This weekend, nine million Americans showed up to the largest single-day protest in US history - in all 50 states, including deep red Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The White House called them a leftist funding network. Then Congress left for a two-week vacation during the longest government shutdown in American history. Meanwhile, the oil futures insider trading story keeps getting worse, and a federal judge blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting an AI company for refusing to build autonomous weapons, calling it "Orwellian." The grift isn't even pretending anymore. Hit play.In other News:Bernie Sanders and AOC want to freeze every new data center in America until Congress regulates AI. Noble idea. One problem: the tech giants are already supply-constrained and would love nothing more than a government-enforced moat around their existing capacity. One story this week about a bill that accidentally does Big Tech’s job for it.

Bernie Sanders Turned an Instagram Rant Into a Data Center Bill Nobody Will Pass

Sanders and AOC dropped a bill to halt all new data center construction until Congress passes AI regulation. The market is already supply-constrained – Microsoft alone has $80 billion in unfulfilled Azure orders because it can’t find enough electricity. Freezing the supply side doesn’t reduce demand. It just locks in the incumbents and pushes construction offshore where there are zero environmental rules.

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