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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Peter Thiel, Palantir, and enriched uranium. Cool. Cool. 1/
Peter Thiel Joins Board of Enriched Uranium Startup
General Matter
share.googleCentrus and Palantir
partner on US
uranium enrichment
By FRANCISCO "A.J." CAMACHO | 03/13/2026 06:39 AM EDT
The use of artificial intelligence to generate real-time data on nuclear centrifuges aims to speed up fuel development for advanced reactors.
Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7, 2022, in Miami. Marco Bello/Getty Images
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“.. after reportedly exhausting its AI budget just four months into 2026 ..” @theverge.com $UBER www.theverge.com/transportati...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump has nominated Jim O’Neill, a Peter Thiel protege, for the #2 position at HHS. 1/ www.theinformation.com/articles/as-...
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As DOGE Shakeup Looms, a Thiel Protégé Looks to Disrupt U.S. Health Department
In November, virologist Beata Halassy announced to the world that she had cured her own breast cancer using a treatment developed in a laboratory she runs. Many in the medical community celebrated her...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Pete Hegseth’s brother, Philip Hegseth, is a podcast producer for ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ [aka “a16z”] & recently joined the DHS as a liaison to the “Dept of War”. (ICYMI, A16z was co-founded by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen.) 1/
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today, RFK Jr. welcomed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya—a friend of tech billionaire Peter Thiel—to his position as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. RFK Jr. reportedly plans to meet w/ the Rockbridge Network later this month. Rockbridge is backed by Thiel & Rebekah Mercer (per Reuters). 1/
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“A Peter Thiel Protégé [Michael Kratsios] Is Leading Trump’s AI Strategy Against China” He was recently confirmed to lead the “Office of Science & Technology”. 3/30/25 1/ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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A Peter Thiel Protégé Is Leading Trump’s AI Strategy Against China
He will work to counter Beijing without disrupting U.S. businesses.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Close allies of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen (David Sacks, Sriram Krishnan, & Michael Kratsios) “wrote” Trump’s “AI Action Plan, released in July,” which “seeks to remove barriers to AI innovation in the US, including ‘ideological bias’” 9/9/25 1/ www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/09/m...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“A blind man cld see that the upcoming administration is stacked with ‘our guys’ from tech, specifically from Thiel's camp *** Our cover is blown [so stop apologizing] … We are the new elite because we are the most capable…” - Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko, 12/14/24 1/
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Why was I looking at Keith Rabois? Because Trump has picked Rabois’ husband, Jacob Helberg, for his Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. (As discussed in the thread.)
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“Agency employees may seek to ‘persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views’ in the office, wrote Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management” - 7/28/25 (Kupor is a former partner of tech billionaire Marc Andreessen) 1/
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US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplaces
Federal employees may discuss and promote their religious beliefs in the workplace, the Trump administration said on Monday, citing religious freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m sure it’s fine. Frank Bisignano— who reportedly oversaw a program at JP Morgan in the 2010s to spy on JP Morgan employees using software from Peter Thiel’s Palantir—is both the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration & the CEO of the Internal Revenue Service under Trump 2.0. 1/
Frank J. Bisignano (born August 9, 1959) is an American businessman who has served as the commissioner of
the Social Security Administration since
May 2025. Bisignano has additionally served as the chief executive officer of the Internal Revenue Service since
October 2025.
Frank Bisignano
Official portrait, 2025
18th Commissioner of the Social Security
AdministrationPhoto of Peter Thiel
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Media need to keep track of both how Peter Thiel / Palantir people are inserted into our government AND how Palantir hires family members of government officials. We already knew the son of SC Justice Kennedy worked with Palantir. Now Palantir has hired the wife of FCC Chair Brendan Carr. 1/
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congrats to the kids who booed the business leaders telling them them have to embrace AI whether they want to or not. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/keep-telli...
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Keep Telling the Oligarchs They Suck
It might not get them to reexamine everything they're doing, but it can't hurt.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Incredible- Trump's $2 billion taxpayer-subsidized slush fund comes with a legal disclaimer that basically says "we are not responsible for any crimes committed with this money"
Once the funds are deposited into the Designated Account, the United States has no liability
whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those funds, regardless of bank failure,
fraudulent transfers, or any other fraud or misuse of the funds.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Image of Brendan CarrCarr graduated from Georgetown University, then earned his law degree at Catholic University, where he met his wife, Machalagh, who went on to serve as chief of staff for Kevin McCarthy when the California Republican was House speaker.They are among D.C.'s power couples. Earlier this year, she joined billionaire Peter Thiel's data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
He VRA is DEI is always where this was heading!
