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Should the public own half of AI? Bernie Sanders thinks so. His case in three lines: 🏛️ Our research built it. ⚡ Our power grids run it. 📚 Our data trained it. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ellison are pouring hundreds of billions into AI — and standing to take home the trillions while up to 100 million American jobs are on the chopping block. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would take a 50% stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI and route the dividends back to the people who actually made the technology possible. Alaska does it with oil. The question is whether we do it with AI — or hand the keys to four billionaires.

80% of Wisconsin “backed the budget deal.” 📊 Except that’s not exactly what the poll found. It asked people if they wanted lower property taxes, funded schools, and a $300 rebate — out of a surplus we already have. 80% said yes. Who wouldn’t? The second the same poll mentioned it could blow a hole in next year’s budget, support fell to 69%. People weren’t backing a plan. They were backing the things in it. The real question — is spending one-time money the smart way to pay for it? — is the one that sank the deal in the Senate, where 3 Republicans and all 15 Democrats voted no.

Rent used to be the safety net. Working families are stuck — but Jamie and Brian dig into the Milwaukee project that could be Wisconsin’s blueprint to fix it. Here’s the Wisconsin fix that’s actually getting built. #AffordableHousing #Housing #Affordability #Wisconsin #Milwaukee

Tom Tiffany called January 6 defendants “victims” who might deserve compensation from Trump’s $1.8B fund. Wisconsin Sen. Diane Hesselbein’s answer: a 100% state tax on any payment that lands in Wisconsin. Their fund. Our state’s call.

If we just cut the top #tax rate from 74% to 27%, prosperity would #trickledown. What actually happened? About $70 #trillion got transferred — up. Not to #workingfamilies. Past them.

Jamie Martinson on Daybreak: #hunger in America is worse right now than it was at the peak of COVID. 10% of #families skipping meals. 16% relying on food banks. If the #grocery bill feels heavier, it’s not just you.

The Pope and Barack Obama agree on something. Pope Leo just warned that AI without guardrails will widen inequality and fragment our communities. Obama’s been quietly working on the same problem. The people who *don’t* want guardrails? Billionaires. Pete and Greg get into it on Nite Lite — including the night Pete’s kid had a conversation with an AI assistant that he described as straight-up creepy. Wisconsin families deserve a seat at this table before the rules get written without us.

Wisconsin has 53 data centers already. 🔌 The tech isn’t the scary part. The motives are. On Daybreak, Jamie and Brian break down who’s really behind the buildout, what it means for our power grid and water, and why “jobs” doesn’t tell the whole story once a facility goes live. A tool is only as good as the hands holding it. Let’s be realistic about whose hands those are. 💬 What’s a data center doing in your corner of Wisconsin? Tell us.

Wisconsin’s Rep. Brian Steil chairs the House subcommittee that writes the rules on cryptocurrency. The crypto industry has spent $750K+ boosting him. It’s not just Steil. It’s not just one party. Democrats. Republicans. Using committee knowledge for personal gain. Same problem. That’s why they all leave office as millionaires.

Tax the rich is a great bumper sticker — but how do you actually do it? State Rep. Francesca Hong joined Brian on Daybreak to spell it out: a new top bracket on multi-millionaires and billionaires, plus rolling back corporate tax breaks she calls “corporate welfare” — the data center sales tax exemption and the manufacturing & ag tax credit. Her estimate: $400M+ a year that could be redirected to special education funding indexed to inflation, healthy school meals, and public schools instead of private vouchers. “Tax the rich is wildly popular,” Hong said. What would you want that money to fund in your community?

What ideas are we afraid to let a high school kid hear? The Watertown school board voted 7–1 to pull an instrumental from the high school spring concert. No lyrics. No words. Just a piece named for Marsha P. Johnson. Brian Noonan, a former teacher, on Daybreak: “The school board is way out of line.” #Wisconsin #Watertown #FreeExpression #Daybreak #CivicMedia

“You’re basically subsidizing their salary.” Food journalist Adam Reiner stopped by Nite Lite this week and walked Pete & Greg through the math most diners never see: the federal base wage for tipped workers is **$2.13 an hour**, and your tip is what closes the gap to minimum wage. Reiner notes some West Coast states have pushed their tipped minimum to $15–17. Most of the country still runs on the old math. His ask: sit at the bar on a Monday at 5. Buy the gift card. The local restaurants sponsoring little league teams won’t be there forever if we don’t show up.

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