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On April 14, 2025, David Valadao was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, David Valadao voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave…
On April 14, 2025, Jefferson Van Drew was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Jefferson Van Drew voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave…
On April 14, 2025, Robert Wittman was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Robert Wittman voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave…
On April 14, 2025, Jennifer Kiggans was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Jennifer Kiggans voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave…
On April 14, 2025, Nick LaLota was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Nick LaLota voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions…
On April 14, 2025, Nicole Malliotakis was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Nicole Malliotakis voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave…
In a March 26, 2025 op-ed in the Yakima Herald-Republic, Rep. Dan Newhouse assured constituents that cutting resources for those who rely on Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP "is not my aim," framing his goal as curbing improper payments. His hometown paper later…
On July 3, 2025, Newhouse voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214), which the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade. Health analysts flagged 14 rural…
Rep. Derrick Van Orden publicly insisted that "benefits will not be cut" and accused Democrats of "fearmongering" over Medicaid, saying he would "have no part" in cutting the program for the people who depend on it.
On July 3, 2025, Van Orden voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214), which the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions more…
On April 14, 2025, Young Kim was one of twelve House Republicans who signed a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson stating they "will not support a final reconciliation bill that includes any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations."
On July 3, 2025, Young Kim voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions…
Context The question was: "You would prefer the human race to endure, right?" Douthat had to note, on the record, "You're hesitating," before Thiel eventually answered "Yes" and pivoted to transhumanism — hoping technology will "radically solve" death. The full exchange is in the Times' published transcript; the hesitation itself, from the chairman of a…
Context Musk was describing what he called "suicidal empathy" — a concept he credited to marketing professor Gad Saad — and argued empathy is being "weaponized" as an "exploit" in Western societies, comparing it to a bug in a computer program. He added the qualification: "I believe in empathy, like, I think you should care about other people," but framed the…
Context A maxim attributed to Napoleon, posted — and pinned — by a sitting president while his administration faced court orders over frozen congressional spending. The White House reposted it on official channels. Posted as a sentence with no context, it asserts exactly what it says: that law does not bind the president when he deems the cause sufficient.
We will not design or deploy AI in the following application areas: … Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.
Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it's necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them.
Context Closing remarks to investors on a quarterly earnings call — not a leaked aside. Karp has repeatedly used similar framing in public ("mostly to kill our enemies," to Axios; adversaries should "wake up scared and go to bed scared"). Palantir holds some of the largest data-integration contracts across U.S. defense, intelligence, and immigration enforcement;…
Training large language models on the entire public web — including paywalled, copyrighted news articles — is transformative fair use. The model's outputs do not substitute for the original works, and the public benefit of advanced AI outweighs any…
Users may not 'use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI'; OpenAI publicly accused DeepSeek of using its model outputs to train competing models in violation of those terms, and is preparing legal action. (OpenAI Terms of Use — Section 2…
Why it matters OpenAI's fair-use defense in the NYT case turns on the principle that ingesting copyrighted material to train a derivative system that competes with the original is non-infringing because of transformative purpose.…
In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents. AI will contribute to the world by … fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics. With enough compute,…
Today, we're announcing The Stargate Project — a new company that intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. The initial equity…
Context His answer to how much time he spends on self-reflection. Andreessen — whose firm's "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" lists "tech ethics" and "risk management" among its enemies — described introspection itself as an early-1900s invention he declines to practice. From one of the most influential capital allocators in AI, "zero introspection" is a governance…
OpenAI's pivot from a charitable, open-source AI research nonprofit to a closed, for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft is a betrayal of its founding charter. The 'capped-profit' structure is a sham that funnels public-good research into private monopoly rents.…
xAI operates as a closed, equity-funded for-profit Delaware corporation, with Musk as majority shareholder, raising $6B at a $50B valuation while marketing its Grok model as a competitor to OpenAI. No nonprofit charter; no open-sourcing of training data,…
Why it matters Musk's central legal argument in suing Altman is that AI research of this magnitude should be conducted as a nonprofit, open-source public good, and that pivoting to a closed for-profit structure is itself the harm.…
