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>>2289596 >>2291229>jucheWhy are leftcoms alegirgic to a taste of what they love,
fascism social democracy with corporatist furnishings.
>>2291249They really don't give a fuck about someone the moment they're born, and they're making it more and more obvious by the day.
"ALL LIFE IS SACRED" suddenly turned into "Well we're all going to die someday silly!!!!" real fast.
>>2291346>what extortionist deal?the entire pretext of the Iran deal under Obama was America unilaterally froze Iran's assets in international banks, and would slowly give Iran
their own money back (denominated in gradually inflating dollars btw, so it loses value over time) if they handicapped their own nuclear power facilities and let the IAEA regularly inspect them. When Trump started running for what would become his first term in 2015, he regularly fear mongered about this unilateral imperialist "Iran Nuclear Deal" and falsely claimed that America giving Iran its own money back was "Hillary giving away our money" (since the deal was struck when Clinton was secretary of state). He was falsely claiming that the Iranian assets which America stole were American assets that Iran was being given for no reason. Such is the lowness and filth of the American imperialist extortionists that they attempt to outdo each other like this.
>>2291349Ah yeah, thanks.
As a movie it's pretty dull imo, but an interesting artifact. The refrain throughout the movie is that true patriotism involves sacrifice for the motherland, before even neighbors, oneself, or even the party. I wonder how much of this message is charged by it coming out in 1993.
Hey, am I fucking dumb? Am I a stupid monkey ass motherfucker? Am I a dumb motherfucker? Am I a stupid fucking dumb motherfucker? Maybe I am. Maybe I'm the dumbest motherfucker around, because I'm moving to Florida, brother. I know a lot of people who have moved away from Florida for the same reasons I'm moving to Florida, and I can keep it a buck here. I can keep it a buck here more than anywhere else, because this is a motherfucking image board. I'm moving to Florida specifically because it's a shithole, specifically because it's run by crazy fucking Republicans, specifically because there's a whole bunch of poor motherfuckers, specifically because the heat makes people go fucking crazy, specifically because every oppressive tactic, bullshit law and regressive ideological nonsense is tested in Florida before anywhere else, and then implemented to the wider array of American policies. We saw it with the damn immigration shit.
So look, I'm gonna keep it a buck. I'm gonna keep it a motherfucking dollar. I received a private donation from someone who reached out to me and was like, look, I'm a big fan of what you do. I like what you do. I want to support you, and he sent me some cash, and my first thought is I'm going to use this money to move, and I have just enough to do it, just enough. I'm gonna have less than a hundred dollars after the move, so if anything goes wrong, I'm fucking cooked. So in order to make sure that this goes smoothly, I started a little fundraiser, and I'm posting it here.
Also to the moderators of this website, much love. I'm gonna throw you guys some merch designs in exchange for the fact that you let me shill here without any issues. I see you. It's known, and if you want to promote /leftypol/ on HOUDINI Magazine, let me know. We could run a banner or something at the very least. I'm okay with that. I think it adds a nice edge to what we're doing.
Moral of the story, if you've ever wanted to support this motherfucking dumb piece of shit moron, e-begging, grifting, fucking petite bourgeoisie son-of-a-bitch, and actually going and doing on-the-ground shit, now's your time to do it.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/houdini-magazine-does-florida>>2291443I support people doing that shit. If you think about it, having an understanding of historical materialism, how people operate based on economic factors, how they operate based on their material conditions, these things you would think would give us an edge in the polymarket game that the right-wingers just simply do not have, even though we, being communists, are much less likely to actually use polymarket.
Problem is you gotta be in the money already to make it work, if you're not in a position to spare a few hundred to gamble already, it's not for you. (or me)
>>2291440Omg so weird and quirky and intriguing
kys uygha
>>2291442Most Americans have no devotion to any ideology and don't give a shit who keeps a house over their head or their children from starving.
So shut up and get to work you fucking pussy.
