Trump's Tech War Against the Illegal Immigrants ⚙️🛂

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The tech, surveillance and private prison providers arming Trump’s massive expansion and weaponization of immigration enforcement are running a victory lap 🏆 after reporting their latest financial results 💰.

Palantir, the tech firm 💻, and Geo Group and CoreCivic, the private prison 🏢 and surveillance companies 📡, said this week that they brought in more money than Wall Street 📈 expected them to, thanks to the administration’s crackdown on immigrants 🚫🛃.

“Well, as usual, I’ve been cautioned to be a little modest about our bombastic numbers,” said Alex Karp 🧑‍💼, the Palantir chief executive, in an investor call earlier this week 📞.

Then he crowed 🐓 about the company’s “extraordinary numbers” and his “enormous pride” in its success ⭐️.
Private prison company executives, during their respective calls, could barely contain their excitement 😏, flagging to investors opportunities for “unprecedented growth” 📊 in the realm of immigration detention.

Palantir saw 53% 📈 growth in revenue from US government contracts in the second quarter of 2025 compared with the same period the year prior and surpassed $1bn 💵 in total quarterly revenue for the first time. Analysts had expected the company to bring in $939.4m in revenue.

The company, which connects and analyzes disparate sets of data 🔍 to enable its customers to build products with that information 🧠, brings in the majority of its revenue from government contracts 🏛.

Its biggest US customer is the Department of Defense 🪖, where the US army 🇺🇸, which announced a $10bn agreement 💼 with Palantir last week, is housed.

On the immigration side, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 🛡 has deepened its partnership 🤝 with Palantir since the start of the Trump administration, which it’s been working with since 2011.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 🚔, the agency primarily engaged in arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants ✈️, most recently announced a $30m contract with Palantir to build a database 💽 that makes its deportation and detention machine more efficient ⚡️.

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“Palantir gets attacked just because we help make this country even better 🇺🇸, because we support the values ✊, because we defend it 🛡,” Karp said.

“And us being able to win 🏆 while having an opinion 💬 does have an impact on the world 🌍, if only because the people who think we are wrong are not good ❌, have to be a little jealous 😏 and suffer.”

While Palantir is making it easier to deport immigrants ✈️🛃, private prison corporations GeoGroup and CoreCivic are bringing in more money 💵 than expected helping detain them 🚔.

GeoGroup reported $636.2m 📊 in revenue this quarter, beating analyst predictions 📈 of $623.4m, while CoreCivic announced $538.2m in the second quarter of this year, a 9.8% increase 📈 from last year’s second quarter.

George Zoley 🧑‍💼, the GeoGroup company chief executive, said its detention facilities 🏢 are fuller than they’ve ever been, with ICE using 20,000 beds 🛏 across 21 GeoGroup detention centers, about one-third of the estimated 57,000 beds in ICE detention centers across the country.

GeoGroup executives also said 📞 they have begun exploring detention centers at US military sites 🪖, one of the many “unprecedented growth opportunities” 🌟 Zoley spoke of during the call.

While there has been a big boost to GeoGroup’s detention business 📈, its surveillance subsidiary 📡 is not yet seeing the massive growth company executives predicted earlier this year 📅.

Executives said they expected the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) 📝 – an immigrant monitoring initiative run by the company’s subsidiary BI Inc for 20 years – would expand beyond its previous peak of 370,000 immigrants being monitored 👁.

The number of immigrants who are currently being surveilled by ICE has hovered around 183,000 for the past few months ⏳.

“[ICE hasn’t] communicated at this time the expansion of ISAP,” Zoley said on the investor call. “Their focus is intensely on scaling up the detention capacity.”

That said, the company expects ISAP numbers to start increasing 📈 next year once “detention capacity is maximized” 📦.

The Trump administration 🏛 has signaled a desire to increase the number of immigrants surveilled by ankle monitors 📶.

In the call with investors 💼, CoreCivic executives revealed they have offered ICE around 30,000 beds 🛏 to detain immigrants throughout the company’s nationwide network 🌐.

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📰 Sanctions for Censorship? Trump Turns EU’s Tech Law Into a Trade War Weapon

When Brussels writes tech rules, Washington now replies with visa bans. Reuters reports Trump’s team is weighing sanctions on EU officials behind the Digital Services Act — the law meant to force Big Tech to clean up hate speech and abuse online. The White House line? It’s not safety, it’s censorship — especially of conservative Americans.

