Fault Line Report.

Critics say AI billionaires are buying the election to control what happens in kids' classrooms.

The nine-figure spending targets candidates by their stance on AI regulation, not by their stance on schools.

Sacks says Anthropic invented the AI-safety panic to box out rivals.

Anthropic turned down a Pentagon contract and ate a federal blacklisting rather than drop its safety guardrails.

Critics say companies are using AI as a cover story for ordinary layoffs.

Real AI-driven job cuts are also happening. Both things are true at the same time.

A White House adviser says AI-doomer rhetoric incited the attack on Sam Altman's home.

The safety groups blamed for it have zero documented contact with the attacker and explicit no-violence policies.

Critics say Big Tech's AI buildout is really one big surveillance machine.

Anthropic turned down $200 million from the Pentagon rather than loosen its rules against mass surveillance.

Critics say the AI industry is selling inevitability to make opposition feel pointless before it forms.

A hundred-plus cities protested data centers five months after the industry's biggest ad push.

A tech investor says anti-data-center protesters are bused-in actors funded by Beijing.

A reporter asked attendees how they got there. They drove themselves.

Pro-buildout voices call data-center protesters Luddites who are handing the AI race to China.

The 120-plus protests are local fights over power bills and water, not organized opposition to AI itself.

Sanders says AI executives are cutting jobs to get richer, not to help anyone.

OpenAI's CEO just proposed taxing the rich, including himself, to fund a payout for everyone.

Critics say data-center tax breaks prove officials are bought by industry money.

The same year, New York banned new data centers and a North Carolina commissioner lost his seat for approving one.

Critics say the AI industry's own doom talk set the mood for someone to attack Sam Altman.

The critics making that case condemned the attack in the same breath they made it.

Sacks says California's "one-time" billionaire tax was never going to stay one-time.

He was right that a second tax proposal followed. Nobody's found a backer who actually wants the industry destroyed.

Sacks says the AI jobs crisis is a hoax the press is running on purpose.

A real study found no AI-driven hiring collapse, and the same outlets gave the skeptical case prominent coverage too.