>>2291476lmao
that woman suffers from cognitive dissonance. what a jewel. a psychologist would be amazed of studying the effects of her relationship with the company she works for, but could be possible she's gaslighted into believing that NG doesn't do what the
people says they do.
>>2291492Yeah, I wouldn't openly advocate for it but every time I see liberals get excited about "no tax on tips" all I can think of how dumb relying on tips is in the first place.
>>2291493I don't go on there so I wouldn't know.
>>2291476i'm not all that far off.
Trying to find a new job.
>>2291462>>2291473The vast majority of Americans are willing and enthusiastic collaborators with a system which doesn't even try to hide it's myriad crimes. They fully understand the nature of imperialism and think it's good because it benefits them. If you doubt, ask them where their Nikes and Funko Pops come from, they will tell you about the kids in sweatshops even as they order more.
At the very best, your average American operates under a "better them than me" theory, and at worst they are fanatically devoted to Capitalism to the point where they would gladly (and do, in great numbers) kill and die for it.
You are wrong to such an extent I would suspect it was intentional if I didn't know how alienated the average American "leftist" was.
>>2291572This board has a lot of self loathing people who recoil at the sight of doers. OR most IRL stuff anyway.
Misery loves company.
>>2291571i cannot filter because liberalism must be smashed, not ignored.
>>2291572the seethe is warranted. The begging alone is enough but the liberalism and overall intellectual beggary is too much. The dependency on styism over substance is sickening.
>>2291573>Moral of the story, if you've ever wanted to support this motherfucking dumb piece of shit moron, e-begging, grifting, fucking petite bourgeoisie son-of-a-bitch, and actually going and doing on-the-ground shit, now's your time to do it.proletarians do not use language like this. proletarians do not beg like this This language of the stylized liberal beggar salesman is irrevocable to proletarian. doing nothing better than begging to fund liberal beggar
>>2291440why are you moving to florida when it's just as fucked up in teKKKsas.
anyway houdini is more correct than any of you nerds and you can't stand it.
Seems like USA trying to coax European car makers to move to the US is going to be a failure - thanks to China striking where it hurts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/china-us-export-controls.htmlOn May 12, the countries announced after weekend meetings in Geneva that they would suspend most of their recently imposed tariffs. Since then, however, both governments have shown that they are still prepared to wield controls over critical exports as weapons against one another, with moves that are potentially even more damaging to trade and global supply chains.
China has restricted its exports of rare earth magnets, which are crucial for cars, semiconductors, aircraft and many other applications. Close to 90 percent of the world’s rare earth metals, including magnets, are produced in China.
And the United States on May 13 banned the latest semiconductors from Huawei, a Chinese electronics giant. Then on Wednesday, President Trump suspended the shipment of American semiconductors and some aerospace equipment needed for China’s commercial aircraft, the C919, a signature project in China’s push toward economic self-reliance.
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Last week, Ford Motor temporarily closed a factory in Chicago that makes Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles after one of its suppliers ran out of the magnets. In most new cars, the magnets are used in dozens of electric motors that operate brake and steering systems, fuel injectors and even power seats.
On Monday, China granted some export licenses for rare earth magnets to be shipped to the United States and Europe, …
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Several companies in Europe, including Volkswagen, were granted permission by Beijing to continue procuring rare earth magnets soon after China began enforcing export controls on them in April. American companies have been juggling factory schedules, reassigning their dwindling magnet supplies to continue making their most profitable products.
>>2291583fag fag little faggot faggety fag faggot fag takes it in the butt and doesn't even enjoy it fag butt munching rat homo
anyways looking forward to the primaries
>>2291592>>AOC is only 20%Hah!
