Palantir Audits ICE as Border Agents Target Polls and DNC
May 22, 2026
Palantir is hardening surveillance controls for ICE as border enforcement agents prepare to intimidate voters at polling stations, signaling a fusion of corporate algorithmic authority and state coercion. Simultaneously, the DNC's election autopsy erases the geopolitical reality of Gaza that drove voter defection, exposing an internal epistemic fracture that leaves the party blind to the hybrid warfare reshaping American politics.
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For the first time in a decade, the next election could be less secure than the one preceding it
The Election Security Group turns intelligence about foreign election threats into warnings and offensive operations. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images With the 2026 midterms less than six months away, the Election Security Group would normally be busy helping prepare the nation’s election infr…
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Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.
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ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence
A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence. The post ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology
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Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls
The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, and even gaming out what happens if they're arrested.
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Five key takeaways from Democrats’ autopsy report on Kamala Harris’s loss
Riddled with mistakes and missing sections, 192-page document on 2024 election loss to Trump fails to mention Gaza.
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- structural power
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DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all
As the DNC blamed the author for the report’s shortcomings, a source who participated in the research said the author seemed to grasp that Gaza "clearly" hurt Harris. The post DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology
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The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”
Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life. The post The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem” appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology