Article confirming what has been well known in the humanitarian aid sector for a while, namely that Israel military personnel, organized crime, and intelligence actors were responsible for a massive and highly lucrative smuggling ring into Gaza.
I think they’re pretty compatible tbh but that’s not the crazy part, the crazy part is a contractor openly lobbying for policy changes and advocating foreign policy positions. Again, imagine like BAH putting something like this on its letterhead
one thing i'm pretty certain of is that no one currently working in elected politics is prepared for the ways that our politics are going to change when hundreds of thousands of upper middle class, educated tech workers are getting laid off and rehired as contractors for ~60% of the pay
Stop projecting Colin
More people need to know about the John Craigie AOC song so here it is youtu.be/AoGLRNN16PM?...
genuinely, if AOC has the courage, the nomination is hers. she'll just have to take some real risks, by the standards of contemporary Democratic politics.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is that even if they axe Karp after the midterms a) it's too way too late and b) the underlying civic and legal infrastructure that enabled Palantir to become what they are in the first place would need to change.
So any chance of rehabilitation would hinge upon them urgently funding to neuter themselves and, like, overturn Citizens United. Which is not going to happen.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is that even if they axe Karp after the midterms a) it's too way too late and b) the underlying civic and legal infrastructure that enabled Palantir to become what they are in the first place would need to change.
i'll take the bold (for bluesky) position that working for raytheon or northrup or whatever does not make you an irredeemable person, but palantir is very different because they are making karp's insane worldview the company's official public position, they're explicitly saying you believe this, too
Palantir manifesto: "12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin."
Also have these idiots read the news in the past two months
In the most optimistic scenario, I was wondering if it had been commissioned by other members of the board to justify defenestrating Karp after the midterms - but whew boy they have a lot more house to clean than just that.
If anything, this moment should lead us to shed indefinite, sanctimonious terms like “The West” or “Global South”, to stop assuming solidarity or collective action or culture, and speak with precision.
If there ever was “The West”, the current government of the United States is not any part of it.
My other Palantir gossip is that @roycoopernc.bsky.social paid Joe Lonsdale a visit in Austin which, as someone who has knocked doors for him, I found incredibly disappointing
Palantir has been shopping around interviews to dem natsec types about rehabilitation pathways and afaik everyone has told them to kick rocks
A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.
He is where he is in part because the team behind him ran an effective campaign and caught party stalwarts flatfooted.
That first impression is probably the single most valuable thing you can get because once people have it, *thats* the thing they’re updating.
Listen, there are two types of white men from South Africa
mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.
Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.
There's one county in my district for which only 25% of *confirmed democratic primary voters* have their information in the organizing tool campaigns use to contact voters. Like, no wonder that county can't crack 15% dem.
Patel’s lawyer’s letter says the original Atlantic story claimed they requested a battering ram because Patel was unresponsive *at FBI HQ.* (The final printed story did not say where he was unresponsive.) Can you imagine the FBI battering down their own office doors to reach a drunken FBI Director?
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), an outbreak of a mystery illness in Burundi has killed at least five people and sickened 35 others since March 30.
Read more: ow.ly/7aEO50YLiLl.
Gonna start calling this sort of thing "Maine Behavior"
Insane fuel prices in Sri Lanka directly collapse the tourism industry (because you can't get anywhere) which props up the rest of their economy. And then you might say well at least they can feed themselves but NOPE there's also a simultaneous fertilizer crisis
Sri Lanka went through this in 2022 and it led (among other things, sure) to the ousting of their government
this is a microcosm of the world as conservatives want it, where “merit” means an unrestricted good ol’ boys club
Well basically the entire congressional docket is sharing like five fractional campaign managers at like 10hrs/week so yes but in the bad way
Not blaming Talarico, just noting that the macro dem campaign funding environment is ROUGH this cycle and it's going to leave several otherwise winnable races on the table
The flip side of this in Texas is that everyone on the downballot not taking PAC money is genuinely starved for cash because the senate race is taking up all the air in the room