AOC is taking so well to the democratic party heel that Bernie is grooming her for
>>2291634apartheid for the
master race god's chosen people and nobody else
>>2291631also just listen to the audiobook anon made
>>2291614. it's only about 36 minutes
>>2291368while I agree there should be a distinction drawn between mere interpersonal discrimination and actual systemic oppression, I do not agree with the formulation that minorities are not capable of being systemically racist towards white people. Actually let me quote the words you posted directly:
>But minorities are not capable of being racist towards white peopleFor example, it is entirely possible for an ethnic or religious minority to constitute the ruling class or ruling caste in a society and discriminate against the majority. After all, in India the Brahmin are a minority, but they are capable of systemically oppressing the majority. Same with white supremacy in apartheid South Africa, before apartheid was overthrown. When zionism first started, Jewish zionists were a minority in Palestine, but they gained political power by oppressing the Palestinian majority with the help and sponsorship of Europe and America. Whites were the numerical minority in South Africa but still oppressed and discriminated against the numerical majority of the population. So it's not specifically about "minorities" being incapable of systemically oppressing the majority, it's about the
oppressed class being incapable of oppressing
ruling class until they
seize political power, and this is true whether or not there are intersectional ethnic/religious/sexual etc. dynamics to the class oppression. I think this is a much more historical materialist formulation than simply "minority can't oppress majority." After all, the capitalist class is a minority and is perfectly capable of oppressing the proletarian majority.
https://tv.leftypol.org/r/LGBTA if you want to watch flooootilla together
>>2291969She's been getting more based for years at this point to be fair.
>>2291977anon it's a repeat it's being repeating the same clip for hours
there is no livestream
>>2291576Democrats aren’t going to make it
>>2292087More like until this country is dead
>>22920872016) vote for me because
I am a woman2020) if you don't vote for me
you aint black.
2024) Khamala had 0 charismatic skills to be this delusional2028) vote for me if you like dicks!
>>2291440https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=119884&title=fundraiser-support-houdini-magazine-s-florida-moveWebsite post
>>2291585>why are you moving to florida when it's just as fucked up in teKKKsas. I know a lot of bands/artists/influencers who are based in Florida, like I have a better network of support there than I do here. East coast is better positioning for long term base building, more access to more cities in a closer area. 6 hour drive and you're in Atlanta, another 6 and you're in NC. Drive 12 hours in Texas you're probably still in Texas.
>>2292254I'm sorry anon I'll do better next time ;-;
Also happy Pride Month. With an openly queerphobic administration and general campaign against anything and everything "woke", not to mention various corporations withdrawing their opportunistic support, I wouldn't be surprised if some pride parades end up being attacked by the police or paramilitaries. Stay safe out there folks
>>2292372they'll try, every single one has been stopped by the IDF in some form
the ship sets sail for gaza later tonight
>>2291576Newsom is such a stupid man. He is a 6'3 very handsome white guy with an aryan family he basically have a boulevard to become the next dem president for 8 years straight and he choose to blew it up by being a servile buffon to socon republicans at the last minute (they still hate him), on top of being uncompetent at running his state.
The worst part is that libs all over social medias were hyping him up to be the republican's future worst nightmare given he's the only American politician with charisma & physical presence who isnt born in 1940.
What a waste. Unbelievable misscalculation on his part, whoever advise him should be decapitated.
>>2292461That wont be hard, dying violently is part and parcel to living in the US of A
>>2292463ngl I always thought those were basically the same thing at this point. Militant queers tend to fight under antifa and vice versa
>>2292464>ngl I always thought those were basically the same thing at this point.Not really. There is an overlap but the reality is modern queers are oftentime bitch made and their politics don't go beyond "being a decent f*cking human bean", they're not like the crazy homo transvestites queers gang members the SA and Spartakists used to recruit back in the days.
Efficient ANTIFA cells today are mostly "normal" young straight men with a virilist attitude (which is good).
>>2292475Christians=terrorist
>>2292476Technically its politics by means of violence which is flimsy and can be applied to almost anything. But the problem isnt simply violent occupation. It would be if maybe Hamas or terrorist weren involved and were the legitmate government. But giving credence to terrorist that call you terrorist doesnt really help. Thats all Im saying.
>>2292483moronic post
get out of here
>>2291583>is it because I was only a small town mayor?>is it because I backtracked on all my good policies because of my neoliberal donors?>is it because I'm unlikable to everyone except liberal wine moms?>no it's because I didn't have a beard!He has no chance.
