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70% of New Yorkers oppose banning personalized discounts.NYC Council’s Int. 891-A would put coupons and loyalty rewards at risk anyway.
Cracking down on unfair price hikes makes sense. Taking away the discounts families count on doesn’t.
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A drunk driver crashed into Sarah McCammon and her son. Now she feels safer in a driverless car than in a car with a human driver, and she wants DC to stop waiting.
Add your name at dc4avs.com
Poppa John is 92, and he still drives from Staten Island to Lakehurst, NJ, to see his girlfriend.
We partnered with Poppa John to share what it means to getting around as we age. Staying independent and close to the people we love shouldn’t get harder with age. Autonomous vehicles could give older New Jerseyans a safer way to keep doing both.
New Jersey is considering a three-year pilot program to test autonomous vehicles on real roads, with oversight built in.
#NJ4AVs #AutonomousVehicles #NewJersey #SelfDrivingCars
European antitrust enforcers are treating privacy as a barrier to competition.
They fined Apple nearly €250M over its “Ask App Not to Track” prompt, then ordered Google to hand rivals Europeans’ search data despite warnings from EU privacy regulators. 👇
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54% of midterm voters were “very concerned” about utility costs, and they backed Democrats 66–32.
BAAJA is how Democrats deliver on that: faster transmission, faster permitting, and data centers that pay their own way.
@TahraHoops on the numbers 👇
NEW: The Senate is expected to vote (with enough votes) to pass BAAJA, a historical permitting reform bill!
We have compiled key reports and models that all point to BAAJA being a win for affordability and lowering electricity costs.
On transmission reform, by making it easier to move cheaper power to where its needed, we can clear grid congestion (that costs consumers more than $17 Billion), these new savings would lead to around ~350B from 2025-2050, which averages out to an annual amount of $50-$78 annually per household by 2040.
Having data centers pay their own way. A Fed working paper projects that data center demand will increase wholesale power prices >12% by 2028 without policy change. BAAJA would instead lead to $35- $136B in avoiding costs for other ratepayers, over 10 years, depending on how many states use their new authority under BAAJA.
Thanks to permitting streamlining, allowing cheaper power plants and transmission online years faster, it could reduce electric bills by $178 to $251 per year for the average household.
With permit certainty we can stop the attacks on clean energy, continued constraints on these projects could add an estimated $81.2 billion to household energy bills over the next 7 yrs.
There are more savings tucked into this large great bill! Let's get ready to pass BAAJA!
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Everyone’s looking at Mississippi this week. Worth asking what Democrats would actually do to help places like it prosper.
@GaryWinslett's answer: cities need housing reform, rural America needs infrastructure. 👇
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“Democrats did well everywhere – not just where AI or data centers were an issue. Democratic governor candidates who did not support data center bans actually won at higher rates than those who did.” – @adamkovac in @thehill
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Europe already has the DSA, the DMA, the AI Act and GDPR, and most of them are only a few years old.
Before Brussels adds a Digital Fairness Act, it should enforce the rules it has. Piling on more overlapping obligations means slower launches and higher costs for Europeans, with no added protection.
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We joined 22 organizations urging the Commission to get the DFA right ahead of its Nov 11 proposal 👇
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Democrats won by promising to lower costs. Now they need to deliver. Our new memo: Make the First Bill a Cost of Living Bill 🧵
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Democrats just won back the House and Senate. So what does that actually mean for you?
Your power bill, your grocery discounts, your kids’ screen time, your job. Here’s what the new majority should tackle first.
Democrats won by promising to lower costs. Now they need to deliver.
Our new memo: Make the First Bill a Cost of Living Bill 🧵
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Voters gave Democrats a clear assignment: bring down costs.
@TahraHoops on how the new majority’s first bill can deliver on housing, energy, health care, and raising kids 👇
By a 41-point margin, Americans want Democrats to prioritize lowering costs over investigating the President.
New memo from @adamkovac: make the first bill a cost of living bill.
🏠 Home by 30
🚫 Repeal costly tariffs
🩺 14,000 new medical residencies
🍎 Universal school meals
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Pro-innovation House Democrats won 39 of the 40 races called so far.
AI and data centers ranked 19th on voters’ list of top issues. People voted on costs, and they sent a bench to Congress that’s ready to build, not block.
Canadians want lower prices, not fewer discounts.
63% oppose banning loyalty programs, coupons, and senior and student discounts just because they use algorithms.
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As MPs begin studying algorithmic pricing today, here’s our new polling 👇 progresschamber.org/news/pol…
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What everyone’s missing in tonight’s AI exit-poll takes: it ranked last of the five issues tested.
Voters gave Democrats the House and Senate to bring down costs and fight corruption. That’s the assignment for the new majority.
How important was AI and data centers to your vote?
Crucial: 23%
Major factor / minor factor / non-factor: 77%
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