💭 “We are monitoring increasing censorship in Europe with great concern,”

a State Department spokesperson said, while Trump himself thundered:

“With this TRUTH, I put all Countries with Digital Taxes, Legislation, Rules, or Regulations, on notice…”

📊 The battlefield looks like this:
• Trump’s angle: Rebrand EU regulation as an attack on U.S. (read: MAGA) free speech.
• Rubio’s directive: U.S. diplomats ordered to lobby against the DSA in Europe.
• Threats arsenal: Tariffs on EU exports, export restrictions on chips, visa bans on regulators.
• EU’s defense:

“Freedom of expression is at the heart of the DSA,”

says Brussels, accusing Washington of paranoia.

💼 This isn’t just about content moderation. It’s about who sets the rules of the digital economy. Trump’s White House is signaling: Europe won’t get to regulate Silicon Valley without paying a price. For EU officials, the new risk is personal — trade war meets travel ban.

⚖️ What’s next: will U.S. sanctions on European bureaucrats turn into the first case of “geopolitical cancel culture”? Or is this just Trump exporting his domestic culture war into Brussels’ corridors?

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📱 Trump Secures TikTok Deal With China

💭 “People in our Country … will be very happy!”

— Donald Trump

🔹 The Breakthrough
• U.S. and China say they’ve reached a “basic consensus” on TikTok’s future.
• Deal avoids a nationwide ban mandated by law.
• Framework calls for shifting TikTok ownership into a U.S.-controlled entity.
• Oracle, Blackstone, Silver Lake and others are floated as major investors.

🇨🇳 Beijing’s Role
Chinese officials confirmed agreement in principle but tied it to “mutual respect” and broader trade issues. Earlier, Beijing blocked a similar deal over Trump’s tariffs. This time, Xi Jinping will personally discuss final terms with Trump on Friday.

🏛 Washington Politics
• Law required ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban by Jan 2025.
• Trump has repeatedly ordered his administration not to enforce that law.
• VP JD Vance led talks, framing the outcome as “saving TikTok.”
• Critics say Trump is treating national security like a tradable item.

💡 What’s Next
If finalized, ByteDance’s stake will shrink below 20%, with U.S. investors taking majority control. But questions remain: Will China allow the algorithm to be leased? And will Congress accept a compromise that still leaves ByteDance in the mix?

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Oracle's $300 Billion AI Bet: Ellison Goes All In on OpenAI's Survival

Larry Ellison just staked Oracle's future on one assumption: OpenAI will keep growing forever. The 81-year-old billionaire signed a $300 billion deal to build the data centers powering ChatGPT — five massive complexes consuming more electricity than Chicago. The market loved it for a month. Then reality hit: expenses ballooning, timelines slipping, and OpenAI now shopping around to Amazon, AMD, and Broadcom. Oracle's stock dropped a third. Traders are buying credit-default swaps — the same instrument used to short the housing bubble.

How a LinkedIn message became a $300B commitment
Spring 2024: OpenAI's infrastructure chief cold-messages Oracle asking for computing power. The startup is desperate, burning through GPUs faster than it can rent them. Oracle had been planning a Texas data center for Elon Musk's xAI — even designed X-shaped buildings — but Musk bailed. Two months later, Ellison was at the White House with Trump announcing "Stargate." The hook: Oracle builds the infrastructure, OpenAI rents it, roughly $300 billion over time. Wall Street went wild. Oracle's market cap shot up $250 billion. For a few hours, Ellison was the world's richest man.

The infrastructure nightmare
To fulfill the contract, Oracle has to build five of the world's largest data centers, consuming 4.5 gigawatts of power. One Texas site costs over $1 billion per year just to run on gas generators because the grid can't handle it. Initial 2027 completion dates have slipped to 2028 — labor shortages, material costs exploding. Microsoft spent $40 million on concrete alone for one Wisconsin facility. Oracle's free cash flow just went negative for the first time since 1992. The company is now deeply in debt, with analyst projections showing $70 billion in free cash flow losses through the decade.

Microsoft walked away. Oracle doubled down.
Microsoft powered ChatGPT on Azure since 2016, but CEO Satya Nadella finally said what others wouldn't: Sam Altman keeps asking us to build dedicated multigigawatt data centers just for him. It makes sense for OpenAI. It doesn't make sense for us. In October 2024, Microsoft gave up even its right of first refusal. Translation: we're not betting the company on this. Oracle is betting the company.

The math doesn't work without perpetual growth
OpenAI is losing billions a year with 800 million users. The deal assumes its revenue keeps doubling or tripling indefinitely. If growth plateaus — if the hype deflates, if users don't pay premium prices — OpenAI won't need all this capacity. And it can walk away after five years. Oracle's leases run 15 years. If OpenAI renegotiates or collapses, Oracle gets stuck with the most expensive, illiquid assets in tech history.

