Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to Hong Kong in 2013 with a pocket full of flash drives containing some of the agency’s highest secrets, Snowden ended up in Moscow where, soon after he arrived, I met with him for Wired magazine. And in the interview, he told me that “one of the biggest abuses” he saw while at the agency was how the NSA secretly provided Israel with raw, unredacted phone and e-mail communications between Palestinian Americans in the US and their relatives in the occupied territories. Snowden was concerned that as a result of sharing those private conversations with Israel, the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank would be at great risk of being targeted for arrest or worse.”

“Now, with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, critical information from NSA continues to be used by Unit 8200, according to a number of sources, to target tens of thousands of Palestinians for death—often with US-supplied 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons. And it is extremely powerful data-mining software, such as that from Palantir, that helps the IDF to select targets.

Bondi told Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) she would not discuss conversations she had with Trump about Comey's indictment.

Bondi and Trump met for dinner at the White House the night before the indictment. Bondi also redirected questions about the Epstein investigation into scrutiny toward Democrats.

Bondi asked Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) if he had questioned her predecessor, Merrick Garland, on Epstein. She also brought up Democratic ties to LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, an alleged Epstein associate. Between the lines: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) also asked Bondi who ordered her to flag Epstein records related to President Trump.

"I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you, senator," Bondi said. Durbin responded: "Eventually you're going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won't do it today, but eventually you will."

Under the order, private businesses can choose to display signage indicating that ICE cannot enter without a warrant—thereby designating “their property as part of a city-wide network of community spaces that stand together in affirming the safety, dignity, and belonging of all of our residents,” the mayor said.

Johnson touted the order for building “a broad civic shield that limits the reach of harmful enforcement practices. It strengthens neighborhood solidarity and it reaffirms Chicago’s role as a welcoming city.”

The ascent of Bari Weiss, who Paramount announced on Monday will be editor-in-chief of CBS News, at first glance seems like a media story. But it’s really a story about American politics and the two major parties. There is a new kind of “moderate” Republican, perhaps best exemplified by Weiss. And this kind of Republican is poised to keep gaining power and shifting the country to the right in harmful and destructive ways, even if they never have the political power of more explicitly pro-Trump conservatives.

Stephen Miller spent his weekend, as he is wont to do, describing American politics as if the nation were in the advanced stages of civil war and as if he were dictating a message while racing to a mountain hideout to escape bloodthirsty guerillas. “There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded,” he wrote on X. “And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.”

U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued an order late Sunday prohibiting the deployment or relocation of any federalized members of any state’s National Guard to Oregon.

The restraining order -- Immergut’s second in as many days -- capped a dramatic 24 hours that saw California join Oregon’s efforts to block the Trump administration from sending hundreds of federalized members of the California National Guard to Portland. On Saturday, Immergut blocked Trump’s plan to federalize 200 members of the Oregon National Guard.

The Department of Defense on Sunday summoned up to 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Portland and Chicago, according to a memo filed with the court. Immergut’s order would seemingly stop that from happening.

Immergut’s order came just a few hours after a press conference featuring Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson.

“Oregon is our home,” Kotek said during that press conference. “It is not a military target.”

But less than four hours later, Kotek was again issuing a statement, this time decrying the revelation that Texas guard members were similarly summoned across state lines. “This is a continuation and escalation of the President’s dangerous, un-American misuse of states’ National Guard members and hard-earned taxpayer dollars,” Kotek said in that statement.

But Sunday’s developments raised an entirely different and more alarming possibility: A Republican president sending troops from a Republican-led state to a Democratic-led state.

Kotek and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called on Texas. Gov. Abbott for assistance. Abbott, the Republican leader of Texas for the past decade, showed no inkling of supporting his fellow governors’ calls. “You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it,” Abbott said on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

President Donald Trump issued a "striking" national security memo recently that would allow the administration to go after American citizens using the same tools the country uses to protect itself from foreign adversaries, according to one analyst.

Ryan Goodman, a national security expert and law professor at New York University, discussed the recent memo, called NSPM7, on a recent episode of "The Bulwark Live" with Bill Kristol, the outlet's editor-at-large. Goodman was visibly stunned as he recalled some of the impacts Trump's memo could have on American citizens.

"It's using the national security apparatus in such a way that's focused domestically; one can only assume that Steven Miller is empowered by this," Goodman said. "It's connecting it up with national security frameworks and then imposing it domestically."

The directive calls on the National Security apparatus to go after anti-fascist groups on the left. It also calls on law enforcement to "[investigate] all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies — including the organized structures, networks, entities, organizations, funding sources, and predicate actions behind them."

Goodman argued that the language sounded too familiar.

"I have to assume that [Miller] wrote a large part of it," Goodman said. "I mean, it just looks like it comes out of his mind in a certain sense and his rhetoric around this."

Governor Jeff Landry has requested up to 1,000 troops to be distributed across several cities, including Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, and New Orleans. While the exact number coming to the Crescent City is unclear, the question of their placement is a significant concern for residents.

Superintendent Kirkpatrick emphasized that while the Guard would partner with the NOPD, the soldiers would maintain their own chain of command and would not report directly to the New Orleans police.

Superintendent Kirkpatrick emphasized that while the Guard would partner with the NOPD, the soldiers would maintain their own chain of command and would not report directly to the New Orleans police.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller railed against a Saturday ruling that temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempts to deploy 200 National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore.

“Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge … ,” Miller, an architect of many Trump administration immigration policies, wrote in a Saturday statement on the social platform X.

He accused local law enforcement of failing to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers facing “relentless terrorist assault.”

“This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself,” he added in the weekend post.

Hours prior, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, said there was ultimately no need for troops in Portland, siding with the state’s argument that the president’s attempt to deploy soldiers was “based largely on a fictional narrative” about public safety in the city.

In her Saturday ruling, Immergut agreed that the president is “certainly entitled” to a great level of deference but said that is not equivalent to “ignoring the facts on the ground.”

“The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts,” the judge wrote.

In recent months, Trump has deployed soldiers to Los Angeles, Memphis and Washington, D.C., and said boots would soon be on the ground in Chicago — all of which are Democratic-led cities.

Local elected officials have urged the president not to do so, citing increased fear and protest outbreaks.

In late September, Oregon officials filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in Portland. Immergut then issued a temporary restraining order on Saturday, which is set to expire in 14 days.

The block could be extended ahead of the trial date scheduled for Oct. 29.

According to Memphis Police, the National Guard isn't even there yet.

The other agencies deployed by the federal government to keep the city of Memphis safe are:

Department of Defense,

Department of Treasury

Department of Justice

Department of Health and Human Services

Department of Housing and Urban development

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Transportation

U.S. Marshalls

FBI

ATF

DEA

Homeland Security Investigations

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of TN.