Congress is staring down the barrel of a manufactured crisis. prospect.org?p=139660
The progressive nonprofit Demand Progress has set up a new monitoring effort, called AI Money Watch, to follow one particular AI PAC called Leading the Future. prospect.org?p=139608
Trump tasked Jay Clayton with investigating Democrats’ ties to Epstein. Now he’s nominating Clayton to be the nation’s top spy and Dems @markwarner.bsky.social & Rep. Jim Himes are practically gushing over him.
No one should celebrate the fact that Trump just named his Epstein hatchet man to ODNI
Section 702 sunsets today. What’s next? Surveillance can continue until March 2027 under a grandfather clause. In the meantime, Congress must take this opportunity to build real protections for Americans’ privacy into any Section 702 2.0. 1/17
Execs from companies like OpenAI pumped millions into Leading the Future, a Super PAC that is trying to buy politicians who will kill AI safeguards and bury anyone who fights back.
Go to aimoneywatch.org to see who's being bankrolled by them and who they're trying to stop.
Senator Cornyn just blocked a 9-month extension of Section 702 with a warrant requirement for backdoor searches. He then blocked a 5-week extension with no warrant requirement, just basic transparency measures. 1/2
AI Money Watch is a new project from Demand Progress that uses FEC filings to track every dollar from Leading the Future. See our methodology here: