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[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

Set is ready @ElonMusk

We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice.

Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization.

My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what that future is going to look like and get everyone excited to help build it.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour, and they turned it over to Karen Bass’ PR team to edit it into a comical 5 minute hit piece with clips from the Hills. They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I’m done with CBS. They’ll never get a word from me for my next 8 years as mayor. Adios! What outlet should I have in their absence?

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: California is giving free sex-change procedures to homeless illegal aliens. Our team went into the shelters and discovered that trans migrants are coming into the state for hormones, breast implants, and "bottom surgeries"—all on the taxpayer dime. https://t.co/mDs7ivwjG5

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Approaching 1 million impressions 🚀

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

We’re successfully setting the frame over Gavin Newsom’s “empire of fraud.” And our bombshell report this week was only the beginning. We have an entire team of reporters digging into California corruption—and it’s everywhere.

[422022 @Mike55151608]

It must be nice to be a black person in America right now

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I’m not going to lie — I’m really struggling. My mental & emotional wellness are holding up, but I’m really pushing my body to its breaking point. Every day, I’m in a new city, or driving to another event, or registering voters at a fair. It’s really taking a toll on me & we still have 2 months until Election Day. After the 2024 presidential election, we just never stopped working. I knew that if Republicans didn’t continue registering new voters, we would be setting ourselves up for failure in 2025 & 2026. So, I never took a break. Quite frankly, I’m treating this year like a presidential election — with the same amount of hustle & tenacity. I’m eating extremely healthfully, but this life is not sustainable for my body. I will give another 2 months & I’ll do everything I can to bring attention to the statewide elections THIS November in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, & Virignia. However, we need help. We need more people knocking on doors. We need more people helping to register new Republican voters. We need people to download the @EarlyVoteAction app to write postcards & sent text messages. Simply put, we need more help. If we do not have success this November, we are likely to lose the House in 2026. Everything that you fought for will come to a crashing halt if that happens. I’m going to continue giving myself to the cause & movement, but I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to go at this pace. For the next 2 months, we are transitioning to door knocking & ballot chasing. I’ll be out with my field walking several miles a day & knocking on doors. I want this. I’m willing to work for it. You have my word to continue pushing through November. I hope that more Republicans step up to take action for the future of our country. For Freedom.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

@DoTheWeirdStuff 🚀

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

@pavel_4_ai RDNA software is shit and they know it, but also not that important compared to what we discussed

[Ted Mabrey @MabreyTed]

I am looking forward to the next set of hires that decided to apply to Palantir after reading your post. Please don’t delete it Paul. We work here in direct response to this world view and do not seek its blessing.

Our work with DHS, which has spanned the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, began in the immediate response to the murder of Agent Jaime Zapata by the Zetas in an effort dubbed Operation Fallen Hero. I believe Agent Zapata and those who have taken the thankless jobs of protecting our way of life by risking their own deserve the very best tools we can possibly give them. When people are alive because of what you built, and others are dead because what you built was not yet good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work.

Paul’s perspective is very similar to that of Google in 2018 when it walked away from Project Maven; the DoD’s flagship program to bring AI to warfighting. Google embraced the luxury belief that our way of life is given and that, as the best and brightest of us, they were above wrestling with the hard questions in the muck and mire of how to continue to ensure their privilege. It was much easier to sell ads. Like our DHS agents, I also believe our soldiers deserve the very best tools as they risk their lives to protect mine. The sentiment expressed below, that engineers have the luxury of working on other cool stuff so should not sully themselves with the functions that provide the bedrock of society, is something I thought we had largely left behind. Now I have a greater understanding of one of its root causes.

For those of you who are interested in joining, we are not looking for partisans at Palantir. Our mission spans administrations and political climates and our culture is one of constant disagreement. We do collectively believe that competence in our government is a prerequisite for our way of life and assume the burden of falling forward on the goal to provide it every single day. We are in a situation today where no matter the immigration policy the citizenry votes for, it cannot be executed; reality has largely been divorced from the statutes for decades now. This is first a question of competence, not politics. If the electorate cannot steer the execution of our government because the government cannot execute, our institutions lose all credibility, and the risk moves from an X debate to a much more fundamental one. We work to attach the steering wheel to the car and revitalize the institutions our societal fabric depends upon. We are looking for people who read something like this post and think it is crazy to demonize working towards a more effective government.

