Demand for Immediate Disclosure, Accounting, and Preservation of Evidence

(Financial Interests, Registry Funds, Incentives, and Structural Bias)

I. Purpose and Scope

This Notice demands immediate, complete disclosure and preservation of all records reflecting financial, administrative, insurance, or registry-based interests connected to the handling of this matter.

The Constitution requires a neutral tribunal. Any direct, indirect, or structural interest that could affect—or reasonably appear to affect—decision-making must be disclosed or eliminated. Tumey v. Ohio, 273 U.S. 510 (1927); Ward v. Village of Monroeville, 409 U.S. 57 (1972); Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009).

This Notice is not a request for permission. It is a formal demand for records and an order to preserve evidence.

II. Governing Authorities

• U.S. Const. amends. V & XIV — Due Process; neutral and detached decision-maker

• 28 U.S.C. §§ 2041–2042 — Registry funds held in the name of the United States

• 28 U.S.C. § 455 — Disqualification where impartiality might reasonably be questioned

• Local Rules / Standing Orders (CRIS) — Court Registry Investment System (CRIS) administration and court-order control over deposits/withdrawals

• Judicial Conference policies governing registry funds and accounting

• Case law: Tumey; Ward; Caperton; In re Murchison, 349 U.S. 133 (1955)

To the extent facts developed through this disclosure indicate violations of competition or securities laws, rights are reserved under 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–3 and 15 U.S.C. § 78ff.

III. Immediate Preservation Directive

Effective immediately, all recipients shall preserve and not alter, delete, or destroy any documents or data (including emails, logs, databases, and backups) relating to:

• registry funds, deposits, or disbursements;

• fee assessments, collections, and allocations;

• insurance, indemnification, or risk-pooling;

• internal accounting, coding, or financial tracking tied to this matter;

• communications with third parties regarding funding, liability, or financial exposure.

Failure to preserve may constitute spoliation and give rise to sanctions.

IV. Demands for Disclosure ]

Produce the following, to the extent they exist:

1. Registry / CRIS Activity

o All deposits, transfers, and withdrawals associated with this matter

o Account identifiers, dates, balances, interest earned, and fees assessed

o All court orders authorizing deposit or disbursement

2. Court-Held or Court-Directed Funds

o Bonds, restitution accounts, interpleader or disputed funds

o Custodial statements and disbursement histories

3. Fee and Revenue Allocation

o Itemized schedule of fees, costs, surcharges assessed

o Statutory authority for each charge

o Destination of funds (general fund, earmarked programs, etc.)

4. Insurance / Indemnification / Risk Pools

o Policies, coverages, carriers, and administrators implicated by actions in this matter

o Notices of claim, tenders, or coverage analyses

5. Administrative / Accounting Records

o Ledger entries, cost centers, and accounting codes tied to this matter

o Internal reports or dashboards reflecting financial impact

6. Policies and Incentives

o Written policies or metrics relating to case processing, collections, or program funding

o Any guidance linking operational performance to financial outcomes

7. Third-Party Interfaces

o Contracts or agreements with vendors or administrators handling funds, accounting, or risk

o Data-sharing arrangements relevant to financial tracking

V. Constitutional Neutrality and Structural Bias

A tribunal must be neutral in fact and appearance. Financial or institutional arrangements that:

• create revenue dependence,

• align outcomes with institutional benefit, or

• introduce undisclosed interests,

trigger due process concerns. Ward, 409 U.S. 57; Caperton, 556 U.S. 868.

If any component of this system benefits from outcomes or manages value tied to outcomes, that condition must be fully disclosed and evaluated for recusal or remedial action under 28 U.S.C. § 455 and governing standards.

VI. Reservation of Rights

This Notice reserves all rights to:

• seek recusal/disqualification;

• move to compel production;

• pursue sanctions for spoliation or non-compliance; and

• assert additional claims, including under 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–3 and 15 U.S.C. § 78ff, if supported by the facts produced.

VII. Response Required

Within a reasonable time, provide:

• a production schedule;

• identification of responsive records and custodians;

• specific, legally supported objections, if any.

VIII. Conclusion

Transparency is not optional where liberty and property are at stake. This Demand seeks to ensure that any financial, administrative, or structural interests are placed on the record and evaluated under controlling constitutional standards.

Respectfully submitted,

[Name]

[Date]

 

Leaked memos just revealed how the Supreme Court has been secretly ruling on major policy without written opinions, without public reasoning, and without accountability.

