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Chris Kluwe

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Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?

I’m running for California State Assembly!

Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

Well, issuing a statement is more than what he’s done before, and this is a promise to voters to hold people accountable. We’ll see if he backs it up once able to do so

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

I think he’s finally realizing that “oh shit I better do something about this or they’re for sure gonna arrest me too and/or I’m gonna get primaried SO hard”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yeah, I’m definitely waiting for the action to back up the words, and if it doesn’t happen I’ll be letting them know that’s not acceptable

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

Unfortunately, I live literally on the other side of the country :/

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

We sound legitimately crazy when trying to describe how we got here, but it’s how we got here! It all happened!!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

I would argue he is, in fact, doing it wrong, because he is focused on kicking the football instead of giving the goodest dog some scritches

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

You owe me $100 for putting that on my timeline

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
But th…

$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

Always have been

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

Everything old is new again

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7h

Oh I know, but we have to do what we can

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7h

Yup!

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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7h

It sucks, but we still gotta fight

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 7h

Well that’s not great

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8h

California! Vote YES on 50, and tell Trump to fuck off with his vote rigging schemes!

My ballot for prop 50 filled out with a “yes” vote

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8h

It’s very evocative :)

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

This has famously never been a problem

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

I am so tired of this braying plaguedonkey being in charge of public health. Everyone who voted to confirm him has blood on their hands.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

“Look, we use reasonable suspicion, AND we don’t even say it with a hard ‘r,’ what more do you want from us?”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h

I have not, but I can imagine