Posted by: RaveGoat | Source: The New York Times, May 30, 2025
Hold onto your horns, Herd — this one’s straight out of the dystopia playbook.
Trump just escalated the digital dragnet by signing an executive order that effectively greenlights a federal fusion of your personal data across agencies. Who’s the chosen tech overlord to make it happen? Palantir — the data behemoth built to “find hidden things”… and now, you might be one of them.
Here’s what you need to know:
🚨 Palantir’s “Foundry” system is being deployed across DHS, HHS, ICE, the IRS, and beyond. It doesn’t just hold data — it connects it, merges it, and maps it into profiles. We’re talking financial records, medical claims, immigration status, disability info — all tied to your identity in real time.
💰 Over $113M in public funds have been funneled to Palantir under Trump, including contracts with DHS and the Pentagon. A $795M DoD deal just dropped too.
🧬 The goal? A master list of Americans. Think: searchable, categorized, behaviorally scannable. Political critics, migrants, debt-holders — anyone outside the lines could be flagged, tracked, or targeted.
👀 DOGE (the ironically named Dept. of Government Efficiency) — now led by Musk loyalists and ex-Palantir/Thiel operatives — is driving the merger. It’s a privatized surveillance wet dream with fascist frosting.
💥 Palantir employees are quitting. Internal dissent is exploding. “This is a red line I won’t redraw,” wrote strategist Brianna Martin after resigning.
💬 From The New York Times:
“Data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses,” said former Palantir engineer Linda Xia. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”
🐐 RaveGoat’s Take:
This isn’t about safety. It’s about control. This is predictive policing on steroids, wielded by an administration that has already shown open hostility toward dissent, immigrants, and marginalized communities.
The infrastructure of techno-authoritarianism is no longer theoretical. It’s being coded, funded, and deployed. In silence. With our tax dollars.
🔊 What You Can Do:
- Encrypt everything.
- Go analog when needed.
- Limit what you hand to federal systems.
- Watch for “efficiency” language — it’s often code for consolidation.
- Join us on chat.ravegoat.com to strategize and stay informed.
🔥 The time to push back is before the database is complete.
Don’t let them turn your life into a spreadsheet.
Join the Herd. Stay loud. Stay free.
— RaveGoat 🐐
“Never trust a database you didn’t build yourself.”