DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
DOGE: From Meme to Government Erosion Machine
A record of DOGE's first year of destruction
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump Watch
Tracking the Trump administration's all-out assault on everyday people and the Constitution
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
Trump's Disastrous Disaster Policy
Documenting the Trump administration's pre-disaster recklessness and post-disaster cruelty
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Hinojosa's History in the Texas State Lege
Before Texas’ Governor-elect, Gina Hinojosa, made history in the stunning blue wave that swept the state the country in 2026, she spent long years in the Texas State legislature fighting for vulnerable people across the state.
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.
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It’s A New, Blue World
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October 29, 2026
Kyle Rempfer - POGO Investigates
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We need political leadership who can articulate visions of the future that don’t primarily serve the interests of industry. There’s nothing inevitable about AI destabilizing the economy while the fossil fuel industry destabilizes the climate. It is a choice!
From lands sacred to sovereign tribes to landmarks in Washington DC, the bedrock laws this bill guts are important to people who think there are some things that we should preserve regardless of what a despotic president or oligarchic CEO desires.
BAAJA cuts the public out of decisionmaking, weakens bedrock environmental protections, and makes it faster for data centers to come online. How is that aligned with the public who just voted resoundingly against the AI boom and the corrupt Trump status quo?
The AI industry has made it clear that they value speed and certainty far more than they mind a mild toll on their massive expenditures. BAAJA would help the AI industry overcome key limits to the unchecked AI data center buildout: power and permits. https://t.co/FYZPpsSrg4
People who argue that BAAJA protects the public from data centers by making tech companies pay for their energy needs are missing the extent of the problem. Data centers are the physical, fightable manifestation of a greedy industry that wants to control our futures.
The fight over BAAJA is about who gets a say in what the future looks like. The public wants to be able to say no to AI data centers, detention centers, environmental harms. Tech and energy corporations want to insulate themselves from that no, cutting out the public.