He can't tout his experience as a transportation secretary because a. nobody knows what the fuck that is and b. he didn't do anything noteworthy.
The fact that he's gay is a problem but it's not the biggest problem by any means.
A gay who was charismatic and inspirational could do well. He is not that.
>>2292530In my city it's a clique of gay bar / nightclub owners (they also have their own "guild") and they organize it through a non-profit organization. The NGO has a steering committee comprised of the gay bar owners + some professional "program director" NGO types who the non-profit hires to run it and handle the financing. I actually know one of them sorta.
There was actually a row about this some years ago when the bar owners were banning kink from the parade, basically you couldn't get permission to be in the parade if you were wearing a thong. And the editor of the local LGBT newspaper tried to resist that and started writing how the bar owners were selling out to attract more corporate funding and sponsorship and straight people from the suburbs who might be turned off by such a thing. The newspaper's publisher apparently didn't like this (and the bar owners advertise in the papers, so follow the money) and sacked the editor.
But you know these bar owners want to bring in more straights and normies because it's good for business. That's what it's really about.
I have mixed views about it. Well, there are positives/negatives. I have a feeling that some of the queer radical types who are like "Pride is about protest" and "Pride is about resistance," like we're rainbow militants, are gliding over why it was like that in the 1970s and isn't so much now. Like is that a preference.
>>2292531I helped organize a small arts festival recently (or saw how it worked anyways), and it was also organized by a non-profit, but the extent of city involvement was to get a permit to close some streets and permission to sell alcohol, but other than that, everything was done via the non-profit organization signing up vendors and planning out where each tent would go at our space, things like that. I imagine most Pride festivals are like that but on larger scale and with more full-time people.
It was my people's third year doing this festival, while Pride parades have been going on for many years (and on significantly larger scale in big cities), and a lot of it is like a well-oiled machine now. It's largely the same sponsors / groups who sign up a year in advance. People make this political (and it is, in a way) but fundamentally it's no different from any number of other festivals that go on every year. Arts festivals. Food festivals. Wine festivals. Ethnic parades / festivals. The MLK parade. The St. Paddy's Day parade. Oktoberfest.
>>2292531Yeah idgi. Is he just on MSNBC a lot? Idk, I just assume he's polling highly because the people answering the polls are a smaller number of die-hard true blue libs who watch lib politics news in May 2025.
>>2292469oh look it's the patron saint of liberal bullshit:
step 1: do zero historical-material analysis of the actual situation on the ground
step 2: flatten all differences between the settler-colonial genociders receiving billions in weapons from the imperial core countries and the resistance movement reacting to genocide because they're both apparently religious
step 3: shrug and act above it all while sitting in the country providing the weapons to the genocide-committers
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>>2292570That Pied Piper shit is infuriating.
And there are still liberals to this day who worship Hillary even though she gave us Trump.
>>2292413I mean, I don't think Elon Musk is ideologically motivated beyond his material interests. But he did participate of the culture war. Musk or at least someone in his name spends hours nearly every day, turboposting and upkeeping the visibility of a character in the culture war. Elon's public character is openly a white nationalist.
Elon Musk earnestly, no backsies presented himself to liberals as a political figure.
With a double Sieg Heil.
And somehow, they find the mental fortitude to call him a Nazi but in some weird non-antisemitic, not illegal, not cancel worthy manner. Because the establishment has decided "Antisemitism" is Antizionism AND ONLY Antizionism.
Man, the level of mindfuck one has to be on for this shit to make sense…
>>2292905some schizo with two molotov cocktails
nothing out of the ordinary for an american political demo
>>2292980>But Jews are expected to support black rights, gay rights, etc. Where is the support for Jewish rights?Yeah I'm fucking calling it: These types, they're gonna start going full crab bucket mode, they're gonna stab all other marginalized groups in the back and actively work hand-in-hand with the real antisemites to turn back any and all social progress made from the civil rights movements of the 60s out of pure spite rooted in this delusion that these groups backstabbed them at "their most vulnerable point in time" while they were always willing to lend a hand to these groups.