Meanwhile, OpenAI has signed similar deals with Amazon, AMD, Broadcom, CoreWeave. It's talking about building its own data centers. Oracle thought it had a unique partnership. Now it's one of many vendors competing for OpenAI's shrinking budget. An analyst put it bluntly: "As OpenAI's commitments grow, the value of each one goes down."

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Oracle's $300 Billion AI Bet: Ellison Goes All In on OpenAI's Survival

Ellison's ninth-decade gamble
The man who called cloud computing "complete gibberish" in 2008 — who missed the biggest tech shift in a generation — now says AI is "bigger than the railroads and the Industrial Revolution." He's restructured Oracle around this bet, replacing CEO Safra Catz with two co-CEOs reporting directly to him. The cloud infrastructure chief, Clay Magouyrk, got a $150 million bigger compensation package than his counterpart — Oracle's priorities couldn't be clearer.

Ellison has always been willing to overpromise (Oracle's first product was called "Oracle 2" to fake a track record) and mix personal interests with company business (his health resorts use enterprise Oracle software; his yacht league gets $10 million/year in Oracle sponsorships). Now he's betting that AI will justify the most expensive infrastructure build in tech history — and that OpenAI, not Microsoft or Google or some future competitor, will be the one paying for it.

The bubble indicator
When Oracle reported earnings in December, expenses were growing far faster than expected. The stock cratered. Credit-default swaps on Oracle spiked — the same bets traders made against Lehman Brothers in 2007. One analyst at D.A. Davidson joked there are three scenarios: Oracle cuts forecasts and salvages some work; OpenAI collapses and the contract disappears; or "OpenAI achieves super-intelligence, spends $1.4 trillion, none of us have to work again, and Oracle is fine."

The joke is the point. The entire AI infrastructure boom is premised on monumental projections — computers curing cancer, eradicating whole job categories, maybe becoming superintelligent. The dates for these breakthroughs keep getting pushed into the future. Or into science fiction. Without them, the logic collapses. And Oracle is now the single biggest bet on that logic holding.

Ellison says he's building the future. Traders say he's building monuments to a hype cycle. The next five years will decide who's right — and whether Oracle survives the answer.

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📷 The video shows the construction of robots by the Chinese company TECH Robotics before the large-scale December shipment of its industrial humanoid Walker S2 robots to the factories of Geely Auto, Dongfeng Liuzhou Motor and Foxconn.

UB Tech Robotics has also published a forecast that by 2035 these robots will replace humans in supermarkets, post offices, banks, delivery and... sex services.💭

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📰 How Vance Broke the Trump-Musk Feud: Tech Titans vs. The Deep State

JD Vance didn’t just broker a truce between Trump and Musk—he rewired the MAGA movement’s relationship with Silicon Valley. When Musk threatened to launch a third party, Vance went to work, calling in favors, lobbying senators, and quietly removing the White House aide who’d torpedoed Musk’s favorite NASA pick.

“He enjoys kind of that kingmaker role,”

says a source close to Musk.

“Part of being a kingmaker is making sure everybody in the world knows you’re the king.”

The feud erupted when Musk’s DOGE project—his signature government cost-cutting crusade—blew up federal agencies, alienated Cabinet members, and turned Washington into a battlefield. Musk, used to running his companies like an emperor, clashed with Trump’s inner circle, and by May, he was gone.

The Reconciliation
Vance, once a Silicon Valley investor, leveraged his ties to Musk, hosting dinners and making calls to keep the billionaire from splintering the GOP.

When Trump nixed Musk’s NASA ally, Vance pushed for his reinstatement and got the White House aide who’d blocked the nomination reassigned.

Musk, after a summer of public attacks, backed down from his third party and returned to the fold, now focusing on seeding existing GOP groups rather than running his own super PAC.

The New Normal
DOGE’s centralized leadership is gone, but its principles live on: deregulation, efficiency, and a new “Merit Hiring Plan” are now baked into the federal workforce.

Musk’s protégés are still embedded in key agencies, and the government now runs more like a start-up, with aggressive hiring, firing, and boundary-pushing contracts.

“DOGE catalyzed these changes,”

says a top White House official.

“Now we institutionalize them.”

Is the government finally run like a company—or has it just become a playground for tech titans?

