So - there’s this guy named Brad Parscale who was Trump’s data guy. He’s the Cambridge Analytica guy who basically built the digital machine that got Trump elected the first time.

Well, he’s working for Israel now.

He apparently registered as a foreign agent back in September and his company Clocktower X signed a contract with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that’s sitting in a Department of Justice database right now for anyone who knows where to look.

The deal started at six million dollars and has already been bumped up to nine, which works out to about a million and a half a month flowing from a foreign government into the bank account of the guy who built Trump’s data operation.

And what’s he getting paid to do?

Convince Gen Z to love Israel.

That’s the actual job description in the contract. At least 80 percent of the content has to target people under 30 on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts, and the deal requires 50 million paid impressions a month, 100 original pieces of content a month, and 5,000 variations of those pieces.

But wait it gets better.

He’s also trying to game ChatGPT.

The contract literally says Clocktower X will build websites designed to “deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” It took me a minute to figure out what that meant in English.

Basically he’s setting up a bunch of pro-Israel websites and pumping them full of content because he knows ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude pull from the open internet to answer your questions. Flood the internet with one side of a story and the AI starts repeating it back to you like it’s a fact. The disinformation people have a name for it - RAG poisoning.

And guess where he works during the day? Salem Media.

That’s the conservative Christian radio empire that owns Townhall and RedState and broadcasts Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder, and Lara Trump. He’s the Chief Strategy Officer.

The literal executive in charge of strategy at the network. And the FARA filing says - in writing - that part of the Israel contract involves “integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties.”

So the guy taking money from Israel to push pro-Israel content is also the executive deciding what airs on a network that millions of conservative Christians tune into every day. Public Citizen and the Quincy Institute have already filed complaints with the DOJ about it because FARA requires foreign-funded content to be labeled, and Salem listeners have absolutely no idea that Lara Trump’s warm thoughts on Israel were paid for by Netanyahu’s foreign ministry.

Speaking of which, Netanyahu has straight up said the information war is a national priority for his government, and you can see why. Support for Israel among young Americans has fallen off a cliff since the Gaza war started, and a Gallup poll in July found only 9 percent of people 18 to 34 support what’s happening there. So Israel did what governments do when they’re losing a demographic - they bought one.

Through Havas, the European ad agency that handles the contract on Israel’s behalf, they’ve also paid a Christian outreach firm in San Diego $4 million to evangelize churches, hired a separate firm to recruit MAGA influencers for $900,000, and quietly built out an entire ecosystem of foreign-paid American mouths.

Parscale told the Washington Examiner this isn’t a foreign influence campaign and his exact quote was that the filings are public, everything is disclosed, and nothing is hidden.

Sure. The filings are public.

The Quincy Institute had to dig them out of the DOJ database and Sludge had to investigate to figure out what was even in them, but technically, yeah, public.

You just have to know they exist.

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Minneapolis. May 21, 1934.

America was deep in the Great Depression.

Truck drivers in Minneapolis worked nearly 90 hours a week for around $12 while many families struggled to afford food during one of the hardest economic collapses in U.S. history.

The city was controlled by a powerful organization called the Citizens Alliance, a group of wealthy business owners who had spent years crushing unions and keeping workers powerless.

When truck drivers from Teamsters Local 574 finally went on strike demanding better wages and conditions, the Alliance decided to break them by force.

Police alone were not enough.

So businessmen created their own army.

Hundreds of bankers, lawyers, executives, and wealthy businessmen were sworn in as temporary “Special Deputies.” Many had never faced real violence before. They were handed badges and wooden clubs and sent into the Warehouse District to protect strikebreaking trucks.

The rich men expected workers to scatter.

Instead, they walked into a trap.

The drivers were organized. They had lookouts, medical teams, communication systems, and hundreds of determined workers waiting nearby.

Then the signal went out.

From alleys and side streets, nearly 600 striking drivers suddenly charged forward carrying bats, sticks, and pipes.

No speeches.

No negotiations.

Just fury from men tired of watching their families starve while powerful people treated them as disposable.

The Special Deputies panicked almost immediately.

Their lines collapsed. Clubs were dropped in the streets as businessmen ran through alleys and over fences trying to escape.

Newspapers later called the humiliating defeat “The Battle of Deputies Run.”

But the violence was not over.

Months later, during what became known as “Bloody Friday,” police opened fire on strikers, inj*ring dozens and triggering massive protests across Minneapolis.

Eventually, federal officials intervened.