It's called the "shadow docket." And now we know how it started.

The New York Times published internal Supreme Court memos showing that Chief Justice John Roberts personally fast-tracked an emergency request from West Virginia to block Obama's Clean Power Plan in 2016.

He did it while other justices were on winter recess. No oral arguments. No full briefing. No written opinion explaining why. Just an unsigned order that killed the most significant climate regulation in American history.

That ruling was supposed to be an exception. It became the playbook.

In the decade since, the shadow docket has been transformed from an emergency tool used almost exclusively for death row cases into a weapon for reshaping American policy. The court now routinely issues major rulings through this process: unsigned, unexplained, and unchallengeable. No public reasoning.

No dissent published. No accountability.

And it has been devastating under Trump's second term. Through the shadow docket, the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to fire federal workers while lawsuits were still pending in lower courts.

It has kept the ban on transgender military service in effect while the case moved through the system. It has handed Trump win after win without ever having to explain its reasoning to the American public.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sounded the alarm this week in a speech at Yale Law School. She said that when she clerked at the Supreme Court in 1999, the emergency docket was used "almost exclusively for death row inmates." Now it decides the fate of millions of people with no transparency.

"Today, the court routinely opts to enter the fray," Jackson said, "and it fails to acknowledge the harms that follow when the Supreme Court of the United States consistently and casually divests the lower courts of their equitable authority."

The conservative majority isn't just ruling in Trump's favor. They're doing it through a process specifically designed to avoid public scrutiny.

No written opinions means no record. No record means no accountability. No accountability means they can do whatever they want.

 

34 Members of Congress Say

Palantir Is Being Used to Build a Mass Surveillance Ecosystem

Thom Hartman

Thirty-four members of Congress sent a letter Thursday to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and acting ICE director Todd Lyons demanding answers about how the administration is using surveillance technology to power its immigration crackdown, including tools built by Palantir, Clearview AI, PenLink, L3Harris, and Paragon Solutions.

The letter states that this suite of tools could be used to “compile, aggregate, and analyze large volumes of personal data and information” about Americans. It demands a response by April 24.

The lawmakers asked specifically about a Palantir-built app called ELITE, short for Enhanced Leads Identification and Targeting for Enforcement, requesting a full accounting of its purpose, its data categories, and how many DHS officials have access to it. Palantir also built ICE’s core law enforcement case management system and the Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, which agents use to select deportation cases and track who has been removed.

Congressman Dan Goldman, a lead author of the letter, said the administration has “weaponized” Palantir technology to power its “inhumane mass deportation agenda” and to “surveil American citizens.” The lawmakers also asked whether DHS collects data on people who are “peacefully observing, documenting or protesting immigration enforcement operations,” citing cases in which facial recognition was used to identify U.S. citizens who encountered ICE agents.

Every generation of Americans has had to decide whether to let the government watch everyone all the time. The Church Committee warned us back in the seventies what happens when surveillance tools built to chase foreign threats get turned on citizens at home. Now Peter Thiel’s company is building that same infrastructure on a scale J. Edgar Hoover couldn’t have dreamed of, and they’re renting it to an administration that has openly threatened its political enemies and declared protesters enemies of the state. The Fourth Amendment wasn’t written for comfortable times. It was written for exactly this moment.

Palantir’s government revenue nearly doubled in fiscal year 2025, hitting approximately $1 billion. Its business has exploded since Trump’s second term began. The company’s founder has been closely allied with the administration. And the congressional letter demanding transparency has, so far, received no substantive public response.

 

Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this Party want to take America.

Texas Congressman Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s calling the “MAMDANI Act,” named after Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected democratic socialist mayor of New York City, that would let the federal government bar entry to, deport, and strip naturalized citizenship from any person who advocates for or is “affiliated with” what Roy calls “totalitarian” movements. The list includes, from Rep. Roy’s webpage:

“[A] socialist party, a communist party, the Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist party, or advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.”

The bill targets people who “write, distribute, circulate, print, display, possess, or publish” material supporting socialism or any of those other ideas.

“Possess?” That single word means that owning a copy of Marx’s Das Kapital, or a pamphlet from a Palestinian solidarity group, or a battered paperback of Howard Zinn — or maybe even one of my books on the New Deal — would be enough to make a green-card holder or a naturalized citizen “inadmissible or deportable.”

