Yet another example of AI companies continuing to invest heavily in influence operations in DC.
OpenAI, the company behind chatbot ChatGPT, spent $1.02 million lobbying in Q1, new report shows.
That's up 82% from Q1 of 2025.
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Secretary Burgum is defying Congress to hide the status of renewable energy projects from the public.
The Trump Administration is waging an all-out war on renewable energy—I’m demanding answers.
Burgum, randomly, on Fox News: "Shout out to President Trump"
like, they’re a software company and government contractor…. why the philosophy fetish
i was going to point this out and … you already caught it!
Construction of Trump's Triumphal Arch will begin “sometime in the next two months," Trump tells @politico.com:
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As I previously reported, fundraising for the arch will be conducted by an org called Freedom 250, which is also behind lighting the Washington Monument.
That is, the new URL, launched on Tuesday, 250.gov has reverted to URL Freedom250.org
The Christian nationalist theme is prominent
🚨 On May 17, Trump’s Freedom 250 will stage Rededicate 250, a 12-hour Christian nationalist event on the National Mall for purpose of 'rededicating our country as One Nation under God.'
Sponsored by companies including Mastercard, Scotts Miracle-Gro, and United Airlines.
What???
Vince Haley, director of the Domestic Policy Council of the US:
“Through Scripture and testimony, music and worship, Americans will be invited to recognize the unmistakable hand of God at work in our national life"
Mastercard, United Airlines among sponsors
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it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
Good morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
Trump's Freedom 250 website was relaunched Tuesday as 250.gov, "An official website of the United States government." That language has been scrubbed
🧵 On Tuesday, Trump's Freedom 250 relaunched as 250.gov saying it's "An official website of the United States government."
That language has been scrubbed and 250.gov has reverted to Freedom250.org
@schiff.senate.gov is leading an investigation into Trump's Freedom 250 over fundraising questions.
The lobbying registration
On Friday, Anthropic hired Trump-linked lobbying firm Ballard Partners for “advocacy regarding DOW procurement.”
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“Crypto Investor at Center of Trump Corruption Allegations Now Sees Himself as ‘Victim’”
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Eric Swalwell & @eric...' 6m X I am suspending my campaign for | Governor. To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that's my fight, not a campaign's.
Swalwell OUT of governor’s race—
it's all pretty abundantly annoying at this point
awww i'm almost birthday pals with metro (2 years older)
an abundance of philosophy!
Hmmm maybe writing white papers about nukes and complaining about enviros is a simpler technical task than actually building one and getting it over the finish line, not even to mention building it on budget. Far easier to blame enviros and regulators.
well played sir
AP hed: "House Republicans subpoena Hunter and James Biden..."
CNBC hed: "Republicans block Democratic push for Trump Jr. subpoena."
Hmm...
yeah! heard him on the Bulwark and was like, wow!
The very day Doug Burgum killed offshore wind leases & used their carcass to feed fossil fuels, one of Burgum's key cheerleaders in the Abundance crowd, Alex Trembath, touted how his org, The Breakthrough Institute, filed a court brief *OPPOSING* a youth-led fight for the right to a livable climate.
Let’s remember that the architect of this “kill a major renewables project and use its carcass to boost fossil fuels” deal is Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum—a man that key leaders of the Abundance crowd fawned over.
I’d really love the Abundance crowd to explain how federal “permitting reform”—which is predicated on providing long-desired concessions to fossil fuels under the premise Trump & Rs would end their War on Renewables—would address this double-whammy attack on renewables and the climate.
Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.
🚨 Big Oil is lobbying "to rig the system" to escape legal accountability for their climate lies and keep sticking the public with the bill for the damages.
@govjayinslee.bsky.social is sounding the alarm.
"If the fossil fuel industry is following the law, what does it have to fear in court?"
NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37).
With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%.
Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.
