Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto that calls for tech companies to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state.

A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.

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Trump called Iran's leaders "animals." Just like how, on Oct. 9, 2023, Israel's Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting "human animals" in Gaza — and was later cited by the Hague for that statement. The ICJ quoted it directly in its preliminary genocide ruling. truthout.org/articles/tru...

To put it in even further perspective — Lockheed Martin produced both the spacecraft for the Artemis mission and the PRsM missile that shot tungsten pellets into an elementary school in Lamerd.

“Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky,” the pope said, “After the tragic experiences of the twentieth century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!”

DeSantis (in Florida) and Abbott, and Paxton (in Texas) are using the same playbook against CAIR that southern states used against the NAACP and other civil rights groups in the 1950s and 60s. But First Amendment doctrine is stronger now, thanks in part to the cases that the NAACP litigated.

what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism

this feels like a coded way to say "we're orienting more toward sports betting"

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough. Representative Delia C. Ramirez says the real problem is DHS itself: “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights.” @sharonzhang.bsky.social reports on why calls to dismantle the whole department are growing.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

"ICE agents have been kidnapping hard working people — mothers, fathers, and children — and now murdered a registered nurse, one of the most trusted professions in the country. ... Abolish ICE now."

National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union in the US, has called for the abolition of ICE in response to Alex Pretti's killing truthout.org/articles/uss...

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“We will continue to kill you until you allow us to take away your voting rights”

ICE is out here murdering people in cold blood and we can’t get democrats to even SAY “abolish ICE”, much less take any of the actions it would require to do so — investigations, impeachment, prosecutions, even whipping votes. Democrats needed to be abandoned years ago.

Just completely unmasked evil at this point

Included in Jared Kushner's hellish slide deck pitching Gaza as a real estate investment in Davos today was a plan to build data centers across the Strip. Because their hatred for life wasn't already abundantly clear truthout.org/articles/kus...

Trump admin ignoring the glaring hole in their self defense lie, which is that the car speeds up after she's shot, likely because she went unconscious and her foot got heavy. It's common sense that killing the driver of a moving car would not make the car stop moving.

“Watching his life cut short for standing up publicly for what he believed” huh…wonder who else has had that done to them that in relationship to kyle rittenhouse

i made this cherry chocolate cake (for a retired cardiac PA) :)

Very rarely, I have the privilege of reading an article that changes the way I think, fundamentally alters the fabric of reality that unrolls before me. This article is one of them. nymag.com/intelligence...

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congee topping bar!!

happy holiday y’all 🤎

This is a must-read from legal scholar Marjorie Cohn, who lays out times that she *personally* testified on behalf of soldiers who disobeyed unlawful orders. Very thorough account of how the Trump admin's assertions w/r/t Sen. Kelly and co. are wrong. truthout.org/articles/sol...

Sen. Joni Ernst blocked a bill by @vanhollen.senate.gov yesterday to suspend arms shipments to the UAE while it backs the slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Sudan truthout.org/articles/gop...

Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, reportedly welcomed a man convicted of spying on the Navy for Israel into the U.S.’s Jerusalem embassy for a “friendly” meeting this summer. The spy, Pollard, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for selling a huge cache of military secrets to Israel.

"Decades ago, far-right investors and philanthropists committed to a long-term, risk-taking investment in media and narrative infrastructure. Meanwhile, progressive philanthropy has largely ignored progressive and left media, relying on the continued operations of traditional, profit-driven media."

No less a part of the media's hard right pivot than the Kimmel cancellation -- Condé Nast firing union leaders who dared to speak out against the gutting of Teen Vogue. truthout.org/articles/con...

Much like those who continue carrying out his wars today, Cheney enjoyed impunity for his imperial crimes. He lived out his life as part of the 1 percent, availing himself of luxuries funded by atrocities so vast they are almost impossible to describe in full. truthout.org/articles/war...

"We're just going to kill people." "We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead." truthout.org/articles/tru...

to recap the past couple of hours: - we determined the bullets had trans ideology on them - local pd releases pic of the suspect - nvm

The right's entire ideology is built on violence. There is nothing to valorize about that. One of the only things uniting the various factions of the right is their commitment to violence. Kirk and Fuentes, for instance, had differences in that they disagreed who that violence should be done to.

Biden officials keep patting themselves on the back saying "at least we prevented famine!" But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.

"When I saw the news about Mariam, I was in such disbelief that I kept calling my colleagues in Gaza and asking one question: Is Mariam alive? When they said no, I just hung up and called someone else to ask the same question." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Early in the genocide, the US told Netanyahu he'd be "fighting this war for...decades to come,” Miller said. “The prime minister said, ‘You’re right. We are going to be fighting this war for decades to come. That’s the way it’s been. That’s the way it’s going to be.’” truthout.org/articles/for...

It disgusts me that Ezra Klein & co sit around in their cushy homes hand wringing about the WORD genocide when Palestinians' lived reality is hell on earth. I want to force them to look at the photos of kids killed in Gaza every day. I want to glue the pictures to their glasses so it's all they see.

After killing 6 journalists on Sunday outside of al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces targeted another well-known journalist, Motasem Ahmed Dalloul, on Monday.

Cuomo’s campaign has clearly been trying to Mamdani-fy his social media presence and literally every single tweet is incredible. They all sound like robots trying to emulate Elon Musk’s sense of humor

Really astonishing how getting even the smallest bit of engagement on Twitter is a hellish experience now

It is genuinely hard to imagine anything more abhorrent for her to do right now, as ICE is ravaging the US, public health is being completely destroyed, and Trump is literally setting humanitarian aid aflame.

oh, were we talking about cory booker speeches again

Zohran Mamdani’s staunch support for Palestinian rights was a major boon to his campaign and served as one of the top motivations for voters to cast their ballot for him, new polling finds, as establishment Democrats scratch their heads over Mamdani’s historic campaign and popularity.

Israeli soldiers raided a tent set up for mourning Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen on Tuesday as his killer, an Israeli settler infamous for terrorizing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, was released by an Israeli court.

"I do not call this my story. I call this the story of the oppressed, the story of the Palestinians in Gaza who are dying at the hands of starvation and violence." If you only read or watch one news story today, make it this: truthout.org/video/former...

A Palestinian activist who helped film the "No Other Land" documentary, Awdah Hathaleen, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday. Locals identified the killer as Yinon Levi, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and the EU for “regularly leading groups of violent extremists” in the West Bank.

Getting to a point where there are more public pics of Trump and Epstein than I have with some of my closest friends