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Cristiano Lima-Strong

@viacristiano.bsky.social
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Senior AI & Government Reporter @bgov.com. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01

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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I've been enjoying some time away with our new little one we welcomed this year 👶 but will be jumping back into the swing of things next Monday! Until then 👋
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I'm not disappearing from tech altogether though. Hit me up on all things crypto/ digital assets, fintech, AI in finance, tech-powered financial fraud, prediction markets & any other nexus you can think of!
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's been a great 8+ years covering tech policy, but I'm looking forward to getting back on the Hill & learning the world of financial services policy!
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Personal news: I'm joining @bgov.com next week as a Senior Capitol Hill Reporter covering the financial services industry! Excited to join this growing newsroom I've long admired and take on a new(ish) beat New email forthcoming but send news tips via Signal to: Cristiano.01
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Devastated to see so many former colleagues I so greatly admire needlessly lose their jobs at the Washington Post. If this news makes you angry, sad, disappointed, whatever-- channel that into supporting the great journalists who lost their jobs today: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Gee I wonder if autocrats around the world will feel more or less emboldened to commit violence against journalists and dissidents now www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing
The de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
OpenAI completed a restructuring this week that will enable it to more easily raise funds, a move that raises questions about the future of its safety efforts and its commitment to developing AI that "benefits all of humanity," Cristiano Lima-Strong writes.
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5 Policy Questions Prompted by OpenAI’s Restructuring | TechPolicy.Press
OpenAI's restructuring raises questions about the future of its safety efforts and its commitment to the public good, Cristiano Lima-Strong writes.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@millsrodrigo.bsky.social breaks down how major US labor unions are staking out different postures when it comes to how artificial intelligence will impact workplaces in a new report for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-major-la...
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How Major Labor Unions are Positioning on AI | TechPolicy.Press
Labor unions largely say AI can improve society, but that workers need a voice in how it is implemented, Chris Mills Rodrigo reports.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
US labor unions so far have adopted a fairly consistent tone on AI: the technology has the potential to improve productivity and benefit society, but workers need to be involved in how it is deployed, Chris Mills Rodrigo reports for Tech Policy Press:
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How Major Labor Unions are Positioning on AI | TechPolicy.Press
Labor unions largely say AI can improve society, but that workers need a voice in how it is implemented, Chris Mills Rodrigo reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tech companies often use statistics about the prevalence of content on their sites to make things seem small. This article is a good reminder that a small % can still be a helluvalot techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/o...
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OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly | TechCrunch
OpenAI released data on just how many of ChatGPT's users are facing mental health challenges, and how its addressing them.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Newsy comments from Australian regulator Julie Inman Grant here on OpenAI's Sora potentially falling under scope of Australia's social media ban (tip @techmeme.com)
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @rebeccamkern.bsky.social interviewed and profiled regulator Julie Inman Grant as she prepares to enforce Australia's social media ban for kids: “If they want to continue operating in Australia, this is the law.” www.techpolicy.press/australian-r...
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Australian Regulator Girds for Fight Over Social Media Ban for Kids | TechPolicy.Press
Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant will soon be tasked with enforcing the country's social media ban for kids, Rebecca Kern reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
For @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Gopal Ratnam reports on efforts to update laws governing federal use of personal data in the wake of DOGE's collection spree, which has sparked concerns that the government is abusing Americans' online privacy www.techpolicy.press/doges-plunde...
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DOGE's Plundering of Data Hastens Calls to Tighten Government Privacy Laws | TechPolicy.Press
Federal and state lawmakers are eyeing privacy updates in response to DOGE's use of government data, Gopal Ratnam reports.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
As DOGE continues to compile vast reams of personal data, some in Congress and at the state level are increasingly raising the alarm that the federal government is violating Americans’ privacy and calling for laws to prevent such abuse, Gopal Ratnam reports.
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DOGE's Plundering of Data Hastens Calls to Tighten Government Privacy Laws | TechPolicy.Press
Federal and state lawmakers are eyeing privacy updates in response to DOGE's use of government data, Gopal Ratnam reports.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Struggling to keep up with the latest developments around AI policy in California? Tech Policy Press has you covered: (1/5) 1) Jasmine Mithani takes stock of the tech policy-related bills that made it through the lobbying gauntlet and over Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.
