Ben Chou 周浩恩

elections attorney, native texan 🤠🏳️‍🌈 he/him. all views are my own.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

Our fight is for Adam Raine, his parents, Maria and Matt; and for every family and every kid.

The consequences of failing to regulate AI aren’t imaginary; they are already here. I’m running for Congress to protect our kids and take on the oligarchs spending millions to take away our power. We can’t let them win.

The Raine family telling the story of Adam makes clear the stakes. I'm humbled by their trust and inspired by their advocacy.

Watch their story—the closing ad of our campaign:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Christian D. Menefee @CDMenefee]

Polls are open!

Go to https://t.co/pQZp96bkin for more information.

[Christian D. Menefee @CDMenefee]

TX-18, Election Day is tomorrow! 

Polls are open from 7am till 7pm. Go to https://t.co/pQZp96bkin for more information!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Holy Spirit challenges us today regarding our relationship with technology and the ongoing digital revolution. Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate and protect our common home; but it can also divide, exclude and generate new forms of injustice. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Austin Ahlman for Congress @ahlmanforne]

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people.

Let’s take Nebraska back.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Modern fatherhood would be unrecognisable to a 1950’s dad.

“Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled.

Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled.

You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.” — @DKThomp

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

We should never get used to this being the official voice of our government.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate.

AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

Has anyone tried to draw a national House map with *zero* competitive seats to help understand the dystopian future we're headed towards? As in, the only way a district could be competitive is if an at-large seat were.

[Nirav D. Shah @nirav_maine]

The latest on the #Hantavirus situation on a cruise ship in the Atlantic.

Preparedness matters and RFK is not prioritizing it.

[Ben Chou 周浩恩 @benchousf]

this is a BIG DEAL.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

Pearland, TX Mayoral Election

>95% Reported:
🔵 Quentin Wiltz - 6,003 (51.1%)
🔴 Tony Carbone - 5,740 (48.9%)

This city was Trump+3 in 2024.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD

Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled.

Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled.

You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Over 4,000 young Americans are alive today who might not be — because of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline we built together.

The grief of losing a child is something that no parent should ever have to know.

We launched 988 in 2022. We invested in it. We fought for it. And now the data is in: an 11% drop in youth suicide. Thousands of kids who picked up the phone instead of giving up.

In my view, that’s what government is supposed to do.

[Ben Chou 周浩恩 @benchousf]

Go Alex go! Give him some money as he takes on the Big AI companies

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

What can government actually do to make AI work for people?

Sat down with @ezraklein to talk through it—my AI safety bill in NY, the millions in PAC spending against our campaign, and how to stop Trump's megadonors and AI oligarchs from gaining unchecked power over us.

This is the conversation I've been wanting to have. https://t.co/d1D8xAnaQ0

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.