First one they're probably gonna go after is the LGBTQ+ community since they're still seething about how many LGBTQ+ folks support Palestinian liberation.
>>2293022eh, they wanted them to be a bloc that represented the USSR in the middle east. they regrated their support and the UN resolution they voted for the creation on israel when the USSR faced the Korean peninsula war because of the israel neutrality.
and right after they corrected their course of action.
>>2291440the east coast is where colonial america is at it oldest. Perhaps in the soupy climate of florida, fermentation will already be growing. But will it cause spoilage or vintage?
With a relatively healthy Cuba right next door, the propaganda may come easy, but beware the expats
>>2293041They sound like zombies, jesus.
There needs to be more study into American cults.
>>2293131She’s going for it, I guess.
I don’t know if this will really shift the needle. Journalists and activists already get killed quite often. The right are such ghouls I anticipate them celebrating it rather than forcing them to show performative sympathy.
>>2293102>>2293131it's real
https://xcancel.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1929266986455814415#mI hate lindsey graham so much
>>2293091Zionist-Nazi alliance is real
>>2293140Greta is more based than average leftypol armchair
>>2291576>>2291583>>2292537The CIA is taking direct control over the US presidency then right?
Like between the management consultant,mineral maps for resource extraction in the periphery and fixing food prices in the core, the tourist stint in the military—should be obvious this guy is a glowie.
The Old Empire's anointed candidate. I think he was the one Obama wanted for 2024 but Joe undercut him. Basically it's gonna the archimperialists vs technofascists in 2028
>>2291618>>2291618 >>2292941>>2292950I guess fatty was actually a based anti-Zionist. After the police arrest the suspect, he goes off on the Zionists telling them
>"You caused this shit!"Damn everyone has had enough of Zionists.
>>2293193Why can't these guys go after some senator or politician or something?
These attacks on random nobodies are pointless.
>>2293202because this is civil conflict between random people with next to no political education who are snapping at the inhumanity of empire? America is just gonna spiral like this until there is a cohesive left-organization to actually direct such sentiments in an effective way.
remember that proles are revolutionary but not inherently so - they must be tempered by the party.
>>2293207>I think a lot of it is a perception that the powerful are untouchable. Some of it is real (obviously they have security teams and whatnot) but a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. It's easier to just go after random people. Also guys like this can just snap one day and let out their rage. He didn't really seem like a dude with a plan. Luigi had a plan.Yeah these Zios march through town every Sunday. He probably had gotten into it with them before:
>>2293041Even the random fatty that was trying to talk down the attacker seems to hate them. He told them they brought it upon themselves.
>>2293191 >>2293244United States of Israel lmao
finna listen to spaceghostpurrp and read juche shit
>>2293244Zion Don is looking for any excuse he can get to implement martial law.
If there is a "Reichstag fire" moment they will blame it on pro-Palestinian activists.
>>2293053Eh, I don't get "cult" vibes, more "they're old af" vibes. Reminds me of joining some demonstrations for a retirees association via some labor stuff I was loosely involved in. That was a good cause but not exactly a high energy crowd.
>>2293057>>2293077He apparently had an improvised "flamethrower" (is that it in the background?). Maybe caught some blowback from the flame and threw it down and took his shirt off.
>>2293091I don't care for his Jesus stuff but throwing Molotov cocktails at old Jewish women isn't how to build support for a cause in American culture and society. This is the typical M.O. of people who want to become martyrs because they imagine themselves as the spark which sets fire to the revolution.
>>2293118>>2293127I think it's a decent argument. I'd just add that the idea of Pride having a dual nature of being a festive party and also a political statement was not necessarily seen by many participants as contradictory. Like the idea of doing your own thing and being expressive and defiant about it
was the statement. I mean this descriptively, and there's a long-running debate about this, which was going on back then too.