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter
The lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.
@AnthropicAI
We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation.

Our post-training at the time wasn’t making it worse—but it also wasn’t making it better.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people? cc: NFL
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
HAPPENING NOW: “WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE! @GovBillLee sold out Tennessee… this is about to be a very long week for their asses….” Protestors greet Republicans like @SenBrentTaylor here to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS to protect a corrupt president
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Ultimate “Christian Right” Hypocrisy: “Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals & the Republican Party, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook.” By Robert Downen, May 2026…1/
texasmonthly.com
How an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His Image
Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"'I don't need cross-dressers in the military,' Cao said. 'I need alpha males and alpha females.'...Cao said the services needed 'meat eaters' instead of 'leaf eaters.'" Your secnav, ladies and gentlemen www.navytimes.com/news/your-na...
navytimes.com
‘Alpha’ troops and more ships: Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao outlines vision for service
In one of his first public addresses as acting Navy secretary, Hung Cao said he didn't need "cross-dressers" or "leaf eaters" in the service.
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that since people will never give up democracy and the right to vote, they must be taken away by force: "Virtuous, ambitious, masculine men have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is their detriment."
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Trump is a bad person" didn't work in the last election. People already know that, but many pretend he will help them anyway. TRY: "You hoped Trump would help you. But Donald only helps himself. He's pocketed billions while making you poorer, thanks to his high inflation, tariffs, & gas prices."
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 01/05/2026
A hedge fund dropped $100 million for land in rural Arizona, in an area with almost no groundwater regulation. They’re using it to grow alfalfa for overseas cattle feed — a water-intensive crop that guzzles thousands of gallons per acre, while residents are left watching their wells run dry.
floodlightnews.org
Saudi-owned corporate farms are draining Arizona’s desert dry
Arizona’s lax water laws let corporate farms pump unlimited groundwater to grow alfalfa for cattle overseas, even as local families spend their savings drilling new wells.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/05/2026
The war has almost no constituency outside of Donald Trump's biggest fans.
truthout.org
Poll Shows Most See Iran War as “Mistake,” Earlier Than With Iraq, Vietnam
The war has almost no constituency outside of Donald Trump’s biggest fans.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🔥 @adammockler.com : “The stature of Scott Jennings is so incredibly weak. This is a child trying to do political punditry. He lost his shit. Obviously something deeper was boiling in him.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
There it is. Any questions?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
HAYES: “Senator Tim Scott, that is simply not true… come on, Senator.” Chris calls out Scott’s easily disproven lie that gas prices are coming down 🤔 ⛽️ 🤥
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
TRUMP: “I actually think the war is very popular.” REALITY: “It isn’t.” Q: Who is telling him it is? Either he is lying, or he is being lied to. Meanwhile people are dying, and we are paying a lot more for everything.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 30/04/2026
"[Western democracies] claim themselves as these beacons of human rights...and then actively participated in the extermination of Gaza." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @simonerzim.bsky.social discuss the link between Western hypocrisy and the Gaza genocide. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hix...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What are we even doing here anymore? Just straight up bribe the guy and be done with it amazon save us all from the embarrassment. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 30/04/2026
This is Russian propaganda.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
NY Post: "[Sitcom Actress] Patricia Heaton urges 'friends on the left' to tone down extreme rhetoric after the WHCD shooting."
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/04/2026
the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
LEFT: Tells jokes. RIGHT: Is one.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a New York Times focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.
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Trump Voters Regret Backing ‘Horror Movie’ Presidency
Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a “New York Times” focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Justice Department seems to be going out of its way to avoid saying that Cole Allen didn't fire any weapons at all inside the Washington Hilton — and that the officer hit was most likely hit by friendly fire. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-jus...
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Is the Justice Department lying about Saturday's "shooting"?
A central point of the government's case doesn't add up.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Secret Service allowed a gunman into the event and, in response, shot not the gunman but each other
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“.. Several U.S. officials told Axios they're concerned about America getting drawn into a frozen conflict of no war and no deal. In this scenario, the U.S. would have to keep its forces in the region for many more months. ..” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/04/28/i...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.
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