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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Howell Williams @hhowell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

HUGE thank you to @jnovkov.bsky.social, @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social, @chelseaebin.bsky.social, and Gwen Alphonso for the conversation about my new book in Boston for APSA

Jenn M. Jackson, Gwen Alphonso, Howell Williams, Julie Novkov, and Chelsea Ebin at a panel for Williams’s Fatherhood, Race, and the American State

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@hhowell.bsky.social’s book arrived today! I am SO excited this brilliant work is out in the world for everyone to read. Such a fantastic contribution to the APD field and a must read for anyone thinking about how white male supremacism has been institutionalized through the regulation of fatherhood

A pasty hand holding a beautifully designed book with a yellow cover featuring a “classic” 1950s era white family with colored circles blotting out the faces of the mother, daughter, and son. The book is titled Fatherhood, Race, and The American State: The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties and it is authored by the H. Howell Williams.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Dr Meger's team looked at six extremist movements: incels; far-right; white supremacy; far-left; anti-feminism; and religious extremism. Misogyny was the key ideology that cut across all of them.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dehumanization and Dangerous Speech Entitlement and Justification of Violence Mental Health and Safety in Anti-Supremacist Work Concerns in Research and Reporting on Male Supremacism Learn about all these topics in our summer introductory course on male supremacism. www.theirms.org/course-regis...

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Intro to Male Supremacism Course — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Amazing! Can’t wait to see this take shape—congrats!!

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I hated it! So glad to hear there are others who did as well!

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Great to see this commentary from @alexdibranco.bsky.social get published in Ms. To support more analysis like this, support the @irms.bsky.social

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

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The Age of No Innocence

What if all you knew was extremist politics? Welcome to being young in America.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Truly. It’s amazing how things just get more and more bleak.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In a fitting end to the semester, my office has become infested with spiders. I keep relocating them to the bathroom. Now my office and the bathroom have spiders.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

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Trump’s Top Child Care Official Wants a ‘Bonfire of Regulations’

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Michael Gauger @mtgauger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@chelseaebin.bsky.social Chelsea — Congratulations on the nice review of The Radical Mind in the latest Journal of American History (which just arrived in my mail)! @dwcongdon.com

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thank you! What a generous review—and how kind of you to bring it to my attention!

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

While Vance’s statements about the Pope are jaw dropping, U.S. Catholic conservatives have a long history of playing fast and loose with their fidelity to the Pope. If you’re looking for context for what the hell is going on, I humbly recommend my article escholarship.org/uc/item/8r36...

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Mapping the Influence of Conservative Catholic Political Thought on the American Right

Author(s): Ebin, Chelsea

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is cause for celebration. May the entire white supremacist international he helped create also fall.

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Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election Defeat

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

To be clear: the end game is create the structural conditions to keep women from pursuing higher education, force them out of the workplace, and assign them to a permanent position of dependence, submission, and inferiority.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A great thread explaining why the No Kings protests matter. Even though the liberal messaging doesn’t resonate on the left, these marches are important for building a movement and priming the path forward.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

10/10 recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This is a man who kneels to pray, brags to his God about how many people he killed today, and thinks he gets a spiritual fist bump and a guttural “hell yeah, brother” from the divine.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am so tired, and I am so angry, and I wish so much that knowing about this piss ant never took up a single second of this one precious life.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yes to all of this, and also I think religion may play a role. My hunch is that the dominance of mainline Lutheranism acted as something of a bulwark against Christian Right politics in the 1980s and ‘90s, in turn helping to both dampen right-wing GOP attitudes + maintain emphasis on social welfare.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I have to listen to far-right podcasts all the time for work and I do not agree that the solution to any of our problems is for more people to listen to far-right podcasts

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/01/2026

This kind of messaging is intended to drown moms in research, risk, and responsibility. The goal is to keep them so anxious and so busy that they can't work for pay--especially not in high-powered "mens" jobs--or get involved in any kind of efforts to push for progressive change.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New verse for our theme song just dropped: 🎵MAGA is a war of men against women And the penalty for 'disrespect' is death🎵 Do pundits get it yet? Misogyny is and always has been the glue binding together the multi-racial, cross-class coalition Trump created, across three elections.

Twitter poster using the handle Alexander Augustine comments on a photo of Renee Good "I feel like i have been condescended to by a woman who looks exactly like this thousands of times."

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

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Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good

After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

What a fabulous holiday gift to have the brilliant Carol Mason review my book! This is such a kind and generous way to close out an otherwise vicious and brutal year. jrws.berkeley.edu/carol-mason-...

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Carol Mason, "Chelsea Ebin’s The Radical Mind Explains Who Blazed the Trail to Authoritarianism" | Journal of Right-Wing Studies

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

What is the over/under that Nuzzi’s next act will be to reinvent herself as a right-wing mouthpiece ala Naomi Wolf?

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It’s really so painful and tragic.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Looks pretty consistent to me. #whitesupremacy

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Heartbroken to see the NSSR is being culled—and especially that it is happening in this way (with utmost callousness) and at this time (when left/critical theory is so needed). Cannot imagine having a political science PhD from any other institution and hope this isn’t the end of the road for NSSR.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...

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They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story

And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/11/2025

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.

Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Happening tonight! RSVP to escape the cold and join us in having a lovely time talking about terrible things.

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And we can probably cue the Christian nationalist pastors taking to the airwaves to justify sexual violation of children as biblical. I haven’t gone looking for it this morning, but I’d put money that the usual suspects are talking about child marriage being Godly right about now…

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Chelsea Ebin @chelseaebin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Which brings me to ask: how long until red states begin passing legislation to retroactively lower the statutory age of consent to 13 or 14 to absolve Epstein and his very important President of the United States associates of their criminal behavior? 3/

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