The union won recognition.

Wages improved.

Worker protections expanded.

And for one moment during the Depression, ordinary workers forced some of the most powerful men in the city to realize something terrifying.

Money could buy badges.

But it could not guarantee obedience forever.

Story based on historical records. This post is for educational purposes.

 

PALANTIR is a national security threat, according to two high-level sources in the Ministry of Defence.

Two senior systems engineers reportedly warned on Friday against government involvement with the US security and AI tech firm, which has received millions in contracts in Britain’s public sector.

The insiders contradicted earlier statements from a department spokesperson who claimed that “all data remains sovereign and under the ownership of the MoD.”

They condemned the statements as ignorant and misleading, according to reporting from the Nerve website.

“Ministers clearly have a lack of understanding of Palantir’s technology” and are “missing the point entirely,” one source said.

“[They’re] missing the realities of data scraping, of aggregation and the fact that Palantir is building its own rich picture of our nation that they can use for their own ends.

“Allowing a single entity, foreign or domestic, to have such far-reaching, pervasive access is inherently dangerous. How our national cybersecurity centre has allowed this beggars belief.”

Despite the department claiming the data will remain in public hands, the whistleblowers warned that insights extracted from the data are not protected from the tech company.

“Palantir does not need to own the data or even have stewardship. They can extract, transform and exploit the metadata to build their own rich picture.”

A second source with a background in intelligence said Palantir probably has “a complete profile on the whole UK population. At the very least I’d call that a security risk.”

Defence Minister Luke Pollard previously said: “All data used and developed in Palantir’s software deployed across the Ministry of Defence will remain under the ownership of the MoD.”

A spokesman for Palantir said: “These entirely false claims have no grounding in fact and no serious media outlet would report them.”

 

Jeffrey Epstein (update) - Peter Thiel must be investigated, he must be fired and he must be held accountable for his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. The MOB is protecting him; we need to put the pressure on.

Palantir Founder & Chairman Peter Thiel contacted Jeffrey Epstein to exchange advice after the press first reported on Epstein's crimes:⁣

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"I do hope you're holding up well, and that the cycle won't go much further. ... Do you have any sense on whether this press cycle is going to keep escalating? It would be good to compare notes at some point, on strategies on this sort of stuff." (EFTA00865818)

Palantir is alleged to be heavily tied to technology for Israel's war in Gaza. Alex Karp, Founder & Chairman at Palantir Alex Karp has repeatedly and publicly declared solidarity with Israel, saying the company is “proud” to support Israel after October 7 and acknowledging that his stance has caused employee departures, a sign that support is not merely transactional but also rhetorical and organizationally prioritized.

Palantir held a full board meeting in Tel Aviv and announced a “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to supply technology for military use, framing the relationship as an explicit operational collaboration rather than a limited commercial customer contract.

It is quite coincidental how people surrounding the files that are being protected are linked to Israel.

In September 2025: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (introduced a bill), of Oregon, has demanded that the Treasury Department hand over documents related to the sex trafficker’s finances, which The New York Times revealed in June included $40 million in investments to a Thiel-backed firm.

Those investments in Valar Ventures, in 2015 and 2016, are now worth nearly $170 million and are reportedly the Epstein estate’s largest asset. Now, Wyden wants a closer look at how—and why—an alleged $1.5 billion moved between Thiel, Epstein, and 70 other “co-conspirators.”

We cannot expect that these people will continue to investigate themselves. They knew about Epstein's crimes and are hoping the issue just goes away. We need an independent committee comprised of citizens to investigate and prosecute these offenders.

#epsteindidntkillhimself #EpsteinTransparencyAct #EpsteinClientList #EpsteinJustice #EpsteinFiles

Is the United States moving into a new political formation that is not fascism in the old sense, but something even colder: a “techno-oligarchy” that seeks to replace human judgment, democratic process, and the rule of law with automated systems of control? I explore this in my latest Substack essay (see link in comments).

We need to zero in on the deep transition now underway: from law, which is slow, interpretive, and mediated by human beings, to code, which executes instantly and admits no appeal. In such a system, institutions like government, journalism, universities, and even basic rights can be dissolved into data flows and private platforms. AI does not simply assist governance. Increasingly, powerful actors imagine AI becoming governance. What used to require deliberation, friction, and accountability gets replaced by machine-speed decision-making, whether in housing, employment, policing, surveillance, or war.