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What Tech Bills California Governor Newsom Signed Or Vetoed in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
It’s time to take stock of what bills related to tech policy made it through the lobbying gauntlet in Sacramento, writes Jasmine Mithani.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
After more than a year of intense debate, California is ushering in some of the most significant AI protections in the US with the signing of SB53. Here's a look at how we got here, what the law will do and how it's playing politically from @viacristiano.bsky.social.
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California Signed A Landmark AI Safety Law. What To Know About SB53. | TechPolicy.Press
California is ushering in some of the most significant artificial intelligence rules in the United States. A breakdown of how we got here.
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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 27/09/2025
This post appeared under this Techmeme headline:
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Trump is bashing former DOJ official Lisa Monaco, who was instrumental in getting the TikTok law passed that will now see the app's control shift more toward Trump's allies The attack on Monaco, who is at Microsoft, follows Trump singling out LinkedIn co-founder & MSFT board member Reid Hoffman
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New podcast! I spoke with Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong about his reporting on the lobbying battle over two AI companions bills that are currently on California Governor Gavin Newsom's desk. www.techpolicy.press/california-b...
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California Becomes Frontline in Battle Over AI Companions | TechPolicy.Press
Justin Hendrix speaks with Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong about the battle over two bills that could set a national standard.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🎙 @justinhendrix.bsky.social & I chatted on the podcast about my reporting on the fight over AI companion legislation in California. Have a listen!
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California Becomes Frontline in Battle Over AI Companions | TechPolicy.Press
Justin Hendrix speaks with Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong about the battle over two bills that could set a national standard.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If you're trying to make sense of the FTC's settlement with Amazon, here's two data points: 1) Lina Khan, who chaired the agency when it brought the suit, is jeering the settlement 2) NetChoice, a trade group that counts Amazon as a member, is cheering the settlement
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A pair of bills to expand protections for AI companions have sparked a major lobbying blitz in California, with tech industry groups and consumer advocates vying to shape what may become the most significant rules in the country, Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong reports:
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Inside the Lobbying Frenzy Over California's AI Companion Bills | TechPolicy.Press
State legislation to impose new guardrails on AI companions sparked a lobbying blitz in California, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A pair of bills to expand protections for AI companions have sparked a major lobbying blitz in California, with tech industry groups and consumer advocates vying to shape what may become the most significant rules in the country, Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong reports:
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Inside the Lobbying Frenzy Over California's AI Companion Bills | TechPolicy.Press
State legislation to impose new guardrails on AI companions sparked a lobbying blitz in California, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The bills now sit on the desk of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces another big test on AI regulation after vetoing the state's most sweeping AI proposal to date last year, AB1047 Read my full dispatch, which was supported by a grant from the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, here:
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Inside the Lobbying Frenzy Over California's AI Companion Bills | TechPolicy.Press
State legislation to impose new guardrails on AI companions sparked a lobbying blitz in California, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The tech industry has come out strongly against AB1064, warning in ads splattered across the web that it would stifle innovation in schools and in health care, hurting students and kids. Several groups have instead embraced SB243, a measure to boost transparency around AI companions
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tech industry groups & consumer advocates are pouring tens & possibly hundreds of thousands of $$$ into this fight. Children's safety advocates rallied around AB1064, which would ban companies from offering AI companions to kids unless they are “not foreseeably capable” of harmful conduct
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I traveled to Sacramento to track what has become the frontline for an emerging battle over the safety of AI companions, which have triggered fresh scrutiny amid reports linking the tools to self-harm and other issues
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: California could soon enact the most significant protections for AI companions in the U.S. Debate over two bills, AB1064 & SB243, has sparked a major lobbying blitz as tech industry groups and consumer advocates vie to shape the rules www.techpolicy.press/inside-the-l... tip @techmeme.com
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Inside the Lobbying Frenzy Over California's AI Companion Bills | TechPolicy.Press
State legislation to impose new guardrails on AI companions sparked a lobbying blitz in California, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
If you're a journalist interested in covering tech policy, we want to hear from you!
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🎙️New podcast is out! Had a great chat with two @coloradosun.com reporters about the massive lobbying blitz around the state's first-of-its-kind AI law. Listen here:
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke with Marketplace Tech about the Trump administration’s attacks against European tech regulations and what it means for platform accountability going forward. Listen here: buff.ly/7vNjkaG
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U.S. officials pressure EU regulators to soften tech regulations
Cristiano Lima-Strong, assistant editor at the news site Tech Policy Press, says Silicon Valley leaders want the bloc to weaken its Digital Services Act, which penalizes internet companies for not…
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A few years ago I spoke to the authors of the study that incidentally birthed these allegations, who said their findings were being taken out of context www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Analysis | Republicans seized on a study as proof of Google’s bias. Its authors say it's being misrepresented.
