"A blank check to Palantir" is not just a figure of speech either
AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
Feb 3, 2026 06:19They started building this immigrant-hunting nightmare system without a contract directly at Palantir headquarters.
If you don't know much about government contracting you might not know why that is bad.
But if you do, it is breathtaking.
Spending the public's money without public oversight. It's not just a financial crime.
When someone is trying to hide from democracy they are almost always doing something else deeply disturbing.
It keeps me up at night.
The CIA venture capital firm incubating homicidal maniacs that lack impulse control is wildly unnerving.
