'One of Trump’s extraordinary skills is to recognize and recruit those whose greed and vanity outstrip their principles, and who are happy to shout righteously for a cause they once abhorred. Deregulation, praise and massive contracts are a powerful cocktail to help you forget your commitments, especially when your supposed allies in liberalism are now critical of you. “Being unpopular pays the bills” Karp told a biographer in response to liberal outrage.'
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-wants-power-without-accountability

#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #authoritarianism #surveillance

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto

The problems with our tech philosopher kings

Can We Still Govern?
Neo on Instagram: "Material reality > symbolism. What is the system that is creating the problem? S/o @caityjohnstone & @chainsl4yer9000 #politicalmemes #politics #liberal #conservative #iranwar"

2,596 likes, 115 comments - neofromthamatrix on April 17, 2026: "Material reality > symbolism. What is the system that is creating the problem? S/o @caityjohnstone & @chainsl4yer9000 #politicalmemes #politics #liberal #conservative #iranwar".

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@kevinrns
RE
#Trump keeps lying....

Yea, he lies because he's a #Psychopath (no norms no empathy) aka #Sociopath (a reckless disregard for self and others) and knows he can get away with it.

He campaigned In this era of low education, stressed workers, climate change and wasteful #militaryindustrialcomplex (rich use him to make money) and homeland #Racism

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⭕Check if you are still registered #midterms #midterms2026

@Isnotgood
Thx 4 orig Kevin boost

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Climate finance, defence spending and war

"Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen as another sharp escalation in his almost week-long feud with the White House over the US-Israel war on Iran....They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/pope-leo-xiv-tyrants-trump-spat
#war #destruction #FossilFuels #ClimateFinance #biodiversity #restoration #education #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #MIC #climate #DefenceSpending

Pope says ‘world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ amid feud with Trump’s White House

Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks

The Guardian
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker
How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain

Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare,” by Katrina Manson, about Drew Cukor and military uses of A.I.

The New Yorker