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Young men are being destroyed. A huge number of guys I talk to between the ages of 20 and 40 have either become soulless drones—resigned to life in a dead-end job, learning nothing, few meaningful relationships, nothing big or daring or beautiful in their life—or punch-a-wall frustrated and depressed.

Token Minn-ing, Value Maxxing

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Magnifica Humanitas is a profound document. Before rushing to respond, we should reflect on the Holy Father’s description of education: it is “a long journey requiring patience, and therefore needs time for development and for engagement with reality beyond appearances.”

. @ssankar has consistently framed AI the right way: not as a story about replacing people, but about amplifying the people closest to the work. The future belongs to organizations that use AI to make frontline workers more effective, not executives more dramatic. Too many CEOs are creating fear. We should be creating capability.

Sharia law is cultural and religious insurgency deployed with the goal of destroying the most critical pillar that western civilization rests on - Christianity. Our culture, laws, virtues, and history are built upon Christianity, Roman law, and Greek philosophy. Sharia law must never take root in our great Republic!

This is supposed to be a smear piece, but "high school dropout races to build a nuclear reactor" is an update on a classic American archetype, like "the Wright Brothers, high school dropouts, race to build an airplane." Go, @isaiah_p_taylor.

The era of unmanned systems, software-enabled targeting, and distributed C2 lowers the barrier of entry for state actors to build military capacity. This makes the final 10% of an effort to destroy a less well-equipped enemy much harder than the previous 90. America must choose her battles wisely and reinvest in specific ways to make a military capable of complete victory throughout the 21st Century. My debut for @FoxNews foxnews.com/opinion/us-mil…

.@AFergusonFTC is right. Fraudsters moved faster than govt systems. Now, @WHFraudTF is using AI-driven tools to detect suspicious activity/stop fraudulent payments. That’s why @Sonderling47 & I are exploring AI solutions @USDOL/@DOLOIG to protect taxpayer dollars.

Congratulations to my hardworking chief of staff, James Hampson, who was just named one of the top 10 Chiefs of Staff on Capitol Hill. James is a patriot who has dedicated his life to serving the American people. God bless you!

EPISODE 153: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Heretics, AI Weapons & Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy @JTLonsdale sits down with @ssankar to discuss PLTR lore, protecting heretics, and his new book "Mobilize" (00:00) Episode intro (01:45) Mud hut in India to life in America (05:25) Employee #13 at Palantir  (09:45) How Shyam created Forward Deployed Engineers  (13:05) What are Shyam-isms?  (14:55) Business discipline & learning to say no  (19:20) The crisis of the American industrial base (24:00) Some heretics must be protected  (29:00) The factory is the weapon (34:00) Magical AI weapons  (43:00) Optimism for America's future

The key lesson of modern war from the Second World War to Epic Fury? Industrial power is combat power. America can close kill chains at devastating speed—but this advantage is squandered without the metal and munitions to back it up. The Department of War needs to leverage American tech to connect itself, primes, and sub-tier suppliers into a single system—so it can see, coordinate, and drive production in real time. It needs to build the WAR MACHINE. @ssankar @BigShow2026 @Madeline_Zimm @BlakeSeitz firstbreakfast.com/p/building-the…

Will likely host a reading group on this doc later this month... If you'd like to join, like my post or send me a DM.

Palantir reports Q1 ‘26 U.S. revenue growth of 104% Y/Y and revenue growth of 85% Y/Y; raises FY ’26 revenue guidance to 71% Y/Y growth and U.S. comm revenue guidance to 120% Y/Y, crushing consensus expectations. Q1 U.S. commercial revenue grew 133% y/y and adjusted operating margin was 60%. We also generated $871 million in Q1 2026 GAAP net income, representing 53% margin and 307% Y/Y growth.

"Our ability to preserve human self-mastery—even more from the authority our machines seem to hold over us than the power they do—will hinge on our capacity to comprehend, trust, and embody the authority from which our own power to master ourselves receives both its vitality and its virtue." palladiummag.com/2026/04/11/the…

America's adversaries are on the march. In the NYT bestselling book Mobilize, Palantir CTO @ssankar and Deployment Strategist Madeline Hart issue an urgent call: America must mobilize immediately to deter WWIII. Read on to understand why the WSJ calls Sankar "a Silicon Valley Paul Revere." wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

M-day was Yesterday!

In an egregious act of censorship, Amazon has removed @VaubanBooks' new edition of The Camp of the Saints, by the prize-winning French novelist Jean Raspail, from its US site. Since I wrote the critical introduction for the new edition, this turns me into a banned writer! It had been up for months, and had been reviewed by numerous outlets. But it had been selling too well for the powers that be. @VaubanBooks is a small publication that has published a range of past and contemporary thinkers from across the political spectrum. Amazon controls the publishing market, so losing this revenue stream can strangle an independent publisher. Please support their work however you can. vaubanbooks.com And Camp of the Saints can still be purchased directly from the supplier here: itascabooks.com/products/the-c…

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

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