I'm not sure where I fall on it, honestly. My attitude is sort of like, I don't walk down the street wearing a thong, but the bigot's refrain is always "why are you making me hate you" and then he points to the guy in the thong as an excuse. And there are a lot of heteronormative double standards about this, like there's the whole Spring Break culture. There are Hooters restaurants where fathers take their teenage boys to watch women walk around in hot pants! (Okay they're going bankrupt but still.) But that's treated as normal / healthy and so on. But at least he won't turn out gay! You stick a bunch of gay men in there wearing hot pants, oh my God that's grooming and pedophilic. Maybe don't do that though. Or maybe the straight dads taking their kids to that is also pretty weird or sick in some kind of way. Either way, these double standards used to be a lot more obvious when gay culture wasn't as mainstream.
>>2293196Or you can say one thing led to another. Like, you're right, it was probably always going to end up synthesizing in some sanitized, corporate-friendly way, but it also took the libertines in the 70s to force the closet door open for that to happen. Then everyone got married and settled down and it doesn't make a lot of sense to go back to that.
>>2293225>9/11 wishcasting>War on Terror rhetoricOh yes, edge me more.
For all the bleating about Ukraine, RF has proven capable of economically and politically sustaining conventional war. I can't wait to see how NATO liberal democracy stands the test of a few tens of thousands of bodybags or a sunk aircraft carrier, much less an actual war they fight themselves. And the other powers know this, so if the gardencucks think they can go swinging into Iraq or anywhere else in force again, they better think twice lel.
It's insane to me that you could see all of the genocide, and the horror, and the mass death, and the killings, and the repression, and then you top that with the ICE abductions, the black banning, the flashbangs in the restaurants, the suspension of habeas corpus, and yet you still have leftists, right now, who, and the left should be the most fervent of people pushing for radical change, instead say, there is no revolutionary potential, the time is just not right, there's just nothing we can do in this moment but watch, like a cuckold in a fucking chair at a Motel 6. And it disgusts me, because to me, it has already been decided, our fate, to destroy this beast from the heart of it, is the only thing that we have, is it? Your 401k, your fucking retirement, your plans to start a small business in your 40s, oh maybe I'll open that bar up, it doesn't matter, none of that matters, you have no future, because your future is tied to every child in Gaza. If you won't heed that call, it doesn't matter, because your future has already been taken away from you, so why not fight? Why are we not doing something about this? We have all these parties, what are they doing? Where is the militancy? Where is the actual struggle? I don't give a fuck about what we're going to do during the midterms, you're a communist party, I don't give a fuck about the election for president, I don't give a fuck if, y'all look, we can get an advisor into the czar's office and he's gonna, you know, once we have an advisor in the czar's office, then we can start making real big changes, listen to your fucking selves. It's pathetic, it's a loser ideology, people can sniff that shit out. Something must be done, and it will be done, but it cannot be done by individuals. It has to be an organized front, and yet we see nothing but crabs in a bucket.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on AmericansIn March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)
Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions.
The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies, including D.H.S. and the Health and Human Services Department. Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data, paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said.
Palantir’s selection as a chief vendor for the project was driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to the government officials. At least three DOGE members formerly worked at Palantir, while two others had worked at companies funded by Peter Thiel, an investor and a founder of Palantir.
Some current and former Palantir employees have been unnerved by the work. The company risks becoming the face of Mr. Trump’s political agenda, four employees said, and could be vulnerable if data on Americans is breached or hacked. Several tried to distance the company from the efforts, saying any decisions about a merged database of personal information rest with Mr. Trump and not the firm.
This month, 13 former employees signed a letter urging Palantir to stop its endeavors with Mr. Trump. Linda Xia, a signee who was a Palantir engineer until last year, said the problem was not with the company’s technology but with how the Trump administration intended to use it.
