Jeepers

[Jeepers @ca55ian]

@realDrTT @CatholicHerald *deep sigh*

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG.
https://t.co/NSDlbx0Ep5

[William Fitzgerald @william_fitz]

Jesus christ. Palantir and OpenAI execs got caught real bad here. They hired an agency to try get left wing creators to shill for big AI industry. Some creators refused (good on them) Any time you see an IG video from a creator saying they love AI, it's probably paid content.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

We’ve officially reached the part of the timeline where war crimes are pitched like product features.

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Amid the Trump Administration’s dangerous ICE overreach – killing Americans, terrorizing communities, and making us all less safe – immigrant legal defense organizations are stretched to the breaking point.

But the Hudson Valley is rising up & fighting for our neighbors.

[Make the Road New Jersey 🦋 @MaketheRoadNJ]

GET AI BILLIONAIRES OUT OF POLITICS! Dozens of @Josh4Jersey constituents rallied at his Hackensack office to demand he reject Palantir donations & AI billionaire $ from SuperPAC run by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale after the SuperPac announced its endorsement of @Josh4Jersey.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

"CONSPIRACY" THEORIES ARE REAL

In Psywar by Scott Noble, political analyst Michael Parenti challenges one of the most effective shields protecting those at the top of society: the phrase “conspiracy theory”.

Parenti argues that the label arises when someone attributes conscious intent to elites. We readily accept that workers organise for higher wages and better working conditions. We understand that corporations lobby for subsidies and favourable policies. Yet suggest that billionaires, financiers, and political dynasties deliberately act to defend and expand their power, and it is dismissed as paranoia or a conspiracy theory.

His argument is simple. Systems do not run themselves. There is no imperialism without imperialists. There is no capitalism without capitalists. Power is exercised by individuals who calculate, collaborate and protect their interests. The idea that those who dominate the global economy simply drift through history without strategy is, he suggests, the real fiction.

Recent events make his point difficult to ignore. The exposure of the network surrounding Jeffrey Epstein revealed how billionaires, politicians, royalty and media figures moved within the same circles, meeting, funding, socialising and in some cases shielding one another. The scandal did not create elite collusion. It exposed how routine it can be.

Parenti is not claiming that every event is secretly scripted. He is reminding us that power organises. It meets in boardrooms, foundations, think tanks and private gatherings. Recognising that reality is not conspiratorial. It is an acknowledgement of how influence actually operates.

The question then is not whether power coordinates. It is who benefits from that coordination, and who bears the cost.

@VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews
@OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

[Crikey @crikey_news]

Palantir staff working in Defence offices. Removing standard audit requirements. Watering down cyber-attack reporting. That’s the deal that the surveillance giant got with the Australian government.

Read the report here: https://t.co/PMHsPSg50o

[PurgePalantir @PurgePalantir]

Welcome to a future of “death and destruction, all day long” supercharged by tech companies… like Palantir.

Credit: @lucasfebraro

[PurgePalantir @PurgePalantir]

If #Palantir’s role in the 2025 strikes and the U.S. war on Iran is a conflict of interest, what about the House members who took Palantir-linked donations and voted for the war? Tag your reps. 🫡

[PurgePalantir @PurgePalantir]

If #Palantir helping inform assessments ahead of Israeli and U.S. strikes in 2025—and now profiting from the U.S. war on Iran—represents a conflict of interest, what about the politicians who took Palantir-linked donations and voted for the war in Iran?

[Jeepers @ca55ian]

Wonder if peter thiel the convenient catholic will see this. Even your own church rejects you

[CSJP Sisters @SistersofPeace]

Today, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace issued a press statement regarding their shareholder proposal with Palantir. To date, the company has not agreed to implement the proposal, which asks for a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) https://t.co/rN5fbRlwlF

[CSJP Sisters @SistersofPeace]

Today, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace issued a press statement regarding their shareholder proposal with Palantir. To date, the company has not agreed to implement the proposal, which asks for a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) https://t.co/rN5fbRlwlF

[Jeepers @ca55ian]

@Coles @rambunctiousgo3 You could just, i don’t know, hire and pay more humans to do that. Instead of paying a company that enables genocide and authoritarianism, and is run by white nationalists

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Let me get this straight:

–Trump greenlit a Palantir “master database”

–8 new "mega‑detention centers" are being built

–CBP just bought access to Clearview’s 60B‑image facial ID system

–DHS is now demanding names of social media users critical of ICE

-ICE agents on our streets threatening to put people in a "domestic terrorist" database

And no one sees where this is going?

[William Fitzgerald @william_fitz]

And it looks like they won't be welcome in Miami either... (check out the comments)

[William Fitzgerald @william_fitz]

Pressure on Palantir:
- Switzerland canceled contract
- Huge pressure on massive UK military & health contracts
- Lawmakers in the U.S. return donations
- Moving HQ from Denver to Miami following countless protests outside Denver office
- Media scrutiny on not paying tax

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Last year, surveillance giant Palantir (who got an 8-figure contract from ICE) paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 BILLION, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill.

They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this.

This monstrosity must be reversed.

https://t.co/noEgFHFv7X

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Volunteer with "@PurgePalantir" asks Hakeem Jeffries if he would commit to refunding $25,000 he's taken from Palantir.

Jeffries says he doesn't believe he's taken money from Palantir, but would look.

Jeffries has indeed taken $25,000 from Palantir executives, per FEC filings.

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

10,000+ words, enjoy! $PLTR

Taken together, in the decade before it went public (in late 2020), Palantir, rightfully or wrongfully, and almost entirely not of its own doing, was becoming a household name as an influential secretive company that worked with powerful partners. Few knew how much money it was losing.
A DPO by Any Other Name
Then, in the summer of 2020, Palantir filed a Form S-1 prospectus, and we knew. Palantir had lost $3.96 billion in its history as of June 30, 2020, according to the IPO filing. In 2018 and 2019, the two years directly before the IPO, the company lost a combined $1.2 billion.
The later funding rounds were not cheap. The largest single round, Series K at $899 million, was done at $11.38/share in 2019. The company also supplemented its cash flows between financings and refinancings by juggling revolving lines of credit.
As the company prepared to go public in August 2020, Palantir’s board awarded Karp $1.1 billion worth of stock options. If you have not realized it by now, the company really knows how to throw money around.

https://t.co/tndiePASiX