Cam Erickson

Not a bad way to spend my birthday — watching @AbrahamHamadeh deliver a win for 1.5 million patients who almost lost access to their thyroid medications because of one conflicted bureaucrat. FDA backed down. Meds stay on the shelves. That's the whole story. 🔗 hamadeh.house.gov/news/documents…

Anthropic accidentally leaked their entire source code yesterday. What happened next is one of the most insane stories in tech history. > Anthropic pushed a software update for Claude Code at 4AM. > A debugging file was accidentally bundled inside it. > That file contained 512,000 lines of their proprietary source code. > A researcher named Chaofan Shou spotted it within minutes and posted the download link on X. > 21 million people have seen the thread. > The entire codebase was downloaded, copied and mirrored across GitHub before Anthropic's team had even woken up. > Anthropic pulled the package and started firing DMCA takedowns at every repo hosting it. > That's when a Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up at 4AM to his phone blowing up. > He is the most active Claude Code user in the world with the Wall Street Journal reporting he personally used 25 billion tokens last year. > His girlfriend was worried he'd get sued just for having the code on his machine. > So he did what any engineer would do. > He rewrote the entire thing in Python from scratch before sunrise. > Called it claw-code and Pushed it to GitHub. > A Python rewrite is a new creative work. DMCA can't touch it. > The repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any repository in GitHub history. > He wasn't satisfied. He started rewriting it again in Rust. > It now has 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks. > Someone mirrored the original to a decentralised platform with one message, "will never be taken down." > The code is now permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back. Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.

Those little “citizen” protests last weekend?? Look at this…

Why didn’t the House vote on the Senate DHS bill? Because we read it. It defunds over 25% of DHS and undermines efforts to combat child exploitation and drug trafficking. Congress must FULLY FUND DHS to keep our borders secure and our homeland safe.

🚨 FIRST LOOK: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library is officially here. Over the past six months, I have poured my heart and soul into this project with my incredible team at @Trump. This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest President our Nation has ever known. 🇺🇸 These images have never been seen by the public — until today. Enjoy! trumplibrary.org

@camerickson is 100% correct!! @chiproytx @BasedMikeLee @EIwatchdogs

I have instructed the relevant authorities that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch, be granted full and immediate access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Iran has repeatedly targeted the holy sites of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem with ballistic missiles. In one strike, missile fragments crashed meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. To protect worshippers, Israel asked members of all faiths to temporarily abstain from worshipping at the Christian, Muslim and Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City. Today, out of special concern for his safety, Cardinal Pizzaballa was asked to refrain from holding mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Even though I understand this concern, as soon as I learned about the incident with Cardinal Pizzaballa, I instructed the authorities to enable the Patriarch to hold services as he wishes.

To those Senators clinging to the Senate rules and clutching their pearls at the very idea that the Byrd “rule” should never be examined, or the “interpretation” of the filibuster rules by some long since departed parliamentarian, I refer them to the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” @BasedMikeLee @SenEricSchmitt @SenRonJohnson @SenTedBuddNC @EIwatchdogs

If the Senate can voice vote DHS funding at 2:20 AM with 5 senators on the floor without funding ICE... why not the SAVE America Act? Election integrity isn't worth losing sleep over?

@ScottPresler Thanks Scott. You’re doing the heavy lifting on the ground, the Senate needs to do their job in Washington and pass SAVE. Peacefully.

@camerickson Excellent point.

Congressman Hamadeh asks Mr. Owen Lee, Co-Owner & CEO, 2026 MBA Chair-Elect, Mortgage Bankers Association: • How much would switching VA to automated underwriting improve speed and competitiveness? • Is manual underwriting one of the biggest bottlenecks in the VA loan process? • Why is VA lagging behind FHA (another federal program) in modernizing its underwriting?

@annvandersteel Thanks Ann. If they can do 2:20 AM voice votes, they can stay up late for election integrity too.

@camerickson To the point Cam!

A number of people have asked for response to this so here it is: Joe Kent is being a dishonest hack. He worked for the NCTC which is not a law enforcement or investigative agency - he had ZERO role or 1811 investigative authority in this. This is like me saying I was “blocked” from playing receiver for the Commanders - it’s an issue of having no business or frankly ability doing something, not an issue of access. Furthermore, FBI actually made an early exception and allowed NCTC to assess intelligence reports, and International Terrorism returned zero connections. None. Joe Kent kept making things up anyway. The shameless media tour he’s on reeks of being desperate for attention and the baseless conspiracy theories he’s spreading about the admin, particularly Charlie’s murder, could very well make it more difficult to get justice for our friend. If he had any shame, Joe Kent should be ashamed of himself.

📍 Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport "I like it. I think Trump's doing a hell of a job." "Most of the travelers we spoke with say... they're pleased to see ICE agents stepping in."

This is so funny.

🚨 President Trump just dropped this post! 🤣

.@drphil asked me whether I feel worried about releasing my new book “Killed to Order” after 20 years of research. The truth is I have spent decades studying the Chinese Communist Party, and I am very aware of what it is capable of and how it treats people it sees as threats. I do understand there are risks involved in speaking out. But I also cannot ignore what this research has revealed about the treatment of prisoners of conscience and this broader murder-for-organs industry that has been documented over many years. There are people who have dedicated their lives to uncovering what is happening and this book brings together that work in one place. I feel a responsibility to make this information accessible even if it comes with personal risk. Order my book below: 🧵

Thank a Democrat.

The @DeptVetAffairs has opened 34 new health care facilities during the second Trump Administration! Find a VA location near you here: va.gov/find-locations/