“Data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses,” Ms. Xia said. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”
Palantir, which was founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Mr. Thiel and went public in 2020, specializes in finding patterns in data and presenting the information in ways that are easy to process and navigate, such as charts and maps. Its main products include Foundry, a data analytics platform, and Gotham, which helps organize and draw conclusions from data and is tailored for security and defense purposes.
Palantir has long worked with the federal government. Its government contracts span the Defense Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the pandemic, the Biden administration signed a contract with Palantir to manage the distribution of vaccines through the C.D.C.
Mr. Trump’s election in November boosted Palantir’s stock, which has risen more than 140 percent since then. Mr. Karp, who donated to the Democratic Party last year, has welcomed Mr. Trump’s win and called Mr. Musk the most “qualified person in the world” to remake the U.S. government.
At the I.R.S., Palantir engineers joined in April to use Foundry to organize data gathered on American taxpayers, two government officials said. Their work began as a way to create a single, searchable database for the I.R.S., but has since expanded, they said. Palantir is in talks for a permanent contract with the I.R.S., they said.
Palantir also recently began helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s enforcement and removal operations team, according to two Palantir employees and two current and former D.H.S. officials. The work is part of a $30 million contract that ICE signed with Palantir in April to build a platform to track migrant movements in real time.
Some D.H.S. officials exchanged emails with DOGE officials in February about merging some Social Security information with records kept by immigration officials, according to screenshots of the messages viewed by The New York Times.
Palantir representatives have also held talks with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education to use the company’s technology to organize the agencies’ data, according to two Palantir employees and officials in those agencies.
The goal of uniting data on Americans has been quietly discussed by Palantir engineers, employees said, adding that they were worried about collecting so much sensitive information in one place. The company’s security practices are only as good as the people using them, they said. They characterized some DOGE employees as sloppy on security, such as not following protocols in how personal devices were used.
Ms. Xia said Palantir employees were increasingly worried about reputational damage to the company because of its work with the Trump administration. There is growing debate within the company about its federal contracts, she said.
“Current employees are discussing the implications of their work and raising questions internally,” she said, adding that some employees have left after disagreements over the company’s work with the Trump administration.
Last week, a Palantir strategist, Brianna Katherine Martin, posted on LinkedIn that she was departing the company because of its expanded work with ICE.
“For most of my time here, I found the way that Palantir grappled with the weight of our capabilities to be refreshing, transparent and conscionable,” she wrote. “This has changed for me over the past few months. For me, this is a red line I won’t redraw.”
<i wonder what kind of fucked up things palantir is doing that even its usually gleefully bootlicking employees are worriedhttps://archive.is/mTqJx >>2293361(Several months old related piece)
Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.The Trump administration is now trying to connect the dots of that disparate information. Last month (March), President Trump signed an executive order calling for the “consolidation” of these segregated records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before, and that members of the president’s own party have historically opposed.
The categories of information shown here are drawn from 23 data systems holding personal information about the public across eight agencies that Mr. Musk’s aides are seeking to access, according to people familiar with their efforts as well as internal documents and court depositions. In all, The New York Times identified more than 300 separate fields of data about people who live in the U.S. contained in these data systems.
If anything, this list is an undercount. Through his executive orders, Mr. Trump has sought to grant Mr. Musk’s group access to “all unclassified agency records” — a category that leaves out national security secrets but that includes personally sensitive information on virtually everyone in America.
The White House declined to directly address how it would safeguard and use the data it is seeking to consolidate, including whether the administration is trying to create one central database, citing only its focus on fraud.
“Waste, fraud and abuse have been deeply entrenched in our broken system for far too long,” the White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement. “It takes direct access to the system to identify and fix it.”
In Mr. Trump’s March 20 executive order, he called for “eliminating information silos” across the government. Within 30 days, the order states, “agency heads shall, to the maximum extent consistent with law, rescind or modify all agency guidance that serves as a barrier to the inter- or intra-agency sharing of unclassified information.” The administration has not specified who would be able to view data that gets consolidated across the government, but the order broadly grants wide-ranging access to federal officials “designated by the president or agency heads.”
https://archive.is/xYH9f >>2293366Why does no one ever care about the other populations undergoing genocide at the behest of American empire? The Yemenis, Sudanese, etc. Nobody ever mentions them.
