Bill Dunne

now COO @RaineyCenter -- then @TheDataTrust, @GOP, @ChrisChristie -- always Yankees, Knicks, Devils, and Jets, thank you Jeter, Ewing, Brodeur, and...Vinny?

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

NO! When permanent DST was last tried, it COST CHILDREN’S LIVES! Morning commuters need sunlight to wake up, feel alert, and arrive to work and school SAFELY. Ditch DST, restore permanent Standard Time instead!

[Zac Moffatt @ZacMoffatt]

Facts not fear

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

💯 spot on @Amelia4Utah

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

Amelia Powers Gardner on why America's decentralized election system is a security strength, not a weakness:

"We know that there are foreign actors that are constantly attempting to take advantage of our election cycles. One of the reasons they're unable to is because it is a decentralized system." @Amelia4Utah

#Federalism #ElectionSecurity #FreeAndFairElections

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

Yes but wasn't it Fourth of July like a week ago 🤔

[Sarah E. Hunt ❤️🌎🇺🇸 @sarahehunt01]

American exceptionalism

[Danielle Franz @DanielleBFranz]

Idk who needs to hear this but your almond milk latte uses more water than ChatGPT.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

China wins. 🇨🇳

[Rainey Center Freedom Project @RaineyFreedom]

In 2019, Congress recognized that Chinese-linked surveillance cameras posed a genuine national security threat and banned them from all U.S. federal buildings. That was the right call. But the same cameras — from the same companies — are still available at major retailers and sitting in millions of American homes with no equivalent protection. If the risk is serious enough to protect our government buildings, it is serious enough to protect our homes.
Learn more at the link in our bio.
#RaineyFreedomProject #NationalSecurity #HomeCameras

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

Happy 250th Independence Day from the Rainey Center team!

Wishing everyone a wonderful 4th of July with the people they love.

#July4th #IndependenceDay #America250 #RaineyCenter

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

@jogeor_ You do realize they changed the offensive rebound shot clock rules that year, right?

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

In our polling about Data Centers that had some really stunning findings, this stat in particular stood out. Unbelievable that so few voters knew of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

9% of voters knew about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

Once they heard about it: 60%+ supported data centers.

Read the full memo here: https://t.co/UJcuGVMJW6

#DataCenters #RatepayerProtection #RaineyCenter

[Sarah E. Hunt ❤️🌎🇺🇸 @sarahehunt01]

According to @RaineyCenter polling over 60% of Americans want President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge codified into law.

[Jalen Brunson @jalenbrunson1]

I just want to be successful thats all..

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

Last week, the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy brought together some of the most important voices in energy and policy at the Energize America 2030 NC State Policy Lab in Raleigh.

Thank you to our incredible speakers and participants who made it happen — including @SarahEHunt01, @CMCoe, @SteveDelBianco, Tom Hassenboehler, @RWalkerFW, @RepJakeJohnson, @RealJeffZENGER, @JasonSaine, and @murraybrianc

North Carolina is at the center of one of the most consequential energy conversations in the country. We're proud to be building the table where those conversations happen.

#Energize2030 #NCEnergyPolicy #RaineyCenter

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

Data Centers power everything that folks take for granted these days. Some of us millennials remember when you had to pay for email storage. Or a lunch delivery was placed using a landline phone and paid for with cash.

We live in a much better and more efficient world today!

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

Your morning email. Your coffee run. Your afternoon call. Your dinner order. Your evening stream. Our Research Analyst, Lucas T. Overby, makes the case that you already voted for the data center boom with every tap, click, and scroll.
Full piece in Deseret News: https://t.co/yG27Hcqgi5
#RaineyCenter #DataCenters

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

This graphic is so helpful in providing context for what data centers actually support.

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

86% of data center activity has nothing to do with AI. Our Research Analyst, Lucas T. Overby, breaks down what's actually running inside the world's fastest-growing infrastructure and why the headlines are missing the bigger story. @Deseret

Read the full piece:
https://t.co/yG27Hcqgi5

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

The Transportation Secretary leveraging his reality TV background and partnering with aligned stakeholders to promote the broader imperative of travel and tourism in the United States in conjunction with the nation's semiquincentennial is good, actually.

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

Since AI is at it's core a *model* I've long felt these products do not have a conscious, it's refreshing to hear this from the devs as well.

https://t.co/QMrLrtECnF

[Bill Dunne @billrdunne]

A timely piece from the always plugged in @MaderyBridge, it's very important folks understand why this Data Center backlash is emerging so suddenly.

[Rainey Center @RaineyCenter]

Rainey Center Senior Advisor Bartlett Cleland breaks it all down in the Washington Examiner: $39 million. That's how much foreign money from foreign billionaires and overseas foundations has flowed into a coordinated network of U.S. activist groups with one mission: stop American data centers from being built.

This isn't grassroots opposition. It's a manufactured campaign bankrolled from abroad to export America's AI future to our global competitors. Read the full article at the link below.

#AIPolicy #NationalSecurity #RaineyCenter