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Ratepayer Protection Act fails in Senate due to Schumer

Schumer and Senate Democrats sink bill to shift AI data center power costs off households

Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats blocked a near-unanimous House bill that would have pressed states to make AI data centers cover more of their own power costs, leaving ordinary ratepayers exposed.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday refused to advance the Ratepayer Protection Act, falling short on a 57-43 vote that failed to clear the 60-vote procedural hurdle needed to move forward.

Only four Democrats backed the measure. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority, yet could not break the Democratic wall against a bill aimed at easing household electricity burdens tied to surging data-center demand.

The legislation would have required state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including AI data centers, should pay the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them. The point was straightforward: stop shifting those costs onto families.

Weeks earlier, the House of Representatives passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on Sept. 16 by a 417-3 vote. That lopsided result showed broad bipartisan support for putting the cost question in front of state regulators.

When a 417-3 House bill dies in the Senate over “not enough,” working families learn who has time for purity tests, and who is left paying the freight.

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Democrats critical and afraid of AI

Progressives steer Democratic Party toward heavy regulation of AI

Progressive Democrats are jockeying to shape the Democratic Party’s approach to artificial intelligence, pushing for heavy restrictions on the rapidly developing industry.

The hard-left wing of the Democratic Party has been sharply critical of the AI industry’s rapid, largely unregulated growth, warning that the risks of the technology advancing faster than developers can keep pace with could be detrimental to humanity.

Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) introduced legislation this week to ban artificial superintelligence and pause advanced AI development until a regulatory body is established. Superintelligent AI is defined as software considered to be “smarter-than-human.”

The legislation would also establish a new Cabinet-level “Department of Artificial Intelligence” and impose criminal penalties on any person or entity that violates the pauses and guardrails outlined in the bill. Entities could face a “corporate death penalty,” while individuals could face up to 20 years in prison.

Progressive political positions on how to handle the industry contrasts with Republican leadership’s support for the development of AI and pushback on using a heavy hand against the industry.

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will meet with executives of top AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner confirmed.

The speaker has warned that placing too many regulations on AI risks hampering the U.S.’s national security and giving China an opening to take the lead in the AI development race.

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Artificial Intelligence Fear

 

Fear Mongerer Pritzker wants federal AI rules but cannot name the threat

Pritzker compares AI to nuclear weapons, demands federal regulation while eyeing 2028

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (worth $4.2 billion dollars) is pushing Congress to treat artificial intelligence as a threat comparable to nuclear weapons, while simultaneously auditioning for a national stage with less than seven weeks until the midterms.

Pritzker, a Democrat, sat for an exclusive interview on ABC's "This Week" that aired Sunday, urging federal lawmakers to make AI regulation a top priority. He called the technology dangerous "on the level of nuclear weapons" and took direct aim at President Trump's approach to the industry, accusing the administration of letting AI companies police themselves.

The governor signed an AI safety law in Illinois in July that requires companies to submit to annual third-party audits of their safety plans and disclose safety incidents to the state. But Pritzker argued that state-level action is not enough, and that Washington's inaction amounts to recklessness.

In the interview with co-anchor Jonathan Karl, Pritzker told ABC News that AI regulation must be a national and international effort because the technology cannot be contained by any single state.

Comparing a commercial technology to nuclear weapons is the kind of rhetoric that sounds serious without doing any of the work of being serious.

President Trump has called AI fears a "hoax" and announced the formation of an "AI Force" aimed at accelerating growth in the industry.

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Artificial Intelligence Fear

Artificial Intelligence - China's psychological operation

AI models smarter than humans?

Anthropic reveals Claude now leads a quarter of its own R&D — and the company wants rivals to disclose the same

Anthropic disclosed that its AI model Claude went from zero research contribution in February to leading 26% of the company's own development work by August, a pace that even the company admits could make future AI systems harder for humans to control.

The San Francisco, based AI lab published a blog post Thursday laying out metrics it says no other major AI company has shared publicly. Claude, Anthropic's flagship model, now handles roughly a quarter of the company's model research and development "end-to-end from a high-level prompt", meaning the AI completes most of a given task on its own, with human engineers supervising rather than directing each step.

Beyond that top-line figure, approximately 90% of all Anthropic R&D now involves Claude in some collaborative role, performing what the company describes as "large chunks of work under close human direction."

Six months ago, that number was zero. The trajectory raises a question Anthropic itself flagged in its disclosure: how close are leading AI labs to the point where their models can recursively improve themselves, building smarter successors faster than any human team could?

The company acknowledged the risk plainly. Models accelerating their own development, Anthropic wrote, could make it "more challenging for humans to understand or control these systems." That is not a hypothetical warning from an outside critic. It is a statement from the company building the system in question.