“Affiliated with?” That would prevent anybody who’s ever affiliated themselves with the Democratic Socialist Party in New York that Mamdami ran on behalf of (along with the normal Democratic Party; New York has fusion voting so you can run on two parties simultaneously) from staying in America. Gone to a meeting, rally, or put yourself on their mailing list? You’re toast.

“Write?” That means they’re coming for me, and for you if you’ve ever echoed in writing the kind of sentiments that Republicans call socialism, including food stamps and school lunches, free college, public libraries, a national healthcare system, police and fire, and highways that don’t have tolls. (When billionaire David Koch ran for vice president in 1980 on an antisocialism agenda, he called for the end of all these forms of “socialism”.)

“Distribute?” And they’d be coming for Substack, too, it appears. Along with your local bookstore or library.

We haven’t seen anything this sweeping since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when then-President John Adams had roughly 30 newspaper editors and publishers thrown in prison for attacking him. Ben Franklin’s grandson was arrested for publishing an op-ed calling the president “old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams.” A town drunk in New Jersey was arrested for criticizing him while imbibing in a bar. Adams’ overreach lost him the election of 1800 to his then-political enemy Thomas Jefferson, who openly opposed the Acts.

But here we are again, and here’s another dangerous overreach on the GOP’s part in this legislation: Roy’s bill explicitly forbids judicial review of any inadmissibility, deportation, or denaturalization decision made under it.

In other words, if this law passes then no court can stop or second-guess the government: no habeas corpus, no meaningful appeals; just an order from the Attorney General or some twit at ICE or Homeland Security, and you’re on a plane or stuck in a hellhole “detention facility,” possibly for the rest of your life.

That’s not immigration policy, that’s the architecture of a police state, and it’s modeled on how the Nazis stripped citizenship from German Jews and political dissidents in 1935 under the Reich Citizenship Laws.

I’ve walked through Berlin’s Topography of Terror museum, and the documents on display tell the horrific story of how that the lawyers who drafted those Nazi laws studied America’s own racial and political exclusion laws for inspiration.

Now Republican Chip Roy wants to bring them back to America as Republicans try to reinvent or country in the image of Trump’s mentor Putin’s Russia or — as the authors of Project 2025 openly suggest — Orbán’s Hungary.

The bill’s namesake, Mayor Mamdani, became a U.S. citizen in 2018 after moving here from Uganda as a child. He hasn’t been credibly accused of any crime, and as the Brennan Center for Justice meticulously documents, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the use of stripping people of their citizenship as a political weapon like Putin now routinely does and Trump loves to threaten.

That goes all the way back to trying to overturn the 1943 Schneiderman Supreme Court ruling, which held the government must prove “lack of attachment” to the Constitution by “clear, unequivocal, and convincing” evidence. Disagreeing with someone’s politics doesn’t cut it by a long shot. But Roy and his allies aren’t interested in the existing jurisprudence; they want to write new laws that nullify that decision (and common decency) altogether.

Roy told Breitbart his target is what he calls a “Red-Green Alliance” of socialists and Islamists, and a summary from his office goes further, claiming current immigration policies — echoing clearance Thomas's recent speech that I wrote about yesterday — have produced “dangerous levels of opposition to classical American political doctrines, like free-market capitalism.”

That’s an extraordinary admission, because Roy isn’t proposing to deport people who commit crimes, or who support terrorism, or even who lied on their citizenship applications. He wants, instead, to strip of citizenship and then deport people who don’t sufficiently believe in the unregulated, low-tax version of the so-called free market capitalism advocated by the right-wing billionaires who now own the GOP.

This is a loyalty test for an ideology rather than a country, and, as I lay out in The Hidden History of American Oligarchy, it’s the kind of legislation the robber barons of the 1920s and the John Birchers and McCarthy movement of the 1950s dreamed of but could never ram through Congress and neither Taft nor Eisenhower would ever have signed.

We’ve actually run a smaller, more local version of this experiment before, and it ended in disgrace. The Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920 saw roughly 10,000 immigrants rounded up without warrants and 556 of them deported, including the anarchist Emma Goldman, all for the crime of holding the wrong politics.

The Communist Control Act of 1954 put into law by Republicans at the height of McCarthyism, was eventually declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1973 and most of its provisions repealed. Each time we’ve tried this sort of neofascist thing the country looked back in shame, having relearned that the First Amendment doesn’t have an exception for people who say we should tax the morbidly rich to build and support a middle class.