Reviewing Anton Shekhovtsov’s analysis of “techno-oligarchy,” I argue that this order does not mobilize society around a collective destiny. It hollows out the state while preserving coercion. It treats human beings not as citizens but as units of value, risk, and utility. In this framework, those who fall behind can be excluded, locked out, or even erased. After all, human beings are seen as obsolete, slowing down the progress toward a cyborg utopia.

In the U.S., we are living in a failed state where the system pushes growing numbers of Americans toward homelessness, despair and rage. As inequality deepens and democratic channels are blocked, resistance may spread in unpredictable forms. If the ruling class refuses to meet basic human needs, social breakdown, resistance and revolt will become rational alternatives to many. 

 

Addendum: We have been inundated to be canonicals by our government. We have been taught since birth to be motley worms, and clowns in the court of the hell created to sustain our pitiful existence of slavery by those who rule us, and to not only accept it, but defend it. 

 

Okay - I went DEEP on this - and I want everyone to PAY ATTENTION.

There will be a test.

So one network had two huge wins this week and the guy at the center of it isn't getting named in either story.

Have you heard of Leonard Leo? The Federalist Society guy. The one who helped build the current conservative Supreme Court majority and advised Trump on who to put on it, then went off to do bigger stuff.

On April 29 the conservative Supreme Court majority he helped build handed down what voting-rights advocates say is the biggest rollback of the Voting Rights Act in decades.

On May 4 the Department of Education opened a federal civil rights investigation into Smith College for admitting trans women. Totally different fights. Totally different agencies. Totally different legal frameworks. Nobody putting them in the same story.

But the same $1.6 billion dark money network is sitting behind both of them.

I had to dig into this one because honestly when the Smith news dropped I thought it was just another Trump trans panic move. Standard culture war stuff. Then I saw the complaint came from a group called Defending Education, and the name rang a bell from the parental rights school board stuff a couple years ago, and I started pulling on the thread.

Defending Education is run by Nicole Neily. She's a Koch network lifer - Cato, FreedomWorks, Competitive Enterprise Institute, all the usual suspects. The group says it's grassroots moms, which, lol.

According to IRS filings summarized by SourceWatch, the group paid Leonard Leo's PR firm CRC Advisors $1,392,656 between 2021 and 2024 for "strategy" and "public relations." Their legal work runs through Consovoy McCarthy, a firm that has worked extensively on conservative civil rights cases. Neily's other nonprofit, Speech First, got $750,000 from Leo's 85 Fund.

So Leo's nonprofit hub gives money to one Neily group, and a different Neily group pays Leo's for-profit firm. The money goes in a circle. The "grassroots parents" are a pass-through.

So when "a parents group" filed the Smith complaint, that's not a parents group. That's a Leo-network-aligned operation using a friendlier brand name.

OK let me explain how the money actually works because once you see it you can't unsee it.

In 2022 an Illinois businessman named Barre Seid gave $1.6 billion to a Leo entity called Marble Freedom Trust. Largest political donation in American history.

That money flows from Marble through a donor-advised fund at Schwab Charitable, which then grants it to Leo's main funding hubs, the 85 Fund and the Concord Fund.

Those funds then grant it out to all the nonprofits doing the actual fights - judicial groups, parents groups, election groups, "free speech" groups.

Schwab in the middle is the anonymity layer. When the 85 Fund's tax return says "we got our money from Schwab Charitable," nobody can trace it back to Marble, which means nobody can trace it back to Seid. The donors stay anonymous.

A significant amount of Leo-network nonprofit money has flowed back to Leo's own for-profit firm CRC Advisors - over $100 million since 2020, according to Court Accountability's Lisa Graves. He owns three houses now including a $3.3 million Tudor in Maine that he paid cash for in 2021. The network's nonprofit money also flows into his private consulting operation.

That's the machine. Now the wins.

Win one is Callais. The case was about a Louisiana map that restored a second majority-Black district and led to the election of a second Black representative. A group of "non-African American" voters sued to kill the map. Alito wrote the 6-3 opinion holding the map was unconstitutional and substantially narrowed how racial-gerrymandering claims can be brought going forward. Critics say the ruling shifts the fight toward proving intentional racial discrimination, making Section 2 claims much harder to win.

Kagan in the dissent said it makes Section 2 "all but a dead letter."

The conservative majority that wrote that opinion came through the judicial pipeline Leo helped build.

And the response was immediate.

Tennessee pulled off the most aggressive move. The day after Callais, Trump posted that Governor Bill Lee was going to redraw Tennessee's map. Lee called a special session two days later.

