A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk AI company to delay the law’s enforcement. U.S. District Court Judge Donovan Frank denied a request from […]
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Gov. Bill Lee last week joined 22 Republican governors in signing onto President Donald Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a voluntary agreement to hold companies responsible for the costs of building, maintaining and powering data centers. The Trump administration has publicly touted the pledge as sparing taxpayers from tax and electricity rate hikes tied to data […]
A campaign consultant advising U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) in her bid for the U.S. Senate was recently let go from the campaign due to her side work consulting for Big Tech and surveillance company Palantir, co-founded by controversial technologist Peter Thiel. Cailin Legacki, of Legacki Consulting and formerly one of Stevens’ key spokespeople during […]
The world’s richest man is officially invested in the 2026 Ohio governor’s race. Elon Musk, a former trillionaire and former co-leader of the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with now-Republican nominee for Ohio governor Vivek Ramaswamy, donated $5 million to a super PAC backing Ramaswamy in May, according to campaign finance reports released last […]
Scott Kupor faced the press for the first time as director of the Office of Personnel and Management inside the same suite of boardrooms where, not long ago, an over-caffeinated and reportedly Adderall-addled team of DOGE staffers tried to cut the federal leviathan down to size.
