Bilal Baydoun
@bilalb.bsky.social
Views here my own. Director of Democratic Institutions @rooseveltinstitute.org and @Rooseveltforward.org. #FirstGen Go Blue.
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No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
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I made a case for ending our America-last corporate tax policy here: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...
‘America Last’ Corporate Tax Policies Can End With This Congress
Opinion: FACT Coalition's Zorka Milin says Congress should raise certain global tax rates that were part of the soon-expiring Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in addit...
news.bloombergtax.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
I made a case for ending our America-last corporate tax policy here: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...
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... We've also championed state-level funding initiatives that create local "Civic Information Consortiums" & journalist fellowships that put more reporting boots on the ground in local communities nationwide.
Pennsylvania legislators just advanced a model, based on a similar success in New Jersey.
Pennsylvania legislators just advanced a model, based on a similar success in New Jersey.
Pennsylvania House Committee Advances Essential Legislative Package to Support Local Journalism and Civic Information
The bills follow legislative models that are helping to support local news in a growing number of states.
www.freepress.net
February 6, 2026 at 3:09 PM
... We've also championed state-level funding initiatives that create local "Civic Information Consortiums" & journalist fellowships that put more reporting boots on the ground in local communities nationwide.
Pennsylvania legislators just advanced a model, based on a similar success in New Jersey.
Pennsylvania legislators just advanced a model, based on a similar success in New Jersey.
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A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
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Newspapers provided news as a club good economically (non-rivalrous but excludable). The internet broke that. Now it's a public good. What you want is non-profit and/or public funding to produce news regardless of profit. The hope was Bezos would operate like that given his vast wealth. He didn't.
February 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Newspapers provided news as a club good economically (non-rivalrous but excludable). The internet broke that. Now it's a public good. What you want is non-profit and/or public funding to produce news regardless of profit. The hope was Bezos would operate like that given his vast wealth. He didn't.