A study on email spam filters does not prove intentional bias, researchers said.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hill Republicans tried to take up legislation targeting alleged bias in Google's email spam filter, but it went nowhere. The RNC filed an FEC complaint & a lawsuit over it, but both were dismissed Now Trump's FTC is warning tech giants it may take up the cause under federal law
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Top Republicans and US tech leaders are ramping up a pressure campaign against the EU’s platform regulations, calling it foreign “censorship.” @viacristiano.bsky.social and @ramshajahangir.bsky.social unpack how Washington and Silicon Valley are working to sway Brussels on softening enforcement.
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How US Officials Are Pressuring Europe Over Its Platform Regulations | TechPolicy.Press
Republicans are using trade talks, immigration threats and diplomatic messaging to counter Europe's platform regulations.
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Tim Starks @timstarks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Remember the TikTok Ban? Does Anyone? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
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Opinion | Remember the TikTok Ban? Does Anyone?
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
On Wednesday, the Trump administration unveiled its AI Action Plan. Looking to make sense of what it means for the future of AI in the US? Tech Policy Press has you covered (1/4) 1. @viacristiano.bsky.social unpacks the AI Action Plan and what it means:
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Unpacking Trump’s AI Action Plan: Gutting Rules and Speeding Roll-Out | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's action plan on artificial intelligence calls for slashing regulations and easing rollout of the technology, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Of the big tech companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, etc, Trump says while he didn't like them during his first term, he's “gotten to know and like them,” presumably the CEOs
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"We need one common sense federal standard" that supersedes all states, Trump says of AI regulation, seemingly plugging the AI state moratorium. His new action plan revives a version of that, as we noted www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-tr...
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Unpacking Trump’s AI Action Plan: Gutting Rules and Speeding Roll-Out | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's action plan on artificial intelligence calls for slashing regulations and easing rollout of the technology, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Under Biden, the DOJ began probing Nvidia on antitrust grounds. But Trump has called for backing off AI companies and in today's action plan called on the FTC in particular to reconsider any probes hindering AI www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nvidia Gets DOJ Subpoena in Escalating Antitrust Probe
The US Justice Department sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other companies as it seeks evidence that the chipmaker violated antitrust laws, an escalation of its investigation into the dominant provi...
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In his AI summit speech, Trump is musing about how he initially looked at Nvidia and thought they should “break them up a little" but he “found out it’s not easy” so he said “let’s go on to the next one”
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Here's our breakdown of Trump's AI action plan, from slashing regulations to warring on DEI & easing data center buildouts www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-tr... via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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Unpacking Trump’s AI Action Plan: Gutting Rules and Speeding Roll-Out | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's action plan on artificial intelligence calls for slashing regulations and easing rollout of the technology, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Trump's DOJ here asserting that "antitrust laws protect viewpoint competition in news markets" www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Files Statement of Interest on Suppression of Competition in the Marketplace of Ideas Through Deplatforming of Rival Viewpoints
Today, the Justice Department filed a statement of interest in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of Children’s Health Defense et al. v. Washington Post et al. T...
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Here's a Lehigh Brown & White dispatch from that day from the great @klaudia.bsky.social: thebrownandwhite.com/2015/04/09/b...
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Journalist Bill Moyers delivers annual Tresolini lecture - The Brown and White
Bill Moyers spoke about the state of America's democracy as part of Lehigh University's annual Tresolini Lecture.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bill Moyers went out of his way to share his wisdom with one young journalist at a dinner in grad school. Exceedingly generous and kind. May he rest in peace. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91
He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
With this procedural hurdle out of the way, this becomes a politics question
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
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Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Feels like this article is missing some context about other things these two men have in common www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
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Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Still awaiting the Senate Parliamentarian review of the proposed federal moratorium on state AI laws.
Still Under Review

Support for Artificial Intelligence. This provision provides federal aid to states under the condition that states agree not to regulate AI. (Section 0012)

The Parliamentarian’s advice is based on whether a provision is appropriate for reconciliation and conforms to the limitations of the Byrd Rule; it is not a judgement on the relative merits of a particular policy.
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