Back to the topic at hand though, my point is simply that random acts of self-destructive violence is not going to stop the genocides, and in fact may only make things worse. We need a plan, and we need people to put that plan into action. Maybe we can take notes from the opposition to the War in Vietnam, I don't know, bring back the Weathermen. We just need to focus on results, that's all I ask.
>>2293424This is so weird. Why is it so vague?
>Eight people ages 52 to 88 were injured. 9NEWS is working to learn more about the people who were hurt. A friend, Chany Scheiner, told 9NEWS that one of the victims was a Holocaust survivor.
>"She is an amazing person. Not because she is hurt. She always is an amazing person," Scheiner said. "She speaks – she has spoken at our synagogues as well as other synagogues and schools just about her background and the Holocaust and from her own perspective. She is passionate about standing up for good things and she is an extremely exceptional person. Always a smile on her face. Her life wasn’t easy, but she is just a bright light. And anybody who is her friend is a friend for life."
>Omer, one of the organizers of the group gathered at the mall, said people who show up to the march are dedicated to the cause – walking in the rain and snow to spread awareness about the hostages held in Gaza. Dollars to donuts, she's said some raw shit about Palestinians and if they just drop her name and people google it all the "holocaust survivor" sympathy is gonna dry right up.
>>2293437"Marion Finkels Kreith" seems to fit the bill, but she's too old to fit the 52 - 88 range.
https://boulderjewishnews.org/2024/marion-kreith-on-israel-survival-and-a-long-life-well-lived/
>In her home nestled on a quiet cul-de-sac high above Boulder, 96-year-old Marion Kreith has closely watched news reports about the horrific events in Israel since October 7. She uses words from a language she knows well to describe how these days have felt to her.
>“Déjà vu,” she says.
>“I’m horrified and heartbroken with a sense of hopelessness,” she continues. “I just feel, ‘Here we go again.’”
>For Marion, the attack on innocent Jews in Israel is truly “déjà vu.” She was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1927. As a Holocaust survivor, her childhood was marked by antisemitism, uncertainty, disruption, the detention of her father, war, and ultimately escape from Germany to Belgium…to France…to Cuba…and finally, to the United States.[…]
>Today, Marion’s home is filled with artifacts collected from her travels around the world to countries where Frank held short-term teaching positions or attended conferences, including Thailand, England, Turkey, Yugoslavia, a year in Paris, and Israel, where the family lived in Be’er Sheva, the home of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.[…]
>The years she spent fleeing the war did not leave Marion unscathed. She still has what she describes as “Jewish anxiety.” Ask her what it means to her to be a Jew, and she has one word: “suffering.”
>“It seems antisemitism is in some people’s DNA,” she says. “And I don’t know why.”
>And with that, she again returns to the topic of the war in Israel. What would it take for peace to finally come to the state of Israel and to the world?
>“A miracle,” Marion says.Sweet old lady
>>2293497>>2293493>>2293490it's just a kid talking about his day
calm down lmao
Don’t you love when the Zionist have to lie about the harming of children?
>The people injured were between the ages of 67 and 88Fuckin knew they were lying out their asses, the shits. Need to be hounded on for this one.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/boulder-colorado-attack>>2293646Damn, that’s wild.
I hope he kills himself.
>>2293588Shame that eff has crackka members
Wtf Julius
>>2293679Ones a better grifter, that’s it.
Also, kys
>>2293740I was there
I saw it
>>2293513But actually how does he do on
the only question that matters :
>How much does he like NATO and "western civilization"? >>2293879So he is a pro-NATO nationalist playing heel. Well, to be expected.
It's so weird how often "Heads I win, Tails you lose" type of rhetoric manages to catch the rebound from unpopular policy. We are currently fellating NATO
in opposition to Trump and sanctioning ourselves out of trade
to combat Trump's "isolationism".
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