we don’t do that, it’s going to close and get ripped down.
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While it's not clear what an "incomprehensible political position" refers to is their position more "incomprehensible" than: (1) the 2020 election was stolen, (2) birthright citizenship is illegal, or (3) Canada should be our 51st state?
I've been covering politics since 2008. The anti-AI-regulation takes from the left (by no means all/most of the left; Bernie disagrees!!!) might be the most literally incomprehensible political position I've ever encountered.
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"Public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed" - Abraham Lincoln
The AI companies should take their case to the America people in an unvarnished way, not rely on organizations targeting lawmakers.
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I didn't realize that "because China is doing it" shapes all U.S. policy.
Very strong "Mom, because everyone else is doing it" energy!
I agree with @DavidSacks. AI isn’t going anywhere, so we need a plan to move forward safely, with America leading the way.
These companies have said what they are building could kill mankind. Seems pretty obvious they need to slow down now. But these companies can’t just raise their hands and say Congress has to do something.
We can’t lose to Communist China, obviously. If America doesn’t lead, we allow Communist China to make the rules and develop truly dangerous AI that will hurt Americans, especially our kids.
Congress is a mess right now. We can’t even pass election security protections. But AI regulations shouldn’t be rushed. It has to be thoughtful, so that is not going to happen this year.
AI companies need to be good corporate citizens, protect our kids' safety online and do the right thing without fear of their bottom line.
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This is absurd
These IPOs are destined to be massive, multi trillion $ valuation events - nothing is changing that
The notion that the CEOs will risk their credibility (which is their biggest asset) to bullshit the American people about the risks to juice the IPOs is absurd
Breaking: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slow growth ahead of IPOs
Below are his reasonings:
1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down.
2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents.
3. IPOs need hype & puffery; "we are so awesome it could become dangerous" is hype & puffery
4. Cover for real uncontrollable slowing growth as IPOs look to be pushed out
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I founded the AI Caucus in Congress ten year ago, and I’ll say this plainly: organizations focused on shaping the AI debate just with lawmakers are missing the point.
The AI debate belongs with the American people. It needs to be open and unvarnished - not confined to insiders. Until it is, lawmaker focused efforts will only deepen distrust
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AI companies may think Congress is their audience - and that more revolving door politics is the answer.
I'd suggest their real audience is the American people.
Make the case openly and directly. Lay out the unvarnished pros and cons of AI and trust the people.
Breaking in @dealbook: Jay Carney is joining SV Angel, Ron Conway’s venture capital firm, to run a new initiative called Project Blueprint. Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology.
nytimes.com/2026/09/14/busin…
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I suspect Speaker Johnson would be ok with private companies building and selling nuclear weapons provided they were responsible for their safety.
Tech companies must be responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says, not Congress dlvr.it/TVST4b
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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