The session opened May 5. On May 7 the legislature repealed a 1972 state law that had banned mid-decade redistricting for fifty years, passed an entirely new congressional map that carves Memphis into three pieces, eliminates the state's only majority-Black district, and pushes toward a 9-0 Republican delegation.

Lee signed it all into law. Same day.

The NAACP filed a lawsuit within three hours.

They repealed a fifty-year-old law and passed a brand new map in three days. You don't draw a map like that in a weekend. You don't repeal a fifty-year-old statute in a weekend. Somebody had this ready.

Alabama filed an emergency request the day after Callais to bring back maps a lower court had already thrown out for being racially gerrymandered. Florida started redistricting immediately. Three Republican states moving in the same week, with more lining up behind them.

Win two is Smith.

Smith College is a 155-year-old women's college in western Massachusetts. The kind of place that shows up in old movies as a stand-in for "smart, slightly intimidating young women in cardigans." They've been admitting trans women since 2015, which is to say, for over a decade, on the simple logic that a women's college admits people who identify as women. Nobody outside the school cared. It wasn't a fight.

Then last spring Smith handed an honorary degree to Rachel Levine. You might remember Levine. She's the trans former Assistant Secretary for Health under Biden, the first openly trans federal official ever confirmed by the Senate, and basically Trumpworld's favorite person to put in attack ads. The Trump campaign featured her face in ads going after Kamala in 2024. Right's been obsessed with her for years.

Smith invited her to commencement. Gave her a degree. That was the trigger.

Defending Education - Nicole Neily's group, the one running money in a circle with Leonard Leo - filed a complaint with the Department of Education. On May 4, the Trump administration opened a federal civil rights investigation into Smith for, and I'm quoting here, "admitting biological men and granting them access to women-only spaces, including dormitories, bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletic teams."

The "victims" in the complaint are "biological women" who somehow got harmed by Smith admitting trans women. There are no actual women being denied admission. Smith takes any applicant who identifies as a woman, period. There's no named student who came forward saying their rights were violated. No incident. No event. Just a policy that exists, and the possibility that someday, maybe, somebody could feel like their rights got taken away.

That's the move. Sue over something that has not happened to anyone. Get the precedent before the harm exists, so by the time anyone could have actually been harmed, the door is already closed.

We've seen this play before. The clearest example is 303 Creative, the Colorado web designer who sued for the right to refuse to make wedding websites for same-sex couples. She had never been asked to make a wedding website for a same-sex couple. She did not have a wedding website business. The "request" she cited in her court filing turned out to be from a guy who was straight, already married to a woman, and had never contacted her.

The Supreme Court ruled in her favor anyway, 6-3, and carved a First Amendment loophole into public accommodations law over a customer who did not exist.

Now look at what the Trump administration is doing with executive orders. Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization with no specific act tied to a specific person. Deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act based on tattoos that might indicate gang membership. The whole pre-crime architecture, where you get punished for what the government thinks you might do, not what you did.

The Smith investigation is the same logic applied to civil rights enforcement. Stop waiting for harm. Open the case on the possibility of harm. Let the threat of losing federal funding do the work of forcing the school to change its policy before anyone has actually been hurt by anything.

Listen. I've written about Leo before, mostly the climate cases - his network funds the lawsuits while ProPublica documents him paying for the justices' vacations. The Smith case is the same playbook in a new costume. The lawyers are there. The plaintiffs are pre-built. The PR is pre-positioned. The federal agencies are now staffed by people from the same conservative legal world.

Leo's network isn't waiting for harm. They're manufacturing the precedent in advance. Callais was queued for years. The Smith complaint sat at the DOE for ten months. Tennessee passed a brand new map and repealed a fifty-year-old law in three days. Alabama filed the day after Callais. None of this was improvised. They're firing on all cylinders.

The press will cover Callais as a voting rights story and Smith as a trans story and nobody is going to put them in the same paragraph. But the donor map does. The money runs in a circle and the circle includes both fights.

If you're a Black voter in Louisiana watching your district disappear, and you're a trans student at Smith watching the federal government try to throw you out of your school, you don't have the same enemy on paper. You have the exact same enemy on the bank statements.

And if you're on the left and you've been watching this from the sidelines wondering why we keep losing, the answer is simple.

They've been planning all of this for decades. Now, they show up to every fight with the lawyers, the plaintiffs, the PR, the donors, and the federal agencies already lined up.

Time to stop watching and start taking notes.

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