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📰 TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Legal Saga

TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors—including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake—to create a new American TikTok, ending a six-year legal battle that threatened the app’s existence in the U.S..
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Who Owns What?
The new U.S. TikTok will be majority-owned by American and non-Chinese investors, with Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake each holding 15 percent and ByteDance retaining just under 20 percent. The majority of the board will be American, and Adam Presser, TikTok’s former head of operations, will serve as CEO.
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Security Concerns and Skepticism
The deal is designed to address U.S. national security concerns about Chinese control, but critics warn it may not fully sever ByteDance’s influence. ByteDance will still license its algorithm to the U.S. entity, raising doubts about whether the arrangement truly ends the “operational relationship” between the two companies.

Who Controls the Content?
Some worry that the new owners, many with ties to President Trump, could shift TikTok’s content moderation and feed algorithms to reflect U.S. government or presidential views.

“We may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda,”

said Georgetown professor Anupam Chander.
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📰 Hormuz, Now With a License Fee

Iran is moving to turn the Strait of Hormuz from an oil chokepoint into a digital tollbooth. Tasnim, which is linked to the IRGC, has floated a plan to charge foreign companies for permits and annual renewals, put cable maintenance under Iranian control, and force major tech firms to comply with Iranian law.

This is not a random idea. Reuters reported that submarine cables crossing Hormuz are already recognized as a vulnerable point for the region’s digital economy, and at least seven cables connect Asia, the Middle East and Europe through the area. Tasnim’s logic is brutally simple: if geography can tax shipping, why not data?

The numbers are the point. The cable routes reportedly carry more than $10 trillion in daily financial activity, including SWIFT transfers, stock trades and currency exchanges. Iran is framing that traffic as a sovereign asset, not a neutral pipe.

The threat is also broader than the cables themselves. Iran is using Hormuz as a wider pressure point, with the IRGC-linked “mosquito fleet” still giving Tehran leverage even after U.S. strikes on some naval assets. The new escalation may be less about sinking tankers than squeezing the infrastructure that keeps money and cloud traffic moving.

If this plan advances, the battlefield expands again: not just ships, but cable repair crews, cloud providers, and the companies behind global connectivity. That is the real message here. Hormuz is no longer being treated only as a maritime corridor. It is being recast as a gatekeeper for the internet itself.

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Trump’s New AI Order: Voluntary “Control” of Models That Can Hack You

The White House just discovered that AI can blow holes in the system — and is asking the people building the hole‑punchers to please show them the blueprints in advance.

Trump’s new executive order gives the government an early look at powerful AI models before they go public, but with all the sharp edges filed down.

Companies can “volunteer” to let officials review their systems up to 30 days before release, a window shrunk from the original 90 after Silicon Valley threw a tantrum.

The same industry that can spin up a model in a week somehow convinced Washington that three months of oversight was an existential threat.

On paper, this is about “bracing the economy” and “security risks.” In practice, it’s damage control after Anthropic built Mythos — a model so good at finding vulnerabilities and hacking networks that the company refused to release it and instead put it in a controlled program, Glasswing, for hand‑picked partners.

You know it’s bad when the people printing the money on AI look at their own product and say: “Yeah, that one doesn’t go on the app store.”

The administration’s answer is pure 2020s governance: no hard bans, no real liability, just a backstage pass.

The government gets a sneak peek; the companies keep full control; participation is “expected” but not required. Everyone poses for the “responsible innovation” photo while the core risk remains exactly where it was — in private labs, controlled by a handful of firms whose business model depends on racing each other to the next dangerous capability.

There’s also a nice little irony baked in. The same political ecosystem that screams about “deep state overreach” now wants you to trust a handshake system between trillion‑dollar tech players and a president who changes his mind after a few phone calls.

First the order was pulled after last‑minute lobbying. Now it’s back, barely trimmed, with softer edges and the same basic bet: that voluntary compliance will tame tools that can already out‑hack most human attackers.

So we have AI systems that can quietly map every weak spot in the digital world, a government that gets to glance at them briefly before release, and an industry that knows if it plays nice, it keeps the keys. Forget guardrails — this is a speed bump painted to look like a wall.

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Green Cards for Sale: MAGA Meets HR

The Trump administration tried to swing a wrecking ball at the green card system — and then quietly put it back in the shed the moment corporate America started yelling. USCIS rolled out guidance on May 22 saying most applicants for permanent residency would have to leave the United States and apply from their home countries “except in extraordinary circumstances,” a vague phrase big enough to park a data center in.

Business leaders, especially in tech and AI, immediately saw what this meant: hundreds of thousands of workers thrown into legal limbo, months or years of disruption, and a hiring pipeline turned into a deportation conveyor belt.

