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[David Weigel @daveweigel]

New entry into the data center wars: @GinaHinojosaTX going after Greg Abbott.

A woman uses an AI chatbot to ask why her electric bill is going up; it answers, Greg Abbott.

[Noah Goldberg @Noah__Goldberg]

NEW: I reached out repeatedly last week to Median Strategies, asking to speak with their head of polling.

After reaching out repeatedly, they told me they were discontinuing their polling operation, then they admitted their poll was fake.

https://t.co/yE8GNuzG6Q

[Taegan Goddard @politicalwire]

I wanted to pass along a new daily game my son just released.

It’s called Yea or Nay, and the premise is simple: You’re given five U.S. senators and three bills each day, and you have to guess how each senator actually voted.

It's very addictive!

https://t.co/glPyB8z9Bu

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times. “Don’t worry I’m not tracking you or some weird stalker shit," he texted her. After his arrest, he committed suicide.

He's one of 50 cops we found misusing Flock: 🧵

[Acyn @Acyn]

Tapper: Now, your ex-wife stated to police that your child told her… “daddy kill you”

Max Miller: I wish you could talk to my beautiful baby girl. She can't string together sentences like that

Tapper: But didn't you just tell me that she had said that she was scared to go to mommy's house. But now you're saying that she's not capable of saying, daddy kill you?

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

https://t.co/JAkyxrnA5m

[NASA @NASA]

To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility:

“I guess,” he says

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” https://t.co/8l5XEzlGDF

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://t.co/dNBRWAiv0b

[TIME @TIME]

Not much unites Americans these days. But a growing cross section of the public—from MAGA loyalists to Democratic socialists, pastors to policymakers, nurses to filmmakers—agree on at least one thing: AI is moving too fast.

While most Americans use the tools, the U.S. is one of the most AI-pessimistic countries in the world. A 2025 Pew poll found five times as many Americans are concerned as are excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.

For the new issue, TIME spoke to a broad array of AI skeptics, from disparate regions, ideologies, and professions. Read their cases against AI here: https://t.co/kADtlAnWEt.?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=190226

[john @johncwingfield]

Scenes along the central coast of California, shot on 35mm film 🎞️

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

California's DROP program is now active, giving Californians the ability to stop data brokers from selling their personal information.

DROP, which stands for Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, is a one-stop site to submit a data deletion request, requiring data brokers to delete your information.

Read more: https://t.co/VfoTef1sxl

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025..."

[PBS News @NewsHour]

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025. (From @19thnews) https://t.co/JbGWwBNrQT

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

DOGE closed offices, killed programs, eliminated jobs, and deprived people of medicine and aid. What it didn’t cut: federal spending. That went up.

Of the agency's top 40 savings claims, 28 were wrong. https://t.co/LzyhKfWd8c

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

13 years ago, 20 children and 6 educators never came home from Sandy Hook Elementary School. They were killed in their classrooms in a shooting that changed our nation forever.

Since then, the Sandy Hook families have been forced to carry a pain that no one should ever experience. Today and always, my heart is with them.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial.

I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.

Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
https://t.co/EAqRoi5zN2