Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/
The NYT doesn't say HOW it was decided to give Palantir all your personal data, only that it was a no-bid contract directed by "Elon Musk's DOGE". (DOGE was always a project of Peter's too.) But Thiel had installed a protege to do just this. 2/ nytimes.com/2025/05/30/tec…
One of Trump's first actions as president was to install Greg Barbaccia, a longtime Palantir employee, as US Federal Chief Information Officer, with power to direct US software systems. This account called it: he was there to give Palantir your data. 3/
Everyone should have been on alert, because Greg Barbaccia was such as bizarre choice as our CIO - an ex-Army guy who did "physical security" and "executive protection" for Palantir. And yet Trump hired him 4 days after inauguration. He was pre-planned. 4/
It cannot be emphasized enough that all of these unfolding horrors were clear from the onset. People talked about their plans. Loyalists to Palantir and other tech firms were salted throughout government. They advertised for more - for young fascists. 5/
The fact that journalists are reporting that Elon Musk has "stepped away from government" and is "done with DOGE" is malpractice - it's repeating lies. The DOGE effort is not over. It is just beginning. The pieces are in place. The "rip" is done. Now comes the "replace". 6/
This account covers Peter Thiel because of his deep ties to January 6. He launched the alt-right influencers who promoted it - in 2016. He built the Senators who delayed the vote, Cruz and Hawley - from 2008. Peter is very, very patient, and it works. Journalists look away. 7/
@mikegroccia The split seemed most likely to come over education and "morality" (marriage/drugs/porn). The religious right ("Olds") are ordinary reactionaries, looking to an imagined past. The techbros ("News") are futurists, looking to a sci-fi fantasy of domination. Not natural allies.
@drmicheleross Correction: JD Vance's one independent, non-Thiel-funded law job was only for 8 months, not for 2 years.
@Legal_Ministry It's hard to pick out what is plausible from sci-fi fantasies. Remember also that Karp, Thiel and most of the VC set are not engineers or even programmers, they are would-be philosophers who got lucky with investments in the early 2000s and cruised on cheap capital ever since.
@Legal_Ministry Peter Thiel's set believe that government should be vested in a small set of elites or even a unitary dictator. They hate democracy. Even if they can't achieve a tenth of what they think they can, they'll do tremendous damage trying. It's easy to break things, hard to build.
@Legal_Ministry But honestly, if you work on law and religious, keep your eye on the "religious liberty" legal advocacy groups who are also extremely patient and waiting in the wings: Becket, ADL, First Liberty, Thomas More Society. They were deep in Jan 6 too and they have demands now on Trump.
@Legal_Ministry The Trump-Leonard Leo spat doesn't seem like a split in interests between those too, though, it's just Trump complaining about Leo's performance - that Leo couldn't deliver the Supreme Court to him after all.
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Just unbelievable stuff coming from independent journalists. Jack Posobiec, a Roger Stone protege, was one of the biggest spreaders of Russian disinfo in 2016. Of Pizzagate. Of election-fraud claims in 2020. And it took til now to show he was voting fraudulently himself? 1/
Slate picked up this article (kudos!) but both journos are independent.
Poso was one of the first people tapped for Ali Alexander's Stop the Steal. He pushed election-fraud claims to 1M followers, watched the J6 attack from Alex Jones' rented rooftop. 2/ slate.com/news-and-polit…
How is it that with all the resources of mainstream media his own voter fraud gets uncovered only now? How did CBS cover Poso, a major propagandist and a vector for foreign influence? They interviewed him about "the death of his friend Charlie Kirk". 3/
Dear god, our politicians have learned nothing. DO NOT LET YOUR OPPONENT SET THE NARRATIVE. Offense, not defense. The answer to "you are shutting the government down to give illegal immigrants healthcare" is "The GOP shut down the government to give handouts to billionaires." 1/
Never, never, use their framing. It does not work to try to avoid a fight by saying "we all agree", if your opponent is determined to fight. It just concedes territory. It makes their framing the topic Don't defend against a bad-faith argument. Attack and move forward. 2/
If someone insists on fighting you, you have to fight back. DO NOT ANSWER A BAD-FAITH QUESTION. Do not cede that authority. Just say the question is bs - attack their motivation - and move on to say what you think is true. Be the boss, set the terms of the debate. 3/
Trump's push to take over universities ratchets up: having failed to bully Harvard, he's now trying to bribe turncoats, offering "priority for federal grants" if they obey orders and teach right-wing views. It's compelled speech: a flagrant violation of the 1st Amendment. 1/
The WSJ, which first reported on the offer, buried the lede here. What's demanded of the 9 universities if they accept Premier Status is that they make 'governance changes' and abolish departments seen as 'belittling' 'conservative ideas'. Bribed speech is compelled speech. 2/
All that pearl-clutching about Free Speech On Campus? It meant nothing. About "DEI bias" and how we're now bringing back Merit and Excellence? Nothing. What's going on is the government trying to dictate what your children are taught. Just as this account warned was coming. 3/
Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein's next-door neighbor, seems to be on a pre-emptive damage control tour. Like Elon Musk, he says he visited Epstein's house, but only once: "I was one and done with the guy". Sure are an awful lot of Epstein ties in Trump's advisors. Here's 7... 1/
Alex Acosta, the Florida AG who gave Epstein a sweet (and secret) plea deal, got named as Trump's Secretary of Labor. Pam Bondi, the Florida AG who declined to support lawsuits by Epstein's victims, is now the US Attorney General. 2/ web.archive.org/web/2025082906…
Trump's HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. was a friend of Epstein's, partied with him, traveled with him, and flew on his airplane at least twice. 3/ newrepublic.com/post/177348/rf…
Pete Hegseth has recalled America's top military leaders from around the world for a meeting that's livestreamed on Fox. It truly could have been a Zoom call.
People were speculating whether this is nefarious vs. stupid. It looks like Team Stupid wins.
This is just gay panic on a national stage. Never has America so much needed gender studies departments to explain the psychopathologies haunting our leaders.
It's unclear who is leaking parts of the FBI's pipe bomb investigation to Just the News, but this witness interview confirms something long suspected: the RNC bomb was placed or moved on Jan 6. It was in too prominent a place to be missed, and found at too convenient a time. 1/
It is not a coincidence that the RNC & DNC bombs were discovered each within 15 minutes of the Capitol attack. For the RNC bomb, we know the finder, but don't see it dropped. For the DNC device, we see the drop on Jan 5, but never got the name of "an officer" who found it. 2/
Just the News is a biased source but these new reports seem genuine. Similarly, @RepLoudermilk's committee will likely be genuinely helpful. They may get more than they've bargained for, but it's for the good of the country. Let's make this all public. 3/ justthenews.com/government/sec…