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AI, a great threat to democracy

Is Artificial Intelligence dangerous?

Former Anthropic and OpenAI safety researcher quits

Warns AI companies are "gambling with our lives"

A former safety researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned and went public with a blunt warning that neither company "is acting responsibly," days before Anthropic's own CEO called for the industry to slow down.

Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic and took his concerns to national television, telling ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" that he welcomed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's newly published letter urging a pause in the breakneck pace of AI development.

Coxon had already posted his own critique on X the week before, accusing both Anthropic and OpenAI of recklessness that could carry existential consequences.

The sequence matters. Coxon quit first. Then he posted. Then Amodei, his former boss, published a letter that echoed, at least in broad strokes, the very concern Coxon had raised. Whether the CEO's letter was a response to internal pressure, a coincidence, or a calculated public-relations move remains an open question neither party has answered.

He went further:

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

That line deserves a second read. Coxon is not claiming outsiders or critics believe the technology is dangerous. He is saying the engineers and researchers inside these companies, the people with the closest view of what the systems can do, share that fear. And yet, by his account, the work continues at full speed.

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U.S. falling behind in National Security

Democrats want to stop Data Center Construction - China First, says Fetterman

Fetterman breaks with his party on AI, warns U.S. retreat hands China the advantage

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman sided with President Trump on aggressive AI development over the weekend, rejecting calls from fellow Democrats to slow down, and warning that every delay benefits Beijing.

Fetterman posted on X on Saturday, sharing a Bloomberg analysis that examined the narrowing U.S. lead over China in artificial intelligence and the faster pace at which Chinese companies are deploying advanced models. His message was blunt: stop panicking about data centers and start competing. Fox News Digital reported that the Democrat dismissed what he called "AI doomsdaying" and accused critics of playing into China's hands.

The senator framed the stakes in national-security terms:

"AI supremacy and energy dominance underpins our national security. China continues to fuel and benefit from our overreaction. I reject the political pandering and hyperbole over data centers or AI doomsdaying."

That puts Fetterman squarely on the same side as the White House, and miles from the progressive wing of his own party, which wants to freeze data center construction altogether. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez want a moratorium; Fetterman calls it "China First"

The split inside the Democratic caucus is not new, but it is widening. On March 25, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood at the U.S. Capitol to announce the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, a proposal to halt new facility construction across the country. Fetterman responded by labeling the moratorium push "China First", a deliberate inversion of the progressive framing.

Earlier this month, when reports surfaced that Sanders was eyeing a broader pause on AI development itself, Fetterman fired back again on X:

"America must lead in the development of AI, otherwise we live under China's rules. That must not happen."

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Fetterman right again!

Fetterman breaks with progressive allies again, backs Trump's AI agenda and warns China gains from U.S. delay

Sen. John Fetterman is siding with the Trump administration on artificial intelligence development, rejecting calls from his own party's left flank to slow down, and warning that every delay hands China a strategic advantage.

The Pennsylvania Democrat posted on X over the weekend dismissing what he called "AI doomsdaying," sharing a Bloomberg analysis that examined the narrowing U.S. lead over China in AI and the faster pace at which Chinese companies are deploying advanced models. His message was blunt: pulling back on AI development and data center construction doesn't protect Americans, it helps Beijing.

Fox News Digital reported that Fetterman wrote on X:

"AI supremacy and energy dominance underpins our national security. China continues to fuel and benefit from our overreaction. I reject the political pandering and hyperbole over data centers or AI doomsdaying."

That stance puts Fetterman squarely alongside President Trump, who days earlier encouraged governors and local officials at the White House to welcome AI data center construction in their communities.

It also widens the gap between Fetterman and the progressive wing of his own party, a gap that has been growing for months across multiple issues.

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Trump on Data Centers

President Donald Trump announced that 23 governors have signed his pledge that seeks to protect households from absorbing utility costs tied to data centers, the sprawling facilities powering artificial intelligence that are expanding rapidly across the country.

The governors, all Republicans, are among nearly 200 stakeholders ‒ major utility companies, data center developers, public power and co-ops ‒ who have signed Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge. The pledge was first put forward by the White House in March.

Trump, who has defended data centers as they face resistance in many communities, touted the growing coalition at a July 23 event at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, where he was joined by four of the governors.

Bezos Calls Out the Fearmongers by Name

Jeff Bezos Told AI Doomers They Have It Completely Backwards and Bet 18 Billion Trying to Prove It

Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 17, Bezos – the man who bankrolled the Washington Post for a decade – didn't dance around it.
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"I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant," he said. Then he said three words that ended the argument. "I totally disagree."

His prediction isn't just optimistic – it's the opposite of everything the left has been selling. His reasoning is something every small business owner in America already knows in their gut: most great ideas never happen because they're too hard to execute.

