“I used that terminology because the screenshot does not include substantive messages from the Signal chat; rather, it captures the name of the chat, ‘Houthi PC small group’, and reflects administrative notifications from 26 March and 28 March relating to changes in participants’ administrative settings in this group chat, such as profile names and message settings,” Blankenship wrote. The nonprofit group that brought the lawsuit, Protect Democracy Project, says the database offered “the only public source of information on how DOGE (Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency) is being funded — information that Congress and journalists have used in reporting and oversight.” Palantir, a tech company that was co-founded by far-right investor Peter Thiel and whose CEO has been gung-ho about using the company’s potentially deadly technologies to aid Donald Trump’s mass deportation and military plans, recently launched a “Meritocracy Fellowship” program in response to the company’s claim that “college is broken” and “meritocracy and excellence are no longer the pursuits of educational institutions.” To be honest, this sounds like little more than a jab at affirmative action policies that promote diversity on college campuses, which right-wingers falsely suggest is antithetical to meritocracy.
Author: Ja'han Jones
Published at: 2025-04-15 21:41:47
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