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The 2024 Presidential Election was determined by a shocking shift in Generation Z (those of us born between 1997–2012) — a demographic which polling data revealed skewed toward Trump after years of staunch opposition. Gen Z’s shift was created in large part by the influence of social media and emergent technology, more than in any previous election. Podcasts opened a new domain of political conversation and mobilized a generally disengaged voting demographic. This frontier’s inhabitants — my generation (Z) — shifted to a huge six-point plurality for Trump.

It is not for nothing that most of the world both abhors and condemns Israeli behavior, whether it be measured by the never-ending genocide in Gaza or the similarly driven terrorizing and deportation of the Palestinian population on the West Bank. Israel is intent on taking full control of historic Palestine and is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about and unfortunately the United States has been its all too often enthusiastic accomplice in that effort. Beyond that, Israel has bombed and otherwise killed its neighbors in Lebanon and Syria while also enticing Washington to join in the effort to attack Iran and bring about regime change in Tehran. Apartheid Israel, which has declared itself legally and ethnically a Jewish state, intends to become that in reality by eliminating all non-Jews from its ever expanding territory and it is willing to do whatever it takes to bring that about.

Israeli Olympic athletes aren’t just soldiers, they dedicate their medals to the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) and openly support the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, argued @richimedhurst on Twitter. He made an excellent point. 

You can’t separate sports from politics when athletes openly glorify an army committing mass atrocities. Medals don’t wash away complicity. The Israeli Death Forces (IDF) are a bunch of baby killers and gang-rapists. They are a danger to other people. Never forget that Israel kidnapped over 5,000 people in Gaza for the organ trade, pedophilia, and Satanic rituals of human sacrifice.

Anti-imperialism has long served as a central organizing principle of leftist political thought, particularly in relation to the Global South. Opposition to Western military intervention, economic domination, and political coercion is historically grounded and normatively defensible. Yet in recent years, anti-imperialism has increasingly been theorized—and practiced—through a narrowed geopolitical lens that equates resistance to Western power with emancipatory politics as such. Within this framework—visible in strands of campist analysis, sovereigntist Marxism, and contemporary “multipolar” discourse—state sovereignty is often treated as a proxy for popular sovereignty, and opposition to U.S. hegemony is taken as sufficient evidence of progressive political content.

The relationship between the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and Palantir did not begin in 2025.

It began in 2011, when Palantir embedded itself within Homeland Security Investigations, supplying DHS with tools to track flights, scan driver’s license data, and map human movement through cell phone records. This was before data mining had a name, and decades before the public understood that their private lives were being fused into searchable systems.

Even now — for many — that understanding has never really arrived.

In 2014, ICE first contracted with Palantir Technologies. This contract gave them $41 million to build ICE an ‘Investigative Case Management’ (ICM) system. That decision cemented what is now a fifteen-year relationship, one that has survived multiple presidencies, and has been alive nearly long enough to vote.