Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Why does anyone listen to her?

www.huffpost.com Bill Maher Issues Dire Warning About 1 Threat Humanity Is 'F**king Around With'

Bill Maher Issues Dire Warning About 1 Threat Humanity Is 'F**king Around With' #HuffingtonPost

Maybe Hegseth can pray for Patel to stop his erratic behavior and excessive drinking.

An additional reason was his shitty diapers in close quarters.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

Joe diGenova, an election denier and former Trump lawyer, will now lead the Russia conspiracy investigation after career prosecutor is removed. They aren’t even trying to make this look legitimate anymore. 🤦🏻‍♀️
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

MAGA Sycophant Elise Stefanik says that college students chanting "from the river to the sea" is an open call for genocide against Jewish people, but Trump's threat that "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," is mere diplomacy against Iranians.

1/2

Morning, glory!

We should be learning from other countries...

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

Two people died for that stunt.

Is that number one or number two

Twerp as clairvoyant.

LIVE LOOK AT RFK JR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

“RFK Jr. & his team have been wrong repeatedly over the last
14 months issuing ridiculous medical claims without any evidence.” They are now facing backlash & issuing retractions, but the damage has been done. Take a listen to Dr. Vin Gupta!👇🏼
#pinks

Assassination?

A tweet reacting to JD Vance calling economic actions against Iran “economic terrorism,” with a Fox News screenshot of Vance speaking and a caption about a blockade of Iranian ports.

This isn't sound policy. It's reckless endangerment.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

💥BOMBSHELLS ARE COMING💥
A new sex-trafficking victim (2004-2014) has come forward, and she’s connected to ID Models (Paolo Zampolli). She is in communication with Bekah right now, and knows Amanda Urgaro quite well.💔
(2 part video and links⬇️)

Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is an American jurist, academic and human rights activist. He is best known for his work in the area of Genocide Studies

Below is how he described the stages 👇

Olivia Troye sat inside Trump’s White House, saw everything, testified against him, and didn’t break.
Now she’s running for Congress in Virginia.
He should be very, very nervous.

They’re unbothered by either the immorality or the criminality of sexual assault allegations when they’re made against members of their own party

Good boy!

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

He hates being upstaged.

#scdems #scpol #ProtectReproductiveCare

Is there a sex criminal, right wing thug, or fraudster who Trump would NOT pardon (provided they pay in advance, that is)?