History tells us, over and over again, that once you give the government the power to disappear people for what they read, write, believe, or advocate that power never stays trained just on the original targets.

There are nearly 25 million naturalized citizens and 12.8 million green-card holders living in the United States today, and every single one of them would, under Roy’s bill, be subject to having their citizenship reviewed and potentially revoked based on some right-winger complaining about them to a federal bureaucrat or police agency or the discovery of a book in their house.

It would threaten millions of legal permanent residents and visa holders working in our hospitals, building our houses, teaching our children, designing our electronics, and even farming our food. The fear alone is the point: if you’re a naturalized citizen or green-card or visa holder, and you want to attend a Free Palestine rally, a labor union meeting, or a tenants’ rights organizing session, you’d now have to ask yourself whether some aide in Stephen Miller’s office might decide that constitutes “advocacy for socialism.”

And it’s one of dozens of similar laws that have been proposed by Republicans in recent years.

Presumably, this is the sort of thing that the billionaire Peter Thiel who funded JD Vance’s rise to the Senate and vice presidency meant when he famously said, “I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible.” That’s the billionaire whose company now compiles information on Americans on behalf of the Trump regime.

Call your member of Congress through the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and tell them you oppose the MAMDANI Act and any legislation that creates thought, publishing, and speech crimes, then use the ACLU’s action tool to make sure your senators hear from you, too.

Support the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has been on the front lines fighting Roy’s earlier “Sharia-Free America Act,” and back the American Immigration Council as it readies the inevitable legal challenges. Get involved with Indivisible and your local Democratic Party to make sure the 2026 midterms send Roy and every co-sponsor of this bill back home permanently.

The Constitution doesn’t defend itself and neither does' freedom; that work belongs to us, and the time to engage with it is right now.

Louise’s Daily Song: “Chip Roy makes McCarthy Blush”

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piece of bread each day.

After days, they took me for interrogation, which was based on beatings and torture.

They put cigarettes out in my mouth and on my body.

They put clamps on my testicles that were attached to something heavy. It went on like that for a whole day.

My testicles swelled up and my left ear bled.

They used the worst kind of torture; I was wishing for death in a crazy way.

I was asked about Hamas leaders and people I didn’t know and hadn’t met. They asked me where I was on October 7, and I said I was at home and had only gone out to get food for my wife.

They beat me. Then they put me back in the freezing room with the loud disco music, and again left me there, naked, for days, and gave me only very little bread and water.

Then they took me into interrogation again. They opened WhatsApp on my phone and asked me about neighbors from my building and where they worked. I told them that some of them worked at UNRWA or the International Committee of the Red Cross and some I didn’t know.

From there, they took me to a different pen, where they left me naked for about or days.

I got very little food and drink there too, and they made me wear a diaper.

After that, I was taken into interrogation again. I was asked about my work and about car dealers I have business connections with. During the interrogation, they showed me a video and told me they were Islamic Jihad people. I told them I didn’t know them.

During the interrogation, I was given electric shocks and beaten so badly that I passed out.

My foot got swollen from the electric shocks. When I came to, I asked them to bandage it and they did.

The interrogation continued, and then they took me back to the room with the disco and left me there for days. When I asked the soldier guarding me to go to the bathroom, he brought me a container and told me to pee into it.

I developed wounds, bleeding, and pain in my body, especially the left leg, which had bruises and wounds full of pus that hurt badly. My leg turned blue and nearly reached a state of necrosis.

I was kept in the pen for days, and then I had surgery, without anesthesia, on my swollen left leg.

I asked for anesthetics and they said I wasn't in a position to ask for anything and ordered me to keep quiet.

When I screamed in pain, they hit me in the abdomen with a plastic stick until I shut up.

They drained the pus from my leg.

Then they moved me back to the pen, where I was forced to kneel every day for weeks, handcuffed and blindfolded.

The bandage on my leg was changed only once. We showered once a week and got clean underwear only once during that time.

I was offered to work with the army and refused. One of the officers or soldiers conveyed condolences for the death of my father and mother, my family, and my wife. That’s when I had a nervous breakdown and I passed out.

After days of detention, I was put on a bus with other detainees, and we drove for a long time.

We arrived at the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, where the soldiers told us we weren’t allowed to talk to the media about the torture we’d been through.

