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This detail is so horrifying (and telling).

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir.

The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers.

Here's how it was announced internally:
www.wired.com/story/depart...

Get rid of your Rings. They aren't changing a thing.

Except "maps' in their ads.

“ICE, Inc.: The Top Companies Profiting from Trump’s Immigration Crackdown.
A number of the companies winning the largest amount of ICE contracts in Trump’s second term made large political contributions and lobbied on a law tripling ICE’s budget.”

Higher IQ leads to lower conservatism in men in decades-long study A decades-long study suggests that men with higher intelligence quotient ratings are less likely to hold conservative political views.The study comes from researchers at Saarland University and Philip...

So if there’s any wonder why decimating our public schools has been a high GOP priority, here’s a hint:

"Who will lead the call for a dismantling of this sick network of camps instead of merely pressing for a few changes while throwing in condemnations that will mark only the moment in which someone knew better but didn’t actually stop what followed."

As the Baja Men once asked "Who? Who? Who? Who?"

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

But Roski wasn’t the only NBA stakeholder warehouse linked to eventual migrant detention centers. eyeblack identified four NBA teams — the Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, Charlotte Hornets, and Minnesota Timberwolves — with minority ownership directly linked to profiting from the federal government’s ICE-run mega jail shopping spree.

Minority owners of FOUR NBA teams are profiting directly from business deals with the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.

Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.

www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Republicans Are Much Much More Corrupt Than Democrats But most people either do not know this, or refuse to admit it.

Yes. Every word.

FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social also wrote for @theintercept.com about how this "guilt by literature" case about anarchist zines will ultimately impact the press.

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

I think people usually call this going back to normal, you know, when they kill and kidnap nonwhite people and no one writes pop songs about it.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

First they came for the em dash, and now the Oxford comma. How dare you, Internet. ¡Hands off my punctuation!

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

🚩🚩While Republicans are trying to pass the SAVE Act to require you use your passport to vote, they are also making it harder to get a passport.

apnews.com/article/pass...

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

A woman holds a baby and a sign that reads "My Mom is a DREAMER" near the U.S. Capitol. The scene conveys determination and hope.

ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 “illegals” have voted — representing 0.00000764% of total votes…

And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundation

electionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Yea, surprised myself by preferring this to HAMNET, but maybe my Jessie Buckley fandom made my expectations too high... Have you watched HISTORY OF SOUND yet? That & LEFT-HANDED GIRL were both even higher on our household BBOYBF #BigBoardOfYearsBestFilms

If Dems made demand to get all kids & their caretakers out of concentration camps, grinding all Congressional business to halt plus using their massive texting lists to organize caravans to create Occupy Dilly encampment, I would give them every dollar I have. And so would many.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Every ICE/BP agent on the scene that day should go to prison.

this is such a deeply perverted sickness of the soul

Meanwhile

www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

Repeat after me:
An executive order is not a royal edict; it is not law. It is a direction to the executive branch as to how to carry out the law.

Also:
Key parts of Trump's last EO on elections have been stopped by federal courts, ruling that the President has no role to play in federal elections

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds"

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