In order to understand if Palantir is for you, I encourage you to do your research. Read Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.” The book eviscerates the vapidity of silicon valley expressed here but also explores the positive thesis of what are the principles that actually matter when wrestling with the questions of how to empower the functioning of the state. It is perhaps the most important debate we should be having and Karp has been the leader of that conversation, so out in the open about it the book is an NYT Bestseller. I’d also encourage you to read The First Breakfast blog series that Shyam has championed; I think it is one of the foremost examples of impactful, non-partisan, civic engagement that exists in our country right now. We are very open about our views and how deeply they are reasoned if you care to read them.

We hire believers. Not in the sense of homogeneity of belief but in the intrinsic capacity to believe in something bigger than yourself. Belief is required because 1) our work is very, very hard and 2) you should expect to weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political aisle. In order to stand out, build something with our software that you believein and bring it to your interview. The only way to counter these bullies is not to argue but to build.

Our work is authentically complicated. We protected the lives of special operators during failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were the backbone of Operation Warpspeed to accelerate vaccines during Covid, we were the coordinating backbone of the Afghan withdrawal, we have enabled David to resist Goliath in Ukraine. These, and many, many other efforts too numerous to list here have been necessarily intertwined with heated political debates about the worthiness of engaging in these effort at all. My politics have not agreed with many of the policies our software has enabled. But through all of them I have held the steadfast belief that if our government institutions are not competent, politics does not matter. That is something I believe.

So if you believe that engaging with the problem of 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year, stopping human trafficking, or merely in reconnecting the laws our elected representatives create with the reality of what is implemented we believe you aren’t a bad person. If you think that “building things people want” is all there is to life I wish you all the best. There is a place for you in the society we will protect on your behalf. If you are willing to engage with the messy, messy process of “building things the people need” then you may have a home at Palantir.

[422022 @Mike55151608]

@nextokens Myostatin inhibitors are in clinical trials

[nick.eth @nicksdjohnson]

Recently I was targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing attack, and I want to highlight it here. It exploits a vulnerability in Google's infrastructure, and given their refusal to fix it, we're likely to see it a lot more. Here's the email I got:

[dan turrentine @danturrentine]

Some personal news: what started with a late September call to temporarily fill in for a few weeks on TMM, has turned into an incredible journey. At the end of last week, I signed a contract with @2waytvapp to continue on this path 🎉

I could not be more grateful to @MarkHalperin and @seanspicer for taking a huge chance on me and then serving as mentors.

Thank you to the production team for calmly and steadily holding my nervous hands those first few weeks.

Thank you to the management team for your confidence.

And of course, thank you to TMM community. I can’t tell you how much I love hearing from you, seeing your faces, and reading your “smack in the chat” 🤣.

Here’s to the “peace, love, and understanding” road ahead!

[422022 @Mike55151608]

@aphysicist @Noahpinion

[Antonio Gracias @AntonioGracias]

Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms.  The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry ("EBE") immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field Offices. These have remained stable at about 1 mln/year excluding COVID. We focused just on EBE because it ramped as a direct result of growth in the various asylum programs. 

Your chart mixes the two categories: showing all immigrant Enumerations from 2016 thru 2020 and EBE only from 2021 to 2024. 

Here is the chart back to 2019 for Enumeration Beyond Entry which is when the EBE basically started. 

I want to thank the good people at the Social Security Administration for their expert help. We would not have been able to understand this complex system without them. There are many terrific people at SSA serving their fellow citizens. We are very grateful.

I believe these facts speak for themselves. As the son of legal immigrants to America, I am an ardent supporter of legal immigration.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Erika Sanzi @esanzi]

I've reached the point that I need @2waytvapp to have emergency episodes every day.

@MarkHalperin @danturrentine @seanspicer @MarcACaputo

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I'll go on!

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

@swyxio Squat university is the way