They gave us a bag with our personal effects, but I didn’t find the money, the gold jewelry, or my phone in mine. I only found the phone charger, my UNRWA refugee card, and my ID card.

I told the soldier I wanted my things, and he said I had nothing and that if I spoke about it, I would go back to prison.

We went to the Palestinian side of the crossing and UNRWA staff were waiting for us there. I called my family in northern Gaza, and they were shocked when they heard my voice. They were sure I’d been killed.

My father and mother were so excited that they put themselves at risk and came to Rafah to be with me. They got to the checkpoint in a cart and walked from there.

They told me my wife had given birth to our daughter while I was in prison, that she was malnourished because of the hunger in the northern Gaza Strip, and that our daughter was born weighing kg.

My parents and I lived in a tent in Rafah until the army raided the area, and now we are in a makeshift tent in Deir al-Balah.

Conditions here are terrible.

I keep in touch with my wife over the phone. She keeps moving with the baby from place to place because of the bombings.

Much of the torture that the other men and I endured was being hit in the genitals and sensitive areas, and having cigarettes put out on our mouths, our bodies, and our genitals.

My toe almost had to be amputated as a result of the electricity torture.

At one point, they took a man next to me, and they let him lie on the ground. They took off his underwear. They released a dog on him, and the dog raped the guy.

They were enjoying themselves in the ways of torture.

Some guys were tortured with an electric baton that they inserted into prisoners’ rectums.

One man died as a result of this torture.

If international law and human rights are not safeguarded during war, they are unnecessary in times of peace."

If you want to understand exactly what the Silicon Valley billionaire class actually thinks of the working class, you do not need to read between the lines; you just have to read their own terrifying manifestos. Palantir, the massive data analytics and defense contracting firm heavily embedded in the United States military and intelligence apparatus, recently published a deeply disturbing ideological blueprint they call "The Technological Republic." It is not a business plan; it is a blatant, authoritarian demand to merge unaccountable corporate tech power with the lethal force of the federal government. Any private corporation operating under this specific, radicalized belief system should be immediately and permanently banned from holding a single government contract.

You do not even have to read their terrifying twenty-two-point manifesto to understand exactly how deeply sinister this corporation actually is; you simply have to look at the sheer, unhinged arrogance of what they chose to name themselves. "Palantir" is a direct, deliberate reference to the fictional universe of J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings*. In the mythology, a Palantir is an ancient "seeing stone" used to spy across vast distances. But the crucial, horrifying context is that these stones were ultimately hijacked by the supreme dark lord of the series to surveil the world, corrupt the minds of political leaders, and orchestrate endless, devastating warfare.

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The fact that a massive data-mining monopoly (one explicitly building domestic surveillance grids and military targeting algorithms for the federal government) deliberately named themselves after a fictional artifact of pure, corrupting evil is not some cute, nerdy inside joke. It is a terrifying, blatant admission of their actual intentions. They are openly telling the working class that they view themselves as the all-seeing eye of a dystopian empire, and they are literally bragging about their own villainy right to our faces.

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The entire foundation of Palantir’s manifesto is the aggressive privatization of the military-industrial complex. In their points regarding "hard power" and AI weapons, they explicitly state that the engineering elite must actively participate in national defense, arguing that whoever builds AI weapons will control the century. They do not want to be just a software vendor; they want to be the architects of the American war machine. Handing the keys to our national security over to a private, profit-driven tech monopoly that views global conflict as an inevitable software engineering challenge is a recipe for endless, mechanized warfare.

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But the absolute most offensive, enraging point in their entire twenty-two-point doctrine is their stance on the working class bleeding for their wars. Palantir explicitly calls for a return to the mandatory military draft, stating that "national service should be a universal duty." Let that sink in. The billionaire executives sitting in air-conditioned boardrooms, building the AI targeting systems that will ignite the next global conflict, are actively lobbying the government to force your working-class children onto the front lines to fight it. They want to socialize the physical risk in blood while they entirely privatize the financial profits.

When they are not demanding the working class fight abroad, they are demanding the right to surveil us at home. The manifesto insists that Silicon Valley must "play a role in addressing violent crime" in our local neighborhoods. For a company like Palantir, whose bread and butter is massive, unregulated data harvesting and predictive analytics, this is a terrifying threat. It is a direct pitch to turn our local police departments into heavily militarized, algorithm-driven surveillance states, treating everyday American citizens like enemy combatants in their own communities just to test out their new tech.

