a tangential reason why abolishing ICE is good politics is that it requires the capacity to exile these people from any left of center politics; similarly, the failure to exercise their influence from any future majority more or less guarantees the failure of any reconstruction 👍
utopia deferred
NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. readsludge.com/2026/06/22/p...
The ICE contractor has hired Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff and a former Democratic senator as it builds out a Democratic lobbying operation on Capitol Hill.
