civil liberation for dogs @oppoulos

Just want to note that yes, there are progressive Greek Americans.

Jason Poulos @jasonvpoulos

3 weeks ago

We have a massive Pentagon budget. Congress passed a $1 trillion Pentagon budget, and ⁨@RepAuchincloss voted for it. I would have voted against it. That budget gave Trump a trillion dollars that he is now using to engage with war in Iran, which I don't support, and I think it's

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Looks like @RepAuchincloss does have a highly qualified (for the district) and interesting challenger but he has raised almost no money and Auchincloss has an infinite amount. Poulos has criticized Auchincloss for taking AIPAC money and sending weapons to Israel, and for consistently voting to expand surveillance authorities and increase military spending. Primary is September though so the money situation could change. From Fig City News: Poulos grew up in Sherborn, attended Dover-Sherborn Regional High School, and went to UMass Amherst on a Pell Grant before earning a PhD in political science and computational science at UC Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he worked on predicting diabetes treatment outcomes using AI methods. Most recently, he worked as a contract specialist for Scale AI, contributing to benchmark projects that evaluate frontier AI models, including one published in Nature and another presented at ICLR, a top AI conference. His platform centers on what he describes as the interconnected consequences of AI-driven automation: Medicare for All to decouple health insurance from employment, universal basic income to provide an income floor, strengthened collective bargaining rights through the PRO Act, and corporate taxes on automation to fund these programs.

Goob @jrgoob

a month ago

@Rob_Flaherty i guess there's a challenger at least? ill check him out. figcitynews.com/2026/05/jason-…

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@wideofthepost @MajorityDems If anyone is curious, Rep. Auchincloss has a primary challenger. I personally find Auchincloss's disqualifying @jasonvpoulos

NEWS BULLETIN.

"Jason Poulos, an AI researcher from Sherborn challenging Congressman Jake Auchincloss in the September 1 Democratic primary for the MA-4 seat which represents Newton, says artificial intelligence is already displacing workers and Congress isn’t doing enough about it. 'We need large structural changes to create a floor for workers,' Poulos said in a Fig City News podcast interview. He pointed to Oracle’s recent layoffs of tens of thousands of employees as the company redirected resources toward AI data centers. Poulos stated that Oracle has said 'it’s because human labor is no longer as valuable to us, we want to invest our resources in AI data centers.'” @figcitynews figcitynews.com/2026/05/jason-…

We are the first candidate on the ballot for MA-4! Join our grassroots campaign for Medicare-for-all, getting big money out of politics, ending the wars and bringing the money back to our communities.

"'We need robust, progressive legislation to account for persistent double-digit unemployment,' Poulos said. 'It’s really important that we have health insurance available to everybody in this country, and that’s particularly important in an economy where AI is displacing more and more people. While Poulos is focused on helping as many people as possible, he believes AI poses the largest danger to young people, framing his campaign as a 'youth revolt.' 'The policy aspect is focused on the universal, and that’s important to me,' Poulos said. 'But in terms of young people, I think it’s particularly important [to advocate for them] because I think young people are going to bear the brunt of this economy in which AI is displacing jobs.'" @bcheights bcheights.com/231556/metro/a…

"Poulos has taken a more direct approach against the incumbent, with his campaign criticizing what it describes as Auchincloss’s disingenuous and flippant politics on issues like the Iran War. In public statements, Auchincloss has condemned the Trump administration for failing to obtain Congressional approval before the start of hostilities and decried an incoherent strategy for the conflict, lacking long-term goals. Auchincloss, however, has not offered a clear position on his support for the conflict at large or attempts at regime change in the Islamic nation." @bcheights bcheights.com/231516/metro/n…

"Poulos has also made overturning Citizens United and reducing the role of money in politics central to his candidacy, arguing that 'we’re seeing a new kind of oligarchy, where money from industries like AI, crypto, and pharmaceutical companies is shaping policy.' That influence extends to Auchincloss, Poulos said, pointing to the congressman’s positions on drug pricing and foreign policy, which he argues align with his donors’ interests. Publicly available data compiled by OpenSecrets shows that between 2019 and 2024, Auchincloss received $400,322 from pharmaceutical and health companies and $547,380 from Pro-Israel groups." brookline.news/two-progressiv…

Glad to see that taking Palantir money is increasingly becoming toxic. Someone should tell Dan Koh and Jake Auchincloss. thehill.com/policy/technol…

@NoLabelsOrg Should we give Iran defensive weapons to protect its civilians from being hit by missiles?

@AIPAC @TrackAIPAC AIPAC is funded by MAGA billionaires and their account unironically reposts Trump. Why would any Democrat accept their endorsement?

"Poulos continues to underscore that his campaign is not about incremental change, but an acute sense of political urgency. 'This race is about the future of the Democratic Party and whether it serves the donor class or the working class,' he said." newtonbeacon.org/a-youth-revolt…

This Third Way's response to a Democratic candidate hosting a college campus tour with a sitting Democratic representative and the most popular left-leaning streamer in the US lol. Sorry he didn't invite the CEO of a bank instead?

Matt Bennett @ThirdWayMattB

3 months ago

This is disgusting. You are a disgrace to the Democratic Party.

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“Rae said she and the rest of the group want Auchincloss to give all money donated from Palantir, its PAC and its executives to immigrants’ rights organizations.” newtonbeacon.org/protesters-cal…

drug test the military contractors

Jawwwn @jawwwn_

4 months ago

Alex Karp rips into the Palantir conspiracy theorists: “You're attacking the person who's protecting you— idiot.” “You may hate this, but there's one person protecting your rights to be a conspiracy theorist that actually has a seat at the table, and that person is me.” “You

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First comes the process critiques, now the strategy critiques. This rep. took $1 million from AIPAC and affiliated PACs. When Congress had a chance to stop Trump's war machine, he voted for a $1 trillion military budget. No war on Iran. No more bombs, no more killing.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧 @RepAuchincloss

4 months ago

Donald Trump has replaced an 86-year-old terrorist dictator with a 56-year-old terrorist dictator. Mojtaba Khamenei is a radical Shia Islamist who is committed to hard-line clerical rule at home and to exporting the Islamic Revolution abroad. He has deep, decades-long ties to the

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We need ambitious universal programs like Medicare-for-All and Universal Basic Income to address the reality that 7% of the entire workforce is projected to be replaced by AI within the next decade. It was a pleasure speaking with the Wrentham Dems at their Caucus.

Spoke with Attleboro Democrats about the need to address economic insecurities due to AI-related job displacement, including the need for Medicare-for-all, Universal Basic Income, and strengthening collective bargaining rights.