So the CEOs didn’t tweet, they didn’t post open letters — they picked up the phone. The Chamber of Commerce, big tech, and other industry groups flooded the White House and the departments of Homeland Security, Labor and State with quiet, panicked calls and emails.

Off the record, officials were warned: you can have your base-pleasing crackdown or you can have your “world’s innovation hub,” but not both.

Suddenly, the tone shifted. Behind closed doors, USCIS reassured business that most work visas wouldn’t be touched and told reporters that most green card seekers would, in fact, be allowed to stay in the country while adjusting status.

Official rules stay hardline; unofficial practice gets “paused.” Classic D.C.: the press release is for the voters, the backchannel memo is for the shareholders.

We’ve seen this movie already. Immigration raids in hospitality and agriculture? Announced with maximum swagger, then quietly “paused” after the hotel and farm lobbies explained they still needed people to clean rooms and pick crops.

The $100,000 H‑1B “America First” fee? Rolled out like a patriotic surcharge, then limited to new visas after employers realized their existing workforce had just been turned into a luxury good.

Even a mega‑raid on a Hyundai plant died once investors and business groups made it clear that “law and order” stops at the factory gate. The message is simple: Trump-style immigration theater can terrorize workers and thrill the base — as long as it doesn’t touch the profit margin.

The green card U‑turn lays the hierarchy bare. On paper, Trump world is full of hardliners who want to slam the door, force people “back in line,” and weaponize bureaucracy to make life unlivable for migrants. In practice, there’s a VIP lane for anyone whose presence boosts the stock price.

Your humanity doesn’t matter; your utility does. The law is a blunt instrument for the powerless and a negotiation for the valuable.

The business lobby isn’t the hero here, either. They’re not fighting for humane policy; they’re fighting for stable staffing. They stayed mostly silent when enforcement fell hardest on the undocumented, the poor, the low‑wage and the voiceless.

Outrage only kicks in when immigration chaos hits server rooms, IPO timelines and quarterly earnings.

The result is a two‑tier system: one line of immigrants is told to leave, wait, risk their lives and careers; another line goes straight through because their CEO has the president’s advisor on speed dial.

This “softened” policy is being sold as proof that the administration listens to business and seeks “balance.”

In reality, it proves something darker: immigration isn’t being governed by law or principle, but by whoever can generate the most leverage — voters for the speeches, donors for the actual rules. The base gets a story about toughness; the boardroom gets a private carve‑out.

#Trump #immigration #greencards #tech #AI #bigBusiness #MAGA #fakeDemocracy

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Americans Went Berserk Wishing Socialism and a Social State 🇺🇸


Polls have shown that more people than ever have a negative view of the tech, and you can take your pick on the reasons why.

AI could displace jobs, destroy the environment, and drive up energy bills. It’s trained on stolen writing and artwork, and chatbots are driving people into mental health spirals.

But what does the public think should be done about this? A new national survey from Versasight suggests that the majority of Americans are down for taking a drastic course of action.

According to the survey of 9,700 adults, an impressive 79 percent of US employees support forcing AI companies to transfer 50 percent of their stock into a public wealth fund, an idea that has been championed by senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT).

“In the eyes of the public, AI Sovereign funds are seen as a tool to distribute the gains from the AI industry back to broader society,”

Verasight CEO Benjamin Leff told CNBC News.

Once at the fringe of political discourse, Sanders took the idea mainstream when he proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in June. In an essay published in the New York Times, the independent senator argued that the creation of this fund would “give the public a direct role in determining the future of this technology.”

“It would guarantee that the economic benefits generated by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — not simply to make the richest people in the world even richer,”

he added in a statement last month.

The act would target the largest AI companies in the US such as Anthropic and OpenAI, mandating that they submit to a one time 50 percent tax on their stock. At their current valuations, Sanders estimated that this would create a fund worth around $7 trillion.

The money in this fund could offset some of the widespread disruption AI could wreak on society, the thinking goes.

Not all AI industry critics are on board. Some have argued that giving the government such a large stake in AI companies would encourage it to clear away regulations, and give AI companies even greater influence over the government than they already have.

You could say it’s a flawed and far-fetched idea, but Americans are on board, perhaps underscoring the desperation for someone to do something about the industry. Even when the policy was explicitly tied to Sanders, the survey found that 64 percent of respondents still supported the idea.

“There is an undeniable desire among Americans of both parties for federal oversight, absolute transparency, and accountability to ensure AI safety and to enable all Americans to participate in the economic benefits of AI,”

Leff said in a statement.

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