Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) caught Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth contradicting his own statement on Wednesday, over reports that his stockbroker tried to make an investment in a defense company weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran. During a line of questioning on insider trading related to the Department of Defense, Warren brought up a report by the…
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Major military contractor and surveillance giant Palantir has posted a chilling manifesto on social media that calls for tech companies like itself to play a larger role in a dystopian future where imperialist and white supremacist powers are unleashed and Americans are increasingly subject to the whims of the surveillance state. The post contains 22 points it says were summarized from a 2025…
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A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Palantir, which has landed multiple massive contracts under the Trump administration, made $1.6 billion in net income last…
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Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from a niche lobbying issue into a central pillar of corporate influence in Washington. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the defense industry, where both legacy defense contractors and an influx of AI-first startups are making the technology a core focus of their lobbying efforts. AI barely registered in federal lobbying disclosures for…
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