"I promise you every single person in this audience has had an idea for a new business or a new product or a new device that they wish they could manufacture," Bezos said, "and that idea stayed in your head and went nowhere."

AI changes that equation entirely. Bezos calls it accelerating the "dream build loop" – compressing the gap between having an idea and actually building it.

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YouTube Censorship Doesn't Need a Ban Anymore — AI Labels Do the Same Job

YouTube Already Paid Trump $24.5 Million for Censorship — Now It Wants More Control

Here's what YouTube isn't saying out loud.

Last September, YouTube paid President Trump $24.5 million to settle his lawsuit over the suspension of his channel after January 6. The settlement included no admission of wrongdoing.

Now the same company is building an automated system with the power to stamp any video – permanently, in some cases – as not fully real.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan declared AI transparency one of his top priorities for 2026 – not 2024 when the problem started, not 2025 when investigators documented children being harmed, but 2026, after two years of ad revenue had already cleared Google's books.

The company that profited from AI garbage for two years is now the company issuing the labels. That's not a transparency system. That's Google inserting itself as the permanent gatekeeper of what's "real" on the largest video platform on earth.

Starting now, YouTube will deploy internal signals to automatically identify "significant photorealistic AI use" – and apply labels whether creators disclose their AI use or not.

AI - Google will determine what's real or fake

The New King of Midterm Spending

The Biggest Donor in the 2026 Midterms Is Not George Soros

George Soros has owned American elections for thirty years – until this cycle.

A Silicon Valley billionaire nobody was watching just moved more money than Soros, Musk, and every Democratic megadonor combined. What he's buying with it affects every race on your ballot in November.

Andreessen Horowitz – the venture capital firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz – is now the single largest known political donor in the 2026 midterm cycle.

The New York Times confirmed it from federal filings. Over $115 million deployed so far.

That puts Andreessen ahead of Soros at nearly $103 million, Elon Musk at $85 million, and Jeff Yass at $81.8 million.

Their interest:--Supporting candidates for crypto currency and artificial ingeligence.

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Big Brother Surveilled Bret Baier

Bret Baier is Furious about a $40 Ticket in Beijing and How He Got it Should Terrify Every American

The Chinese Communist Party has built the most suffocating surveillance state in human history.

Now a Fox News crew just experienced it firsthand – and the system caught them before they could even turn off the engine.

Standing outside Haidian Station on Wednesday, Baier pointed to the skyline and counted – at minimum – twenty cameras on a single street corner. Beijing has added 1,500 new cameras just this year alone.

"They see everything," Baier told viewers of Special Report. "There's nobody jaywalking here because they could get a ticket right away."

Then came the moment that made the clip go viral: Baier's own driver parked illegally for two minutes and had a $40 fine on his phone before the crew could even set up a shot.

No officer. No confrontation. No warning.

A December 2025 report from the Austrian Strategic Policy Institute estimated approximately 600 million surveillance cameras operating across China – one of the densest surveillance networks on earth.

The infrastructure runs on a platform called Skynet, which integrates AI facial recognition, real-time traffic enforcement, and a national data-sharing system that feeds law enforcement agencies around the clock. Jaywalkers are photographed and fined automatically.

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Beijing’s Trojan Horse

The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation

The NGO Network Quietly Strangling American Data Centers & AI

"The most effective influence operation in 2026 is the one that does not look like an influence operation.

Most Americans, when they think about Chinese influence at all, picture something cinematic. They picture a senator on a stage in the Capitol, flanked by two advisors to the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, nodding along to a discussion of how the United States should slow down its own AI industry.

That happened on April 29, 2026, when (communist) Bernie Sanders convened Xue Lan and Zeng Yi for an event titled “The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation.” It was a useful spectacle. It was also a distraction.

The real damage to American AI competitiveness in 2026 is not being done in the Capitol on a Wednesday evening. It is being done quietly, week after week, in 38 state legislatures, by a coalition of NGOs whose funding and intellectual lineage trace back to the same upstream ecosystem that platformed Xue and Zeng, and that has been operating in plain sight for over a decade.

The point of this essay is to lay out, carefully and without exaggeration, why federal preemption of state AI law is no longer a deregulatory preference.

It is a national security necessity. And then to pose what I will call the Manhattan Project test: a single yes-or-no question that, in my view, separates honest AI safety advocacy from de facto strategic alignment with Beijing.

The question Congress should be asking is not whether federal preemption violates conservative principles. The question is whether the United States can afford to let 38 statehouses, lobbied by NGOs whose intellectual lineage runs through Beijing-aligned framings, set the operating constraints for the technology on which the next century of American power depends. The answer is no."

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