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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.

On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation.

This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it.  

The New Start Treaty, the last of the major nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties between the United States and Russia, expired on February 5, without any serious attempt to replace it.  New Start’s demise enables both nations, which possess about 86 percent of the world’s 12,321 nuclear weapons, to move beyond the strict limits set by the treaty on the number of their strategic nuclear weapons (the most powerful, most devastating kind), thus enhancing the ability of their governments to reduce the world to a charred wasteland.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has made headlines this winter by vowing to defeat a proposal for a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires in the state. Many national polls now rank him as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, but aligning with the ultra-wealthy is not auspicious for wooing the party’s voters.