While they demand total surveillance of the public, they aggressively demand total secrecy for themselves. Two separate points in their manifesto explicitly complain about the "ruthless exposure" of public figures and demand we show "far more grace" to the politicians and elites running the country. They view holding the ruling class accountable for their corruption as a "petty assault." It is a blatant, hypocritical demand for absolute immunity: mass surveillance and zero privacy for the working class, but total, unquestioned protection for the political and corporate elite.

The ideological arrogance expands well beyond government mechanics; it bleeds into highly dangerous cultural supremacy. Palantir explicitly declares that certain cultures are "dysfunctional and regressive" while openly attacking the concepts of pluralism and inclusivity in the West. It is deeply terrifying when an unaccountable defense contractor—a company that actively decides who goes on watchlists, who gets surveilled, and who gets targeted by military algorithms—openly holds supremacist views about which subcultures are "valid" and which ones are "regressive."

This manifesto also actively demands that society stop holding the billionaire class in contempt. They literally complain that the public "snickers" at billionaires like Elon Musk and insist we should be applauding them instead. This reveals the true allegiance of Palantir: they do not serve the American Republic; they serve the oligarchy. They are actively trying to construct a society where the ultra-wealthy tech elite are treated as untouchable philosopher-kings, completely immune from the criticism of the everyday people whose lives they are aggressively trying to engineer.

They are even arrogant enough to lobby for the destabilization of global security frameworks to drum up more business. The manifesto demands the "undoing" of post-WWII pacifism in Germany and Japan, arguing that these nations need to be remilitarized. A private software company should not be dictating international geopolitical alliances. They are actively advocating for a massive, global arms race simply because a remilitarized Europe and Asia means billions of dollars in brand new government contracts for their AI defense platforms.

When a private corporation explicitly holds a political ideology this authoritarian, handing them state power effectively bypasses the democratic process entirely. We do not get to vote on Palantir’s board of directors, yet they are actively managing the data that runs our intelligence agencies, our military, and our domestic law enforcement. By continuing to award them massive federal contracts, the government is officially endorsing a worldview that views the working class as draftable cannon fodder and the elite as untouchable rulers.

The American public must draw an absolute, uncompromising line in the sand. We cannot allow an unelected, technocratic oligarchy to dictate the future of human freedom under the guise of national security. Palantir's "Technological Republic" is a dystopian nightmare, and any politician who takes their money or awards them a contract is actively selling out the working class. If this independent journalism brings you value, your voluntary contribution gives me the absolute freedom to keep tearing down these corporate monopolies. Links are in the first comment. Subscribe to the Substack for the full archive.

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Trump's buddies

"Palantir’s new manifesto is a straight up blueprint for techno-fascism

Alex Karp’s mass surveillance and autonomous weapons software empire has just released a blueprint for an American techno-fascist, techno-feudalist state powered by advanced AI.

The 22-point document combines the enthusiasm of the 1930s American Technocracy movement with elements eerily reminiscent of 20th century fascist ideologists, and calls for:

Making the Silicon Valley “engineering elite” the new aristocracy, obliged “to participate in the defense of the nation,” and being given more of a say in advancing the overarching “grand narrative”

The rejection of “vacant and hollow pluralism” and “decadent” consumer iPhone culture

Recognition of the “limits” of “soft power,” and celebrating “hard power,” which “in this century will be built on software”

Framing the race for AI weapons debate as an ‘if we don’t build it, our enemies will’, using technological inevitability as a moral cover

Dubbing national service “a universal duty,” and calling for the end of all-volunteer armies

Calling for the rearmament of Germany and Japan

Contemptuously framing the Weimar Republic’s US’s current crop of leaders a “roster of ineffectual, empty vessels,” and suggesting that the “ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service” (keep those Epstein files closed, right Alex?)

Heaping jingoistic praise for America’s “progressive values” and supposed indispensability to “an extraordinarily long peace” post-WWII, and touting the superiority of Western culture, which has “produced wonders” while “others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful”

A critique of decadent, hollow pluralism, the need for a new elite promising “the solution,” demands for national sacrifice, rejection of liberal constraints, technological determinism, ranked cultures and a rewriting of the post-WWII order. We’ve seen this movie before…

@geopolitics_prime"

#pureblood #massawakening