HeyJaredAssembly Notes by Stacey Abrams
Assembly Notes is where I share ideas, stories, and strategies—from politics to writing to the work of building a better world.
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Brazil Drew the Line. Now It Has to Hold. (opens the original)
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On Sunday, more than 158 million Brazilians are eligible to vote for president. One of the leading candidates is Flávio Bolsonaro, a 45-year-old senator and the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.His father will not be on the ballot. Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running and serving a 27-year sentence for plotting to overturn the last election. After spending months in a cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília, he is now serving that sentence under humanitarian house arrest.<a class=
Don’t Give Them the Silence They Want (opens the original)
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This weekend, my mom came to my house to travel with me to a voter rally on a college campus. Before we got on the road, she asked if I thought all of the White House Press Corps should boycott future briefings as a show of solidarity. My parents were civil rights activists as teenagers during Jim Crow, and they know something about boycotts. I have opinions too - that sometimes, boycotts are the most effective means of demanding redress. But, sometimes, they simply give the bad guys exactly wha
They Say AI Must Slow Down. Watch What They’re Speeding Up. (opens the original)
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Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on his own industry to slow down. Within a day, the heads of OpenAI, xAI, Google DeepMind and Microsoft had chimed in.Some of the most powerful companies on Earth stood together and acknowledged that the technology they are building may be moving too fast to control.I take that warning seriously.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" h
Inside the Fight Over Meta, Paramount and ICE (opens the original)
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I grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, watching ABC or PBS because we couldn’t afford cable. On Saturdays, the local ABC affiliate, WLOX ran Hee Haw, and I would laugh the whole episode. If we were watching PBS, I would sometimes grudgingly tolerate the music of the Grand Ole Opry, and occasionally hum along. Yet, as a teenager, I insisted I hated country music, and when a friend asked why, I didn’t have an answer. For the next month, I made myself listen to every station on the radio, including th
Inside Trump’s Surveillance State (opens the original)
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As many of you know, I write political thrillers, and in 2023 I published Rogue Justice, a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of the FISA Court, a real secret federal court that can surveil Americans without a public hearing, where only a handful of politicians actually have oversight. I write fiction based on fact, and I like to worry about the future, which is why I was so disturbed earlier this month when the <a href="https://savannahpd.org/savannah-police-department-terminates-six-emplo
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